The 2023 Distinguished Alumni

Author: Neith, Katie

Published in: Caltech Magazine, Volume 86, Number 2, 2023, pp. 22-27

Part of: Caltech Magazine, Volume 86:2, Fall 2023

Item Category: Feature Articles

Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:20231017-230459914

Abstract

Caltech’s annual Distinguished Alumni Awards—the highest honor the Institute bestows upon its graduates—recognize “a particular achievement of noteworthy value, a series of such achievements, or a career of noteworthy accomplishment.” The 2023 luminaries include an optics expert who invented near-zero-index optics, op- tical nanocircuits, and wave-based analog computing based on nanomaterials; a leader in obstetric and gynecological care who broke barriers at Caltech; a bioinformatics pioneer who managed a team that mapped the fly, human, and mouse genomes; and a trailblazing chemist who helped develop the cancer-treatment drug Abraxane.

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