Sentences with phrase «pioneering scientists from»

JUNE 2 2016 - OSLO - NINE PIONEERING SCIENTISTS from Germany, Switzerland, the UK and the USA have been named this year's recipients of the Kavli Prizes — prizes that recognize scientists for their seminal advances in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience.

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The first threat, that from naturalism, directly challenges the presuppositions upon which science as we know it was originally based — presuppositions which, though undoubtedly absent from the consciousness of many contemporary scientists, were quite clearly on the minds of those who pioneered modern science.

Together with the food scientists at Massey University, New Zealand's premier Food Science University, under a New Zealand Horticultural grant, they pioneered and perfected the process of oil extraction from the avocado.

«Richard Thaler has pioneered the analysis of ways in which human decisions systematically deviate from traditional economic models,» says cognitive scientist Peter Gӓrdenfors of Lund University, Sweden, a member of the Economic Sciences Prize Committee.

Drawing increasingly on support from foundations and federal agencies, the Association has built pioneering programs for bringing underrepresented groups into science; applying science to human rights; supporting the growth of science in the developing world; exploring issues of science, ethics, and law; tracking federal spending for R&D; and in bringing scientists and engineers to work in Congress and executive agencies of government.

The pioneering research led by academics from the Sheffield Institute of Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), in collaboration with scientists from the University of York, supports the fast - tracking of the drug ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) for a clinical trial in Parkinson's patients.

However, Japanese scientists led by stem - cell pioneer Shinya Yamanaka are doing exactly that, he says, creating a bank of stem cells derived from cord - blood samples from Japanese blood banks.

«We have just allocated $ 271 million in funds, which leveraged over $ 500 million from donors and the institutions» own reserves to build 12 stem cell institutes in California; these are really large institutes that will accommodate a very large number of scientists,» says Trounson, an Australian native who pioneered in vitro fertilization in the 1980s and relocated to California to head up the CIRM in December 2007.

Scientists are using a pioneering method of «caging» and cooling water molecules to study the change in orientation of the magnetic nuclei at the centre of each hydrogen atom — a process which transforms the molecule from one form of water to another.

The test, devised in 1950 by pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing, assesses a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour indistinguishable from that of a human.

A pioneering study — led by scientists from Imperial College London in collaboration with marine biologists from UC Santa Barbara — found that the predators, through their fecal material, transfer vital nutrients from their open ocean feeding grounds into shallower reef environments, contributing to the overall health of these fragile ecosystems.

The pioneering work on «robust statistics,» or statistical methods that can tolerate corrupted data, was done by statisticians, but both new papers come from groups of computer scientists.

This year's five medals laud heart pioneer Denton A. Cooley, two computer scientists from Bell Labs, a team of agricultural biotechnologists from Monsanto Corp., and two innovative life sciences companies — Biogen and Bristol - Myers Squibb.

One possible source is a 1938 study by pioneering climate scientist Guy Callendar in which he predicted that doubling the global concentration of carbon dioxide from pre-industrial levels would result in around 2 °C of warming.

A computer program that recognizes sketches pioneered by scientists from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) could help consumers shop more efficiently.

For years scientists scratched their heads over the «Pioneer anomaly»: Radio signals from the twin spacecraft, which are no longer in contact with Earth, showed they were decelerating more rapidly than could be explained solely by the pull of the sun or other known physical effects.

Dr Maria Paola Clarizia, a visiting scientist at NOC from University of Michigan, and the lead author of the paper, stressed that «the UK has been a pioneer in using GNSS reflectometry to measure ocean features, and the NOC has led the field in analysing the data.»

Scientists from The Cleveland Museum of Natural History have pioneered a new method to identify praying mantises.

Silverstein is famous for his pioneering study of bark beetles, which began in 1964 in collaboration with a scientist from the University of California at Berkeley.

According to the IAU, the new names honor human exploration, travelers, explorers and scientists, pioneering journeys, and mysterious destinations taken from history, literature, and mythology.

He pioneered body fluid proteomics technologies and research in his role as a Staff Scientist and later as a Director of Protein Chemistry at Large Scale Biology Corporation from 1999 - 2003.

Francis «Rip» William Perkins Jr., a pioneering plasma physicist whose contributions to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) ranged from seminal advances in fusion energy and astrophysical research to the education of a generation of scientists, died on July 26 in Boulder, Colo..

A narrow band of them in the high - energy spectrum would be a «smoking gun» for the presence of dark matter, says Michelson, but he thinks it's more likely that the dark matter emission would be mixed in with gamma rays from other energy sources in the universe and that scientists such as GLAST pioneer Elliott Bloom will have to work very hard to untangle the GLAST data to find it.

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It then focuses on three women engineers: pioneer Grace Hopper; Shaundra Bryant Daily, an African American electrical engineer who studied affective computing; and Jean Yang, who emigrated from China and became a computer scientist.

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Another film installation pays homage to the pioneering scientist Alan Turing (The Creator), as thinking machines travel back from the future in search of the father of the computer age.

His pioneering publication, Animal Locomotion (1887), included 781 plates, each a series of pictures that broke down the movement of a wide variety of animals — from horses, elephants, ostriches, and deer to men, women, and children — into discrete elements for study by scientists, artists, and others.

As you might expect from a broad mix of physical scientists, economists, social scientists and policy experts, the nominations spanned a range of topics and historical periods, capturing some of the great climate pioneers and the very latest climate economics research.

Scientists from Macao Polytechnic Institute are pioneers in exploring urban temperature in Hong Kong using seasonal econometric models.

The company consulted with leading scientists, including NASA's pioneering expert James E. Hansen, to understand the effect on atmospheric CO2 concentrations if the gas from Natuna were released.

Center for Climate and Life scientists are pioneering processes and technologies to capture carbon from the atmosphere and react it with rock from Earth's interior.

However welcome the recent announcement that a team of scientists based at Newcastle University, has grown a section of human liver using stem cells from umbilical cords, rather than from the more controversial source of embryonic stem cells, and whatever the eventual promise or potential of harvesting organs for transplantation from genetically modified pigs, the benefits of either of these two pioneering techniques to currently dying / suffering patients, remain both elusive and distant.

The pioneering historical study is from a York University political scientist Public Violence in Canada, 1867 - 1982 by Judy Torrance.