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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskia%20Ozinga | Saskia Luutsche Ozinga (born 1960 in Beverwijk) is a Dutch environmental and social activist. She is the facilitator of the Forest Movement Europe (FME) and the co-founder of the NGO FERN, which she was the campaigns coordinator, between 1995 and 2017.
Biography
Saskia Ozinga holds master's degrees in Biology from W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShaChelle%20Devlin%20Manning | ShaChelle Devlin Manning is an American business person involved in the commercialization of nanotechnology.
Education
Manning graduated in 1990 from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa with a BA in English and Communications. She received an MBA from the University of Dallas.
Career
From 1998 to 2002, she was Vice Presid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C5%8D%20Toshiyoshi | Baron was an admiral in the early Imperial Japanese Navy, and served as the first Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff in the late 19th century.
Biography
Itō was born in Tanabe Domain, in what is now part of Maizuru city, Kyoto prefecture. A gifted child with a flair for mathematics, he was sent by the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne-Melchior%20P%C3%A9ligot | Eugène-Melchior Péligot (24 March 1811 – 15 April 1890), also known as Eugène Péligot, was a French chemist who isolated the first sample of uranium metal in 1841.
Péligot proved that the black powder of Martin Heinrich Klaproth was not a pure metal (it was an oxide of uranium, known in chemistry as UO2). He then suc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentals%20of%20Physics | Fundamentals of Physics is a calculus-based physics textbook by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, and Jearl Walker. The textbook is currently in its 12th edition (published October, 2021).
The current version is a revised version of the original 1960 textbook Physics for Students of Science and Engineering by Halliday ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20F.%20Steiner | Donald Frederick Steiner (July 15, 1930 – November 11, 2014) was an American biochemist and a professor at the University of Chicago.
Birth and education
Donald F. Steiner was born in 1930 in Lima, Ohio. He completed his B.S. in Chemistry and Zoology from the University of Cincinnati in 1952. He completed his M.S. in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daintree%20Networks | Daintree Networks, Inc. was a building automation company that provided wireless control systems for commercial and industrial buildings. Founded in 2003, Daintree was headquartered in Los Altos, California, with an R&D lab in Melbourne, Australia.
Daintree's ControlScope wireless control includes switches, sensors, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayhew%20Prize | The Mayhew Prize is a prize awarded annually by the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge to the student showing the greatest distinction in applied mathematics, primarily for courses offered by DAMTP, but also for some courses offered by the Statistical Laboratory, in the MASt examinations, also known as Par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slope%20%28disambiguation%29 | Slope or gradient of a line describes its steepness, incline, or grade, in mathematics.
Slope may also refer to:
Slope landform, a type of landform
Grade (slope) of a topographic feature or constructed element
Piste, a marked track for snow skiing or snowboarding
Roof pitch, a steepness of a roof
Slope (album), a 2007... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20brain | The global brain is a neuroscience-inspired and futurological vision of the planetary information and communications technology network that interconnects all humans and their technological artifacts. As this network stores ever more information, takes over ever more functions of coordination and communication from tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20and%20Quantum%20Gravity | Classical and Quantum Gravity is a peer-reviewed journal that covers all aspects of gravitational physics and the theory of spacetime.
Its scope includes:
Classical general relativity
Applications of relativity
Experimental gravitation
Cosmology and the early universe
Quantum gravity
Supergravity, superstrings an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types%20and%20Programming%20Languages | Types and Programming Languages, , is a book by Benjamin C. Pierce on type systems published in 2002.
A review by Frank Pfenning called it "probably the single most important book in the area of programming languages in recent years."
References
External links
Computer science books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie%20Vann | Lizzie Vann is the founder of Organix, an organic children's food company, based in Christchurch, Dorset.
Biography
Vann studied biology at the University of Lancaster, and then worked as an investment analyst in the City of London. Ongoing health problems, and the belief that more and more parents shared her concern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal%20bipyramidal%20molecular%20geometry | In chemistry, a pentagonal bipyramid is a molecular geometry with one atom at the centre with seven ligands at the corners of a pentagonal bipyramid. A perfect pentagonal bipyramid belongs to the molecular point group D5h.
