We said goodbye to the pioneering science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke who died at the age of 90, and to double Booker-prize nominee Julian Rathbone.
Philanthropies, however, are often looking for potential cures as well as pioneering science.
For this growing group of research pioneers, Science Careers takes a look at the Indian research environment, discusses opportunities for conducting basic scientific research, and shares the experiences of recently returned science exchangees from India.
His most recent book is Final Frontier: the pioneering science and technology of exploring the universe (St Martin's Press).
The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, who founded the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories and who is considered one of the "fathers" of the science fiction genre.
The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and were officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards until 1992.
Mr. Dufresne, the pioneering, science-friendly chef who once deconstructed and reassembled eggs Benedict at his Lower East Side restaurant, WD-50, is famous for upending a diner's expectations of where something is supposed to be.
WAR OF THE WORLDS E.T., one hopes, is not playing for the opposing team in Steven Spielberg's return to H.G. Wells's often-dramatized, pioneering science-fiction story of 1898.
Marcus even discussed Nigel Kneale's pioneering science-fiction drama Quatermass and the Pit, which Goddard, imagining the young Bowie's television diet in the 1950s, also cites – specifically, Professor Quatermass's closing message to British people: "We are the Martians!" On occasions, Goddard might have been even more speculative.
This is a man who helped pioneer sports science in rugby league yet ripped a dressing room door off its hinges in a fit of pique.
