Sentences with phrase «royal society president»

Last year, Daily Telegraph climate punditoid and wannabe United Kingdom Independent Party candidate James» I'm always right» Dellingpole sent groans through denierdom by telling Royal Society president Sir Paul Nurse on BBC prime - time:

This voluntary CO2 reduction plan would get you and others in the UK, who are rationally skeptical of the premise that AGW represents a serious potential threat, off the hook, while allowing Royal Society president, Sir Paul Nurse, UK environment secretary, Caroline Spelman, and other supporters of the «dangerous AGW» premise to «do their thing to save the planet».

This view has been echoed in the UK by Royal Society president Paul Nurse, as well as in the House of Lords during a debate on the proposed Protection of Freedoms legislation.

«This additional # 200 million for research infrastructure is good news,» said Royal Society President Paul Nurse.

Today more than 20,000 scientific journals around the world are based on these two key principles and it is difficult to imagine a research process functioning without them,» Royal Society President Paul Nurse said in the statement.

It is time to reject political movements that turn their backs on science, says Nobel prizewinner and Royal Society president Paul Nurse

Martin Rees, the Royal Society president, added in the statement: «It has been suggested that the Society holds the view that anyone challenging the consensus on climate change is malicious - this is ridiculous.

Bravo for Royal Society president Paul Nurse's stand against anti-science (17 September, p 5).

As someone charged with communicating science in a Catholic newspaper, I am not helped by Royal Society president Paul Nurse's...

Add him to the long list of Royal Society Presidents and Nobel Laureates who think that their intellectual superiority obviates the need actually to find out anything about the subject.

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Royal LePage president and CEO Phil Soper was recently named the 2014 CEO of the Year and recipient of the CEO Award of Excellence in Public Relations by The Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) of Toronto.

Malcolm Jeeves is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at St. Andrews University and a past president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

It contains many prominent scientists, such as Martin Rees (Astronomer Royal, president of the Royal Society), Hawking, and 78 more.

The Cambridge branch of Christians in Scienceis hosting George F. R. Ellis of the University of Cape Town and former President of the Royal Society of South Africa on 6th November next.

As President of the Royal Geographical Society he initiated and backed Mallory's attempt to conquer Mt Everest.

Martin Rees is President Emeritus of the Royal Society, Fellow of Trinity College, and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

-- Most of our fans are classy people, I can speak of presidents, royals, professionals, well mannered funs from upper / middle / and low stream of society.

David puts these questions to Lord (Martin) Rees — cosmologist, Astronomer Royal, and former President of the Royal Society — and someone who believes that mankind only has a 50 % chance of making it through this century without a serious global «setback».

The letter was signed by the president of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the president of the British Pharmacological Society, the president of the Royal College of

Psychiatrists, the biological secretary of the Royal Society, the president of the Society of Biology and the head of policy at the Wellcome Trust.

[3] He was educated at Wellington College, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where he won the Queen's Medal, gaining a Regular Commission, before reading Politics at University College, Durham between 1981 and 1984, where he was elected President of the Durham Union Society in 1983 [4] and graduated with a 2:1 degree.

Lord Howell, a Cabinet minister under Mrs Thatcher, went in his capacity as president of the Royal Commonwealth Society in Britain.

Marvel at the maverick doing superb establishment jobs like organising the building of the Anglo Australian Telescope and becoming president of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Ramakrishnan, who was accompanied by Tony Cheetham, the Royal Society's vice president and treasurer, Julie Maxton, the society's executive director, and Catharine Young, a science and innovation head at the British Embassy, later took their message to officials at the State Department and to John Holdren, the White House science advisor, during separate meSociety's vice president and treasurer, Julie Maxton, the society's executive director, and Catharine Young, a science and innovation head at the British Embassy, later took their message to officials at the State Department and to John Holdren, the White House science advisor, during separate mesociety's executive director, and Catharine Young, a science and innovation head at the British Embassy, later took their message to officials at the State Department and to John Holdren, the White House science advisor, during separate meetings.

