Dr. Morris Karnovsky is the 1990 recipient of the E. B. Wilson Award, the highest honorbestowed by the American Society of Cell Biology. Dr. Karnovsky is so honored for his numerous fundamental and seminal discoveries on cell structure and function relationships that have farreaching interdisciplinary impact on cell biology, in physiology, and in pathology. Morris was born in South Africa. He r...

McKean, also served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Ernest Shaw was born in 1873 in Michigan and made his living as an abstractor, that is, one who describes parcels of property for plot maps. Mary McKean was born in 1871 in Minnesota and made her living as a school teacher. They met in North Dakota and were married in Wahpeton in 1904. Mary Shaw was the second of their five ch...

Computer entered 1985 with a new editor in chief (EIC), the second drawn from the IEEE Computer Society’s growing ranks of volunteers. In choosing an EIC, the Board of Governors wanted to see “a better mix of university and industry types” as well as “a better mix of universityand industrygenerated technical articles.” They appointed Michael Mulder, who had experience in both worlds—he had work...

Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life satisfaction trajectory of the central and eastern European transition countries--a U-shaped swing and a nil or declining trend. There is no evidence of an increase in life satisfaction of the magnitude that might have been expected to result from the fourfold improvement in th...

It is shown that one can convert a chaotic attractor to any one of a large number of possible attracting time-periodic motions by making only small time-dependent perturbations of an available system parameter. The method utilizes delay coordinate embedding, and so is applicable to experimental situations in which a priori analytical knowledge of the system dynamics is not available. Important ...