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A Positron named Priscilla : scientific discovery at the frontier / by Marcia Bartusiak ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discoveries in science.
- Creative ability in science.
- Research.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (356 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Positron Named Priscilla is a book of wonder, offering a fascinating, readable overview of the cutting-edge investigations of many of today's leading young scientists. This volume, containing chapters authored by popular science writers, reports on some of the most exciting recent discoveries and advances. Topics include planetary science, astrophysics and the emergence of helioseismology, biology and what we have learned about DNA, physics and our newfound ability to move and manipulate individual atoms on a surface, and more.
- Contents:
- A Positron Named Priscilla
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- A POSITRON NAMED Priscilla
- Shake, Rattle, And Shine New Methods of Probing the Sun's Interior
- THE MUSIC OF THE SUN
- REWRITING THE TEXTBOOKS
- THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG?
- GONG
- THE ELUSIVE NEUTRINO
- THE SOLAR FURNACE
- UNDERGROUND TELESCOPES
- NOTES
- Bibliography
- Recommended Reading
- A Positron Named Priscilla Trapping and Manipulating Atoms
- THE SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPE
- TOTE THAT ATOM, LIFT THAT MOLECULE
- ATOMIC SWITCHING
- LIMITATIONS OF THE TECHNIQUE
- A POSITRON NAMED PRISCILLA
- THE PROBLEM OF PRECISION
- LASER COOLING
- OBSERVATIONS OF IONS
- TRAPPLING ATOMS
- THE ATOMIC FOUNTAIN
- SOME USES OF PRECISION
- APPLICATIONS IN BIOLOGY
- WHERE DO WE STAND?
- Aids Solving the Molecular Puzzle
- ANCIENT HATREDS AND NEW PLAGUES
- VIRUSES
- THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
- LIFE CYCLE OF HIV
- Initial Contact, the Receptor
- The "Pick-up
- Uncoating
- Replication
- CENTRAL DOGMA
- UNORTHODOX INFORMATION
- THE BIRTH OF NEW PARTICLES
- VIRAL ASSEMBLY
- HOW HIV CAUSES AIDS
- Infection
- T-cell Mystery
- Shedding
- VACCINES AND THERAPEUTICS
- Vaccines
- Therapeutics
- A New Generation of Drug Treatments
- Doubling Up How The Genetic Code Replicates Itself
- STARTING AT THE VERY BEGINNING
- TACKLING THE NEXT STAGE OF COMPLEXITY
- SNARING KEY EVIDENCE
- IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE
- EPILOGUE
- Proteins That Keep Replication in Order
- Helicases and Single-Stranded Binding Proteins
- The Polymerases
- Exonucleases, Polymerases, and Ligases That Piece Together the Leading and Lagging Strands
- The Replisome Protein Complex Keeps All in Order
- The Topoisomerases Adjust Swivel to DNA
- Using Protein Editors to Correct Errors
- Recommended Reading.
- Magellan's Venus A World Revealed
- A VEILED WORLD
- A MATTER OF HEAT
- ORBITERS LIFT THE VEIL
- CONTROVERSY IN CRATES
- PROBING THE INTERIOR
- SCENARIO FOR AN ANCIENT CATASTROPHE
- VENUS IS ALIVE
- THE TECTONIC ALTERNATIVE
- MEANWHILE, IN THE UPPER MANTLE
- RETHINKING THE CRATERING RECORD
- THE GEOLOGIC LINK: DISTRIBUTED DEFORMATION
- TOO SOON FOR CERTAINTY
- Clocks In The Earth? The Science of Earthquake Prediction
- THE RIDDLES AND RHYTHMS OF 1992: EARTHQUAKE SCIENCE IN THE MIRROR
- THE EARTH ITSELF
- THE LANGUAGE OF EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION
- STALKING ELUSIVE PATTERNS
- The Characteristic Earthquake Hypothesis
- Hitting the Trail into Past Time
- Paleoseismology
- Slipping and a "Slidin
- Reading the Historical Record
- Predictability and Politics
- GEOPHYSICS IN LABORATORY EARTH
- The Stress Dilemma
- Rupture Dynamics-Propagating Pulses of Slip?
- THE PARKFIELD "OBSERVATORY
- The Future
- The Mathematical Microscope Waves, Wavelets, and Beyond
- A MATHEMATICAL POEM
- A RABBLE OF FUNCTIONS
- THE EXPLANATION OF NATURAL PHENOMENA
- BEING ACADEMIC OR BEING REAL
- DRIVING A CAR HALF A BLOCK
- TALKING TO HEATHENS
- THIS MUST BE WRONG.…
- A MATHEMATICAL MICROSCOPE
- MOTHER OR AMOEBA?
