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Artwork Credits:

All greyscale images from the following sources:

S. Ramon y Cajal (1893) The Vertebrate Retina.

Herman von Helmholtz (1909) Treatise on Physiological Optics.

Copyright Info:

This web site created, designed, and maintained by Kerry Kim. ©2001 All Rights Reserved.

Course Acknowledgments:

I am deeply indebted to many people who helped make this course possible:

• The Physics and Physiology & Biophysics (PBIO) departments for allowing this course to be offered.
• David Boulware, Michael Schick, Oscar Vilches, and Steve Ellis in the physics department and Fred Rieke, Stan Froehner, and Wayne Crill in the PBIO department for their generous support and encouragement and for their help in getting this course listed at the last possible moment..
• Margot Nims for all of her help with course listings and millions of details, large and small.
• Patricia Malasvanos for help with textbook ordering.
• The physics and PBIO department office staff for all of their help with my administrative questions.
• Jennifer Carillo for her computing support & help with the projection system.
• Erika Eggers and Jo Hopp for their kind assistance, involvement, and donation of time to the course.
• David O'Carroll for help advertising this course in the undergraduate Neurobiology & Behaviour program, and for his helpful suggestions & support.
• Greg Field, Cecilia Armstrong, and Maria Mckinley for millions of wonderful conversations, encouragement, suggestions, and for being such wonderful labmates.
• And most of all, Fred Rieke, the most wonderful teacher, advisor, and mentor a graduate student can have, for all of his support in research, teaching and life. And for sharing so much of his time, effort, and vision with me and with us all.

And for the web site:

• Michael Schick, for this URL and account.
• The UW CATALYST toolbox and computing support for making the anonymous feedback & iSubscribe pages.
• Greg Crowther for many helpful HTML tips.
• Jennifer Carillo for so much omputer support.
• Atomz.com for their search engine.
• Macromedia for making Dreamweaver & Fireworks used to create this site..
• The wonderful UW computing facilities & computing help.
• NetMechanic for helpful web design tips.
• The people who made PowerPoint 2000--a true diamond in the rough.
• Wavemetrics for Igor Pro used to make the graphs & movies for the class.