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California Institute of Technology
| Motto | The truth shall make you free |
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| Established | 1891 |
| School type | Private |
| President | David Baltimore |
| Location | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| Enrollment | 900 undergraduate, 1,200 graduate |
| Faculty | 386 |
| Endowment | US$1.3 billion |
| Campus | Urban, 124 acres (0.5 km˛) |
| Sports teams | Beavers |
| Website | www.caltech.edu |
The California Institute of Technology (commonly known as Caltech) is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. A leading research university, Caltech maintains a strong emphasis on the natural sciences and engineering. It operates the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA.
Modern Caltech grew from a vocational school founded in Pasadena in 1891 by local businessman and politician Amos G. Throop . The school was known successively as Throop University, Throop Polytechnic Institute, and Throop College of Technology, before acquiring its current name in 19201920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) Events January January 7 Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. January 9 Britain announces it will build 100,000 homes for war veterans. January 10 Leagu.
The main driving force behind the transformation of Caltech from a school of arts and craftsSkills Arts and crafts comprise a whole host of activities and hobbies that are related to making things with one's own hands and skill. These can be sub-divided into handicrafts or "traditional crafts" (doing things the old way) and the rest. Some arts a to a world-class scientific center was the vision of astronomer George Ellery HaleGeorge Ellery Hale ( June 29 1868 February 21 1938) was an American astronomer. As an undergraduate at MIT, he invented the spectroheliograph. He helped found a number of observatories, including Yerkes Observatory and Mount Wilson Observatory. He hired a. Hale had joined Throop's board of trustees after coming to Pasadena in 1907Events January events January 6 Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo). January 14 An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than a 1,000 January 23 Charles Curtis as the first director of the Mount Wilson ObservatoryThe Mount Wilson Observatory is an astronomical observatory. It is located on Mount Wilson, a 5715' peak in the San Gabriel mountains near Pasadena, California, to the east of Los Angeles. It was first directed by George Ellery Hale, who brought the 40-in. At a time when scientific research in the United States was still in its infancy, Hale saw an opportunity to create in Pasadena an institution for serious research and education in engineering and the natural sciences. Hale succeeded in attracting private gifts of land and money that allowed him to endow the school with well-equipped, modern laboratoryBiochemistry laboratory at the University of Cologne. A laboratory (often abbreviated lab is a place where scientific research and experiments are conducted. The equipment in a laboratory will depend on what the lab is used for. Chemistry and biochemistry facilities. He then convinced two of the leading American scientists of the time, chemist Arthur Amos Noyes and physicist Robert Andrews Millikan, to join Caltech's faculty and contribute to the project of establishing it as a center for science and technology.
Under the leadership of Hale, Noyes, and Millikan (and aided by the booming economy of Southern California), Caltech grew very significantly in prestige in the 1920's. In 1923, Millikan was awarded by Nobel Prize for physics. In 1925 the school established a department of geology and hired William Benett Munro , then chairman of the division of History, Government, and Economics at Harvard University, to create a division of humanities and social sciences at Caltech. In 1928 a division of biology was established under the leadership of Thomas Hunt Morgan, the leading biologist in the United States and a discoverer of the chromosome. In 1926 a graduate school of aeronautics was created which eventually attracted Theodore von Kármán, who later contributed to the creation of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and who established Caltech as one of the foremost centers for rocket-science. In 1928 construction began on the Palomar Observatory.
Caltech remains, to this day, a relatively small university, with approximately 900 undergraduates, 1,200 graduate students, and 915 faculty members (including professors, permanent research faculty, and postdoctoral researchers.)
The movie Real Genius was loosely based on events at Caltech.[1]
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