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unusual facts about lead author



Rind et al. controversy

The study's lead author was psychologist Bruce Rind, and it expanded on a 1997 meta-analysis for which Rind was also lead author.


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Antonia Juhasz

Juhasz is the lead author and editor of the 2010 edition of The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report, for which she received a 2010 Project Censored Award.

B-modes

A research published Sep 30, 2013 in the online edition of Physical Review Letters, led by Duncan Hanson of McGill University in Montreal, Canada who is also the lead author, has discovered the B-modes using National Science Foundation's South Pole Telescope and with help from the Herschel space observatory.

Berrien Moore III

As coordinating lead author of the final chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Third Assessment Report, Moore shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Graciela Chichilnisky

She is best known for proposing and designing the carbon credit emissions trading market underlying the Kyoto Protocol, and was the lead author on the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that won the 2007 Nobel Prize, and reputedly even created the term "sustainable development".

GRB 110328A

"This is truly different from any explosive event we have seen before," said Joshua Bloom of the University of California at Berkeley, the lead author of the study published in the June 2011 issue of Science.

IPCC Second Assessment Report

The position of the lead author of Chapter 8, Benjamin D. Santer, was supported by fellow IPCC authors and senior figures of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).

Keith Shine

He was a lead author of Climate Change 1995, the 1995 IPCC report on global warming.

Lancet surveys of Iraq War casualties

An article in Science magazine by John Bohannon describes some of the criticisms, as well as some responses from the Lancet report's lead author Gilbert Burnham.

Lino Briguglio

Professor Briguglio was lead author for the IPCC third IPCC Third Assessment Report and fourth IPCC Fourth Assessment Report assessments reports, contributing mainly to the chapters on small islands’ vulnerability and adaptation to climate change.

Mark van Vugt

He is the lead author of a popular science book on leadership with British science journalist Anjana Ahuja which has been translated in over ten languages.

Michael Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer is a long-time participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, serving recently as a lead author of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report and now as a coordinating lead author of the Fifth Assessment Report as well as a Special Report on climate extremes and disasters.

Nanotextured Surfaces

A research published online October 21, 2013, in Advanced Materials, of a group of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, led by Brookhaven physicist and lead author Antonio Checco, proposed that nanotexturing surfaces in the form of cones produces extremely water-repellent surfaces.

RSS Advisory Board

Dave Winer, the lead author of several RSS specifications and a longtime evangelist of syndication, created the board to maintain the RSS 2.0 specification in cooperation with Harvard's Berkman Center.

Scott D. Anthony

He co-authored Seeing What's Next with Harvard Business School Professor and Innosight cofounder Clayton M. Christensen and was the lead author of The Innovator's Guide to Growth.

Susan Swedo

Swedo is lead author on a 1994 paper in the journal Pediatrics proposing a link between Group A streptococcal infection in children and some rapid-onset cases of OCD or tic disorders such as Tourette syndrome.

In 1994, Swedo was lead author on a paper describing Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections (PANDAS), proposing a link between Group A streptococcal infection in children and some rapid-onset cases of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or tic disorders such as Tourette syndrome.

The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

In the book Mann describes how he became a researcher investigating the temperature record of the past 1000 years and was lead author, with Raymond S. Bradley and Malcolm K. Hughes, on the 1999 reconstruction that was the first to be dubbed the hockey stick graph.