0 a scientist who is considered to know a lot about science and not to be interested in other things:
Surely that is often much more effective than the advice of boffins sitting in chairs.
In the past, the boffin in the lab has been a little too remote from the salesman.
I know it is a very difficult problem to get the "boffins" interested in this subject.
The interesting fact about its composition is that it includes not only "boffins" but consumers.
I understand that it consists of 10 academics and 15 civil servants—a mixture of boffins and bureaucrats.
Lean-burn engines are more than just the pious hope of boffins in laboratories far removed from production reality.
Putting two boffins, two scientific people into the board room and perhaps adding further knowledge there.
The scientists have their figures right, but many boffins behind desks have their figures wrong.
