Table of Contents

Letters

Books
Modern Physics for the Engineer edited by Louis N. Ridenour

Features:

Linus Pauling—Nobel Prozewinner
The 1954 Nobel Proze in chemistry goes to the chairman of Caltech's Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and the structure of proteins.

Science and Security
What's wrong with our present security system—and what can we do about it?
by George W. Beadle

A Botanist in the Sahara
Some notes from the travel diary of Frits Went

Campus News:

Caltech's First Alumni Scholarship

Student Life
What Every Techman Knows
by Martin Tangora, '57

The Month at Caltech

Personals