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Frances Hamilton Arnold (born July 25, 1956) [1] is an American chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate.She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Robert Howard Grubbs ForMemRS (February 27, 1942 – December 19, 2021) was an American chemist and the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. [7] He was a co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on olefin metathesis. [8]
David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) is an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He is a professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he served as president from 1997 to 2006. [1] He founded the Whitehead Institute and directed it from 1982 to 1990.
Nobel laureates by affiliation [1] Laureate Discipline Year of award Affiliation Daron Acemoglu: Economics 2024 Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Alexei Abrikosov: Physics 2003 Argonne National Laboratory: Edgar Adrian: Physiology or Medicine 1932 University of Cambridge: Pierre Agostini: Physics 2023 Ohio State University: Peter Agre ...
Caltech chemistry professor and Nobel laureate Rudy Marcus turned 100 on Friday. He appreciated the festivities but was eager to get back to work.
Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. [12] She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911. [11]
John Hopfield dreamed up the modern neural network while at Caltech. Geoffrey Hinton built on it, creating an AI firm that Google bought for $44 million.
Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel laureate in physics (1969) "for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions"; co-founder of Santa Fe Institute; recipient of Franklin Medal; Marvin Leonard Goldberger, former faculty and President Emeritus; David Goodstein, director of The Mechanical Universe