Sentences with phrase «whose pioneering contributions»

This upcoming PBS documentary that shares the stories of exceptional women whose pioneering contributions have shaped America had me proud and sad at the same time.

Not exact matches

One is the differing contributions made by pioneers whose work is essentially descriptive, and that of individuals who initiate revolutions in thought.

Francis «Rip» William Perkins Jr., a pioneering plasma physicist whose contributions to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) ranged from seminal advances in fusion energy and astrophysical research to the education of a generation of scientists, died on July 26 in Boulder, Colo..

Divided into individually indexed sections on the shoot, the casting, pioneer boot camp, editing / sound, and «Those We Don't Speak Of» (a.k.a. the wood bogeys), the doc is at its most compelling when detailing the contributions of violinist Hilary Hahn, whose lilting solos inspired Shyamalan and composer James Newton Howard to radically rethink the score two - thirds into the recording of it.

On Tuesday, Caprice Young was inducted into the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools» Charter School Hall of Fame, which recognizes the movement's pioneers and leaders whose contributions have made a sizeable, lasting, or innovative impact.

Ben Schonzeit is a central figure in American Photorealism, whose technical contribution was his pioneering use of the airbrush.

For half a century now, Lynn Hershman Leeson has made pioneering contributions to performance, conceptual art, new media, and film with works whose formal and technical experimentation is matched by her fearlessness in the deconstruction of gendered identity in a misogynist and technologically mediated world.

The story of the pioneering collectors and artists behind the Guggenheim's radical collection Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim celebrates the late 19th - and early 20th - century masterworks at the core of the institution's holdings, and the trailblazers — artists and early patrons alike — whose contributions helped define the forward - looking identity of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

Another pioneer junk artist was the Hanover Dadaist Kurt Schwitters (1887 - 1948), whose unique contribution to modern art was his «Merzbau» - an intricate mixed - media sculpture made from paper, cardboard and other rubbish, that meandered through his house, eventually filling it completely.

Experimental filmmaker, kinetic sculptor, painter and poet, New Zealand - born Len Lye (1901 — 1980) was an intensely creative figure whose innovative «direct» films are increasingly recognised as pioneering contributions to the development of the moving image.

Hadid is regarded as a pioneering and visionary architect whose contribution to the world of architecture was ground - breaking and innovative.