While an undergraduate at Princeton, John Dabiri spent a summer at the California Institute of Technology, filming jellyfish at a nearby aquarium and trying to write mathematical models to describe their movement. "Initially I hated the idea, because my opinion of biology was that it was all memorization and stamp-collecting," Dabiri says. "But it became clear that the jellyfish had a lot to teach me." After graduating with degrees in mechanical and aerospace engineering, he headed to Caltech for good.
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