EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Founded by Amos G. Throop in 1891 as Throop University, name changed to Throop Polytechnic Institute, Throop College of Technology, and then California Institute of Technology in 1921.

Location:
Pasadena, CA

Founding Date:
1891

Team:
Beavers

Enrollment:
2100

Official Website:
http://www.caltech.edu/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Carl David Anderson	Physicist	3-Sep-1905	11-Jan-1991	Discovered the positron, mu-meson
Moshe Arens	Politician	27-Dec-1925		Likud Minister
Horace W. Babcock	Astronomer	13-Sep-1912	29-Aug-2003	Adaptive optics and the Babcock Model
George Beadle	Scientist	22-Oct-1903	9-Jun-1989	One gene, one enzyme theory
Arnold Beckman	Inventor	10-Apr-1900	18-May-2004	Philanthropist who invented pH meter
David Bohm	Physicist	20-Dec-1917	29-Oct-1992	Particle physicist
Frank Borman	Astronaut	14-Mar-1928		First to circumnavigate moon
Ira S. Bowen	Astronomer	21-Dec-1898	6-Feb-1973	Debunked nebulium
Richard Brautigan	Author	30-Jan-1935	14-Oct-1984	So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away
David Brin	Novelist	6-Oct-1950		The Uplift War
E. Margaret Burbidge	Astronomer	12-Aug-1919		Synthesis of the elements in stars
Geoffrey Burbidge	Astronomer	24-Sep-1925	26-Jan-2010	Quasi-steady state cosmology
L. Sprague de Camp	Author	27-Nov-1907	6-Nov-2000	Lest Darkness Fall
Frank Capra	Film Director	18-May-1897	3-Sep-1991	It's A Wonderful Life
Chester Carlson	Inventor	8-Feb-1906	19-Sep-1968	Invented Xerography
John S. Chen	Business	1-Jul-1955		CEO of Sybase
WenChi Chen	Business	?		President and CEO, VIA Technologies
France A. Córdova	Educator	5-Aug-1947		President, Purdue University
Kevin Drum	Blogger	19-Oct-1958		Washington Monthly's Political Animal
James J. Duderstadt	Educator	5-Dec-1942		President, University of Michigan, 1988-96
Robert G. Edwards	Scientist	27-Sep-1925	10-Apr-2013	In vitro fertilization
Ed Felten	Computer Programmer	25-Mar-1963		Broke SDMI
William A. Fowler	Astronomer	9-Aug-1911	14-Mar-1995	Element generation within stars
D. Carleton Gajdusek	Scientist	9-Sep-1923	12-Dec-2008	Kuru (slow virus infections)
Gregory L. Geoffroy	Educator	c. 1946		President, Iowa State University
Sheldon Glashow	Physicist	5-Dec-1932		Electroweak Theory
Jesse L. Greenstein	Astronomer	15-Oct-1909	21-Oct-2002	Co-Discoverer of quasars
Virgil Griffith	Computer Programmer	6-Mar-1983		Author of WikiScanner
Narendra K. Gupta	Business	c. 1949		Co-Founder, Integrated Systems Inc.
