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12/21/2009 | Scientist Of The Year
By keeping an open mind and irrepressible optimism, the 2009 R&D Magazine Scientist of the Year helped Dow AgroSciences pioneer a new, green insect control technology.
11/2/2009 | Scientist Of The Year
By some estimates, there are more than a million insect species in this world. Only a small percentage of this number is detrimental to the quality of our lives, but these are the species that drive research by scientists like Dr. Thomas C. Sparks, R&D Magazine’s 44th Scientist of the Year. The entomologist’s job is to know these insects, even down to the molecular level, to discover ways to keep them from destroying a very precious commodity: our food.
8/26/2009 | News
Again, we turn to you, our readers, to help us choose the candidate mostworthy of our ultimate individual awards: the Scientist of the Year, the Innovator of the Year, and the YoungInnovator of the Year. Voting is now open and will conclude Sept. 4, 2009.
8/6/2009 | RDBlog
R&D Magazine is turning to the R&D community to help us identify the best minds in research and development by nominating candidates for our Innovator of the Year and Scientist of the Year awards.
12/1/2008 | Scientist Of The Year
At an Intel laboratory, R&D Magazine’s 2008 Scientist of the Year is designing the chips that are revolutionizing photonics and pointing the way to the terascale age of optical communications.
11/20/2006 | Scientist Of The Year
Dr. Gerald Rubin is a researcher who works to understand the genomic structure of the Drosophila melanogaster, or common fruit fly. Rubin is also Vice President and Director of the Janelia Farm Research Campus (JFRC), the recently opened research facility of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Chevy Chase, Md.
11/21/2005 | Scientist Of The Year
The world is faced with tremendous medical challengesthat now, all too often, have come to include the wordpandemic. Consider the fact that HIV/AIDS, malaria,and tuberculosis alone are directly responsible formore than 4 million deaths per year.
11/16/2004 | Scientist Of The Year
When George Poste left SmithKline Beecham in late-1999 after nearly 20 years of running many of their R&D operations, he thought that his future commuting route would be a lot different than his nearly weekly trips between SmithKline's headquarters in Philadelphia and its offices in Europe. "I had what I called my three-S triangle-Scottsdale (Ariz.), San Francisco, and San Diego," he explains. "That was going to be my commuting triangle and I would interact with a series of biotech companies in those cities and have more time to explore the landscape of Arizona."
11/12/2003 | Scientist Of The Year
Eric Lander has a very simple goal in lifeall he wants is to know everything there is to know about the human genome. And he believes he can do it. Eric Lander is director of the MIT Center for Genome Research at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.