Athenaeum at Caltech

The Athenaeum at Caltech is a private university club on the California 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, and Maarten 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 with Maarten 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, where Albert 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), the Palomar Observatory, and the Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

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