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The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) [a] is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States.The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes of technology in the United States that are devoted to the instruction of pure and applied sciences.
[4] She gave a tour of the Caltech seismology lab for the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Scientists group. [20] [better source needed] Hutton was the consulting seismologist for the 1990 monster movie Tremors starring Kevin Bacon. [21] She also appeared in the 1981 Nostradamus documentary-movie The Man Who Saw Tomorrow. [citation needed]
[1]: 275 Over the next few years, as Caltech's president emeritus David Baltimore describes it, Arnold Beckman and his wife Mabel "shaped the destiny of Caltech". [1]: 288 The Beckmans made a major gift to Caltech in 1962, when they funded the construction of the Beckman Auditorium, a concert hall designed by architect Edward Durrell Stone ...
Andrea M. Ghez, PhD 1992; Crafoord Prize Laureate in Astronomy, 2012; Sackler Prize winner; awarded MacArthur Fellowship; co-recipient of 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy" Donald A. Glaser, PhD 1950; Nobel laureate in physics (1960) "for the invention of the bubble chamber"
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia [9] is an astronomy website, founded in Paris, France at the Meudon Observatory by Jean Schneider in February 1995, [10] [11] which maintains a database of all the currently known and candidate extrasolar planets, with individual "note" pages for each planet and a full list interactive catalog spreadsheet ...
LSPM — LSPM catalog — Lépine-Shara Proper Motion catalog [25] LSR — Lepine-Shara-Rich catalogue; LSS — Luminous Stars in the Southern Milky Way; LTT — Luyten Two-Tenths catalogue; Luginbuhl-Skiff — (for example: open star cluster Luginbuhl-Skiff 1 at 6:14:48 / +12°52'24", slightly east of open star cluster NGC 2194 in Orion)
Thomas Felix Rosenbaum (born February 20, 1955) is an American condensed matter physicist, professor of physics, and the current president of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). [1] Previously, Rosenbaum served as a faculty member and Provost of the University of Chicago .
David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) is an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.He is a professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he served as president from 1997 to 2006. [1]