Sentences with phrase «role as a scientist»

As SEP staff members, we have multiple roles as scientist, teacher, and learner.

Indeed, the history of the national conviction that dietary fat is deadly, and its evolution from hypothesis to dogma, is one in which politicians, bureaucrats, the media, and the public have played as large a role as the scientists and the science.

Actors honored with an Academy Award for their roles as scientists include Fredric March as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) and Paul Muni as Louis Pasteur (1936).

But she has also gone beyond her role as a scientist to encourage children to become environmental and social advocates, to develop antipoverty programs in the areas around African nature preserves, and to promote environmental stewardship.

Michael Douglas will reprise his role as scientist Hank Pym, along with Michael Pena as the lovable criminal Luis.

Actor Eddie Redmayne worked with a dancer to perfect his physical movements for his role as scientist Stephen Hawking.The Les Miserables star...

Ken Watanabe and Sally Hawkins bring just he right amount of gravitas to their roles as the scientists who've been investigating these elusive monsters, and the electromagnetic pulses their activities create, for decades.

Focusing on Benjamin Franklin's role as a scientist rather than a Founding Father and statesman, this Giants of Science biography, featuring Kulikov's hallmark exaggerated illustrations, explains the many ways that Franklin was the American manifestation of the European Enlightenment, putting his discoveries in clear historical context.

Our role as scientists is not to make this judgement for you; it is to investigate the facts and lay out what we know and what we don't know as clearly as we can, so that everyone can make their own judgement.

There is nothing more fundamental to his role as scientist.

Are we???? If it is not their role as scientists to determine how to deal with problems like climate change, then why are they trying to get involved?

Many of us feel an obligation to talk to the media — it's part of our role as scientists, citizens, and educators.

But they have to first act in their role as a scientist.

But doesn't Schneider urge that a scientist should be an advocate in his role as scientist?

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As I've said, there have been a number of research papers of late, led in large part by the work of French scientist Laurence Zitvogel, that are building a strong case for a central role for the microbiome in cancer treatment response.

In his role as Ethereum's chief scientist, Buterin looks to Linus Torvalds, the firebrand inventor of Linux, an open - source computing system that powers many operating systems today, as inspiration.

The billionaire electrical engineer and computer scientist also counts Walt Disney as a role model.

Levitt has worked tirelessly to build development studies as a multi-disciplinary field of scholarly endeavour, in which development economics plays an essential role but must be complemented by essential contributions from other social scientists and historians.

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

But Al - Khalili is best known for his role as a populariser of science on the airwaves, regularly hosting The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4, in which he explores the lives of notable scientists.

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.

She does not tell us whether she has come to identify fully with this version of Christianity, but she makes clear that in this book she writes as a social scientist who in this role can not make statements about the ultimate validity of the Evangelical experience of God.

Although the roles of a man «as a scientist» and «as a person» are never really separable, it is illuminating to examine more closely an individual's personal response to his professional life.

Bacon created the role of the scientist as hero, the bold adventurer who, abandoning the comforts of tradition, mythology, and, above all, religion, dared to face the naked truth.

While for the social scientist empirical data form the major source for his or her understanding and evaluation of a phenomenon, for the religious practitioner empirical data are just one source of determinative information, and often fill a secondary role behind other sources such as personal experience, intuition, and religious tradition.

As one of the authors (Barth) discusses in detail in an article in the latest volume of The Future of Children, developmental scientists have put together conclusive evidence that parenting plays a pivotal role in children's social, emotional, health, and intellectual development.

Each player is given a different role, such as the Scientist (who can cure diseases more easily) and the Operations Specialist (who can build research stations).

We yank children away from their proper role as self - motivated scientists, testing their world by asking and answering their own questions, and instead force them to become test takers, occupying their brains with our stupid questions.

