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unusual facts about The California Institute of Technology



Robert W. Bower

Immediately after receiving his Ph.D. from The California Institute of Technology in 1973, he worked for over 25 years in many different professions: Engineer, Scientist, Department Head at University of California, Davis, and as president and CEO of Device Concept Inc.


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Ben-Aharon

Oded Aharonson (b. ?), American assistant professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology

Carl J. Meade

Prior to entering active duty in the United States Air Force, Meade was a Hughes Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and an electronics design engineer at Hughes Aircraft Company in Culver City, California.

Chameau

Jean-Lou Chameau, civil engineer and president of the California Institute of Technology

Eric Davidson

Eric H. Davidson (born 1937), developmental biologist at the California Institute of Technology

HP 200LX

The HP 200LX was used on board the NASA Discovery OV103 Mission STS-95 (the last mission of Senator John Glenn) in an Electronic Nose (E-Nose) experiment (the device was developed jointly by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)).

John Benton

John F. Benton (1931–1988), professor of history at the California Institute of Technology

Liepmann

Hans W. Liepmann (1914–2009), German American engineer, emeritus Professor of Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology

Roy Dow

Dow appeared in the documentary Quantum Hoops, a 2007 film directed by Rick Greenwald, that follows the California Institute of Technology's basketball team—the Caltech Beavers—in their attempts to end a 21-year losing streak during the final week of the 2006 basketball season.

Surface-barrier transistor

On January 31, 1958, the United States first artificial Earth satellite was launched at Cape Canaveral in Florida, which was called Explorer 1, and was developed by the California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

Walter Edwards

Walter Alison Edwards (1862–1924), president of the California Institute of Technology

William Goddard

William Andrew Goddard III (born 1937), professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology