- Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and particle theory. For his work on quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, …
- David Baltimore
David Baltimore (b. March 7, 1938) is an American biologist and one of the recipients of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He is currently the Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he was the president from 1997 to 2006. He is also currently the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Baltimore was born in New York City.
- Christof Koch
Christof Koch is an American neuroscientist educated in North Africa and Europe. He received a PhD in nonlinear information processing from the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen, Germany in 1982. He currently holds the position of Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology, California Institute of Technology, where he has been since 1986.
- Kip Thorne
Kip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for having trained a generation of scientists. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking, he is the current Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech and one of the world’s leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
- Richard Ellis
Richard Ellis FRS (born 25 May 1950, Colwyn Bay, Wales) is the Steele Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He read astronomy at University College London and obtained a DPhil at the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford in 1974. After a career as an academic at the University of Durham (with two years at the Royal Greenwich Observatory), being appointed a professor at Durham in 1985, …
- Robert H. Grubbs
Robert H. Grubbs (b. 27 February 1942 in Possum Trot, Kentucky) is an American chemist and Nobel laureate. As he noted in his official Nobel Prize autobiography, "In some places, my birthplace is listed as Calvert City and in others Possum Trot ["NB:" both in Marshall County]. I was actually born between the two, so either one really is correct." He spent his early childhood in Marshall County and attended public school at McKinley Elementary, …
- Charles Elachi
Charles Elachi is the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), located in Pasadena, California. He has held this position since May 1, 2001 and also holds professorships in electrical engineering and planetary science at Caltech. Elachi was born in Lebanon on April 18, 1947. He graduated from the Grenoble Polytechnic Institute in 1968 and received his M.S. and Ph.D in electrical sciences from the Caltech.
- Gordon Moore
Gordon Earle Moore (b. January 3, 1929 in San Francisco, California) is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law (published in an article 19 April 1965 in "Electronics Magazine"). Moore was born in San Francisco, California. He received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1954.
- Carolyn Porco
Carolyn C. Porco is an American planetary scientist and the leader of the imaging science team on the Cassini mission <sup>,<;/sup> <sup>,<;/sup> presently in orbit around Saturn. In late 1999, she was selected by the London Sunday Times as one of 18 scientific leaders of the 21st century, and by Industrial Week as one of "50 Stars to Watch". Porco was responsible for the epitaph and proposal to honor the late renowned planetary geologist, Eugene Shoemaker, …
- Leroy Hood
Dr. Hood is recognized as one of the world's leading scientists in molecular biotechnology and genomics. A passionate and dedicated researcher, he holds numerous patents and awards for his work and prides himself on his life-long commitment to making science accessible to the general public. One of his foremost goals is to bring hands-on, inquiry-based science to K-12 classrooms.
- William A. Goddard III
William A. Goddard, III (Born March 29, 1937 in El Centro, California, USA) is the Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry and Applied Physics, and Director, Materials and Process Simulation Center at the California Institute of Technology. He obtained his B.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1960 and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, 1965. After his Ph.
- David Goodstein
David L. Goodstein (born 1939) is a U.S. physicist and educator. Since 1988, he has served as Vice-provost of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he is also a professor of physics and applied physics, as well as (since 1995) the Frank J. Gilloon distinguished teaching and service professor. Goodstein was educated at Brooklyn College (BS, 1960) and at the University of Washington (Ph.D., 1965).
- Colin Camerer
Colin F. Camerer (born 1959) is an American behavioral economist and a professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). A former child prodigy, Camerer received a B.A. in quantitative studies from Johns Hopkins University in 1977, followed by an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Chicago in 1979 and a Ph.D. in behavioral decision theory from that same institution in 1981.
- Preston McAfee
R. Preston McAfee (born July 7, 1956) is the J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business, Economics, and Management at the California Institute of Technology, where he is the executive officer for the social sciences. He teaches business strategy, managerial economics, and introductory microeconomics. McAfee has joined Yahoo! Research as Research Fellow and Vice President. He leads a group focused on microeconomics research.
