Not exact matches
To an extent unimaginable to an earlier
generation of scientists, the rising
generation of academic experts sees little or no tension between truth -
seeking and money - making.
The awards ceremony at the National Museum
of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
sought to help change the face
of science by hailing the contributions
of women
scientists and propelling the next
generation forward with five individual research grants
of $ 60,000 each.
In Part One
of «Fire From Heaven,» we saw how
scientists sought to measure that fire, and how succeeding
generations attained better and better values for what was long termed the «solar constant» — roughly, the amount
of energy per square meter reaching the top
of Earth's atmosphere.