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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Coppola
Brian P. Coppola (born February 5, 1957 in Lawrence, Massachusetts) is a chemistry professor at the University of Michigan. Raised in Methuen, Massachusetts, and Derry, New Hampshire, Coppola is the eldest of four children of Frank and Shirley Coppola. He graduated from Pinkerton Academy in 1974. In 1978, he received...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Brogden%20Jun.%20%28industrialist%29
John Brogden Junior was the eldest son of John Brogden (1798–1869). He was born in Manchester in 1823. He was educated at the academy in Blackburn and then studied chemistry in Manchester. He joined his father’s business (John Brogden and Sons) in 1846 and was closely involved with all the work. He appears to have take...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandip%20Chakrabarti
Sandip Chakrabarti is an Indian astrophysicist. He developed a computer model to show how life on earth could have originated in outer space. Education He started his education in Lalit Mohan Shyam Mohini High School in Malda. After finishing his Bachelor of Science from Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Naren...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Kolawa
Adam Kazimierz Kolawa (June 25, 1957 – April 26, 2011) was CEO and co-founder of Parasoft, a software company in Monrovia, CA that makes software development tools. History Kolawa received a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the AGH University of Science and Technology in 1981 and a M.Sc. in Physics from Jagiello...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20bicarbonate%20rocket
A sodium bicarbonate rocket (sometimes called an Alka-Seltzer rocket) is a model rocket fashioned from a 35mm film canister and propelled by the pressure of a gas, often carbon dioxide, generated from the reaction of an acid with sodium bicarbonate. Sodium bicarbonate rockets are often used in science classes to demons...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rf%20factor
Rf factor may refer to: Chemistry Retardation factor, a variable measured in chromatography Biology Rheumatoid factor, an autoantibody commonly associated with rheumatoid arthritis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20sweep%20voltammetry
In analytical chemistry, linear sweep voltammetry is a method of voltammetry where the current at a working electrode is measured while the potential between the working electrode and a reference electrode is swept linearly in time. Oxidation or reduction of species is registered as a peak or trough in the current sign...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working%20electrode
In electrochemistry, the working electrode is the electrode in an electrochemical system on which the reaction of interest is occurring. The working electrode is often used in conjunction with an auxiliary electrode, and a reference electrode in a three-electrode system. Depending on whether the reaction on the elect...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo%20Rangel%20Brice%C3%B1o
Gustavo Rangel Briceño (born 1956 in Maracaibo) is a Venezuelan military officer. He was Minister of Defense from January 2008 to March 2009. Biography He was born in the city of Maracaibo on 16 August 1956. He graduated from the Venezuelan Academy of Military Sciences in 1978, and has a degree on mechanical engineer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20R.%20Heath
James R. Heath (born 1962) is an American chemist and the president and professor of Institute of Systems Biology. Previous to this, he was the Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, after having moved from University of California Los Angeles. Early years Heath graduat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odlyzko%E2%80%93Sch%C3%B6nhage%20algorithm
In mathematics, the Odlyzko–Schönhage algorithm is a fast algorithm for evaluating the Riemann zeta function at many points, introduced by . The main point is the use of the fast Fourier transform to speed up the evaluation of a finite Dirichlet series of length N at O(N) equally spaced values from O(N2) to O(N1+ε) s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser%20Science%20and%20Technology%20Centre
Laser Science and Technology Centre (LASTEC) is a laboratory of the Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO). Located in Delhi, it is the main DRDO lab involved in the development of lasers and related technologies. LASTEC functions under the DRDO Directorate of Electronics & Computer Science. History LAST...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aida%20el%20Ayoubi
Aida el Ayoubi (; born 1964) is an Egyptian singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Biography Born in Aachen, Germany to an Egyptian father and German mother, El-Ayoubi studied at the Deutsche Evangelische Oberschule, then at The American University in Cairo where she majored in computer sciences. She is known for her man...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagoda%20%28data%20structure%29
In computer science, a pagoda is a priority queue implemented with a variant of a binary tree. The root points to its children, as in a binary tree. Every other node points back to its parent and down to its leftmost (if it is a right child) or rightmost (if it is a left child) descendant leaf. The basic operation is m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beurling%E2%80%93Lax%20theorem
