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 faculty

• Carl D. Anderson - Nobel laureate in physics (1936)
• Don L. Anderson - Crafoord laureate in geosciences (1998)
• Robert Bacher - nuclear physicist and member of the Manhattan Project
• David Baltimore - Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (1975), President of Caltech
• Jacqueline K. Barton - Bioinorganic chemist and MacArthur Fellow (1991)
• George Wells Beadle - Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (1958)
• Seymour Benzer - Crafoord laureate in biosciences (1993)
• Pamela J. Björkman - pioneering structural and cell biologist
• Colin F. Camerer - economist
• Max Delbrück - Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (1969)
• Renato Dulbecco - Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (1975)
• Richard Feynman - Nobel laureate in physics (1965)
• Murray Gell-Mann - Nobel laureate in physics (1969) and co-founder of Santa Fe Institute
• William Goddard, III - theoretical chemist, notable proponent of blue chalk
• David Goodstein - director of The Mechanical Universe, Vice-Provost of Caltech
• Harry B. Gray - Inorganic chemist, winner of National Medal of Science (1986), and founding director of the Beckman Institute
• Robert H. Grubbs - Nobel laureate in chemistry (2005)
• George Ellery Hale - astronomer
• Theodore von Kármán - expert in aeronautics and rocket-scientist
• Christof Koch - biologist
• Rudolph Marcus - Nobel laureate in chemistry (1992)
• Carver Mead - computer scientist
• Robert A. Millikan - Nobel laureate in physics (1923)
• Thomas Hunt Morgan - Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (1933)
• Rudolf Mössbauer - Nobel laureate in physics (1961)
• Arthur A. Noyes - chemist
• James Olds - neuroscientist
• Robert Oppenheimer - physicist
• Clair Cameron Patterson - determined the age of the Earth, exposed lead pollution
• Linus Pauling - Nobel laureate in chemistry (1954), laureate in peace (1962)
• Charles Plott - economist
• H. David Politzer - Nobel laureate in physics (2004)
• John Preskill - physicist
• Charles Francis Richter - creator of the Richter scale
• Herbert J. Ryser - mathematician, leading figure in Combinatorics
• Maarten Schmidt - discovered quasars
• John Schwarz - physicist
• Roger W. Sperry - Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (1981)
• Charles C. Steidel - MacArthur Fellow (2002)
• Kip Thorne - physicist
• Gerald J. Wasserburg - Crafoord laureate in geochemistry (1986)
• Mark B. Wise - physicist
• Ahmed H. Zewail - Nobel laureate in chemistry (1999)
• Fritz Zwicky - astronomer, produced the first evidence of dark matter