Globe Laboratory Sheets (Nelson, Willard B.)

Willard Thompson

Complexity theory has a profound influence on the field of cryptology. The time complexity of breaking a cipher system must be significant enough to thwart any adversary from succeeding. However, with the emergence of quantum computers an adversary may have no difficulty in breaking known cipher systems. If quantum computers would exist today new mechanisms for security would need to be built. ...

Willard Burr Soper

Transmuting a helices and b sheets

Protein architecture involves two main secondary structural classes: helices and sheets. Some natural proteins alter their fold in response to changes in solution conditions or as a consequence of mutation. Here, we discuss recent attempts to induce such conformational changes by design: specifically, the motivation and success of efforts to change one protein fold into a different one in respo...

Samual Willard: An Unreliable Narrator

Willard E. Goodwin: educator, innovator and pioneer.

Willard E. Goodwin was born to Willard and Olive (Belt) Goodwin on July 24, 1915 in Los Angeles, California and died on July 22, 1998, just 2 days short of his 83rd birthday (fig. 1). Willard and his younger brother by 8 years, Donald A. Goodwin, grew up in La Cañada, California, an area just outside of Pasadena in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, where their nearest neighbors were n...