The pentagonal bipyramid is a case where bond angles surrounding an atom are not identical (see ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yizhi%20Jane%20Tao | Yizhi Jane Tao is a Chinese biochemist, structural biologist, and professor of biochemistry and cell biology at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Professor Tao led a team of researchers to be the first to map the structure of the influenza A virus nucleoprotein to an atomic level, a feat which circulated widely in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysics%20and%20Space%20Science | Astrophysics and Space Science is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering astronomy, astrophysics, and space science and astrophysical aspects of astrobiology. It was established in 1968 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media. From 2016 to 2020 the editors-in-chief were both Prof. Elias Brin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoeconomics | Nanoeconomics is defined as the economic theory of single transactions. The term was proposed by Kenneth J. Arrow in 1987. The term has also been used to describe a level of analysis below traditional microeconomics, which is equivalent to the first definition and to describe the economics of nanotechnology.
See also ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticking%20coefficient | Sticking coefficient is the term used in surface physics to describe the ratio of the number of adsorbate atoms (or molecules) that adsorb, or "stick", to a surface to the total number of atoms that impinge upon that surface during the same period of time. Sometimes the symbol Sc is used to denote this coefficient, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkan%20Simaan | Arkan Simaan (born 1945) is a Lebanese-French novelist.
Arkan was born in Lebanon in 1945. When he was two years old, his family immigrated to Brazil and settled in the city of Anápolis near Brasilia. The 1964 Brazilian coup d'état overthrew the government of João Goulart just as Simaan had begun studying physics at t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KK-theory | In mathematics, KK-theory is a common generalization both of K-homology and K-theory as an additive bivariant functor on separable C*-algebras. This notion was introduced by the Russian mathematician Gennadi Kasparov in 1980.
It was influenced by Atiyah's concept of Fredholm modules for the Atiyah–Singer index theore... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator%20K-theory | In mathematics, operator K-theory is a noncommutative analogue of topological K-theory for Banach algebras with most applications used for C*-algebras.
Overview
Operator K-theory resembles topological K-theory more than algebraic K-theory. In particular, a Bott periodicity theorem holds. So there are only two K-groups... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untranslated%20region | In molecular genetics, an untranslated region (or UTR) refers to either of two sections, one on each side of a coding sequence on a strand of mRNA. If it is found on the 5' side, it is called the 5' UTR (or leader sequence), or if it is found on the 3' side, it is called the 3' UTR (or trailer sequence). mRNA is RNA th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Barrow%20%28historian%29 | John Barrow (fl. 1735–1774) was an English mathematician, naval historian and lexicographer. His geographical dictionary first appeared in 1756.
Life
Nothing is known of Barrow's family. He was initially a teacher of mathematics and navigation aboard ships of the Royal Navy. He retired before 1750 and devoted himself ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardo%20Beni | Gerardo Beni (born Florence, Italy 21 February 1946) is a professor of electrical engineering at University of California, Riverside who, with Jing Wang, is known as the originator of the term swarm intelligence in the context of cellular robotics and the concept of electrowetting, with Susan Hackwood. He also devised,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Hackwood | Susan Hackwood is the executive director of the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST). She is a professor and researcher of electrical engineering credited for inventing the concept of electrowetting with Gerardo Beni in 1981.
Hackwood is married to Gerardo Beni. They have two children, Catherine and J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype%20Machine | Hype Machine is a music blog aggregator created by Anthony Volodkin.
History
Hype Machine was originally a music database created in 2005 by Anthony Volodkin, then a sophomore computer science major at Hunter College. The site was born out of Volodkin's frustration with music magazines and radio stations. He said, "I ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20civil%20engineering%20articles | This is an alphabetical list of articles pertaining specifically to civil engineering. For a broad overview of engineering, please see List of engineering topics. For biographies please see List of civil engineers.
A
Accuracy and precision –
American Society of Civil Engineers –
Applied mechanics –
Arch
B
Beam (struc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinacolone | Pinacolone (3,3-dimethyl-2-butanone) is an important ketone in organic chemistry. It is a colorless liquid and has a slight peppermint- or camphor- odor. It is a precursor to triazolylpinacolone in the synthesis of the fungicide triadimefon and in synthesis of the herbicide metribuzin. The molecule is an unsymmetrical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20de%20Vilmorin | Pierre Louis François Lévêque de Vilmorin (1816–March 22, 1860), usually referred to as Louis de Vilmorin, the grandson of Philippe André de Vilmorin, and a member of the family firm of Vilmorin-Andrieux, devoted his life to biology and chemistry, with a focus on the breeding and cultivation of plants.
