Word: caltech
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China, anyone knows the name Harvard," she says. "But you have to be another scientist to know, say, Caltech...
When Steim's seismograph was installed at Caltech in 1988, it replaced "something like over 40 specialized seismographs," according to Adam Dziewonski, professor of geophysics at Harvard...
...distinctive three-note quail song. After much trial and error, Balaban--an amateur baroque musician who sometimes serenaded his chicks with his lute to stimulate their singing--traced the movements and sounds to two very different areas in the brain. "That's new. That's interesting," says Caltech neurobiologist Masakazu Konishi. "It means posture and sound that usually occur together in crowing are controlled by different neuromechanisms...
Medicine was David's second choice as a career. After high school, he attended M.I.T. and Caltech as a physics major. He never let up on himself, at work or play. Though short, he was an intense basketball player. At Caltech, he took up chess. Characteristically, the first time he entered a tournament...
...ranking played no role in their decision to go to Har- U.S. News' Top Ten Universities U.S. News' ranking will hit newsstands this week. Rank/University 1. Yale University 2. Princeton University 3. Harvard University 4. Duke University 5. MIT 6. Stanford University 7. Dartmouth College 8. Brown University 9. CalTech * 9. Northwestern * * Tied...