California State University Of Technology

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California State University Of
Technology
The California Institute of Technology (often abbreviated to
Caltech) is a private research University located in
Pasadena, California, one of the leading universities in the
United States, and one of the two most important, along
with the Massachusetts Institute of technology, specializing
in exact Sciences and engineering. It is one of the top ten
universities in the world. Caltech also owns the jet
propulsion laboratory, which launches most of NASA's
automated spacecraft.

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Year of foundation
Caltech was founded in 1891 as a technical School in Pasadena, and
only received its name in 1920 after repeated renaming.

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FACULTIES
Caltech is divided into six
departments, each of which
provides several specialties.
-Department of biology
-Department of chemical
technology
-Department of applied science
- Department of Geology and
paleontology
-Department of Humanities and
social Sciences
-Department of physics,
mathematics and astronomy.

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Notable alumni
• Carl David Anderson is an
American experimental physicist.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in
physics for the discovery of the
Positron.

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Notable alumni
• Walter Bright-programmer,
known as the developer of the
first "native" C++compiler.

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Notable alumni
• Konstantin Yuryevich Batygin is
an American astrophysicist of
Russian origin. Author of the
hypothesis about the ninth
planet of the Solar system.