A positron named Priscilla : scientific discovery at the frontier / by Marcia Bartusiak [and others].

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1994.

viii, 348 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Shake, rattle, and shine : new methods of probing the sun's interior / Marcia Bartusiak -- A positron named Priscilla : trapping and manipulating atoms / T. A. Heppenheimer -- AIDS : solving the molecular puzzle / Michelle Hoffman -- Doubling up : how the genetic code replicates itself / Anne Simon Moffat -- Megellan's venus : a world revealed / Andrew Chaikin -- Clocks in the earth? : the science of earthquake prediction / Addison Greenwood -- The mathematical microscope : waves, wavelets, and beyond / Barbara Burke -- A family affair : the top quark and the Higgs particle / T. A. Heppenheimer -- Bouncing balls of carbon : the discovery and promise of fullerenes / Elizabeth J. Maggio -- Fold, spindle, and regulate : how proteins work / David Holzman.