pioneering work/research/efforts etc• He did pioneering work in figuring out the nuts and bolts of sustainability.• The pioneering work of E Schmid and J.W.• His pioneering work on semiconductors has made him perhaps the most famous figure in Silicon Valley.• Brownell did pioneering research on the ill effects of yo-yodieting.• Stephen Wolfram, a mathematicalgenius who did pioneering work on the varieties of computer algorithmsagrees.• To publicise his pioneering work Shearman produced an excellentleaflet on the scheme and its potentialities.• The canal engineer William Jessop was largely responsible for this pioneering work which had been in prospect ever since the Stuart period.