(1) Fertility expert Professor Winston shot to fame as a TV boffin after presenting a string of award-winning BBC science programmes.(2) His election reminds me of one of those 1950s science fiction movies in which a mad boffin throws a lever and the poles are reversed.(3) A boffin has invented a car that runs on grass, or pigeon poo, or privet cuttings.(4) So what is a computer boffin doing teaching a physical education class?(5) a computer boffin(6) he had a reputation as a tax boffin, a learned lawyer(7) Did you know that boffin means ‘scientific expert’?(8) Being a boffin , I had access to computers a generation before most people did and I still have a copy of the first program I wrote - in 1967.(9) a computer boffin(10) As a small business owner, you are not only the head honcho, but also the bean counter, chief salesman, IT boffin , tax specialist and marketing guru too.(11) Computer boffins working for a Glasgow architect have produced a CD which lets you explore the location and take a peek into the apartments, before a brick has been laid.(12) The beach boffins came up with a formula to work out the quality of the grains of sand and its cohesive powers.(13) Now, that's quite a brief for a pack of boffins playing with computers.(14) By getting his name on the starring list, John has qualified to join a bizarre game created by computer boffins at Virginia University in the US which links actors through their films.(15) The team of boffins used the computer to find the period of a mathematical function, one of the basic maths building blocks of modern cryptography, doing so in the equivalent of a single CPU cycle.(16) BBC1 will devote a Saturday night to the experiment, which should sort out boffins from buffoons by completing a set of brain-teasers.
