U-M researcher selected as one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10”

It's impressive enough that Hashim Al-Hashimi is an accomplished chemist and biophysicist. Even more so that he's invented "nano-movies," a way of recording RNA and DNA activity. Now he's been listed as one of 2011's "Brilliant 10." His mother must be so proud. Excerpt: "Al-Hashimi himself has always been in motion. He was born in Lebanon just before its civil war, and his family escaped to Greece soon thereafter. They then lived in Italy, Jordan, Wales and England. Soon after he started his Ph.D. at Yale, a labmate visualized a protein called myoglobin and couldn’t fit it to any single 3-D configuration. To Al-Hashimi, it seemed obvious that the protein was moving—everything in biology moves—but at the time, most biologists did not realize the extent to which biological macromolecules were moving. He realized then that revealing molecular motion would be his focus." Read the rest of the story here. Maybe you're on the list. too. (You can dream, right?)