Sentences with phrase «many pioneering scientists»

Ultimately, The Antidote concludes that these pioneer scientists innovate because they must, not because someone found the capital, or made sense of a project on a spreadsheet.

The pioneering scientist / entrepreneur on biology's next leap: digitally designed life - forms that could produce novel drugs, renewable fuels, and plentiful food for tomorrow's world.

Cristian Micheletti of SISSA, a pioneer scientist in this kind of research, has just published a systematic revision of all literature concerned with such new and promising field of research, which reveals the great potentialities of such an innovative methodology.

Much like the giraffe's home, we must question whether the establishment that was built in the interest of pioneering scientists is one that fosters a mutual advantage for the diverse community that it serves.

A pioneering scientist in mitochondrial biology, Douglas C. Wallace, Ph.D., synthesizes evidence for the importance of mitochondria in a provocative Perspective article today in the journal Cell.

PIONEERING SCIENTIST The new book The Last Volcano chronicles the life of volcanologist Thomas Jaggar.

Breakthrough method will allow researchers to identify CRISPR - Cas9 targets and delivery methods with the highest activity and specificity Caribou and DuPont Pioneer scientists publish paper in Nature Methods describing SITE - Seq

«We are delighted at this latest demonstration of the valuable collaboration between Caribou and DuPont Pioneer scientists who are advancing the development of CRISPR - Cas9 applications.»

Seven pioneering scientists have been named this year's recipients of the Kavli Prizes — prizes that recognize scientists for their seminal advances in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience, and include a cash award of one million dollars in each field.

«These pioneering scientists created the field of hormones and cancer.

This British Science Week we'll be catching up with some of our pioneering scientists that are tackling cancer differently.

Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Dame Jane Francis is a pioneering scientist whose study of fossil plants and their use as tools for climate interpretation is recognised internationally.

Among his publications, it is worth to remark the last one, co-edited with Natividad Carpintero - Santamaría, Inertial Confinement Nuclear Fusion: A Historical Approach by its Pioneers (Foxwell and Davies UK Ltd - 2007) which describes for the first time the work carried out by the leading and pioneer scientists in this field during the last 50 years at the main international nuclear laboratories.

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.

Pioneering scientist, social activist, humanitarian — Mary - Claire King is also foremost a free spirit who for over four decades has marched to the beat of her own drummer, animated by the impulse to solve iconic scientific puzzles, a passion for victims of disease and social injustice, and a warm humility that belies her profound impacts on science, on medicine, and on society.

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.

David's late father - in - law was the pioneering scientist Charles David Keeling, who began to record the concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere in the 1950s, and who shared with David science's predictions on the effects of persistent greenhouse gasses, including rises in mean temperature, disrupted weather patterns, wildfires, floods, strengthening tropical storms, ocean acidification, sea level rise, melting of glaciers and other effects.

In this sweeping town hall meeting moderated by New York Times environmental reporter Andrew Revkin, pioneering scientists presented research at the vanguard of solar, wind, geothermal and algae / biofuel energy, while conservationists and high - level policy - makers provided additional perspectives on the challenges and opportunities presented by this urgent global problem.

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Many people in this field are finding themselves pioneering the job for a company that never employed a data scientist before, so be prepared to blaze a trail if necessary.

«Back in the 1980s, actually, I gave my first talk at TED,» says Jaron Lanier, a computer scientist, writer and pioneer of virtual reality.

Morbi is a part of a team of Ottawa scientists working on what they hope will be a pioneering rehabilitation technology.

But in recent months, scientists have pioneered new interactive methods to unlock its secrets.

A number of world - leading science and technology professionals, young scientists and engineers, and innovation teams should be trained, with major breakthroughs in pioneering basic research and original innovations as their goal, Xi said.

The approach was based on a technique pioneered at Cambridge University by data scientists who claimed it could reveal more about a person than even their parents or romantic partners knew.