Indeed, new work by Sarah Hrdy (2009) and Lee Gettler (2010) illustrate the important role that direct care and investment by others likely played throughout human evolution, causing scientists to consider that we are really «cooperative breeders» insofar as individuals other than the mother have significantly enhanced the human infant survival.

Non-cognitive skills, as social scientists call them (the rest of us call them personality traits)-- persistence, grit, curiosity, self - control, delayed gratification, conscientiousness — play a crucial role in life's outcomes.

However, tipped as the «sacrificial lamb» during the Hutton inquiry into the death of government scientist David Kelly — due to his role as defence secretary at the time of the war and stiff performance during the investigation — Hoon in fact emerged unscathed, not leaving defence until after the 2005 election, and only then for the job of leader of the Commons.

With examples from countries in Asia and Africa, the report says that men in textbooks are more likely to be depicted as business leaders, shopkeepers, engineers, scientists and politicians, while women remain likely to be seen in roles such as cooking or child care.

They identified 452 eminent academic life scientists whose deaths were premature — defined as happening before the scientist entered pre-retirement or took on a predominantly administrative role — and studied how these demises affected the «vitality (measured by publication rates and funding flows) of the [scientists»] subfields.»

Because mentoring is above all a human relationship, you may find that, as they get to know you, some senior scientists fall naturally into the role of mentor.

After spending approximately 2 decades completing a master's degree, stints as a research assistant and research associate at WHOI in Massachusetts, a Ph.D. in biological oceanography at Oregon State University, and returning to WHOI for a postdoc and various other roles, Baumgartner is now an associate scientist with tenure, a title he earned in 2014.

Scientific associations, professional societies, and science academies that recognize a role for science and scientists in the realization of human rights are welcome to join the Coalition as Member Organizations.

Eight AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellows delivered rapid - fire presentations on 29 September on topics ranging from species conservation to water management as part of an exercise intended to outline the role of effective communication between scientists and policymakers.

Jackson takes her position as a role model to trainees and other scientists seriously, although more as a woman and mother of two than as a scientist with a disabilty.

Nonetheless, scientists who take on this work say that these projects can lead to acquiring new skills and knowledge that help them in their roles as researchers.

In a paper written for the conference, Roseman also touched on the role of scientists and scientific organizations such as AAAS in reforming science education, including the development of standards and the curriculum materials, assessments, and teacher professional development that are aligned to them.

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The book is divided into 3 sections: international standards and the role of science in these standards; issues (ethics and technology); and politics (scientists as human rights activists; NGOs, grassroots and transnational governance.

Jayawardhana's storytelling skill shines as he follows scientists handing off work from one generation to the next, culminating in a better understanding of the tiny particle with a surprisingly big role in the universe.

The most obvious sources of driver distraction are external, such as phones or other mobile devices, and scientists have extensively studied the role of these distractions in road accidents.

Scientists are also trying to figure out the role that aerosol particles — including a component of soot known as black carbon — play in influencing the behavior of Himalayan glaciers.

Although scientists were divided over phytic acid's nutritive value, proponents like Sabin pointed to its role as an antioxidant.

In his role as researcher, he developed a potential drug to treat different types of immune diseases and was able to accompany the molecule through the next stages?something most scientists at pharmaceutical companies are not able to do.

Knowledge brokering is different in that it creates «an ongoing dialogue and exchange» between researchers and stakeholders, explains Christine Knight, a policy research fellow at the Economic and Social Research Council Genomics Policy and Research Forum in Edinburgh, U.K. Knight works as a knowledge broker — among genomics researchers, social scientists, and policy makers — and as a social scientist studying knowledge brokering roles in the United Kingdom.

Until recently it has been difficult to study the role of glial cells in controlling appetite or any other brain function, because scientists haven't developed many techniques for silencing or stimulating these cells, as they have for neurons.

«As scientists, we have focused a good deal of attention on understanding the role of stem cells in the development of cancers, but there hasn't been a focus on mature cells,» said senior investigator Jason C. Mills, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology.