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The molecular vision of life : Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the rise of the new biology / by Kay, Lily E.

Table of Contents: “…Microorganisms and Macromanagement: Beadle's Return to Caltech.…”
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Girls coming to tech! : a history of American engineering education for women by Bix, Amy Sue

Table of Contents: “…Coeducation for social life: Caltech --…”
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How Einstein created relativity out of physics and astronomy by Topper, David R.

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Achieving the rare : Robert F. Christy's journey in physics and beyond by Christy, I.-Juliana

Table of Contents: “…Leaving for Caltech. Early life at Caltech. Large numbers of graduate students. …”
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Engineering the environment : phytotrons and the quest for climate control in the Cold War by Munns, David P. D., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…"The Awe in Which Biologists Hold Physicists": Building the First Phytotron at Caltech; 2. At Work in the Caltech Phytotron; 3. The Climatron; Coda I. …”
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Calculus for cranks by Katz, Nets Hawk

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Ahead of the curve : David Baltimore's life in science by Crotty, Shane, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue; Chapter One: Great Neck, Long Island; Chapter Two: Swarthmore; Chapter Three: Apprenticeships; Chapter Four: Salk Institute; Chapter Five: MIT; Chapter Six: Recombinant DNA; Chapter Seven: Nobel Gold; Poliovirus: An Interlude; Chapter Eight: Whitehead Institute; Chapter Nine: Rockefeller; Chapter Ten: Homecoming; Chapter Eleven: Caltech; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.…”
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Voyage through time : walks of life to the Nobel Prize by Zewail, Ahmed H.

Table of Contents: “…First steps : on the banks of the Nile -- The gate to science : the Alexandria years -- The American encounter : Independence in Philadelphia -- California gold : from Berkeley to Pasadena -- The invisible atom : close-up at Caltech -- The race against time : six millennia to femtotime -- Time and matter : the femtouniverse in perspective -- On the road to Stockholm : festivities and fairy tales -- A personal vision : the world of the have-nots -- Walks to the future : my hope for Egypt and America -- Epilogue : success, is there a formula?…”
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Biographical memoirs.

Table of Contents: “…""THE BERLIN YEARS (1932-37)""""THE BACTERIOPHAGE EPOCH (1937-53)""; ""Early Days at Caltech""; ""Vanderbilt University and the Phage Group""; ""Cold Spring Harbor and the Phage and Phycomyces Courses""; ""Return to Caltech""; ""DNA as Genetic Material""; ""THE PHYCOMYCES PERIOD (1953-81)""; ""The Cologne Interlude (1961-63)""; ""PERSONALITY""; ""Sense of Humour""; ""The Intellectual Man""; ""LAST DAYS""; ""FAMILY""; ""HONORS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""MICHAEL DOUDOROFF""; ""SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""HERBERT FRIEDMANN""; ""SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""JACOB FURTH""…”
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The grand design by Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018

Memorial Tributes : National Academy of Engineering, Volume 2. by Engineering, National Academy of

Table of Contents: “…""THE BERLIN YEARS (1932-37)""""THE BACTERIOPHAGE EPOCH (1937-53)""; ""Early Days at Caltech""; ""Vanderbilt University and the Phage Group""; ""Cold Spring Harbor and the Phage and Phycomyces Courses""; ""Return to Caltech""; ""DNA as Genetic Material""; ""THE PHYCOMYCES PERIOD (1953-81)""; ""The Cologne Interlude (1961-63)""; ""PERSONALITY""; ""Sense of Humour""; ""The Intellectual Man""; ""LAST DAYS""; ""FAMILY""; ""HONORS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""MICHAEL DOUDOROFF""; ""SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""HERBERT FRIEDMANN""; ""SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""JACOB FURTH""…”
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Will anyone rescue prediction-market Intrade?

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Make, create, innovate. / Architecture

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The Physics of Banjos A Conversation with David Politzer. by Burton, Howard

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Inflated Expectations A Conversation with Paul Steinhardt. by Burton, Howard

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A Bridge Not Attacked : Chemical Warfare Civilian Research During World War II. by Johnston, Harold

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Forever Young: Nanotechnology and Medicine-A Fred Friendly Seminar.

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NOVA. the new evidence / Hindenburg :

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On fact and fraud : cautionary tales from the front lines of science by Goodstein, David L., 1939-

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Particle tracking velocimetry by Dabiri, Dana, 1963-, Pecora, Charles

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XIVth International Congress on Mathematical Physics : Lisbon, 28 July - 2 August 2003

Table of Contents: “…Long time behaviour of periodic stochastic flows / V. Kaloshin (Caltech), D. Dolgopyat (Maryland), L. Koralov (Princeton). …”
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Science and technology in the global cold war

Table of Contents: “…Creager -- Self-reliant science: the impact of the Cold War on science in socialist China / Sigrid Schmalzer -- From the end of the world to the age of the earth: the Cold War development of isotope geochemistry at the University of Chicago and Caltech / Matthew Shindell -- Changing the mission: from the Cold War to climate change / Naomi Oreskes -- Fighting each other: the N-1, Soviet big science, and the Cold War at home / Asif Siddiqi -- Embedding the national in the global: US-French relationships in space science and rocketry in the 1960s / John Krige -- Bringing NASA back to earth: a search for relevance during the Cold War / Erik M. …”
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Championing science : communicating your ideas to decision makers by Aines, Roger D., 1958-, Aines, Amy L., 1956-

