Vince Riley, Equipment Manager for @CaltechBeavers, describes upbringing in Pasadena, excelling in football and baseball, career start @PCCAthletics, the days when @Caltech had a football program, and the importance of athletics in college education heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

Peter Armentrout of @UtahChemistry recounts undergrad @cwru, uranium research @CaltechCCE, postdoc at Bell Labs, appointment @UCB_Chemistry, and a wide ranging research purview in transition metal chemistry and the gas phase of solvated ions heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

M.G. Finn of @GT_CHEM describes chemical kinetics @CaltechCCE, the origins of #clickchemistry with Barry Sharpless @ChemistryMIT, faculty appointments @ChemistryUVA and @scrippsresearch, and working with viruses at the interface of chemistry and biology heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

Jeff Gelles of @BrandeisLS and @BrandeisScience recounts undergrad @MCB_Harvard, thesis on electron transport and proton pumping @CaltechCCE, postdoc focus on #kinesin, and setting up a research lab to pursue the biological functions of molecular machines heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

Peter Quinn of @UWAresearch recalls college @UOW, colliding galaxies @scienceANU, postdoc @Caltech with Thorne and Goldreich, appointments @SpaceTelescope and @ESO, focus of #axion research, and a career-long effort to unlock the mystery of dark matter heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

Steve Beckwith of @UCB_Astronomy recounts undergrad @CornellAEP, the excitement of infrared astronomy @Caltech, faculty appointment @CornellCAS, leadership @MPIfR_Bonn and @UofCalifornia, and current focus on the #originoflife heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

Jim Blinn, retired from @MicrosoftDesign, recalls college @UMichCSE, texture mapping @UUtah, computer animation @NASAJPL for @NASAVoyager, partnering with @Lucasfilm and Carl Sagan, and his abiding commitment to #scienceeducation heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

Serena Guarnaschelli describes education @Unibocconi, behavioral economics @Caltech, client relationships at McKinsey and Company, international development @DalbergTweet, and the world of impact investing and sustainability @KOISofficial heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

Mike Gazzaniga of @ucsantabarbara discusses split-brain research @Caltech, appointments @NYUPsych and @WeillCornell, the origin of cognitive neuroscience, and a research career exploring the biological basis of perception and its ethical ramifications heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

John Eiler of @Caltech GPS recounts upbringing in Madison, geology @uiowa, geochemistry @UWMadScience, pivoting from field work to building precision instrumentation, and the goal to capture and assess every isotopic variety in the universe heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

Uli Stilz of @novonordiskus remembers education @MPI_Biochem, Chemical Biology in the Dervan Lab @CaltechCCE, biotechnology and drug discovery @sanofi, and research innovation at the hub of industry, government, academia, and venture capital heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

Eric Betzig of @BerkeleyPhysics and @HHMIJanelia recounts undergrad @Caltech, graduate work @CornellAEP, the peerless research culture @BellLabs, microscopy resolution advances and the @NobelPrize, and the challenge to understand cells as well as stars heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

Tim Manning of @ChemistryMIT recalls upbringing in rural Montana, college @montanastate, the greatness of Bob Grubbs @CaltechCCE, postdoc in electrochemistry, research in supramolecular and materials chemistry, and the challenge of sensing #PFAS heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

Roarke Horstmeyer of @DukeUBME recalls undergrad in @DukePhysics, the value of @MITREcorp, visionary AI @medialab, optical experiments @CaltechEAS, hardware focus @MPFNeuro, and the quest to achieve better diagnostics through advances in microscopy heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

Pierre Baldi of @UCIbrenICS recalls education in Paris, #NeuralNetworks and the Hopfield Model @Caltech, exploring the algorithms behind neuroscience, the boundary point of natural intelligence and #AI, and why @ChatGPTapp has passed the Turing Test heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

Virginia Trimble of @UCIPhysAstro recalls undergrad astronomy @UCLA, her path-breaking admission to @Caltech, imaging the Crab Nebula at the Palomar Observatory, @cambridge_astro and the Steady State theory, and documenting the history of astronomy heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

Phil Westerman of @NEOMEDedu remembers college @Sydney_Science, thesis measuring #NMR parameters, postdoc @Caltech on nitrogen-15, @KentState and the origins of the #LiquidCrystal Institute, and the central importance of keeping good lab notes heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

Isaac Chenchiah of @BristolUniMaths recalls college @iitmadras, molecular calculations of solid material @CaltechEAS, postdoc @mpiMathSci, a late embrace of computational research, and mathematical investigation to pursue fundamental questions in biology heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

Manan Arya of @StanfordEng Astronautics recalls undergrad @UofTEngineering, biaxial folding @CaltechEAS, building Starshades @NASAJPL, and why the art and science of origami is an integral part of #expoplanet research and space exploration heritageproject.caltech.edu/…

Trinh Thuan of @UVA Astronomy recalls upbringing in Vietnam, physics @Caltech in the late 1960s, the greatness of Lyman Spitzer @Princeton, deep affiliations in Paris, research in Dwarf Galaxies, and #Buddhism at the interface of science and spirituality heritageproject.caltech.edu/…