Harris & Harris Group, Inc., shareholders may be interested to read the "Scientific American 50" awards sections of the December 2006, issue of Scientific American. Among the references to nanotechnology in the section, Angela Belcher of M.I.T. is named "Research Leader of the Year" in an article on page 50. Professor Belcher is, as is mentioned in the article, co-founder of Cambrios Technologies Corp., a privately held company in which Harris & Harris Group has an investment.
Harris & Harris Group is a publicly traded venture capital company that makes initial investments exclusively in tiny technology, including nanotechnology, microsystems and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The Company's last 30 initial private equity investments have been in tiny technology-enabled companies. The Company has 20,756,345 common shares outstanding.
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