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Caltech's Beckman Auditorium MIT's Great Dome. Caltech is located in Pasadena, California, 11 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It was founded in 1891 and adopted its current name in 1920. Caltech enrolled just under 1000 undergraduates and almost 1200 graduate students for the 2011–2012 academic year. [1]
[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 ...
Downtown Los Angeles 1,500 Unknown Glendale Performing Arts Center Glendale 1,559 1927: The Theatre at Ace Hotel: South Park 1,600 March 1968 Oxnard Performing Arts Center Oxnard: 1,608 1998 City National Grove of Anaheim: Anaheim: 1,700 1990: Mayan Theater: South Park 1,700 1994 Fred Kavli Theatre: Thousand Oaks 1,800 1929: Royce Hall ...
Los Angeles County Fair — Stars, Stripes and Fun. The fair runs 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Admission is available for purchase in advance online; concerts are a separate cost. The event is held at the ...
Beckman had a long-term relationship with Caltech as a student, teacher and trustee. After discussions with chemists Harry B. Gray and Peter Dervan, and biologists Eric H. Davidson and Leroy Hood, Beckman announced in 1986 that he would donate $50 million to establish the institute and an accompanying endowment. The Beckman Institute at Caltech ...
Arnold Orville Beckman (April 10, 1900 – May 18, 2004) was an American chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist. While a professor at California Institute of Technology, he founded Beckman Instruments based on his 1934 invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity (and alkalinity), later considered to have "revolutionized the study of chemistry and biology". [1]
Reach out to features@abqjournal.com. Day of the Dead Celebrate Día de los Muertos on the Santa Fe Plaza from 4 to 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, and noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2. Enjoy live ...
The Beckman Auditorium Beckman Institute at Caltech. During the 1960s, Caltech underwent considerable expansion, in part due to the philanthropy of alumnus Arnold O. Beckman. In 1953, Beckman was asked to join the Caltech Board of Trustees. [57]: 282 In 1964, he became its chairman.