| 单词 | scientist |
| 例句 | All that fall, the Welch Daily News and the Bluefield Daily Telegraph were filled with stories of our American scientists and engineers at Cape Canaveral in Florida, desperately working to catch up with the Russians. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He was fluent in several European languages and acted as a kind of clearing house for scientific information, communicating by letter with scientists all over Europe. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z "I knew that guy was a mad scientist!" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After the war the problem of gravitational collapse was largely forgotten as most scientists became caught up in what happens on the scale of the atom and its nucleus. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z More disturbingly, scientists’ ability to control their own professional destinies seemed to be slipping away. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A young mule skinner named Milton Humason helped to transport mechanical and optical equipment, scientists, engineers and dignitaries up the mountain. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m even more curious now who the old scientist was back on Earth, for Crick to know of some special talent. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z ‘There were no scientists in Stuart England,’ we are told, ‘and all the men we have grouped together under that heading were in their varying degrees dilettantes.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s scientists had not yet built an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Unusually for his time, Randall was not averse to hiring women scientists; there were several women working with Franklin at King’s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Born into a life of sumptuous privilege–his grandfathers were dukes, respectively, of Devonshire and Kent–he was the most gifted English scientist of his age, but also the strangest. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Michael’s artsy, Caroline’s into student government, and Andrew’s another one of the scientists’ kids, like Dana. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z His advice may have been superfluous, for when it was fully assembled, nine of the Lawrence panel’s twelve scientists were from Livermore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The family then moved back to Britain, where Mack grew up in Aberdeen, and became a scientist, a tinkerer, a great piano player, with a bit of a short attention span himself. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Like all the scientists involved in the discovery, Oppenheimer was fired up by new ideas in physics, deeper glimpses into the weird inner world of atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The man who invented Bacon’s cipher was Sir Francis Bacon, an English scientist and statesman who lived in Shakespeare’s day. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Using this, Soviet scientists immediately began building their first atomic weapon. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Another scientist calculated that if you could lay all HeLa cells ever grown end-to-end, they’d wrap around the Earth at least three times, spanning more than 350 million feet. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z There was a heavy indrawn breath from the scientist, and then a reluctant “Yes.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Soon the Rad Lab would have to pay its scientists a living wage. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z So do the chimps.One day, perhaps quite soon, scientists may not need to use animals for testing drugs and for learning about human diseases. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “You are fortunate to have me as your scientist, old boy, or else I think you’d still be blowing up little aluminum tubes.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The Berkeley scientists arrived to find Y-12 mired in mud, chaos, and rock-bottom morale. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Hooke, an older and well-established scientist, was decidedly miffed at receiving less credit from the young whipper-snapper than he thought he was due, and said as much to his friends. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In the interests of secrecy, the food scientists would not talk to me about current projects. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z These areas, the scientists explained, are part of the attention network, and the fact that they are lit up reflected an increase in blood flow to those locations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It had become disturbingly clear that in the supercharged political atmosphere of the time, scientists could be placed on trial for their personal views, with their careers and reputations hanging in the balance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Medieval optics was heavily dependent upon his contribution and he was unquestionably the best example of an experimental scientist before Gilbert. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Even though he's sort of handsome now, he's still a numbers geek who wants to be a computer scientist. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s always surprising to me to see how often scientists thoughtlessly use synonyms in comparisons, because the cardinal principle of experimental design is the Rule of One Variable. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Such was the skill of the Chinchorro at preserving human flesh that scientists have been able to extract intact DNA from cadavers thousands of years older than the Egyptian pyramids. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z My sense is that a large majority of social scientists still favors proximate explanations for the different courses of European and Chinese history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even among cognitive scientists, “poststimulus event” is not a standard way to refer to a tap on the arm. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Some scientists have suggested that it was caused by a piece of hurtling antimatter, annihilated on contact with the ordinary matter of the Earth, disappearing in a flash of gamma rays. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z While writing this book, I conducted more than a thousand hours of interviews with family and friends of Henrietta Lacks, as well as with lawyers, ethicists, scientists, and journalists who’ve written about the Lacks family. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The theory was indeed wrong, but the scientist never forgave him. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z While most scientists at the conference agree that the global cooldown is being caused by the dimming of the sun, none can offer a viable solution to halt or reverse it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z In another experiment aimed at refining the answers, Dr. Atchley is working with scientists at the Imaging Center in Kansas City. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Groves talked it over with Oppenheimer and other scientists at Los Alamos, many of whom had studied and worked in Germany before the war. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Stalin was screaming for the bomb, and Soviet scientists still needed more information from Los Alamos—they needed final reports on how the atomic bombs had been made. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, scientists aren’t exactly sure, but it’s the difference between an object’s mass and the mass calculated by its gravitational effect.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The committee members, impressed by the scientists’ presentations, wondered aloud if the White House was aware of their views. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z With those cells, scientists helped prove the Salk vaccine effective. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Doctors, like scientists, love to give long names to things. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "I change the jewelry every week to always have a fresh supply of their blood. And for some reason—it even evades my scientists—your blood allows me to watch them." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Fears have been raised that in their enthusiasm scientists might inadvertently create a black hole or even something called "strange quarks," which could, theoretically, interact with other subatomic particles and propagate uncontrollably. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The Soviets wanted to know how far the German bomb project had gotten, and they wanted German scientists—willing or not—to help them with their own bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He did, though, travel widely, including a visit to London in 1661, and a stay of five months in Paris in 1655, when he met many leading scientists, including Pierre Gassendi. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Still others are little more than ideas in the minds of imaginative scientists, waiting for the opportunity to put them to the test. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Galileo had been an experimental scientist for some time, a decade or so—in fact, since he had read William Gilbert’s On the Magnet. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Once she saw me, her mouth broke out into that evil scientist’s grin. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The scientists’ distaste soon fell upon the bill’s eminent defenders. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Among this black race were twenty-four wise scientists. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “But how could I go with you? I’m not an explorer or a scientist. I’m only a house painter.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z “For example, did you know that scientists used to think that elephants had esp?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It would be led by Lyman J. Briggs, a career government scientist then directing the National Bureau of Standards, which by default served as the government’s physics laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This means that scientists, although they may not be aware of it, are never obliged to adopt any particular theory: there are always alternatives that would work as well, indeed, for all we know, better. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z With HeLa, a group of scientists in Colorado succeeded, and soon the world of science had not only HeLa but also its hundreds, then thousands, of clones. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Give the scientists some time and they’ll figure out what to do.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Boveri’s hypothesis was corroborated by work performed by two other scientists. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Archaeologists already knew their dates of construction, usually from written records; the scientists wanted to compare their estimates to the known dates. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But the ferment among the bomb scientists continued—centered, as always, at the Met Lab in Chicago. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He might have had the bad luck to catch the only pessimistic scientist on TV. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z So scientists knew that if they could cause a fast enough chain reaction, they might be able to build atomic bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And with good reason—he was helping British scientists figure out how to build an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, no ancient Greek struck a medal with the word Eureka on it and started awarding it to successful scientists as we award the Fields Medal to successful mathematicians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All her education, all her habits of mind, all her sense of herself as a scientist were shrieking at her silently: This is wrong! The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z After scientists tested disinfecting methods, they found that carbolic acid wasn't the best way to kill germs, especially in the concentrations generally used. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z His scientists were wrestling with the challenge of building a plutonium bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Some scientists believe the Appalachians experienced a fourth, earlier mountain-building episode, called the Grenville Orogeny, and that there may have been others earlier still. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She could have been a famous scientist or doctor or something. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s what scientists believe holds the Milky Way and all other galaxies together, kind of like a giant spiderweb. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z On one side were Lawrence, Alvarez, and a few other supporters of the oath; on the other side were several equally distinguished scientists. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One scientist believes they might someday starve whales to extinction. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Sounds like what we call physics, your experimental theology. You want scientists, not theologians.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They were forcing me to Rinehart methods, so bring on the scientists! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, an entire cadre of “scientists”—geneticists, medical researchers, psychologists, anthropologists, and linguists—gleefully regurgitated academic studies to reinforce the scientific logic of the eugenics program. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z To the continuing exasperation of his fellow scientists, he often alluded in published work to the results of contingent experiments that he had not told anyone about. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Therefore, for as long as possible, my fellow scientists and I will be studying you.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z And all through the ages men have believed the superstitions and doubted the scientist. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z With all the government officials, doctors, scientists, and church people present, all seeking the truth as to whether Bobby was Jinky’s father, it seemed impossible that the exhumation was performed improperly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z First of all, he was a famously absent-minded scientist, living in an abstract world of ideas and numbers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, there you are. Rocket scientists feel wonderful too, and who else you gonna want to share wonderful feelings with if it ain’t a girl?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The greatest American scientist, the most deft diplomat, the most accomplished prose stylist, the sharpest wit, Franklin defied all the categories by inhabiting them all with such distinction and nonchalant grace. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This isn’t just me being dramatic—it’s something that scientists have been able to prove. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The two scientists were studying the forces between atoms when they realized that their measurements didn’t match the forces that had been predicted. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Moscow officials reminded their West Coast agents that they’d been sent a list of scientists to cultivate. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As in prior wars, this one presented scientists with the challenge of helping soldiers and their commanders figure out how to take advantage of technology rather than be overwhelmed by it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It was this encounter that led Newton to write the Principia, establishing his image as the greatest scientist who ever lived. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In Lawrence’s flat- management paradigm, there would be no titles among rhe scientists at Livermore, no pecking order among the PhDs on the laboratory floor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The end of the war brought an unceasing parade of high-profile visitors to Berkeley—military men, foreign dignitaries, important scientists from abroad—and a stream of invitations to join government commissions and corporate boards. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z United States scientists have had some encouraging early results with the melon fly and the oriental and Mediterranean fruit flies in laboratory tests in Hawaii and field tests on the remote island of Rota. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In Galileo’s view the intellectual tools provided by geometry were the only tools required by a scientist. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But scientists in the Department of Agriculture had a better idea: Spread the ammonium nitrate on farmland as fertilizer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A scientist who replaces murine model with rats and mice will use up no more space on the page and be no less scientific. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This proof of a German theory by British scientists was hailed as a great act of reconciliation between the two countries after the war. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "We're scientists. We must take the risks of our science and our will to achieve. Would you like to resurrect God to take responsibility?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Strauss already was orchestrating a propaganda campaign against fallout panic, featuring scientists on the AEC payroll. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Today scientists agree that “race” is a meaningless concept since human differences are only skin deep, but the Nazis defined the Aryan race as Nordic or Caucasian people with no mixture of Jewish ancestry. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The suite known as AA-5 was a group of negative-pressure biocontainment rooms that had been set up as a research lab for Ebola_ virus by a civilian Army scientist named Eugene Johnson. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Henrietta was a black woman born of slavery and sharecropping who fled north for prosperity, only to have her cells used as tools by white scientists without her consent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They reflect the web of life — or death — that scientists know as ecology. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z What tales of daring and adventure must earlier have been recounted as sailors and navigators, practical men of the world, gambled their lives on the mathematics of a scientist from Alexandria? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Killian, a soft-spoken South Carolinian of fifty-three who had succeeded Karl Compton as president of MIT, was a management expert rather than a trained scientist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The success of scientific theories, particularly Newton’s theory of gravity, led the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace at the beginning of the nineteenth century to argue that the universe was completely deterministic. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The document revealed that in the early 1930s, the Gestapo had ordered the arrest of a young scientist named Klaus Fuchs because he was a member of the Communist Party. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z According to some estimates, almost half the scientists and high technologists on Earth are employed full- or part-time on military matters. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the dorm, Fuchs’s only visitor was the scientist in the adjoining room, Richard Feynman. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Data scientists analyze data, separate the noise from the signal, discern patterns, draw conclusions, and recommend actions based on the results.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Months before our flight, scientists had picked a landing spot that looked nice and smooth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This unique species, known by scientists as Homo floresiensis, reached a maximum height of only 3.5 feet and weighed no more than fifty-five pounds. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The paper had been written by one of the British scientists working with Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I might not have been able to run out and buy Fig different food, but I was still the greatest scientist. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The Princeton scientists did not have long to wait before their prediction was confirmed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z From some of the nation’s leading scientists would come denunciations of Oppenheimer, veiled and overt, among them Edward Teller’s assertion that “I personally would feel more secure if public matters would rest in other hands.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And scientists won’t just accept things—they always have to try to figure them out. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z A scientist sent a thermometer that he claimed would provide the most accurate body temperature readings. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Despite scientists’ fears, the ethical crackdown didn’t slow scientific progress. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I fell in love with his books, filled as they were with not only great adventures but scientists and engineers who considered the acquisition of knowledge to be the greatest pursuit of mankind. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The scientist on board tells us that the fluke, or tail, of a whale is like a person’s fingerprint. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Some nights Dr. Morales was actually on the TV news, giving updates along with other scientists who were closely studying the mountain. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z There were more scientists going into related fields, and more money. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z His vocabulary is exemplary: he uses Virtuosi to mean scientists and ‘Science’ to mean, well, science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z James Franck had been correct when he wrote after Hiroshima and Nagasaki that scientists could no longer “disclaim direct responsibility for the use to which mankind had put their disinterested discoveries.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The most striking innovation of the nineteenth century, as far as the language of science is concerned, was the introduction of the word ‘scientist’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “It was pleasant just to have a conversation with so sensitive and intelligent a comrade and scientist,” the woman later said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the circumstances, scientists’ fealty to military and political orthodoxy trumped their honest scientific judgment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But he couldn’t escape the seemingly endless questions about HeLa and cell culture from other scientists. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z More than any scientist before him, Bateson also grasped the idea that the discontinuous nature of genetic information carried vast implications for the future of human genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Would you like to hear more about the scientist who discovered Nightfyre?” asks the drone. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z A scientist can prove that color is only the way the cells are placed in a certain material to reflect light. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately, scientists in other parts of the world were able to verify the commission’s experiments and prove the theory. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z However, though scientists can detect black holes, they still haven’t spotted the zeros at their centers, since the ugly singularities are shielded by the event horizon. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And then I will get a First Class Honors degree and I will become a scientist. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In the winter of 1950, the head of the Biophysics Unit, J. T. Randall, recruited an additional young scientist to work on crystallography. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I was able to cover the whole table where my hydrazine mad scientist setup was. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If life were fair, teachers would make millions, and scientists would be rock stars. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “He’s decided the scientists are corrupt and the whole sunblock industry is a moneymaking fraud,” says Mirren. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z There is no question about our good intentions in this matter: we all hanker, collectively, to become applied scientists as soon as we can, overnight if possible. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were connected to one another by ramshackle wooden bridges over which construction men, technicians, and scientists clambered nervously. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Forensic scientists recommend a fingernail, a tooth, a tissue sample, and a piece of the femur. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Even Harold Urey, who was a member of the Briggs committee, had no luck obtaining access to other scientists’ work to help him develop an isotope separation process for uranium. