Talk:List of California Institute of Technology people

Organization
List would be better organised like the List of Columbia University people.--nixie 22:46, 8 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I've sorted the alumni by area of most notable work and the faculty by academic division. -- Eb.hoop 02:04, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

What're the criteria for notable? Don't get me wrong, I'm a Caltech alum, and want to do my school proud, but there are something like 25,000 alumni and thousands of faculty. They can't all be listed. It seems to make the most sense to list why they're on this page, in addition to just their names. Ryan McDaniel 02:27, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Use the category too
Don't forget to add these people to the Category:California Institute of Technology alumni category, where appropriate. -- Bovineone 00:03, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Some unlisted alumni
I found a few more unlisted alumni here: http://www.arikaplan.com/alumni.html. However, we should verify them and find other sources before listing. --mikexstudios 15:19, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Peter Brooks
There was recent addition of "Peter Brooks - MicroMind, created the SlipKnot web browser." under the CS section. However, doing a quick google search, I could not find any good links from Peter Brooks to Caltech. I believe current Peter Brooks link is wrong (Professor of Literature?). Can anyone dig up any information? --mikexstudios 02:49, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Peter Brooks of MicroMind, Inc. is a graduate of Caltech (BSc. Math, 1973). See here: http://www.micromind.com/pbrooks.htm. Pbrooks (talk) 04:47, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Tim Ryan
I found mention of Tim Ryan, founder of M-Audio, being a Caltech alum. See: and. However, I can't find any mention of when he graduated. Can anyone dig up that data? Thanks.

--mikexstudios (talk) 07:27, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Berni Alder
Computational pioneer Berni Alder, considered the founder of molecular dynamics, received the National Medal of Science today. According to this article, he was working on his PhD at Caltech. No article of him exists on wikipedia. In addition, I cannot determine what year he received his degree. If anyone can dig up more information, that would be great! --mikexstudios (talk) 18:24, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Tsutomu Shimomura
Tsutomu was actually a Physics major. While it's true that he's best known for catching Kevin Mitnick, I'm pretty sure Tsutomu never actually enrolled in any Computer Science classes at Tech, with the only Math classes being those required of all undergraduates.

He and I were good friends there, having met at Frosh Camp in September 1982. We often studied together, but Tsutomu got poor grades as he hated doing homework! He far preferred writing theoretical physics papers, largely in collaboration with Richard Feynman. He was on the verge of failing out of school when he decided to withdraw, then took a job at Los Alamos National Laboratory. 24.22.67.39 (talk) 18:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC) MichaelCrawford (User talk:MichaelCrawford)

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