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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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.
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.
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.
In biomedical research, the first author listed on a paper is typically the one who contributed the most so being one frequently is a good measure of individual competence that is independent of collaborations.
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 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.
Moreover, each of these measures can be calculated in two ways: total productivity and first-author productivity.
But the first billionaire author is still earning off of the young wizard.
First time author Dorie Clark has hit the ball out of the park with her new book, Reinventing You.
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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To "allow other people's assessment of you to determine your own self-assessment is a very big mistake, " says Mr. Bollinger, a First Amendment author and scholar.
Mantel is the first woman and the first living British author to win the prestigious literary prize twice.
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She became the first living UK author to receive the prize twice, having won it for its prequel Wolf Hall.
"The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks, " Bushnell said.
The tours are somewhat unusual for a first-time author and a signal that her publisher, Penguin Press, is committed to making her a literary star.
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.
First, it provides ample evidence, much of it drawn from the author's first-hand experience, to support its assertions.
According to Curt Coffman, co-author of First, Break All the Rules, engaged employees are builders.
The winner did not attend to claim his dubious honour - the first time a winning author has not turned up.
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.
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.
"It felt hard to believe that this affectionate, witty novel was the author's first, " the judges said.
In 1804, seven years before her first book appeared, the author started "The Watsons" and completed about a quarter of the novel (68 pages, or some 17, 500 words).
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Vineet Nayar is chief executive officer of HCL Technologies, the India-based global information technology services company, and author of Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down (Harvard Business Press, June 2010).
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 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.
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