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “We’ve strayed from Lana’s point. There’s something wrong with this virus. It’s not consistent. I’m not a scientist, but could it be mutating or something? Changing as it jumps from one person to the next?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z John J. Dilulio Jr., a political scientist who was then at Princeton, argued that we were seeing a new kind of juvenile criminal, utterly unlike the misbehaving teens of the past. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I am very observant, which is a useful thing for a scientist to be. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “He was interested in tweaking the system,” said one scientist. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That lady has achieved true immortality, both in the test-tube and in the hearts and minds of scientists the world over, since the value of HeLa cells in research, diagnosis, etc., is inestimable. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It is time to look more closely at the work of Descartes and other scientists who built on the foundations laid by Galileo. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “I’m a scientist. I did some research and applied my findings.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z In England scientists and clergymen still inhabited a common culture, and there was no division between them when it came to belief or disbelief in magic and witchcraft. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A vast amount of information on the biology of the screw- worm had been accumulated over the years by Agriculture Department scientists in Texas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One scientist estimates that if you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons —an inconceivable number, given that an individual cell weighs almost nothing. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Within weeks of getting Einstein’s letter, President Roosevelt formed the Uranium Committee, a group of military leaders and scientists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In his bunker, Oppenheimer leaned against a wooden beam, glancing back and forth from the sky to the scientists at the control panels. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The early scientists did not even know how to perform a test for statistical significance. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It’s funny because he’s a scientist, but also he has a really terrible name. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Although there are many doubters and naysayers, today there is widespread agreement among scientists that the environmental crises threatening the planet are climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, and degraded water quality. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “I saw how scared the PSFs were of the Oranges, and I messed with the scientist who was running the classifying test.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z By the late 1930s, scientists like Hahn understood that everything in the universe is made up of incredibly tiny particles called atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it’s a scientist thing because my mom is all about sleeping late. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z “Looks like your boy wants to be a rocket scientist, Homer!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Also, in keeping with traditions of academic research at the time, the cultures were shared freely, without compensation and in good faith with scientists around the world who requested them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It closed with the ominous observation that German scientists might have already started working on such a project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The combination of good soil, successful agriculture, and evidence of past Indian inhabitation was what had brought the scientists to the farm. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She was a scientist; it was bad enough to have to admit to consulting the I Ching, but this was even more embarrassing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I would be floundering without Karl's guidance, but Mr. Campbell is a scientist. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The facts might point to no cure, but if scientists let every obstacle get in their way, then there’d never be any major scientific discoveries. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Over a barely digested lunch, the three scientists realized that this intermediate molecule had to shuttle from the cell’s nucleus, where genes were stored, to the cytoplasm, where proteins were synthesized. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Harry. Do you think I could be”—I stopped, then spoke again, my voice studiedly casual—“a scientist?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z But the simple truth is that it is both, and that the scientists are right to claim that this artificial enterprise can discover what happens in nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And on our small planet, this moment in history is a historical branch point as profound as the confrontation of the Ionian scientists with the mystics 2,500 years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This aspect of a sound — how often a peak of a wave goes by, is called frequency by scientists and engineers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z As late as Shakespeare’s time, scientists talked about the revolution of orbs of different proportions and discussed the heavenly music that reverberated throughout the cosmos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Most historians do not think of themselves as scientists and receive little training in acknowledged sciences and their methodologies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Before anyone visited the moon, scientists made very accurate measurements of its distance. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Kelvin’s discovery of absolute zero, the laws of thermodynamics erected impenetrable barriers that no scientists can ever cross, no matter how hard they try. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Their joint project was exceptionally ambitious and, for reasons that scientists would not fully comprehend for another year or two, doomed to failure. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In theory, scientists can get energy from the Casimir effect even at absolute zero in the bleakest part of the vacuum of space. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Everyone came to the Clinic, with the result that Luce had at his disposal a body of research material—of living, breathing specimens—no scientist had ever had before. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z If Newton went to such lengths to try to play down Hooke’s role in history, Hooke must have been an impressive scientist indeed. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Was it, as a number of interested scientists believed, just the human fascination with patterns? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Other scientists besides Kelvin turned their minds to the problem and came up with results that only deepened the uncertainty. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Their inventors, two scientists from South Africa, are awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I imagine I’m a world-famous scientist who was brutally kidnapped but managed to use her brilliance to escape to per- form this vital experiment. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This allowed scientists to begin mapping human genes to specific chromosomes by tracking the order in which genetic traits vanished. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Depending on who you talked to, he was an inventor, a scientist, a soldier, or even a lunatic—or maybe all of the above. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Jeanine and her army of Erudite scientists and Dauntless traitors walk in just as I wipe tears from my cheeks. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z But it seems virtually certain that future scientists will still be talking about facts and theories, experiments and hypotheses. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He tells Mr. Banerji that some darn fool scientists are working on a square tomato, which will supposedly pack more easily into crates than the round variety. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Though it is a strange concept physically, it is the predictive power of the equations that interests scientists, rather than their comprehensibility—and an extra six dimensions do not constitute an insurmountable problem, mathematically. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z His hair was lighter than Rebecca’s, but they both looked like all the scientists that Moss had seen in the sci-fi films he’d grown up on. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The results were so unexpected, in fact, that the three scientists at first thought they had to be wrong. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There, lawyers could use the Nuremberg Code to establish whether a scientist was acting within the ethical boundaries of the profession. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “I’m going to be an animal scientist,” I told him. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z No lab had less excuse for overlooking a phenomenon that indeed had been in front of the scientists’ eyes for months. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer was uncomfortable with the entire discussion, for he considered the question of the bomb’s deployment to be outside the scientists’ expertise. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Modern planetary scientists sometimes argue that the collision of a comet with a planet might make a significant contribution to the planetary atmosphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re genetically promiscuous—we mate with anyone we choose—and we don’t take kindly to scientists telling us who to reproduce with. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “I know it’s been difficult,” she said, pouring him a cup of lemonade with the concentration of a scientist measuring hydrochloric acid. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z But fault lines between the officers and the scientists opened up immediately, as the talk turned to how much money the scientists considered necessary for their research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z All of the stories mentioned that scientists had begun doing research on Henrietta’s children, but the Lackses didn’t seem to know what that research was for. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The scientists on board kept up with their experiments, such as they were. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z There is no evidence that the scientists who did research on patients at Crownsville got consent from either the patients or their parents. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Either this girl had faulty taste buds or she really was an odd, evil scientist. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The project would be enormously expensive, they knew, and it would mean pulling top scientists off other high-priority weapons projects. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, some scientists believe that Maria may have been the only person to record the metamorphoses of many species in Surinam that have since become extinct. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If Protestantism was what counted, Galileo would not have been a great scientist. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z So I thought about that one: After I decided to go to Reardan, I felt like an invisible mountain gorilla scientist. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z He was already thinking about the role America’s scientists might play in the world war lurking on the horizon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Many scientists believed that since patients were treated for free in the public wards, it was fair to use them as research subjects as a form of payment. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Evidently the task of forging a brotherhood of scientists would fall to the two brothers themselves. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Despite the importance of this research, many scientists seemed cavalier about their cultures. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In one, a mad scientist used HeLa as a biological weapon to spread rabies; another featured yellow house paint made of HeLa cells that could talk. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The book went on to say that scientists had been arguing about whether or not the Jupiter bird had been able to fly for over fifty years. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z As scientists, we deplore the use to which a beautiful discovery has been put, but we can assure you that unless Japan surrenders at once, this rain of atomic bombs will increase manyfold in fury. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And at least two well-known scientists, the astronomer Ernst Öpik and the chemist and Nobel laureate Harold Urey, had also voiced support for the notion at various times. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Helmholtz was an associate professor at the Prussian University of Konigsberg and one of the leading scientists of his day. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z There is an old-fashioned way of writing the history of early modern science in which Copernicus, Digges, Benedetti and Gilbert are presented as scientists, although none of them used the word of themselves. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Conant, who had come up with the idea, thought it could serve as a conduit to the Interim Committee for the views of bomb scientists who had become restless about the implications of their work. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They were controlled by “big men,” the social scientist’s term for the alpha male who is able in such informal settings to enforce his will through persuasion or force. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Which scientists think is the neurotransmitter related to depression...If you have a lack of this chemical in your system, you can start to get depressed.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz, no intellectual slouch himself, wrote that Kelvin had by far the greatest "intelligence and lucidity, and mobility of thought" of any man he had ever met. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Looking at it, it is perfectly clear that the terminator is irregular, but this irregularity is what information scientists call ‘noise’: it makes no sense and conveys no information. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Mr. Daniels says, rubbing his hands together like a mad scientist. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z They also understood that, beyond keeping the program’s scientists mollified, there were other reasons to think about postwar policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But for the most part the new scientists avoided the word ‘evidence’ because it inevitably carried with it an implicit reference to the law courts—a reference that Sprat was willing to make explicit. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Other scientists are working on the so-called “juvenile hormone,” a powerful substance which prevents metamorphosis of the larval insect until the proper stage of growth has been reached. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Why do we need scientists to make us important? I go to school with their kids, and they’re all snobs and dweebs. Whoever heard of their stupid university anyway?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Like Ploetz, Siemens realized that genetic cleansing could be justified only if scientists could first establish heredity: you could justify sterilizing a blind man only if you could establish that his blindness was inherited. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She was terrified and couldn’t stop wondering if the parts of her mother they were using in research could actually feel the things scientists were doing to them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The telescope and the microscope enabled scientists to see previously invisible worlds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Government scientists have developed an attractant called methyl-eugenol, which males of the oriental fruit fly and the melon fly find irresistible. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The electron is a zero-dimensional object, and its very zerolike nature ensures that scientists don’t even know the electron’s mass or charge. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It's not like I'm some mad scientist who planned and studied and dreamed about becoming invisible all his life, and now it's happened, so now I can use my powers to take over the world. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As one would expect, the word caught on more rapidly in North America than in Britain, where scientists continued to have a classical education. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Maybe someday I’ll study mathematics at college and become a rocket scientist. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, when we hear the word clone, we imagine scientists creating entire living animals —like Dolly the famous cloned sheep—using DNA from one parent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Over time, though, scientists came to believe that light was not in fact a particle, but a wave. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The result was a sea change in the relationship between scientists and the Atomic Energy Commission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z All that scientists know is the cosmos was spawned from nothing, and will return to the nothing from whence it came. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Now, the following people are technically able down there at Oak Ridge,” said Oppenheimer, naming scientists Feynman should talk to. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But the scientists and doctors on our ship, like Mom and Dad, won’t tolerate assimilation. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The zero-point energy is no different; most scientists ignore it completely. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The Martian surface exhibits many impact craters, each named after a person, usually a scientist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And it would be decades before anyone thought to ask whether informed consent should apply in cases like Henrietta’s, where scientists conduct research on tissues no longer attached to a person’s body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “L. Roy is a quack. Calls himself a scientist, but most of the time he just makes stuff up and hopes folks won’t know the difference.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Alvarez told Oppenheimer that uranium atoms split in two—scientists were calling it fission. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the meantime two scientists had developed a theory about HeLa that sounded far more like science fiction than anything Rifkin had come up with: HeLa, they said, was no longer human. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “It was not surprising that some Los Alamos scientists filled the air with horse laughs,” acknowledged York. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Dr. Morales and the other scientists knew that something was happening inside the volcano. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z It was minutes after the two scientists left that Dr. Susan Calvin regained part of her mental equilibrium. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Aristotelian philosophers looked backwards, assuming Aristotle had known everything that needed to be known; the new scientists looked forward, aiming to expand the limited range of topics in which they could make satisfactory predictions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Pushing any doubts out of his mind, Oppenheimer worked his scientists harder than ever. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As the news spread, children of scientists grabbed pots and pans and ran outside banging them together and shouting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Because Bailey did somehow look like a genius or at least a caricature of the mad scientists in old movies. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ultraviolet light is light with a lot of energy, so scientists naturally concluded that it took quite a bit of energy to kick an electron out of an atom. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z With the machines, the scientists study blood flow in the brain, look at electrical wave patterns, and create images of ultra-thin slices of neurological tissue. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Then you should be folding what we rocket scientists call a glider.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “Our scientists have said there’s far too much oxygen in their atmosphere.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “I bet if some scientist took half of my outlook and half of your outlook they’d come up with a perfect balance of how people should see the world.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Everybody knows that Einstein’s the greatest scientist in the universe, and someday I hope to be the same.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Younger scientists crowded into bunk beds in an old school building while new dorms were being built. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, I didn’t suppose those Soviet scientists who had sent up Sputnik had gotten where they were by cheating. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the molecule that has the glamour, not the scientists. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Just as the scientist might randomly assign one mouse to a treatment group and another to a control group, the Chicago school board effectively did the same. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “One gesture of Beria,” said a Soviet scientist, “was sufficient to make any of us disappear.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer was busy recruiting scientists for Los Alamos—but that didn’t mean he knew for sure an atomic bomb was technically possible. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When those radiocarbon dates were announced in 1960, not even Japanese scientists could at first believe them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The bonds forged then between the two young scientists would last all their lives. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It smelled as though scent scientists had engineered it to give off the whiff of walking past a high-end rare book dealer’s shop in Paris or London. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z "And this mob," he said, "Is it a mob against us, or is it a mob for us—how do our muscle-bound scientists answer that?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Because his subjects had not gotten full-blown yellow fever, many scientists thought that Finlay had failed to prove the relationship between mosquitoes and the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Even though nature tries to shield the singularities of black holes, scientists know that black holes exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “In nature there is no generation,” the Dutch scientist Jan Swammerdam wrote in 1669, “but only propagation.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If scientists succeed, they will understand the laws of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And there is another critical piece, and another key scientist. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Above all, Boyle, like any seventeenth-century scientist, realizes that most of his readers will be mathematicians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “The scientist that sorted you—did he run you through all of the tests?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z After receiving a standing ovation for a speech at Washington University in St. Louis advocating a test ban, Pauling launched a petition drive among scientists calling for an immediate international halt to all nuclear testing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “But Erudite scientists developed this highly effective mineral solution a while hack. It was better for the plants than dirt,” he says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z And then one of the scientists called my dad. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z When I grew up I became an ethologist—a long word that simply means a scientist who studies animal behavior. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Before a scientist can understand what they don’t know, they have to investigate what they do know. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The scientists analyzed over 700 samples, each containing an average of over 500 identifiable seeds belonging to over 70 plant species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As the world’s greatest scientist, I wasn’t afraid of ghosts. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z All five women moved to a secret location 40 miles northeast of Moscow, a walled compound filled with people working on the Soviet space program—scientists, engineers, and cosmonauts. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “This is how many discoveries were made,” one scientist said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Here nine hundred food scientists spend their days designing the future of food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Mr. Levy has been teaching science at Emerson Junior High for centuries, and he looks like a mad scientist. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Fact: Even though there are tons of black holes in space, scientists say they’re just too far away to harm us. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Slightly calmer, Hahn walked to the dining room, where the other German scientists were gathered for dinner. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s a scientist and says theater isn’t a real job. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z If Gilbert is an example of a new type of scientist, what makes this new science possible? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “How long did you keep them in your laboratory?” one scientist asked, suggesting that Gartler had contaminated the cells himself after they arrived in his lab. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was in such a capacity in 1780 that Lavoisier made some dismissive remarks about a new theory of combustion that had been submitted to the academy by a hopeful young scientist. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Today, scientists and artists can instantly record and share their findings using digital photography. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It seemed to me, considering all the rockets that I read about blowing up down at Cape Canaveral, that was the way Wernher von Braun and the other rocket scientists did their work too. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z "So did countless other researchers, scientists, and engineers. Everyone poured their souls into construction while I waged a constant political battle to maintain funding. "In the end, we built a beautiful probe. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Fundamentally, though, the word ‘scientist’ was merely a new and useful word for a type of person who had long been in existence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Apparently the Junior Researcher trainees all have to attend a presentation from some really old, really famous magical scientist who’s visiting from the Bureau’s London outpost. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I said probably not, because I wanted to be a cheetah or manatee or dog scientist, but I would keep bats in mind as a backup plan. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Japan presented an entirely different case, at least to the scientists. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At first, I admit, I was in awe at the picture of an international convention of scientists and scholars, gathered for an exchange of ideas. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z And someday the world would refer to me as the greatest scientist who’d ever lived. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z And a part of me, the scientist part of me, really wanted to figure out what was going on. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z An important truth was slowly entering my head: a scientist’s life might be interesting socially as well as intellectually. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Their newscaster was interviewing a distinguished-looking scientist about how long it would take before things got back to normal. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “My own feeling is that this political activity of many of our atomic scientists is unfortunate in many ways,” he wrote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Like almost all other English scientists, he joined the war effort and became part of the Admiralty’s scientific establishment. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z One of the scientists who consulted for Reader was Leonard Hayflick, arguably the most famous early cell culturist left in the field today. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The detonating device was publication of a letter Jefferson had written in 1801 to Joseph Priestley, the English scientist and renowned critic of Christianity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As temperatures soared over 100 degrees, scientists and soldiers moved into tents at the test site. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He passed her envelopes containing reports on everything British scientists knew about atomic bomb physics, and she radioed the material to Moscow. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The young scientists’ expectation was that Swann would escort them around Europe, introducing them to his friends and acquaintances among the eminent figures of European science in a sort of belated and truncated Studienreise. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In French, physicien had never been a term used for doctors, so the word was conveniently available to mean a natural scientist, and then to evolve to become the French equivalent for ‘physicist’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The question of “likeness” had preoccupied scientists and philosophers for centuries. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Many of the scientists working for him use HeLa cells on a routine basis. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Our principle concern,” he explained, “was to keep information and atomic scientists from falling into the hands of the Russians.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the hysteria that followed over Soviet scientists’ apparent outdistancing their American counterparts, a new group of technical advisors was brought into the White House. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There were soldiers everywhere, dressed in fatigues, and there were civilian scientists and technicians wearing id badges. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The historians and the scientists at Cambridge shared a common education: Latin was a compulsory entrance requirement. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My dad used to say a good boatbuilder was partway an artist and partway a scientist, and it was the science part of Mr. Woodwell that was going to help me raise our boat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z She talked of his hobbies and talents, how he was celebrated at his funeral as one of the great rocket scientists. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The government’s enormous role in research, especially in nuclear physics, made many scientists uneasy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “A team of internationally known scientists did a study on Ansley Matthews last year and came to the unanimous conclusion that she is an idiot,” Mary Anne said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z According to scientists, there are three stages of love: lust, attraction, and attachment. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z She had the curiosity of a true scientist, the patience it took to raise insects, and the superb artistic skill necessary to share her observations. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Calculus, on the other hand, gave scientists a way to express the laws that govern the motion of the celestial bodies—and laws that would eventually tell scientists how those moons and stars had formed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For seamen the yearly salary was fifty pounds; for scientists it was 150. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The scientists were looking for ways to strip the kids’ abilities—“rehabilitate” them—but they had mostly just stripped their will to live. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Thus every scientist is subject to two competing and conflicting imperatives: they are obliged to be both competitive and cooperative. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I had the same four qualities as any great scientist: I was patient, curious, observant, and persistent. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Being a plain old doctor or a plain old scientist isn’t challenging enough, so she decided she wants to combine them. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Frisch saw fellow scientists rushing to the phone to make reservations at Santa Fe restaurants to celebrate. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “It should suppress some, but not all, of the activity in the prefrontal cortex,” the scientist with the round glasses says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z According to Alabama scientists, “damage to plants in general is rare.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One year, these scientists came with a mini-submarine and tried to find the bottom, but the lake was so silty and muddy that they couldn’t see. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The clock was designed by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens - who incidentally had published essays on the physics of music - and built by clockmaker Salomon Coster. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Strauss, for his part, was delighted by the performance of his trusted scientists, for plainly they had succeeded in buying time for continued testing, if not for sweeping a ban off the negotiating table entirely. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Doctors and scientists aren’t the only ones, there are others, but they must have had a run on them this morning. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z To see the remaining traces of this early settlement, scientists would have to jack up the whole enormous pile and dig underneath. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She ran her hands through her wild hair, which made her look like a crazed scientist. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z This year many of the scientists had gone to Oxford specifically to discuss Charles’s book. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Pythagoras, the Greek scholar—half scientist, half mystic—who lived in Croton around 530 BC, proposed one of the earliest and most widely accepted theories to explain the similarity between parents and their children. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But support for the May-Johnson Bill evaporated once scientists got around to reading the text, which, unlike Truman’s message, had been drafted by War Department lawyers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The light is fading, and the other scientists have all gone home by the time we get the okay from Sheriff Ocasek to head back into town. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Secondly, it is a question about intellectual tools: the concept of laws of nature, for example, shapes the sorts of questions scientists ask and the sorts of answers nature provides. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One dressed in a striped red shirt, matching knit hat, and round black glasses raised his hand in greeting, and the woman dressed as a mad scientist added, “Morning!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z This is a striking case of French imposing itself upon English, and of the scientists determining for the first time the language of the theologians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z With the instinct for ordeal that characterized the age, scientists set off for more than a hundred locations around the globe–to Siberia, China, South Africa, Indonesia, and the woods of Wisconsin, among many others. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I could maybe find some mad scientist to cryogenically freeze me, but chances are I’d die in the middle of that wacky experiment. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z "I couldn't be a scientist. I'm no good in science." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z And of course almost all the early scientists shared a common language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is a word not typically used to describe science, or scientists. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Eight scientists dressed in white surgical coats stood around a table putting the pieces together. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Alsos teams rounded up the top German scientists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a tough task, since Soviet agents didn’t know which American scientists were working on the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This picture of a hot early stage of the universe was first put forward by the scientist George Gamow in a famous paper written in 1948 with a student of his, Ralph Alpher. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m trying to better understand why two rocket scientists are dead. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “My science teacher says it’s quacks like Sagarsky that give real scientists a bad name.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z There was a fellow scientist in my hood. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Just before dinner time at Farm Hall, the English mansion at which Germany’s top scientists were being held, a British officer named T. H. Rittner asked to speak to Otto Hahn in private. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If the animal scientist thing doesn’t work out, I might become a librarian too. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The public—and the scientists themselves—imagine that the quality of the evidence determines the outcome; actually, we are told, it is the status, power and rhetorical skill of the combatants. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Leo sends reports, maps to scientists tracking wildfires. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Today, no scientist would dream of publishing a person’s name with any of their genetic information, because we know how much can be deduced from DNA, including the risks of developing certain diseases. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Since the war ended, newspapers had been free to tell the public that the atomic bomb had been built by scientists at Los Alamos, led by Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, he thought it inappropriate for scientists to engage in political activity of any kind—“political fiddling around,” as he called it in a conversation with Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One day, she showed us a video in which a scientist described what he called “the most astounding fact,” which was that all living things are composed of the atoms of collapsed stars. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Rule number one for scientists is this: There is always a logical explanation for things. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z British and American scientists were both exploring the science. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When scientists investigated the native diet of the Eskimos in this region it was found to be free from insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I thought maybe two hundred years later, scientists would find two boy skeletons stuck in the top of that tree. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The staff swelled with scientists and technicians recruited from Livermore and the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The scientists could determine if plutonium was present only by reading its trace radioactive signature; this was science performed not by observation but by deduction. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In addition, he was aware that in 1898 two scientists working separately had announced that a mosquito was able to carry the malaria parasite and transmit it to humans. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z For years, scientists have argued back and forth about why this is the case. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As they moved from discipline to discipline, the new scientists carried with them a set of assumptions about how to construct new knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z So the scientist asked her what the tortoise was standing on. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A team of scientists climbed the tower and began attaching wires and detonators all over the bomb’s surface. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1890 amateur scientists claimed to have found traces of Pleistocene Americans in New Jersey, Indiana, Ohio, and the suburbs of Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A gifted physicist, Fuchs was well liked by his fellow scientists, though they found him difficult to get to know. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z About some new expiration date the scientists have set for the planet. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z As we eat, I find myself observing my grandfather and mother, like I’m a scientist, an Ellie version of Galileo. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z I could always depend on my favorite scientist, Einstein, of course. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Brainwashed by his teachers, he believed his sole aim in life was to enter a famous university and become a scientist—” “Hey!” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, as James Trefil has put it, scientists had encountered "an area of the universe that our brains just aren’t wired to understand." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Who decided that for Henry Reed to become a scientist he had to work like George Washington Carver, as a bootblack, to buy a lousy microscope? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The jaws of the widest C are 3,950 feet apart, an expanse so big that scientists did not recognize the ridges as constructions until they took aerial photographs of the site in the 1950s. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Stan Livingston was one of the first scientists, though not the last, to discover that the teamwork demanded by Big Science might not suit them. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As Lund had in Brazil, British scientists discovered some strange-looking human skeletons jumbled up with the skeletons of extinct Pleistocene mammals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Well, I'm pretty sure the something he's protecting is not secret information about our space program. He hardly looks like a rocket scientist.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A behavioral scientist could hardly design a better experiment in his laboratory. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The course of the war had outrun work on the bomb, rendering the Allied scientists’ concerns about a Nazi bomb program increasingly irrelevant. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Much of our understanding of mind reading comes from two remarkable scientists, a teacher and his pupil: Silvan Tomkins and Paul Ekman. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Over and over, in the years after 1647, scientists filled long glass tubes, sealed at one end, with mercury and inverted them in baths of mercury. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “You sure don’t sound like a scientist. What kind of scientist would want to hug a statue?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z When she heard about his plans for the conference and the official naming of Henrietta Lacks Day, she was ecstatic: finally, a scientist was honoring her mother. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z So C. J. Briejer, a Dutch scientist of rare understanding, sums up our use of weed killers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “It might take me a little while to concoct this new chemical confection,” said the scientist. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Not only was it a training facility, but it also had residences that housed cosmonauts, scientists, and space personnel and their families. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The host was Clifford Nass, a sociologist who had been a math prodigy as a child in New Jersey and whose plan was to become a computer scientist. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The closemouthed Scottish scientist never mentioned the incident. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The British press called the HeLa hybrids an “assault on life,” and portrayed Harris as a mad scientist. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The other allowed himself a leer, which, for a scientist past fifty, was not a bad job, “Maybe she’s in love.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z As the political scientist John J. Dilulio Jr. later commented, “Apparently, it takes a Ph.D. in criminology to doubt that keeping dangerous criminals incarcerated cuts crime.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But other scientists thought there was a layer of dust on the surface which in places might be thirty or forty feet thick! Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z While it was not unusual for a scientist with an advanced degree to have read widely outside his or her chosen specialty, Oppenheimer’s range of interests was unusually broad. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z To gain entrance, scientists had to show their white badges—only the scientists were issued these special photo IDs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As Helen showed up in articles again and again with different last names, a few scientists began feeling the need to set the record straight. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The lumberjacks and environmentalists love me equally, but a problem arises when a group of lesser scientists spread the rumor that the leaves of my trees cause cancer in laboratory animals. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z A few weeks before Greenhouse, Bradbury had tried to mollify the willful physicist by creating a semiautonomous thermonuclear division at Los Alamos, giving Teller authority over 25 scientists. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They included an Egyptian scientist and his wife, also on their way to Mecca for the Hajj, who insisted I go with them to dinner in a restaurant in Heliopolis, a suburb of Cairo. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He got up in time to see scientists scrambling out of the bunker. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In short, scientists say that nothing we do as humans uses more parts of our brain and is more complex than playing an instrument. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Black said he probably could've been a scientist or a doctor or a lawyer if his teachers had got that he was different. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z This does not mean that its rightness was always apparent, although careless historians and scientists often imply as much; it does mean that its rightness becomes incontestable, at least for a period of time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There was no way to know what German scientists were up to, or how far ahead they might already be. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the letters she got about the problem, 92% said that she was wrong and lots of these were from mathematicians and scientists. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But Lawrence responded brusquely to what sounded like Oppie’s assumption of guilt on behalf of scientists everywhere. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At the same time, doctors and scientists were aware of electricity’s power to kill. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Tamika was coming over later and we were going to brainstorm possible experiments for our YouTube channel, Science Rocks, hosted by the two greatest scientists in the universe, after Einstein, of course. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Gene Johnson, the civilian scientist, had thawed a little bit of Nurse Mayinga’s frozen blood and had injected it into the monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then you believe him when he says I never eat. You are a scientist, Dr. Lanning. Think of the logic required. I have not been observed to eat, therefore, I never eat Q.E.D. After all!” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z She and Katherine Johnson and many others were core members of the National Technical Association, the professional organization for black engineers and scientists. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In the early 1970s, a group of social scientists at Stanford University, led by Philip Zimbardo, decided to create a mock prison in the basement of the university’s psychology building. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The last scientist who worked in the Library was a mathematician, astronomer, physicist and the head of the Neoplatonic school of philosophy—an extraordinary range of accomplishments for any individual in any age. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that theologians should answer questions about religion, scientists about science. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "It's good because then we could compare notes, that's why. That's why when scientists do experiments, they do them lots of times—to compare the results." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The general public could grow HeLa at home using instructions from a Scientific American do-it- yourself article, and both Russian and American scientists had managed to grow HeLa in space. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z For the first time I realized, not only were there no women among those scientists on TV, there weren’t any Negroes either. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Since fringe politicians and scientists are generally more intriguing than mainstream ones, they garner a disproportionate share of publicity and thus seem more representative and significant than they otherwise would. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as over-scrupulous historians refuse to use the words ‘revolution’, ‘science’ and ‘scientist’ when writing about the seventeenth century, they baulk at using Butterfield’s other word, ‘modern’, because it, too, seems to them inherently anachronistic. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Coke’s scientists went back and tinkered with the fabled secret formula to make it a little lighter and sweeter—more like Pepsi. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I pretend I’m a scientist, on the outside looking in, the way Ms. Keen describes her days watching rats get lost in mazes. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The scientists on the Collection Committee set out to create the Fort Knox of pure, uncontaminated cell culture. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Actually, it is kind of odd that scientists named the lizard after its yellow spots. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “The notion of disappearing into the New Mexico desert for an indeterminate period,” he recalled, “disturbed a good many scientists.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z No instrument currently imaginable will give scientists the power to observe strings directly; nobody can think of an experiment that will give physicists evidence about whether black holes and particles are, indeed, strings. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Many scientists needed cells, but few had the time or ability to grow them in large enough quantities. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She said some scientists say yes, some say no. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Agents in black shirts stood guard while scientists in lab coats busied themselves over a stainless steel table filled with jars. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Incredibly, an investigation was launched by the Reykjavik Police Department and Icelandic scientists. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “You know, scientists found that dogs maybe really do laugh,” I said. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Hell, he made me,” Sproul would say later of the scientist whose tenure at Berkeley coincided almost exactly with his own. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Amidst the recriminations and finger-pointing from the doctors, scientists, and prison officials, one might have expected the demise of electrocution technology. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For the new scientists of the second half of the seventeenth century were in a quite different position from their classical, Arab and medieval predecessors. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, he died before he could conduct the experiments and both the idea and the necessary equipment were passed on to a brilliant but magnificently retiring London scientist named Henry Cavendish. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When a teacher tells you that all great leaders and scientists were once children, too, you think, Maybe we can be the great ones tomorrow. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z As the Yale computer scientist David Gelernter says, “Bill Joy is one of the most influential people in the modern history of computing.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But there was a difference between suppressing the publication of research findings and restricting the personal give-and-take among scientists that was indispensable for scientific progress. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Hadn’t Lyra said that the scientists in her world had discovered something like that about Dust, which was their name for Shadows? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In the Soviet Union in the 1930s, left-wing scientists and intellectuals proposed that nothing about heredity was inherent at all. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Naturally, we were very jubilant over the outcome of the experiment,” Rabi later said of the mood among scientists that morning. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z For all that the scientists down here on Planet Earth knew, she could have been singing “Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall” to herself over and over and over. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Now he regarded Lawrence as a scientist on the make for government largess and personal glory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “But maybe by then they’ll have figured out a way of clearing the ash from the sky. The scientists must be working on that.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z One of the Erudite scientists taps his own computer screen, and an image appears on the left wall. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Since my examination by the physicians and scientists of Erhenrang I had not been faced with a group of people who wanted me to answer their questions. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z But when it became clear that there was no risk of a HeLa shortage, they began sending the cells to any scientist interested in buying them, for ten dollars plus Air Express fees. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Correct. The aptitude test is by far my greatest achievement as a scientist,” she replies. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Among other things, scientists involved in the case claim that the practice of gene patenting has inhibited their research, and they aim to stop it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Later in his life, Newton presided over the Royal Society, a fellowship of scientists, and was Master of the Mint, where he devoted his energies to the suppression of counterfeit coinage. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Reed favored the idea that a bacterium, first identified by Italian scientists and usually found in swamps, was the culprit. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In England, the famous scientist, Professor Foulbody, invented a machine which would tell you at once, without opening the wrapper of a candy bar, whether or not there was a Golden Ticket hidden underneath it. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “How did you know where she had it?” said the scientist. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A few scientists had challenged Meggers’s ideas; Roosevelt excoriated them from top to bottom. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Both men were scientists commuting to their jobs at ATK Systems, where they were helping build rocket boosters. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “It would be so cool if we both became scientists someday...” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z These hundred people are the first dispersed community of experimental scientists. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But more than the material nature of the gene, it was the sheer malleability of the genome—that X-rays could make such Silly Putty of genes—that stunned scientists. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It has been nearly a century since scientists measured the electron’s mass and charge. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In just a few months, a staff of six black scientists and technicians built a factory at Tuskegee unlike any seen before. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In principle, a scientist should be able to change the “composition of individuals,” and of nations, and leave a permanent mark on human identity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Like musicians, like mathematicians—like elite athletes—scientists peak early and dwindle fast. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The words left a funny feeling in Jesper’s chest, but he laughed and said, “As long as my country pays cash. Does the Council know the scientist is dead?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But there was one book, written by a famous scientist, that had a chapter about rats. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z In the 1920s, scientists were just beginning to understand living systems in chemical terms. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Had the Russian scientists actually been several years ahead of our estimates of their progress?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Max Delbrück, the scientist, called it a “stupid molecule.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As Kuhn pointed out over and over again, one of the central purposes of an education in the sciences is to hide this basic truth from the next generation of scientists. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “The material as a whole,” reported Kurchatov, “shows that it is technically possible to solve the entire uranium problem in a much shorter period than our scientists believed.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a thinker and philosopher more in the style of the Ancient Greeks than a modern scientist. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The Erudite scientists raise their hands in unison. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Salk looks exactly the way you’d imagine a scientist: glasses, white lab coat, holding test tubes. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z The ancient wisdom was discarded, and scientists began to divine the laws that governed the workings of nature. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She was also a scientist, nun, poet, visionary and diplomat, and her music is still performed and admired now, nearly a thousand years later. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In 1801 a British scientist discovered that light interferes with itself, apparently putting the matter to rest once and for all. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The idea is that about 15,000 years ago a chance mutation let the virus “jump the species barrier,” as scientists say, and infect human beings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Then scientists passed around thick pieces of dark glass, the kind used in welder’s masks. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I told myself they were not gawking curiosity seekers, but scientists here in search of knowledge. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The nature of light was a problem that had consumed scientists for centuries. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Eisenhower had considerably exaggerated the scientists’ purported accomplishment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “This is too big for the scientists,” Lorraine said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z According to Robert Stevenson, one of the scientists involved in the meeting, their goal was to keep the field from “degenerating into complete chaos.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They, like most tissue- rights activists, are less concerned about personal profits than about making sure the knowledge scientists gain by studying tissues is available to the public, and to other researchers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “It’s the region of the brain behind the forehead, so to speak,” one of the scientists says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Some scientists are working very hard to find out ways of testing substances without using any animals at all. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z But even today some scientists argue that it’s factually incorrect to say that HeLa cells are related to Henrietta, since their DNA is no longer genetically identical to hers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In keeping with almost universally accepted practice at the time, physicians and other scientists at Hopkins and elsewhere did not seek permission to use tissue removed as part of diagnostic and treatment procedures. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The fact is that what scientists call zoonotic disease was little known in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The youngest of the three scientists, von Tschermak had received news of two other parallel studies that fully corroborated his results, then waded back into the scientific literature to discover Mendel. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, ‘experiment’ became in English a technical term for something scientists do; but not, as we have seen, in French. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When I talked to McKusick several years before his death in 2008, he was seventy-nine and still conducting research and training young scientists. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z At the Cavendish, gold resisted the disintegration effect, except for a modest result the scientists traced to contamination of the heavier targets by light impurities such as boron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The same is true of almost all the other ancient Ionian scientists. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Roberts predicted you'd be a rocket scientist because you are awesome at math and are in general out of this world. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z However, the approach most scientists actually follow is to separate the problem into two parts. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Claudia answered, “A scientist doesn’t make up his mind until he’s examined all the evidence.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was the presence of scientists from outside physics that marked the real departure from custom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Hiskey explained that he and other scientists were “working with desperate haste” to build an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The scientists therefore were justified in thinking that a final decision on dropping the bomb would await their further inpur. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A brilliant scientist can come over the border from Mexico to live in America, but if he speaks in broken English, people say, “Eh, I don’t trust this guy.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Artists and scientists and philosophers and poets, many of them long dead. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Jackson introduced them by alluding to their goal of making atom bombs cleaner, reporting “the gleam in the scientists’ eye of making them almost like Ivory Soap”—then adding wryly: “but not quite.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Once scientists knew how many chromosomes people were supposed to have, they could tell when a person had too many or too few, which made it possible to diagnose genetic diseases. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s point was more nuanced than it might have seemed on the surface; he was calling for introspection among scientists that had been lacking—and perhaps unnecessary—before the power of fission was unleashed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z How he wished that he had been a scientist, instead of a house painter in Stillwater, so that he might have joined some of the great Polar expeditions. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z “Even if they can come up with something, it may take months, even years, before they can implement it,” the scientist replied. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z European scientists were sharing more among themselves than were the Americans, albeit through personal contacts, not in the pages of widely published journals. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I talked to many scientists about HeLa, and none could explain why Henrietta’s cells grew so powerfully when many others didn’t even survive. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Like ants on an orderly march to our hole, my family and I walk quietly across the grass field with several scientists and one other family with a blond teenager. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It was an illuminating insight: a scientist could understand the present and the future by examining the “battered relics” of the past. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Mendel himself requested forty reprints, which he mailed, heavily annotated, to many scientists. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Three were scientists checking the efficacy of sprays; 8 worked in greenhouses; 5 were farm workers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He concluded with the declaration that “no one could possibly question the selection of the University of California and Ernest Lawrence as the institution and the scientist to whom the project should be entrusted.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Compton placed the concerns of rank-and-file scientists about the social and political implications of the bomb on the committee record, via a memo from the Met Lab’s Franck. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The scientists and librarians still collect their keys in the mornings, still study their ancient elephants’ teeth, their exotic jellyfish, their herbarium sheets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Portions of Y-12 were partitioned off so that the scientists could not cross from one end of its vast floor to the other without stopping repeatedly to show their passes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z What makes the strong programme strong is the conviction that the content of science, and not just the ways in which science is organized, or the values and aspirations of scientists, can be explained sociologically. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Even some scientists admitted that it was possible that St. Helens could go back to sleep. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Both were tormented by the same question: What had German scientists told Hitler about the possibility of building atomic bombs? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’re big birds,” the scientist told the reporter, “just not quite as big as the Lazarus was.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Step one of their plan was to find Albert Einstein, the world’s most famous scientist. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Positive or negative, in both images Indians lacked what social scientists call agency—they were not actors in their own right, but passive recipients of whatever windfalls or disasters happenstance put in their way. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Hanford plant was based on something else scientists had learned about fission. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Most scientists refused to go even that far. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me—they showed you test results that proved it. And even I started to believe it.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z But here’s the thing—the scientists are pretty cool about it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Even today there are scientists opposed to the popularization of science: the sacred knowledge is to be kept within the cult, unsullied by public understanding. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was working there, he told Kurnakov, alongside some of the world’s most famous scientists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Highways, farms, and housing developments have destroyed most of them, and scientists have investigated only a small fraction of the survivors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In normal times, scientists from around the world freely shared new ideas and theories. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They say the scientists will be here for years. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z It was an epiphany: scientists had been trying for decades to grow immortal cell lines using normal cells instead of malignant ones, but it had never worked. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Doc was a pure scientist and incapable of superstition and yet when he came in late one night and found a line of white flowers across the doorsill he had a bad time of it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually two other Cavendish scientists invented a more powerful proton-beam device, while in California Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley produced his famous and impressive cyclotron, or atom smasher, as such devices were long excitingly known. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In 1919, Rutherford had become the first scientist to achieve the medieval fantasy of chemical transmutation: by bombarding nitrogen with radioactivity, he had converted it into oxygen. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In adopting the term ‘theory’ the scientists were thus freeing themselves from the philosophers’ preoccupation with truth in so far as it implied knowledge of causes and of what Aristotelian philosophers called substances, or forms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Like any other scientists, mathematicians are motivated by a complex of emotions including healthy doses of jealousy, arrogance, and competitiveness. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he talked like a scientist or a philosopher. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z They were also keen to insist that the history of science be done by historians, not by scientists. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Today it’s possible for scientists to immortalize cells by exposing them to certain viruses or chemicals, but very few cells have become immortal on their own as Henrietta’s did. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they’re stupid—directly or indirectly—sooner or later they start to believe it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Lawrence did not spare his own staff: among the first scientists he summoned to MIT were Edwin McMillan, who was then deeply involved in the search for element 93, and Luis Alvarez. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I was absorbed in the tale of a renowned scientist who had rigged up a mystery room made of metal in the basement of his palatial home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I have always felt I would make a clear-eyed scientist, on account of it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Andrews and many others have argued that this makes scientists less likely to share samples and results, which slows research; they also worry that it interferes with health-care delivery. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “They were in the mountain laboratory. The young enthusiastic scientists had all ganged up on that cynical old scientist who didn’t want to help.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In 2005, members of the Native American Havasupai Tribe sued Arizona State University after scientists took tissue samples the tribe donated for diabetes research and used them without consent to study schizophrenia and inbreeding. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I’d put off asking anyone until it was too late, telling myself it didn’t matter because true rocket scientists didn’t have time for such things. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Another scientist wanted to know if the similarity Gartler was seeing between cell lines was just the effect of spontaneous transformation making all cells act the same. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Physical scientists were especially unwilling to accept his depiction of the Amazon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The scientists, although they happened to call them magicians at the time, invented almost as terrible things as we have invented—except that we have become accustomed to theirs by use. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The first was a visiting scientist who never returned, and the second was a Canadian named John who scattered things—ties, coins, socks, breath mints—around any room he entered. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In a small office crammed with desks and boxes, McKibben wrote out security passes for the scientists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "They’re really not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors," he wrote in the New York Times in an article that stings yet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The one scientist they did revere, if begrudgingly, was Linus Pauling—the larger-than-life Caltech chemist who had recently announced that he had solved an important conundrum in the structure of proteins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z "Still," I said, "there's your universe, and that drip-drop upon the water you hear is all the history you've made, all you're going to make. Now laugh, you scientists. Let's hear you laugh!