Last Monday, five of the world's foremost science writers gathered in London to learn if they would receive the Royal Society's Winton prize for science books 2012.
Ms. Reidy is an outstanding teacher, scientist and visionary, eminently qualified to lead the nation's foremost science high school, and "infinitely better" than any Nobel laureate the chancellor may have conjured.
"We are first and foremost science-based.
Then on Sunday, editors at China's foremost science Web site and blog, ScienceNet.cn, began collecting signatures from readers opposed to cigarette research's consideration for a science award.
Desmond-Hellmann, who'd presided over the development of numerous successful cancer drugs at Genentech, has since been appointed chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, one of the country's foremost medical sciences campuses.
Tronstad's foremost skill was that of organization, which he owed to his experience in science.
Franklin Institute, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., one of the foremost American science and technology centres.
Faced with an attack of the Skrulls or the oversize threat of a rampaging Galactus, Reed Richards and crew turn first and foremost to science to solve the problem.
But the Royal Institution is first and foremost about science communication, and it is for her media work that the Baroness has attracted the fiercest criticism.
A mainframe computer provided by the National Science Foundation was made available to sociologists, linguists, historians and economists, among others, helping the institute to build one of the country's foremost social science archives.
