Charles Gaillard

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Charles Gaillard is a co-founder of Molecular Reality Corporation, an American company that builds instruments for detecting single molecules and particles as they pass through small holes in a membrane. He and Kent Kemmish founded it in 2018 as demonpore, inc. The company describes his low profile as deliberate.^[1]

The company has not published Gaillard's date or place of birth, or where he was educated.

In 2018 Gaillard and Kemmish founded demonpore, inc., a name inspired by cartoons of Maxwell's demon.^[1][2] It became Molecular Reality Corporation in 2021.^[1]

Gaillard does not appear in the company's games, whose characters include Keltar, a green felt puppet,^[3] and Maxine, a small red imp.^[2] He is not named in the open repository of the MR1 Nanopore Reader,^[4] and none of the company's own web pages names him, apart from those of Molecupedia. No photograph of him is available. Company records describe his low profile as deliberate.^[1]

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