In mathematics, the Beurling–Lax theorem is a theorem due to and which characterizes the shift-invariant subspaces of the Hardy space . It states that each such space is of the form for some inner function . See also H2 References Jonathan R. Partington, Linear Operators and Linear Systems, An Analytical App...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethylammonium%20bromide
Tetraethylammonium bromide (TEAB) is a quaternary ammonium compound with the chemical formula C8H20N+Br−, often written as "Et4N+Br−" in the chemical literature. It has been used as the source of tetraethylammonium ions in pharmacological and physiological studies, but is also used in organic chemical synthesis. Chem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Birch%20%28geophysicist%29
Albert Francis Birch (August 22, 1903 – January 30, 1992) was an American geophysicist. He is considered one of the founders of solid Earth geophysics. He is also known for his part in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. During World War II, Birch participated in the Manhattan Project, working on the design ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz%20Pose
Rudolf Heinz Pose (10 April 1905 – 13 November 1975) was a German nuclear physicist who worked in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons. He did pioneering work in nuclear physics which contributed to the understanding atom's energy levels. Pose was an early member of the Germany's Uranium Club but eventually pa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony%20Valentini
Antony Valentini is a theoretical physicist known for his work on the foundations of quantum physics. Education and career Valentini obtained an undergraduate degree from Cambridge University, then earned his Ph.D. in 1992 with Dennis Sciama at the International School for Advanced Studies (ISAS-SISSA) in Trieste, It...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Hoch
James A. Hoch is a microbiologist who is the head of the Division of Cellular Biology in the Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute. In the last 40 years his work has focused on dissecting the signal transduction mechanism that controls sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. He i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric%20space%20aimed%20at%20its%20subspace
In mathematics, a metric space aimed at its subspace is a categorical construction that has a direct geometric meaning. It is also a useful step toward the construction of the metric envelope, or tight span, which are basic (injective) objects of the category of metric spaces. Following , a notion of a metric space Y...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanie%20Mahoney
Joanne M. "Joanie" Mahoney (born 1965) is the fifth president of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), in Syracuse, New York. Prior to this, she served as the County Executive of Onondaga County, New York. The first woman to hold, and be elected to, that position, she ser...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson%E2%80%93Cowan%20model
In computational neuroscience, the Wilson–Cowan model describes the dynamics of interactions between populations of very simple excitatory and inhibitory model neurons. It was developed by Hugh R. Wilson and Jack D. Cowan and extensions of the model have been widely used in modeling neuronal populations. The model is i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20Meater
The Square Meater is an Australian breed of medium framed, polled cattle which were developed by Rick Pisaturo of Mandalong Park near Sydney, New South Wales in the early 1990s from a base of Murray Grey genetics. Despite their stature they have excellent muscling and perform well in steer and carcass competitions. S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azim%20Khamisa
Azim Khamisa is a speaker and author of three books, the latest one being "The Secrets of the Bulletproof Spirit: How to Bounce Back from Life's Hardest Hits", published by Random House and coauthored with Jillian Quinn. Khamisa was born in Kenya, Africa and had early training in mathematics, economics and internation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Papaloizou
John Christopher Baillie Papaloizou FRS (born 1947) is a British theoretical physicist. Papaloizou is a professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge. He works on the theory of accretion disks, with particular application to the formation of planets. H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20engineering%20software
Many software programs are available for each discipline of civil engineering. Most civil engineers practice in specialized subsets of civil engineering, such as geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, transportation engineering, hydraulic engineering, environmental engineering, project and construction mana...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona%20School%20of%20Economics
The Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) is an institution for research and graduate education in economics, finance, data science, and the social sciences located in Barcelona, Spain. The school's academic offer includes Master's degrees as well as summer schools, professional courses, and in-company training. BSE re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Label%20%28computer%20science%29
