Goodhue's designs for Caltech were also influenced by the traditional Spanish mission architecture of Southern California.

The JPL Director also serves as a Caltech Vice President and is responsible to the President of the Institute for the management of the Laboratory.

Caltech was also found to have the highest score for per-capita performance in that ranking.

In addition to managing JPL, Caltech also operates the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, the Owens Valley Radio Observatory in Bishop, California, the Submillimeter Observatory and W. M. Keck Observatory at the Mauna Kea Observatory, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory at Livingston, Louisiana and Richland, Washington, and Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory in Corona del Mar, California.

The Institute launched the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech in 2006, the Keck Institute for Space Studies in 2008, and is also the current home for the Einstein Papers Project.

Undergraduates at Caltech are also encouraged to participate in research.

There are also two Caltech Jazz Bands and a Concert Band.

Caltech students have been known for the many pranks ( also known as " RFs ").

" Caltech students also passed out T-shirts to MIT's incoming freshman class that had MIT written on the front and "... because not everyone can go to Caltech " along with an image of a palm tree on the back.

There are also some Caltech graduate students, college student interns and co-op students.

Caltech is also responsible for the well-known Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which designs and engineers many of NASA's spacecraft.

* California Institute of Technology, also called " Caltech ", a university in Pasadena, California

He was appointed Professor of Astronomy at Caltech in 1942 and also worked as a research director / consultant for Aerojet Engineering Corporation ( 1943 – 1961 ) and staff member of Mount Wilson Observatory and Palomar Observatory for most of his career.

The term " house system " is also used to refer to the residential college systems found in some colleges and universities, such as Caltech, Yale College, Harvard College, and University of Chicago.

From 1988 to 2007 he served as Vice-provost of the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ), where he is also a professor of physics and applied physics, as well as ( since 1995 ) the Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor.

The name " Pacific Tech " (" Pacific Institute of Technology ") used in the three-part opening episode " Galactica Discovers Earth " is a name used several times in films and television when directors / writers / producers wanted to depict a science-oriented university without using a real institution's name, as also was earlier done in The War of the Worlds and later in Real Genius ; an earlier draft of the script used the real-world name " Caltech ".

He was also briefly president of Caltech.

He was also the architect for the Hoover Dam and early Caltech dorms.

In an interview at Caltech, Benzer also remembered receiving a microscope for his 13th birthday, “ and that opened up the whole world .” The book " Arrowsmith " by Sinclair Lewis heavily influenced the young Benzer, and he even imitated the handwriting of Max Gottlieb, a scientist character in the novel.

He was supposed to take up a position at Caltech, but he was also, unexpectedly, offered a position at the University of Washington, Seattle.

In 2007, researchers at JPL / Caltech have also discovered Raman lasing with fluorite resonators, demonstrating record low threshold and high efficiency.

Raup has also taught at Caltech, Johns Hopkins and the University of Rochester.

Dabney also hosts Drop Day, a party held the Saturday after the second term drop day to celebrate the point of no return, and Dabney Metal Night, an opportunity for the amateur bands of Caltech to play for the crowd.

Caltech offers 24 majors ( called " options ") and six minors across all six academic divisions.

Caltech offers co-operative programs with other schools, such as the Pasadena Art Center College of Design and Occidental College.

Caltech offers Army and Air Force ROTC in cooperation with the University of Southern California.

Robertson's papers are at the Caltech archives ; there, in a letter Robertson offers Roe an interview within the first three months of 1949 ( as noted by Goranson on American Dialect Society list 5 / 9 / 2009 ).

In addition, the group organizes the Caltech Lecture Series which offers speakers on a wide range of topics relating to science, psychology, social issues, religion / atheism, skepticism, etc.

The Caltech Lecture Series offers speakers on a wide range of topics relating to science, psychology, social issues, religion / atheism, skepticism, etc.

The institute was started as Disney's dream of an interdisciplinary " Caltech of the arts.

Nearly half of the funds went into the support of Caltech programs and projects.

Caltech is a small four-year, highly residential research university with a slight majority in graduate programs.

The United States National Research Council released its latest Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs in 2010, and 23 of the 24 graduate programs of Caltech were ranked within the top four programs in the nation in their size quartile as determined by both the R95 and S95 rankings.

In a 2008 ranking of undergraduate programs by Forbes Magazine, Swarthmore was ranked fourth after Princeton, Caltech, and Harvard, respectively.

Exchange programs are possible during the third semester with universities such as ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ), University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore ( NUS ), Tokyo Tech, Seoul National University ...)

Some graduate programs such as those offered at Stanford, Caltech and the Naval Postgraduate School require a thesis for the engineer's degree but the research requirements are generally less than those of Ph. D. candidates and more comparable to those of master of science students.

Then he moved to the United States, where he received Master's degree in Applied Mathematics at the University of Kansas City ( now known as the University of Missouri-Kansas City ) in 1951 and Ph. D. in Mathematics from Caltech under the supervision of Robert P. Dilworth in 1955.

He currently holds the position of Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ), having taught there for over 40 years.

The first employee was Bruce Behymer, a Caltech undergraduate in Engineering and Applied Science.

He earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford in 1983, and returned to Caltech to pursue a Ph. D. in Applied Physics with a dissertation titled " Semiconductor Lasers: New Geometries and Spectral Properties.

He is the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, a Distinguished Fellow and co-founder of the Santa Fe Institute, Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of New Mexico, and the Presidential Professor of Physics and Medicine at the University of Southern California.

He is currently the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech as well as a University Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the Presidential Professor of Physics and Medicine at the University of Southern California.

For graduate school Lipscomb chose Caltech, which offered him a teaching assistantship in Physics at $ 20 / month.

At Caltech Lipscomb intended to study theoretical quantum mechanics with Prof. W. V. Houston in the Physics Department, but after one semester switched to the Chemistry Department under the

* October – The Caltech Department of Physics Faculty and graduate students meet with Albert Einstein as a guest.

in 1961 and his Ph. D. in 1964 from the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ) in Nuclear Physics.

degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950 and a PhD in Chemistry and minor in Physics from the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ) in 1954.

A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ) until 2009 and one of the world ’ s leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein ’ s general theory of relativity.

He spent a year at Caltech as a Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, working with Richard Feynman, and was a Professor of Physics at Boston University for 6 years.

He has been on the faculties of MIT in Computer Science, Caltech and Boston University in Physics.

He then moved to the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ), where he is currently the Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics.

* Master Plan, the Physics Building, Dabney Hall, and other campus buildings for the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ), Pasadena, California, 1924

John Phillip Preskill ( born January 19, 1953 ) is an American theoretical physicist and the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ).

After three years as a junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, Preskill became Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech in 1983, rising to full professorship in 1990.

Christy joined the University of Chicago Physics department briefly after leaving Los Alamos before being recruited to join the Caltech faculty in 1946 when Oppenheimer decided it was not practical for him to resume his academic activities.

By 1936, at the age of twenty-three, he had earned dual PhD degrees from Caltech in Physics and Electrical Engineering.

Feynman had given the lecture on the motion of bodies at Caltech on March 13, 1964, but the notes and pictures were lost for a number of years and consequently not included in The Feynman Lectures on Physics series.

Dr. Lawrence Fleinhardt holds the Walter T. Merrick Chair of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Science, CalSci ( a university based on Caltech and located in Los Angeles in the Numb3rs universe ).

* Stanley, G. J., " Recollections of John G. Bolton at Dover-Heights and Caltech ," Australian Journal of Physics 47, 507-16 ( 1994 ).