Sentences with phrase «who pioneered the concept»

The Pavlovsk Experiment Station, which is Europe's largest collection of fruits and berries, was established in 1926 by Nikolai Vavilov, the Russian botanist and geneticist who pioneered the concept of seed banks as repositories of crop diversity in case of threats to food production.

Alan Guth, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who pioneered the concept of inflation, says the analysis is convincing, but not so convincing that he's ready to abandon the possibility that BICEP2's data holds a signal in support of more obscure models of inflation.

The study — conducted by William L. Sanders, the statistician who pioneered the concept of «value - added» analysis of teaching effectiveness — found that there was basically no difference in the achievement levels of students whose teachers earned the prestigious NBPTS credential, those who tried but failed to earn it, those who never tried to get the certification, or those who earned it after the student...

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Pioneering fresh ideas in the restaurant industry and with local venues like Bowl & Barrel, Mutts Canine Cantina, The Rustic and The General Public, FreeRange Concepts is led by founders Kyle Noonan and Josh Sepkowitz, who have a combined 20 years of experience in the restaurant and hospitality industry.

In eight episodes of the fifth season, audiences are introduced to Ludo Lefebvre, an influential chef who is stirring up the food scene in Los Angeles and pioneered the idea of the pop - up restaurant with his LudoBites concept.

John Sugden, an English sociologist who pioneered the «twinning» concept 25 years earlier with a mixed - faith soccer team in Belfast during the height of the Troubles and who is now the director of Football 4 Peace, doing in the Middle East with soccer what PPI does with basketball, puts it both wryly and well: «It's not as if you can sprinkle the pixie dust of sport and everything's going to be fine.»

«This year's Lemelson - MIT National Collegiate Student Prize Competition winners are inventors who recognize pressing issues and are pioneering concepts that will translate into impactful solutions,» said Joshua Schuler, executive director of the Lemelson - MIT Program.

Dr. John Lee was a courageous pioneer who changed the face of medicine by introducing the concepts of natural progesterone, estrogen dominance and hormone balance to a large audience of women and men seeking answers to their hormone questions.

Inspired by the targa roof concept pioneered in the 1960's by Porsche (who still owns the name), the Q2 - to - be features a removable lightweight roof panel and a sturdy rollover bar, which straddles the two strong C - pillars.

«For Dr. Frank, who has spent some 30 years pioneering the plug - in (charge depletion) hybrid concept, the key to closing the Grand Canyon - sized cost gap between today's hybrids and plug - in hybrids with their significantly larger battery packs is system simplification, as well as engine downsizing.

It seemed fitting that automotive legend Carroll Shelby was on hand this week to help christen the Dodge Viper.It was Shelby who 30 years ago pioneered the concept of installing a huge American engine in a small, lightweight sports car.That creation, the Shelby Cobra, was the inspiration for the Viper, which packs an 8.0 - liter, 400 - horsepower V - 10 engine and neck - snapping performance.

Other works in the exhibition include Jorge Pardo's handcrafted wooden palette and modernist designed furniture that question the nature of the aesthetic experience; pioneering conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth's discourse on aesthetics in neon, An Object Self - Defined, 1966; Rachel Lachowicz's 1992 row of urinals cast in red lipstick, which delivers a feminist critique of Duchamp's readymade; Richard Pettibone's paintings of photographs of Fountain; Richard Phillips» recent paintings based on Gerhard Richter's highly valued work; Miami artist Tom Scicluna's neon sign, «Interest in Aesthetics,» a critique of the use of aesthetics in Fort Lauderdale's ordinance on homelessness; the French collaborative Claire Fontaine's lightbox highlighting Duchamp's critical comments about art juries; Corey Arcangel's video Apple Garage Band Auto Tune Demonstration, 2007, which tweaks the concept of aesthetics in the digital age; Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs, Four Water Towers, 1980, that reveal the potential for aesthetic choices within the same typological structures; and works by Elad Lassry and Steven Baldi, who explore the aesthetic history of photography.

Alert arts community members may remember Thais Mather as one - third of the Victory Grrrls, who performed at form & concept earlier this year as part of the gallery's programming around an event featuring feminist pioneer artist Judy Chicago.

Encompassing more than 300 works, Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958 — 2010 is the largest solo show to date of this major US artist, who pioneered a fundamentally different concept of sculpture.

Today is the occasion to bear in mind George Lappas (1950-24/1 / 2016), one of the innovative and restless artists of the generation of the «80s, who contributed significantly to the rejuvenation of neo-Hellenic sculpture by proposing a pioneering viewpoint of sculptural environments, rethinking the concept of three dimensional creations in relation to their environments.

It features work from French artist Klein, who pioneered invisible works in the late 1950s with his concept of the «architecture of air».

Through successful pioneering of a carbon finance program (an initiative that could eventually bring billions of dollars a year to the country), Company X could be known as the mover who made the concept happen, establishing a solid basis for its brand.

Pierre Dansereau, French Canadian plant ecologist who was a pioneer in the study of the dynamics of forests and who attempted to extend ecological concepts to the modern human environment.