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the scientists Lawrence and Loomis assembled at the MIT Rad Lab would eventually move on to the team that was to build the bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By the end of the war, scientists in Europe uncovered evidence that it was germs, not poisonous miasma, that attacked the body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But what excited scientists most was that freezing gave them a means to suspend cells in various states of being. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Say that there were people in the year 1905 who hated war and got together with some scientists in secret and built a rocket and came out here to Mars ” “No, no, Hinkston.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I was like a scientist studying a specimen. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Papa said scientists speculated that from the moon, the earth looked blue. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “The janitor was just as important a person as the Nobel scientist who came through, because he had his job to do,” he reflected. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Thereafter every scientist dreamed of making comparable discoveries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By the 1960s scientists had grown sufficiently frustrated by how little they understood of the Earth’s interior that they decided to try to do something about it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But the Iowa scientists did something else, and this is where the strange part of the experiment begins. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The first scientists appear, as far as their religious beliefs are concerned, to be a more or less random sample of the intellectuals of seventeenth-century Europe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Yet scientists today could undoubtedly, if they wished, fulfill for many species that part of the definition of domestication that specifies the control of breeding and food supply. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Latin is the language of scholars and scientists. Then they can all read each other’s books. A very handy language, isn’t it?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, what the scientists found out was that the rat or mouse would put up with a lot more voltage for the pleasure. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Before Alex had a chance to find out what the scientist’s alternative to panic might be, the electricity went out again. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The Americans and British were also eager to learn exactly how much these German scientists had figured out about building atomic bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He was an excellent mad scientist at heart. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The next afternoon I met a Mexican American crop scientist named Ricardo Salvador, a professor at Iowa State University. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “This is where we take scientists and reporters wanting to know about our mother. It’s where the family gangs up on them,” he said, laughing. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Voltaire serves to remind us that there was more than one world in which scientists could live. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The boy next to them was Shu, but he looked far too young to be the scientist they’d all been so desperate to get their hands on. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It is the merit of European political scientists and sociologists to give a high priority to the power of ideas in a social struggle. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ve never completely mastered Sameness. I suppose the genetic scientists are still hard at work trying to work the kinks out. Hair like Fiona’s must drive them crazy.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z There was a short period, though, when the barrier could be avoided—or at least some scientists so believed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And wasn't that old slave a scientist—or at least called one, recognized as one—even when he stood with hat in hand, bowing and scraping in senile and obscene servility? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z On this occasion, however, Lawrence’s immense credibility as the biggest of the big scientists failed to carry the day. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Willard Libby was in the process of inventing radiocarbon dating, allowing scientists to get an accurate reading of the age of bones and other organic remains, something they had never been able to do before. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z At the outset, he shared the university scientist’s traditional antipathy to the patent process, so redolent of commercialism and so distinctly unacademic. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But whatever their experience, whether North Sea trawler-hand or Cambridge University scientist, they knew they were in for the adventure of a lifetime. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Needless to say, our understanding of the nature of these cores is indirect, but scientists can make some reasonable assumptions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z No one can claim that it never happened now—not with the scientists digging up the final evidence. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Liyana’s mother stood over the skillet with the spatula poised, like a scientist. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “My sister—” “A scientists work, cadet, is determined by two things. His interests and the interests of his time. Do you understand?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Did the mad scientist with her scary music startle you?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Today scientists describe the universe in terms of two basic partial theories—the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Volcanologists may or may not be the worst scientists in the world at making predictions, but they are without question the worst in the world at realizing how bad their predictions are. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z By the time of Stepson’s death, scientists had devised numerous tools to detect poison in a corpse. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The concept of uncertainty pertains to scientists’ ability to describe the properties of a particle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In doing so they go directly against the views of the early scientists themselves. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The scientists explained that we were looking at measures of Reggie’s brain as he attempted to multitask in the MRI machine. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Recently, the Soviet scientist E. Sobotovich has identified a large number of tiny diamonds strewn over the Tunguska site. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Time cover story, an all-purpose certification of celebrity in that era, enhanced Ernest’s fame among the lay public, which was happy to offer unsolicited advice and criticism to the brilliant young American scientist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z What if my parents’ God, their whole belief system, is just something concocted by a bunch of scientists to keep us under control? Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Not so long ago he let himself dream of Berlin and its great scientists: Fritz Haber, inventor of fertilizer; Hermann Staudinger, inventor of plastics. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Sleeping Beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z These rocks have helped scientists understand how the moon was formed, but doubts still persist. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If the computer’s operating system was rewritten, computer scientists realized, the machine’s time could be shared; the computer could be trained to handle hundreds of tasks at the same time. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Indeed, as a natural scientist and a mathematician, the mature Eratosthenes represented the anti-Ariston. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The farmers may not yet be aware of the biological basis of what has happened, but they need no scientists to tell them they have made a poor bargain. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Cell biologists look; geneticists count; biochemists clean, the scientist Arthur Kornberg once said. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The beach was on an island where an evil mad scientist was developing a laser beam that could blast satellites out of the sky. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z They said they were being tested to see if they had the cancer that killed Henrietta, but according to the reporters, scientists were studying the Lacks family to learn more about Henrietta’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “But he can be whatever he wants. Lynn is going to be either a rocket scientist or a famous writer.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z What he found changed the way scientists viewed the human brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z This was revisionist history, of course; the representations by the three scientists during their White House meeting the previous June were what had prompted Eisenhower to question publicly the wisdom of a test ban. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Five years later, scientists in Cambridge pinpointed the difference between the protein chain of normal hemoglobin and “sickled” hemoglobin to a change in a single amino acid.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z And so every time an interesting new virus appears in the meat factories, the scientists take samples and craft them into viruses that can infect humans. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Their blood is blue, and it can detect really small amounts of bacteria, so scientists use it to test vaccines.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “Every famous scientist had been out there as a routine thing,” he recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I want to be one too. Or maybe a bat scientist.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z As with the zero-point energy, scientists learned to ignore the infinite mass and charge of the electron. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Political scientists are divided over whether the twenty- five million people of Mexican ancestry in the United States represent an exception to the classic immigrant success story. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Constrained by its punishing climate, poor soil, and lack of protein, these scientists argue, large-scale societies have never existed—can never exist—in the river basin. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The World Health Organization has enlisted the aid of some 300 scientists in all parts of the world, declaring that “resistance is at present the most important single problem facing vector-control programmes.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z From around the middle of the seventeenth century there is a flood of adjectives that appear in English for scientific experiments, theories or discoveries, all based on the names of scientists. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z None could equate this engaging young man with the stereotypical aged, graybearded laboratory scientist of their fancies. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Some would simply deny that it is possible to escape culture and discover nature in the way that scientists claim. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The men wear white coats, like those worn by doctors or scientists. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She worked as some kind of environmental scientist, so everything for her was like this. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Together we’d convinced the science club to join the Galaxy Zoo project to help scientists classify galaxies. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Fortunately, today’s scientists, historians, and art collectors have rediscovered and acknowledged her work for what it is: amazingly beautiful, accurate portrayals of insect metamorphoses and ecosystems. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I took a step back from him and said, “Harry. If I did want to be a scientist, would you help me?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It was through observation and experimentation that scientists made new discoveries. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “I like to think I chose an appropriate Patron Historic. Like many scientists, Michael Faraday was underappreciated in his life, yet our world would not be what it is without him.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It was as if some scientist today discovered that he could get a potato to produce a substance that tasted just like chocolate. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z However, if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She talked of his many accolades as a rocket scientist. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I know all about that—it’s like finding out that the factions are an artificial system, designed by scientists to keep us under control for as long as possible. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The eastern woods teemed with flora unknown to the Old World, and there was a huge eagerness, from scientists and amateur enthusiasts alike, to get a piece of it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z To solve the problem, scientists set out to banish zero yet once more and unify the rules that govern the cosmos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This seems improbable because no scientist on Earth knows how a planet might blow itself up, which is probably just as well. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Balee, of Tulane, is actually an anthropologist, but as scientists have come to appreciate the ways in which past and present inform each other, the distinction between anthropologists and archaeologists has blurred. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Forced to concede that an atomic bomb had destroyed Hiroshima, the German scientists began trying to figure how the bomb had been made. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The most marked manifestation of the trend was an enhanced standard of living for Rad Lab scientists placed on the government payroll as consultants. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z After none of the machines adequately cooled the room, one of Garfield's doctors contacted Professor Simon Newcomb, a scientist and mathematician who worked for the U. S. Navy. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Thus both Aristotelian philosophers and the new scientists produced demonstrations, but they meant radically different things by the word. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Tuxedo Park became an obligatory stopover for eminent scientists visiting the United States. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Contemptuous of Oppenheimer’s arguments against the Super, he depicted Oppenheimer as a Svengali ruthlessly hypnotizing some of the world’s most sophisticated scientists into joining his opposition campaign. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z From his studies, the big-head scientist knew that black men contained two germs, black and brown. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A similar suggestion was made a few years later by the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace, apparently independently of Michell. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Its scientists are lilac and lemon yellow and fox brown. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z If you were an unremarkable talent, it was almost impossible to obtain an invitation; but if you were an accomplished scientist or one of manifest promise, somehow the invitation would come to you. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was a nice theory—but scientists doubted it would actually work. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The scientists were forbidden to ever refer to uranium or plutonium by name. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His smile is kind, and his long hair pulled into a ponytail makes him look more like a poet than a scientist. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Germany had “first-class scientists,” he said, “and significant supplies of uranium ore.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of what the scientist had written about our prairie dog ancestors, and I was worried. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z One scientist in particular, David Strayer, played a pioneering role, though he faced great opposition when he first started his work. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In the late 1970s several scientists realized that an ethnic group’s mitochondrial DNA could provide clues to its ancestry. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The scientists urged the committee not to short-circuit testing that could make nuclear weapons more moral. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “What if German scientists succeed in making a nuclear bomb before we even investigate possibilities?” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z None of them was a scientist, because science, as we understand the term, did not yet exist. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Like many scientists and social scientists of his era, Muller had been captivated by eugenics since the 1920s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As a scientist, she believed that it was her obligation to perform medical research that would help alleviate human suffering. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The volcano erupted, killing six of the scientists, along with three tourists who had followed them, and seriously injuring several others, including Williams himself. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In May 2009 the American Civil Liberties Union, several breast- cancer survivors, and professional groups representing more than 150,0 scientists sued Myriad Genetics over its breast-cancer gene patents. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z With dramatic music in the background, the announcer said, “Tonight we will learn why scientists believe that cancer can be conquered.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Indeed, willingness of Hopkins scientists to provide access to the cultures is perhaps the principal reason for the great benefits that have derived from their use. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The 1880s saw two scientists, France’s Louis Pasteur and Germany’s Robert Koch, isolate various bacteria—extremely small one-celled creatures—living in animals and humans and link them to specific diseases. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “No’m. Was she that lady scientist over in France? Well, no, I see she was a singer.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z There were thirty-five team members, and most of them were Kenyans, including wildlife naturalists, scientists, doctors, and laborers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Egypt’s rising industrialization was one of the reasons why the Western powers were so anti-Egypt, it was showing other African countries what they should do, the scientist said. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, the Tuskegee staff grew to thirty-five scientists and technicians, who produced twenty thousand tubes of HeLa—about 6 trillion cells—every week. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Not like a medical doctor, but an astrophysicist—a scientist who studies the planets, stars, and other objects in space and how they work. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Digges was not only a scientist, but one of the first popularizers of science—not quite the first, since he followed, to some extent, in the footsteps of his father, Leonard. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z A few years later he outfitted a gigantic yacht, the Aras, rounded up a crew of scientists, and sailed them all down to the Galapagos for a research expedition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence’s friendship with Neylan desensitized him to the moral quandary faced by members of the Rad Lab, especially its European-born scientists. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Ernest’s genius, Seaborg perceived, was to draw into his orbit like-minded scientists in every field, not just physics, and imbue them with his own drive to build and perfect his magnificent invention. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Instead, what had my entire town full of hope and big ideas was what one scientist described on the news as an extremely rare group of albino woodpeckers by the name of pileated. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Once the lab won the AEC’s blessing, it became clear that the two scientists actually had very little in common. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Since the launch of the HeLa production factory at Tuskegee, Gey had been writing a steady stream of letters to other scientists, trying to restrict the way they used Henrietta’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Some scientists toyed with the idea that the spiral nebulae were not distant island universes but rather nearby condensing clouds of interstellar gas, perhaps on their way to make solar systems. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Knowing that every great scientist needed a spark of inspiration, I opened my book 101 Kids’ Super Fun Science Experiments. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z New scientists were arriving all the time, and when the director saw someone he didn’t know, he’d stride up to the newcomer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Helmholtz’s use of the galvanometer symbolized not just how scientists were measuring human capacity, but why. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He told me his wife was a chemist who worked with Cuban scientists on top- secret projects developing products from sugarcane. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z If a scientist had been asked what a gene was made of, how it accomplished its function, or where it resided within the cell, there would be few satisfactory answers. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He had the same four qualities as any great scientist: he was patient, curious, observant, and persistent. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z As this was much shorter than the figure proposed by such eminent theoreticians as Niels Bohr, the results represented a gutsy challenge from two young scientists with the ink barely dry on their doctorates. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z With Blackwater Draw as a pattern, scientists knew exactly what to look for. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z No doubt the food scientists at McDonald’s are right now hard at work on the one-handed salad. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He wanted the moon back where it belonged and pessimistic scientists to crawl under rocks. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Powers that defied explanation, mental talents so freakish, doctors and scientists reclassified our entire generation as Psi. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Other scientists thought that static electricity would cause whatever dust there was to cling to the windows of the spacecraft, blocking the astronauts’ view and causing them to crash on landing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I really needed someone who matched my caliber, and though obviously nobody was as good a scientist as me, if only I could find someone close... Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The scientist took the little envelope containing Lyra’s hair and bowed nervously as he left. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The terrifying thought that Adolf Hitler might beat the Allies to exploitation of the atom’s destructive capacity had prompted many eminent scientists, including numerous refugees from Nazi Germany, to participate willingly in the Manhattan Project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Heisenberg and the other German scientists were still in Germany, where fission had been discovered. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A partial solution to this problem was found by the Danish scientist Niels Bohr in 1913. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Alchemy could not become chemistry until its fundamental units were discovered,” a nineteenth-century scientist wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It is the story of the people who battled over the meaning of the mysterious number—the scholars and mystics, the scientists and clergymen—who each tried to understand zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z On New Year’s Eve 1853 a famous dinner for twenty-one prominent scientists was held inside the unfinished iguanodon. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The scientists never grasped the potential of machines to free people.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But as the world’s greatest scientist, I could surely determine whether Fig was really sick. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Four years later the soil still contained heptachlor, and scientists were unable to predict how long it would remain poisonous, or to recommend any procedure for correcting the condition. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And so, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe, I found refuge. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Pascal’s newfound religion was not a comfortable fit for the young scientist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Was he a scientist? I didn’t know. He’s got a hyena dæmon with a missing leg.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The scientist must be moderate: this is a new type of intellectual virtue. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Naw. He said I’d probably be a scientist one day. Save endangered species and stuff. He called me Dr. Gale all night. It was goofy. And cool.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z This kind of sophistication is what we interplanetary scientists are known for. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctors and scientists were trying to fight back, but unless we found a way to stop Nergal, the city would be his very soon. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “Thanks for the jaws,” he said to both scientists. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z This had been a difficult task, for they all suffered brain drains as their leading scientists returned to prewar academic posts or accepted jobs stem ming from their newfound eminence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In a move many believe was intended to distract attention from the Vietnam War, Nixon announced that scientists would cure cancer within five years, just in time for the United States Bicentennial. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Never before or since has Holland been graced by such a galaxy of artists and scientists, philosophers and mathematicians. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "As a scientist and a physician I'm forced to discount that," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the crew was made up of able seamen accustomed to the harsh weather of the North Sea, two doctors, a handful of university scientists, officers, a carpenter, and a cook. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z It took years for scientists to figure out that unhappy animals get sick easier. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Polio is a terrible disease! It left children crippled. Killed them. Salk and his group of scientists pioneered a vaccine to prevent it. He even tested it on himself.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z It was through his collaboration with other scientists that Pascal came to have the sense of belonging to a collectivity greater than himself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That many scientists believe that there are more jellyfish than ever before and that deadly jellyfish that used to be only in places like Australia are probably in other places now, too: in England. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And he’d lost one of his close friends, a young scientist who had been near the mountain when it exploded. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Among the thirty-one species of Abrams Creek fish that were wiped out was one called the smoky madtom, which scientists had never seen before. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Yelena sees the cosmonaut as a combination of scientist and athlete, and she enjoys the challenges of training. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Charles Darwin, too, of course, was an amateur not a professional scientist. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Ever the good scientist, ever the good parent. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In a memo to FDR, Byrnes had urged that an outside panel of eminent scientists give the program a once-over—“rather a jittery and nervous memorandum and rather silly,” Stimson recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The exodus from Germany allowed scientists to travel not just between nations, but also between disciplines. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “They’ve made mistakes, of course, but they, like everyone else, are a blend of good and bad, not one or the other. What would we do without our doctors, our scientists, our teachers?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Before this observation, scientists had thought that only humans could make tools. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “I wanted to be a rocket scientist, like my dad. That’s what I wanted to be, if I wasn’t going to make the Olympics.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Many of the American and European emigre scientists who developed the first nuclear weapons were profoundly distressed about the demon they had let loose on the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But scientists can give black holes and electrons an extra dimension. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For there was one other factor: Ernest had forged a partnership with an outstanding young scientist who was building his own international reputation as a theoretical physicist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A Washington Post reporter had been at the conference when Gartler announced the contamination problem, but he hadn’t covered it, and most scientists were still denying that the problem existed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The list of prominent scientists who had refused to work with him was long and growing longer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As the Cold War escalated, some scientists exposed Henrietta’s cells to massive doses of radiation to study how nuclear bombs destroyed cells and find ways to reverse that damage. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He asked other scientists to send him their barnacle collections, and over the next days, weeks, and months he pulled down more bottles of barnacles from his shelves. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When he asked scientists for updates, they’d hand him fifteen- or twenty- page technical papers, dense with formulas and calculations. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One scientist suggested a comparison: Imagine surrounding an unopened beer can with explosives and trying to blow the can in on itself without spilling a drop of liquid. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets would never know—not until the KGB could get a scientist inside the Manhattan Project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, he added, this was quite natural for a scientist who had achieved repeated triumphs with instruments scaled to fit on a laboratory bench. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This black box of genetics was pried open, almost accidentally, by an unlikely scientist working on an unlikely organism. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Are you still going to be a data scientist?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He was a scientist first; he just wanted to test the women. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z He was actually a principal scientist at another company owned by Coming, called Hazleton Washington. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Once clear of the European coast,” said Buxton, “you and the scientist will be dropped to one of our submarines, which will take you aboard for return to the United States.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “You picked a pretty cool scientist to name yourself after.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Even as archaeologists try to work out how the area’s first inhabitants reshaped their physical environment, other scientists are beginning to trace out their impacts in its genetic heritage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But Griffith, an unassuming, painfully shy scientist—“this tiny man who...barely spoke above a whisper”—could hardly be expected to broadcast the broader relevance or appeal of his results. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In 1869 a French scientist, Leopold Trouvelot, accidentally allowed a few of these moths to escape from his laboratory in Medford, Massachusetts, where he was attempting to cross them with silkworms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Still eighteen, Ted Hall was the youngest scientist at Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was about the threat of the earth colliding with another planet and how all the scientists in the world united to avert the catastrophe. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z After they left the Oval Office, Strauss paraded the scientists before the White House press corps. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Or slip my feet into the hollow casts of feet and lurch in like something from a mad scientist movie. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The scientist eventually kills himself after he sees the horror he hath wrought, and I think that, had the story been real, this is the kind of place that might have been his lair. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In August 1955, Russian rocket scientists announced that they would soon be able to send a satellite into space. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Herschel was a respected scientist, and other astronomers accepted his idea. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z On the left below are two examples—the first expressing similarity, the second expressing contrast—in which scientists do in their prose what they would never do in the lab. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I began to hear about one particular rocket scientist named Dr. Wernher von Braun. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z So by looking at the type of carbon in our cells, scientists can tell how much corn we have been eating. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In a nutshell: Scientists believed that a human’s reaction time was immeasurably fast—infinite, as some scientists put it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The first Ionian scientist was Thales of Miletus, a city in Asia across a narrow channel of water from the island of Samos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Many hypotheses proposed by scientists as well as by nonscientists turn out to be wrong. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I envy some of my friends who are convinced about telepathy; oddly enough, it is my European scientist acquaintances who believe it most freely and take it most lightly. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The presence of so many scientists in the suit, many of them from top institutions, challenges the standard argument that ruling against biological patents would interfere with scientific progress. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z My eyes fell first on the hand I was shaking, then slid up to the unfocused eyes of the same scientist I had seen before. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z As one of the lab’s senior scientists, McMillan was at the hub of Ernest’s campaign to augment the discovery of fission by bombarding uranium and logging the reactions. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Well known as a writer, scientist, and publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette, he had moved to London in 1757 to lobby, first for Pennsylvania and later for Massachusetts and Georgia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Long before the invention of the World Wide Web, cognitive scientists modeled human memory as a network of nodes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Compounded by Lawrence’s campaign for the Super, a project that many physicists considered technically and morally dubious, this record undermined his reputation as a scientist s scientist driven by the quest for knowledge alone. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Hence social scientists continue to debate the specific reasons why receptivity changed in Islam, China, and Europe, and why the Chimbus, Ibos, and Navajo were more receptive to new technology than were their neighbors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Belter, you fly up and up like a July Fourth rocket, and bang! There you are, cinders, spread all over space. Them crackpot scientists, they don’t know nothin’, they kill you all off!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z When scientists and engineers talk about how high or low a sound is, they talk about its frequency2 . Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Bohr has just come in,” one scientist announced. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That word choice is crucial because, while there is interesting emerging science around Internet addiction, there is a predicate question being asked by many scientists: Can behaviors be addictive, or just substances? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z At the agency’s inception, scientists had hoped it would serve as a civilian bulwark against military monopolization of nuclear research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A nice way of visualizing the wave/particle duality is the so-called sum over histories introduced by the American scientist Richard Feynman. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The social scientists, especially the economists, are moving deeply into ecology and the environment these days, with disquieting results. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Other scientists bent down and with equal approbation scooped up handfuls of dirt. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But Eratosthenes was a scientist, and his musings on these commonplaces changed the world; in a way, they made the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By the 1960s, scientists joked that HeLa cells were so robust that they could probably survive in sink drains or on doorknobs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Upon arrival he discovered that oil-company geologists, the only scientists in the area, believed the Beni was thick with the remains of an unknown civilization. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I don’t deny that there is truth in this, but it hardly explains why Merton found the same virtues being admired by scientists in the 1940s as were admired by scientists in the 1660s. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was the king of Syracuse who asked Archimedes to determine whether his crown was pure gold or had been mixed with lead, a task beyond the abilities of all the scientists at the time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Being rediscovered once is proof of a scientist’s prescience. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Works at a lab where scientists send remote-control vehicles into the deep sea. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I had answered “lawyer” for a while and, when I liked my science teacher, Mr. Marcus, I had answered “scientist.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Working plumbing was scarce, and the lack of air-conditioning tormented scientists and engineers trying to function in the baking heat of California’s Central Valley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One of my favorite bath experiments is about something scientists call buoyancy. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z This means pharmaceutical companies, scientists, and universities control what research can be done on those genes, and how much resulting therapies and diagnostic tests will cost. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z To them, I am Virginia the scientist and singer and dancer and star student and advice giver. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Such findings raise the possibility that scientists might be able to create a “package” of charcoal, nutrients, and microfauna that could be used to transform bad tropical soil into terra preta. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Holmes was the first scientist to understand that radioactive warming could produce convection currents within the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I listened with incredulity to how a “mad scientist Mr. Yacub” had genetically “grafted” the white race from an original black people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The serious, systematic study of medicine was intensifying, and to scientists the human body was like the polar icecap, something to be studied and explored. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We had a little argument about it after a scientist came to school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The new language of science was above all a language which gave the new scientists tools for handling evidence, or, as it was called at the time, experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Their mission now clarified, the two Berkeley scientists emplaned for Washington at three-thirty that morning. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was part of an effort to foster a computer network that would enable scientists to share their research more easily. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z And when scientists visited Gey’s lab to learn his techniques, he usually sent them home with a vial or two of HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He was, in truth, more of a Renaissance man than a modern scientist, and still thought in terms of vital forces, an abstract conception of perfection and spirits that kept the body alive. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But what bothered her most was the fact that so many scientists and journalists around the world continued to call her mother Helen Lane. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The meeting was an annual gathering place for most of the preeminent scientists of the day. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the scientists who made the transition with ease was Glenn Seaborg, whose research would prove to be among the most important in the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Sir Lawrence flatly denied prior knowledge of Francis’ efforts and was thoroughly insulted by the implication that he had underhandedly used another scientist’s ideas. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z "At least not to me. My folks are rocket scientists. This is pretty much as normal as it gets in this house." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z If the cells died in the process, it didn’t matter—scientists could just go back to their eternally growing HeLa stock and start over again. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Then the scientist went a step further and installed a device in the cloth mother that would make it kick out and hurt the baby monkey. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I created a story about a group of six scientists who decide to explore part of the solar system. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The negative conclusions, some scientists complained to me, never received as much attention as the original, incorrect proposal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His contempt for the “salesman type” of scientist was unbounded. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Soviet scientists had to abandon fission experiments to work instead on weapons that could be used right away. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing about Mendel’s early years suggested even the faintest glimmer of the revolutionary scientist who would later emerge. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Plus, unlike plants and mice, it takes us decades to produce enough offspring to give scientists much meaningful data. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The church provided a safe haven for these scientists—but it also effectively neutered their curiosity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It is going to be driven by groups and individuals, but of a much more diverse background than those twelve scientists who made up Andreessen’s world when he created Mosaic. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z A year later a secret conference of scientists is convened to debate the dimming of the sun, which many now believe presents an imminent threat to life on Earth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z One summer day, when I was seven, my mom drove to the Cape in the early morning, boarded a research boat in Chatham, and left shore with four other scientists and a boat captain. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Fermi and his team of about fifteen students and scientists assembled in the freezing squash court. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, I think it was a true act of God and the scientists were taken by surprise, same as everyone else.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Her dedication to church was like my commitment to becoming the world’s greatest scientist. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z One scientist has even suggested that some sort of “zoo” should be established to preserve insects, mites, and the like, before their genetic composition is further changed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I figure the scientists are working on solutions. And the government. If we get electricity back, that’ll make things better right there.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z He pointed out that a few years earlier, when scientists started taking protective measures against cross-species contamination—such as working under sterile hoods—it had suddenly become harder to grow new cell lines. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Up to now, most scientists have been too occupied with the development of new theories that describe what the universe is to ask the question why. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, Colonel Nichols, exasperated by the scientists’ condescension toward his workforce, soon informed Lawrence that the women could outproduce the scientists and that he was prepared to prove it in a production race. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By the mid-1930s, as Hitler ascended to power in Germany, droves of scientists sensed the rising menace of the Nazi political agenda and left the country. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This was the view of most scientists: Einstein himself wrote a paper in which he claimed that stars would not shrink to zero size. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z By comparing the C’4 level in bones and wooden implements to the normal level in living tissues, Libby reasoned, scientists should be able to determine the age of these objects with unheard-of precision. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But none of the scientists knew for sure what exactly these clues meant. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Very few scientists thought this could happen, but no one wanted to take a chance on infecting planet earth with moon germs. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Thousands of years ago Indigenous scientists turned a wild grain into a food source that sustained their bodies and their spiritual lives. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They made the scientists’ families feel like unwanted intruders. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Even Otto, the famous scientist, was a schoolboy with a pencil, doing his long division. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z And since some of the DNA present in Henrietta’s cells is also present in her children, it’s possible to argue that by doing research on HeLa, scientists are also doing research on the Lacks children. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z When the war began, British scientists recruited him to help with a secret war-related project—the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Their chromosomes and proteins have been studied with such detail and precision that scientists know their every quirk. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The existence of competition among scientists is in itself evidence that the idea of discovery is present; and where there is no competition, there is no concept of discovery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Because of the overwhelmingly white public face of the space program, the black engineers, scientists, and mathematicians who were deeply involved with the space race nevertheless lived in its shadows, even within the black community. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Now, under Lewis Strauss, it had become even more security-obsessed than the colonels and generals the scientists had worked with during the war, in purposeful if somewhat prickly companionability. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One of those admirers was an intense young scientist and inventor named Haazim Farooqi, who had come to America from Pakistan to study biochemistry. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z So his worries about loss of time when he had children were unfounded—he could be a scientist and a father at the same time. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Groves, who thought the latter shortcoming deprived Oppie of the scientific prestige the project leader should possess, plainly was unaware of the scientists towering reputation in the physics community. