Most annoying to young, ambitious scientists like me, a whole generation of physicists seemed determined to keel over at the bench at 80 or 90 rather than retire the way the elderly were supposed to, and the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled, not too long before, that colleges and universities couldn't force them out. (sciencemag.org)
After she told her adviser she wanted to write her honors thesis on how people see, he sent her across the river to Harvard Medical School, where a pair of ambitious scientists, David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel, were investigating the plasticity of the visual system. (discovermagazine.com)
Convinced by ambitious scientist Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage) that the solution to the problem is to green - light a line of mutant - targeting drones called Sentinels, Tricky Dick acts with predictably self - serving expediency — and inadvertently triggers a series of events that leads to a dystopian future in which humans and mutants alike teeter on the verge of extinction. (theglobeandmail.com)