James Augustin Brown Scherer
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1870 – 1944
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Who was James Augustin Brown Scherer?
James A. B. Scherer served as the last President of the Throop Polytechnic Institute until its renaming to the California Institute of Technology. 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. He is responsible for the foundations of Caltech and helped bring Arthur Noyes and Robert Millikan to Caltech to complete the driving triumvirate.
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