eprintid: 369 rev_number: 9 eprint_status: archive userid: 5 dir: disk0/00/00/03/69 datestamp: 2009-04-22 21:45:35 lastmod: 2019-10-03 22:52:13 status_changed: 2009-04-22 21:45:35 type: journal_issue metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 title: Engineering and Science, Volume 41:1, October-November 1977. ispublished: pub subjects: journal_issue full_text_status: public date: 1977-10 date_type: published publication: Engineering and Science volume: 41 number: 1 publisher: California Institute of Technology place_of_pub: Pasadena, CA id_number: CaltechES:41.1.0 refereed: TRUE issn: 0013-7812 editors_name: Hutchings, Jr., Edward editors_id: Hutchings-E-Jr official_url: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:41.1.0 rights: You are granted permission for individual, educational, research and non-commercial reproduction, distribution, display and performance of this work in any format. collection: CaltechES toc:
Some Dilemmas in Science
by Lee A. DuBridge
Caltech's president emeritus comes back to give the 1977 Commencement Address.
Ge 136—It's All Outdoors
A new way of teaching geochemists, geophysicists, and planetary scientists some good old-fashioned geology.
Computer Modeling: How Good Is It?
by Donella Meadows
Computer modeling is a baby that needs to develop and to be given some tolerance.
Probing the Universe: Big Bang, Black Holes, and Gravitational Waves
by Kip Thorne
The Rolling Stones
by John D. Bush, '55
A professional designer of machines suggests the easy way the pyramids may have been built.
Bucharest '77—Richter 7.2
by Frank Lamson-Scribner, '46
The great Romanian earthquake of last March as experienced by a Caltech alumnus.
William W. Michael, 1885-1977
A Tribute by Paul C. Jennings
Don M. Yost, 1893-1977
A Tribute by Terry Cole