California Institute of Technology

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The California Institute of Technology is an independent, privately supported research university in Pasadena, California, founded as Throop University in 1891 and renamed Caltech in 1920; the site's At a Glance page states it has around 1,000 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students and 49 Nobel Prizes. It is best known for founding the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1930s and managing it for NASA since 1958, and for owning and operating the Seismological Laboratory, the Palomar and W. M. Keck observatories, and co-founding LIGO. It is an academic and research institution rather than a ga…