California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology ( Technical University of California '), better known as Caltech is a private research university located in Pasadena in Los Angeles County, which specializes in natural and engineering sciences.
Description
The research university was founded in 1891 with only 31 students. To date, the number of students is about 2000 compared to the great rival MIT with similar research profile very low, with a high proportion of students is in a postgraduate study. The university is a member of the Association of American Universities, an existing association of leading research-intensive since 1900, North American universities.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA, which monitors the operation of space probes, is part of the University. The institute is connected to the Research Network BIRN. The current President of the University is Jean -Lou Chameau.
With 310 professors and 2171 students (2004/ 2005) is the scientifically highly productive university extremely small, nevertheless it belongs according to various rankings of the top ten universities in the world. In The Times Higher Education Supplement (2011/2012) it was rated in general and for the sciences, engineering and physics even as the world's best university. In the history of the university staff and alumni have won a total of 31 Nobel Prizes, including 13 in Physics, 9 in Physiology or Medicine, 6 in chemistry, as well as two in economics and a Nobel Peace Prize.
The Caltech began in 1891 under the name of Throop College ( after the founder Amos G. Throop ( 1811-1894 ) ) and received its present name in 1921 and the rank of a university. Among the defining scientists at the early stages in the 1920s belonged to George Ellery Hale, Arthur Amos Noyes, and Robert Andrews Millikan.
Sports
The sports teams of Caltech are the Beaver. The university is a member of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
Famous people
Nobel Prize winner at the California Institute of Technology:
- Robert Andrews Millikan - Physics 1923
- Thomas Hunt Morgan - Medical 1933
- Carl David Anderson - Physics 1936
- Edwin Mattison McMillan - Chemistry 1951
- Linus Carl Pauling - Chemistry 1954 peace 1962
- William Bradford Shockley - Physics 1956
- George Wells Beadle - Medical 1958
- Rudolf Mössbauer - Physics 1961
- Charles Hard Townes - Physics 1964
- Richard Phillips Feynman - Physics 1965
- Murray Gell-Mann - Physics 1969
- Max Delbrück - Medical 1969
- Leo James Rainwater - Physics 1975
- David Baltimore - Medical 1975
- Renato Dulbecco - Medical 1975
- Howard Martin Temin - Medical 1975
- William Lipscomb - Chemistry 1976
- Robert Woodrow Wilson - Physics 1978
- Roger Sperry - Medical 1981
- Kenneth Geddes Wilson - Physics 1982
- William Alfred Fowler - Physics 1983
- Rudolph A. Marcus - Chemistry 1992
- Edward B. Lewis - Medical 1995
- Douglas Osheroff - Physics 1996
- Robert C. Merton - Economy in 1997
- Ahmed H. Zewail - Chemistry 1999
- Leland H. Hartwell - Medical 2001
- Vernon Lomax Smith - Economy in 2002
- H. David Politzer - Physics 2004
- Robert H. Grubbs - Chemistry 2005
Trivia
The four male lead characters of the sitcom The Big Bang Theory are all employed at Caltech.
The movie The PHD Movie also plays at Caltech. It is an adaptation of PhD Comics by Jorge Cham.