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principal_investigator

principal investigator

English

Noun

principal investigator (plural principal investigators)

  1. (sciences) lead researcher on a grant-funded project
    • „"This is pure exploration; we're going to turn points of light into a planet and a system of moons before your eyes!" said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. "New Horizons is flying to Pluto — the biggest, brightest and most complex of the dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt. This 21st century encounter is going to be an exploration bonanza unparalleled in anticipation since the storied missions of Voyager in the 1980s."“[1]

References

  1. “NASA's New Horizons Nears Historic Encounter with Pluto”, in (Please provide the title of the work) (HTML, in English), NASA/The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 2015-04-14, archived from the original on 2015-04-14, retrieved 2015-04-27