Caltech Magazine, Volume 84:1, Spring 2021

Table of Contents

SoCaltech
Earth Tones • Frances Arnold, White House advisor • Where the biggest instruments were built • A warm farewell to Ernie • Meet Caltech’s accessibility specialist • Jessica Griffiths • The Campus COVID Response One Year Later • Life on Mars?

In the Community
Millikan and Other Eugenicists’ Names to be Removed from Campus Buildings, Assets, and Honors

Worlds Together
The Caltech Center for Comparative Planetary Evolution unites astronomers, geologists, and planetary scientists in one shared mission to understand what different planets can tell us about the evolution of the cosmos and the rise of life.

Story of a Lonely Planet
Przemyslaw Mroz, a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech, and his colleagues have discovered the smallest known “rogue planet,” a free-floating world without a star.

Crossing Paths
The two most recent Nobel Prize-winning Caltech alumni talk with a fellow alum about their work, their campus experiences, and life after Caltech.

A Global Treasure Hunt
How a term paper on Newton’s Principia led to a decade-long search for first-edition copies around the world.

Neural Networking
With the opening of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Neuroscience Research Building, Caltech scientists have a vital new hub for interdisciplinary brain research.

In Memoriam
Bill May • Jean-Paul Revel • Bill Iwan • Ward Whaling • Vince McKoy • Clarence Allen • Kim C. Border

Endnotes
We have been living with the impact and challenges of the coronavirus pandemic for a year now. How have you changed and what have you learned?