Prior to founding Porifera, Dr. Bakajin was an accomplished scientist who performed pioneering work on fluid flow through carbon nanotubes, has co-authored 13 issued, and several pending patents as well as numerous publications that have been cited over 12,000 times.

[117] An important pioneer in this, Ibn Al - Haytham is regarded as the father of the modern scientific method and often referred to as the «world's first true scientist.»

Christian Scientists see their special role as that of pioneering in the spiritual healing which they see as a natural, though as yet largely unexplored, consequence of Christian discipleship.

I find it ironic that the pioneering work done by Christian scientists are being held in high regard by the atheist scientists of today.

There have been a number of British recipients of the prize, too, including scientists John Polkinghorne, Paul Davies, Arthur Peacocke, and the hospicemovement pioneer, Dame Cicely Saunders.

New Scientist magazine has featured the topic of AI on two consecutive covers, and earlier this year it emerged that silicon valley pioneer Anthony Levandowski has founded a new religion dedicated to the worship of an «AI God» when the technology finally comes of age.

Ecklund reveals how scientists — believers and skeptics alike — are struggling to engage the increasing number of religious students in their classrooms and argues that many scientists are searching for «boundary pioneers» to cross the picket lines separating science and religion.

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.

Outstanding pioneer social scientists strongly urged the clergy to train themselves adequately in this new and promising field.

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.

The American Chemical Society has recognised 3M and its scientists for its pioneering Multi-Layer Optical Film with the ACS National Award for Creative Invention.

Mercer is a brilliant computer scientist, a pioneer in early artificial intelligence, and the co-owner of one of the most successful hedge funds on the planet (with a gravity - defying 71.8 % annual return).

Both William Olaf Stapledon, early twentieth century philosopher and science fiction author, and Professor Sir David Weatherall, distinguished medical scientist, have strong ties to Liverpool; and Birmingham has historically been home to a wide range of humanist thinkers like John Baskerville, nineteenth century avowed atheist and renown printer, Harold Blackham, first director of the BHA; George Holyoake, nineteenth century writer who coined the term «secularism», sex education pioneer Martin Cole, leading international humanist and philosopher - physicist Sir Harry Stopes - Roe; and writer and comedian Natalie Haynes.

«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 French National Center for Scientific Research is setting an example for supporting and tracking female scientists — but even with such pioneering efforts, progress is slow

The names pay homage to the underworld mythology, pioneering space missions, historic pioneers who crossed new horizons in exploration, and scientists and engineers associated with Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

«The Chen brothers are pioneering in terms of specialized chip architecture,» says Qiang Yang, a computer scientist at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in China.

And a pioneering mystery — we will talk with Scientific American editor George Musser about a session here in New York, Monday evening, at which scientists discussed what they thought was going on with the Pioneer spacecraft, which are now out of the solar system.

At the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), founded in 1987 by computer pioneer David Packard, veteran scientist Bruce Robison isn't ready to make a primary - level link between jelly increases and global warming, but he's certainly intrigued by the «second -, third -, or eighth - level connections.»

A few months earlier, her father gave her a biography of French scientist Marie Curie, two - time winner of the Nobel Prize and a pioneer in the study and understanding of radioactivity.

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.

Career - centered efforts At Vandenberg, the pioneers of the mission, such as Tom Schmugge, a retired NASA engineer who first came up with the idea of a soil moisture mission, and other scientists who have dedicated their lives to the mission, erupted with cheers, hugs and handshakes.

Dr. Weiss is a physician - scientist who not only provides patient care in the clinic but also is intricately involved in pioneering biomedical laboratory research and discoveries.

Two US scientists won the Nobel prize for Medicine on Monday for their discovery of RNA interference — pioneering work that has revolutionised the field of molecular biology and is leading to powerful genetic medicines.

«Originally, we created these as an educational tool for visualizing concepts and ideas — in place of a blackboard and hand waving — to help people see things they never did before,» says Thomas DeFanti, a research scientist at UC San Diego's California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and a pioneer of virtual reality systems.