Intertwined with the matter of credit for a major scientific discovery have been such factors as the prestige of national scientific establishments, the fame and fortune of individual scientists and their institutes and possible shares in a future Nobel Prize.
— David Streitfeld The Hot Tech Gig of 2022: Data Scientist FORTUNE TECH | By the end of the decade, 50 billion devices will be emitting info nonstop.
Already biotechnology is beginning to develop its own star system, with investors closely following the fortunes of particular scientists and entrepreneurs.
Schlissel opened the proceedings with an illustration of how young scientists' fortunes have deteriorated over the decades.
Starting in the 1980s and building on previous work in demography, Teitelbaum became a nationally recognized expert on the demography and economics of science careers and the factors that affect young scientists' fortunes.
This paper looks at a case study of more than 100 top-level executives, engineers, and scientists at Fortune 500 companies and military organizations.
In discussing information overload with Fortune 500 leaders, top scientists, writers, students, and small business owners, email comes up again and again as a problem.
Three, it receives no government largesse in any form, however covert, and especially not from any government that claims to be implementing large tax cuts.David AlexanderZeist, The NetherlandsAcademic interestsSIR – As a culture of greater transparency spreads through academia, why stop with the scientists ("Outrageous fortune", May 19th)?
Even if China spends a fortune to train more scientists, it cannot prevent America from capitalising on their inventions with better business models.That points to his next insight, that the commercialisation, diffusion and use of inventions is of more value to companies and societies than the initial bright spark.
Haworth, pursuing immortality with the same ruthlessness with which he had pursued an ill-gotten fortune, pays a brilliant young scientist to put him "to sleep in a nice refrigerator until people really know something about the body".
