Engineering and Science, Volume 20:8, May 1957

Editor: Hutchings, Jr., Edward

Published in: Engineering and Science, Volume 20, Number 8, 1957

Item Category: Complete Issues

Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:20.8.0

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In This Issue

Letters

Features:

The San Andreas

Fault

Its significance in California's past and future.

by Clarence R. Allen

Faculty Portrait

Robert F. Bacher, professor of physics, and chairman of the division of physics,

mathematics and astronomy

Brain Mechanisms

in Behavior

Some experimental observations in the workings of that baffling mechanism—the

brain.

by R. W. Sperry

The Next Hundred

Years...II

As population increases, the need to obtain more food becomes more pressing.

A noted plant physiologist considers some of the ways we might increase our

food supply

by Harrison Brown, James Bonner and John Weir

Campus News:

The Month at

Caltech

Alumni News

Personals