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Another Caltech alumnus
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 5:51 pm
by Bob78164
Michael Rosbash, Caltech '65, was one of today's winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology. I'm not sure how many of our almuni are Nobel Laureates, but given the size of our student body (about 800 undergraduates) I'm pretty sure it's a lot. --Bob
Re: Another Caltech alumnus
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2017 7:01 am
by jarnon
Add to the list: Barry Barish and your friend Kip Thorne.
Re: Another Caltech alumnus
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2017 7:22 am
by Bob78164
jarnon wrote:Add to the list: Barry Barish and your friend Kip Thorne.
Barry Barish is faculty. Kip Thorne is both an alumnus and former faculty. He was already revered on campus when I was there.
This one truly delights me. I remember a ceremony early in my time at Tech (I think it may have been Murph Goldberger's inauguration as President of Caltech) when the instrument that became LIGO was first described. I thought at the time it was immensely cool. I think this Prize has been widely anticipated ever since LIGO detected gravity waves.
Very proud of my school this week. --Bob