<p>Recently: the founder of Intel (Gordon Moore), the founder of Compaq, the inventor of Mathmatica, are three people that come to mind who are certainly very “important” in industry.</p>
<p>As you know, Caltech is a giant in science. We have, overall, a dozen physics Nobel Laureates… and Linus Pauling – the only person ever to win two Nobel Prizes. The ratio of Nobel prize winners to total alumni is the highest at Caltech of any university in the world.</p>
<p>Obviously we’re not as much into politics as Harvard and Yale, but we did have as an alumnus John M. Poindexter, National Security Advisor to Ronald Reagan (the Condi of the Reagan years). Amusingly, the former Prime Minister of Iceland (Steingr</p>