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principal investigator

principal investigator noun: lead researcher on a grant-funded project.

Noun

principal investigator (plural principal investigators)

  1. lead researcher on a grant-funded project
    • „"This is pure exploration; we're going to turn points of light into a planet and a system of moons before your eyes!" said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. "New Horizons is flying to Pluto — the biggest, brightest and...2015 April 14, “NASA's New Horizons Nears Historic Encounter with Pluto”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name) (HTML), NASA/The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory...

Forms of principal investigator

pluralprincipal investigators

Questions about principal investigator

What does principal investigator mean?
Principal investigator means lead researcher on a grant-funded project.
What part of speech is principal investigator?
Principal investigator is a noun.
What is the plural of principal investigator?
The plural of principal investigator is principal investigators.

Words near principal investigator in the dictionary

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