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research director

n. a supervisor in a research center [syn: director of research]

Usage examples of "research director".

He had been, he had told Duncan when they were assigned to share a dorm room, a research director.

The gravel path gave Terabyte research director Jeffrey Horton a reason and a place to find a few minutes of solitude and exercise in the middle of the day.

Scott Griffen, fifty-one years old, research director at Apex Inc.

The research director walked in, and looked at the chart on the wall and at the robot.

The Belgian research director still had a motive to kill Dumenco, but it didn’.

Condon was a distinguished American physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons in World War II, research director of Corning Glass, director of the National Bureau of Standards, and president of the American Physical Society (as well as, late in his life, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, where he directed a controversial Air Force-funded scientific study of UFOs).

Marilyn Schlitz, who went on to become the research director at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in Petaluma, California.

Had Nell sold the research director on the idea that she ought to accompany Jon to Europa, as she had accompanied him all the way to the Jovian system?

The research director stared at it balefully, as though Andrew had put a jellyfish or a frog into the palm of his hand.

The side of them that was more apparent from the standpoint of scientific advisor and research director, especially with regard to the conduct of this joint project he was now committed to, was their impulsiveness.

Burkett wanted to impress the research director with the completeness of his investigation, but Nachman wasn’.