CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
In 1891, Jagger Amos Throop, a businessman and self-made philanthropist, founded a small mixed school in Pasadena that has become one of the leading scientific institutions around the world. Initially called University Throop, the school changed its name to Polytechnic Institute Throop Throop in 1893. It was the first school west of Chicago to offer crafts, teaching students of all ages-proclaimed- as its mandate "things that train on hand and brain to the best work of life. " In 1907, astronomer George Ellery Hale, the first director of the observatory of Monte Wilson, joined the board Throop same year and played a key role in the transformation of the school. Hale, a visionary bursting with educational and civic ideas, started to rebuild Throop. He persuaded officials to abandon their high school program and focus on development along the lines of the engineering school of the university. It has hired James AB Scherer, president Throop 1908-1920, and took Arthur A. Noyes, former president of physicist Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the chemical that leads to the nation, the campus part-time professor of general chemistry . To rent Noyes (once your chemistry teacher), Hale expected is to bring chemistry to Throop College of Technology, as it was called from 1913, to the level of that in the Institute of Technology of Massachusetts and increase Throop national prominence.
The third member of this scientific troika was Robert A. Millikan, an experimental physicist known at the University of Chicago in 1917, began spending several months a year in Throop, now a school for boys. Along with Washington, during World War II, the three scientists recruited to work in military affairs, founded the National Research Council (NRC), and built an impressive network of contacts that would serve well the school. As the first president of the NRC, Hale has not only promoted the role of science in national affairs, but also increased the role of Throop in American science. Noyes has put in charge of the Nitrates Committee and asked Millikan power to oversee the work of the NRC in physics. Millikan proved to be a shrewd manager, and his influence on American science grew in the postwar decades. In ambitious set of American science and determined to put Throop on the map, Hale, Millikan, and Noyes were a formidable triumvirate scientific and Armistice Day were ready to transform the engineering school at an institution that emphasized pure science .
In 1919, he resigned from MIT Noyes, and accepted a full-time appointment as Director of Chemical Research Throop. Throop was renamed the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the following year, and trustee Arthur Fleming shot most of his fortune, more than $ 4 million for the institute in an attempt to attract success Millikan definitely in Pasadena. As director of the Laboratory of Norman Bridge Physical and administrative head of Caltech, Millikan led the school for the next twenty-five, which establishes the requirements for graduation in two years of physics, mathematics and two years of a chemical (one resume that remains virtually unchanged, with the exception of a mandatory term of biology signal). Also he puts on the physical map in Southern California. Albert Einstein visited the campus in 1931, 1932 and 1933 Millikan campaign appearances to make one of the world capitals of physics at Caltech.
Caltech in the early 1920s was essentially a sub-graduate and graduate school in the physical sciences. Until 1925 the only PhD in physics, chemistry and engineering was conferred. Geology added to the list of university studies in 1925, the Air Force in 1926, and biology and mathematics in 1928. In 1930, Charles Richter work in seismology, Theodore von Kármán in aeronautics, Linus Pauling in chemistry, and Thomas Hunt Morgan in biology scientific research conducted at the institute. Strongly oppose government funding of research, Millikan dealt directly with officials of Carnegie, Rockefeller and Guggenheim foundations and funds convinced a growing number of local millionaires.
In 1946, Lee A. DuBridge, project director of the MIT radar war, became the new president of Caltech. Robert Bacher, a pillar of the Manhattan Project, the chief of the Division of Physics and later became the first rector of the institute. Other distinguished scientists who have joined the faculty of postwar include theoretical physicists Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann, astronomer Jesse Greenstein, psycho-biologist Roger Sperry, geochemist Clair Patterson and. During the term of DuBridge (1946-1969), the Caltech faculty doubled campus tripled in size, and new areas of research has flourished, including chemical biology, planetary science, astrophysics and nuclear geochemistry. A 200-inch telescope was dedicated on nearby Mount Palomar in 1948 and has remained the most powerful optical telescope in the world for over forty years. DuBridge a similar Millikan, welcomed federal funding for science and obtained. Students returned to school as a graduate student in 1950, and in 1970, under President Harold Brown, as college students.
The third member of this scientific troika was Robert A. Millikan, an experimental physicist known at the University of Chicago in 1917, began spending several months a year in Throop, now a school for boys. Along with Washington, during World War II, the three scientists recruited to work in military affairs, founded the National Research Council (NRC), and built an impressive network of contacts that would serve well the school. As the first president of the NRC, Hale has not only promoted the role of science in national affairs, but also increased the role of Throop in American science. Noyes has put in charge of the Nitrates Committee and asked Millikan power to oversee the work of the NRC in physics. Millikan proved to be a shrewd manager, and his influence on American science grew in the postwar decades. In ambitious set of American science and determined to put Throop on the map, Hale, Millikan, and Noyes were a formidable triumvirate scientific and Armistice Day were ready to transform the engineering school at an institution that emphasized pure science .
In 1919, he resigned from MIT Noyes, and accepted a full-time appointment as Director of Chemical Research Throop. Throop was renamed the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the following year, and trustee Arthur Fleming shot most of his fortune, more than $ 4 million for the institute in an attempt to attract success Millikan definitely in Pasadena. As director of the Laboratory of Norman Bridge Physical and administrative head of Caltech, Millikan led the school for the next twenty-five, which establishes the requirements for graduation in two years of physics, mathematics and two years of a chemical (one resume that remains virtually unchanged, with the exception of a mandatory term of biology signal). Also he puts on the physical map in Southern California. Albert Einstein visited the campus in 1931, 1932 and 1933 Millikan campaign appearances to make one of the world capitals of physics at Caltech.
Caltech in the early 1920s was essentially a sub-graduate and graduate school in the physical sciences. Until 1925 the only PhD in physics, chemistry and engineering was conferred. Geology added to the list of university studies in 1925, the Air Force in 1926, and biology and mathematics in 1928. In 1930, Charles Richter work in seismology, Theodore von Kármán in aeronautics, Linus Pauling in chemistry, and Thomas Hunt Morgan in biology scientific research conducted at the institute. Strongly oppose government funding of research, Millikan dealt directly with officials of Carnegie, Rockefeller and Guggenheim foundations and funds convinced a growing number of local millionaires.
In 1946, Lee A. DuBridge, project director of the MIT radar war, became the new president of Caltech. Robert Bacher, a pillar of the Manhattan Project, the chief of the Division of Physics and later became the first rector of the institute. Other distinguished scientists who have joined the faculty of postwar include theoretical physicists Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann, astronomer Jesse Greenstein, psycho-biologist Roger Sperry, geochemist Clair Patterson and. During the term of DuBridge (1946-1969), the Caltech faculty doubled campus tripled in size, and new areas of research has flourished, including chemical biology, planetary science, astrophysics and nuclear geochemistry. A 200-inch telescope was dedicated on nearby Mount Palomar in 1948 and has remained the most powerful optical telescope in the world for over forty years. DuBridge a similar Millikan, welcomed federal funding for science and obtained. Students returned to school as a graduate student in 1950, and in 1970, under President Harold Brown, as college students.
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