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even though scientists might never unlock the secrets of the universe’s birth, they are on the brink of understanding its death. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Although these deceptively simple ancient flutes are almost all that survives of Palaeolithic music, acoustic scientists have recently made an extraordinary discovery about the lifesaving importance of music to cave-dwellers of this period. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Increasing their numbers was labor-intensive: scientists had to repeatedly scrape the cells from one tube and split them into new ones to give them more space. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I watched a TV show where the scientist proudly showed how he could kill little mice by making a certain kind of sudden loud noise. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Nelson-Rees had been in the audience when Gartler presented his infamous research, and he was one of the few scientists who believed it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Before the summer was over, however, she shared her doubts with another Riverbank worker, a young scientist named William Frederick Friedman. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Rather than restate every one, scientists decided to keep the inaccurate constant. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The worst aspect of the Velikovsky affair is not that his hypotheses were wrong or in contradiction to firmly established facts, but that some who called themselves scientists attempted to suppress Velikovsky’s work. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was flooded with replies —some from scientists he didn’t know, others from friends and colleagues. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A few scientists, though, found patches of something better. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For a moment, I felt like a scientist, gathering little bits of research about myself and trying to analyze it. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But they mattered to scientists, who would be the ultimate judges of whether the money being spent on Big Science was spent wisely. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But what scientists can do–and Anderson and Witzke have done–is measure the impact site and calculate the amount of energy released. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Newton opened the eyes of scientists to the fact that the fundamentals of the Universe might be simple and understandable, in spite of its surface complexity. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The first was methodological: Nazi scientists advanced the “twin study”—although, characteristically, they soon morphed it into a ghastly form. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Three renowned scientists promptly traveled to New Mexico and watched Figgins’s team brush away the dirt from the point and extract it from the gully. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Fellow scientists who could analyze the facts and help solve the problem. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z But Galileo was not simply a second Archimedes; he was also an experimental scientist. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Papin had worked with two of the greatest scientists of the day, Huygens and Boyle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They were not at all what the two scientists had expected to find. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The computers were being slowly carried in a long, continuous line along a conveyor belt, past the various scientists and technicians. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Who ever heard of a scientist going to sea? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Newton, however, was a scientist—who can doubt it? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z First of all, Emma wanted to say, I dressed up as a scientist in a lab coat for Halloween in kindergarten, when the other girls were wearing princess crowns. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He regularly offered them to scientists, but they were harder to culture, so they never took off like Henrietta’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The only way these scientists can keep their sanity is by convincing themselves that they’re on the verge of an earth-shattering discovery. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Years after Carrel died awaiting trial for collaborating with the Nazis, scientist Leonard Hayflick grew suspicious of the chicken heart. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Encouraged by the scientists’ firm opposition to a test ban, Jackson invited them to address the Joint Committee’s Subcommittee on Military Applications, of which he was chairman. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This is a black hole, an object so paradoxical that some scientists believe that black holes can be used to travel faster than light—and backward in time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A British philosopher and political scientist who could read and write in Latin and Greek before the rest of us can tie our shoes. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Long ago, somehow, some committee of scientists, prodded by footsore wives, found enough money to cover it with a layer of sand. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mathematicians don’t need prudence; Christians, lawyers and scientists do. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And there’s no way to quantify the professional gain many scientists have achieved with the help of HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Mosaic, in short, made Web sites viewable by any idiot, scientist, student, kindergartener, or grandma or grandpa. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z And in May 1972, Nixon pledged that American and Russian scientists would work together in a biomedical exchange program to find the virus. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I thought about that day when I’d heard Mrs. B over the baby monitor and she’d called me a “mad scientist.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Some scientists think this imbalance might help explain the high levels of heart disease in our society. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Two scientists discovered the law governing the acceleration of falling bodies at around the same time—Harriot and Galileo. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If it didn’t work, the virus would infect the cells, causing damage scientists could see using a microscope. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z As HeLa grew like crabgrass in laboratories around the world, a virologist named Chester Southam had a frightening thought: What if Henrietta’s cancer cells could infect the scientists working on them? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Jackie had a general belief in God, tempered by a scientist’s view of the world. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The university had a reputation for spawning world-class scientists exploring how to optimize use of technology in airplanes and in the military, in the tradition of Broadbent and Dr. Treisman. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Ten women made it past the application process—five physicians, three engineers, a scientist, and a test pilot with an engineering degree. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Groves needed to quickly gather a team of the best scientists in the country— and he needed to pick someone to lead it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Things may never get back to normal,” the scientist said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Crop development is today a conscious, highly specialized effort carried out by professional scientists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, the research earned kudos from a range of attention scientists. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A Chilean scientist has pointed out that malaria-carrying mosquitoes persist in his country in spite of insecticide treatment; the release of sterile males might then provide the final blow needed to eliminate this population. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The chromosomes inside the cells swelled and spread out, and for the first time, scientists could see each of them clearly. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Some scientists speculated that if a pilot succeeded in pushing his plane through the sound barrier, either the plane or the pilot or both would disintegrate from the force of the shock waves. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I knew it looked like a mad scientist’s laboratory because Bunny had shown it to me when it was unoccupied. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Still, many scientists refused to believe HeLa contamination was real. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Margaret taught George everything he knew about keeping cultures sterile, and she did the same with every technician, grad student, and scientist who came to work or study in the lab. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In a curious way, many people simultaneously exalt and dismiss mathematicians and scientists as impractical whizzes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At the corner of my vision, I saw the scientists and doctors in their white scrubs, setting up machines and computers around me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “What an ‘absolutely clean’ H-bomb might be remained a mystery to most scientists and congressmen, as well as to the public,” observed Newsweek. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And of course competition is imperfect, and for a time scientists may set out on the wrong path; but over time good results will drive out bad ones. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z "After all, we call ourselves scientists here. Let us speak as scientists." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He was like a scientist who had pursued the root of cancer all his life. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “The social scientists have shown this is wrong. Our own people have proven themselves in every field—not just a few, but thousands. How can the racists deny these proofs?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Vannevar Bush, who had spent his career surrounded by accomplished scientists, felt overcome by the “stimulating” and “refreshing” atmosphere in the lab when he paid a visit in February 1942. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Some scientists have theorized that Miranda's piecemeal structure is the result of a massive impact that broke the moon into several pieces that—held together by her gravity—were reformed into something entirely unique. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I feel like a scientist making a discovery, except it’s not a vaccine or a bomb. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Once a scientist chooses a suitably close distance, all the calculations using the “true” mass and charge agree with one another. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A new subspecialty was emerging as scientists grappled with the onslaught of new devices. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Even relative freedom from fallout, well short of the 95 percent cleanliness Strauss and the scientists had mentioned, could be achieved only from reducing yields. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Kepler was not the only prominent scientist who sliced objects infinitely thin. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Oh, come, I tell you it’s so. He had one of the big-shot scientists of U. S. Robot & Mechanical Men Corporation over at the office to argue with me.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Physicists are notoriously scornful of scientists from other fields. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He and many other scientists believed that cancer was caused by either a virus or an immune system deficiency, so Southam decided to use HeLa to test those theories. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I wonder if this was what it was like for Oppenheimer and his team of scientists when they were working on the bomb. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Without Ernest’s energy, his serene self-confidence, and his charismatic command over the scientists and engineers inventing the separation process, there would be no Y-12. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Pascal was a mathematician as well as a scientist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Beginning in the 1950s, scientists developed hybrid strains of wheat, rice, maize, and other crops that were vastly more productive than traditional varieties. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z More trucks than ever were rumbling past her Santa Fe office, more scientists were checking in. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One dressed in a striped red shirt, matching knit hat, and round black glasses raised his hand in greeting, and the woman dressed as a mad scientist added, “Morning!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z This is so new a field of study that as yet scientists have been more concerned with identifying the chromosome abnormalities associated with disease and defective development than with speculating about the causes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But scientists all over the world could call in orders, pay less than fifty dollars, and Microbiological Associates would overnight them vials of HeLa cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z This causes the uranium to change into an entirely new element, one that doesn’t occur in nature— scientists named it plutonium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d worried for weeks that there might be a sniper in the audience — a scientist who’d want to take her out to do research on her body, or to keep the family from causing problems. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The fo’c’sle hands were worlds apart from the university scientists, for instance. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Even if Roli becomes the best scientist in the world one day, he won’t have time to fix Lolo the way he wants to. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z An exploratory “survey” of South America had been commissioned, and the expedition required the service of a “gentleman scientist” who could assist in collecting specimens. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Another factor Father and his scientists didn’t count on, that biochips would learn, grow, and mutate because somewhere in that ten percent was a hidden message: survive. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z In 1983 two scientists suggested in Nature that tinkering with the energy of the vacuum might cause the universe to self-destruct. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Most other scientists, however, were willing to accept quantum mechanics because it agreed perfectly with experiment. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Painted Rock Cave has attracted scientists since the midnineteenth century, when Alfred Russel Wallace visited it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z By the mid-fifties, as more scientists began working with tissue culture, Gey became weary. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The car doors opened and out stepped a few British soldiers, followed by ten of Germany’s best scientists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Deborah bolted upright and looked at him, stunned to hear a scientist—one at Hopkins, no less —saying such a thing. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “If you were a scientist,” said Will, “I don’t suppose that was a good thing for them to say. You might not have believed in angels.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The people on the list were all top scientists the Soviets suspected might be in on the bomb work. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually the dimming will reverse itself, but scientists predict all multicellular life on Earth will perish long before that occurs. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “They didn’t send them to you frozen?” the scientist asked, knowing that contamination could have occurred while they thawed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Szilard was determined that scientists in America should have that one- day advantage. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At that point I did not know yet that he was a chemist, a scientist. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z This allowed scientists to determine what was required for HIV to infect a cell—an important step toward understanding the virus, and potentially stopping it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The scientist’s large head hunched forward, “Say that again!” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z And then there’s the scientist who showed me a picture of her four-year-old daughter and said, beaming, “We virtually adore her.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z So the scientists said it was probably an ancient and dormant volcano crater. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Sensing imminent danger, thousands of Jewish scientists migrated to foreign countries. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The scientist must be slow, scrupulous, severe, rigorous. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, he now met yet another formidable impediment to acceptance: the conservativeness of his fellow scientists. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I yelped, just to get Uncle Tony back for the rocket scientist burn. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z A long time ago scientists believed that light always traveled in a straight line. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Gold wrote Fuchs’s name and address in a book and took it to the scientists’ building. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, scientists must look for “natural experiments,” in which something similar befell humans in the past. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Eighteenth-century English and French scientists rejected the ample testimony as to the reality of meteorites, as we reject stories of alien abduction. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Some scientists believe dark matter doesn’t really exist. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Charles wanted The Origin of Species to be simple enough for a nonscientist to read and understand, as well as accurate and cogently argued enough to convince a scientist. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to determine if a certain human trait is part of the brain’s hardwiring, scientists submit it to a set of criteria. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I saw a show last night with a bunch of scientists arguing over what the signs will be when the world is coming to an end. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Some scientists speculated that more could be done with a lighter load. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z I busted back into the house, a determined scientist on a mission. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It makes me think of the mad scientist conversation. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z “Interesting idea. As a parent, I’m behind it one hundred percent. As a scientist...well, the math doesn’t exactly seem realistic.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Spurred in part by historians like Cronon, most scientists have changed their minds about Indian fire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The telescope, for instance, had given scientists the ability to find moons and stars that had never been observed before. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Yes, actually. Dark blue means scientist or researcher, and green means support staff—they do maintenance, upkeep, things like that.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z At Los Alamos, most scientists first heard the news over the public address system. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Some nineteenth-century English scientists misused Darwin’s ideas to peddle the notion that the Irish and people of color descended from apes. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The electron that scientists see in the laboratory—the electron that physicists, chemists, and engineers have known and loved for decades—is an impostor. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The May-Johnson Bill would meet its legislative doom thanks to opposition from the scientists and public skepticism about military control, energized by public missteps such as the destruction of the Japanese cyclotrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Some scientists think that when expansion is followed by contraction, when the spectra of distant galaxies are all blue-shifted, causality will be inverted and effects will precede causes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Who really deserved the patent for a discovery that might be based on the work of innumerable scientists over years or decades? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Maybe if we lived in a paperless society, which lots of scientists say we’ll probably live in one day soon, Dad would still be alive. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps he already knew more than his talk had indicated—often if a scientist is not absolutely sure he is correct, he is hesitant to speak in public. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Summers he worked for scientists conducting geologic research in Antarctica or escorted climbers into New Zealand’s Southern Alps. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z However, there is no evidence as yet to suggest that the scientists and their families are the targets of the vandalism, although several of their children do attend the middle school. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z As scientists, Mom and Dad have a scientific solution: power down my phone at night. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z There are half a dozen spots where scientists, in hard hats, gloves, and safety glasses are down in the rock and dirt, working. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z A similar discovery was made about the same time by the Russian scientist Lev Davidovich Landau. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Facts are important to scientists, which is what I want to be when I grow up. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Mrs. B’s words might have been blunt, but she hadn’t said it like the way I always called Tamika an annoying evil scientist. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Despite all the knowledge gained by scientists in the last few decades, this emotional realm remains much harder to reach. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It may not be a coincidence that Greene, like many scientists since Galileo, is a lucid expositor of difficult ideas, because the ideal of classic prose is congenial to the worldview of the scientist. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It’s not as if scientists are stealing your arm or some vital organ. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He’d been excited to share it with me after I’d told him I wanted to be the world’s greatest scientist, after Einstein, of course. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It is doubtful that the other members agreed with that role; Compton was the only one who oversaw a lab where the scientists’ ambivalence was expressed openly. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Although Frederick Griffith’s experiment was the most definitive demonstration that the gene was a chemical, other scientists were also circling the idea. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Before my phone broke, I’d watched the blastoff footage online all the time to remind myself that I too was meant to be a scientist and someday walk in space. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Momly laughed and Uncle Tony joked me, talking about, "It don't take a rocket scientist to know rocket scientists are real, Patty." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z The failure to let one of the world’s leading scientists attend a completely nonpolitical meeting would have been expected from the Russians. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Greenglass wasn’t a scientist and didn’t know nearly as much about the bomb as Klaus Fuchs or Ted Hall. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Fact: Every great scientist knows that an unproven theory isn’t exactly science, but the idea that Sir Fig Newton would live a long, healthy life with the silent cat killer was about to come true. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z After his sojourn among the scientists and engineers of Aberdeen, Loomis returned home to find the practice of law at the Stimson firm unutterably dull. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It is necessary to write scientific papers for the benefit of other scientists doing field research in different parts of Africa or working with captive chimps. