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Also Known As Caltech
Date 1891 - present
Headquarters Pasadena
Notable Alumni Juris Hartmanis • Ivan Sutherland • Linus Pauling • Vernon L. Smith • Carl David Anderson • Edward B. Lewis • Charles F. Richter • Howard Hughes • Bruce Ames • Walter Munk • John F. Clauser • Harold Rosen • Gordon Moore • Kip Thorne • Charles M. Rice • Jeffrey C. Hall • Eric Betzig • Ardem Patapoutian • Burt Rutan • Stephen Wolfram • Michael Rosbash • Daniel G. Nocera • Arthur B. McDonald • Allan Sandage • Robert C. Merton • Frank Borman • Andrea Ghez • Simon Ramo • William B. Shockley • Robert Endre Tarjan • Donald A. Glaser • Edwin Mattison McMillan • Renato Dulbecco • Martin Karplus • Donald Knuth • John McCarthy • Douglas Osheroff • Chester F. Carlson • William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. • Leland H. Hartwell • Jerry Earl Nelson • Herman Kahn • Robert Woodrow Wilson • Harrison Schmitt • William Fowler • James Rainwater • Horace Welcome Babcock
Related People David Baltimore • Juris Hartmanis

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