In programming languages, a label is a sequence of characters that identifies a location within source code. In most languages, labels take the form of an identifier, often followed by a punctuation character (e.g., a colon). In many high-level languages, the purpose of a label is to act as the destination of a GOTO ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadao%20Kasami
was a noted Japanese information theorist who made significant contributions to error correcting codes. He was the earliest to publish the key ideas for the CYK algorithm, separately discovered by Daniel Younger (1967) and John Cocke (1970). Kasami was born in Kobe, Japan, and studied electrical engineering at Osaka...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophus%20Mads%20J%C3%B8rgensen
Sophus Mads Jørgensen (4 July 1837 – 1 April 1914) was a Danish chemist. He is considered one of the founders of coordination chemistry, mainly by being one of the pioneers of the famous chain theory and is known for the debates which he had with Alfred Werner during 1893-1899. While Jørgensen's theories on coordinatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby%20Berger
Toby Berger (September 4, 1940 – May 25, 2022) was an American information theorist. Early life and education Berger was born in New York City, to a Jewish family. He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Yale University in 1962, and doctoral degree in applied mathematics from Harvard University ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aditya%20College
Aditya College, was established in 2007 and is in the historic city of Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. The College is affiliated with Jiwaji University, Gwalior and has four academic departments: Commerce, Management, Computer Science and Tourism. Academic programmes Aditya College offers following undergraduate programmes ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubo%20gap
In atomic physics, the kubo gap is the average spacing that exists between consecutive energy levels. The units of measure are meV or millielectron volts. It varies with an inverse relationship to the nuclearity. As the material in question is viewed from the bulk and atomic levels, we can see that the kubo gap goes f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorite%20dismutase
Chlorite dismutase, also known as Chlorite O2-lyase (), is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction ClO → Cl− + O2 Reactions that generate oxygen molecules are exceedingly rare in biology and difficult to mimic synthetically. Perchlorate - respiring bacteria enzymatically detoxify chlorite, ClO, the end produc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20Code%20%28serial%29
The Secret Code (1942) was the 19th serial released by Columbia Pictures. It features the masked hero "The Black Commando" facing Nazi saboteurs, inspired by Republic Pictures' successful Spy Smasher serial of the same year. The chapters of this serial each ended with a brief tutorial in cryptography. Plot This seri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCK-Cmus%20mouse
{{DISPLAYTITLE:PEPCK-Cmus mouse}} PEPCK-Cmus mice are genetically modified mice (Mus musculus) which as a result of their modification have up to 100 times the concentration of the PEPCK-C enzyme in their muscles, compared to ordinary mice. They were created by a team of American scientists led by Richard Hanson, prof...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesophase
In chemistry and chemical physics, a mesophase is a state of matter intermediate between solid and liquid. Gelatin is a common example of a partially ordered structure in a mesophase. Further, biological structures such as the lipid bilayers of cell membranes are examples of mesophases. Georges Friedel (1922) called a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexbug
HEXBUG is a brand of infrared and automaton toys developed and distributed by Spin Master Inc. . HEXBUG uses many elements used in BEAM robotics. First piloted in the US through RadioShack, HEXBUG is now sold in most major retail stores. The original HEXBUGs are based on six-legged arthropods but now come in several d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20profile%20%28chemistry%29
In theoretical chemistry, an energy profile is a theoretical representation of a chemical reaction or process as a single energetic pathway as the reactants are transformed into products. This pathway runs along the reaction coordinate, which is a parametric curve that follows the pathway of the reaction and indicates ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%20R.%20Welch
Lloyd Richard Welch (born September 28, 1927) is an American information theorist and applied mathematician, and co-inventor of the Baum–Welch algorithm and the Berlekamp–Welch algorithm, also known as the Welch–Berlekamp algorithm. Welch received his B.S. in mathematics from the University of Illinois, 1951, and Ph.D...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi-Montalcini
Levi-Montalcini is an Italian surname. Notable people with this surname include: Gino Levi-Montalcini, Italian architect and designer Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian Nobel laureate, honored for her work in neurobiology Paola Levi-Montalcini, Italian painter See also Levi (disambiguation) Italian-language surname...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRX
