Rowland Institute Library Blog

Members of Rowland’s Single Molecule Biophysics Group, in collaboration
with other  researchers at Harvard and Urbana-Champaign, report on
the dynamics of single DNA molecules within a narrow protein
pore.  (Harvard users follow this link.)

Jorge Hirsch from UCSD has come up with a factor called the h-index,
which takes into account the number of papers published by a scientist
and the number of citations for each paper.   Thus, a
scientist with an h-index of 10 would have published 10 papers that
have been cited at least ten times.  Hirsch says this is a more
accurate way of considering the output of individual scientists. 

Rowland’s Complex Fluids group, which uses cells such as viruses and
bacterial flagella to study physics, has published a paper on the
behavior of a rod-like virus, fd, in solution.