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Jameson

[jeym-suhn]

noun

  1. Sir Leander Starr Doctor Jameson, 1853–1917, Scottish physician and statesman: colonial administrator in South Africa.



Jameson

/ ˈdʒeɪmsən /

noun

  1. Sir Leander Starr. 1853–1917, British administrator in South Africa, who led an expedition into the Transvaal in 1895 in an unsuccessful attempt to topple its Boer regime (the Jameson Raid ); prime minister of Cape Colony (1904–08)

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Here to discuss the varied points of view are Dr. Maria Sabio, lead spatial teleportation scientist and head engineer of the STM project at the University of Delaware; Dr. Eliot Jameson, epidemiologist with Johns Hopkins University; and Drs. Case Robinson, Anna Botha, and Dola Adebayo, physicists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and Caltech, respectively.

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JAMESON: I work as an adviser to the Global Science Council.

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JAMESON: There are ethical, moral, even legal implications to traveling to other timeprints.

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JAMESON: We’ve eradicated many of the diseases that have plagued humankind.

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SABIO: This is why UD works so closely with Dr. Jameson, as well as the team at Caltech and the Centers for Disease Control.

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