James Augustin Brown Scherer
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James A. B. Scherer served as the last President
of the Throop Polytechnic Institute until its renaming to the California Institute of Technology
(from 1908 to 1921). Before being asked by George Ellery Hale
to serve as President of Throop, Scherer was a Lutheran minister. He is responsible for the foundations of Caltech and helped bring Arthur Noyes and Robert Millikan
to Caltech to complete the driving triumvirate.
President
A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...
of the Throop Polytechnic Institute until its renaming to the California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
(from 1908 to 1921). Before being asked by George Ellery Hale
George Ellery Hale
George Ellery Hale was an American solar astronomer.-Biography:Hale was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was educated at MIT, at the Observatory of Harvard College, , and at Berlin . As an undergraduate at MIT, he is known for inventing the spectroheliograph, with which he made his discovery of...
to serve as President of Throop, Scherer was a Lutheran minister. He is responsible for the foundations of Caltech and helped bring Arthur Noyes and Robert Millikan
Robert Millikan
Robert A. Millikan was an American experimental physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect. He served as president of Caltech from 1921 to 1945...
to Caltech to complete the driving triumvirate.
Further Reading
- Obituary in C.I.T. News
- Judith Goodstein "Millikan's School" (1991)