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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Bucy | Paul Bucy (; November 13, 1904 – September 22, 1992) was an American neurosurgeon and neuropathologist who was a native of Hubbard, Iowa. He is known both for his part in describing the Klüver–Bucy syndrome, his academic life as a teacher in the neurosciences, and for his founding in 1972 and editing Surgical Neurology... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20William%20Dunn%20Institute%20of%20Biochemistry | The Sir William Dunn Institute of Biochemistry at Cambridge University was a research institute endowed from the estate of Sir William Dunn, which was the origin of the Cambridge Department of Biochemistry. Created for Frederick Gowland Hopkins on the recommendation of Walter Morley Fletcher, it opened in 1924 and spu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filatima | Filatima is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae.
Biology
In November 2005, an infestation of Filatima caterpillars was found to be stunting the revegetation activity of land destroyed by the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington.
Species
Filatima abactella (Clarke, 1932)
Filatima adamsi Hodges & Adamski, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s%20inequality | Fisher's inequality is a necessary condition for the existence of a balanced incomplete block design, that is, a system of subsets that satisfy certain prescribed conditions in combinatorial mathematics. Outlined by Ronald Fisher, a population geneticist and statistician, who was concerned with the design of experiment... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Kushner%20%28mathematician%29 | Boris Abramovich Kushner (; December 10, 1941May 7, 2019) was a mathematician, poet and essayist. His primary contribution in mathematics was in the field of Constructive Mathematical Analysis and the Theory of Constructive Numbers and Functions. He has published several books of poetry (in Russian) and a number of m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally%20Smith%20%28mathematician%29 | Walter Laws Smith (November 12, 1926 – March 6, 2023) was a British-born American mathematician, known for his contributions to applied probability theory.
Biography
Smith was born in London on November 12, 1926.
Smith received a B.A. in mathematics (1947) from Cambridge University, having gained First Class in the M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segregation%20%28materials%20science%29 | In materials science, segregation is the enrichment of atoms, ions, or molecules at a microscopic region in a materials system. While the terms segregation and adsorption are essentially synonymous, in practice, segregation is often used to describe the partitioning of molecular constituents to defects from solid solut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokko%20du%20Cloux | Fokko du Cloux (20 December 1954, Rheden – 10 November 2006) was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist. He worked on the Atlas of Lie groups and representations until his death.
Career in mathematics
Du Cloux was based at the Institut Girard Desargues, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, in France. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.%20N.%20Wilson | Birton Neill Wilson (November 16, 1874 – January 27, 1948) was an American professor, engineer, and college football coach. He served as a professor of mechanical engineering and the head football coach at Arkansas Industrial University (now known as the University of Arkansas).
Biography
Wilson was born in Philadelph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective%20chemistry%20of%20single-walled%20nanotubes | Selective chemistry of single-walled nanotubes is a field in Carbon nanotube chemistry devoted specifically to the study of functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes.
Structure and reactivity
Reactivity of fullerene molecules with respect to addition chemistries is strongly dependent on the curvature of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formate%20C-acetyltransferase | In enzymology, formate C-acetyltransferase (pyruvate formate lyase) () is an enzyme. Pyruvate formate lyase is found in Escherichia coli and other organisms. It helps regulate anaerobic glucose metabolism. Using radical non-redox chemistry, it catalyzes the reversible conversion of pyruvate and coenzyme-A into formate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA%20synthase | In molecular biology, hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA synthase or HMG-CoA synthase is an enzyme which catalyzes the reaction in which acetyl-CoA condenses with acetoacetyl-CoA to form 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA). This reaction comprises the second step in the mevalonate-dependent isoprenoid biosynthesis pathway... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Monroe%20Van%20Vleck | John Monroe Van Vleck (March 4, 1833 – November 4, 1912) was an American mathematician and astronomer.
