But he was responsible, when a student at the California Institute of Technology, for a significant breakthrough in the technology of analysing proteins.
This follows the discovery last year by Maciej Konacki, of the California Institute of Technology, of a gaseous giant orbiting a star that is itself orbited by a binary-star system.
Last August, Griffith, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, released a simple piece of software code that tore the lid of secrecy off the anonymous community of volunteers who edit the nonprofit encyclopedia.
Nearly three decades later in 2007, while visiting as a professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Yazami and Robert Grubbs, also a chemistry professor at the Caltech and the recipient of the 2005 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, were rumored to have made a major breakthrough in carbon-fluoride technology that would revolutionize the field of energy storage.
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In a recent paper, Bradford Cornell, of California Institute of Technology, and James Rutten, of Munger, Tolles and Olson, a Los Angeles law firm, argue that even highly developed financial markets such as the New York Stock Exchange are not efficient enough to allow courts to use declines in share prices to calculate the financial damage caused by a fraud.
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The early underpinnings of Helixis' smaller, cheaper instrument began in 2005 in a basement lab at the California Institute of Technology.
"This is very exciting: Voyager is beginning to explore the final frontier of our Solar System, " said Edward Stone, a Voyager project scientist based at California Institute of Technology.
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"As a synthetic chemist, I could make any molecule you want, " says Nathan Lewis, a professor at the California Institute of Technology.
In total 28 designs were shown off at the fair and the winner was a team from the California Institute of Technology.
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Last month, the California Institute of Technology developed a terahertz microchip, raising the possibility the technology could one day be packed into hand-held devices.
Indeed, they are so inflammable, according to James Heath, a chemist at the California Institute of Technology, that they burn like the petrol to which they are chemically related.
The California Institute of Technology, a private institution with just 2, 200 students, takes the number one slot again this year on the ninth annual list of World University Rankings, put out by Times Higher Education, a London magazine that tracks the higher education market.
"It is true that any task a classical computer can do, a quantum computer can do, " says Jeff Kimble, a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
The 2010 National Medal Science to Jacqueline K. Barton, California Institute of Technology, for discovery of a new property of the DNA helix long-range electron transfer, and for showing that electron transfer depends upon stacking of the base pairs and DNA dynamics.
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Bhatia had been working for Apple as a hardware engineer after graduating from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, when he and Apple colleague Jack Smith hit upon the concept of web-based email out of frustration at being unable to check their company email away from the office.
The visible light from it was bright enough for George Djorgovski, Mark Metzger and Shri Kulkarni of the California Institute of Technology and their colleagues to analyse, and to demonstrate that it had travelled through a cloud of interstellar gas at least 10 billion light-years from the earth.
At the California Institute of Technology, they're developing a way to turn sunlight and water into fuel for our cars.
It was "eye floaters, " microscopic grey globs that cast shadows on the retina, that inspired California Institute of Technology professor Changhuei Yang to create a lensless microscope that aims to change the way scientists go about diagnosing diseases and developing new drugs--for a fraction of the cost.
It was "eye floaters, " microscopic grey globs that cast shadows on the retina, that inspired California Institute of Technology professor Changhuei Yang to create a lensless microscope that aims to change the way scientists go about diagnosing diseases and developing new drugs--for a fraction of the cost of a conventional microscope.
"It's a numbers game, " says David Baltimore, a Nobel laureate and codiscoverer of an enzyme that helps HIV replicate, who heads the California Institute of Technology.
For research, Mr. Scanlon, co-writers Daniel Gerson and Robert L. Baird, and a team of artists visited Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley.
"We are delighted that the TMT project has now been granted a Conservation District Use Permit, " said Edward Stone, the Morrisroe Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and vice chair of the TMT board.
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Insiders suspect that three teams from the California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University and Ohio State University (funded largely by Oshkosh Truck Corporation, a truck-maker) have the best chance of robotic victory.
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