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principal investigators

principal investigators is the plural of principal investigator.

Meaning of principal investigator

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...

Questions about principal investigators

What is principal investigators the plural of?
Principal investigators is the plural of principal investigator.

Words near principal investigators in the dictionary

  1. principal ideal domains
  2. principal ideal ring
  3. principal ideal rings
  4. principal ideals
  5. principal investigator
  6. principal investigators
  7. principal part
  8. principal parts
  9. principal photography
  10. principal quantum number
  11. principal quantum numbers

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