He taught astronomy and mathematics at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut for more than 50 years (1853-1912), and served as acting university president twice. The Van Vleck Observatory (at Wesleyan Univers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%20R.%20Gray | Vincent Richard Gray (24 March 1922 – 14 June 2018) was a New Zealand chemist, and a founder of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition.
Career
Born in London on 24 March 1922, Gray was awarded a PhD in physical chemistry by the University of Cambridge after studies on incendiary bomb fluids made from aluminium soap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrace%20ledge%20kink%20model | In chemistry, the Terrace Ledge Kink model (TLK), which is also referred to as the Terrace Step Kink model (TSK), describes the thermodynamics of crystal surface formation and transformation, as well as the energetics of surface defect formation. It is based upon the idea that the energy of an atom’s position on a cry... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon%20Scientist | Mormon Scientist: The Life and Faith of Henry Eyring is a book about Henry Eyring, who from 1930 to 1980 made substantial contributions to theoretical chemistry while also speaking and writing extensively about the compatibility of science and religion. The book, written twenty-six years after Eyring's death by his gra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawnine%20Dyer | Dawnine Sample Dyer (born July 3, 1950) is an American winemaker and entrepreneur who pioneered the use of champagne-making methods in California's fledgling sparkling wine industry in the 1970s.
Biography
Dyer, a California native with a degree in biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, began her wine ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Nusselt | Ernst Kraft Wilhelm Nußelt (Nusselt in English; November 25, 1882, in Nuremberg – September 1, 1957, in Munich) was a German engineer. Nusselt studied mechanical engineering at the Munich Technical University (Technische Universität München), where he got his doctorate in 1907. He taught in Dresden from 1913 to 1917.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATP-binding%20domain%20of%20ABC%20transporters | In molecular biology, ATP-binding domain of ABC transporters is a water-soluble domain of transmembrane ABC transporters.
ABC transporters belong to the ATP-Binding Cassette superfamily, which uses the hydrolysis of ATP to translocate a variety of compounds across biological membranes. ABC transporters are minimally ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindrical%20harmonics | In mathematics, the cylindrical harmonics are a set of linearly independent functions that are solutions to Laplace's differential equation, , expressed in cylindrical coordinates, ρ (radial coordinate), φ (polar angle), and z (height). Each function Vn(k) is the product of three terms, each depending on one coordinate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnin%20Zawadzki | Saturnin Zawadzki (7 July 1923 in Radom, Poland – 17 September 2003) was a Polish soil scientist. Professor of The Institute for Land Reclamation and Grassland Farming () and member of the Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).
Author of works about origins, evolution and transforms of hydrogenic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoneal%20number | In mathematics, Euler's idoneal numbers (also called suitable numbers or convenient numbers) are the positive integers D such that any integer expressible in only one way as x2 ± Dy2 (where x2 is relatively prime to Dy2) is a prime power or twice a prime power. In particular, a number that has two distinct representat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%E2%80%93Nathan%20effect | In organic chemistry, the Baker–Nathan effect is observed with reaction rates for certain chemical reactions with certain substrates where the order in reactivity cannot be explained solely by an inductive effect of substituents.
This effect was described in 1935 by John W. Baker and W. S. Nathan. They examined the ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale%20Purves | Dale Purves (born March 11, 1938) is Geller Professor of Neurobiology Emeritus in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences where he remains Research Professor with additional appointments in the department of Psychology and Brain Sciences, and the department of Philosophy at Duke University. He earned a B.A. from Yale Uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20phonon | In solid state physics, a surface phonon is the quantum of a lattice vibration mode associated with a solid surface. Similar to the ordinary lattice vibrations in a bulk solid (whose quanta are simply called phonons), the nature of surface vibrations depends on details of periodicity and symmetry of a crystal structure... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boozer%20Pitts | John Emmett "Boozer" Pitts Sr. (November 25, 1893 – February 10, 1971) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Auburn University from 1923 to 1924 and again for the final seven games of the 1927 season, compiling a career record of 7–11–6. He was also a professor of mathematic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20R.%20Ritchie | William Riley Ritchie Sr. (January 25, 1876 – January 18, 1970) was an American college football player and coach, mathematics professor, and civil engineer. He was the second head football coach at Baylor University, serving for on year, in 1901 and compiling a record of 5–3. He was also the chairman of Baylor's mathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Zawidzki | Jan Wiktor Tomasz Zawidzki (December 20, 1866 in Włóki, Masovian Voivodeship – September 14, 1928 in Warsaw) was a Polish physical chemist and historian of chemistry. He researched mainly chemical kinetics, thermochemistry and autocatalysis.
