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Stephen Thorsett
Stephen Erik Thorsett (b. December 3, 1964 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American professor and astronomer. His research interests include radio pulsars and gamma ray bursts. He is best known for measurements of the masses of neutron stars and...
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Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Edward Sutherland (born 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that...
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Eric Temple Bell
Eric Temple Bell (February 7, 1883, Peterhead, Scotland - December 21, 1960, Watsonville, California) was a mathematician and science fiction author born in Scotland who lived in the U.S. for most of his life. He published his non-fiction under his...
Roscoe G. Dickinson
Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson (1894 - 1945) was a U.S. chemist, known primarily for his work on X-ray crystallography. As professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), he was the doctoral advisor of Nobel laureate Linus...
Francis Bitter
Francis Bitter (July 22, 1902 – July 26, 1967) was an American physicist.
Bitter invented the Bitter plate used in resistive magnets (also called Bitter electromagnets). He is the one who thought of using dust to visualize a magnetic field. (Many...
Elliot Meyerowitz
Elliot Meyerowitz (born May 22, 1951) is a U.S. biologist. He is currently George W. Beadle Professor of Biology and Chair, Division of Biology at the California Institute of Technology.
Dr. Meyerowitz earned his A.B. from Columbia University, and M...
Kip Thorne
Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for having trained a generation of scientists. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen...
Marshall Hall
Marshall Hall, Jr. (17 September 1910, St Louis, Missouri – 4 July 1990, London) was an American mathematician who made contributions to group theory and combinatorics.
He studied mathematics at Yale, graduating in 1932. He studied further at...
Arthur Amos Noyes
Arthur Amos Noyes (1866 – 1936) was a U.S. chemist and educator. He served as the acting president MIT between 1907 and 1909. He received in PhD. in 1890 at Leipzig under the guidance of Wilhelm Ostwald. Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson was one of his famous...
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles.
He formulated the quark model of hadronic resonances, and identified the SU(3)...
Robert Andrews Millikan
Robert A. Millikan (22 March 1868 – 19 December 1953) was an American experimental physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect. He served as president of...
H. David Politzer
Hugh David Politzer (born 31 August 1949) is a theoretical physicist from the United States with Slovak ancestors. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum...
Arnold Orville Beckman
Arnold Orville Beckman (April 10, 1900 – May 18, 2004) was an American chemist who founded Beckman Instruments based on his invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity, in 1934. He also funded the first silicon transistor company, thus...
Jacqueline Barton
Professor Jacqueline K. Barton is the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. The primary focus of her research is transverse electron transport along double-stranded DNA, its implications in...
Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman (pronounced /ˈfaɪnmən/ FYEN-mən; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of...
Phillip Allen Sharp
Phillip Allen Sharp (born June 6, 1944) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered gene splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that genes in eukaryotes...
Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He was one of the most influential chemists in history and ranks among the most important scientists in any field of the 20th...
Barry Simon
Barry Simon (born 16 April 1946) is an eminent American mathematical physicist and the IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech, known for his prolific contributions in spectral theory, functional analysis, and nonrelativistic...
Richard C. Tolman
Richard Chace Tolman (March 4, 1881, West Newton, Massachusetts – September 5, 1948, Pasadena) was an American mathematical physicist and physical chemist who was an authority on statistical mechanics. He also made important contributions to...
Robert H. Grubbs
Robert Howard Grubbs (b. 27 February 1942 in Possum Trot, Kentucky) is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.
As he noted in his official Nobel Prize autobiography, "In some places, my birthplace is listed as Calvert City and in others Possum Trot ...
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George Ellery Hale
George Ellery Hale (June 29, 1868 – February 21, 1938) was an American solar astronomer, born in Chicago. He was educated at MIT, at the Observatory of Harvard College, (1889–90), and at Berlin (1893–94). As an undergraduate at MIT, he invented the...
Lee Alvin DuBridge
Lee Alvin DuBridge (21 September 1901 – 23 January 1994) was an American educator and physicist.
