In 1993 the Wellcome Trust and the British Medical Research Council established a genome research centre, honouring Sanger by naming it the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
Groundbreaking research will be honoured and reputations cemented for posterity, but the winners will also find themselves considerably better off – and by rather more than Hemingway's $35,000.
As a child I was aware that research scientists are not honoured on the same level as brain surgeons".
The delicate task of measuring the standard speed for emptying one's bladder and the near-impossible procedure for partially unboiling a boiled egg are just two of the research discoveries to be honoured in this year's Ig Nobel Prizes.
The awards, revealed at Harvard University, Massachusetts, are an antidote to the more serious Nobel Prizes announced next month and are designed to honour research that initially makes you laugh and them makes you think.
Another summer working in the winery came and went, and I returned to complete my last year and an honours research project.
Firstly, robots/holograms could make it easier for research staff to honour their teaching duties.
The professor has received millions of dollars in federal grants over the last 10 years, and he was honoured for his research at the local and national level.
In recent times, academics tend to be valued, judged and honoured by their research achievements and the number and quality of papers they have had published in learned journals.
Since retiring, she has devoted her life to giving away most of her wealth – up to £135m – to autism research, and in 2009 was honoured for her largesse by being made the UK's first Ambassador for Philanthropy.
In four decades of high-pressure research, Bridgman, whose work was honoured by the 1946 Nobel Prize for Physics, documented effects of pressure on electric conductivity, thermal conductivity, viscosity, melting, reaction kinetics, and other material properties.