Louis de Vilmo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratoire%20d%27Informatique%20de%20Grenoble | The Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG, Grenoble Computer Science Laboratory) is the largest research laboratory of Informatics in Grenoble, France. It was created 1 January 2007, as the result of a union of the 24 research teams of the previous IMAG Institute and the INRIA Rhône-Alpes.
The scientific project... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20Science%20%26%20Discovery | Computational Science & Discovery was a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering computational science in physics, chemistry, biology, and applied science. The editor-in-chief was Nathan A Baker (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), who succeeded Anthony Mezzacappa (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) in 2011. The journ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chem-Dry | Chem-Dry (the name stands for CHEMISTRY-DRY) is an American carpet cleaning and upholstery cleaning franchise chain with main offices in Logan, Utah and Nashville, Tennessee.
History
When it was founded in 1977, it was originally based in California. Chem-Dry began franchising in 1978, and now has over 4000 locations... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20school%20%28mathematical%20analysis%29 | The Chicago school of mathematical analysis is a school of thought in mathematics that emphasizes the applications of Fourier analysis to the study of partial differential equations. Mathematician Antoni Zygmund co-founded the school with his doctoral student Alberto Calderón at the University of Chicago in the 1950s. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semialgebraic%20set | In mathematics, a basic semialgebraic set is a set defined by polynomial equalities and polynomial inequalities, and a semialgebraic set is a finite union of basic semialgebraic sets. A semialgebraic function is a function with a semialgebraic graph. Such sets and functions are mainly studied in real algebraic geometry... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20jet | In fluid dynamics, a synthetic jet flow — is a type of jet flow, which is made up of the surrounding fluid. Synthetic jets are produced by periodic ejection and suction of fluid from an opening. This oscillatory motion may be driven by a piston or diaphragm inside a cavity among other ways.
A jet flow is a fluid fl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostwald%27s%20rule | In materials science, Ostwald's rule or Ostwald's step rule, conceived by Wilhelm Ostwald, describes the formation of polymorphs. The rule states that usually the less stable polymorph crystallizes first. Ostwald's rule is not a universal law but a common tendency observed in nature.
This can be explained on the basis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%20Hacks | Mind Hacks: Tips and Tricks for Using Your Brain is a book using cognitive neuroscience to present experiments, tricks, and tips related to aspects of the brain by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb. The book was published by O'Reilly in November 2004 as part of the O'Reilly Hacks series. It has since been published in six dif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Voigt | Christopher Voigt is an American synthetic biologist, molecular biophysicist, and engineer.
Career
Voigt is the Daniel I.C. Wang Professor of Advanced Biotechnology in the Department of Biological Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He works in the developing field of synthetic biology. He is t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITEP | ITEP is an abbreviation that may mean:
Improved Turbine Engine Program, a U.S. Army program to develop a new higher output engine for Army helicopters.
International Test of English Proficiency
Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a non-profit, non-partisan t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael%20David%20Levine | Raphael David Levine (Hebrew: רפאל לוין, born March 29, 1938) is an Israeli chemist who is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles and the Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging of the David Geffen School of Medicine at U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duilio%20Arigoni | Duilio Arigoni (6 December 1928 – 10 June 2020) was a Swiss chemist and Emeritus Professor at ETH Zurich. He worked on the biosynthetic pathways of many organic natural substances.
Birth and education
Born in Lugano, Switzerland, Arigoni completed his undergraduate studies in chemistry from the ETH Zürich in 1951. He... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-based%20design | Model-based design (MBD) is a mathematical and visual method of addressing problems associated with designing complex control, signal processing and communication systems. It is used in many motion control, industrial equipment, aerospace, and automotive applications. Model-based design is a methodology applied in desi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric%20norm | In mathematics, an asymmetric norm on a vector space is a generalization of the concept of a norm.