Zawidzki was a professor of the Akademia Rolnicza in Dublany (1907–1916), Jag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikodym%20set | In mathematics, a Nikodym set is a subset of the unit square in with complement of Lebesgue measure zero (i.e. with an area of 1), such that, given any point in the set, there is a straight line that only intersects the set at that point. The existence of a Nikodym set was first proved by Otto Nikodym in 1927. Subsequ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20de%20Math%C3%A9matiques%20Pures%20et%20Appliqu%C3%A9es | The Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées () is a French monthly scientific journal of mathematics, founded in 1836 by Joseph Liouville (editor: 1836–1874). The journal was originally published by Charles Louis Étienne Bachelier. After Bachelier's death in 1853, publishing passed to his son-in-law, Louis Alexand... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Meissner | Fred F. Meissner (November 10, 1931 – September 18, 2007) was an American geologist and engineer who contributed to the fields of geology, geophysics, engineering, petroleum engineering, geochemistry, mineralogy, physics, mining, economic geology, and fishing.
Biography
Meissner was an honored exploration geologist, c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countably%20generated | In mathematics, the term countably generated can have several meanings:
An algebraic structure (group, module, algebra) having countably many generators, see generating set
Countably generated space, a topological space in which the topology is determined by its countable subsets
Countably generated module. (Kaplans... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroscopic%20quantum%20state | A macroscopic quantum state is a state of matter in which macroscopic properties, such as mechanical motion, thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity and viscosity, can be described only by quantum mechanics rather than merely classical mechanics. This occurs primarily at low temperatures where little thermal moti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melem | In chemistry, melem is a compound with formula ; specifically, 2,5,8-triamino-heptazine or 2,5,8-triamino-tri-s-triazine, whose molecule can be described as that of heptazine with the three hydrogen atoms replaced by amino groups. It is a white crystalline solid.
Preparation
Melem can be prepared by thermal decomposit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20Lanczos%20algorithm | In computer science, the block Lanczos algorithm is an algorithm for finding the nullspace of a matrix over a finite field, using only multiplication of the matrix by long, thin matrices. Such matrices are considered as vectors of tuples of finite-field entries, and so tend to be called 'vectors' in descriptions of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Montgomery%20%28mathematician%29 | Peter Lawrence Montgomery (September 25, 1947 – February 18, 2020) was an American mathematician who worked at the System Development Corporation and Microsoft Research. He is best known for his contributions to computational number theory and mathematical aspects of cryptography, including the Montgomery multiplicati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gury%20Marchuk | Gury Ivanovich Marchuk (; 8 June 1925 – 24 March 2013) was a Soviet and Russian scientist in the fields of computational mathematics, and physics of atmosphere. Academician (since 1968); the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1986–1991. Among his notable prizes are the USSR State Prize (1979), Demidov Prize (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adparticle | An adparticle is an atom, molecule, or cluster of atoms or molecules that lies on a crystal surface. The term is used in surface chemistry. The word is a contraction of "adsorbed particle". An adparticle that is a single atom may be referred to as an "adatom".
