- Athenaeum at Caltech
The
Athenaeum at Caltech is a privateuniversity club on theCalifornia Institute of Technology campus.Illustrious regulars at the Athenaeum Round Table have included
David Baltimore ,cite web |url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DE0DC1F3FF934A35750C0A9629C8B63 |title= When These Friends Get Together, the Talk Is Rarely Small |author= John M. Broder |work=The New York Times |date=March 7 2004 |quote= The Cal Tech discussions could be compared to the celebrated Round Table at the Algonquin Hotel in New York, where leading literary wits of the 1920's traded quips and well-crafted insults. But the round table at the Athenaeum is a more sober and discursive affair. The discussions are notable for their spirit of inquiry, lack of intellectual pretension and absence of verbal one-upmanship. ]Robert Christy ,Lee Alvin DuBridge ,cite web |url= http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/ldubridge.html |title= Lee Alvin Dubridge |author=Jesse L. Greenstein |work=National Academies Press Biographical Memoirs |quote= ]Richard Feynman ,William Alfred Fowler ,cite web |url= http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/gif/1996PASP..108....1C/0000002.000.html |title= William Alfred Fowler (1911-1995) |author= Donald D. Clayton |work=Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific |date= January 1996 |quote= ]
Scott Fraser,Jesse L. Greenstein ,cite web |url= http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/jgreenstein.html |title= Jesse Leonard Greenstein |author= Robert P. Kraft |work=National Academies Press Biographical Memoirs |quote= ]Charles Christian Lauritsen , andMaarten Schmidt .cite web |url= http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080616/FEAT/806160363 |title= 1942: A space odyssey - Celebrated astrophysicist traces passion to WWII sky |author= Alan Zarembo interview withMaarten Schmidt |work=The Journal Gazette |date=June 16 2008 |quote= ]The Athenaeum was designed by
Gordon Kaufmann , and is well known for its architecture. It opened in 1930, and serves as Caltech's Faculty Club. It includes a highly respected restaurant, provides a hotel with several named suites ("e.g." The Einstein Suite, whereAlbert Einstein lived while at Caltech), and is a primary social gathering place for the Caltech community. [http://athenaeum.caltech.edu/ The Athenaeum website] ]Membership includes Caltech faculty, staff, graduate students, alumni, trustees, and Associates of the California Institute of Technology, and staff of the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), thePalomar Observatory , and theHuntington Library and Art Gallery .References
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