Engineering and Science, Volume 36:6, May 1973

Editor: Hutchings, Jr., Edward

Published in: Engineering and Science, Volume 36, Number 6, 1973

Item Category: Complete Issues

Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:36.6.0

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Features:

A Changing Concept

of Health Care

The new knowledge coming out of basic research laboratories will result in changes

in health care of such magnitude that they will modify all of our lives and

indeed our social institutions—our philosophies, laws, and politics—as

well as the practice of medicine.

by William J. Dreyer

High-Flying

Freshman

Hang-gliding is a fairly rarefied sport for college students, but it's nothing

new for Taras Kiceniuk, Jr.

Ted Wu—Man

in the Swim

Was it difficult for Ted Wu to make the big jump from China to Iowa? Yes, it took him two weeks to feel at home.

Where Were the

Pharaohs Buried?

Luis Alvarez is using the cosmic radiation from space to analyze the internal

structure of Khefren's pyramid.

100 Supernovae—The

Reward of a 40-year Search

by Fritz Zwicky

Research Notes

Clever Crustaceans

Pioneer 11—An Ace in the Hole

Superconducting Alloys

Replication Site in DNA

Flying Mountain

Campus News:

Retiring This

Year—C. Hewitt Dix

The Month at

Caltech