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Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Susan Goldhor)
Aron was as close as you can get to being self-made. He grew up in a financially, intellectually and culturally impoverished family. The things that he loved and that defined...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Richard Milner)
Physicist I recall first meeting Aron at the Intersections Conference in Rockport, Maine on May 14-19, 1987. He and I collaborated on pioneering experiments to measure spin-dependent electron scattering from...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Robert Redwine)
Like many of you, I knew Aron for quite a long time. I knew him a bit before I joined the faculty at MIT, because he was of course already...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Bolek Wyslouch)
We are gathered here today to celebrate the life of a passionate physicist and humanitarian, our dear colleague Aron Bernstein. Aron was one of the pillars of the Laboratory for...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Alan Guth)
This makes me seem old, but I have known Aron for 58 years. I first met him in the first term of my freshman year as a student at MIT...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Peter Fisher)
Aron Bernstein was one of the very few truly happy people I knew....
Vol. XXXIV No. 4March/April 2022
Creating the MIT Values Statement
Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to share with you the MIT Values Statement, the product of more than a year’s worth of broad consultation and serious debate by a group...
Vol. XXXIV No. 4March/April 2022
MIT Opens Learning for Refugees
It’s December 2016, and I’ve just arrived in the port town of Pozzallo in Sicily, where I am watching a group of boys playing soccer. The boys are animated and...
Unique Fluorescence Property of Human gamma-Crystallins
Jiejin Chen, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Takeda Pharmaceutical Cambridge, MA 02139 jiejinc@gmail.com Will Never Forget . . . . Jon took me to his lab as a graduate student and guided...
Ulrich Laemmli’s Development of SDS Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis
Jonathan King Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 jaking@mit.edu One of the most widely used and important techniques in modern biology is SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis....