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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.
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"
[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]
The long quest for gender parity. For Caltech, a campus of 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students with 47 Nobel awards and more than 50 research centers, the road to gender parity has been long.
The TCCON was established partly because of modeling errors between mixing efficiency between the PBL and the free troposphere. [2] Because TCCON measurements are of the entire column of atmosphere above a site (PBL and free troposphere are simultaneously measured) the measurements are an improvement over the traditional in situ near surface measurements in this regard.
[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 ...
Astronomer George Ellery Hale, whose vision created Palomar Observatory, built the world's largest telescope four times in succession. [8] He published a 1928 article proposing what was to become the 200-inch Palomar reflector; it was an invitation to the American public to learn about how large telescopes could help answer questions relating to the fundamental nature of the universe.
It took months of paint stripping and other work to restore it to operational status. The Caltech administration ordered its return in 1975, but negotiations began for an official transfer of the cannon back to Caltech in 1980, and in 1981 it was returned on a permanent basis to the Caltech campus. The cannon was stolen by Harvey Mudd students ...