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Brian Cox
Professor Brian Cox is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Chair in Particle Physics at the University of Manchester.
Dr. Evan Harris
Evan Leslie Harris (born 21 October 1965) is an English Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford West and Abingdon from 1997 to 2010, losing his seat in the 2010 general election by 176 votes to Conservative Nicola Blackwood.
Born in Sheffield in 1965, he is the second son of South African immigrants disillusioned with the apartheid regime. He was educated at Blue Coat Secondary School, Liverpool. After a year at Harvard High School in North Hollywood, he went to Wadham College, Oxford in 1985 to study physiological sciences (BA), and then medicine at Oxford University Clinical School from where he qualified as a doctor in 1991.
He was selected to fight Oxford West and Abingdon for the Liberal Democrats in 1994. Following his election in 1997, he was a junior health spokesman, then spokesman on Higher Education, Science and Women's Issues.
Roger Highfield
Dr. Roger Highfield is an editor at New Scientist.
Peter Luff
Peter Luff is Minister for Defence Equipment Support and Technology at the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence.
Richard Parker
Dr. Richard Parker is Director of Research and Technology at Rolls-Royce Group.
Adrian F. M. Smith
Professor Adrian F. M. Smith is the Director General of Science and Research at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Encyclopædia Britannica Article
- research and development (R&D)
In industry, two closely related processes by which new products and new forms of old products are created through technological innovation. The work generally focuses on two types of research, basic and applied. Basic research is directed toward a generalized goal (e.g., genetic research in a pharmaceutical laboratory). Applied research directs the results of basic research toward the needs of a specific industry and results in the development of new or modified products or processes. In addition to carrying out basic and applied research and developing models, R&D staff may evaluate the efficiency and cost of the product.
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