Sentences with phrase «who pioneered the use»

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.

According to Robert Clayton, a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago in Illinois who pioneered the use of oxygen isotopes in cosmochemistry, the authors may have done little more than find a more precise method of measurement.

Jockers developed his techniques at Stanford University in California, where he worked with literature researcher Franco Moretti, who pioneered the use of automated large - scale analyses of digitised texts, a process he calls «distant reading».

Now a research team led by the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) physician who pioneered the use of inhaled nitric oxide has developed a lightweight, portable system that produces NO from the air by means of an electrical spark.

Following a stint in the Air Force, I was approached by a physicist at Washington University in St. Louis named Michel Ter - Pogossian, who pioneered the use of short - lived radioactive cyclotron - produced isotopes in biology and medicine, which to most people was completely novel.

Srivastava, who pioneered the use of stem cells for heart disease, is director of the Roddenberry Stem Cell Center and a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes.

The same researchers who pioneered the use of a quantum mechanical effect to convert heat into electricity have figured out how to make their technique work in a form more suitable to industry.

Dr. Wei - Ping Li completed her Ph.D. in cell biology with Jürgen Roth, the «immunogold master» who pioneered the use of immunogold EM on thin sections (Sedwick 2013).

Yet, not one word was mentioned about the work of Dr. Harold Foster — who pioneered the use of selenium and amino acids, plus antioxidants, for the successful treatment of HIV / AIDS patients.

Dr. Lee was known by millions of people as the doctor who pioneered the use of transdermal progesterone cream and bio-identical hormones, and who had the courage to stand up against the medical establishment s dangerous and misguided HRT (hormone replacement therapy) treatments.

Although he died at just forty - eight, Mütter was an audacious medical innovator who pioneered the use of ether as anesthesia, the sterilization of surgical tools, and a compassion - based vision for helping the severely deformed, which clashed spectacularly with the sentiments of his time.

Pati Hill: Photocopier is an exhibition of early artwork by the late Pati Hill (1921 - 2014), an American writer who pioneered the use of the photocopier as an artistic tool in the 1970s.

A 2014 grant from the Center will support a groundbreaking exhibition of the early artwork of Pati Hill, an American writer who pioneered the use of the photocopier as an artistic tool in the 1970s.

Even though it was his contemporary Andy Warhol who became more famous for the practice, it was Robert Rauschenberg who pioneered the use of the industrial silkscreen process to create paintings that incorporate photographs taken from contemporary culture, as the current Tate retrospective makes clear.

Kenneth Noland, born in 1924, was an American Abstract, Color Field, and Minimalist painter who pioneered the use of shaped canvases.

Johns, Jasper (b. 1930) One of the most successful modern artists during the second half of the 20th century, he was an early Pop - art painter, sculptor and printmaker who pioneered the use of mundane objects, like flags, maps, beer cans in fine art.

Juxtaposing old and new in architecture and materials, Grützner displays irony, humor, optimism and keen graphic sense, inspired by Luigi Ghirri (1943 - 1992), an Italian photographer who pioneered the use of color.

I found it interesting that the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to three scientists who pioneered the use of computers to model drugs.

Lawer2Lawyer co-hosts, Bob Ambrogi and J. Craig Williams call on experts on both sides of this controversy, Attorney Deepak Gupta from Public Citizen Litigation Group, who focuses on consumer rights and Attorney Alan Kaplinsky, senior partner at Ballard Spahr Andrews and Ingersoll in Philadelphia, who pioneered the use of pre-dispute arbitration.

Ran is a research scientist and coach who pioneered the use of mobile technology to deliver programs of positive personal transformation, bringing him into close collaboration with partners like Deepak Chopra and Stephen Covey.

Virginia Axline was a 20th century psychologist who pioneered the use of play therapy, which remains a popular method for treating children.

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A New York dermatologist who became a local celebrity after he pioneered the use of print advertising throughout the city's subway system has retired and closed his office after practicing for more than 40 years.

According to live video marketing expert Joel Comm, a pioneer who has been using the format since 2008, that combination of an audience primed for video content and a gadget that puts a lens at eye - level is the perfect set - up for a new kind of live video.

D. H. Lawrence can stand as the pioneer representative of those who have used the literary art to explore human emotion and to protest and prophesy against the repression and devaluation of the sexual life.

We pioneered the use of market forces to create sustainable forest economies to lift people out of poverty, because we understood that those who depend on the forest are the most invested in protecting it.

When we moved to New York in the»80s, it was impossible to find a midwife who would take our insurance, so I went to a doctor who worked with midwives and pioneered using the Leboyer (precursor to water birth) in New York.

