However, he was the first author to spend months in Kenya looking for the answer.
K. Rowling, very rich--she is the first author to become a billionaire according to Forbes' annual rankings.
On February 2, 38 more scientists signed a note listing Kevin Trenberth of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research as the first author.
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According to Brian Stableford, writing in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, the definitive reference on the genre, Camille Flammarion was the first author to present a popular fictional portrait of truly alien life-forms.
The next step is to figure out if stimulation also can help when recalling old memories, because that function can also be impaired with dementia, according to Nanthia Suthana, the first author on the study and a UCLA postdoctoral researcher.
Author Tan Twan Eng has become the first Malaysian author to win the Man Asian Literary Prize.
But the first billionaire author is still earning off of the young wizard.
He became the first to author an investing book that cracked The New York Times bestseller list with Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits in 1958.
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Mantel is the first woman and the first living British author to win the prestigious literary prize twice.
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Mantel, whose novel is part of a trilogy about Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell, already holds the record for being the first woman and the first living British author to win the Man Booker Prize twice.
She became the first living UK author to receive the prize twice, having won it for its prequel Wolf Hall.
The agreement extended copyright protection for the first time from the author of a work to the creators and owners of particular, physical manifestations of intellectual property, such as audiocassettes or DVDs.
James de Lemos of the Univeristy of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, first author of the JAMA paper, says patients in A to Z were getting less-aggressive treatment than those in other trials.
First, it provides ample evidence, much of it drawn from the author's first-hand experience, to support its assertions.
Eric Arnold is deputy editor of the lifestyle section for Forbes and is author of the book First Big Crush: The Down and Dirty on Making Great Wine Down Under.
Pinpointing the cause is the first step in solving the problem, says author Larina Kase.
DeYoung, the "United by Faith" co-author, says the first-century Christian church grew so rapidly precisely because it was so inclusive.
The winner did not attend to claim his dubious honour - the first time a winning author has not turned up.
The monthlong exchange resulted in a worker's-eye view of talent in the company, says Mr. Nayar, the author of "Employees First, Customers Second, " a book about his firm's people-driven philosophy.
"The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks, " Bushnell said.
"Headhunters" is the first stand-alone story penned by the author.
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Based on the successful trilogy of novels by author Stieg Larrson, the first film is scheduled for release Christmas of 2011 with the next two films sure to follow close on its heels.
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That is a very strong indictment, and if one had read only the first two sentences, or even just the first, one might conclude that the author was opposed to the bill.
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"It felt hard to believe that this affectionate, witty novel was the author's first, " the judges said.
Off Duty Style Director Meenal Mistry, who approached Gibson about writing for this issue, first fell for the author as a college student in the '90s.
Lander, first author on the genome paper published by the government-funded Human Genome Project, is also an MIT professor and head of the Genome Center at the Whitehead Institute.
Joseph Ellis, the author of a first-rate study of the Founding Fathers, told his students that he had fought in Vietnam when the closest he came to combat was sitting in a university library.
The study, led by first author Peter Ducharme, MSW, a clinical social worker at Boston Children's, compared two groups of 9- to 17-year-old children admitted to the hospital's Psychiatry Inpatient Service who had high levels of anger.
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The 15th-century Florentine Leon Battista Alberti was a ridiculously gifted painter, composer, poet and philosopher--not to mention the author of the first scientific analysis of perspective, a treatise on the housefly and a eulogy for his dog.
It was as if a beautiful book had been written, but instead of the author finishing his first novel the way he saw fit, someone stood in his way looking exactly like him, and writing something completely off-base, destroying the masterpiece.
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