- Michael E. Brown
Michael (Mike) E. Brown has been a professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) since 2003. He was previously an associate professor at Caltech from 2002-2003 and an assistant professor at Caltech from 1997–2002.
- Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan (September 25, 1866 - December 4, 1945) was an American geneticist and embryologist. Morgan received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1891 and researched embryology during his tenure at Bryn Mawr. Following the rediscovery of Mendelian inheritance in 1900, Morgan's research moved to the study of mutation in the fruit fly "Drosophila melanogaster".
- Carver Mead
Professor Carver Andress Mead (born 1 May 1934, in Bakersfield, California) is a prominent U.S. computer scientist. He is the Gordon and Betty Moore professor emeritus at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), having taught there for over 40 years. Mead studied electrical engineering at Caltech, getting his B.S. in 1956, his M.S. in 1957, and his Ph.D. degree in 1960.
- Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán (Szőllőskislaki Kármán Tódor was a Hungarian-American engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He is personally responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization.
- Maarten Schmidt
Maarten Schmidt (born December 28 1929) is a Dutch astronomer who measured the distances of astronomical objects called quasars. Schmidt was born in Groningen, (The Netherlands) and studied with Jan Hendrik Oort. He earned his Ph.D. from Leiden Observatory in 1956. In 1959 he emigrated to the United States and went to work at the California Institute of Technology. In the beginning he worked at theories about the mass distribution and dynamics of galaxies.
- George Ellery Hale
George Ellery Hale (June 29 1868 - February 21 1938) was an American solar astronomer, born in Chicago. He was educated at MIT, at the Observatory of Harvard College, (1889-90), and at Berlin (1893-94). As an undergraduate at MIT, he invented the spectroheliograph, with which he made his discoveries of the solar vortices and magnetic fields of sun spots.
- Kate Hutton
Kate Hutton, nicknamed the Earthquake Lady or Dr. Kate, is staff seismologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. Hutton received a B.S. in astronomy from Pennsylvania State University in 1971, and an M.S. (1973) and Ph.D. (1976) in astronomy from the University of Maryland, College Park. She has worked for the Caltech earthquake center as a seismologist her entire career.
- Hiroo Kanamori
Hiroo Kanamori is a seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of earthquakes and the tectonic processes that cause them. Kanamori and American seismologist Tom Hanks suggested the moment magnitude scale which replaced the Richter magnitude scale as a measurement of the relative strength of earthquakes. Kanamori invented the method for calculating slip distribution on the fault plane by teleseismic waveform with Masayuki Kikuchi.
- Arthur Amos Noyes
Arthur Amos Noyes (1866 - 1936) was a U.S. chemist and educator. He served as the acting president of MIT between 1907 and 1909. He received in PhD. in 1890 at Leipzig under the guidance of Wilhelm Ostwald. Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson was one of his famous students. Noyes served as Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology from 1919 to 1936. He was a major influence on the educational philosophy and the core curriculum of Caltech.
- Charles Plott
Charles Plott (born 1938), American economist. Plott is Edward S. Harkness Professor of Economics and Political Science at Caltech and a pioneer in the field of experimental economics.
- Harold Brown
Harold Brown was born on September 19, 1927, in New York City. He received three degrees, among them a Ph.D. (1949) in physics from Columbia University. Brown was a research scientist at the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, then at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, CA; he became director of the Lawrence lab in 1960. Brown was senior adviser at the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests (1958-1959).
- John Preskill
John Phillip Preskill (born 19 January, 1953) is an American theoretical physicist and a professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Preskill was born in Highland Park, Illinois. After earning an B.A. in physics at Princeton University, summa cum laude, in 1975, he received his Ph.D. in the same subject from Harvard University in 1980. His graduate advisor at Harvard was Steven Weinberg. Many of his students are well-known physicists.