Definition
An asymmetric norm on a real vector space is a function that has the following properties:
Subadditivity, or the triangle inequality:
Nonnegative homogeneity: and every non-negative real number
Posit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unparticle%20physics | In theoretical physics, unparticle physics is a speculative theory that conjectures a form of matter that cannot be explained in terms of particles using the Standard Model of particle physics, because its components are scale invariant.
Howard Georgi proposed this theory in two 2007 papers, "Unparticle Physics"
and "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20D.%20Kohn | Michael D. Kohn (born December 28, 1954 in Plainfield, New Jersey) is a founding partner of the Washington, D.C. law firm Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, where he specializes in whistleblower protection law.
Biography
A graduate of Rutgers University (B.S. in biology), he received his Juris Doctor degree from the Antioch Scho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Colin%20%28financial%20analyst%29 | Andrew Colin is a financial analyst specializing in portfolio theory, one of the first to apply chaos theory to financial market. He is currently Adjunct Professor at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane in the Faculty of Business. He gained a PhD in Mathematics from the University of St Andrews in 1987... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoinitiator | In chemistry, a photoinitiator is a molecule that creates reactive species (free radicals, cations or anions) when exposed to radiation (UV or visible). Synthetic photoinitiators are key components in photopolymers (for example, photo-curable coatings, adhesives and dental restoratives).
Some small molecules in the at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Transactions%20on%20Multimedia | IEEE Transactions on Multimedia is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering multimedia technology and applications. It was established in 1999 and is published by the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and IEEE Signal Processing Society. The editor-in-chi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlev%20Bronk | Detlev Wulf Bronk (August 13, 1897 – November 17, 1975) was a prominent American scientist, educator, and administrator. He is credited with establishing biophysics as a recognized discipline. Bronk served as president of Johns Hopkins University from 1949 to 1953 and as president of The Rockefeller University from 195... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Vezza | Albert Vezza was a computer science professor and a founder of video game company Infocom.
Career
Vezza was the assistant director of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) and in charge of LCS's Dynamic Modeling (DM) group in the late 1970s when group members Dave Lebling, Marc Blank, Tim Anderson, and Bruce Dan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schilder%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Schilder's theorem is a generalization of the Laplace method from integrals on to functional Wiener integration. The theorem is used in the large deviations theory of stochastic processes. Roughly speaking, out of Schilder's theorem one gets an estimate for the probability that a (scaled-down) sample ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freidlin%E2%80%93Wentzell%20theorem | In mathematics, the Freidlin–Wentzell theorem (due to Mark Freidlin and Alexander D. Wentzell) is a result in the large deviations theory of stochastic processes. Roughly speaking, the Freidlin–Wentzell theorem gives an estimate for the probability that a (scaled-down) sample path of an Itō diffusion will stray far fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%20Rauh | Werner Rauh (16 May 1913 in Niemegk – 7 April 2000 in Heidelberg) was a German biologist, botanist and author.
Biography
Born in the town of Niemegk near Bitterfeld, Rauh studied at Biology faculty at the University of Halle under the morphologist Wilhelm Troll, and received his doctorate in Botany in 1937 before bein... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiobiology | Radiobiology (also known as radiation biology, and uncommonly as actinobiology) is a field of clinical and basic medical sciences that involves the study of the effects of ionizing radiation on living things, in particular health effects of radiation. Ionizing radiation is generally harmful and potentially lethal to li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20W.%20Santos | George W. Santos (1909–2001) was a professor emeritus of oncology and medicine at the School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University.
Birth and education
George W. Santos was born in 1909. He received his bachelor's degree in quantitative biology from MIT. He completed his master's degree in physical biology from MIT. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20Mink | Oscar Gorton Mink (1930–2004) was professor of curriculum studies in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Professional education
Mink held a doctorate in counseling psychology from Cornell University and degrees in mathematics and mining engineering from Brigham Young... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson%E2%80%93G%C3%A4rtner%20theorem | In mathematics, the Dawson–Gärtner theorem is a result in large deviations theory. Heuristically speaking, the Dawson–Gärtner theorem allows one to transport a large deviation principle on a “smaller” topological space to a “larger” one.
