In 1934, Caltech was elected to the Association of American Universities, and the antecedents of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech continues to manage and operate, were established between 1936 and 1943 under Theodore von Kármán.

Caltech was ranked first in the 2011 – 2012 Times Higher Education worldwide rankings of universities as well as ranking first in physical science and engineering.

During World War II, Caltech was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission.

In the 1950s – 1970s, Caltech was the home of Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman, whose work was central to the establishment of the Standard Model of particle physics.

Caltech undergraduates have historically been so apathetic to politics that there has been only one organized student protest in January 1968 outside the Burbank studios of NBC, in response to rumors that NBC was to cancel Star Trek.

Caltech was ranked 1st internationally in 2011 by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

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

Caltech was found to offer the highest return of investment of college education, at $ 1, 713, 000 over a 30-year period, according to the same study.

The playing of the Ride is such a strong tradition that the music was used during Apollo 17 to awaken Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a Caltech alumnus.

Caltech pranks have been documented in three Legends of Caltech books, the most recent of which was edited by alumni Autumn Looijen ' 99 and Mason A. Porter ' 98 and published in May 2007.

A " sold " banner was hung on front of the MIT dome building and a " Welcome to Caltech East: School of the Humanities " banner over the Massachusetts Avenue Entrance.

This was initially termed " splat cooling " by doctoral student W. Klement at Caltech, who showed that cooling rates on the order of millions of degrees per second is sufficient to impede the formation of crystals, and the metallic atoms become " locked into " a glassy state.

Conversely, JPL, through the Caltech lawyers representing the laboratory, allege that Coppedge's termination was simply due to budget cuts and his demotion from team lead was because of harassment complaints and from on-going conflicts with his co-workers.

This story was called " Instantané pour Caltech ".

Varga was visiting Olga Taussky-Todd and John Todd at Caltech.

His early work was done on mainframes at III, JPL, and Caltech.

The Infrared Radiometer ( IRR ) team was led by Professor Gerald Neugebauer from the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ).

The term " Moore's law " was coined around 1970 by the Caltech professor, VLSI pioneer, and entrepreneur Carver Mead in reference to a statement by Gordon E. Moore.

An aeronautical engineer by profession, De Camp conducted his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology ( where his roommate was at one point noted rocket fuel scientist John D. Clark ), and earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Caltech in Aeronautical Engineering 1930.

It was discovered on August 9, 1989, by Eleanor F. Helin ( Caltech ) on photographic plates taken at Palomar Observatory.

In 2012, the Center for World University Rankings ranked Caltech fifth in the world and fourth nationally in its CWUR World University Rankings.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities, a ranking with an emphasis on bibliometric data and scientific research, ranked Caltech 6th in the world and 5th in the U. S. for 2011.

U. S. News & World Report ranked Caltech as the 5th best university in the United States in their 2012 national college rankings, together with MIT, Stanford University, University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania.

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.

In October 2005, Baltimore resigned the office of the president, saying, " This is not a decision that I have made easily, but I am convinced that the interests of the Institute will be best served by a presidential transition at this particular time in its history ..." Former Georgia Tech Provost Jean-Lou Chameau succeeded Baltimore as president of Caltech.

Robert J. McEliece ( 1942 --) is a mathematician and engineering professor at the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ) best known for his work in information theory.

Later members included Lewis Terman ( a Stanford psychologist best known for creating the Stanford-Binet test of IQ ), Robert Millikan ( Chair of the Executive Council of Caltech ), William B. Munro ( a Harvard professor of political science ), and University of California, Berkeley professors Herbert M. Evans ( anatomy ) and Samuel J. Holmes ( zoology ).

The California Institute of Technology ( commonly referred to as Caltech ) is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States.

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

Caltech receives more invention disclosures per faculty member than any other university in the nation.

The film is set on the campus of Pacific Tech, a technical university similar to Caltech.

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

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 ".

OVRO, owned by Caltech, is one of the biggest radio observatories owned by a university.

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 ).

During Baltimore's tenure at Caltech, United States President Bill Clinton awarded Baltimore the National Medal of Science in 1999 for his numerous contributions to the scientific world.

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.

Fuller envisaged that the seminary would become " a Caltech of the evangelical world.

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 had studied engineering at California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ) before leaving to take a student-style trip around the world during the Depression, carrying letters of recommendation from Robert A. Millikan, the head of Caltech, and Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State.