the scientist who discovered this is MIT’s Gang Chen who was one of the main victims of the FBI’s “China initiative”, the McCarthy-like initiative where they went after scientists of Chinese descent.

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      presumably because the effect is very small and it was assumed that the amount of energy imparted was not sufficient to cause evaporation