Word: geologist
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Another intriguing item: the pickled brains of some former Smithsonian officials. It is said that one of the officials, a pioneering geologist named Major John W. Powell, donated his gray matter in order to settle a wager with a colleague about whose brain was larger. Curators are not sure what happened to the colleague's brain...
...researchers who assembled Columbia's scientific experiments were just as pleased. Even though the abbreviated flight gave them less data than a longer one might have provided, NASA Geologist James Taranik described the experimenters as "literally jumping up and down with excitement over what they have seen." All five of the automatic experiments perched in the shuttle's open cargo bay worked, at least to some degree, performing various types of remote-sensing of the earth. The most successful machine was the big shuttle imaging radar, called SIR-A, which succeeded in making the longest single radar sweep...
Despite his title, Gould is not, strictly speaking, a geologist, but other labels don't exactly suit him either. He is probably best described as an evolutionary biologist--an admiring disciple of Charles Darwin. As Darwin has come under increasing attack by right-wing forces in the country--while Gould's career, firmly anchored to the theory of evolution, has flourished--the professor has taken an increasingly public role in defiance of "creationists...
Most energy experts doubt that the Eastern Overthrust's reserves will prove comparable to those of the Western belt. The U.S. Geological Survey believes that the region's potential could be as much as 1.5 billion bbl. of oil. Says Michel T. Halbouty, a leading Houston geologist and independent operator: "I believe a concerted exploration effort in that area will probably yield huge reserves...
...tantamount to killing the university," snapped the president of France's Avignon University, Geologist Joël Mahé. What has aroused Mahé and most of his fellow French university presidents is a decision by France's tough-minded minister of universities, Alice Saunier-Seïté, to cut back proliferating graduate degree programs at the nation's 76 universities, which in France are both accredited and financed by the state...