MRX may refer to: The ABCG2 gene MRX complex, DNA damage repair complex in yeast The Magnetic Reconnection eXperiment led by DoE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Mahshahr Airport, Iran, by IATA airport code Philips HeartStart MRx cardiac monitor/defibrillator Proposed pressurized water reactor for ship propulsion...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Gottfried
Kurt Gottfried (May 17, 1929 – August 25, 2022) was an Austrian-born American physicist who was professor emeritus of physics at Cornell University. He was known for his work in the areas of quantum mechanics and particle physics and was also a co-founder with Henry Way Kendall of the Union of Concerned Scientists. He ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology%40Home
Cosmology@Home is a volunteer computing project that uses the BOINC platform and was once run at the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The project has moved to the Institut Lagrange de Paris and the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, both of which are located in the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focused%20impedance%20measurement
Focused Impedance Measurement (FIM) is a recent technique for quantifying the electrical resistance in tissues of the human body with improved zone localization compared to conventional methods. This method was proposed and developed by Department of Biomedical Physics and Technology of University of Dhaka under the su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-sampling%20%28chemistry%29
In analytical chemistry, sub-sampling is a procedure by which a small, representative sample is taken from a larger sample. Good sub-sampling technique becomes important when the large sample is not homogeneous. Techniques Coning and quartering Coning and quartering is a method used by analytical chemists to reduce ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample%20preparation
In analytical chemistry, sample preparation (working-up) refers to the ways in which a sample is treated prior to its analyses. Preparation is a very important step in most analytical techniques, because the techniques are often not responsive to the analyte in its in-situ form, or the results are distorted by interfe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20R.%20Korfhage
Robert Roy Korfhage (December 2, 1930 – November 20, 1998) was an American computer scientist, famous for his contributions to information retrieval and several textbooks. He was son of Dr. Roy Korfhage who was a chemist at Nestlé in Fulton, Oswego County, New York. Korfhage earned his bachelor's degree (1952) in eng...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20F.%20Fuller
Dr. Leonard F. Fuller (August 21, 1890 – April 23, 1987) was a noted American radio pioneer. In 1919, Fuller earned a PhD degree at the Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering. In World War I, he was part of the antisubmarine group of the National Research Council, and charged with the design and installation of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos%20computing
In theoretical computer science, chaos computing is the idea of using chaotic systems for computation. In particular, chaotic systems can be made to produce all types of logic gates and further allow them to be morphed into each other. Introduction Chaotic systems generate large numbers of patterns of behavior and a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavinia%20%28disambiguation%29
Lavinia was the daughter of Latinus and Amata in Roman mythology. Lavinia may also refer to: Biology Lavinia (fish), a genus of cyprinid fish containing the hitches Eulavinia, a monotypic genus of moths formerly known as Lavinia People Lavinia (given name) Fictional characters Lavinia Andronicus, a character in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberiotoxin
Iberiotoxin (IbTX) is an ion channel toxin purified from the Eastern Indian red scorpion Hottentotta tamulus. Iberiotoxin selectively inhibits the current through large-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels. Chemistry Iberiotoxin is a 37-amino acid peptide. The formula is C179H274N50O55S7. It is also known...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteropodatoxin
Heteropodatoxins are peptide toxins from the venom of the giant crab spider Heteropoda venatoria, which block Kv4.2 voltage-gated potassium channels. Sources Heteropodatoxins are purified from the venom of the giant crab spider, Heteropoda venatoria. Chemistry Heteropodatoxins contain an Inhibitor Cystine Knot (I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malgrange%E2%80%93Ehrenpreis%20theorem
In mathematics, the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem states that every non-zero linear differential operator with constant coefficients has a Green's function. It was first proved independently by and . This means that the differential equation where P is a polynomial in several variables and δ is the Dirac delta functi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatoxin
Stromatoxin is a spider toxin that blocks certain delayed-rectifier and A-type voltage-gated potassium channels. Etymology Stromatoxin was first identified in the venom of the African tarantula Stromatopelma calceatum (the featherleg baboon spider), from which it derives its name. The technical abbreviation for the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAD%28P%29%2B%20transhydrogenase%20%28Si-specific%29
