Today is the 50th birthday of the only man without a post-bachelor degree to win a Nobel Prize in the sciences, Koichi Tanaka, born in Toyama, Japan (1959).
Regarding its acquisition of Varian, an Agilent source said, "The combined company will be able to provide a more comprehensive set of solutions across a wider range of industries." That's the good news.
According to Stuart Matlow, Press Relations Specialist for Agilent Technologies, both Agilent and Varian will continue to operate completely independently until the sale closes later in the year.
When Javier Fernndez-Han was nine years old, he and his family met Ashok Gadgil, a senior scientist in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division. It turned out to be a momentous occasion for the boy.
The University of California, San Diego has received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the 2010 San Diego Science Festival and fund the creation and growth of Science Festivals nationwide.
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, announced today the winners of two industry awards for exceptional achievements in capillary chromatography.
In spite of society's dependency on the sciences to maintain a high quality of life, science professionals are not immune from the realities of the current economic downturn.
"Lab management would suffer without the multiple perspectives and experiences afforded by a diverse workforce. 'The key to innovation, in economic terms, resides inside the heads of people -- the more diverse the better.'"
Every time I ask a room of executives to list the top five moments their career took a leap forward not just a step, but a leap failure is always on the list.
Looking at the new products released this month, it appears many would be just as at home on a runway in Milan as on a sterile lab bench. So this has prompted me to make this the first annual "Lab Managers Next Top Model" competition and awards.