CALTECH STUDENT HISTORY NOTES

STUDENTS WHO BECAME FACULTY

Faculty members who had previously been members of Throop:

Name Degrees Faculty Affiliation
John R. Pierce BS '33, MS '34, PhD '36     Electrical Engineering
Charles H. Wilts BS '40, MS '41, PhD '48 Electrical Engineering
David S. Wood BS '41, MS '46, PhD '49 Material Science
Robert B. Leighton     BS '41, MS '44, PhD '47 Physics
Hardy C. Martel BS '49, PhD '56 Electrical Engineering
W. Barclay Kamb BS '52, PhD '56 Geology and Geophysics
Fred C. Anson BS '54 Chemistry
Wilfred D. Iwan BS '57, MS '58, PhD '61 Applied Mechanics
 

Faculty members who had previously been members of Blacker:

Name Degrees Faculty Affiliation
Floyd B. Humphrey BS '50, PhD '56 Electrical Engineering
Carver A. Mead BS '56, MS '57, PhD '60     Engineering and Applied Science
Leroy E. Hood BS '60, PhD '68 Biology
Kip S. Thorne BS '62 Theoretical Physics
Michael G. Aschbacher     BS '66 Mathematics
Richard M. Murray BS '85 Mechanical Engineering
 

Faculty members who had previously been members of Dabney:

Name Degrees Faculty Affiliation
William H. Pickering     BS '32, MS '33, PhD '36     Electrical Engineering
Robert P. Sharp BS '34, MS '35 Geology
Rolf H. Sabersky BS '42, MS '43, PhD '49     Mechanical Engineering
Wheeler J. North BS '44 Environmental Science
Allan J. Acosta BS '45, MS '49, PhD '52     Mechanical Engineering
Eugene M. Shoemaker     BS '47, MS '48 Geology
Roy W. Gould BS '49 Applied Physics
Hugh P. Taylor BS '54, PhD '59 Geology
Charles J. Brokaw BS '55 Biology
Howard Berg BS '56 Biology
 

Faculty members who had previously been members of Fleming:

Name Degrees Faculty Affiliation
Frank C. Porter         BS '72         Physics
 

Faculty members who had previously been members of Ricketts:

Name Degrees Faculty Affiliation
Anthony Leonard    BS '59    Aeronautics
Robert J. McEliece     BS '64, PhD '67     Electrical Engineering
B. Thomas Soifer BS '68 Physics
 

Faculty members who had previously been members of Ruddock:

Name Degrees Faculty Affiliation
Kim C. Border    BS '74    Economics
Kerry J. Vahala BS '80, MS '81, PhD '85     Applied Physics
Jonas Zmuidzinas     BS '81 Physics
 

Faculty members who had previously been members of Lloyd:

Name Degrees Faculty Affiliation
Steven E. Koonin    BS '72    Theoretical Physics
Joseph L. Kirschvink     BS '75, MS '75     Geobiology
Nathan S. Lewis BS '77, MS '77 Chemistry
Julia A. Kornfield BS '83, MS '84     Chemical Engineering
 

Faculty members who had previously been members of Page:

Name Degrees Faculty Affiliation
Roger G. Noll BS '62 Economics
Gary A. Lorden BS '62 Mathematics
Jesse L. Beauchamp BS '64 Chemistry
David C. van Essen BS '67 Biology
Stanley E. Whitcomb        BS '73    Physics
Paul E. Dimotakis BS '68, MS '69, PhD '73     Aeronautics and Applied Physics
Ken Libbrecht BS '80 Astrophysics
E. Sterl Phinney BS '80 Theoretical Astrophysics
 

Faculty members who were undergraduates but whose house affiliation is unknown:

Name Degrees Faculty Affiliation
Jesse W.M. DuMondBS '16, PhD '29 Physics
Arthur L. KleinBS '21, MS '24, PhD '25     Aeronautics
Richard McL. Badger     BS '21, PhD '24 Chemistry
Carl D. AndersonBS '27, PhD '30 Physics
John H. Maxson BS '27, MS '28, PhD '31 Geology
Ernest E. Sechler BS '28, MS '29, PhD '33 Airplane Structures
Albert E. Lombard BS '28, MS '29, PhD '39 Aeronautics and Mech. Eng.
Donald S. Clark BS '29, MS '30, PhD '34 Mechanical Eng.
Gilbert McCann BS '34, MS '35, PhD '39 Applied Science
Vito A. Vanoni BS '26, MS '32, PhD '40 Hydraulics
Francis H. Clauser    BS '34, MS '35, PhD '37    Engineering
Robert P. Dilworth BS '36, PhD '39 Mathematics
Donald E. Hudson BS '38, MS '39, PhD '42 Mechanical Eng. and Appl. Mechanics
Richard A. Dean BS '45 Mathematics
Thad Vreeland BS '49, MS '50, PhD '52 Material Science
Wolfgang G. Knauss BS '58, MS '59, PhD '63 Prof. of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics
 

Other faculty members who obtained graduate degrees at Caltech:

Name Degrees Faculty Affiliation
Roscoe G. Dickinson     PhD '20 Physical Chemistry
Ernest H. Swift MS '20, PhD '24     Analytical Chemistry
Linus Pauling PhD '25 Chemistry
Ira S. Bowen PhD '26 Physics
Don M. Yost PhD '26 Inorganic Chemistry
A. Perry Banta MS '28 Sanitary Engineering
Arnold O. Beckman PhD '28 former Assoc. Chemistry
Clark B. Millikan PhD '28 Aeronautics
Frederick C. Lindvall PhD '28 Electrical and Mechanical Eng.
Charles E. Richter PhD '28 Seismology
Morgan Ward PhD '28 Mathematics
Robert T. Knapp PhD '29 Hydraulic Engineering
Charles C. LauritsenPhD '29 Physics
Albert Tyler PhD '29 Embryology
James H. Sturdivant PhD '30 Chemistry
Francis W. Maxstadt MS '25, PhD '31 Electrical Engineering
James F. Bonner PhD '34 Biology
Irving P. Krick MS '33,PhD '34 Meteorology
Bruce H. Sage MS '31,PhD '34 Chemical Engineering
Hugo Benioff PhD '35 Seismology
William A. Fowler PhD '36 Physics
J. Harold Wayland MS '35, PhD '37 Engineering Science
William R. Sears PhD '38 Aeronautics
Homer J. Stewart PhD '40 Aeronautics
Leverett Davis MS '38, PhD '41 Theoretical Physics
Edward B. Lewis PhD '42 Biology
Eugene W. Cowan PhD '48 Physics
Donald E. Coles MS '48, PhD '48 Aeronautics
Frank E. Marble AE '47, PhD '48 Mechanical Eng. and Jet Propulsion
Anatol Roshko MS '47, PhD '52     Aeronautics
Theodore Y.-T. Wu PhD '52 Engineering Science
Clarence R. Allen MS '51, PhD '54 Geology and Geophysics
Norman H. Brooks PhD '54 Environmental and Civil Engineering
James O. McCaldin PhD '54 Applied Physics and Electrical Eng.
Thomas K. Caughey PhD '54 Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Eng.
Edward E. Zukoski MS '51, PhD '54 Jet Propulsion and Mechanical Eng.
Leon T. Silver PhD '55 Resource Geology
Frederik Zachariasen PhD '56 Theoretical Physics
Toshi Kubota MS '52, PhD '57 Aeronautics
Thomas J. Ahrens MS '58 Geophysics
Bradford Sturtevant MS '56, PhD '60 Aeronautics
Don L. Anderson MS '59, PhD '62 Geophysics
Charles W. Peck PhD '64 Physics
George Zweig PhD '64 Theoretical Physics
William A. Goddard PhD '65 Chemistry and Applied Physics
E. John List PhD '65 Environmental Engineering Science
James H. Strauss PhD '67 Biology
Thomas C. McGill MS '65, PhD '69 Applied Physics
George R. Rossman PhD '71 Mineralogy
Judith G. Cohen MS '69, PhD '71 Astronomy
Slobodan M. Cuk PhD '77 Electrical Engineering
Barbara J. Wold PhD '78 Biology
Glen P. Cass PhD '78 Environmental and Mechanical Eng.
James L. Beck PhD '79 Civil Engineering
Matthew L. Spitzer PhD '79 Law and Social Science
Joseph E. Shepherd PhD '80 Aeronautics
Thomas R. Palfrey PhD '81 Economics and Political Science
Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa PhD '83 Electrical Eng. and Computer Science
Morteza Gharib PhD '83 Aeronautics
Geoffrey A. Blake PhD '86 Cosmochemistry
Stephen L. Mayo PhD '87 Biology
James K. McCarthy PhD '88 Astronomy

Last updated 4/10/04.
Christopher E. Brennen