Sentences with phrase «who pioneered the study»

Today is the birthday of Frederick Soddy, an English chemist born in 1877 who pioneered the study of isotopes, elements with the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons.

«The eyes know, even when the individual might not,» says Neal Cohenof the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, a former colleague of Hannula's who pioneered the study of memory - related eye movements.

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.

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.

La Jolla, CA — Salk Institute professor Ursula Bellugi, who pioneered the study of the biological foundation of language, has been elected a member of the National Academy...

Hal Arkes, who pioneered the study of the psychology of waste, theorized that this is a holdover from what's called «the sunk cost effect.»

Interview: RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, critic and curator who pioneered the study of performance art.

PERFORMA founder RoseLee Goldberg, who pioneered the study of performance art with her seminal book Performance Art from Futurism to the Present (1979), presents an authoritative introduction addressing the genre's many forms — radio broadcast, dance, live installation, new technologies, film and video, music, historic reconstructions and lecture - as - performance among them.

Its technology leaves some skittish, including Paul Ekman, a psychologist who pioneered the study of reading faces to determine emotions and is an adviser to Emotient.

Not exact matches

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

Finally he recited a list of some of the more illustrious foreign missionaries in the Punjab — John Lowrie and William Reed, the first missionaries in 1834; Charles Forman, who founded the distinguished college which bears his name; Hervey Griswold, the missionary scholar who pioneered in Pun - jab sociology; and some of the more recent missionary heroes, such as Ernie Campbell, who received an Indian government citation for helping resettle refugees; James Alter, who established a center for interreligious understanding; and Clinton Loehlin, who founded the Institute for Sikh Studies at Baring College.

Pioneer groups studied (and many believed) some very simple propositions about the help God can and does make available to those who want it.

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.

It would be somewhat remiss of me to fail to acknowledge the scholarly pioneers who have laid the path along which the present study has trod.

Professionals who are in close contact with elderly people could soon be in a better position to spot if they are being financially exploited, for example through a lottery scam or by a deceitful relative draining the bank account, thanks to a pioneering new study funded by the UK Research Councils» New Dynamics of Ageing programme (NDA)

Elliot crater recognises James Elliot (1943 - 2011), an MIT researcher who pioneered the use of stellar occultations to study the Solar System — leading to discoveries such as the rings of Uranus and the first detection of Pluto's thin atmosphere.

In this study, the group partnered with József Topál, a Hungarian pioneer of canine research who specialises in dog - human interaction and the social intelligence of dogs.

This carbonation process could be a way of «permanently and safely disposing of CO2, and making useful products in the process», says Klaus Lackner, director of the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions at Arizona State University, Tempe, who pioneered laboratory studies of mineral carbonation.

Today is the 70th birthday of Elizabeth Hay, an embryologist at Harvard Medical School who, through pioneering studies on regeneration of amphibian limbs, has shed light on the cellular mechanisms that transform normal cells into tumors.

«They tend to be people who are highly motivated health - seekers and science geeks,» says Barbara Bernhardt of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, who has conducted detailed interviews with 60 volunteers in the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative, a pioneering effort to study the medical value of genetic information.

«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.

A leading expert in neural movement control, Jessell, a U.K. native who completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, conducted pioneering studies that identified mechanisms involved in the neural development and organization of the spinal cord.

Wildlife biologists AMY VEDDER and BILL WEBER, who married in 1972, conducted pioneering studies of Rwanda's gorillas and co-founded the Mountain Gorilla Project.

About one in 20 people, and possibly many more, harbor C. difficile in their gut, said study co-author Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology, who has conducted pioneering research on the trillions of microbes constituting our intestinal ecosystems.

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.

They have made possible wholesale scans that turn up new gene modifications and variations, and the same should prove true for the new human gene arrays, says Joseph Ecker, a plant scientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, who has helped pioneer whole - genome chips for Arabidopsis.

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.

«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.

Claire Gmachl, who was not involved in the research and is Princeton's Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering and a pioneer in the field of semiconductor lasers, said that because lasers, masers and other forms of coherent light sources are used in communications, sensing, medicine and many other aspects of modern life, the study is an important one.

The findings of a pioneering four - year educational study offer hope for thousands of children identified with intellectual disability or low IQ who have very little, if any, reading ability.

Studies of the consequences of keyboard design were pioneered by the industrial engineers Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, who were made famous by a biography, Cheaper by the Dozen, written by 2 of their 12 children.

(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.)

And finally, the Elliot crater is named after the astronomer James Elliot, who discovered the rings around Uranus and pioneered new techniques to study Solar System bodies.

Winning the World Prize for agricultural research is Trudy Mackay, from the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University in the US, who pioneered research in quantitative genetics, which studies the interaction between genes, traits and environmental effects.

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.

«This shows that the approach has much greater potential than we ever imagined,» said Juergen Knoblich, of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Austria, a pioneer in creating cerebral organoids who was not involved in either study.

The 2012 Kavli Prize for Neuroscience goes to three neuroscientists, Cornelia Bargmann, Winfried Denk, and Ann M. Graybiel, who have pioneered the study of how sensory signals pass from the point of sensation — whether the eye, the foot, or the nose — to the brain, and how decisions are made to respond.

Richard C. Thompson is a professor of marine biology at Plymouth University in the UK who has conducted some of the pioneering studies on microplastics in the marine environment.

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.

Dr. Collin Campbell a pioneer in the plant based revolution brought this to life with his book the China Study, a book i would recommend to anyone who wants to see the research on animal foods and their many affects on our overall health.

According to Dr. Edward Howell, an early pioneer in the field of human nutrition who spent his entire professional life studying enzymes, if you don't have enough enzymes to digest your food, great strain is placed on your entire body to «pick up the slack.»

Bob Berger, «Ole Bob, & Colloidal Silver - Bob Berger, who passed away in June 2006, was a pioneer in the study of colloidal silver production.

«Cancer is notorious for its ability to evade immune detection,» says pioneering mycologist Paul Stamets, who was also Director of Research for the study.

Also at the gala, the 2018 Courage Awards will be presented to Suzette Grillot, dean of OU's College of International Studies, who has been a passionate advocate for student immigrants, and to the late Clara Luper, an Oklahoma Civil Rights pioneer who led the nation's first youth sit - ins in the late 1950s.

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...

Take for example the scenario in which preservice teacher Rob Dent collaborated with a classroom teacher to develop a technology infused unit of study, called «Who Wants to Be a Pioneer?»

«The Phoenix Academies network proves that with patience, flexibility and individualized support, students who are most at risk of dropping out of high school can become college graduates,» said Pioneer Institute Distinguished Senior Fellow in Education Tom Birmingham, who also authored a preface to the study.

Hermann Ebbinghaus, a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory and is known for his discovery of the «forgetting curve» and the spacing effect, found that people are likely to forget what they have learnt within 30 minutes!

It then focuses on three women engineers: pioneer Grace Hopper; Shaundra Bryant Daily, an African American electrical engineer who studied affective computing; and Jean Yang, who emigrated from China and became a computer scientist.

Gather Up the Fragments focuses upon the collection of Faith and Edward Deming Andrews, who from the 1920s through the 1960s formed a large and important assemblage of Shaker art and pioneered Shaker studies.