Surface science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar%20Thorson | Gunnar Axel Wright Thorson (31 December 190625 January 1971) was a Danish marine zoologist and ecologist, who studied at the University of Copenhagen under the professors C.G. Johannes Petersen, August Krogh, Theodor Mortensen, Ragnar Spärck and Carl Wesenberg-Lund. In 1957, Thorson was appointed professor of marine bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20H.%20Crandall | Stephen Harry Crandall (December 2, 1920 – October 29, 2013) was a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. He earned his master's degree in engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey and his Ph.D. from MIT. He joined the MIT faculty in 1946 and taught dynamics and strength of materials ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsai%20Lan-chin | Tsai Lan-chin ( (15 November 1964 – 14 February 1987) was a Taiwanese singer and songwriter.
Early life
As a child, he showed a talent for music and painting. He started learning piano at the age of 6. He attended Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School and studied mechanical engineering at National Taiwan University.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank%20Levy%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Henry M. "Hank" Levy is an American computer scientist. He holds the Wissner-Slivka Chair in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (U.W.).
Work
Levy's research concerns operating systems, distributed systems, the internet, and computer architecture. In his early career, Levy worked at Digit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-pass%20protocol | In cryptography, a three-pass protocol for sending messages is a framework which allows one party to securely send a message to a second party without the need to exchange or distribute encryption keys. Such message protocols should not be confused with various other algorithms which use 3 passes for authentication.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochylini | The Cochylini are a tribe of tortrix moths. It used to be classified as the subfamily Cochylinae.
Diversity
The tribe contains about 1,000 described species in about 80 genera.
Distribution
Members of the tribe are present worldwide, but the greatest number of species occurs in the Holarctic realm and Neotropical rea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%20flux | In physics and engineering, heat flux or thermal flux, sometimes also referred to as heat flux density, heat-flow density or heat flow rate intensity, is a flow of energy per unit area per unit time. Its SI units are watts per square metre (W/m2). It has both a direction and a magnitude, and so it is a vector quantity.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Zakour | John Zakour (born 1957) is an American science-fiction and humor writer.
Biography
Zakour was born in upstate New York, in 1957. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Potsdam where he received a BA in computer science. Before becoming a popular writer he worked for many years as a database programm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladstone%E2%80%93Dale%20relation | The Gladstone–Dale relation is a mathematical relation used for optical analysis of liquids, the determination of composition from optical measurements. It can also be used to calculate the density of a liquid for use in fluid dynamics (e.g., flow visualization). The relation has also been used to calculate refractive ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anant%20Agarwal | Anant Agarwal is an Indian computer architecture researcher. He is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he led the development of Alewife, an early cache coherent multiprocessor, and also has served as director of the MIT Computer Science a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng%20Jiaxian | Deng Jiaxian, or Chia Hsien Teng (; June 25, 1924 – July 29, 1986), was a Chinese nuclear physicist and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a leading organizer and key contributor to the Chinese nuclear weapon programs.
Biography
Deng was born in Huaining, Anhui, China, on June 25, 1924. After graduati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajeev%20Alur | Rajeev Alur is an American professor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania who has made contributions to formal methods, programming languages, and automata theory, including notably the introduction of timed automata (Alur and Dill, 1994) and nested words (Alur and Madhusudan, 2004).
Prof. Alur was bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20J.%20Elliott | Robert James Elliott (born 1940) is a British-Canadian mathematician, known for his contributions to control theory, game theory, stochastic processes and mathematical finance.
He was schooled at Swanwick Hall Grammar School in Swanwick, Derbyshire and studied mathematics in which he earn a B.A. (1961) and M.A. (1965)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20S.%20Krishnan | Sir Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, (4 December 1898 – 14 June 1961) was an Indian physicist. He was a co-discoverer of Raman scattering, for which his mentor C. V. Raman was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Early life
Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan generally referred to as K. S. Krishnan or KSK, was born... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avrim%20Blum | Avrim Blum (born 27 May 1966) is a computer scientist. In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to learning theory and algorithms." Blum attended MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in 1991 under professor Ron Rivest. He was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20L.%20Hammer | Peter Ladislaw Hammer (December 23, 1936, Timișoara – December 27, 2006, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American mathematician native to Romania. He contributed to the fields of operations research and applied discrete mathematics through the study of pseudo-Boolean functions and their connections to graph theory and da... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%20Germaine%20Rimington%20Taylor | Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor (1879–1966) was an English geographer and historian of science, the first woman to hold an academic chair of geography in the United Kingdom.
