top scientists

collocation in English

meaningsoftopandscientist

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top
adjective[before noun]
uk
/tɒp/us
/tɑːp/
at the highest part ...
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scientist
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsaɪən.tɪst/us
/ˈsaɪən.tɪst/
an expert who studies or works in one of ...
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(Definition oftopandscientistfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They are awaiting the appearance of a new star that has been predicted bytopscientistthat will rival the moon in intensity.
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What equivalent work will be available for the top scientists and the senior aerodynamicists on this project?
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It would be far better if top scientists concentrated first on these problems.
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We give higher education the opportunity to train the top scientists of the future.
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The top scientists are frequently on the move and rarely in their own institutions when they are supposedly static.
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Are the top scientists being attracted into its service?
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We know that those top scientists were devastatingly wrong.
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Is he not worried that we have an escalating brain drain of our top scientists?
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In the view of many top scientists in this country, it will eventually be a new source of power after the fast breeder reactor.
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Fourthly, the desirability of any project as part of the national and, on occasions, the international picture of research can be judged by top scientists and expert laymen acting together.
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Surely we all recognise that a major response to such a problem is to raise the incomes of top scientists and, if possible, to reduce their tax rates.
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The men produced in these departments are the top scientists, and whatever the position may be regarding other scientists, we are desperately short of these men.
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Water undertakings employ top scientists.
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He is considered to be one of the three top scientists in the world, with interests and technical know-how spanning many fields.
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They used their influence together, a group of top scientists against any one individual.
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Shortly afterward, five of the world's top scientists are mysteriously abducted.
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The district is notable for being an important headquarters of agricultural research into rice production in the region and contains the office of top scientists.
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