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"It may be a question of being in the right place at the right time, " says Roger Blandford, a theoretical astrophysicist at Caltech.

The first piece, built at Caltech, is a reactor "just a bit smaller than a gallon-jug, " Haile said.

That was when Caltech astronomer Mike Brown found a tiny, frigid world orbiting some three times further out than Pluto.

One of the first to notice this and consider its implications was a Caltech professor named Carver Mead.

The scientist who discovered Eris, Caltech astronomer Mike Brown, thinks Pluto's demotion was the right move.

He published his first scientific paper at the age of 15, and had received his PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech by the age of 20.

She got a team of aeronautic engineers from Caltech to help her test the theory.

Then , when I graduated from Caltech , the IBM PC came out, and I got addicted to the IBM PC in 1981 .

As a result of this, he was made the first director of the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Centre at Caltech in 1949.

Michael Dickinson, who studies fly flight in his lab at Caltech, says the housefly isn't actually the best flier.

in theoretical physics from Caltech in 1979 when he was 20 and has focused most of his career on probing complex systems.

Forty years ago, Caltech professor Carver Mead identified the corollary to Moore's law of ever-increasing computing power.

Mr. Qian denied the charges, his Caltech colleagues came to his defense, and the university hired a lawyer to assist him.

LIGO -- pictured below -- is a joint project between scientists at MIT, Caltech, and many other colleges and universities.

Scientists at Caltech have been folding microscopic strands of DNA into interesting shapes for the past few years.

The Caltech RNA device operates much like a normal computer, in theory.

of Caltech and their collaborators combined galaxy spectra taken in both visible and infrared light.

In June 1986, Leroy Hood, then at Caltech, published his prototype design for an automated DNA sequencer.

He published his first physics paper at 15, earned his Ph. D. from Caltech at 20 and two years later won a MacArthur prize.

He told me about researchers at Caltech who scanned the brains of people on diets while offering them junk food.

That's no small praise given its competition: MIT, Caltech and Stanford in the United States, Tsinghua in China and Cambridge in Britain.

So, we're using one kite in 15 mile per hour winds to lift up a three and half ton block, " said Caltech student Emilio Castano. "

And my first year at Caltech, I continued the business.

Reporter: Caltech, That in the last 36 hours we have basically zero Earthquake activity in southern California, which is very rare.

"It really boosts my confidence in the model, " said astronomer Andrew Benson of Caltech, a co-researcher in the study.

First, the coursework at Caltech.

Caltech gave Mr. Qian its distinguished alumni award in 2001.

But then, in the second year of Caltech, they started grading.

A bunch of Caltech undergrads, that's who.

Naturally, they blew up a shack, and Caltech, well, then, hey, you go to the Arroyo and really do all your tests in there.

"It seems kind of nutty to send up something new when there's something already there that can do the job, " says Barry Barish of Caltech.

This is the education I received at Caltech, which impressed me the most.

In fact, I have a postdoc at Caltech who's very interested in the possibility of universes bumping into each other.

And so I applied to Caltech and they turned me down.

Qian Xuesen came to the United States to study aeronautical engineering at MIT and Caltech.

"Brown Bag" preprints of the Basic and Applied Physics Group at Caltech

CALTECH and orientation of world class university

How will the detectors know if a ripple of gravity passes through the Earth? Per Caltech's official LIGO Website: