J Lee Kavanau -- A Man for All Sciences, Some Arts and Technology


Figures

Chapter I


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Fig. 1-1. Nickell, Lipson, and I with the Kentucky locals. Nick at upper far left; Lee at upper 3rd from left; and Milton at upper 4th from left.

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Fig. 1-2. Nick and I fossil hunting in Upper Michigan. I'm the one setting the stage for an eventual lumbar disc rupture

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Fig. 1-3. The author in knickers and boots, ready to hitch-hike to Kentucky caverns for spelunking.

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Fig. 1-4. One of my helictite examples at Cranbrook.

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Fig. 1-5. The author 'at the bench' in his basement chemistry lab during high-school days.

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Fig. 1-6. Our car and camping trailer on the Mexican trip; Paul is 'at the wheel.'

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Fig. 1-7. My license to fly planes in the Piper Cub category.

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Fig. 1-8. Several hours of a 20-channel record of a deer-mouse's activities during a night in an instrumented enclosure (see Figs. 2-11 and 2-12) in my UCLA lab in 1963.

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Fig. 1-9. UCLA programming panels of real-time digital computer for recording and data reduction of activity of deer mouse displayed in Fig. 1-8 (see, also, Fig. 4-1).

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Fig. 1-10. Cumulative records of outcomes of various horse-racing wagers at various odds at N. American tracks for several years prior to 1944.

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Fig. 1-11. My composition teacher, Calista Rogers, in 1930.

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Fig. 1-12 (upper) and (lower). My Ballade in D Minor for piano.

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Fig. 1-13. Schoenberg's portrait of my piano teacher, Frau Dr. Marietta Werndorff, painted in the first decade of the twentieth century.

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Fig. 1-14. Front page of the Los Angeles Times for Feb. 4, 1946, headlining Barton's interview on my theory on the origin of life.

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Fig. 1-14. [Detail] Front page of the Los Angeles Times for Feb. 4, 1946, headlining Barton's interview on my theory on the origin of life.

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