David A. Crenshaw, Ph.D., ABPP, RPT - S is a nationally renowned child psychologist who is best known for his pioneering work in the area of play therapy and the use of facility dogs in trauma - informed child therapy.

The term «norm entrepreneur» is sometimes used in politics and international relations to refer to pioneers who, dissatisfied with the status quo, take action to change it at their own initiative.

And Mr. Trippi, who helped pioneer the use of online fund - raising during Mr. Dean's campaign, said the Edwards campaign had produced attack videos for the Web for as little as $ 800, a tiny fraction of what it costs to create and broadcast a television commercial.

The UK defence secretary during the Falklands War when the use of embedded journalists was pioneered was John Nott (who backed Brexit).

If you just bend it a bit, light spills out,» says David Payne of the University of Southampton, UK, who pioneered many of the fibre - optic techniques used today.

The rationale for using spironolactone - an inexpensive, generic, medication - stems from the pioneering research of Bertram Pitt, MD, University of Michigan School of Medicine, who showed the benefit of this class of drugs in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction, and who also served as chair of the TOPCAT Steering Committee.

Their commitment to wilderness is as fervent as any I have come across, but it pays tribute to the historical presence of human beings, from the original residents, whom the pioneers called Sheep Eaters, to the gold miners of the late 19th century, to the ranchers who strung telephone wire along the creeks in the 20th century, to big - game hunters who used Taylor Ranch as a base before the university acquired it and turned it into a biological field station.

The pioneering work in discovering the fly's unusual hearing mechanism was done by Ronald Miles at Binghamton University and colleagues Ronald Hoy and Daniel Robert, who first described the phase amplification mechanism the fly uses to achieve its directional hearing some 20 years ago.

That is because the assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University is a member of a small group of earth scientists who are pioneering in the use of mineral cave deposits, collectively known as speleothems, as proxies for the prehistoric climate.

ScrubMate is the brainchild of robot pioneer Joseph Engelberger, who designed the first robot used in industry 34 years ago.

So inflation's pioneers, most notably Alan Guth and Andrei Linde, can join the list of great thinkers who have used mathematical recipes to pry deep secrets from nature long before confirmation by observation.

«Carbon monoxide seems to slow the metabolism of the tissue,» says Leo Otterbein, a physiologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, who pioneered therapeutic uses of carbon monoxide.

«It's a fascinating paper,» says Sandy Dasgupta, a chemist at the University of Texas, Arlington, who pioneered an environmentally friendly, ice - based version of a commonly used technique for separating the compounds in complex mixtures, called ice chromatography.

That's now changed, so genetic algorithms are poised to have a profound effect on R&D, says John Koza at Stanford University in California, who has pioneered their use in engineering design.

«We're using more software algorithms and less steel,» says Bill Gross, CEO of the Google - backed solar company who, at the age of 15 in 1973, started Solar Devices, a firm which sold plans and kits for solar power, before pioneering pay - to - click advertising for search engines in the 1990s.

This technology was pioneered by Shinya Yamanaka, who showed that the introduction of four specific proteins that are essential during early embryonic development could be used to convert adult cells into pluripotent cells.

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 first six satellites are set for launch later this year, but the deal does not include financing for sensors for the second round of satellites, and orders NASA to evaluate within 90 days the potential to acquire similar data from commercial startups like Spire Global and GeoOptics, who have pioneered using small satellites to acquire similar data, and began providing such data to NOAA for evaluation last year.

Working with a world - leading group at the University of Connecticut in the USA, who pioneered the development of self - assembling protein nanoparticles (SAPNs) for vaccine design, they have used advanced mathematical calculations to create a complete picture of the surface morphology of these particles.

A Canadian scientist who used a fellowship to visit London's Royal Institution to work with crystallography pioneer William H. Bragg, Barnes wound up publishing the definitive structure of ice formed under natural environmental conditions.

Someone who knows a thing or two about the importance of data collection is Michael Andreeff, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Leukemia, who was a pioneer in the develop of flow cytometry, a method for counting and sorting cells that is commonly used in today's clinical trials.

Yeast are known to use chemosensory mechanisms to not initiate sexual modes of reproduction with other yeast species, said Shah, who cited pioneering research in yeast done by UCSF faculty, including David Julius, PhD and the late Ira Herskowitz, PhD.

Other investigators include Frank Tong, who has pioneered methods to «decode» mental states from brain imaging signals, and Sean Polyn, who uses brain imaging methods as well as recordings of the electrical signals from the scalp to learn how memories are formed and retrieved.

«It typically takes a decade or two to get a material from discovery to commercial use,» said Chris Wolverton, the Jerome B. Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, who is an early pioneer in using computation and AI to predict new materials.