DuBridge was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, and graduated from Cornell College in 1922, and received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He...
William Alfred Fowler
William Alfred "Willie" Fowler (August 9, 1911 – March 14, 1995) was an American astrophysicist. He should not be confused with the British astronomer Alfred Fowler.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Fowler moved with his family to Lima, Ohio at the...
Edward B. Lewis
Edward B. Lewis (May 20, 1918 – July 21, 2004) was an American geneticist, a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Lewis was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and graduated from E. L. Meyers High School. He received a BA in...
Carl David Anderson
Carl David Anderson (3 September 1905 – 11 January 1991) was an American physicist. He is best known for his discovery of the positron in 1932, an achievement for which he received the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics, and of the muon in 1936.
Anderson...
Theodore von Karman
Theodore von Kármán (original Hungarian name: Szőllőskislaki Kármán Tódor) (May 11, 1881 – May 7, 1963) was a Hungarian-American engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He is responsible for...
David Baltimore
David L. Baltimore (born 7 March 1938) is an American biologist, university administrator, and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He served as president of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1997 to 2006, and is currently...
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Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan (September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945) was an American geneticist and embryologist. Morgan received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1890 and researched embryology during his tenure at Bryn Mawr. Following the rediscovery...
Gerald J. Wasserburg
Gerald J. Wasserburg (born on March 27, 1927; New Brunswick, NJ) is an American geologist. He is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for his work in the fields...
Samuel Epstein
Samuel Epstein (December 9, 1919 – September 17, 2001) was a Canadian-American geochemist who developed methods for reconstructing geologic temperature records using stable isotope geochemistry. He was elected to the United States National Academy...
Jesse L. Beauchamp
Jesse L. Beauchamp (born 1942) is the Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology.
In 1978 he received the Pure Chemistry Award of the American Chemical Society and in 1981 was elected to the National...
John Todd
John Todd (May 16, 1911 – June 21, 2007) was a professor of mathematics and a pioneer in the field of numerical analysis.
He was born in Carnacally, County Down, Ireland, and grew up near Belfast. He received his BSc degree from Queen's University...
Scott E. Fraser
Scott E. Fraser' is an American biologist, Anna L. Rosen Professor of Biology and Professor of Bioengineering at California Institute of Technology, where he is director of the Biological Imaging Center at the Beckman Institute. He is known for his...
Peter Dervan
Peter B. Dervan is the Bren Professor of Chemistry at 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, a field in which he is...
Harry B. Gray
Harry Barkus Gray (b. 14 November 1935 in Woodburn, Kentucky, U.S.) is an Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. He won the Priestley Medal in 1991 and the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2004.
Gray received his B...
Gaylord Harnwell
Gaylord Probasco Harnwell CBE (September 29, 1903 - April 1982), was an American educator and physicist, who was president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1953 to 1970. He also held a great number of positions in a wide variety of national...
Chia-Chiao Lin
Chia-Chiao Lin (Chinese: 林家翘; Pinyin: Lín Jiāqiào; born 1916) is a applied mathematician and Institute Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Lin is a native of Fuzhou, Fujian province, and was born in Beijing, China. In...
Robert P. Dilworth
Robert Palmer Dilworth (December 2, 1914 – October 29, 1993) was an American mathematician. His primary research area was lattice theory; his biography at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive states "it would not be an exaggeration to say...
John E. Bercaw
John E. Bercaw (born December 3, 1944 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a U.S.-chemist.
Professor Bercaw obtained his Ph. D. from the University of Michigan in 1971 under the direction of Professor Hans-Herbert Brintzinger, followed by postdoctoral research...
K. Mani Chandy
Kanianthra Mani Chandy is the Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology. He has been the Executive Officer of the Computer Science Department twice, and he has been a professor at Caltech since 1989.
Chandy...
Babak Hassibi
Babak Hassibi (born in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-American electrical engineer who is currently a professor of Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tehran...
