California Institute of Technology, a world-renowned university, began in 1891, a world-famous science and engineering institution, a typical elite university, and the background of "The Big Bang Theory".
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a prestigious university in the United States, located in Pasadena, California, founded in 1891. The school is modest with just over 1,000 graduate students and 900 undergraduates, but it is ranked second in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2010. In the fields of physics, planetary science, and geography, it is recognized as the first in the United States and the first in the world. In 2006, the Princeton Review ranked Caltech sixth in the list of "hardest colleges to apply to" in the United States.
The California Institute of Technology is one of the world's top science and engineering institutions. Caltech has only 50.18 hectares of land and has only trained more than 22,000 students, but 31 people have won the Nobel Prize 32 times. In 2000, Caltech was ranked No. 1 among U.S. U.S. News & World Report's annual college rankings. Caltech is tied for fifth place with MIT and Stanford University in the 2012 U.S. News & World Report National University rankings, and is ranked fifth in Times Higher Education and Thomson The 2011-12 World University Rankings jointly released by Reuters ranked No. 1 in the world with a score of 94.8, ahead of Harvard University (93.9 points) and Stanford University (93.9 points). In 2010, Caltech ranked 6th in the overall academic ranking of world universities, and ranked 1st in per capita contribution.
The mission of this private university is to "train creative scientists and engineers for education, government and industrial development". Thirty-one of Caltech's professors and alumni have won the Nobel Prize 32 times (Pauling has won twice), an average of one Nobel laureate for every 1,000 graduating students, the highest proportion of any university in the world. Caltech has just over 2,100 students and 270 professors, associate professors, and assistant professors, including 66 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 33 members of the National Academy of Engineering, and 80 members of the National Academy of Arts, equivalent to 36.7% of the total faculty today, which is unparalleled in the United States and even in the world.
The California Institute of Technology has some of the world's top scientists, and in 2008, the American magazine "Discovery" selected the 20 brightest scientists under the age of 40 in the United States, who are regarded as geniuses in their respective fields of research and have produced fruitful results, among these 20 genius scientists, Caltech professors account for 4 seats.
The university has six faculties: Biology, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Engineering and Applied Sciences, Geology and Planetology, Anthropology and Social Sciences, Physics and Mathematics, and Astronomy. The school's graduate programs are outstanding, and in 2010 the U.S. In the ranking of the best graduate schools in the United States, Caltech ranked 1st in the United States for physics, 1st in chemistry, 1st in aeronautics and astronautics, 1st in earth science, 4th in biology, 5th in electrical engineering, 7th in mathematics, 11th in computer science, and 14th in economics.
The university's state-of-the-art research facilities include the Booth Computing Center, the Hale Observatory, the Seismology Laboratory, the Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory, the Big Bear Solar System Observatory, the Palomar Observatory, the Owens Canyon Radio Astronomy Observatory, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the Environmental Quality Laboratory, the newly established Submillimeter Observatory in Hawaii, and the Stanford Linear Accelerometer Center. Of particular note is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where scientists successfully experimented with the design of mankind's first modern rockets and designed and assembled the spacecraft of the Apollo moon landing program in the United States. For half a century, JPL has been involved in the design and launch of many significant spacecraft, such as the Explorer program, the Mariner program, the Galileo program, the Mars Global Explorer, the Cassini Huygens satellite, and the Spitzer Deep Space Telescope.
Famous physicists Albert Einstein, Feynman, Milligan, Gell-Mann, the famous astronomer Halley, Morgan, the originator of genetics, and rocket expert von Kármán have all taught here. In addition to many Nobel laureates, famous alumni who graduated from Caltech include Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel Corporation, Harrison Schmidt, the astronaut who landed on the moon, Qian Xuesen, the Chinese missile expert, Qian Weichang, the father of Chinese mechanics, and so on.
Science is the theme of Caltech, and many famous physicists and chemists have made discoveries that have shaken the scientific community at Caltech. It was here that Einstein abandoned his "theory of cosmic invariance" and endorsed the "theory of cosmic expansion"; Physicist Carl Anderson discovered the positron here; Here, physicist Dale Brac made a major discovery about the genetic structure and replication mechanism of viruses, which led to the birth of molecular genetics; Here the physicist Gell-Mann proposed the quark theory; Here the geochemist Paterson calculated the age of the Earth as recognized by modern science as 4.6 billion years. It was also here that Richard Feynman, the outgoing and humorous Nobel laureate in physics, taught for decades and became one of the most admired professors by his students. Now, there are also Nobel laureates in chemistry Rudolph Marcus, Nobel laureate in physics Murry Gellmann, Nobel laureate in biology Ed Lewis and many more. Caltech has produced 32 Nobel laureates, and its students do have a right to be proud.
