James Augustin Brown Scherer

James A. B. Scherer (1870–1944) 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, one of the founders of the Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church.^[1] He is responsible for the foundations of Caltech and helped bring Arthur Noyes and Robert Millikan to Caltech to complete the driving triumvirate.

References

↑ "SCHERER, James Augustin Brown". The International Who's Who in the World. 1912. p. 934.

Presidents of the California Institute of Technology

James Augustin Brown Scherer (1908–1921) Robert Andrews Millikan (1921–1946) Lee Alvin DuBridge (1946–1969) Harold Brown (1969–1977) Robert F. Christy (1977–1978) Marvin Leonard Goldberger (1978–1987) Thomas Eugene Everhart (1987–1997) David Baltimore (1997–2006) Jean-Lou Chameau (2006–2013) Thomas Felix Rosenbaum (2014– )

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