in building the LIGO observatory and making the discovery, Caltech physicists Kip Thorne and Barry Barish, together with MIT physicist Rainer Weiss, were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. Thorne, who is a Caltech graduate, provided the theoretical foundation that guided LIGO's design.
In 2019, Caltech received a gift of $750 million for sustainability research from the Resnick family of The Wonderful Company. The gift is the largest ever for environmental sustainability research and the second-largest private donation to a US academic institution (after Bloomberg's gift of $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins University in 2018).
In January 2021, the Caltech Board of Trustees authorized the removal the names of six historical figures—including inaugural president Robert Millikan, Harry Chandler, Albert Ruddock—from campus buildings due to their affiliations with the Human Betterment Foundation, an American eugenics organization. As a result, Millikan Library was renamed Caltech Hall, Chandler Dining Hall became …
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