California Institute of Technology was founded in 189 1, located in Pasadena, the northeast suburb of Los Angeles, California, USA. It is a private research university and a member of the Pacific Rim University Alliance.
The school has a long-standing reputation in the global scientific and technological community. 20 12-20 16 has been rated as the world's 1 times higher education university for five consecutive years, and 20 19-20 ranks second in the world. It is the world's top in physics, chemistry, astronomy and space science, and also assists NASA in charge.
Qian Xuesen, the "father of China's space flight" and "the father of Chinese missiles", received his Ph.D. degree from California Institute of Technology in 1939, where he taught for a long time and participated in the establishment of the jet propulsion laboratory. The school is also the story background of the CBS American drama The Big Bang Theory.
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The library system of California Institute of Technology consists of five branches, subscribed to more than 2,228 paper periodicals and 2,959 electronic periodicals, and has more than 700,000 books and rich technical reports, government documents and maps.
The five branches are the Michigan Library, Sherman Library, Dabney Library, Astrophysics Library and Geological Planetary Science Library. Michigan Library and Sherman Library are the two most important libraries. The staff of the whole library system ***4 1, including professional librarians 14.
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