Statement of the theorem
Let (Yj)j∈J be a projective system of Hausdorff topolog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varadhan%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, Varadhan's lemma is a result from the large deviations theory named after S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan. The result gives information on the asymptotic distribution of a statistic φ(Zε) of a family of random variables Zε as ε becomes small in terms of a rate function for the variables.
Statement of the lem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiSwap | In cryptography, MultiSwap is a block cipher/MAC created by Microsoft in 1999 as part of its Windows Media DRM service (WMDRM). Microsoft's internal name for the algorithm is not publicly known; it was dubbed MultiSwap in a 2001 report on WMDRM under the pseudonym "Beale Screamer".
The cipher has a block size of 64 bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evry%20Schatzman | Evry Léon Schatzman (16 September 1920 – 25 April 2010) was a French scientist hailed as "the father of modern French astrophysics".
Background
His father, Benjamin Schatzman, was a dentist born in Tulcea, Romania, and emigrated at a young age with his family to Palestine. Schatzman began his studies at the École norm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petras%20Vilei%C5%A1is | Petras Vileišis (; 25 January 1851 – 12 August 1926) was a prominent Lithuanian engineer specializing in the construction of railroad bridges. He was very active in Lithuanian public life and together with his brothers Jonas and Antanas became one of the key figures of the Lithuanian National Revival.
He studied mathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-value | L-value, L value or lvalue may refer to:
In astronomy, a measure of brightness of a lunar eclipse on the Danjon scale
L-value (computer science), denoting an object to which values can be assigned
In number theory, the value of an L-function
In space physics, the value assigned to an L-shell, a particular set of p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Minkowski%E2%80%93Siegel%20mass%20formula | In mathematics, the Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula (or Minkowski–Siegel mass formula) is a formula for the sum of the weights of the lattices (quadratic forms) in a genus, weighted by the reciprocals of the orders of their automorphism groups. The mass formula is often given for integral quadratic forms, though it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Engineering%20Pathway | Engineering Pathway is a web portal to teaching and learning resources in applied science and math, engineering, computer science/information technology and engineering technology. It is the engineering education "wing" of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL).
Engineering pathway is for K-12 students and univ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Fitzsimmons | Roy G. Fitzsimmons (1916 – May 5, 1945) was an American Polar Explorer and Geophysicist. Born LeRoy Fitzsimmons, he was the youngest child of John and Alice Brown Fitzsimmons and was one of 10 children.
Roy graduated from Seton Hall College in 1937 with a Physics degree. He was trained in Magnetometry by the Carnegie ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lundquist%20number | In plasma physics, the Lundquist number (denoted by ) is a dimensionless ratio which compares the timescale of an Alfvén wave crossing to the timescale of resistive diffusion. It is a special case of the magnetic Reynolds number when the Alfvén velocity is the typical velocity scale of the system, and is given by
wher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triol | In chemistry, a triol is an organic compound containing three hydroxyl groups ( functional groups), such as glycerol.
See also
chemical compounds with one hydroxyl group
Alcohols
Phenols
Enols
Diols, chemical compounds with two hydroxyl groups
Polyols, chemical compounds with multiple hydroxyl groups
Reference... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiviral%20Chemistry%20%26%20Chemotherapy | Antiviral Chemistry & Chemotherapy is a peer-reviewed academic journal published bimonthly by International Medical Press. It was established in January 1990 and published by Blackwell Publishing until 1997. The editor-in-chief is Hugh J. Field (University of Cambridge). The journal covers research on all aspects of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20carbon | Soil carbon is the solid carbon stored in global soils. This includes both soil organic matter and inorganic carbon as carbonate minerals. It is vital to the soil capacity in our ecosystem. Soil carbon is a carbon sink in regard to the global carbon cycle, playing a role in biogeochemistry, climate change mitigation, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIST%20Award%20for%20Outstanding%20Achievement%20in%20the%20History%20of%20Chemistry | The HIST Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry (2013–present) is given by the Division of the History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The award was originally known as the Dexter Award (1956–2001) and then briefly as the Sidney M. Edelstein Award (2002–2009), both given by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Clark%20Southworth | George Clark Southworth (August 24, 1890 – July 6, 1972), who published as G. C. Southworth, was a prominent American radio engineer best known for his role in the development of waveguides in the early 1930s.
