Engineering and Science, Volume 23:2, November 1959

Editor: Hutchings, Jr., Edward

Published in: Engineering and Science, Volume 23, Number 2, 1959

Item Category: Complete Issues

Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:23.2.0

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Table of Contents

Books

Men and Atoms by William L. Laurence

Features:

Gibberellin—A

New Plant Hormone

by James A. Lockhart

Central Engineering

Services

How the Hale Telescope led to a thriving industry on campus

Search for Supernovae

Data on supernovae may be used to calibrate distances to the very periphery

of the visible universe.

by Fritz Zwicky

Earthquakes

to Order

Space Science

Caltech and JPL exchange ideas in a new field of research

by Henry L. Richter, Jr.

Campus News:

The Month at

Caltech

Student Life

The Student Houses

—The last chance to observe the old order?

by Douglas W. Shakel, '60

Alumni News

Personals

Lost Alumni