Then, this summer, Virgil Griffith, a 24-year-old Cal Tech graduate student, unearthed some eyebrow-raising data.
Until today, Mike Brown at Cal Tech could claim credit for finding what was arguably the tenth planet.
Cal Tech landed at number one because it scored well across the board.
Certainly the local newspaper would never run a story about why young Ms. Jones decided to go to Cal Tech over MIT.
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It was organized by Cal Tech physicist Sean Carroll and its goal was to brainstorm ways to promote the virtues of naturalism, something that caused Ferguson no small amount of alarm.
Hardly a prestigious university or large pharmaceutical company is immune, with the likes of Harvard, Cal Tech, Johns Hopkins, Ohio State, University of Kentucky, and the University of Maryland recently fingered by Retraction Watch.
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Baty also points to the fact that Cal Tech manages the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the federally funded NASA research and development center that has been in the news for its Mars Rover robotic space mission.
The Italian earned fourth place in the practice sessions, behind Britain's Cal Crutchlow on a Monster Yamaha Tech 3.
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German rookie Stefan Bradl was fourth for LCR Honda in his best qualifying performance, while Britain's Cal Crutchlow was fifth and his Yamaha Monster tech 3 teammate Andrea Dovizioso was seventh.
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Britain's Cal Crutchlow continued the favorable impression he is making this season with fourth spot for the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 team, outqualifying Yamaha's joint-championship leader Jorge Lorenzo, who starts in fifth.
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