He spent most of his final 37 years on Cape Breton, working on projects as varied as the vacuum jacket (a forerunner of the iron lung), man-carrying tetrahedral kites and, most famously, the hydrofoil.
During his two decades at Rand, he has worked on projects in fields as varied as military labor economics, social psychology and childhood obesity.
Its title is "Matter as Protagonist," which fits with Ms. Stockholder's emphasis in her own work on varied, usually humble materials and the way they interact with each other.
This month's annual British Neuroscience Association meeting in Brighton heard from researchers working on themes as varied as brain repair after stroke and treatments for Parkinson's disease.
The Irish artist Gerard Byrne has for more than 10 years been working on a formally varied project about Loch Ness, whose apocryphal tenant he takes to be an emanation of the twin histories of photography and research.
Food Day brings together organizations and individuals working on food issues as varied as hunger, nutrition, agriculture policy, animal welfare, and farmworker justice.
This suggests that volcanologists, even those working on the same volcano, may vary in how they define a "major eruption" and in their perceptions of the likely phenomena that the volcano is capable of producing.
Once Mr. Morot, who has worked on movies as varied as "300," "Source Code" and "Night at the Museum," came to a look that he, Mr. Levine and the studio (Summit Entertainment) could agree on, he began a several-step process.
As a young hydrologist, I worked on topics as varied as soil erosion, snow physics, and the remote sensing of water uptake by plants.
