How a leftover Thanksgiving dinner gave us LASIK surgery
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 19:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Here are three scanning electron micrographs of laser-irradiated turkey cartilage, recorded from different perspectives and with different magnification. It was the day after Thanksgiving in 1981, and like most others across the nation, Rangaswamy "Sri" Srinivasan, a researcher at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, had brought some turkey with him to work. The difference between Srinivasan and everyone else was that the scientist had no plans to eat the leftovers.