Talk:California Institute of Technology/@comment-3125805-20131111215440/@comment-99.126.78.187-20131207013453

No, Caltech is a private university which assumed its present prominence in the 1920's as a premier American school of science under the stewardship of Dr. Robert Milliken, who was the first Director of the Bridges Physics Laboratory as well as Caltech's first of several Nobel laureates. Although officially a private institution, it does receive extensive federal grants and runs the famous Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is the science headquarters for most of NASA's unmanned space probes. It is most definitely not a part of the University of California system.