Books
Cure for Chaos by Simon Ramo
Features:
In 1969—Two
Nobel Prizes
Biologist Max Delbruck and physicist Murray Gell-Mann become the Institute's
twelfth and thirteenth winners.
Delbruck: Conscience,
Goad, and Sage
While looking for a paradox he never discovered, he helped found molecular biology
and inspired hundreds of colleagues to emulate his own high standards of scholarship.
Gell-Mann: Order
Out of Chaos
His three major contributions have given hope that man may someday understand
what matter is really made of.
The Death of
a Star
A star is only a glowing pause in the escapable contraction of a gas cloud to
an uncertain, sometimes fantastic, end.
by Kip S. Thorne
Research Notes
Sampling curriculum. Counting photons. Measuring Marsquakes
Campus News:
The Inauguration of Harold Brown
Caltech: A Singular
Opportunity
The inaugural address
by Harold Brown