{{DISPLAYTITLE:NAD(P)+ transhydrogenase (Si-specific)}} In biochemistry, NAD(P)+ transhydrogenase (Si-specific) () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction NADPH + NAD+ NADP+ + NADH Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are NADPH and NAD+, whereas its two products are NADP+ and NADH. This enzyme particip...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current%20Contents
Current Contents is a rapid alerting service database from Clarivate, formerly the Institute for Scientific Information and Thomson Reuters. It is published online and in several different printed subject sections. History Current Contents was first published in paper format, in a single edition devoted only to biolog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandai%20Golf%3A%20Challenge%20Pebble%20Beach
Bandai Golf Challenge Pebble Beach is a golf video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was developed and released by Bandai. The game is named after Pebble Beach, a golf course on California's Pacific Coast. The game implements real world physics in addition to the traditional rules of golf, and co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organozirconium%20and%20organohafnium%20chemistry
Organozirconium chemistry is the science of exploring the properties, structure, and reactivity of organozirconium compounds, which are organometallic compounds containing chemical bonds between carbon and zirconium. Organozirconium compounds have been widely studied, in part because they are useful catalysts in Ziegle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NR4
NR4 may refer to: NASCAR Racing 4 Nur (biology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrometalation
Hydrometalation (hydrometallation) is a type of chemical reaction in organometallic chemistry in which a chemical compound with a hydrogen to metal bond (M-H, metal hydride) adds to compounds with an unsaturated bond like an alkene (RC=CR) forming a new compound with a carbon to metal bond (RHC-CRM). The metal is less ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20A.%20Heising
Raymond Alphonsus Heising (August 10, 1888 - January 1965) was an American radio and telephone pioneer. Heising was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota, graduated in 1912 in electrical engineering from the University of North Dakota, and in 1914 received his master's degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. From 191...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Lambert
Frank Lambert may refer to: Frank L. Lambert (1918−2018), professor emeritus of chemistry at Occidental College, Los Angeles Franklin T. Lambert (fl.1990), professor of history at Purdue University Frank Lambert (curator), director of the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1933−1953 Frank Lambert (inventor) (1851−1937...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus%20%28disambiguation%29
A torus, pl. tori, is a type of surface. Torus may also refer to: Music Torus (album), a 2013 album by Sub Focus Torus, a 2017 EP by Merzbow (Masami Akita) Science and technology Architecture A semicircular molding – see Molding (decorative)#Types Astrophysics Three-torus model of the universe, a model for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCC1
Regulator of chromosome condensation 1, also known as RCC1, Ran guanine nucleotide exchange factor and RanGEF, is the name for a human gene and protein. RCC1 also functions as a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Ran GTPase. Interactions RCC1 has been shown to interact with RANBP3 and Ran (biology). References...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel%20D.%20Becke
Axel Dieter Becke (born June 10, 1953) is a physical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Dalhousie University, Canada. He is a leading researcher in the application of density functional theory (DFT) to molecules. Early life Becke was born in Esslingen, Germany. He graduated with a B.Sc. from Queen's University. H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary%20electrode
In electrochemistry, the auxiliary electrode, often also called the counter electrode, is an electrode used in a three-electrode electrochemical cell for voltammetric analysis or other reactions in which an electric current is expected to flow. The auxiliary electrode is distinct from the reference electrode, which es...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Hibbett
David Hibbett is an associate professor in biology at Clark University. He is considered one of today's leading researchers "in the analysis of fungal relationships through DNA analysis." At Clark he concentrates his lab work in evolutionary biology and ecology of Fungi. He spent 1991 as a Science and Technology Agenc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20L.%20Rheingold
Arnold L. Rheingold (born October 6, 1940) is an American chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego. Early life Rheingold was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 6, 1940. He completed his B.S. in Chemistry in 1962 and M.S. in Inorganic Chemistry in 1963 from Case Western Reserve U...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve%20method
Sieve method, or the method of sieves, can mean: in mathematics and computer science, the sieve of Eratosthenes, a simple method for finding prime numbers in number theory, any of a variety of methods studied in sieve theory in combinatorics, the set of methods dealt with in sieve theory or more specifically, the in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Ellery%20Hale%20Prize
