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His most popular book, The Seven Principles, has sold more than a million copies, and is based on his pioneering work studying real marriages and what makes them succeed — or fail.
On this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Sara Seager, who started out as a painfully shy, friendless child and grew up to become a MacArthur Foundation genius grant winner for her pioneering work studying the atmospheres of planets orbiting stars lightyears from Earth.

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His love of Cycles emerged from the study of the work of Walter Bressert, a pioneer in the field.
How It Worked: The Story of Clarence H Snyder and the Early Days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland Ohio (NY: AA Big Book Study Group, 1997), pp. 6, 71, 138, 157, 235; and the «Great Physician» reference to Jesus Christ was in common use among other Pioneer AAs, by their New York mentor Dr. Silkworth, and their Oxford Group friends.
That pioneer work should be supplemented — not to say supplanted — by a study of the great modern researches of M. Rostovtzeff, The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire (1926; new ed., 1940), and his magnificent three - volume work, The Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World (1940).
First came the pioneering work of the Enlightenment scholar Hermann Reimarus (1694 - 1768), who made a critical study of the New Testament running to 4,000 pages of manuscript, entitled The Defense of a Rational Worshipper of God.
Ammerman sees her own study as a sequel to the pioneering work done by H. Paul Douglass in 1925.
To Buckland, they also offered strange deposits he identified as fossil droppings (coprolites) of extinct giant saurians; his pioneering work opened up an entirely new field of study — identifying animal's diets — and speaks to his eccentricity.
He had been studying carbon nanotubes while in India and seized the opportunity to work with graphene pioneers Geim and Novoselov.
«This pioneering work opens up new perspectives for interdisciplinary studies about the coupling between the solid Earth and the fluid Earth, and — for example — involving volcanologists, geomorphologists and climatologists,» concludes Sternai.
In the 1980s Caroline and Robert Blanchard, working together at the University of Hawaii, carried out a pioneering study on the natural history of fear.
The study, published this week Science, builds on pioneering work from the»80s which is at the interface between theoretical computer science and physics.
«This is a really neat and pioneering study,» says Stephen Jackson, a paleoecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Southwest Climate Science Center in Tucson, Arizona, who was not involved in the work.
Based on the pioneering work of Dr. Claire Lugassy and Dr. Raymond Barnhill at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, a new study provides additional support for a process by which melanoma cells, a deadly form of skin cancer, can spread throughout the body by creeping like tiny spiders along the outside of blood vessels without ever entering the blood stream, and that this process is exacerbated by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light.
Marjan Mashkour, an Iranian archaeozoologist who works at the CNRS in Paris and initiated the study with Burger and Fereidoun Biglari, a prehistoric archaeologist at the National Museum of Iran, added: «The Neolithic way of life originates in the Fertile Crescent, maybe also some Neolithic pioneers started moving from there.
There's no reason that we shouldn't have a significant number of people living and working on the moon, doing geological studies of asteroids and pioneering the path to Mars.
In his earlier work, Fogel had helped pioneer the application of rigorous statistical analysis and other economics - based mathematical methods to the study of history (research that earned him a Nobel Prize in 1993).
His work involves high - resolution imaging of chick embryonic tissue slices to study the cell - biological mechanisms driving neurogenesis in the spinal cord, for which Dr. Das played an instrumental role in pioneering new imaging technology.
The idea builds on the work of renowned neuroscientist Endel Tulving, who pioneered the study of human episodic memory — the recall of our autobiographical past.
Previous research, including pioneering work at MD Anderson by this study's senior author Ignacio Wistuba, M.D., and others, has shown normal - appearing tissue close to lung premalignant and cancer lesions may have tumor - associated molecular abnormalities.
Another clue came from the work of Frederick Kaplan at the University of Pennsylvania, an orthopedic surgeon and FOP pioneer who has been studying the disease for years, and who helped lead the team that found the FOP gene.
A Russian astrophysicist who pioneered the study of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background to learn more about the universe and an American chemist whose work led to the development of several new materials have won the Kyoto Prize from the Japanese Inamori Foundation.
«We have focused our efforts on the oxidation of α - pinene, because it accounts for about half of global monoterpene emissions,» explains Dr. Mikael Ehn from the University of Helsinki, who is the first author of this study and did the pioneering work for the discovering of ELVOCs.
