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California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
1200 E. California Blvd.
MC B215-74
Pasadena, California 91125
Phone: (626) 395-2704
Email: archives@caltech.edu
Collections with online items: 10
Physical collections: 130
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Air Talk: The Caltech Edition audiovideo collection

AirTalk is the longest-running daily talk show in Southern California, aired for the first time on April, 1985. Starting in 1988, the talk show hosted by Larry Mantle, was devoted to Caltech and JPL on the third Wednesday of every...

 
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The Caltech Image Archive

The Caltech Image Archive is a digital collection of more than 10,000 images from the Caltech Archives. It includes historical and contemporary photographs of people and locations, images of historical artifacts from Caltech's laboratories, and reproductions of fine art and...

 
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The Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series, 1971

The Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series brings to the public the most innovative scientific research taking place at Caltech. Spotlighting a small selection of the pioneering research the Caltech faculty is conducting, these lectures are geared toward a general audience,...

 
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Glaser (Donald A.) Papers

Donald Arthur Glaser (1926–2013) earned his PhD in Physics and Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1950 and won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the bubble chamber. He then changed his research focus...

 
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Hale (George E.) Papers

George Ellery Hale (1868–1938) was an influential astrophysicist and science administrator. This collection of Hale's scientific, professional, and personal papers documents his roles in inventing the spectrohelioscope; promoting international cooperation among scientists; and founding major observatories, as well as the...

 
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MacCready (Paul B.) Papers

Arriving on December 30th 2003, the collection documents most aspects of MacCready's career and many features of his individual character. Constituted within the papers is a diverse array of documents, media, objects, manuscripts and printed material; awards; videos and film;...

Millikan (Robert Andrews) Papers

The core of the Robert A. Millikan Collection at the California Institute of Technology consists of the official papers generated by Millikan during the twenty-five years that he was the executive officer at the Institute. The bulk of the papers...

 
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North (Wheeler J.) Papers

The North papers consist of correspondence, research notes and notebooks, photographs, two films, and various publications, including the Kelp Habitat Improvement Project (KHIP) final reports. The collection documents North's work at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, his work as Professor...

 
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Palomar Observatory motion pictures collection

A collection of films showing the construction and operation of the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory, Palomar Mountain, California. This instrument was the world's largest effective telescope for 45 years (1948-1993). The collection includes footage of the transportation, grinding...

 
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Wasserburg (Gerald J.) papers

The scientific and personal correspondence, organizational and government files, NASA files including Apollo missions and lunar sample analysis, notebooks, biographical materials and audiovisual materials of Gerald J. Wasserburg (b. 1927) form the collection known as the Gerald J. Wasserburg Papers...