The Archives houses photographs, documents, and artifacts pertaining to the history of Caltech and the scientific community as a whole. Since 1978 it has compiled more than 150 interviews regarding Caltech and the professors and scientists associated with the university.
Founded in 1976, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation awards grants to support the humanities, performing arts, the study of Venetian history, and the preservation of scholarly sources by research libraries.
The grant to Caltech is intended to aid the preservation of interviews of Caltech scientists and professors. Past recipients of grants from the Foundation's research library program include the Smithsonian Institute and Johns Hopkins University.
Founded in 1891, Caltech is located on a 124-acre campus in Pasadena. The Institute also manages the nearby Jet Propulsion Laboratory and operates eight other off-campus astronomical, seismological, and marine biology facilities. Caltech has an enrollment of some 2,000 students, more than half of whom are in graduate studies, and a faculty of about 290 professorial members and 54 research members, and some 550 postdoctoral scholars. Caltech employs a staff of more than 2,400 on campus and 4,800 at JPL.
Over the years, 29 Nobel Prizes and four Crafoord Prizes have been awarded to faculty members and alumni. Forty-seven Caltech faculty members and alumni have received the National Medal of Science; and eight alumni (two of whom are also trustees), two additional trustees, and one faculty member have won the National Medal of Technology. Since 1958, 13 faculty members have received the annual California Scientist of the Year award. On the Caltech faculty there are 80 fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and on the faculty and Board of Trustees, 70 members of the National Academy of Sciences and 45 members of the National Academy of Engineering.
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