One reason may be rooted in the ideal of the completely devoted scientist.
Twinned opening scenes — the first involving a giant, alabaster-skinned biped sacrificing himself to propagate life on Earth, and the second, thousands of years later, devoted to scientists' finding traces of his presences — impart a palpable sense of awe.
So here's what we've got lined up for this special issue devoted to scientists in educational outreach.
The application of HPM in linear and nonlinear problems has been devoted by scientists and engineers, because this method continuously deforms the under study problem which is difficult into a simple problem which is easy to solve.
Mulcahy has devoted 550 scientists and 75% of her $750million research budget to finding breakthroughs in color, including efforts to make color machines lighter and smaller by using less material and fewer moving parts.
As a result of the manifesto, the scientists formed Pugwash, an organisation of scientists devoted to a political project: preventing nuclear war.
More than 1,000 species are known to date, but there are rather few scientists devoted to their study, with many species yet to be found.
In 1997, the World Conservation Union declared these iguanas of the Caribbean islands "the most endangered lizards in the world" and organized a group of scientists devoted to their preservation.
While he works with EcoHealth, an organization of scientists devoted to wildlife conservation, his primary affiliation is as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
"His program at N.I.M.H. probably resulted in the spawning of more scientists devoted to understanding the biology of schizophrenia than any other program in the history of medical research," said Dr. Daniel R. Weinberger, chief of the institute's clinical brain disorders unit.
