11-683: The William G. Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). It is located 101 Dahlia Street, in the Corona del Mar district of Newport Beach, in Orange County, California. The marine laboratory was established by biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan in 1928 to replicate the facilities at the Stazione Zoologica in Naples, Italy. Caltech made
22-554: The San Joaquin Electric Company . They also founded Southern California Gas Corporation in 1910, and built a 120-mile pipeline from the San Joaquin Valley to Los Angeles. In 1906, with Burton E. Green (1868-1965), Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913), Max Whittier (1867–1928), Frank H. Buck (1887-1942), Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927), William F. Herrin (1854-1927), W.S. Porter and Frank H. Balch, known as
33-728: The University of Giessen School of Medicine and part of the William G. Kerckhoff Foundation), both in Bad Nauheim , Germany . The William G. Kerckhoff Laboratories of the Biological Sciences at Caltech were built in 1928 to house the Institute's new biology division. Kerckhoff Hall , designed by Allison & Allison , is home to various student media, clubs, and organizations on the UCLA campus. It
44-614: The Amalgamated Oil Company, he purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from the heirs of Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker . After drilling for oil and only finding water, they reorganized their business into the Rodeo Land and Water Company to develop a new residential town later known as Beverly Hills, California . As president of the South Coast Land Company, he also helped found the city of Del Mar, California . and
55-846: The Jackson Lumber Company. In 1887, along with James Cuzner of the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Lumber Company, he built the Pasadena . It was the first ocean-going vessel to use oil for fuel. In the 1890s, he founded the San Gabriel Power Company, a hydroelectric power company in Los Angeles . By the turn of the century, together with A.C. Balch, he owned half the stock of Henry E. Huntington's Pacific Light & Power Company used to provide electricity to Pacific Electric , and he served as its president. In 1902, they purchased
66-605: The Kerckhoff Marine Lab is Prof. Victoria J. Orphan , who maintains an active research program there. 33°35′50″N 117°52′45″W / 33.59725°N 117.87918°W / 33.59725; -117.87918 William G. Kerckhoff William George Kerckhoff (1856–1929) was an American businessman. Kerckhoff was born on March 30, 1856, in Terre Haute, Indiana . Kerckhoff moved to Los Angeles County, California , from Indiana in 1878-1879 and worked for
77-472: The center of USC's Annenberg Research Park. Kerckhoff died in Los Angeles on February 22, 1929. The Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory in Corona del Mar, Newport Beach is named in his honor, as are the "Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research - W.G. Kerckhoff Institute" and the "Kerckhoff-Klinik" (a hospital for cardiology, cardiac surgery, pulmology, thoracic surgery, and rheumatology, affiliated with
88-675: The decision to purchase the facility in 1929. It is one of the oldest marine laboratories on the West Coast of the United States . From 1962 until his death in 2002, Dr. Wheeler J. North conducted numerous studies on the ecology of the California kelp forests while based at this laboratory. During the 1990s and 2000s investigators included members of the Eric Davidson lab working on various marine biology related projects. The current Director of
99-434: The facilities at the Stazione Zoologica in Naples, Italy. Caltech made the decision to purchase the facility in 1929. It is one of the oldest marine laboratories on the West Coast of the United States . From 1962 until his death in 2002, Dr. Wheeler J. North conducted numerous studies on the ecology of the California kelp forests while based at this laboratory. During the 1990s and 2000s investigators included members of
110-478: The small town of Biola, California . Kerckhoff married Louisa Eshman of Terre Haute in 1883. They lived in a grand mansion at 734 West Adams Boulevard designed by the architects Sumner Hunt (1865-1938), Abraham Wesley Eager (1864-1930) and Silas Reese Burns (1855-1940). Originally donated to the University of Southern California for use as the Louise E. Kerckhoff Medical Sciences Laboratory, it now stands at
121-464: Was the result of a US$ 815,000 ($ 100,000 for furnishing) donation from his widow Louisa. Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory The William G. Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). It is located 101 Dahlia Street, in the Corona del Mar district of Newport Beach, in Orange County, California. The marine laboratory was established by biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan in 1928 to replicate
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