Taylor was educated at the Camden School for Girls, the North London Collegiate School, and Royal Holloway College. In 1903 she obtained a first cl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Schapire | Robert Elias Schapire is an American computer scientist, former David M. Siegel '83 Professor in the computer science department at Princeton University, and has recently moved to Microsoft Research. His primary specialty is theoretical and applied machine learning.
His work led to the development of the boosting ense... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamotive%20Energy%20Systems | Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation is a Canadian based Renewable Energy Company which specializes in fast pyrolysis, a process which creates a product named bio-oil. Its only other residue is char.
Timeline
Dynamotive was incorporated on April 11, 1991 under the laws of the Province of British Columbia. The Compan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%20root%20of%20unity | In mathematics, a principal n-th root of unity (where n is a positive integer) of a ring is an element satisfying the equations
In an integral domain, every primitive n-th root of unity is also a principal -th root of unity. In any ring, if n is a power of 2, then any n/2-th root of −1 is a principal n-th root of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20University%20of%20Engineering%20%28Nicaragua%29 | The National University of Engineering (, UNI) is located in Managua, Nicaragua. It is acknowledged by its meticulous and selective admission system, through a high difficulty exam with top components of math and physics. The average acceptance rate is about 6% out of a pool of more than 2,000 applicants per year. This... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%BA%90 | Ẑ is a Latin script letter, the letter Z with a circumflex, used for transliteration of the Cyrillic letter Ѕ in ISO 9 family of transliteration standards. The lower case version of the letter is ẑ.
In mathematics, ẑ often refers to the unit vector in the +Z direction.
References
Z-circumflex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctinasty | In plant biology, nyctinasty is the circadian rhythm-based nastic movement of higher plants in response to the onset of darkness, or a plant "sleeping". Nyctinastic movements are associated with diurnal light and temperature changes and controlled by the circadian clock. It has been argued that for plants that display... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean%20addition | In mathematics, Pythagorean addition is a binary operation on the real numbers that computes the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle, given its two sides. According to the Pythagorean theorem, for a triangle with sides and , this length can be calculated as
where denotes the Pythagorean addition operation.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain%20Hach%C3%A9 | Alain Haché (born 1970) is an experimental physicist, a professor at the University of Moncton, Canada. From 2003 to 2013 he held the Canada Research Chair in photonics. He is also the author of The Physics of Hockey and Slap Shot Science, two popular science books on ice hockey.
Haché was born in Tracadie, New Bruns... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20of%20Operations%20Research | Mathematics of Operations Research is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in February 1976. It focuses on areas of mathematics relevant to the field of operations research such as continuous optimization, discrete optimization, game theory, machine learning, simulation methodology, and stochastic m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual%20robotics | Perceptual robotics is an interdisciplinary science linking Robotics and Neuroscience. It investigates biologically motivated robot control strategies, concentrating on perceptual rather than cognitive processes and thereby sides with J. J. Gibson's view against the Poverty of the stimulus theory.
As a working definit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Casey's theorem, also known as the generalized Ptolemy's theorem, is a theorem in Euclidean geometry named after the Irish mathematician John Casey.
Formulation of the theorem
Let be a circle of radius . Let be (in that order) four non-intersecting circles that lie inside and tangent to it. Denote ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardar%20Raja%20College%20of%20Engineering | Sardar Raja College of Engineering (SRCE) is an engineering college located in Alangulam, Tamil Nadu, India. It is affiliated with Anna University.
SRCE was established in 2000 under the chairmanship of philanthropist Dr. S.A. Raja.