- AVOIDING REDUNDANCY
- UNIFICATION
- EVADING INFINITY
- HEISENBERG
- PUTTING WAVELETS TO WORK
- CUT THE WEEDS AND SPARE THE DAISIES
- WAVELETS DON'T EXIST…
- COMPRESSING INFORMATION
- TURBULENCE AND WAVELETS
- FINGERPRINTS AND HUNGARIAN DANCES
- BEYOND WAVELETS
- REFERENCES
- BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC
- A SAMPLING OF TECHNICAL BOOKS
- A Family Affair The Top Quark And The Higgs Particle
- Bouncing Balls Of Carbon The Discovery and Promise of Fullerenes
- BUCKYBALLS AND THE OTHER FULLERENES KEEP ON ROLLING.
- A CARBON PRIMER
- AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY
- First Hints of Something Strange
- A Soccer-Ball Solution
- Capturing Buckyballs
- FINGERPRINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHING BUCKYBALLS
- The Raman Spectrum
- NMR-The Chemist's Proof And a Surprise
- Surprise: Buckyballs Can't Sit Still
- First Buckyball Photos
- Buckyballs by the Bushel
- Nonfullerene Fullerenes
- 1001 USES FOR BUCKYBALLS-MAYBE
- From Insulator to Conductor to Superconductor
- Prisoners in a Carbon Cage
- A Fullerene Ready for Market
- Other Promising Uses and a Real Long Shot
- BUCKYBALL POSTSCRIPT: HOW IT ALL STARTED
- Fold, Spindle, And Regulate How Proteins Work
- THE IMPORTANCE OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE
- ANATOMY OF PROTEINS
- THE SEARCH FOR STRUCTURE: X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE
- THE STRUCTURE OF PROTEIN IS RESILIENT
- DESIGNING SUPERSTABLE PROTEINS
- THE LEUCINE ZIPPER AND GENE REGULATION
- THE LEUCINE ZIPPER IS A COILED COIL
- A CANINE PINCUSHION POINTS THE WAY
- X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY: FINDING THE MOLECULAR DETAILS
- THE COILED COIL: RULES OF FOLDING
- THE ASPARAGINE RULE
- ANOTHER APPROACH IN THE QUEST FOR THE HOLY GRAIL
- APPLICATIONS: A CANCER DIAGNOSTIC
- CONCLUSION
- Appendix A Abstracts of Additional Sessions of the Frontiers of Science Symposia
- MATERIALS SCIENCE
- OZONE HOLES
- TOPOLOGY
- QUANTUM CONFINED SEMICONDUCTORS
- MASS EXTINCTIONS
- THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
- Appendix B Symposia Programs
- THIRD ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE NOVEMBER 7-9, 1991
- Astrophysics:Looking Inside The Sun
- Biology:Basic Science Related to AIDS
- Computer Science:Aspects of Theoretical Computer Science
- Geosciences:Earthquake Prediction
- Geosciences:Mass Extinctions
- Material Science:Quantum Confined Semiconductors
- Mathematics:Topology.
- Physics:Manipulating Atoms by Laser Atom Trapping and Scanning Tunneling Tips
- FOURTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE NOVEMBER 5-7, 1992
- Atmospheric Science:Ozone Holes-Causes and Effects of Polar Ozone Depletion
- Biology:The Cell Cycle
- Biology:Structure and Function of Proteins
- Chemistry and Physics:Buckminsterfullerenes-A New Form of Carbon
- Geosciences:Venus-Results from Magellan
- Materials Science:New Materials-Conducting Polymers,Organic Magnets, Composites
- Mathematics:The Wavelet Transform
- Physics:Current Topics in Hadron Collider Physics-Prelude to the Superconducting Supercollider Era
- Appendix C About the Authors
- MARCIA BARTUSIAK
- BARBARA BURKE
- ANDREW CHAIKIN
- ADDISON GREENWOOD
- T.A. HEPPENHEIMER
- MICHELLE HOFFMAN
- DAVID HOLZMAN
- ELIZABETH J. MAGGIO
- ANNE SIMON MOFFAT
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-21126-1
- 9786610211265
- 0-309-58844-8
- 0-585-03734-5
- OCLC:
- 42330445
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