Sentences with phrase «other chemists on»
Immediately after seeing the data, Evelyne Roueff of Paris Observatory and other chemists on the team started hypothesizing about what kind of molecule might create the signal.
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The pregnancy test kit I bought at my local chemist came up on the till display as «chemist goods» to conceal my possible predicament from the other shoppers.
«We have top - notch people on our staff that includes highly qualified industrial pharmacists, microbiologists, engineers, chemists and others,» Gokarn notes.
The Tenth Workshop on Food Allergen Methodologies aims at gathering scientists, chemists, analysts and other representatives from government agencies, university, industry and consumer associations, to discuss issues related to detection, identification, characterization, and control of allergen residues in foods.
At a meeting last month just outside Boston, chemists and biologists discussed the promise of DNA - encoded chemical libraries (DELs), which rely on the unique talents of DNA to track, select, and even synthesize compounds that bind to enzymes, receptors, and other biological targets.
But the previous studies shared a common problem, says Marc Baum, a chemist at the Oak Crest Institute of Science, a nonprofit research center in Baldwin Park, California: They tracked car exhaust drifting out of highway tunnels, and the researchers were concerned that ammonia could react with the walls of the tunnel or other gases and thus not show up on detectors.
Kaichang Li, a chemist at the Oregon State University, was inspired during a walk on the beach with a friend by the ability of mussels to bond tightly to rocks and to each other.
One chemist has a new strategy to scan for life on other worlds: bypass organic chemistry in favour of any molecules too complicated to form spontaneously
But Eastoe and other chemists are creating genuine supersoaps by finding ways to get surfactant molecules to lose their foamy properties [pdf] under particular conditions so that the foam can, in effect, be turned off and on at will.
That had a lot of venture capital in it but few quick returns, and so investors went off and did other things,» cautions Nate Lewis, a materials chemist at Caltech who works on solar cells.
Ertl, a physical chemist at the Fritz - Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany, won for developing modern methods that reveal how chemical reactions take place on metals and other surfaces.
When he went to other contract research firms and asked for data on a trial, they generally produced an overwhelming amount of paper: records of failed tests, meticulous explanations of how the chemists had made adjustments, and more.
«Metal nanoparticles with ligands are already printed to form electronics today,» explains the physical chemist Kraus, adding that the shells mostly had to be removed by a sintering process because, while on the one hand they control the arrangement of the nanoparticles, on the other hand, they are not conductive.
Li Ying, a retired chemist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Materia Medica in Shanghai, who worked on the synthesis of artemisinin derivatives, wrote in an article in 2008 that Tu's method of extraction and purification yielded crystals containing artemisinin mixed with other chemicals, giving rise to toxicity in clinical trials.
Biologists, chemists, psychologists and a range of other scientists wanted to study the environmental, economic and mental health consequences of the disaster; local scientists wanted to study the effects of the spill on their communities; and leaders at the local and federal government needed guidance on how to respond.
Stanford analytical chemist Maria Dulay, on the other hand, willingly turned down a tenure - track faculty job at Wake Forest University in Winston - Salem, North Carolina, for a long - term, soft - money position as a research associate in Richard Zare's lab at Stanford.
Melanie Sanford, a chemist the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who focuses on using metal - based agents, primarily palladium, to catalyze reactions that substitute hydrogen in carbon - hydrogen bonds with other atoms or functional groups.
It's «nice chemistry,» says marine chemist Jeffrey Bada of the University of California (UC), San Diego, but he is not convinced that hydrothermal vents, or any other likely habitat on early Earth, could have provided the conditions created in the lab: «The processes outlined are not likely to take place on a significant scale on the Earth or elsewhere.»
The team of chemists — Tanasova, Begoyan and Weseli?ski — plans to delve deeper into the world of fructose transporters to expand on what they've determined about GLUT5 and provide access to probes targeting other GLUTs.
Swapping in the bigger ion forces the crystal to form in sheets just nanometers thick, which stack on top of each other like pages in a book, says chemist Aditya Mohite of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
Materials chemists have been trying for years to make a new type of battery that can store solar or other light - sourced energy in chemical bonds rather than electrons, one that will release the energy on demand as heat instead of electricity — addressing the need for long - term, stable, efficient storage of solar power.
Kaiser noted that physical chemists, on the other hand, can help shine a light on reaction mechanisms that can lead to the synthesis of specific molecules in space.
u On 10 November 1971, Dr. Harold Urey, a Nobel prize - winning chemist and lunar scientist, stated «I do not know the origin of the moon, I'm not sure of my own or any other's models, I'd lay odds against any of the models proposed being correct.»
Chemists, biologists, planetary scientists, astronomers and other researchers all vigorously discussed the issue at the meeting's first session on Monday morning (April 24).
On the other hand, another scientist and chemist, Walter Minder while testing the radioactivity of radium obtained from the same sample, suspected the presence of another element based on the results obtaineOn the other hand, another scientist and chemist, Walter Minder while testing the radioactivity of radium obtained from the same sample, suspected the presence of another element based on the results obtaineon the results obtained.
At the height of his career, the practice included several dentists on the first floor and a laboratory on the second floor where Mr. Howdy, a chemist of German origin, performed analyses for fat - soluble activators in hundreds of samples of butter and other foods sent to Dr. Price from all over the world.
Emil, on the other hand, looked like he could have been a chemist in a lab or a home ec teacher - in an apron, always, but with a V - neck sweater vest over his flannel shirt and a pair of nice brown corduroys.
At the same time, innovators like the Caltech chemist Nate Lewis focus on pushing forward photovoltaics and other energy technologies.
I also sought input from two other researchers who worked on the report, the physics Nobel laureate Burton Richter and Nate Lewis, the California Institute of Technology chemist who directs the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, as well as David Victor, the author of «Global Warming Gridlock.»
Once considered fringe science, geoengineering gained respectability with an essay two years ago by chemist Paul J. Crutzen, who is something of an environmentalist hero — it was his Nobel Prize — winning work on the ozone hole that led to the ban on Freon and other ozone - destroying chemicals.
One of the others, the hiding of adverse verification statistics, was addressed by Dr. Pat Frank, a research chemist, on Climate Audit five days ago:
A month earlier, a former chemist at a now - shuttered state drug lab in Boston was indicted on 27 counts of obstructing justice, tampering with evidence, perjury and other charges in connection with her handling of some of the tens of thousands of drug cases she worked on during her nine years there.
Other duties listed on a QC Chemist resume include using testing equipment, doing paperwork, and making sure hazardous materials are handled properly.