California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology (commonly known as Caltech) is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. One of the world's premier research universities, Caltech maintains a strong emphasis on the natural sciences and engineering. Caltech also owns and manages the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a world-leading autonomous-space-flight complex that oversees the design and operation of most of NASA's space-probes.
Noted alumni
- Carl D. Anderson, BS 1927, PhD 1930 - Nobel laureate in physics (1936)
- Moshe Arens, MS 1953 - former Israeli defense minister and foreign minister
- Arnold Beckman, PhD 1928 - Founder of Beckman Instruments and financier of the first "silicon" company in Silicon Valley, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory.
- Sabeer Bhatia, BS 1991 - Co-founder of Hotmail
- David Brin, BS 1973 - science fiction author
- Frank Capra, BS 1918 - Filmmaker, director of such classics as It's a Wonderful Life
- Chester Carlson, BS 1930 - Inventor of the photocopier, the foundation of Xerox
- Chung-Yao Chao, PhD 1930 - The first scientist that captured positron through electron-positron annihilation. Father of atomic energy enterprise of China.
- Sidney Coleman, PhD 1962 - theoretical physicist
- Fernando J. Corbató, BS 1950 - Computer scientist, recipient of the 1990 Turing Award
- William A. Fowler, PhD 1936 - Nobel laureate in physics (1983)
- Yuan-Cheng Fung, PhD 1948 - Founder of Biomechanics
- Donald A. Glaser, PhD 1950 - Nobel laureate in physics (1960)
- Juris Hartmanis, PhD 1955 - Computer scientist, recipient of the 1993 Turing Award
- Leland H. Hartwell, BS 1961 - Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (2001)
- N. Katherine Hayles, MS 1966- critical theorist
- Steingrímur Hermannsson, MS 1952 - former Prime Minister of Iceland
- David Ho, BS 1974 - AIDS researcher
- Tsien Hsue-shen, PhD 1939 - Father of China's rocket program
- Herman Kahn, graduate studies - Nuclear strategist
- Donald Knuth, PhD 1963 - Computer scientist, creator of TeX typesetting language, and author of The Art of Computer Programming, recipient of the 1974 Turing Award
- Edward B. Lewis, PhD 1942 - Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (1995)
- York Liao, BS 1967 - inventor of liquid crystal displays
- Alan Lightman, PhD 1974 - physicist and novelist
- William Lipscomb, PhD 1946 - Nobel laureate in chemistry (1976)
- Sandra Tsing Loh, BS 1983 - writer, performer, musician, humorist
- Paul MacCready, MS 1948, PhD 1952 - Father of Human Powered Flight, invented the Gossamer Condor and the Gossamer Albatross
- Benoît Mandelbrot, Eng 1949 - Pioneer of fractal geometry
- John McCarthy, BS 1948 - Computer scientist, inventor of the Lisp programming language and recipient of the 1971 Turing Award
- Edwin Mattison McMillan, BS 1928, MS 1929 - Nobel laureate in chemistry (1951)
- Robert C. Merton, MS 1967 - Nobel laureate in economics (1997)
- Mark M. Mills, PhD 1948 - nuclear physicist.
- Cleve Moler, BS 1961 - Inventor of MATLAB, co-founder of The MathWorks, influential in the field of numerical analysis
- Gordon E. Moore, PhD 1954 - co-founder of Intel Corp. and author of Moore's law
- Andrew Odlyzko, BS, MS 1971 - mathematician, demonstrated the Montgomery-Odlyzko Law
- Frank Oppenheimer, PhD 1939 - Manhattan Project physicist, founder of the Exploratorium
- Douglas D. Osheroff, BS 1967 - Nobel laureate in physics (1996)
- Linus Pauling, PhD 1925 - Nobel laureate in chemistry (1954) and peace (1962)
- William Luther Pierce, graduate studies - Neo-Nazi activist, founder of the white supremacist National Alliance, author of The Turner Diaries
- Kenneth Pitzer, BS 1935 - winner of the National Medal of Science, third president of Rice University, sixth president of Stanford University, Director of Research for Atomic Energy Commission (1949-1951)
- John M. Poindexter, PhD 1964 - Director of DARPA Information Awareness Office, National Security Advisor to Ronald Reagan
- Leo James Rainwater, BS 1939 - Nobel laureate in physics (1975)
- Simon Ramo, PhD 1936 - co-founder of TRW and developed ICBMs
- Benjamin Rosen, BS 1954 - co-founder of Compaq
- Harrison Schmitt, BS 1957 - astronaut and US Senator, the only geologist to have ever walked on the moon
- William Shockley, BS 1932 - Nobel laureate in physics (1956)
- Vernon L. Smith, BS 1949 - Nobel laureate in economics (2002)
- Robert Tarjan, BS 1969 - Computer scientist, recipient of the 1986 Turing Award
- Howard M. Temin, PhD 1960 - Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (1975)
- Charles H. Townes, PhD 1939 - Nobel laureate in physics (1964)
- Harry Turtledove, undergraduate studies - historian and fiction writer
- Kenneth G. Wilson, PhD 1961 - Nobel laureate in physics (1982)
- Robert W. Wilson, PhD 1962 - Nobel laureate in physics (1978)
- Stephen Wolfram, PhD 1979 - Creator of Mathematica
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