Courses offered
Undergraduate
B.E. Civil Engineering
B.E. Computer Science and Eng... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantaloid | In mathematics, a quantaloid is a category enriched over the category Sup of suplattices. In other words, for any objects a and b the morphism object between them is not just a set but a complete lattice, in such a way that composition of morphisms preserves all joins:
The endomorphism lattice of any object in a qua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.%20Narayan%20Bhat | U. Narayan Bhat (born 1934) is an Indian-born Mathematician, known for his contributions to queueing theory and reliability theory.
Academic career
He received a B.A. in mathematics (1953) and B.T. in education (1954) from the University of Madras, an M.A. in statistics (1958) from Karnatak University in Dharwar and P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Wilhelm%20Rosenmund | Karl Wilhelm Louis Rosenmund (15 December 1884 – 8 February 1965) was a German chemist. He was born in Berlin and died in Kiel.
Rosenmund studied chemistry and received his Ph.D. 1906 from University of Berlin for his work with Otto Diels. He discovered the Rosenmund reduction, which is the reduction of acid chlorid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient%20copolymer | In polymer chemistry, gradient copolymers are copolymers in which the change in monomer composition is gradual from predominantly one species to predominantly the other, unlike with block copolymers, which have an abrupt change in composition, and random copolymers, which have no continuous change in composition (see F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanuel%20Melles | Amanuel Melles is a Canadian community organizer, a scientist and the current Executive Director of the Network for the Advancement of Black Communities.
Melles emigrated to Canada in 1993 from Eritrea. He worked for more than 10 years in the field of marine sciences and research, and in his home country, he headed th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archeolimulus | Archeolimulus is a prehistoric arthropod that was described from the Czech Republic in rocks of Middle Ordovician age. Although it was described as xiphosuran, related to the modern horseshoe crab, it is later considered as bradoriid instead.
References
External links
The Paleobiology Database: Archeolimulus
Fossil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazia | FAZIA stands for the Four Pi A and Z Identification Array.
This is a project which aims at building a new 4pi particle detector for charged particles. It will operate in the domain of heavy-ion induced reactions around the Fermi energy. It groups together more than 10 institutions worldwide in Nuclear Physics. It is p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulingite | Paulingite or paulingite-K is a rare zeolite mineral that is found in vesicles in the basaltic rocks from the Columbia River near Rock Island Dam, Washington.
Paulingite was named for Linus Carl Pauling (1901–1994), professor of chemistry, California Institute of Technology and accepted by the International Mineralogi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic%20algorithm | In computer science, a holographic algorithm is an algorithm that uses a holographic reduction. A holographic reduction is a constant-time reduction that maps solution fragments many-to-many such that the sum of the solution fragments remains unchanged. These concepts were introduced by Leslie Valiant, who called them ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus%20Mulerius | Nicolaus Mulerius (25 December 1564, Bruges – 5 September 1630, Groningen) was a professor of medicine and mathematics at the University of Groningen.
Education and career
Mulerius was born Nicolaas Des Muliers, son of Pierre Des Muliers and Claudia Le Vettre. He grew up in Bruges, where he was taught by Jacobus Cruqu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autotransporter%20family | In molecular biology, an autotransporter domain is a structural domain found in some bacterial outer membrane proteins. The domain is always located at the C-terminal end of the protein and forms a beta-barrel structure. The barrel is oriented in the membrane such that the N-terminal portion of the protein, termed the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester%20W.%20Sharp | Lester Whyland Sharp (April 21, 1887 in Saratoga Springs, New York – July 17, 1961 in Nuevo, California) was an American botanist, a pioneer in cytogenetics.
He received a BS from Alma College in 1908. After two years at Johns Hopkins University, he transferred to the University of Chicago where he received his PhD in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamism%20%28metaphysics%29 | Dynamism is a general name for a group of philosophical views concerning the nature of matter. However different they may be in other respects, all these views agree in making matter consist essentially of simple and indivisible units, substances, or forces. Dynamism is sometimes used to denote systems that admit not o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin%20Mathematical%20School | The Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) is a joint graduate school of the three renowned mathematics departments of the public research universities in Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin.
