Named for the late Caltech professor Earnest C. Watson, who founded the series in 1922, the Watson Lectures present Caltech and JPL researchers describing their work to the public.

On Wednesday, December 9 at 5 p.m. Pacific Time, David J. Anderson, Caltech's Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology; the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience Leadership Chair ...

Last week the California Institute of Technology announced that the full text of Richard Feynman’s Lectures On Physics are now available online for free, at feynmanlectures.caltech.edu. You’ve ...

Caltech has offered the Watson Lecture Series for almost 80 years, since it was conceived by the late Caltech physicist Earnest Watson ...

Everyone knows that time moves forward, but answering the reason why remains a fundamental challenge of physics, a CalTech professor told a San Diego crowd.

Hawking -- who stayed at the university for a year in the 1970s -- is a regular visitor to Caltech, where previous lectures have attracted similar crowds.