Ideas considered by the committee - comprising distinguished scientists such as Lord Soulsby and politicians such as Lord Taverne - include the creation of a dedicated UK centre to promote research into alternatives.
But Tony Bland of the University of Cambridge, U.K., says that the Nobel committee apparently distinguished between the discovery and its cultivation.
After the deadline (3 May 2004 for next year's awards), the program officer, Nancy Sung, and program associate, Debi Vought, carefully review the research proposals and forward them to an advisory committee comprising distinguished scientists from across the country and from disciplines including mathematics.
Credit courses must be approved by the appropriate college educational policy committee and are distinguished from other Cornell courses only by virtue of being taught off campus.
Our fellow committee members are distinguished, smart, and very busy people, unlikely to have time to read 7,800 submissions, so we whittled down the duplicates and identified the strongest candidates.
The Writers Guild has a distinguished negotiating committee, made up of TV showrunners, Emmy winners and Oscar winners.
He appointed an internationally distinguished advisory committee, made up of art historians, museum curators and working artists, to find the most provocative artists and sculptors, some of them with no experience in creating public art.
The selection criteria the U.S.T.A. submitted to the United States Olympic Committee did not distinguish between singles and doubles rankings.
As a result, the Parks-Murray book is not eligible for a Tony nomination or award, because the committee did not distinguish between the new work and the original text of the 1935 opera.
The University also is grateful to the members of the committee, a group of particularly distinguished scientists and researchers, who brought their collective insight and considerable experience to the task.
