Most scientists walk a well-worn path to their careers – high school leads to college, then to graduate school. Rob Phillips skipped college. Now he’s pushing the boundaries of how we interpret DNA. He’s the Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics and Biology and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. So, how did that career happen? Phillips can trace his love for science back to one day – April 30, 1977. He was a teenager when he went to the house of a friend