page_title: Case Western Reserve University
section_title: Campus
hierarchical_section_title: Case Western Reserve University / Campus
caption_attribution_description: John D. Rockefeller Case Western Reserve Physics Building 1905 Cleveland University Circle Case School of Applied Science Albert Einstein architect William R. Watterson. The names of scientists which appear around the exterior near the top are: west face: Rowland, Fresnel, Chladni, Galileo, Archimedes, Newton, Huyghens, Carnot, Helmholtz, Maxwell; north face: Henry, Koenig, Kepler, Kelvin, Arago, Fraunhofer, Joule; east face: Ohm, Fizeau, Oersted, Young, Stokes, Regnault, Verdet, Gilbert, Pascal, Ampere, Wheatstone; south face (covered by the 1959 addition): Boyle, Faraday, Foucault, Franklin, Volta, Mersenne, Hertz.
context_page_description: Case Western Reserve University is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. It was created in 1967 through the federation of two longstanding contiguous institutions: Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location in the Connecticut Western Reserve, and Case Institute of Technology, founded in 1880 through the endowment of Leonard Case, Jr. Time magazine described the merger as the creation of "Cleveland's Big-Leaguer" university.
  The campus is approximately 5 miles east of Downtown Cleveland in the neighborhood known as University Circle, an area encompassing 550 acres containing a concentration of educational, medical, and cultural institutions. Case Western Reserve has a number of programs taught in conjunction with University Circle institutions, including the Cleveland Clinic, the University Hospitals of Cleveland, the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland Institute of Music, the Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and the Cleveland Play House.
context_section_description: The university is approximately 5 miles (8 km) east of downtown Cleveland, adjacent to the historic Wade Park District in University Circle, a park-like city neighborhood and commercial center, home to many educational, medical, and other cultural institutions. Case Western Reserve has a number of programs taught in conjunction with nearby institutions, including the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland Botanical Garden, and the Cleveland Play House.
caption: John D. Rockefeller Physics Building. Framed notes are displayed of Albert Einstein's May 1921 visit to campus meeting with Prof. Dayton C. Miller.[29]
exif: {}