Biography
Southworth was born in Little Cooley, Pennsylvania, graduated in 1914 with a physics degree from Gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediz%20Hun | Ediz Hun (born 20 November 1940) is a Turkish film actor and politician.
Biography
Hun was born in 1940 to a Circassian father and a Turkish mother.
After studying at the St. George's Austrian High School in Istanbul, he graduated in Biology and Environmental Science from the University of Trondheim in Norway. After ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANOVA%E2%80%93simultaneous%20component%20analysis | In computational biology and bioinformatics, analysis of variance – simultaneous component analysis (ASCA or ANOVA–SCA) is a method that partitions variation and enables interpretation of these partitions by SCA, a method that is similar to principal components analysis (PCA). Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a collecti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20of%20Fluids | Physics of Fluids is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering fluid dynamics, established by the American Institute of Physics in 1958, and is published by AIP Publishing. The journal focus is the dynamics of gases, liquids, and complex or multiphase fluids—and the journal contains original research resultin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morikazu%20Toda | was a Japanese physicist, best known for the discovery of the Toda lattice. His main interests were in statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics.
Career
After graduating from the Department of Physics, Tokyo University he became associate professor first at Keijo University and then at the Tokyo University o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant | In physics and the philosophy of science, instant refers to an infinitesimal interval in time, whose passage is instantaneous. In ordinary speech, an instant has been defined as "a point or very short space of time," a notion deriving from its etymological source, the Latin verb instare, from in- + stare ('to stand'), ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge%20Stolfi | Jorge Stolfi (born 1950 in São Paulo) is a full professor of computer science at the State University of Campinas, working in computer vision, image processing, splines and other function approximation methods, graph theory, computational geometry and several other fields. According to the ISI Web Of Science, he was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20Test%20and%20Evaluation%20Squadron | The 1st Test and Evaluation Squadron (1 TES) is a United States Space Force test and evaluation unit, located at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado. The squadron is tasked with testing and evaluation of command and control systems for Space Operations Command.
1 TES was activated on 27 August 2021 and assigned to Sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%20Herouni | Paris Misaki Herouni (, December 17, 1933 – December 5, 2008) was a Soviet and Armenian physicist and engineer. He was a member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences in the fields of radio-physics, radio-engineering, and radio-astronomy and the head of the Antenna Systems chair, which he founded, at the National... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Pesticide%20Information%20Center | The National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC) is a collaboration between Oregon State University and the United States Environmental Protection Agency to provide objective, science-based information about pesticides, the recognition and management of pesticide poisonings, toxicology and environmental chemistry. It i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas%20electron%20multiplier | A gas electron multiplier (GEM) is a type of gaseous ionization detector used in nuclear and particle physics and radiation detection.
All gaseous ionization detectors are able to collect the electrons released by ionizing radiation, guiding them to a region with a large electric field, and thereby initiating an elect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible%20diffusion | In mathematics, a reversible diffusion is a specific example of a reversible stochastic process. Reversible diffusions have an elegant characterization due to the Russian mathematician Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov.
Kolmogorov's characterization of reversible diffusions
Let B denote a d-dimensional standard Brownian... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81ukasz%20Foltyn | Łukasz Foltyn (; born in 1974) is a Polish programmer, the creator of Gadu-Gadu instant messenger and Foltyn Commander program. The founder of sms-express.com portal (current name – Gadu-Gadu), the former leader of the Social Democratic Party (party was not established)
Computer Science
He was co-creating an anti-vir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanoid%20Robotics%20Project | The Humanoid Robotics Project (HRP) is a project for development of general domestic helper robots, sponsored by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), spearheaded by Kawada Industries and supported by the National Institute of A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Morgan%20%28author%29 | Anne Therese Morgan (born 16 November 1954) is an Australian writer of children's books and plays, and poetry.
Biography
Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she attended St Joseph's School, Hobart, and Mount Carmel College, Sandy Bay, before training as an English, Drama and Biology teacher at the Tasmanian College of Advanced ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Weaver | Dr. Kimberly A. Weaver (born April 19, 1964 in Morgantown, West Virginia) is an American astrophysics astronomer and professor. She has worked with NASA on several research projects. She is often seen on television programs about astronomy. She is an expert in the area of x-ray astronomy.
