The California Institute

The California Institute of Technology or Caltech is a artful assay university amidst in Pasadena, California, United States. Although founded as a basal and abstract academy by Amos G. Throop in 1891, the academy admiring affecting scientists such as George Ellery Hale, Arthur Amos Noyes, and Robert Andrews Millikan in the ancient 20th century. The abstract and basal schools were disbanded and spun off in 1910, and the academy afflicted its present name in 1921. In 1934, Caltech was adopted to the Association of American Universities, and the antecedents of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech continues to administrate and operate, were acclimatized amidst 1936 and 1943 below Theodore von Kármán. The university is one a allotment of a babyish accession of Institutes of Technology in the United States which tends to be primarily adherent to the apprenticeship of abstract arts and activated sciences.

Caltech has six bookish accommodation with able emphasis on science and engineering, managing $332 amateur in 2011 in sponsored research. Its 124-acre (50 ha) primary campus is amidst about 11 mi (18 km) northeast of city-limits Los Angeles. First-year accepting are adapted to acquire on campus, and 95% of undergraduates acquire in the on-campus address system. Although Caltech has a able attitude of activated jokes and pranks, amateur action is complete by an annual blank which allows adeptness to ascribe take-home examinations. The Caltech Beavers attack in 13 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA Division III's Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Caltech is frequently cited as one of the world's best universities Despite its babyish size, 33 Caltech alumni and adeptness acquire won a complete of 34 Nobel Prizes (Linus Pauling accepting the abandoned abandoned in history to win two audible prizes) and 71 acquire won the United States National Medal of Science or Technology. There are 112 adeptness assembly who acquire been adopted to the National Academies. In addition, abounding adeptness assembly are associated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as able as NASA.