Sentence examples for scientist encountered from inspiring English sources

The novel is a series of linked sketches of real people that Lederer, a Navy captain who served as special assistant to the commander in chief of United States forces in the Pacific and Asian theater, and Burdick, a political scientist, encountered overseas during the buildup to Vietnam.

This may be so even when a story (say, the case of an important historical discovery) helps students learn how a scientist encountered and solved a problem.

The eager young scientist encounters a lot of interesting characters along the way, including JP Morgan ("Sex and the City"'s Chris Noth), a saucy American journalist played by Neve Campbell ("Party of Five") and an alluring young Italian copyist (Alessandra Mastronardi, "To Rome With Love").

In addition to finding Pfiesteria, the scientists encountered two previously unknown varieties of algae that could kill bay creatures.

During the infamous nineteenth-century "bone wars," between the East Coast paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and O. C. Marsh, scientists encountered dinosaur skeletons "exposed like corpses on a deserted battlefield," Michael Novacek writes in "Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs".

Just as the original conception of the metric system had grown out of the problems scientists encountered in dealing with the medieval system, so a new system grew out of the problems a vastly enlarged scientific community faced in the proliferation of subsystems improvised to serve particular disciplines.

Scientists encountered several contradictions when they analyzed the formation mechanism of hydrates related to mud diapirs.

Often enough, when scientists encounter something unusual living in a redwood, it proves to be an unknown species.

In Stanislaw Lem's 1961 science fiction classic "Solaris," a group of scientists encounters a world covered by a sentient ocean, a single, giant organism that invades every nook and cranny of the planet (and, unfortunately for the scientists, every nook and cranny of their minds).

I hold a very strong view that no minister in any part of the world should bully anyone, and to me it is totally unacceptable to behave in the manner suggested.We live in a democracy in South Africa, unlike the situation scientists encounter in many other countries and unlike the country under apartheid.

In reality, nearly all scientists encounter setbacks, singularities that disturb the local time-career continuum.