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Surveying the Skies : How Astronomers Map the Universe. by Wynn-Williams, Gareth

Table of Contents: “…4.4 Harvard Spectroscopic Survey5 Radio Surveys; 5.1 Jansky and Reber; 5.2 Post World War II Radio Astronomy; 5.3 The Big Bang Controversy; 5.4 Recent Radio Surveys; 5.5 The Pulsar Discovery Survey; 5.6 The 21-cm Spectral Line; 5.7 Molecules in the Milky Way; 5.8 Searching for ET; 6 Infrared Surveys; 6.1 The Caltech TMSS Survey; 6.2 2MASS and DENIS; 6.3 The AFGL survey; 6.4 IRAS; 6.5 AKARI and WISE; 6.6 UKIDSS and VISTA; 6.7 SCUBA-2; 7 The Cosmic Microwave Background; 7.1 Discovery of the CMB; 7.2 COBE; 7.3 Mapping the Fluctuations in the CMB; 7.4 The Planck Spacecraft; 8 Ultraviolet Surveys.…”
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Wave Propagation in Drilling, Well Logging and Reservoir Applications. by Chin, Wilson C.

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Advances in Engineering Mechanics : Reflections and Outlooksin Honor of Theodore Y.-T. Wu

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4D Electron Microscopy : Imaging In Space And Time.

Table of Contents: “…Applications of 2D and 3D Imaging and Related Techniques -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Real-Space Crystallography via HRTEM and HRSTEM -- 4.2.1 Encapsulated nanocrystalline structures -- 4.2.2 Nanocrystalline catalyst particles of platinum -- 4.2.3 Microporous catalysts and molecular sieves -- 4.2.4 Other zeolite structures -- 4.2.5 Structures of complex catalytic oxides solved by HRSTEM -- 4.2.6 The value of electron diffraction in solving 3D structures -- 4.3 Electron Tomography -- 4.4 Electron Holography -- 4.5 Electron Crystallography -- 4.5.1 Other complex inorganic structures -- 4.5.2 Complex biological structures -- 4.6 Electron-Energy-Loss Spectroscopy and Imaging -- 4.7 Atomic Resolution in an Environmental TEM -- 4.7.1 Atomic-scale electron microscopy at ambient pressure by exploiting the technology of microelectromechanical systems -- References -- 5. 4D Electron Imaging in Space and Time: Principles -- 5.1 Atomic-Scale Resolution in Time -- 5.1.1 Matter particle8211;wave duality -- 5.1.2 Analogy with light -- 5.1.3 Classical atoms: Wave packets -- 5.1.4 Paradigm case study: Two atoms -- 5.2 From Stop-Motion Photography to Ultrafast Imaging -- 5.2.1 High-speed shutters -- 5.2.2 Stroboscopy -- 5.2.3 Ultrafast techniques -- 5.2.4 Ultrafast lasers -- 5.3 Single-Electron Imaging -- 5.3.1 Coherence of ultrafast packets -- 5.3.2 The double-slit experiment revisited -- 5.3.3 Ultrafast versus fast imaging -- 5.3.4 The velocity mismatch and attosecond regime -- 5.4 4D Microscopy: Brightness, Coherence and Degeneracy -- 5.4.1 Coherence volume and degeneracy -- 5.4.2 Brightness and degeneracy -- 5.4.3 Coherence and Contrast -- 5.4.4 Contrast, dose, and resolution -- Further Reading -- References -- 6. 4D Ultrafast Electron Imaging: Developments and Applications -- 6.1 Developments at Caltech 8212; A Brief History -- 6.2 Instruments and Techniques -- 6.3 Structure, Morphology, and Mechanics -- 6.3.1 Selected-area image (diffraction) dynamics -- 6.3.2 Dynamical morphology: Time-dependent warping -- 6.3.3 Proof of principle: Gold dynamics -- 6.3.4 Prototypical case: Graphite in 4D space.…”
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Optics and artificial vision by González-Acuäna, Rafael G., Chaparro-Romo, Héctor A., Melendez-Montoya, Israel

Table of Contents: “…The eigenfaces algorithm -- 8.4. Example using the CALTECH faces dataset -- 8.5. A LBP face recognizer for your own face -- 8.6. …”
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Optical coatings and thermal noise in precision measurement

Table of Contents: “…Seismic noiseElectric circuit noise; Residual gas noise; Other noise sources; 5.4 Direct thermal noise measurements by free-mirror cavities; 5.4.1 Background; 5.4.2 Experiment at University of Tokyo; Experimental setup; Experimental results; 5.4.3 Experiment at Caltech; Experimental setup; Experimental results; 5.5 Direct thermal noise measurements by fixed-spacer cavities; 5.5.1 Background; 5.5.2 Experiment at JILA/NIST; Experimental setup; Experimental result; 5.5.3 Experiment at NPL; Experimental setup; Experimental result; 5.6 Summary; 6 Methods of improving thermal noise.…”
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Modern aerodynamic methods for direct and inverse applications by Chin, Wilson C.

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