Pioneering Research: A Risk Worth Taking

DONALD W. BRABEN, PhD, is Chairman and Chief Executive of Venture Research International Ltd., and visiting professor at University College, London. With more than forty years of experience in the field of nuclear structure and high-energy physics research, Dr. Braben headed up the Venture Research Unit, a distinguished research initiative that concentrated on radical, exploratory, basic research and led to several profitable industrial opportunities. He is also the author of To Be a Scientist.