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Athenaeum at Caltech

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The Athenaeum is a faculty club and private social club on the California Institute of Technology campus in Pasadena, California.

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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, a private hotel with several named suites (e.g. The Einstein Suite, where Albert Einstein lived while at Caltech), and serves as Caltech's Faculty Club.

Members

Membership 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 Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Notable regulars at the Athenaeum Round Table have included:

  • David Baltimore
  • Robert Christy
  • Lee Alvin DuBridge
  • Richard Feynman
  • William Alfred Fowler
  • Scott Fraser
  • Jesse L. Greenstein
  • Charles Christian Lauritsen
  • Maarten Schmidt
  • References

    Athenaeum at Caltech Wikipedia