Professor Cyrus Taylor (photo courtesy of Case Alumni Association)

We’re extremely happy to see the work and life of CWRU Physics Cyrus Taylor, Albert A. Michelson Professor of Physics, profiled in APS News in its feature: ‘A visit to Mount Kilimanjaro spurs a career pivot.’  

Excerpt:  Twice in his life, theoretical physicist Cyrus Taylor has stood at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The first was in July 1984; he had hoped to reach the rim of the volcanic crater but was thwarted by a bout of malaria.

Taylor returned in July 2017, this time with his daughter. She was a recent graduate of Case Western Reserve University, where Taylor has been a faculty member since 1988. On their first morning in base camp, when the clouds finally parted to reveal the mountain’s face, Taylor cried. “Most of the glaciers that had been there in 1984 were gone,” he says.

He arrived home with a newfound purpose.

“I’ve always been interested in problems that are important and where there may be things I can contribute … that might not get done otherwise…”

Taylor, also an APS Fellow and member, decided climate change is one of those problems.

See full story here: A visit to Mount Kilimanjaro spurs a career pivot – Cyrus Taylor, once a high-energy experimentalist, now sees climate change as his calling — and physics as a tool for the public good