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Admission to Caltech is extremely rigorous. Prior to going test blind, Caltech students had the highest test scores in the nation. [94] [95] In admissions for the Class of 2028 (entering 2024), Caltech was ranked the hardest college in America to gain acceptance to by admit rate, at an all-time low of 2.7%. [96]
The California Institute of Technology, ... chemistry, physics class? Caltech has a new admission work-around. ... The admission rate has fallen to 3.14%, and the share of students accepting ...
Stephen L. Mayo, PhD 1987; faculty; Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry at Caltech Harden M. McConnell , PhD 1951; Wolf Prize winner; National Medal of Science recipient Edwin Mattison McMillan , BS 1928, MS 1929; Nobel laureate in chemistry (1951) "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements"; National Medal of ...
Lewis worked at Stanford as an assistant professor from 1981 to 1985 and then as a tenured Associate Professor from 1986 to 1988, before returning to Caltech in 1988. He became a full professor at Caltech in 1991. In 1992, he became the Principal Investigator of the Molecular Materials Resource Center at the Beckman Institute at Caltech. [6]
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Peter B. Dervan (born June 28, 1945) is the Bren Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology.The primary focus of his research is the development and study of small organic molecules that can sequence-specifically recognize DNA, [1] a field in which he is an internationally recognized authority. [2]
In 2005 he published a textbook entitled Modern Physical Organic Chemistry with co-author Eric V. Anslyn. Dougherty is the recipient of multiple teaching awards including the Richard Badger Teaching Award (1992), the ASCIT Excellence in Teaching Award (1987 and 2000), and the Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2010).
He joined the chemistry faculty at Caltech in November 1964 where he remains today as a professor and researcher. After his Ph.D. he remained at the California Institute of Technology as Arthur Amos Noyes Research Fellow (1964–66), Professor of Theoretical Chemistry (1967–78) and Professor of Chemistry & Applied Physics (1978-).