- Harry Gray
Harry Barkus Gray is currently the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and Founding Director of the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology. He received his B. S. from Western Kentucky University (1957) and his Ph.D. in 1960 with Fred Basolo at Northwestern University. Professor Gray's interdisciplinary research program addresses a wide range of fundamental problems in inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, and biophysics.
- Richard Massey
Dr. Richard Massey (born 14 October 1977) is a physicist currently working at Caltech. He is a graduate in Maths and Physics from the University of Durham and completed his Ph.D in Cambridge on Cosmology in 2003. Massey is most well known as the lead author of a recent study to make a dark matter map of the universe, published by Nature magazine.
- K. Mani Chandy
K. Mani Chandy is the Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology. He has been the Executive Officer of the Computer Science Department twice, and he has been a professor at Caltech since 1989. Chandy got his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering with a thesis in Operations Research. He got a Masters from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, …
- Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and educated at Princeton and at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. An active research scientist in astronomy and physics for two decades, he has also taught both subjects on the faculties of Harvard and MIT. international best seller; Good Benito ; The Diagnosis , which was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Reunion .
- Axel Scherer
Axel Scherer is the Bernad Neeches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Physics, and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Scherer's group recently presented a 0.5 cubic mm microfluidic evaporative refrigerator at the 2006 IEEE CoolChips research symposium in Yokohama, Japan. In 2006, Dr. Scherer was named the director of the Kavli NanoScience Laboratory. He graduated from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1985.
- H. David Politzer
Hugh David Politzer (born 31 August 1949) is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics. Politzer was born in New York City. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1966, received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1969, and his Ph.D. in 1974 from Harvard University, …
- Renato Dulbecco
Renato Dulbecco (born February 22, 1914) is an Italian-born virologist. He was born in Catanzaro (Southern Italy) from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father. He graduated from high school at 16, then moved to the University of Turin. Despite a strong interest for mathematics and physics, he decided to study medicine. At only 22, he graduated in morbid anatomy and pathology under the supervision of professor Giuseppe Levi.
- Seth Lloyd
Seth Lloyd is a Professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. He refers to himself as a "quantum mechanic". Lloyd was born on August 2, 1960, received his AB from Harvard College in 1982, his Math.Cert. and M.Phil. from Cambridge University in 1983 and 1984, and his Ph.D. from Rockefeller University in 1988 (advisor Heinz Pagels) for a thesis entitled "Black Holes, Demons, and the Loss of Coherence: How complex systems get information, …
- Bill Gross
Bill Gross serves as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Idealab which he founded in March 1996. While at Idealab, Bill has started many successful businesses including Overture Services, Cars Direct / Internet Brands, Picasa, and Energy Innovations.
- Jerrold E. Marsden
Jerrold Eldon Marsden (August 17, 1942 in Ocean Falls, British Columbia, Canada), is a well-known mathematician. He gained his B.Sc. in Mathematics at the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1968. Thereafter, he has worked at various universities and research institutes in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
- Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics. The field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize.
- George Williams
George Williams (also known as, "George Walton Williams") (b. 1959 in Durham, NC) is a renowned computer programmer and font developer. He is famous for his font editor, converter and creator software FontForge, which was previously called "PfaEdit". Many notable fonts were edited and developed with this versatile cross-platform software. He is also a type designer (font developer) of various fonts since 1987, …
- Elliot Meyerowitz
Elliot Meyerowitz (b. May 22, 1951) is a U.S. biologist. He is currently George W. Beadle Professor of Biology and Chair, Division of Biology at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Meyerowitz earned his A.B. from Columbia University, and M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Biology from Yale University. He joined the Caltech faculty after a postdoctoral period at the Biochemistry Department of the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr.
- Allan Sandage
Allan Rex Sandage (born June 18 1926 in Iowa City, Iowa) is an American astronomer.