Venki Ramakrishnan, president of the Royal Society, visited AAAS» headquarters and met with CEO Rush Holt and Science Editor - in - Chief Jeremy Berg to stress that the relationship between the Royal Society and AAAS will not be diminished.

Leaders need to keep two clear but separate goals in mind, says Robert May, president of the U.K.'s Royal Society.

Professor Rothwell was elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society in 2004 and is also the President of the British Neuroscience Association.

Professor Martin Barstow, President of the Royal Astronomical Society, is keen for people to experience the transit for themselves.

David Phillips is president of the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry and a professor emeritus at Imperial College London.

«Science can bring people together, as it affects people's lives and environment,» said Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, president of the Royal Scientific Society of Jordan, during an interview with TWAS.

An inorganic electrochemist, she is the only woman appointed president of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in the society's hSociety of Chemistry (RSC) in the society's hsociety's history.

Charles Lowe, president of the Telemedicine and eHealth section at the Royal Society of Medicine in London, has been following Medopad's progress.

It even uncovers why the President of the Royal Geographical Society, Lord Curzon, decided not to hold a public committee of inquiry.

The review panel, chaired by physicist John Pethica, vice president of the Royal Society and a physicist, is expected to produce a published report by September.

Now comes news that the Royal Society has set up a panel to review its climate change declarations after 43 of its elected fellows sent a letter protesting that some of the society's statements, including ones in a pamphlet called «Climate Change Controversies» and comments from Robert May, then president of the society, were oversimpSociety has set up a panel to review its climate change declarations after 43 of its elected fellows sent a letter protesting that some of the society's statements, including ones in a pamphlet called «Climate Change Controversies» and comments from Robert May, then president of the society, were oversimpsociety's statements, including ones in a pamphlet called «Climate Change Controversies» and comments from Robert May, then president of the society, were oversimpsociety, were oversimplified.

But at a time when the chancellor proposed keeping a lid on many areas of government spending, «science does better than just about anywhere,» notes Robert May, president of the Royal Society.

Cosmologist Martin Rees, president of the Royal Society and an author of the letter, says that the new arrangement could retain the strength of the old committee as long as it has adequate resources and covers the same broad sweep of subjects.

Paul Nurse, president of the Royal Society, welcomed the investment in a statement:

Forum: Incentives for a life in science — As the Royal Society reports on the future of the science base, its president — Michael Atiyah suggests some ways to rescue British science from the doldrums

Like others, George Porter, a former president of the Royal Society, is worried that in the absence of new money funds will be siphoned from basic science to pay for wealth - creating research.

Michael Atiyah, president of the Royal Society, last week accused health secretary Virginia Bottomley of ignoring scientific advice on the issue.

Someone who believes that the distinction between «directed» and «undirected» science has become blurred indeed over the last decades is William Stewart, former chief scientific adviser to the prime minister and president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

President of the U.K.'s Royal Society Venki Ramakkrishnan also weighed in after the vote, citing in a statement the importance of the EU's supplemental funding of U.K. research efforts, the necessity of international collaboration to further science, and the exchange of talent between the U.K. and the EU.

As if Paul Nurse wasn't busy enough — he's just become president of the Royal Society and will head a new mammoth London biomedical research facility — the biologist has reluctantly agreed to involve the Royal Society in vetting foreign scientists who want work in the United Kingdom.

I just hope that Alastair Currie, the president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, can use his good offices to head off a trend which would spell disaster for the Scottish universities.

Paul Nurse spoke with Science last week about his past, his recent suggestion to bolster U.K. funding for 100 to 150 top researchers, and his busy future as both president of the Royal Society and founding director of the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation.

At the heart of the plan is the # 650 million ($ 1 billion) Francis Crick Institute, now under construction in London and led by geneticist Paul Nurse, president of the Royal Society.

Lesley Yellowlees, president of the Royal Society of Chemistry in London, added that the investment is proof that the government has heeded the science community's calls for protecting research.

In 2015 he concluded his term as the 60th president of the Royal Society of London.

Once he's president for the Royal Society, he can finally say what he really thinks about light and God and matter and gravity and living inside God's brain and fermentation - all these things that he can only say at the end.