The George Ellery Hale Prize, or Hale Prize, is awarded annually by the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society for outstanding contributions over an extended period of time to the field of solar astronomy. The prize is named in memory of George Ellery Hale. Past winners of the Hale Prize are: See...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20N%C3%B6beling
Georg August Nöbeling (12 November 1907 – 16 February 2008) was a German mathematician. Education and career Born and raised in Lüdenscheid, Nöbeling studied mathematics and physics at University of Göttingen between 1927 and 1929 and University of Vienna, where he was a student of Karl Menger and received his PhD in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak%20Mountain%20High%20School
Oak Mountain High School is a four-year public high school in the northern Shelby County suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama. It is part of Shelby County School Schools. Academics College preparation Oak Mountain students can take one or more of the following 16 Advanced Placement courses: Biology Calculus Chemistry ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20Mignucci
Antonio A. Mignucci (born 1964 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a biological oceanographer and veterinary technician specializing in the biology, management and conservation of marine mammals. He is the founder of the international non-profit conservation organization Red Caribeña de Varamientos (Caribbean Stranding Networ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genes%2C%20Brain%20and%20Behavior
Genes, Brain and Behavior (also known as G2B) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in the fields of behavioral, neural, and psychiatric genetics. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society. The journal was established in 2002 as a quarter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Lombardi%20%28engineer%29
Giovanni Lombardi, (born 28 May 1926 in Lugano, Switzerland; died 22 May 2017 in Fontvieille, Monaco) was a Swiss engineer specialized in civil works and tunnel construction. Lombardi was educated at the Institut auf dem Rosenberg and studied civil engineering at university. In late 2006 his company Lombardi Engineeri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuette%E2%80%93Nesbitt%20formula
In mathematics, the Schuette–Nesbitt formula is a generalization of the inclusion–exclusion principle. It is named after Donald R. Schuette and Cecil J. Nesbitt. The probabilistic version of the Schuette–Nesbitt formula has practical applications in actuarial science, where it is used to calculate the net single premi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakthan%20Singaram
Bakthan Singaram is a professor of organic chemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, California, where he has taught since 1989. Singaram's primary focus is in the area of boron-based organic chemistry. He gained his Ph.D. from the University of Madras, Tamil Nadu, India in 1977. Singaram als...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Garstang
Walter Garstang FLS FZS (9 February 1868 – 23 February 1949), a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford and Professor of Zoology at the University of Leeds, was one of the first to study the functional biology of marine invertebrate larvae. His best known works on marine larvae were his poems published as Larval Forms and Ot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benesi%E2%80%93Hildebrand%20method
The Benesi–Hildebrand method is a mathematical approach used in physical chemistry for the determination of the equilibrium constant K and stoichiometry of non-bonding interactions. This method has been typically applied to reaction equilibria that form one-to-one complexes, such as charge-transfer complexes and host–g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikodem%20Caro
Nikodem Caro (; 23 May 1871, Łódź, then Russian Empire – 27 June 1935, Rome, Italy) was an industrial chemist and entrepreneur. Caro was born in Łódź, and studied chemistry in Berlin at the Royal Technical College of Charlottenburg (now Technical University of Berlin) and got his doctorate from Rostock University. From...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive%20value
Reproductive value may refer to several ideas: Reproductive value (social psychology), the attributes of a potential partner in mate selection Reproductive value (population genetics), the contribution of an individual to the future generations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Crombie
Deborah Crombie (née Darden) is an American author of the Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James mystery series set in the United Kingdom. Crombie was raised in Richardson, Texas, and has lived in the United Kingdom. She now lives in McKinney, Texas. Crombie studied biology at Austin College and was a writing student of Warren...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicircular%20potential%20well
In quantum mechanics, the case of a particle in a one-dimensional ring is similar to the particle in a box. The particle follows the path of a semicircle from to where it cannot escape, because the potential from to is infinite. Instead there is total reflection, meaning the particle bounces back and forth between...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elution
