【摘要】 出身低微的加州理工学院早期崛起过程，得益于海尔、密立根与诺伊斯三人的独特办学理念与思路，它促成了该校由早期低水平的技术培训学校到工程教育场所，再到科学研究重镇的转型。其成功的诀窍在于独特的卓越人才集聚模式，即延揽当时最顶尖的科学家，提供相对优厚的工作与生活条件，并由其面向全球物色人选和发掘青年英才。始终追求卓越，要么不做，做就做到极致，追求“点”的突破和“点”与“点”的交叉，让本来名不见经传的加州理工学院在不到三十年的时间里实现了凤凰涅槃般的重生。这种不求大而全的发展思路，或许很值得正处于开创期的中国新型研究型大学去体悟与借鉴。更多还原

【Abstract】 The early rise of the California Institute of Technology(Caltech), which started from humble beginnings, was attributed to the unique educational ideas and philosophies of Hale, Millikan, and Noyes. Their vision and idea facilitated the institution’s transformation from a low-level technical training school to an engineering education hub and eventually into a center for basic scientific research. The key to its success lied in its distinctive model of gathering exceptional talents, which involved recruiting the most outstanding scientists of that time, providing relatively favorable working and living conditions, and empowering them to scout and nurture young talents globally. With an unwavering pursuit of excellence—either not doing something or doing it to the extreme—Caltech focused on achieving breakthroughs in specific areas and fostering interdisciplinary collaborations between these areas. This approach enabled the once-unknown institution to achieve a complete rebirth in less than three decades. Such a development strategy, which prioritizes depth over breadth, may offer valuable insights and lessons for China’s emerging new research universities in their foundational stages.更多还原