The North Pole and Its Seekers October 28, 1868 New Expeditions to the Arctic Regions June 24, 1871 The Latest Arctic Explorations — The Remarkable Escape of the Polaris Party June 7, 1873 Rescue of the Remaining Survivors of the Polaris October 4, 1873 The Latest Polar Expedition December 26, 1874 Work for Arctic Explorers July 17, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition The Coming Arctic Expeditions May 22, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition August 28, 1975 July 3, 1876 The Search for the Pole The British Arctic Expedition December 23 and 30, 1876 The Recent Arctic Expedition January 20, 1877 Another Approach: Balloons and Airships Some Suggestions for Future Polar Expeditions February 13, 1877 Proposed New British Polar Expedition September 20, 1879 To the North Pole by Balloon July 13, 1895 Wellman's Airship for His North Polar Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American July 7, 1906 The Wellman Polar Airship Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American June 22, 1907 Farther North The American Arctic Expedition September 14, 1878 The Peary Arctic Expedition July 15, 1893 Nansen's Polar Expedition March 14, 1896 The Recent Failures of Arctic Expeditions August 29, 1896 The Return of Lieut. Peary September 27, 1902 The Polar Regions June 11, 1904 Peary's New Ship for Work in Arctic Seas October 8, 1904 Peary and the North Pole July 15, 1905 Peary's Arctic Ship, The «Roosevelt» July 15, 1905 Peary's «Farthest North» November 17, 1906 Race to the Finish: Peary and Cook Peary's Quest of the North Pole July 18, 1908 Peary and the North Pole August 21, 1909 Dr. Cook and the North Pole September 11, 1909 Dr. Cook's Discovery of the North Pole September 11, 1909 Honor to Whom Honor is Due September 18, 1909 Commander Peary's Discovery of the North Pole September 18, 1909 Retrospect of the Year 1909: Exploration January 1, 1910 «Investigating» Peary April 22, 1911 THE SOUTH POLE Exploring Antarctica Antarctic Exploration January 23, 1897 To South Polar Lands February 13, 1897 The Voyage of the «Discovery» February 3, 1906 Antarctic Expeditions, Past and Present Some Heroes of Exploration November 11, 1911 Dr. Charcot's Antarctic Expedition November 30, 1907 Motoring Toward the Pole By Motor Car to the South Pole By J. S. Dunnet October 19, 1907 The Shackleton Antarctic Expedition By John Plummer August 29, 1908 Lieut. Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition April 3, 1909 Lieut. Shackleton April 9, 1910 Two Novel Motor Sleds By Walter Langford May 14, 1910 Race to the Finish: Amundsen and Scott The Antarctic Expeditions January 13, 1912 The Discovery of the South Pole March 16, 1912 Amundsen's Attainment of the South Pole Progress of Antarctic Exploration By G. W. Littlehales, Hydrographic Office, United States Navy March 23, 1912 Capt. Scott at the South Pole April 13, 1912 Shadows at the South Pole June 15, 1912 The Scott Expedition and its Tragic End A Sacrifice Made for Scientific Ideals February 22, 1913 Achievements and Lessons of the Scott Expedition March 1, 1913 To the South Pole with the Cinematograph Film Records of Scott's Ill - Fated Expedition June 21, 1913 Science in the Heroic Age The Height of the Antarctic Continent By Walter Langford June 4, 1910 The Renewed Siege of the Antarctic January 17, 1914 Shackleton's South Polar Expedition The Value of His Scientific Observations By Henryk Arctowski June 17, 1916 Thawing Scott's Legacy A pioneer in atmosphere ozone studies, Susan Solomon rewrites the history of a fatal polar expedition By Sarah Simpson December 2001 Greater Glory In the race to the South Pole, explorer Robert F. Scott refused to sacrifice his ambitious science agenda By Edward J. Larson June 2011
In the course of this work, he has pioneered several new approaches in the fruit fly that have had important implications for mammalian neurobiology, including: the demonstration that the fruit fly has a sleep - like behavior similar to that of mammals, studies of physiological and behavioral consequences of mutations in a neurotransmitter system affecting one of the brain's principal chemical signals, studies making highly localized genetic alterations in the nervous system to alter behavior, and molecular identification of genes causing naturally occurring variation in behavior.
I would also tell him that his pioneering work on master regulatory factors in muscle inspired me to change my course from being an orthopedic surgeon to the study gene regulatory biology in the cardiovascular system.
(That finding, by the way, comes from Thomas Hunt Morgan, who gave up on planarian regeneration studies in frustration and turned to his pioneering work in the genetics of fruit flies.)
Seiden quickly established himself as one of the pioneers in the emerging field of psychopharmacology, the study of the behavioral effects of drugs and how they work in the brain.