Leland H. Hartwell	Scientist	30-Oct-1939		Regulators of cell cycle
David Ho	Doctor	3-Nov-1952		AIDS researcher
Robert W. Holley	Scientist	28-Jan-1922	11-Feb-1993	RNA's role in protein synthesis
Leroy Hood	Biologist	10-Oct-1938		Systems biology and Human Genome Project
Fred Hoyle	Astronomer	24-Jun-1915	20-Aug-2001	Opposed the Big Bang but named it
Tsien Hsue-shen	Scientist	11-Dec-1911	31-Oct-2009	Founder of Chinese space program
Howard Hughes	Business	24-Sep-1905	5-Apr-1976	Insane billionaire
Vernon W. Hughes	Physicist	28-May-1921	25-Mar-2003	Muons
Niels K. Jerne	Scientist	23-Dec-1911	7-Oct-1994	Immune theory (anti-antibody)
Pierre H. Jungels	Business	c. 1945		CEO of Enterprise Oil, 1997-2001
Herman Kahn	Scholar	15-Feb-1922	7-Jul-1983	Hudson Institute founder
Theodore von Kármán	Mathematician	11-May-1881	7-May-1963	Kármán vortices
Martin Karplus	Chemist	15-Mar-1930		Karplus Equation
Tom Kibble	Mathematician	23-Dec-1932	2-Jun-2016	Zurek-Kibble theory
Donald E. Knuth	Computer Programmer	10-Jan-1938		The Art of Computer Programming
Robert B. Leighton	Astronomer	10-Sep-1919	9-Mar-1997	Leighton dishes
Edward B. Lewis	Scientist	20-May-1918	21-Jul-2004	Drosophila researcher, Nobel laureate
Allan J. Lichtman	Historian	4-Apr-1947		The Keys to the White House
John C. Lilly	Scientist	6-Jan-1915	30-Sep-2001	Human-dolphin communication
William Lipscomb	Chemist	9-Dec-1919	14-Apr-2011	Chemical bonding
Sandra Tsing Loh	Radio Personality	11-Feb-1962		The Loh Life
Donald Lynden-Bell	Astronomer	5-Apr-1935		Astrophysicist at Cambridge
Benoit Mandelbrot	Mathematician	20-Nov-1924	14-Oct-2010	Fractal mathematician
Jessica Tuchman Mathews	Government	1946		Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
John McCarthy	Computer Programmer	4-Sep-1927	24-Oct-2011	Created LISP programming language
Pete McCloskey	Politician	29-Sep-1927		Congressman from California, 1967-83
Daniel L. McFadden	Economist	29-Jul-1937		Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior
Edward McGaffigan	Government	8-Dec-1948	2-Sep-2007	NRC Commissioner, 1996-2007
Harold McGee	Author	1951		On Food and Cooking
Edwin M. McMillan	Physicist	18-Sep-1907	7-Sep-1991	Discovered neptunium and plutonium
Carver A. Mead	Engineer	1-May-1934		Microelectronics
Robert C. Merton	Economist	31-Jul-1944		Risk management and options
Ruben Mettler	Business	23-Feb-1924	23-May-2006	CEO of TRW, 1969-77
Stanley Miller	Chemist	7-Mar-1930	20-May-2007	Miller-Urey Experiment
Mario J. Molina	Chemist	19-Mar-1943		Ozone depletion
Jacques Monod	Scientist	9-Feb-1910	31-May-1976	Operon theory of genetic control
Gordon Moore	Business	3-Jan-1929		Co-founder of Intel, laid down Moore's Law
Rudolf Mössbauer	Physicist	31-Jan-1929	14-Sep-2011	Discovered Mössbauer effect
Erwin Neher	Scientist	20-Mar-1944		Cellular ion channels
Patrick H. Nettles	Business	1943		CEO of Ciena, 1994-2000
Gerry Neugebauer	Astronomer	3-Sep-1932		Infrared astronomy
Larry Niven	Author	30-Apr-1938		Ringworld and Known Space series
Bill Nye	TV Personality	27-Nov-1955		Bill Nye the Science Guy
Barney Oliver	Astronomer	27-May-1916	23-Nov-1995	SETI researcher
Frank Oppenheimer	Physicist	14-Aug-1912	3-Feb-1985	Founder of the Exploratorium
Douglas D. Osheroff	Physicist	1-Aug-1945		Superfluidity of helium-3
Pief Panofsky	Physicist	24-Apr-1919	24-Sep-2007	Stanford Linear Accelerator
