pioneer

Smith, 66 years old, has led the optical networking pioneer since May 2001.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Eli P. Clark made big money as a railway pioneer in Los Angeles and beyond.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Once the leader of and undisputed standard-bearer for the TV-to-digital shift, the streaming pioneer has had to publicly contend with various moments of weakness throughout this year.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

On Wednesday, Domjan was given the FAI's Louis Bleriot Medal -- established in 1936 and named after the French aviation pioneer -- in recognition of his world record flight.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Worse, the chaos and looting during the fire reminded people of the city’s uncivilized pioneer days.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy

These new pioneers coax the landscape into fertile framing, helping to feed hungry populations.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

The grocer was founded in 1966 by Japanese immigrants Michio and Aveline Kushi — pioneers of the natural-foods macrobiotic movement who began selling imported organic goods out of their Boston home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Green Gallery included one of these pieces, an armchair called “Accumulation No. 1,” in a group show in June 1962 alongside Pop pioneers such as Oldenburg.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Wing or centre, a wonderful finisher and a player whose innate talents were honed on those tough streets of his district - one that also produced fellow pioneers Roy Francis and Colin Dixon.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

One of these pioneers was Anne Taylor, who was a little more than five years old when World War II started and the bombs rained down.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

But remember that before Oppenheimer tossed us into the nuclear age, he pioneered modern theoretical physics in the United States.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Entertainer Josephine Baker, disco icons Dianna Ross and Donna Summer, and Olympic gold-medal-winning sprinter Florence Griffith-Joyner - whose dramatic acrylic sets often distracted headline writers from her record-setting performances - have all pioneered nail art.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The theft-prone models lack a critical safeguard called an engine immobilizer pioneered in the mid-1980s, when more than 60,000 cars a year were stolen in Los Angeles alone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

The researchers reached that conclusion using a technique they pioneered with Raman spectroscopy.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

The psychologist Jonathan W. Schooler, who pioneered research on this effect, calls it verbal overshadowing.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

He also controls the pioneering electric car company Tesla.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

The team travelled to a lagoon in the Taraia Peninsula on Nikumaroro, Kiribati, to confirm whether a shiny object first spotted on satellite imagery in 2020 solved the decades-long mystery of the pioneering pilot's disappearance.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Moerner received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering contributions to super-resolution fluorescence microscopy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

In 1959, Draper’s father was setting up a pioneering venture-capital firm—Draper, Gaither & Anderson, partly financed by the Rockefeller family—in Palo Alto, Calif., and persuaded his son to join that effort.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

As John Michell pointed out in his pioneering paper in 1783, a black hole still exerts a gravitational force on nearby objects.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking