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This is pretty funny – Caltech being knocked for being established comparitively early. Princeton, MIT, Harvard, and Chicago, at the very least, had physics and chemistry departments long before Caltech even existed. The fact that Caltech came onto the scene and beat them up is not supposed to detract from Caltech’s accomplishment. And the fact that, in terms of total Nobels (alums and faculty), Caltech still has proportionately the most of any of them (even <em>without</em> factoring in length of existence, on which it loses to all of them), means something about the Caltech of today, too.</p>