Eugene Parker	Astronomer	10-Jun-1927		Solar winds
Gerhard H. Parker	Business	c. 1943		Retired Intel VP
Jack Parsons	Scientist	2-Oct-1914	17-Jul-1952	Satanic rocket scientist
Linus Pauling	Chemist	28-Feb-1901	19-Aug-1994	Scientist and peacenik
William Pierce	Author	11-Sep-1933	23-Jul-2002	The Turner Diaries
Kenneth S. Pitzer	Chemist	6-Jan-1914	26-Dec-1997	President of Rice University, 1961-68
John Poindexter	Military	12-Aug-1936		Iran-Contra criminal
James Rainwater	Physicist	9-Dec-1917	31-May-1986	Determined shapes of nuclei
Karl L. Rankin	Diplomat	4-Sep-1898	15-Jan-1991	US Ambassador to Taiwan, 1950-57
Martin Rees	Astronomer	23-Jun-1942		President of the Royal Society
Charles Richter	Scientist	26-Apr-1900	30-Sep-1985	Groundbreaking seismologist
Stephen A. Ross	Economist	c. 1943		Professor of Financial Economics, MIT
Carl Sagan	Astronomer	9-Nov-1934	20-Dec-1996	Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos
Allan R. Sandage	Astronomer	18-Jun-1926	13-Nov-2010	Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars
Wallace Sargent	Astronomer	15-Feb-1935	29-Oct-2012	Astrophysicist at CalTech
Maarten Schmidt	Astronomer	28-Dec-1929		Co-Discoverer of quasars
Jack Schmitt	Astronaut	3-Jul-1935		12th Man on the Moon
John Patrick Schmitz	Government	1955		Washington lobbyist
William R. Sears	Engineer	1-Mar-1913	12-Oct-2002	Airfoil engineer
Phillip A. Sharp	Biologist	6-Jun-1944		Eukaryotic (split) genes
Tsutomu Shimomura	Physicist	23-Oct-1964		Helped catch Kevin Mitnick
William Shockley	Physicist	13-Feb-1910	12-Aug-1989	Co-Inventor of the transistor
Vernon L. Smith	Economist	1-Jan-1927		Experimental economics
H. Guyford Stever	Educator	24-Oct-1916	9-Apr-2010	President of CMU, 1965-72
Ivan Sutherland	Engineer	16-May-1938		Father of computer graphics
Timothy Swager	Chemist	1-Jul-1961		Chemist at MIT
Howard M. Temin	Scientist	10-Dec-1934	9-Feb-1994	Tumor viruses and host genetics
Charles H. Townes	Physicist	28-Jul-1915	27-Jan-2015	Invention of the maser and laser
George M. Whitesides	Chemist	3-Aug-1939		Harvard chemist, highest H-Index
Kenneth G. Wilson	Physicist	8-Jun-1936	15-Jun-2013	Second-order phase transitions
Robert Woodrow Wilson	Astronomer	10-Jan-1936		Detected primordial radiation
Ralph D. Winter	Religion	?		US Center for World Mission
Stephen Wolfram	Mathematician	29-Aug-1959		Creator of Mathematica
Mark S. Wrighton	Educator	1949		Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Carl David Anderson	Physicist	3-Sep-1905	11-Jan-1991	Discovered the positron, mu-meson
David Baltimore	Biologist	7-Mar-1938		Co-Discoverer, reverse transcriptase
Jacqueline K. Barton	Chemist	7-May-1952		Professor of Chemistry at CalTech
George Beadle	Scientist	22-Oct-1903	9-Jun-1989	One gene, one enzyme theory
Arnold Beckman	Inventor	10-Apr-1900	18-May-2004	Philanthropist who invented pH meter
John G. Bolton	Astronomer	5-Jun-1922	6-Jul-1993	First Director of Parkes Observatory
Ira S. Bowen	Astronomer	21-Dec-1898	6-Feb-1973	Debunked nebulium
John Brewer	Historian	22-Mar-1947		The Sinews of Power
Geoffrey Burbidge	Astronomer	24-Sep-1925	26-Jan-2010	Quasi-steady state cosmology
Max Delbrück	Scientist	4-Sep-1906	10-Mar-1981	Molecular structure of viral genes (phages)
Peter B. Dervan	Chemist	28-Jun-1945		DNA Researcher
T. G. Dobzhansky	Scientist	25-Jan-1900	18-Dec-1975	Genetics and the Origin of Species
