California Institute of Technology Employer Profile
Notable Alumni of Caltech
Arnold O. Beckman (B.S. 1922, Ph.D. 1928) - Inventor of the pH meter and founder of Beckman Instruments.
Donald A. Glaser (B.S. 1946, Ph.D. 1949) - Nobel Prize in Physics (1960) for the invention of the bubble chamber.
Charles H. Townes (B.S. 1935, Ph.D. 1939) - Nobel Prize in Physics (1964) for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics.
James D. Watson (B.S. 1947) - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1962) for his role in the discovery of the structure of DNA.
William Shockley (B.S. 1932) - Nobel Prize in Physics (1956) for his researches on semiconductors and the discovery of the transistor effect.
Richard Feynman (B.S. 1939) - Nobel Prize in Physics (1965) for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
Carl D. Anderson (B.S. 1927, Ph.D. 1930) - Nobel Prize in Physics (1936) for the discovery of the positron.
Edwin Hubble (B.S. 1910) - Astronomer who demonstrated the expansion of the universe.
George W. Beadle (B.S. 1926) - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1958) for discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events.
Thomas Hunt Morgan (Ph.D. 1890) - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1933) for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity.