Early life and education
As a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Habrecht | Isaac Habrecht is the name of:
Isaac Habrecht I (1544–1622), horologist
Isaac Habrecht II (1589–1633), doctor of medicine and philosophy / professor of astronomy and mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Zaleski | Jan Zaleski (born 8 March 1869 in Kalwaria near Augustów (modern-day Lithuania), in the Russian Empire; died 22 August 1932 in Warsaw, Republic of Poland) was a Polish biochemist who made significant contributions to the understanding of blood chemistry.
Career
From 1904–1907, Zaleski was a lecturer at the Agrarian U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl-G%C3%B6ran%20Hed%C3%A9n | Carl-Göran Hedén (September 11, 1920 – June 8, 2009) was a distinguished Swedish scholar in the fields of Microbiology, Biotechnology and microbial physiology, D.Sc., Professor of the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm), where he earned his doctorate 1951, publishing his thesis on the infection of E.Coli B with the Bacter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior%E2%80%93L%C3%B8ken%20syndrome | Senior–Løken syndrome is a congenital eye disorder, first characterized in 1961. It is a rare, ciliopathic, autosomal recessive disorder characterized by juvenile nephronophthis and progressive eye disease.
Genetics
Genes involved include:
Pathophysiology
The cause of Senior–Løken syndrome type 5 has been identified... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Mollier | Richard Mollier (; 30 November 1863, Triest – 13 March 1935, Dresden) was a German professor of Applied Physics and Mechanics in Göttingen and Dresden, a pioneer of experimental research in thermodynamics, particularly for water, steam, and moist air.
Mollier diagrams (enthalpy-entropy charts) are routinely used by en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht%20Beutelspacher | Albrecht Beutelspacher (born 5 June 1950) is a German mathematician and founder of the Mathematikum. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Giessen, where he held the chair for geometry and discrete mathematics from 1988 to 2018.
Biography
Beutelspacher studied from 1969 to 1973 math, physics and philosophy ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20G.%20Turner | David G. Turner (born 1945) is a Canadian astronomer and professor (emeritus) in the department of astronomy and physics at Saint Mary's University.
Early life and education
Turner was born in Toronto in 1945. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo, followed by a Master of Science and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Russell%20Newton | Robert Russell Newton (July 7, 1918 – June 2, 1991) was an American physicist, astronomer, and historian of science.
Newton was Supervisor of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University.
Newton was known for his book The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy (1977). In Newton's view, Ptolemy was "the most successf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%20Engineering%20Heritage%20%28Japan%29 | The is a list of sites, landmarks, machines, and documents that made significant contributions to the development of mechanical engineering in Japan. Items in the list are certified by the .
Overview
The Mechanical Engineering Heritage program was inaugurated in June 2007 in connection with the 110th anniversary of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan%20conjecture | In mathematics, Sullivan conjecture or Sullivan's conjecture on maps from classifying spaces can refer to any of several results and conjectures prompted by homotopy theory work of Dennis Sullivan. A basic theme and motivation concerns the fixed point set in group actions of a finite group . The most elementary formula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleochemistry | Oleochemistry is the study of vegetable oils and animal oils and fats, and oleochemicals derived from these fats and oils. The resulting product can be called oleochemicals (from Latin: oleum "olive oil"). The major product of this industry is soap, approximately 8.9×106 tons of which were produced in 1990. Other majo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20A.%20J.%20Georges | Michel A. J. Georges (1959) is a Belgian biologist and a professor at the University of Liège.
Birth and education
Michel A. J. Georges was born in 1959 in Schoten, Belgium. He received his Doctor in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Liège in 1983, and his M.Sc. in Molecular Biology from the Université libre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eger%20V.%20Murphree | Eger Vaughan Murphree (November 3, 1898 – October 29, 1962) was an American chemist, best known for his co-invention of the process of fluid catalytic cracking.
Biography
Murphree was born on November 3, 1898, in Bayonne, New Jersey, moving as a child to Kentucky. He graduated from Kentucky University with degrees in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalised%20metric | In mathematics, the concept of a generalised metric is a generalisation of that of a metric, in which the distance is not a real number but taken from an arbitrary ordered field.
In general, when we define metric space the distance function is taken to be a real-valued function. The real numbers form an ordered field ... |
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