Renato Dulbecco	Scientist	22-Feb-1914	20-Feb-2012	Tumor viruses and host genetics
Gerhard Ertl	Chemist	10-Oct-1936		Auto emissions and the ozone layer
Thomas E. Everhart	Physicist	15-Feb-1932		President of CalTech, 1987-97
Richard Feynman	Physicist	11-May-1918	15-Feb-1988	Surely he's joking
William A. Fowler	Astronomer	9-Aug-1911	14-Mar-1995	Element generation within stars
Richard Freeman	Economist	29-Jun-1943		Labor economist
Murray Gell-Mann	Physicist	15-Sep-1929		Quarks and strangeness
Donald A. Glaser	Physicist	21-Sep-1926	28-Feb-2013	Inventor of the bubble chamber
Roy J. Glauber	Physicist	1-Sep-1925		Quantum optics
Ronald Graham	Mathematician	31-Oct-1935		Mathematician, Computer Scientist
Jesse L. Greenstein	Astronomer	15-Oct-1909	21-Oct-2002	Co-Discoverer of quasars
Robert H. Grubbs	Chemist	27-Feb-1942		Metathesis
Leroy Hood	Biologist	10-Oct-1938		Systems biology and Human Genome Project
Tsien Hsue-shen	Scientist	11-Dec-1911	31-Oct-2009	Founder of Chinese space program
J. Hans D. Jensen	Physicist	25-Jun-1907	11-Feb-1973	Shell nuclear model
Theodore von Kármán	Mathematician	11-May-1881	7-May-1963	Kármán vortices
Donald E. Knuth	Computer Programmer	10-Jan-1938		The Art of Computer Programming
Andrew E. Lange	Astronomer	23-Jul-1957	22-Jan-2010	Cosmologist, astrophysicist at Caltech
Robert B. Leighton	Astronomer	10-Sep-1919	9-Mar-1997	Leighton dishes
Edward B. Lewis	Scientist	20-May-1918	21-Jul-2004	Drosophila researcher, Nobel laureate
Rudolph A. Marcus	Chemist	21-Jul-1923		Electron-transfer reactions
Carver A. Mead	Engineer	1-May-1934		Microelectronics
Robert A. Millikan	Physicist	22-Mar-1868	19-Dec-1953	Determined the charge of an electron
Thomas H. Morgan	Scientist	25-Sep-1866	4-Dec-1945	Fruit fly chromosomes and heredity
Rudolf Mössbauer	Physicist	31-Jan-1929	14-Sep-2011	Discovered Mössbauer effect
Gerry Neugebauer	Astronomer	3-Sep-1932		Infrared astronomy
Donald E. Osterbrock	Astronomer	13-Jul-1924	11-Jan-2007	Director of Lick Observatory, 1973-81
Linus Pauling	Chemist	28-Feb-1901	19-Aug-1994	Scientist and peacenik
H. David Politzer	Physicist	31-Aug-1949		Deep structure of matter
Martin Rees	Astronomer	23-Jun-1942		President of the Royal Society
Charles Richter	Scientist	26-Apr-1900	30-Sep-1985	Groundbreaking seismologist
Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.	Government	16-Feb-1916	8-Jun-2000	1953 Iran coup
Wallace Sargent	Astronomer	15-Feb-1935	29-Oct-2012	Astrophysicist at CalTech
Maarten Schmidt	Astronomer	28-Dec-1929		Co-Discoverer of quasars
William R. Sears	Engineer	1-Mar-1913	12-Oct-2002	Airfoil engineer
William Shockley	Physicist	13-Feb-1910	12-Aug-1989	Co-Inventor of the transistor
Vernon L. Smith	Economist	1-Jan-1927		Experimental economics
Roger W. Sperry	Scientist	20-Aug-1913	17-Apr-1994	"Split brain" hemispheric neurophysiology
Ivan Sutherland	Engineer	16-May-1938		Father of computer graphics
James Watson	Scientist	6-Apr-1928		Co-Discoverer of DNA
Edward Witten	Physicist	26-Aug-1951		String theorist at Princeton
Stephen Wolfram	Mathematician	29-Aug-1959		Creator of Mathematica
Ahmed H. Zewail	Chemist	26-Feb-1946	2-Aug-2016	Femtochemistry
Fritz Zwicky	Astronomer	14-Feb-1898	8-Feb-1974	Astrophysicist at CalTech

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John F. Akers	Business	28-Dec-1934	22-Aug-2014	CEO of IBM, 1986-93
