Sentence examples for devoted himself to research from inspiring English sources

After resigning as chairman at the end of the first year of a third five-year term, Shimamoto devoted himself to research in combinatorial mathematics, the economics of Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas lease sales (on behalf of the U.S. Geological Survey), the architecture of supercomputers, and the linking of computers for parallel processing.

In 1871 Yablochkov was appointed director of the telegraph lines between Moscow and Kursk, a position he resigned in 1875 to devote himself to research on arc lamps.

Now semiretired -- he spends his mornings at Ball State and his afternoons building an airplane -- he no longer heads the lab, devoting himself to research and writing.

But his gut told him he was right, so he scrapped plans to begin an obstetrics practice in Sicily, instead staying in San Francisco to devote himself to research.

In 1987, retired with cancer of the liver, which he survived, determined to devote himself to researching Chinese medicine.

Upon the outbreak of the French Revolution, he retired to a small estate at Blois and devoted himself to scientific research.

Following the loss of the family fortune in 1811, he devoted himself to theoretical research and composition, becoming a professor at the Paris Conservatory in 1821.

For the next year, he devoted himself to his research in theoretical economics, which had languished for years, and "got out of the race business".

At Lingnan University, he devoted himself to scientific research and education in service to his country.

When the Holy League for the extermination of Protestantism prevented Pithou from practicing law, he devoted himself to his researches on the history and discipline of the church.

He devoted himself to raising funds for research on Parkinson's Disease and supporting those with the disease.