CAROLINE BURLING THOMPSON 1869-1921

Caroline Haythornthwaite

This paper explores the impact of communication media and the Internet on connectivity between people. Results from a series of social network studies of media use are used as background for exploration of these impacts. These studies explored the use of all available media among members of an academic research group and among distance learners. Asking about media use as well as about the stren...

Caroline Bax BW.indd

Hans Spemann (1869-1941)

Hans Spemann [5] was an experimental embryologist best known for his transplantation studies [6] and as the originator of the ?organizer? concept. One of his earliest experiments involved constricting the blastomeres of a fertilized salamander [7] egg [8] with a noose of fine baby hair, resulting in a partially double embryo with two heads and one tail. Spemann continued changing variables such...

C1lc20180h 1864..1869

This paper presents a tunable optofluidic prism based on the configuration of two laminar flow streams with different refractive indices in a triangular chamber. The chambers with 70 and 90 apex angles are designed based on simulation results, which provide the optimum working range and avoid recirculating flows in the chambers. In addition, a hydrodynamic model has been developed to predict th...

Seymour Benzer 1921–2007

It is now common knowledge that both “Nature” and “Nurture” determine animal behavior. But even as late as the 1970s, the concept that genes have anything to do with behavior was not universally accepted. In the face of such skepticism, Seymour Benzer, working tirelessly at Caltech, refused to join the philosophical debate and, in the way so familiar to those who knew him, shrugged his shoulder...