Contents Features We 12. The Catalyst MIT professor Warren *Doc* Lewis helped shape modern chemical engineering By Fred Hapgood 18 Found in Translation Speaking technology and business fluently has made Lisa Su’91, SM'91, PhD '94, cone of the top-ranking women in the U.S, semiconductor industry. By Alice Dragoon 20 Exhibit B John Durant is rethinking MIT's museum. By Katherine Bourzac, SM 104 3 Alumni Letters 4 Fast, Geek, and Out of Control My high-speed Olympic experience By Patick Antaki 84 8 Seen on Campus 77 Mass Ave Flying Cars and Demining Picks “The sky's no limit for Lemelson-MIT Prize winner Carl Dietrich 7 Stealth Cell Destroys Cancer MIT researchers’ “nanocel" delivers a toxic double whammy to tumors 1” 8 One Fish, Two Fish A otter sensor forthe deep 8 The Media Lab's New Pilot ‘Alum brings commercial expertise 22 9 Cracking the Crack Code Atomic madel explains cracking 10 Questioning Geographic Luck What realy makes a nation rich or poor? Meet the Author 1 Mark Bowen chronicles the adventures ofa climate change pioneer. By Mara E,Vatz, S04 70 ar an 1865 A Lab of Their Own The Women's Laboratory was ‘an experiment By Elizabeth Durant Alumni Connection Rampant Entrepreneurship MIT teams foster business success By Eileen MoCluskey And more Class Notes and Course News hus profiles of Juan Jose Hermosila (6.36), Aviva Brecher (0, 42) Jeffery Katz (. 80), Susanne Paul (p. 53), ‘Alan Davidson (p. 54), and Rosa Obregon (9.63) Puzzle Corner MiTrews Senior editor ‘Aico Dragoon At doctor Lee Cautila Design intern Angela Te ‘Alumni Connection editor Nancy DuVergne Sit Contributors Katherine Bourac, SM ‘04 Ki Elzabeth Durant Fred Hapgood, Nei Savaga, Erie Schiad 0, Tracy Staodter Mara Vata, S404, the MIT News Office Technology Review magazine is provided to al slum compliments of the MIT ‘Alumni Associaton.CHIC Profession Mirae CRee Aue AUT rep lem mee Im iate falta}Mort K Gewis heloed define 3 protest ond made cies the Undeborviag aid not sneak through