In analytical and organic chemistry, elution is the process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent; as in washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions. In a liquid chromatography experiment, for example, an analyte is generally adsorbed ("bound to") an adsorbent in a liquid ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malgrange%20preparation%20theorem
In mathematics, the Malgrange preparation theorem is an analogue of the Weierstrass preparation theorem for smooth functions. It was conjectured by René Thom and proved by . Statement of Malgrange preparation theorem Suppose that f(t,x) is a smooth complex function of t∈R and x∈Rn near the origin, and let k be the s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Stroud
Barry Stroud (; 18 May 1935 – 9 August 2019) was a Canadian philosopher and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Known especially for his work on philosophical skepticism, he wrote about David Hume, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the metaphysics of color, and many other topics. Biography Barry Greenwood Stroud w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Bywater
Richard Arthur Samuel Bywater, (3 November 1913 – 6 April 2005) won the George Cross and George Medal, one of only eight people to have been awarded both medals, and the only civilian. He was born on 3 November 1913 in Birmingham, and educated at Kings Norton Grammar School and Birmingham University (BSc Chemistry, 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal%20function
In mathematics, a cardinal function (or cardinal invariant) is a function that returns cardinal numbers. Cardinal functions in set theory The most frequently used cardinal function is a function that assigns to a set A its cardinality, denoted by | A |. Aleph numbers and beth numbers can both be seen as cardinal f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford%20backscattering%20spectrometry
Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) is an analytical technique used in materials science. Sometimes referred to as high-energy ion scattering (HEIS) spectrometry, RBS is used to determine the structure and composition of materials by measuring the backscattering of a beam of high energy ions (typically proton...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browder%20J.%20Thompson
Browder J. Thompson (August 14, 1903 – July 4/5, 1944) was a noted American electrical engineer. Thompson was born in Roanoke, Louisiana, and in 1925 received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle. In 1926 he joined General Electric's research laboratory to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVL
HVL may refer to: Half-value layer, in radiometry Hardware verification language, in computer science HeavyLift International, a defunct Emirati cargo airline Hurstville railway station, in Sydney, Australia Hutt Valley Line, a rail line in New Zealand Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, the abbreviati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20William%20Seeley
Stuart William Seeley (June 23, 1901 – November 4, 1978) was a noted American electrical engineer, best known for inventing the Foster–Seeley discriminator and SHORAN. Seeley was born in Chicago, Illinois, and received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State College in 1925. From 1915 to 1924 he...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Cotton%20Research%20Institute
Central Cotton Research Institute Multan, ( ) established in 1970 in Multan, Pakistan, is one of the renowned research institutes of Pakistan. The institute has many divisions dedicated to different aspects of cotton research including Agronomy, Breeding and Genetics, Cytogenetics, Physiology, Fiber Technology, Stati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk%20Niewodnicza%C5%84ski
Henryk Niewodniczański (1900–1968) was a Polish physicist, professor at the Jagiellonian University and the creator and director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kraków. Niewodniczański graduated from the Stefan Batory University in Wilno (Poland) in 1924 and in 1926 received his PhD from the same university. In...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20H.%20Rumsey
Victor Henry Rumsey (November 22, 1919 – March 11, 2015) was an electrical engineer, best known for his studies of frequency-independent antennas. Rumsey was born in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, on Saint Cecilia's day, and received his BA in mathematics (1941) and Sc.D. in physics from Cambridge University. From 1941–...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Munro%20Ross
Ian Munro Ross FREng (15 August 1927 – 10 March 2013) was an early pioneer in transistors, and for 12 years President of Bell Labs. Ross was born in Southport, England, and in 1948 received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University. In 1952 he received his M....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahisa%20Sato
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Fukushima Prefecture, he graduated from National Defense Academy of Japan with a major in applied physics and joined the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF). In the JGSDF, h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20K.%20Weimer
Dr. Paul K. Weimer (November 5, 1914 – January 6, 2005) was a noted contributor to the development of television and the thin-film transistor (TFT). Weimer was born in Wabash, Indiana. He received a B.A. in math and physics from Manchester University (Indiana) in 1936, an M.A. in physics from the University of Kansas ...