Robert O. Anderson	Business	13-Apr-1917	2-Dec-2007	CEO of ARCO, 1966-86
George Argyros	Business	4-Feb-1937		Billionaire
Horace W. Babcock	Astronomer	13-Sep-1912	29-Aug-2003	Adaptive optics and the Babcock Model
David Baltimore	Biologist	7-Mar-1938		Co-Discoverer, reverse transcriptase
Donald R. Beall	Business	c. 1939		CEO of Rockwell, 1988-98
Arnold Beckman	Inventor	10-Apr-1900	18-May-2004	Philanthropist who invented pH meter
John G. Bolton	Astronomer	5-Jun-1922	6-Jul-1993	First Director of Parkes Observatory
Ira S. Bowen	Astronomer	21-Dec-1898	6-Feb-1973	Debunked nebulium
Eli Broad	Business	6-Jun-1933		Billionaire
Harold Brown	Government	19-Sep-1927		US Secretary of Defense, 1977-81
John E. Bryson	Business	24-Jul-1943		US Secretary of Commerce, 2011-12
Jean-Lou Chameau	Educator	1953		President, California Institute of Technology
Henry Dreyfuss	Inventor	2-Mar-1904	5-Oct-1972	Product designer, human factors engineer
Thomas E. Everhart	Physicist	15-Feb-1932		President of CalTech, 1987-97
Robert W. Galvin	Business	9-Oct-1922	11-Oct-2011	CEO of Motorola, 1959-90
Harold J. Haynes	Business	29-Sep-1925	8-Jul-2009	CEO of Standard Oil of California, 1974-81
David Ho	Doctor	3-Nov-1952		AIDS researcher
Shirley Hufstedler	Judge	24-Aug-1925	30-Mar-2016	US Secretary of Education, 1979-81
Bobby Ray Inman	Military	4-Apr-1931		Admiral, NSA Director, Deputy CIA Director
Theodore von Kármán	Mathematician	11-May-1881	7-May-1963	Kármán vortices
Richard Kovacevich	Business	30-Oct-1943		CEO of Wells Fargo, 1998-2007
Kent Kresa	Business	24-Mar-1938		CEO of Northrop Grumman, 1990-2003
Andrew E. Lange	Astronomer	23-Jul-1957	22-Jan-2010	Cosmologist, astrophysicist at Caltech
John McCone	Government	4-Jan-1902	14-Feb-1991	CIA Director, 1961-65
Ruben Mettler	Business	23-Feb-1924	23-May-2006	CEO of TRW, 1969-77
Robert A. Millikan	Physicist	22-Mar-1868	19-Dec-1953	Determined the charge of an electron
Gordon Moore	Business	3-Jan-1929		Co-founder of Intel, laid down Moore's Law
Thomas H. Morgan	Scientist	25-Sep-1866	4-Dec-1945	Fruit fly chromosomes and heredity
Peter W. Mullin	Business	c. 1940		Mullin Consulting, Inc.
Philip M. Neal	Business	1940		CEO of Avery Dennison, 1998-2005
Patrick H. Nettles	Business	1943		CEO of Ciena, 1994-2000
Gerry Neugebauer	Astronomer	3-Sep-1932		Infrared astronomy
Ronald L. Olson	Attorney	1941		Munger Tolles & Olson
Linus Pauling	Chemist	28-Feb-1901	19-Aug-1994	Scientist and peacenik
Stewart A. Resnick	Business	c. 1938		Roll International
Arthur Rock	Business	19-Aug-1926		Coined term "Venture Capitalism"
Stephen A. Ross	Economist	c. 1943		Professor of Financial Economics, MIT
Wallace Sargent	Astronomer	15-Feb-1935	29-Oct-2012	Astrophysicist at CalTech
Maarten Schmidt	Astronomer	28-Dec-1929		Co-Discoverer of quasars
Roger Smith	Business	12-Jul-1925	29-Nov-2007	CEO of General Motors, 1980-90
Dennis Stanfill	Business	1-Apr-1927		CEO of 20th Century Fox, 1971-81
Marc I. Stern	Business	c. 1944		Chairman, GIMS North America
Donald W. Tang	Business	c. 1963		Vice Chairman of Bear Stearns
Lew Wasserman	Business	22-Mar-1913	3-Jun-2002	Chairman and CEO of MCA, 1946-95
Walter L. Weisman	Business	c. 1935		American Medical International
Ahmed H. Zewail	Chemist	26-Feb-1946	2-Aug-2016	Femtochemistry

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