With her AB in Chemistry from Harvard in hand, Dr. Ting went West for her doctoral studies, at the University of California, Berkeley, and postdoc work at the University of California, San Diego, under Roger Tsien, whose pioneering work with Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) had won him the 2008 Nobel Prize.
While laser treatments based on work pioneered at Joslin in the 1960s have helped to minimize this damage, injecting a drug called ranibizumab can be more effective, according to results from a major clinical study by the Diabetes Retinopathy Clinical Research Network (DRCR.net) announced today.
In 2008 he was elected as member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, whose members are chosen among the scientists of all countries who have distinguished themselves by the value of their scientific work, their role of pioneers or leaders of a school in the broad field of the application of quantum mechanics to the study of molecules and macromolecules.
However at this stage of your career, you simply can not write such an article attempting to rubbish the findings of a pioneering and potentially life - saving work by a recognized expert in the relevant field of study.
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A draft of a report by Maris A. Vinovskis, a professor of history at the University of Michigan, cites several exemplary studies by the institutions, including an analysis of youth - training programs, the development of the «Success for All» program for disadvantaged students, and «pioneering» work in understanding how children learn mathematics.
Earlier in his career, David worked as an Education Pioneer Fellow at the San Francisco Unified School District, and as an Associate Director of Data Analysis and Tools at CEB, a management think tank in Washington, D.C. David holds an MBA from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University (with concentrations in Social Entrepreneurship and Leadership & Ethics) and a BA in International Studies from Rhodes College.
Haugen began his career as a high school science teacher, eventually moving on to pursue graduate studies while providing pioneering work in the development educational software.
Their pioneering work has led to many studies of the importance of manipulatives for student learning in mathematics.
By linking af Klint with the official pioneers of abstraction — František Kupka, Wasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian — Tuchman provoked questions about af Klint's importance and how study of her work may affect perceptions of abstractionism.
[5][6][7] While J. M. W. Turner (1775 — 1851), one of the greatest landscape painters of the 19th century, was a member of the Romantic movement, as «a pioneer in the study of light, colour, and atmosphere», he «anticipated the French Impressionists» and therefore modernism «in breaking down conventional formulas of representation; [though] unlike them, he believed that his works should always express significant historical, mythological, literary, or other narrative themes.»
From his pioneering, mid-century figurative studies that are as formidably primitivistic as the early works of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning or the pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb, he progressed to his luminous color - field canvases.
The Museum was a pioneer: one of the country's first museums primarily engaged in collecting American art (including the work of contemporary, nonacademic artists) and among the first dedicated to the study and creation of a significant Native American art collection.
Beginning with her earliest works — drawings and paintings created in the 1940s while studying at Black Mountain College — this beautifully illustrated volume traces Asawa's trajectory as a pioneering modernist sculptor who is recognized nationally for her wire sculpture, public commissions, and activism in education and the arts.
Hicks studied at Yale, where she worked with legendary modernist Josef Albers and was a pioneer of textile art in the 1960s; now 83, the Nebraska - born, Paris - based artist is finally the subject of a major solo exhibition, at Paris's Centre Pompidou.
But it was his work in photography, with nude studies, fashion work, and portraiture that saw him pioneering a new chapter in the history of camerawork and art.
With works — all from Walther's holdings — ranging from motion studies by pioneering 19th - century photographer Eadweard Muybridge to documentation of a 1996 performance by Chinese artist Song Dong, and from Richard Avedon's 1970s portraits of the American political establishment to anonymous mug shots, the show examined how we represent ourselves and are in turn represented.
Curator Michael Klein, who has been studying and assembling a small exhibition of Hartigan's works from the early 1960s, thinks a new examination of Hartigan's achievement is overdue, and he asks a powerful question: just where where does her art, and the art of other pioneering women artists of the 1950s and 60s fit into the «canon» of American painting?
In LA Weekly, Doug Harvey tells the story of Mercedes Matter, who was born into the East Coast cultural aristocracy in 1913 to father Arthur B. Carles, a pioneer American abstract painter who studied with Matisse, showed at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery and exhibited work in the legendary Armory Show.
Her curiosity led her to study lace making, which further led to string constructions and her pioneering work in the development of embedding delicate threads within synthetic plastic.
She's a pioneer and the more I know about her, and study her work, I can see how important performance art is — I love the transience, but I also like the idea of the re-performance.
Together, the works in If I Told Her provide a creative study of and response to the rich stories — the life, work, and legacy — of the cultural pioneers whose voices have been silenced by history.
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