You might well think that Bolden is the first researcher to look so closely at "so".
(His first researcher was a young Rahm Emanuel, now the mayor of Chicago).
There he earned a formidable reputation as an experimenter, becoming the first researcher to patch two connected neurons simultaneously.
In Ghana, she was the first researcher to describe the condition kwashiorkor (severe protein deficiency in children) in Africa.
Francis Black, the first researcher to take blood samples here, died recently, so it is impossible to obtain his account.
Jerry Morris, who has died aged 99, was the first researcher to demonstrate the connection between exercise and health.
Dr. Lovaas was the first researcher to suggest that for at least some children, autism is treatable.
Dr. Koren said he was the first researcher to make the connection between the fabric and the snail dye.
When I asked Lustig why he was the first researcher in years to focus on the dangers of sugar, he answered: "John Yudkin.
But Dr. Young was not the first researcher to manipulate a phage genetically so that it killed bacteria without bursting out and infecting other cells.
In 2002, Gero Miesenböck, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, in New York, became the first researcher to use an opsin to render a brain cell light-sensitive.
