California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology (or Caltech)[5] is a research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphasis on science and engineering. Its 124-acre (50 ha) primary campus is located approximately 11 mi (18 km) northeast of downtown Los Angeles.
Although founded as a preparatory and vocational school by Amos G. Throop in 1891, the college attracted influential scientists such as George Ellery Hale, Arthur Amos Noyes, and Robert Andrews Millikan in the early 20th century. The vocational and preparatory schools were disbanded and spun off in 1910, and the college assumed its present name in 1921. In 1934, Caltech was elected to the Association of American Universities, and the antecedents of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech continues to manage and operate, were established between 1936 and 1943 under Theodore von Kármán. The university is one among a small group of Institutes of Technology in the United States which tends to be primarily devoted to the instruction of technical arts and applied sciences.
Despite its small size, 33 Caltech alumni and faculty have won a total of 34 Nobel Prizes (Linus Pauling being the only individual in history to win two unshared prizes) and 71 have won the United States National Medal of Science or Technology. There are 112 faculty members who have been elected to the National Academies. In addition, numerous faculty members are associated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as well as NASA.
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Scientist in Behavioral and Experimental Economics, California Institute of Technology
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Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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Postdoctoral Researcher, California Institute of Technology
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Lecturer in History, California Institute of Technology
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California Institute of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, California Institute of Technology
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Postdoctoral Scholar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology
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Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology
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Nico and Marilyn Van Wingen Professor of Geobiology, California Institute of Technology
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Graduate student of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology
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Ph.D. Candidate in Oceanography, California Institute of Technology
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Gertrude Baltimore Professor of Experimental Psychology, California Institute of Technology
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Head of Education and Human Resources Programs at American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Trustee, California Institute of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
