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  1. More of this story: In 1911, California State Assembly member Lyman Farwell proposed that the state establish a public engineering school named the California Institute of Technology. Farwell was also an architect who designed the mansion which is now the .

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  2. 5. velj

    The name California Institute of Technology was first proposed in a 1911 bill for a public school of engineering. Throop’s President Scherer lobbied unsuccessfully to make Throop that school. In 1920, the institute took that name anyway. Learn more in our exhibit opening Monday!

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    3. velj

    We remember our colleague and friend Frank Press. Press had a lasting impact on Caltech as director of from 1955 to 1965.

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  4. 31. sij

    We love this video about ’s copy of the first English edition of Euclid’s Elements! Check out our copy in our own video “Copernicus to Feynman: Paper and Print in the Caltech Archives” (at 19 minutes, 41 seconds):

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    Would we have enjoyed math class better if it involved pop-up books? Maybe! Take a peek inside this English edition of Euclid with curators Jim Voelkel and .

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  6. 31. sij

    Did you know? Throop Polytechnic, ’s predecessor, moved to our current campus in 1910, setting up on 22 acres. The first building, Pasadena Hall, accommodated the entire school for seven years. Learn more in our upcoming exhibit:

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    12. sij

    This was supposed to be Seymour's retirement party, but the gift was 's promise that he will never be made to stop his work. Indeed he never did. It was quite a gathering of multiple generations in the trade. Take the challenge: How many Nobel laureates in the picture?

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    12. sij

    While preparing for a neuro meeting at later this month, I stumbled in my personal photo archive upon this hidden gem, reenacting a precious memory and depicting a moving moment in the history of neurogenetics: Seymour Benzer's 70th birthday, , 1991.

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  9. 17. sij

    At Throop Polytechnic Institute, athletic activity was encouraged, and the campus featured basketball and tennis courts, a field for football and baseball, and an outdoor gymnasium. Learn more about athletics in the next two decades in our upcoming exhibit, “Becoming Caltech."

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    Chemical reactions take place in a matter of femtoseconds. One femtosecond is to a second, as a second is to 32 million years. Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail used lasers to watch these reactions in slow motion and see what happens when chemical bonds break and new ones are created.

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    17. sij

    Dr. Collopy hosted my "Picturing the Universe" class this afternoon. What an incredible visit! We explored forms of "picturing" from early-modern diagrams and mathematical tables to 20th c. instruments, logbooks, and glass plate negatives. Thank you, !

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    15. sij
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    15. sij

    The included mention of the manuscript in their interactive story on the scientific excitement around the impending explosion.

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    15. sij

    Johannes Kepler's "De Stella Nova" is one of 202 early modern scientific books which acquired from Count Giampaolo Rocco in 1955. Kepler's work documents the last visible supernova in our galaxy just as we await another possible with !

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  15. 9. sij

    On we visit Caltech’s predecessor, Throop Polytechnic Institute, a co-educational school featuring a college department and a manual training academy. In 1920 Throop became Caltech: our new exhibit "Becoming Caltech" will guide you through this transition.

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    8. sij

    From the category Astronomers (GOAT game #2):

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  17. 6. sij

    The name changed to Throop Polytechnic Institute (1893-1912) and then to Throop College of Technology (1913-1919). Our new exhibition "Becoming Caltech, Building a Research Community, 1910-1930” tells the fascinating story of how Throop become Caltech. Opens on February 10.

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  18. 6. sij

    Did you know? Caltech was founded in 1891 as Throop University by Amos G. Throop and opened its doors in the Wooster Building in downtown Pasadena (it still stands at the intersection of Fair Oaks Avenue and Green Street) on November 2, 1891.

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  19. 2. sij

    Happy 2020! 100 years ago Throop College of Technology became the California Institute of Technology. Our new exhibit, “Becoming Caltech, Building a Research Community, 1910-1930,” explores this change, which set Caltech on its way to greatness. Opens Feb 10. More info soon.

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    in 1911 the aerospace engineer and physicist Qian Xuesen (Hsue-Shen Tsien) was born in Hangzhou in the Qing Empire. Recruited from MIT, while at Caltech Qian helped found the JPL and was involved in the Manhattan Project

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