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Caltech, a thousand students and dozens of Nobels
1920
Pasadena, California
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A small vocational school remade by George Ellery Hale into one of the most concentrated scientific institutions anywhere, around a thousand undergraduates and dozens of Nobel laureates. Richard Feynman taught here, and Charles Richter worked out his earthquake scale on the campus.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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