California Institute of Technology Cal Tech - Big T Yearbook (Pasadena, CA)

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GIN S The elecTrical engineering deparTrnenT is headed by ProTessor Royal W. Sorensen, PresidenT OT The American InsTiTuTe oT ElecTrical Engineers. The deparTmenT has been parTicularly acTive in iTs recenT invesTigaTion oT The proTecTive angles oT ground wires. Always acTive in public service work, The civil engineering deparTrnenT, under The direcTion oT ProTessor Franklin Thomas, has conTinued iTs Tine work wiTh solurions To pressing civic problems in The lines oT soil mechanics, earThgualce prevenTion, and sewage disposal, while The recenr emergencies have broughT The deparTrnenT even more Torward in naTional defense problems. ln hydraulics and mechanical engineering ProTessor RoberT L. DaugherTy has been parTicularly acTive wiTh indusTrial problems, having recenTly designed The venTilaTion Tor The six-mile lvloTTaTT Tunnel Through The TransconTinenTal divide. i OuTsTanding in iTs conTribuTions To indusTry, The aeronauTics deparTmenT under ProTessor Theodore von Karman has been broughT prominenTly inTo The Toreground oT naTional aeronauTical developmenT wiTh counTless conTribuTions To boTh governmenT and indusTry and is widely recognized as The mosT producTive aeronauTical laboraTory in The world. Franklin Thomas, Civil Engineering. Theodore von Karman, AeronauTics. Royal W. Sorensen, ElecTrical Engineering.

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The physics deparlmenl has been parlicularly oulslanding in l'he field ol science, having Nobel prize winners, Carl Anderson and Roberl A. Millilcan, among ils members. lls loremosl de- velopmenls have been in lhe fields ol alomic and nuclear physics, while lhe recenl nalional emergency has called many of ils oulslanding men lo Wash- inglon where lhey may conlinue lheir innumerable conlribulions. Chemislry, under Linus Pauling, has made greal advances in slruclural and biological chemislry and has been quile aclive in recenl nalional defense work. Roberl A. Millilcan, Chairman, Execulive Council Thomas l-lunl Morgan, Biology Linus Pauling, Chemislry J. P. Buwalda. Geology E. T. Bell, lvlalhemalics , -f-.cl V. ..- Biology, led by Thomas l-lunl Morgan, and always oulslanding in genelics, has recenlly, under l-lenry Borsoolc, made advances in lhe lield of vilamins which are of ulmosl nalional imporlance. Dr. E. T. Bell, direcling malhemalics, has led increasing acliv- ily inlo new realms ol a field basic 'ro all science. Geology, under John P. Buwalda, has recenlly played a maior parl in a governmenl slralegic minerals program impera- live lo nalional defense. iv ii .Q rs' 1 It as 1173 I-if X N . i l f ' l RTN Kc: or P ll u 1:9 QQ

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HUMANISTS l-lumanifies courses af fhe lnsfifufe, headed by Professor Clinfon K. Judy, cover many fields. Liferafure is exfensively represenfed in all of ifs phases from Biblical fo confemporary works. Philosophy is also repre- senfed, being capably faughf by Professor Theodore Soares. Dr. John R. lvlacarfhur heads fhe language deparfmenf, which concen- frafes largely on fechnical German and French, alfhough occasionally offering Greelc and lfalian. l-lisfory is under fhe direcfion of Dr. William B. Munro and forms an infegral parf of Calfech's educafional program. The economics deparf- menf is headed by Professor Graham Laing and offers several courses in fhaf field including a comprehensive course in business economics. Newesf addifion fo Calfech's increasing branches of educafion is fhe indusfrial relafions deparfmenf under fhe supervision of Professor Roberf D. Gray. Sponsored by fhirfy-fhree indusfrial organizafions who have pledged 520,000 a year backing for five years, fhe deparfmenf has a library of ifs own, invesfigafes numerous indusfrial problems, holds fre- quenf dinner discussion conferences, offers fwo courses for regular ln- sfifufe sfudenfs, and sponsors some fen engineering defense fraining courses in which if cooperafes closely wifh indusfry, drawing eleven in- sfrucfors from various parfs of fhe indusfrial world. gl Clinfon K. Judy, English ' 1? William B. Munro, Hisfory and Governmenf John R. Macarfhur, Foreign Languages N