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Then we could get out of the box, and scientists and doctors could check us for a couple of weeks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z That morning, at the tower at Trinity, Oppenheimer watched as scientists and army engineers worked together to attach a steel cable to the test bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If I don’t become an animal scientist, I would make a great spy. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Steady-state theory was killed by what scientists had mistaken for pigeon droppings. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Many of the scientists I have discussed were profoundly pious, but their religious faith was not what they had in common. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All the best scientists and engineers have been pulled in to work on it. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “But don’t you think a bunch of smart people like these Bureau scientists could figure out the cause of bad behavior?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z In Washington, D.C., a panel of scientists—including Robert Oppenheimer—analyzed the results. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z On the one hand—superstition and old wives’ tales; on the other hand—the scientist, trying to solve the puzzles and find the answers. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “But why did the Godslayer bring you? What is your part in this? The others are scientists, builders. What does the Godslayer need with a librarian?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z With this new funding came intense political pressure for scientists to meet the president’s deadline. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The concept of a World Wide Web—a system for creating, organizing, and linking documents so they could be easily browsed over the Internet—was developed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z She knew that the white man’s scientists peered beneath things to understand how they worked. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Thus it is important to see that when we hail Theodoric as an important scientist our judgement is essentially anachronistic: he did not seem important to his contemporaries or successors, and his influence is negligible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I think of all the different colors of skin of the scientists, passengers, and Monitors boarding on the first day. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Gilbert, the physician and experimental scientist, had been a mathematical examiner when a fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and his fundamental goal was to prove the truth of Copernicanism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was the “newest city” of the world, Twain had written—a place where scientists, writers, philosophers, and intellectuals were gathering in cafés and salons to forge a free and futuristic society. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But although he became the most respected scientist of his time, Boyle retained his retiring, modest nature and declined many honours. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “You might say I’m a sort of scientist,” he says. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z To avoid drawing attention to the arrival of so many scientists, she cautioned them never to refer to each other as “doctor” or “professor” while in town. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Grand ma grew careful about balancing her ingredients, holding the measuring cup up to the light She was like a scientist seeking the cure for something. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z As one Berkeley scientist put it, more succinctly: “He couldn’t run a hamburger stand.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Since the Viking biology experiments were strongly oriented toward organisms that are comfortable in liquid water, some scientists held that the chance of Viking finding life would be substantially improved in Cydonia. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "After all, we call ourselves scientists here. Let us speak as scientists." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He added that Compton, “like all of us, is very anxious that we scientists do everything we can in the direction of preparedness, and we discussed ways and means.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By and large, scientists use the simplest model they can which is consistent with all the facts relevant to a particular set of circumstances, and they don’t all use the same model all the time. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z With this goal in mind, Moscow headquarters made up a list of top American scientists to target for cultivation. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The standard argument is that this thesis proves that evidence does not determine what scientists hold to be true; consequently, it is claimed, scientific beliefs are primarily shaped by cultural and social factors. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The other scientists liked Fuchs and respected his work, but didn’t pay much attention to him. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Pneumococcal pneumonia after influenza infection—the epidemic within the epidemic—was of such concern that the ministry had deployed teams of scientists to study the bacterium and develop a vaccine against it. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z However, historians and historical scientists do make and test predictions about what future discoveries of data will show us about past events. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After years of disbelief and argument from other scientists, Hay- flick’s paper on cell limits became one of the most widely cited in his field. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z This was an inherently unstable arrangement, given the self-regard of the two scientists. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By the early nineties, a scientist at Yale had used HeLa to discover that human cancer cells contain an enzyme called telomerase that rebuilds their telomeres. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Apparently Governor Stassen believes in the opinion of one group of scientists, and Admiral Strauss follows the views of another group,” Eisenhower observed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The students at the To Keung School of Midwifery were new women, scientists who changed the rituals. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence replied that “the idea of a federation of democracies may have much practical merit, but... I would not think of using my position as a scientist in furthering such a political movement.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Puffing on a pipe, Skardon asked Fuchs a long series of questions about the scientist’s back- ground and family. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z For scientists doing research that wasn’t cell-specific, like investigating the effects of radiation on DNA, not knowing what kind of cell they were working on might not affect the outcome of their research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The result was several distinct species, to each of which scientists have assigned a pompous Latin name. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lucy Elizabeth Everhart. That was important equipment that many scientists—including your mother—worked hard to get. It’s not yours to pitch off the boat! ” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I told him, “Richard Buckminster Fuller was a scientist, philosopher, and inventor who is most famous for designing the geodesic dome, whose most famous version is the Buckyball. He died in 1983, I think.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The absence of anything to see on Venus led some scientists to the curious conclusion that the surface was a swamp, like the Earth in the Carboniferous Period. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z While attempting to isolate enough of the compounds in the cockroaches, an international consortium of scientists develops revolutionary technologies to increase the size of the cockroaches through genetic manipulation. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z How can students of human history profit from the experience of scientists in other historical sciences? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His dad was a CO, he told me, his uncle a policeman, his sister a scientist. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Social scientists flinch at this question, and with good reason. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He thinks that Locke is the greatest philosopher who has ever lived and Newton the greatest scientist. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Even scientists, with their commitment to seeing the world as it is, are a bit postmodern. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Some people in Logan thought Evangeleen Ellison was a junior mad scientist. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z More than four hundred scientists migrated to Philadelphia from Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Fancy mathematical terms and reams of statistical correlations and computer printouts do not in themselves produce understanding, social scientists’ claims notwithstanding. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He hears Dr. Hauptmann: A scientist’s work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Throughout the eighties, using HeLa and other cells, scientists studied HPV infection and how it causes cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Of course there were scientists who thought the evidence favoring DNA was inconclusive and preferred to believe that genes were protein molecules. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z According to Andrews and a dissenting California Supreme Court judge, the ruling didn’t prevent commercialization; it just took patients out of the equation and emboldened scientists to commodify tissues in increasing numbers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “I have a feeling that Albert’s father is quite a scientist indeed.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Some scientists who are willing to concede the potent effect of environmental radiation on man nevertheless question whether mutagenic chemicals can, as a practical proposition, have the same effect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Calpurnia,” he said, looking at me, “as a scientist, you must be truthful about your observations.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z And while views of the surrounding mountains and deserts were spectacular, the army built high fences around the entire lab—making the scientists feel like prisoners. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But although Kepler may have been less superstitious than many of his peers, he was still too mystically inclined to be called the first scientist. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Yet if we start looking for the word ‘evidence’ being used by seventeenth-century scientists we discover something peculiar: they have the word, but they hardly ever use it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Yet the Tennessee women outdid the Berkeley scientists in one crucial quality: patience. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Only in one area have scientists discovered younger dung balls: on several Caribbean islands, in particular Cuba and Hispaniola, they found petrified ground-sloth scat dating to about 5000 BC. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The scientists heard the man call for help. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He recorded the moment in his journal, leavening his relief with the one overriding concern that had lent urgency to the work of all the atomic scientists of those years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In 2010 another lost sibling was rescued from oblivion, when scientists excavating the Denisova Cave in Siberia discovered a fossilised finger bone. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “No? But you figured an easier and more accurate way to check longitude. Astronomers and scientists have been working on that quite a while—for several hundred years.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Most scientists doubted that the Mars environment could support a humanlike life form. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Somehow I missed her mentioning that “Matthew” wasn’t a crusty old scientist. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He wasn’t a scientist, but he read all the scientific articles in the newspapers and magazines. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It is these new arguments which made possible a profound shift in the culture of both scientists and theologians in the years after 1692. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Whether Neptune has a ring is a problem high on the agenda of planetary scientists. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The board’s appeal to Lawrence showed the confidence of its members in his ability to see things their way and balance the interests of the emerging security state and the scientists it employed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But the scientists could not shed the suspicion that someone was throwing sand in the gears, and they thought they knew who: Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z From this experience, Alvarez drew the lifelong lesson that “a scientist can stay active as he grows older only by staying in touch with the youngest generation.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At Los Alamos, the British team of scientists began packing up to head home. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I’d invite a few of my closest friends to come aboard, along with a team of doctors and scientists, and we’d all get the hell out of Dodge. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It wasn’t that long ago that I’d referred to my nemesis as an annoying evil scientist. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z And just what should the scientist and the citizen learn from the history of science? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z You un-transform the research the scientists have made back into the scientists have made the research; you undo whom she suspects is her husband and get she suspects whom is her husband. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The scientists’ initial reaction to these increasingly draconian strictures was to treat them whimsically. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z After watching all the scientists on television hype about the rover, I actually had a rare opportunity to be so close to all the action. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He filled the cups, and the scientists and students silently passed them around. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z These three million people included teachers, engineers, doctors, scientists, and intellectuals. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z That to me remained the greatest of all amazements–how scientists work things out. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He had that confident swagger that you knew meant he believed he could convince a scientist the world was flat. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I barely even noticed the scientists’ kids, and Jewish was something somebody else was in places far away from Chokecherry. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Programming with cards,” one computer scientist from that era remembers, “did not teach you programming. It taught you patience and proofreading.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, dedicated scientists develop theories and test them, hoping to discover a safe and effective cure. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Around this time—1834—the word scientist was first coined, beginning an era that gradually professionalized the study of the natural world, and began to divide it into ever more specialized fields. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She works with the scientists too, cataloging their finds. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “It’s large,” another scientist—this one a man with thinning hair--says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “These two rocket scientists were killed,” Terryl began, as she launched into the story of the accident. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z My father’s view of human nature has always been bleak, but scientists were excluded from it, and now they aren’t. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And if scientists could figure out how to turn disease genes off, they might be able to create a form of gene therapy. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In 1941, three years before Avery’s landmark experiment, two scientists, George Beadle and Edward Tatum, working in a basement tunnel at Stanford University, discovered the missing link between genes and physical traits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He managed to track down a copy of the actual scientific paper and to persuade scientists at the US Atomic Energy Commission to explain to him what it meant. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Physics was taught by Christian Doppler, the redoubtable Austrian scientist who would become Mendel’s mentor, teacher, and idol. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But their lives and deaths have had a greater impact on my thinking as a scientist, scholar, historian, physician, son, and father than I could possibly have envisioned. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z When he was done, he’d hand the papers back to the scientist and say, “Thanks for your report.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “But artists and scientists aren’t really that different, you know. They both want to figure out how things work.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He instructed York to pack his bags for a trip east to quietly sound out scientists and government officials about locating this new group at Livermore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Oppenheimer case did more than heighten the conflict between scientists and bureaucracy; it also caused a deep rift within the scientific community that would not be healed for years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Four years later, Soviet scientists decided to try their luck on dry land. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He and his colleague Charles Sumner Tainter went to work in Bell's Washington laboratory, using their own ideas and input from other scientists whom they had contacted by letter and telegram. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Birdie with her top two teeth missing, Birdie dressed like a cheerleader one year, a scientist the next. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Not only that, why was he wearing a white lab coat, like scientists wore on TV? The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The proposal was met with bureaucratic inertia and with skepticism from scientists, but the idea persisted in Dr. Knipling’s mind. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Indeed, for the naming game to get going scientists have to make priority claims that can be taken forward on their behalf. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Lynn planned to become either a rocket scientist or a famous writer. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z When scientists calculate the amount of matter needed to hold things together, they always come up desperately short. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The medical discoveries made by such brilliant scientists as Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch led to procedures such as vaccination and measures such as quarantines that, when mandated by the government, saved millions of lives. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z For weeks the Soviet scientists had been privately discussing what would happen if this bomb test failed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The weird thing was that when the scientists brought some up to study in a lab, the fish had sensed the light and had grown eyes. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The Met Lab scientists therefore had the time and leisure to ponder the greater implications of nuclear weaponry and its control. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It has also been claimed that there were no scientists in the seventeenth century because there was no professional role for a scientist to occupy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As Oppenheimer walked home, he saw one of his scientists bent over a bush, vomiting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Copernicus himself was an intermediate figure in the scientific revolution, and in one important way he resembled the Ancient Greek philosophers rather than the modern scientist. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Sax reached into his shoe and pulled out a piece of paper—a technical question from Soviet scientists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Hall and a team of scientists took the core to a canyon a couple of miles from the lab. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Some scientists have believed that Mars is inhabited on what has later proved to be the flimsiest evidence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When you think about it, even cooks’ white aprons are similar to the white coats that scientists wear. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z If he wanted to be a mad scientist today he wouldn’t need makeup at all. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z In biology, there is an old distinction between two camps of scientists—anatomists, and physiologists. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But when I explained to her that the Lackses thought she was testing them for cancer, and that they were upset about scientists using the cells without their knowledge, she was shocked. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z As the experiment continued, more and more curious scientists crammed onto the balcony. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, a lot of scientists believe that there is no hope for us. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Conant, unhappy with his scientists’ inability to settle on a single separation process, penciled out a proposal to spend $870 million for four individual pilot plants. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The more senior scientists watched while Hall worked the uranium into place. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But as she worked her way back and forth along the corridors, the tiny hope that the scientist might be there withered away to nothing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The big-bang theory was born Yet scientists were aware that the big-bang theory suffered from a significant shortcoming. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Having coined the phrase nature versus nurture, Galton had wondered how a scientist might discern the influence of one over the other. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The reason Henrietta’s cells were so precious was because they allowed scientists to perform experiments that would have been impossible with a living human. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z To get to work, scientists struggled through the mud to the half-finished Tech Area, which housed labs and offices and was surrounded by another fence, nine feet high, with barbed wire strung along the top. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristarchus was one of the last of the Ionian scientists. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the varying results, enough solid evidence of harm is accumulating to cause apprehension on the part of many scientists. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s scientists assumed this same gun assembly method would work for plutonium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Helmholtz, he developed into a scientist with many interests, though he was known early in his career for ophthalmology and for establishing the first eye hospital in the Netherlands in 1858. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Gregor Mendel, the Austrian monk and scientist, was working this out in his monastery at about the same time, but Charles was not aware of him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave future generations of scientists “a theory by which to work.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, other scientists connected specific bacteria to diseases such as plague, typhoid fever, and cholera. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He was at the Second Decennial Review Conference on Cell Tissue and Organ Culture with more than seven hundred other scientists. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Because of this history, black residents near Hopkins have long believed the hospital was built in a poor black neighborhood for the benefit of scientists —to give them easy access to potential research subjects. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z |
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