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Winter 2003


Volume 18, Issue 3

FEATURES

STEPHANIE KWOLEK INVENTED KEVLAR WHEN ALMOST NO WOMEN WERE CHEMISTS

THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MAKING SOUND ALARMING

FIGURING OUT THE BASICS TOOK A FEW MINUTES. MAKING IT WORK AND DECIDING WHAT TO DO WITH IT TOOK DECADES.

SHE FOUGHT FOR ONLY ONE DAY AND SURVIVED FOR LESS THAN A YEAR, BUT NOW THE MOST IMPORTANT PARTS OF HER RADICAL DESIGN—WHICH TRIGGERED A REVOLUTION IN NAVAL WARFARE—CAN BE SEEN AGAIN

THEIR FOREMOST PHOTOGRAPHER DESCRIBES TWO CENTURIES OF ARTISTIC AND ENGINEERING BRILLIANCE

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCHERS PROTECT US ALL FROM DEADLY INFECTIONS. BUT HOW DO THEY PROTECT THEMSELVES?

DEPARTMENTS

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