Liban Egal, a Somali entrepreneur who grew up in Baltimore in America, has started work with an American-trained chemist to produce bio-diesel from animal fat, which the cattle-herding Somalis normally have in abundance, along with used oil and chemicals.
But Pfizer has a huge store of confidence in the iconoclastic work of the 53-year-old chemist Harry Howard.
Returning home as a penniless 29-year-old was "a harrowing experience" but provided Njoku, a chemist by training, with his Eureka moment -- he realized there's a growing appetite for Nollywood films after noticing how his mother and other relatives had difficulties getting their hands on their beloved movies from Nigeria's booming film industry.
He then paid tribute to the 19th-Century educational reformer Jules Ferry and the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Marie Curie.
I'm a chemist by trade - I worked in chemical defence areas and then started getting involved in support to operations.
Conte, who is sixty, has a thin mustache and wears small wire-frame glasses that give him the appearance of a barrel-chested laboratory chemist.
One chemist hopes that band-aids will no longer hurt, when ripped off.
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At Theravance, Merck alum Roy Vagelos lured former Merck chemist Burton Christensen, co-inventor of three antibiotics at Merck, to come out of retirement in 1998 to help create new antibiotics.
The drugs came courtesy of Kary Mullis, a Nobel prize-winning chemist, who described a new class of antibiotics that overcomes the resistance which has evolved in many species of bug.
As a former research chemist as well as a free-marketeer, her views carried even more weight than the usual Prime Ministerial utterances.
Starpharma holds 33% equity in the U.S.-based privately--held Dendritic Nanotechnologies Inc. (DNT), which Raff, who is a molecular biologist, co-founded with chemist Donald Tomalia.
Rick Claus, an electrical engineer at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia, and Jennifer Lalli, a polymer chemist at NanoSonic, a spin-out from Virginia Tech, believe they have solved this problem.
It seems like he is not the only person who believes thorium, a naturally-occurring, slightly radioactive metal discovered in 1828 by the Swedish chemist Jons Jakob Berzelius, could provide the world with an ultra-safe, ultra-cheap source of nuclear power.
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Kelly started out as a chemist, giving her a unique non-traditional-lawyer perspective of invention and innovation.
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"He's brilliant, " says Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center chemist Samuel Danishefsky , who is collaborating with Khosla on a cancer drug.
Then in the early 20th Century, German chemist Fritz Haber invented a high temperature-high pressure technique to convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia.
In later life, Snow insisted that by vocation he was a writer, though he trained as a chemist and did important research in infra-red spectroscopy the main tool in the 1920s and early 1930s for unravelling the structure of molecules.
A. chemist, flew to Congo with a carry-on bag containing vials of poison and a hypodermic syringe.
She said the Laboratory of the Government Chemist was looking at what levels of cross-contamination could take place in "a well-run and hygienic plant" and testing methods were also being looked at.
He got wind of Harvard chemist George Whitesides' success in making tiny fluid-handling devices with the same type of rubber used in household caulk.
This was ironic since I would find myself in my private sector career working for The Coca-Cola Company as a flavor chemist, now for over 23 years.
In 1885, French chemist Louis Pasteur successfully treated a patient with his anti-rabies vaccine.
But 200 years ago the young British chemist Luke Howard lay for hours gazing at the clouds--and then found a way to turn his observations into an elegant set of names still in use today.
Rosenberg's grandfather Michael Rhodes was a chemist who in the 1950s led the invention of the water-repelling molecule at the heart of Hycrete's additive.
Robert Baile, 52, spent 20 years as a research chemist for Syntex Pharmaceuticals (now Roche) and five home-brewing in his basement before buying into the business in 1996.
"Bristol fulfilled every contractual provision we had, to the letter, " says a still-bitter Dean Stull, Hauser's organic chemist boss.
Harfouch is the Senior Chemist at Spectra and holds the most important role in the day-to-day running of the company.
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In early 2000 Lieber and another Harvard chemist, Hongkun Park, created exquisitely sensitive biodetectors by pasting molecules--an antibody, say, that is attracted only to a particular protein--to their nanowires.
In 2008 MIT chemist Daniel Nocera concocted a very simple, very cheap, robust, self-healing and non-toxic catalyst made from cobalt and phosphate that can split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
In the 1990s, Russian chemist Sergey Bachurin showed it had potential for improving cognition in a variety of lab-animal tests.
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