Sentence examples for illustrious scientists from inspiring English sources

In 1957, the mathematical economist and Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon predicted that a machine would become the world chess champion in a decade, and he was just the first in a long line of illustrious scientists whose forecasts about computer chess were notoriously wrong.

Some of France's most illustrious scientists were outraged and yesterday, their president listened.

as the inaugural class of Canadian Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) have two things in common: They are all illustrious scientists.

There he learned English, which helped him during his first visit to America when he acted as an interpreter for an illustrious scientist representing Italy at an electricity congress in Chicago.Inspired by meeting Thomas Alva Edison, Camillo returned home and began manufacturing electrical instruments.

This same basic theme, and its same basic particulars, were espoused by an illustrious gathering of scientists at the Oldways Common Ground Conference in Boston in November; that consensus statement is available for you here.

Scientists as illustrious as John von Neumann, Edward Teller, Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli fell on their pens trying to derive alpha from first principles.

Schools in England are failing girls who want to study physics; the Royal Society in London will hold an "edit-a-thon" event on 19 October in which Wikipedia articles on illustrious yet unsung female scientists will be expanded or created; and microscopic analysis of Pegomastax teeth suggest that heterodontosaurs used their fangs to nip and spar.

Located in the northern part of barrio Recoleta, the cemetery is the burial place of many illustrious military generals, presidents, scientists, poets and other prominent Argentines.

Sir Harry said he had enjoyed the "the tremendous friendship of Russian scientists" during his illustrious career.

Sir Andrew Huxley, a British scientist from an illustrious family whose boyhood mechanical skills led to a career in physiology — "the mechanical engineering of living things," he called it — and a Nobel Prize for explaining the electrical basis of bodily movement, died on Wednesday.

And today, in an exclusive interview with ScienceInsider, she was refreshingly candid about why she decided to add another chapter to her illustrious career as an academic scientist, university administrator, and public servant.