Athenaeum at Caltech
{{Short description|Private social club at the California Institute of Technology}}
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The Athenaeum is a faculty and private social club on the California Institute of Technology campus in Pasadena, California.[https://www.athenaeumcaltech.com/ The Athenaeum website]
Building
The Athenaeum was designed by Gordon Kaufmann in the Mediterranean Revival style, with landscape design by Florence Yoch and Lucile Council, and opened in 1930. It includes a restaurant, bar, private hotel rooms, and serves as Caltech's Faculty Club.{{cite book|last1=Bates|first1=Colleen Dunn|last2=Gillis|first2=Sandy|last3=Ganon|first3=Jill Alison|title=Hometown Pasadena: The Insider's Guide|date=2006|publisher=Prospect Park Publishing|isbn=9780975393918|pages=46–47|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mtm90kfdNeMC&pg=PA46|accessdate=6 February 2016}} The Athenaeum has several named suites, including the Einstein Suite, where Albert Einstein stayed during his visits to Caltech.
Einstein stayed in the loggia during his annual winter visits to Caltech.Beyette, Beverly [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-19-cl-42421-story.html Caltech: A World of Science Housed in Architectural Beauty.] Los Angeles Times, June 19, 2000.
Members
Membership numbers over 4000 and includes Caltech faculty, staff, graduate students, undergraduate seniors, alumni, trustees, and Associates of the California Institute of Technology, and staff of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the Palomar Observatory, and the nearby Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Notable regulars at the Athenaeum Round Table have included:
See also
References
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{{cite web |url= https://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 Caltech discussions could be compared to the celebrated Round Table at the Algonquin Hotel in New York, where leading literary wits of the 1920s 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. }}
{{cite web |url= http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/ldubridge.html |title= Lee Alvin Dubridge |author= Jesse L. Greenstein |author-link= Jesse L. Greenstein |work= National Academies Press Biographical Memoirs }}
{{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 }}
{{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 |author-link= Robert Kraft (astronomer) }}
{{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 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522123939/http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080616%2FFEAT%2F806160363 |archivedate=2011-05-22 }}
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