Caltech glassblower's retirement has scientists sighing
Saturday, June 25, 2016 - 11:01
in Physics & Chemistry
Hunkered down in the sub-basement of the Norman W. Church Laboratory for Chemical Biology, underneath a campus humming with quantum teleportation devices, gravity wave detectors and neural prosthetics, Rick Gerhart chipped away at a broken flask. Blowtorch in hand, he pulled the softened glass...