Joseph F Traub
Joseph Frederick Traub (born June 24, 1932), is a computer scientist. He is the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He has held positions at Bell Laboratories,...
Jakša Cvitanić
Jakša Cvitanić (born February 26, 1962 in Split, Croatia) is a Professor of Mathematical Finance at the California Institute of Technology.
Cvitanić earned a BS (1985) and MS (1988) in Mathematics from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and a PhD in...
Anatol Roshko
Anatol Roshko is the Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
Dr. Roshko is known for his contributions to gas dynamics. He along with H. W. Liepmann is the authors of the...
Jerrold E. Marsden
Jerrold Eldon Marsden (August 17, 1942 in Ocean Falls, British Columbia, Canada), is an American applied mathematician. He is the Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering and Control & Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology....
Jorge Cham
Jorge Cham (born May 1976) is a Chinese-Panamanian post-doc best known for his popular newspaper and web comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD Comics). He first started drawing PhD Comics as a graduate student at Stanford University, and has...
John D. Roberts
John D. Roberts (born 8 June 1918) is an award-winning American chemist. He has made contributions to the integration of physical chemistry, spectroscopy and organic chemistry for the understanding of chemical reaction rates.
Roberts received both a...
Axel Scherer
Axel Scherer is the Bernard Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Physics, and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Scherer's office is located in the Sloan Annex, and his lab manager is Kate Finigan. He is known for...
John Gamble Kirkwood
John ("Jack") Gamble Kirkwood (May 30, 1907 — August 9, 1959) was a noted chemist and physicist, holding faculty positions at Cornell University, the University of Chicago, California Institute of Technology, and Yale University.
Kirkwood was born...
Hugo Benioff
Hugo Benioff (1899 – 1968) was a seismologist and a professor at the California Institute of Technology. He is best remembered for his work in charting the location of deep earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean.
After graduating from Pomona College in...
Nathan Lewis
Nathan S. Lewis is the George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. He specializes in functionalization of silicon and other semiconductor surfaces, as well as chemical sensing using chemiresitive sensor arrays...
Peter Goldreich
Peter Goldreich (born July 14, 1939) is an American astrophysicist whose research focuses on planetary rings, helioseismology and neutron stars. He is currently the Lee DuBridge Professor of Astrophysics and Planetary Physics at California Institute...
Arthur Erdélyi
Arthur Erdélyi FRS, FRSE (October 2, 1908 – December 12, 1977) was a Hungarian-born British mathematician. Erdélyi was a leading expert on special functions - especially orthogonal polynomials and hypergeometric functions.
Erdélyi was born in...
Bruce C. Murray
Bruce C. Murray was born November 30, 1931 in New York, NY. He is a professor emeritus of planetary science and geology at Caltech and was Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from April 1, 1976 to June 30, 1982.
He received his Ph.D. in...
Victor Veysey
Victor Vincent Veysey (April 14, 1915 – February 13, 2001) was a Californian and a Republican politician.
Born in 1915 in Los Angeles, California, Veysey received a BSc from CalTech in 1936 and an MBA from Harvard University in 1938. He also did...
William A. Goddard, III
William Andrew Goddard III (born March 29, 1937 in El Centro, California, U.S.) is the Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry and Applied Physics, and Director, Materials and Process Simulation Center at the California Institute of...
Preston McAfee
Preston McAfee (born July 7, 1956) is a Vice President and Research Fellow at Yahoo! Research where he leads the Microeconomics and Social Systems group. Prior to Yahoo!, he was the J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business, Economics, and Management...
Ronald Drever
Ron Drever is a Scottish physicist. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology.
Among other accomplishments he co-founded the LIGO project, and was a co-inventor of the Pound-Drever-Hall technique for laser...
N. Katherine Hayles
N. Katherine Hayles (born 16 December 1943) is a postmodern literary critic, particularly in the fields of literature and science, electronic literature, and American literature. She is a professor in the Program in Literature at Duke University....
