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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 • Harold Rosen • Gordon Moore • Eric Betzig • Stephen Wolfram • Arthur B. McDonald • Daniel G. Nocera • Burt Rutan • Allan Sandage • Robert C. Merton • William B. Shockley • Donald A. Glaser • Simon Ramo • Edwin Mattison McMillan • Renato Dulbecco • Robert Endre Tarjan • Frank Borman • Chester F. Carlson • Andrea Ghez • Michael Rosbash • Jeffrey C. Hall • John F. Clauser • Ardem Patapoutian • Charles M. Rice • Kip Thorne • Martin Karplus • Douglas Osheroff • William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. • Leland H. Hartwell • Herman Kahn • Jerry Earl Nelson • John McCarthy • Harrison Schmitt • Robert Woodrow Wilson • William Fowler • James Rainwater • Horace Welcome Babcock • Donald Knuth
Related People David Baltimore • Juris Hartmanis

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