seminal contribution

collocation in English

meaningsofseminalandcontribution

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seminal
adjective
uk
/ˈsem.ɪ.nəl/us
/ˈsem.ə.nəl/
formal
containing important new ideas and having a great influence on ...
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contribution
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌkɒn.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/us
/ˌkɑːn.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/
something that you contribute or do to help produce or achieve something together with other people, or to help make ...
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(Definition ofseminalandcontributionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We attempt to go beyond theirseminalcontributionin three ways.
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This book is aseminalcontributionto seed biology.
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His ownseminalcontributionto immunology was the insight that antibody proliferation resulted from the "natural selection" of preexisting antibody, an insight which he later developed into a network theory.
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The report was aseminalcontributionto the debate.
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The prize recognizes an outstanding research book that makes aseminalcontributionto the research literature.
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He excluded his ownseminalcontributionto the understanding of how water moves across our cellssomething scientists had debated for a century.
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Hisseminalcontributionof polysilicon sacrificially-released beams in 1982 led to a class of micromanufacturing process called surface micromachining.
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Seminalcontributionto gerontology is the theory of hormesis and the concept of virtual gerontogenes.
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Perhaps their insistence on the unity of economic science explains why their seminal contributions have had such a profound impact on the entire field.
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Their seminal contributions have been of enormous consequence for understanding the relationships between development, environment, and poverty and have translated into significant policy advances.
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The latter work, which especially explores the operational and strategic dimension of the concept from the angle of military doctrine would become aseminalcontributionto its academic establishment.
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Turnbull madeseminalcontributionto solidification theory and glass formation.
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This legacy will, we hope, be demonstrated later in the year with a special issue republishing some of these seminal contributions.
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The article is aseminalcontributionto the field of law and economics, offering an ambitious attempt to treat various areas of the law through a uniform approach.
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Leontief has also made fundamental and seminal contributions to the theories of demand, international trade, and economic dynamics.
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They began their careers in the 1960s when environment was emerging as a global concern and, working both separately and together, they have made seminal contributions to the field.
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Seminal contributions were made by him in developing new local descriptors for intra- and inter-molecular reactivities.
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He has made seminal contributions in motivic cohomology, moduli theory, intersection theory and enumerative geometry.
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Jrgensen has made seminal contributions to the field of electronic structure theory.
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