Engineering and Science, Volume 78:3, Fall 2015

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Random Walk
Ditch Day • Bankrupt Ballplayers • Water Works • And More

Origins
Making Lemonade from Lemons: The Birth of the pH Meter

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Full Circle Physics
By bringing together theorists and experimentalists under the same roof, Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter has created a continuous feedback loop to take quantum science to the next level.

Unlocking the Chemistry of Life By Jessica Stoller-Conrad
Thanks to the Proteome Exploration Laboratory, members of the Caltech faculty have an advantage in the quest to decipher details of the human proteome—the proteins encoded by the human genome.

The Science of Economics By Kimm Fesenmaier
Caltech researchers are using a newly developed suite of software to analyze some of the most complex markets ever studied in the lab.

Viral Videos (And Bacterial Ones, Too) By Katie Neith
Grant Jensen is working with his high-powered cryo-electron microscope to become a high-powered movie producer—and do some groundbreaking science at the same time.

The Law of Moore
After half a century of doublings, the eponymous law elucidated by Gordon Moore (PhD ’54) has outlived even his own expectations and had an impact that goes far beyond its field.

In Memoriam
John Richards

Endnotes
If you had no limits, what would you do, build, or explore?