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Mount Richter

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Charles F. Richter, American physicist, California Institute of Technology, 1930–70; in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, 1935, he developed the Richter Scale which bears his name, used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes.


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Ben-Aharon

Oded Aharonson (b. ?), American assistant professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology

Brenda Chapman

Chapman is married to director Kevin Lima (A Goofy Movie, Tarzan, Enchanted), who she met at California Institute of the Arts.

Carl J. Meade

Prior to entering active duty in the United States Air Force, Meade was a Hughes Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and an electronics design engineer at Hughes Aircraft Company in Culver City, California.

Chameau

Jean-Lou Chameau, civil engineer and president of the California Institute of Technology

Eric Davidson

Eric H. Davidson (born 1937), developmental biologist at the California Institute of Technology

Hani Rashid

Rashid's academic career includes visiting professorships at several universities, including the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles, the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and the Lund University.

Haridas Chaudhuri

Bahman Shirazi of the California Institute of Integral Studies has defined Integral Psychology as "a psychological system concerned with exploring and understanding the totality of the human phenomenon....(which) at its breadth, covers the entire body-mind-psyche-spirit spectrum, while at its depth...encompasses the previously explored unconscious and the conscious dimensions of the psyche, as well as the supra-conscious dimension traditionally excluded from psychological inquiry".

HP 200LX

The HP 200LX was used on board the NASA Discovery OV103 Mission STS-95 (the last mission of Senator John Glenn) in an Electronic Nose (E-Nose) experiment (the device was developed jointly by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)).

John Benton

John F. Benton (1931–1988), professor of history at the California Institute of Technology

José Cisneros

A San Francisco resident for over fifteen years, Treasurer Cisneros has been active in the community including serving on the Equality California Institute board and the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club board.

Liepmann

Hans W. Liepmann (1914–2009), German American engineer, emeritus Professor of Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology

Robert McDermott

Robert A. McDermott, American philosopher, professor of philosophy and religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies

Roy Dow

Dow appeared in the documentary Quantum Hoops, a 2007 film directed by Rick Greenwald, that follows the California Institute of Technology's basketball team—the Caltech Beavers—in their attempts to end a 21-year losing streak during the final week of the 2006 basketball season.

Sekula

Allan Sekula (born 1951), American artist, writer, and critic based at the California Institute of the Arts

Southern California Institute of Law

Southern California Institute of Law (SCIL) is a private law school with campuses in Santa Barbara and Ventura, California.

Spiritual ecology

Within the field of science, spiritual ecology is emerging in arenas including Physics, Biology (see: Ursula Goodenough), Consciousness Studies (see: Brian Swimme; California Institute of Integral Studies), Systems Theory (see: David Loy; Nondual Science Institute), and Gaia Hypothesis, which was first articulated by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in the 1970s.

Stockholm Water Prize

1999: Professor Werner Stumm, Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland and James J. Morgan, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, United States

Surface-barrier transistor

On January 31, 1958, the United States first artificial Earth satellite was launched at Cape Canaveral in Florida, which was called Explorer 1, and was developed by the California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

Trounson

Alan O. Trounson, Australian biologist, pioneer of in vitro fertilisation; Emeritus Professor, Monash University and President of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Walter Edwards

Walter Alison Edwards (1862–1924), president of the California Institute of Technology

William Goddard

William Andrew Goddard III (born 1937), professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology