Sentence examples for revolutionary contributions from inspiring English sources
Soviet-born French mathematician who was awarded the 2009 Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters "for his revolutionary contributions to geometry".
Indeed, on May 19 another math professor from N.Y.U., Micha Gromov, traveled to Norway to pick up his Abel, given for what the prize committee called "his revolutionary contributions to geometry".
Gromov, 65, won the award "for his revolutionary contributions to geometry," says Abel Committee Chair Kristian Seip.
The history of technical work includes many accounts of scientists, engineers, and others whose revolutionary contributions did not translate into professional stability or success.
Cosmologists James Gunn and James Peebles, both at Princeton University, and Martin Rees, at Cambridge University, United Kingdom, made revolutionary contributions to the understanding of how the universe evolved from a smooth primordial soup of particles and radiation into a rich diversity of stars arranged in galaxies and clusters.
In 1992, mathematician and physicist John Baez created The Crackpot Index, which he called "a simple method for rating potentially revolutionary contributions to physics".
The result is a gripping, poignant and in some respects revolutionary contribution to European history.
But Gauguin's most revolutionary contribution to art may be the experimental prints and transfer drawings he made between 1889 and 1903, the year he died.
His great revolutionary contribution was to forge, almost single-handedly, a modern Russian literary language during an era when high society habitually spoke French and the peasantry a crude dialect.
Hemingway's most obvious revolutionary contribution to the short story was his style: pared down, laconic, unafraid to repeat the most common adjectives rather than reach for a synonym.
As much as Steidl admired Gutenberg's revolutionary contribution to the dissemination of knowledge, the Bible itself was "a baroque illustrated object that was absolutely not to my taste".
