Sentences with phrase «the old scientist»

Older scientists contribute to the propagation of scientific fields in ways that go beyond educating and mentoring a new generation.

All of which makes it rather more bothersome that older scientists are the most likely to be invested in the regnant research paradigm, whatever it is, even if it's based on an old experiment that has never successfully been replicated.

This finding seems to upend the widespread impression that older scientists have higher success rates than their juniors in the competition for grants.

If polypterids are really as old scientists have believed, where's the fossil evidence?

A stuffy, old scientist (Oh scientists!

Instead, the 65 - year - old scientist is gearing up for his most ambitious project yet: the National Children's Study, a landmark field investigation that will follow 100,000 American children from as soon as possible after conception to age 21.

«We also want to encourage older scientists who have taken career breaks or come late to chemistry,» said Eric.

Today the 42 - year - old scientist is responsible for research and production of lactic acid bacteria starter cultures and manages a team of 31 people.

The satisfaction of older scientists Conventional wisdom and at least a few scholarly articles suggest that scientists do their most creative work when they're still young.

However, the prize is bittersweet for all who knew the 68 - year - old scientist during his long career as a researcher and mentor at Rockefeller University in New York City.

Crazy science experiments and LEGO trophies abounded at the awards ceremony for the sixth annual Google Science Fair, where 13 - to 18 - year - old scientists from all over the world were celebrated for their impressive accomplishments in science and engineering.

Far more common is that older scientists stuck in postdocs with little job security, even a decade or more past their Ph.D. s.

Fortunately, this is more of an issue with older scientists; Ph.D. students and postdocs seem to treat one another with respect, perhaps an indication that the old prejudices are slowly starting to change.

«It's a new adventure for an old scientist.»

I can't tell a joke without worrying about the data the older scientists will think it supplanted.

Milner's initiative is allowing older scientists to forge new career paths, too.

The 53 - year - old scientist, who has been in jail since last Friday, appeared composed but wildly out of place.

His own situation illustrates why it doesn't make sense to push older scientists out of the lab en masse, he adds.

Mick O'Hare remembers David Jones, author of the Daedalus column, who died in July (Old Scientist, 2 September).

Although Zhang is well - known for his work with CRISPR, the 34 - year - old scientist has a long track record of innovation.

The 74 - year - old scientist, athlete and Musclemag posterboy is the original creator of Evolutionary Fitness, the first integrated model of the Palaeolithic diet.

57 - year - old scientist is based in New York, and has been the Director of the Planetarium at the Center for Earth and Space since 1996.

Notably, 16 year - old scientist Amy O'Toole encouraged the idea of creativity in STEM subjects, and the need for inspiring young girls into science.

Of course, there are plenty of older scientists who are enjoying the gravy train of gloval warming climate crisis science, but there is also a large percentage who are disgusted by all the gorging and self - righteousness.

(05/16/2012) In March 2012 the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and well - known climatologist, James Hansen, spoke at a TED conference to explain what would push a 70 - year - old scientist to participate in civil disobedience against mountaintop coal mining and the Keystone Pipeline, even leading to several arrests.

In the rare instance that breaks the pattern, some kindly older scientist will take aside the young, fresh - faced idealist who turned in a final result, and explain to him how it works.

The 49 - year - old scientist earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in science and his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering at the University of Southern California.

Yes - that It is a capital mistake to confuse state of the art science with things tired old scientists persist in repeating.

Pat Michaels, Richard Lindzen and the rest of the emeriti might as well move into the old scientists home with Frederick, S. Fred and Co..

Traditionally, the older scientists held to the prevailing wisdom and were challenged by the new, skeptical graduates looking for wider answers.

The 94 year - old scientist, famous for his Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a self - regulating, single organism, also said that he had been too certain about the rate of global warming in his past book, that «it's just as silly to be a [climate] denier as it is to be a believer» and that fracking and nuclear power should power the UK, not renewable sources such as windfarms.

And likewise the old scientist who condemns the world all by himself back home (Michael Caine) is very much resembling Stephen Schneider.

Not exact matches

Princeton scientists found that height predicted success even among three - year - olds taking tests of cognitive ability.

Scientists wanted to know whether physical and intellectual skills worked differently as people got older — so they studied chess grand masters.

Roberts, a research scientist at New England Biolabs, has a personal reason for wanting InVivo to succeed: His oldest son has been quadriplegic since being injured in a car accident.

As the 35 - year - old considers creating a new venture that would help train medical doctors on the use of software tools, she is taking a page out of Silicon Valley's playbook: She plans to incorporate a mix of sector specialists that include business experts and scientists.

The five - year - old startup touts users that are students, finance professionals, and scientists coming from 180 countries.

It was certainly the best in Canada, but it's no more,» said Burt Ayles, a 68 - year - old retired research scientist and former regional director general for freshwaters in central Canada and the Arctic.

A 104 - year - old Australian scientist said he resented the fact he had to leave his native Australia to end his life.

Lie4Him, Schweitzer, one of the first scientists to use the tools of modern cell biology to study dinosaurs, has upended the conventional wisdom by showing that some rock - hard fossils tens of millions of years old may have remnants of soft tissues hidden away in their interiors.

Scientists have found a cave in France with paintings estimated to be around 13,000 years old.

I bet they miss the good old days when they could just burn heretics, witches and scientists at the stake.

A scientist once claimed to find Dinosaur soft tissue, therefore all science that points to an old Earth is invalid and The Bible is literally true.

I wonder what would be revealed if scientists would be permitted to study the remains in the tomb at Machpelah... after all, like all things Biblical, we only have one reference, and we ONLY have Abraham's word that he saw the face of God (contrary to John 1:18: No man hath seen God at any time, AND John 6:46: Not that any man hath seen the Father)... Bet you those bones aren't from a 175 year old man and 127 year old woman...

CT scans reveal unerupted teeth still in the jaw, a detail that makes scientists think the individual may have been about three years old when she died.»

You can keep your 2000 + year old desert dweller bullishit — I'll take Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and other modern day scientists.

Scientists many years ago claimed a tooth found was Nebraska Man, a pre-human fossil millions of years old.

It is not the responsibility of scientists to disprove, or even accept, every idea that some person or persons have dreamed up (not even if it's in 2000 year old (and very popular) book).

«Scientists say they have replaced a 65 - year - old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.»

Which of course just goes to show you the old saying is true... «Science doesn't say anything — scientists do.»