I was able to learn as much from cursory research after discovering him through his recurring stint on Chuck.
But the decision to name the university's new research institute after him hasn't gone over well with dozens of faculty members, who worry that the honorific will be interpreted as a wholesale endorsement of Mr. Friedman's free-market ideology.
Obama paid tribute to the late actor Christopher Reeve, who emerged as an advocate for embryonic stem cell research after he was paralysed in a horseriding accident.
Mr. Koch said that he became passionate about cancer research after he learned in 1992 that he had prostate cancer.
The Great Satan of the Gilded Age, John D. Rockefeller, left the medical research institution named after him on the Upper East Side, but the supreme Rockefeller gift to New York wasn't an act of charity.
On the other side of the world, in California, he donated $40 million to the University of California, Berkeley for a new biomedical research facility named after him that opened in October.
According to a recent report in the Chicago Tribune, NIH administrators were surprised to discover last year that Hughes continued this IVF-related research after NIH officials had told him to stop.
Some research supports him: after raking through decades of historical data, John Donohue of Yale Law School estimates that a 10% increase in imprisonment brings a 2% reduction in crime.Others disagree.
We called him to get more insight into his research after a recent National Post profile caused a bit of an uproar across the country.
She said that her husband had changed after his research took him deep into the criminal underworld.
It was at his workplace, Deloitte, that Xing first went "full nerd," after his research brought him into the world of artificial intelligence.
