James A. B. Scherer (1870–1944) served as the last

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of the

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from 1908 to 1920 prior to its renaming to the California Institute of Technology in 1921. Before being asked by

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to serve as President of Throop, Scherer was a Lutheran minister, one of the founders of the

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. He is responsible for the foundations of Caltech and helped bring Arthur Noyes and

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to Caltech to complete the driving triumvirate.

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