Engineering and Science, Volume 61:2, 1998
Editor: Dietrich, Jane S.
Published in: Engineering and Science, Volume 61, Number 2, 1998
Item Category: Complete Issues
Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:61.2.0
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Table of Contents
Random Walk
Biology Campaign Announced; Pauling Exhibition to Tour Country; Astrophysics Thesis Makes (Gravity) Waves; JPL Lends Students an Ear; Starting Arteries; Maybe They'll Make a Movie About This One, Too; Making Memories Stick in Your Head; And He's Building a Stairway to Heaven
Realizing LlGO
by Jane Dietrich
How a huge instrument to detect gravitational waves survived its growing pains and now nears completion.
Learning from a Tragedy: Explosions and Flight 800
by Joe Shepherd
How Caltech joined the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation.
Mesmerism and the Introduction of Surgical Anesthesia to Victorian England
by Alison Winter
How professional jealousy, not altruism, led to the widespread use of ether and other chemical anesthetics.
Books — The Meaning of It All by Richard P. Feynman; Managing Martians by Donna Shirley
by David Goodstein and Al Hibbs