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Editor Barton's task was to reduce the scientists' mysterious, often mystical communications to human equations. Fortunately, Caltech is no mere high-I.Q. trade school. It has a student body capable of perpetrating the most ingenious and energetic pranks since Frank Merriwell pitched his upshoot for Yale. And its facultymen, including Nobel laureates, cut capers and figure eights at the Pasadena ice-skating rink, whiz about the campus in sports cars at velocities somewhat under the speed of sound, raise goldfish, beat out lowdown boogie on a piano or saw a 'cello in a community string...
...Sheraton Hotel. One of the men was a U.S. Senator who had come to town to see the jet-propulsion laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. But the Senator seemed to have only the foggiest notion of who the other man was. "What department are you in at Caltech?" asked the Senator. Replied his companion: "Physics...
...modest, stocky Lee Alvin DuBridge, it was a typical answer. He would be the last man in the world to volunteer the information that he is actually president of Caltech, that he heads one of the nation's most powerful advisory boards, and that he was wartime director of the fabulous Radiation Laboratory at M.I.T. He looks like a pleasant, slightly rumpled Mr. Anybody-a man who starts the day with a bowl of shredded wheat and is willing to drop the dry cleaning off on his way to work. Yet, both in his own right and as head...
...Archimedes. The kind of science that DuBridge and Caltech stand for is as old as Archimedes, but for the U.S., it has come into its own only within the last generation. It was not until 1907 that an American scientist (Physicist Albert A. Michelson) won the Nobel Prize. It was not until 16 years later that DuBridge's great predecessor, Robert A. Millikan, became the second American to win one in physics. Since then, U.S. science has accumulated...
Sewing Machines & Flying Trips. Today, after eight years as president of prosperous (endowment $30 million) Caltech, Lee DuBridge is still a man who will happily spend an afternoon fixing an ailing sewing machine, and then fly off to Washington for a top-secret meeting of the Science Advisory Committee. He runs his campus much as he did the radiation lab, and nowhere is the open-door policy more faithfully followed. Though his days are filled to capacity, he seems always to have time for the unannounced visitor, the troubled student, or for a session of weighty talk punctuated by friendly...