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Jennifer R. Vail

Jennifer R. Vail is the founder of DuPont’s first tribology research lab and a member of the senior leadership team at TA Instruments. Her 2019 TED Talk, The Science of Friction, has been viewed more than two million times. She is the author of Friction.

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