Erratum

In William Booth's short article on women in science, "Oh, I thought you were a man" (News & Comment, 27 Jan., p. 475), Sallie Watkins' affiliation was incorrectly given as the University of Southern California. Her correct affiliation is the University of Southern Colorado.     

Erratum

In the Briefing "Tyler Prize goes to Cornell scientists" (News & Comment, 30 Mar., p. 1539), it is incorrectly stated that the Tyler committee is based at the University of California at Los Angeles. The committee has been based for the past 10 years at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.     

Rockefeller braces for Baltimore

In the article "Rockefeller braces for Baltimore" by Barbara J. Culliton (News & Comment, 12 Jan., p. 148), the pictures of David Baltimore and Joshua Lederberg were incorrectly credited. The credit for the Baltimore picture should have read, "M. Lampert, Boton." The credit for the Lederberg picture should have read, "Rockefeller University."     

Correction

In the 24 April "Inside AAAS" article "AAAS organizes more meetings of the mind" (p. 548), it is stated incorrectly that Paul Berg of Stanford University will be giving the keynote address and that Helen Donis-Keller of Washington University will be presenting a paper at the Science Innovation '92 meeting in San Francisco (21 to 25 July 1992). The Science Innovation '92 program was tentative at the time the article was written. Joseph Martin of the University of California, San Francisco, will deliver the keynote address on one of the major themes of the meeting, "Mapping the Human Brain." Helen Donis-Keller and Paul Berg were invited to speak but will not be on the program this year.     

Corrections and clarifications

In the Research News article "Extreme ultraviolet satellites open new view of the sky" by Donald Goldsmith (14 Apr., p. 202), astronomer Stuart Bowyer was incorrectly identified as the director of the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy. Bowyer was the founding director of the center and was succeeded by Roger Malina, who became acting director in 1994 and is now director. Malina is, with Bowyer, a principal investigator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's EUVE (Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer) mission.     

Corrections and clarifications

In the Meeting Brief "EUVE [Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer] takes the long view" by Faye Flam (Research News, 25 June, p. 1879), the EUVE principal investigator was incorrectly identified. He is Stuart Bowyer of the University of California, Berkeley.     

Erratum

In the article "Reexamination of acoustic evidence in the Kennedy assassination" by the Committee on Ballistic Acoustics, National Research Council (8 Oct., p. 127), the probability given on page 130, column 1, line 17, was incorrectly printed. It should have been "P = .044."     

Erratum

In the Research News article "Solutions to Euler equation" by Barry A. Cipra (29 Jan., p. 464), the equation in the first line of the fourth paragraph was incorrectly printed. It should have been "x(4) + y(4) + z(4) = u(2)."     

Erratum

In Joseph Palca's News & Comment article "New round in Dingell v. NIH" (28 July, p. 349), the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, was incorrectly referred to as "Baylor University." Baylor University is in Waco, Texas.     

Corrections and clarifications

In the article " Evidence found for a possible ' aggression gene' " by Virginia Morell (Research News, 18 June, p. 1722), the collaborative teams of Peter Seeburg at the University of Heidelberg, Germany; Jean Shih at the University of Southern California; and Creed W. Abell at the University of Texas, Austin, should also have been credited with cloning the human monoamine oxidase (MAO) A and B genes. Seeburg and his colleagues published their research in the July 1988 issue of the Proceedigs of the Nationl Acaderny of Sciences. Xandra Breakefield and her colleagues reported their cloning of the MAO A gene in the October 1988 issue of the Joumal of Neurochemistry. Although Breakefield's group also cloned the MAO B gene, they did not publish this research.     

Corrections and clarifications

Figure 1, parts A and C (p. 1349), of the Research Article "Calcium-calmodulin modula- tion of the olfactory cyclic nucleotide-gated cation channel" by Mingyao Liu et al. (25 Nov., p. 1348) were incorrectly printed. The correct figures appear below. On page 1351 of the same article, in line 25 of the first column of text, "GMP" should have been "AMP." In the second line of the text on page 1352, the first "(C.Ln)o" should have been "(C.Ln)c."     

Corrections and clarifications

In Elizabeth Culotta's article "Entrepreneurs say: "It's better to be the boss" (Special Section, Women in Science '93, 16 Apr., p. 406), Henry Etzkowitz was incorrectly described as a sociologist "at Rutgers University." Dr. Etzkowitz is at the State University of New York at Purchase.     

Erratum

In the News Briefing "Will John Deutch or Dr. X lead MIT?" (5 Jan., p. 25), the California Institute of Technology is incorrectly referred to as the "California Institute of Applied Technology."     

The fields medals (I): relating the continuous and the discrete

The highest award to which a mathematician can aspire is the Fields Medal, an award comparable in many respects to a Nobel Prize in the prestige it confers. J.C. Fields, who set up a trust for the gold medals that constitute the award, said only that they should be made "in recognition of work already done and as an encouragement for further achievements on the part of the recipient." This has been interpreted to mean that the medals should be given to young mathematicians (generally those under the age of 40), a tradition that has been closely followed since the first two medals were awarded in 1936. The Fields Medals are given out only every 4 years, at the quadrennial convening of the International Congress of Mathematicians. This year, Fields Medals were presented to Gregory A. Margoulis of the Soviet Union, Daniel Quillan of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Charles Fefferman of Princeton University, and Pierre Deligne of the Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in France.     

Erratum

In the article "Nuclear magnetic resonance technology for medical studies" by Thomas F. Budinger and Paul C. Lauterbur (19 Oct., p. 288), equation 2 on page 290 was printed incorrectly. It should have read: [See formula in table.].     

Erratum

In the article "NIMH faces renewed uncertainties" by Jeffrey L. Fox (News and Comment, 13 July, p. 148), the first sentence of the first full paragraph of column 2 on page 149 was incorrectly printed. The sentence should have begun, "The 1985 budget for research calls for a modest increase...."     

Erratum

Results of a California state survey on ground water contamination were incorrectly reported in the article "Ground water ills: Many diagnoses, few remedies" by Marjorie Sun (News & Comment, 20 June, p. 1490). Six percent, not one-fifth, of California's large drinking water wells fed by ground water exceeded state pollution limits. One-fifth of the wells showed trace amounts of organic chemicals.     

Erratum

In the Research News article "Taking a closer look at AIDS virus relatives" by Jean L. Marx (19 June, p. 1523), Beatrice Hahn was incorrectly identified as a member of the Gallo-Wong-Staal group. Although Hahn collaborates with Gallo and Wong-Staal of the National Cancer Institute, she is in the Department of Medicine of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.     

Erratum

In Eliot Marshall's article Academy rejects Huntington nomination" (News & Comment, 8 May, p. 661), the affiliation of Herbert Simon should have been given as Carnegie-Mellon University of Pittsburgh, not the University of Pittsburgh.     

Erratum

In the Research News item on evoked potentials entitled "Testing babies for neurological problems" (17 July, p. 322), the affiliation of Ivan Bodis-Wollner was incorrectly given as Albert Einstein College of Medicine. It should have been Mount Sinai School of Medicine.