In October 2006, the BMS was awarded one of the 18 prestigious gradua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly%20Baby | Jelly baby, Jellie babies or other variants of the same name may refer to
Jelly Babies - a type of gelatine based sweets (candies) popular since the 19th century in Britain
Screaming jelly babies - a popular chemistry experiment demonstrating oxidation reactions.
Jelly baby - Leotia lubrica a type of small woodl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCSR | LCSR may refer to:
JHU LCSR: Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics at Johns Hopkins University
The Laboratory for Computer Science Research at Rutgers University
Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway
Landing Craft, Swimmer Reconnaissance
Larger Caliber, Soft Recoil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beurling%20algebra | In mathematics, the term Beurling algebra is used for different algebras introduced by , usually it is an algebra of periodic functions with Fourier series
Example
We may consider the algebra of those functions f where the majorants
of the Fourier coefficients an are summable. In other words
Example
We may consid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugh%27s%20closing%20lemma | In mathematics, Pugh's closing lemma is a result that links periodic orbit solutions of differential equations to chaotic behaviour. It can be formally stated as follows:
Let be a diffeomorphism of a compact smooth manifold . Given a nonwandering point of , there exists a diffeomorphism arbitrarily close to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhar%20Udhas | Manhar Udhas is a Hindi and Gujarati language singer and Bollywood playback singer.
Early life
Manhar Udhas is the eldest son of Keshubhai Udhas and Jituben Udhas, and the elder brother of singers Pankaj Udhas and Nirmal Udhas. He completed his mechanical engineering training in Gujarat and moved to Mumbai in the late... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Holtz | Wilhelm Holtz (15 October 1836 – 27 September 1913) was a German physicist who was a native of Saatel bei Barth, Mecklenburg.
Between 1857 and 1862, he studied physics and natural sciences in Berlin, Dijon and Edinburgh. Afterwards, he performed experiments with electricity in Berlin, and later became associated with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabelMe | LabelMe is a project created by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) which provides a dataset of digital images with annotations. The dataset is dynamic, free to use, and open to public contribution. The most applicable use of LabelMe is in computer vision research. As of October 31, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass%20ring | In mathematics, a Weierstrass ring, named by Nagata after Karl Weierstrass, is a commutative local ring that is Henselian, pseudo-geometric, and such that any quotient ring by a prime ideal is a finite extension of a regular local ring.
Examples
The Weierstrass preparation theorem can be used to show that the ring of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henselian%20ring | In mathematics, a Henselian ring (or Hensel ring) is a local ring in which Hensel's lemma holds. They were introduced by , who named them after Kurt Hensel. Azumaya originally allowed Henselian rings to be non-commutative, but most authors now restrict them to be commutative.
Some standard references for Hensel rings... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic%20chain%20length | In polymer chemistry, the kinetic chain length () of a polymer is the average number of units called monomers added to a growing chain during chain-growth polymerization. During this process, a polymer chain is formed when monomers are bonded together to form long chains known as polymers. Kinetic chain length is defin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimizu%20Higashi%20High%20School | is known as a top high school in Shimizu, and one of the best high schools in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Shimizu Higashi High School is famous for high academic achievement especially in science and mathematics field as well as competitive sports teams.
Notable alumni
Shimizu Higashi High School soccer team is a pres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial%20Diophantine%20equation | In mathematics, a polynomial Diophantine equation is an indeterminate polynomial equation for which one seeks solutions restricted to be polynomials in the indeterminate. A Diophantine equation, in general, is one where the solutions are restricted to some algebraic system, typically integers. (In another usage ) Dio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracrystallinity | In materials science, paracrystalline materials are defined as having short- and medium-range ordering in their lattice (similar to the liquid crystal phases) but lacking crystal-like long-range ordering at least in one direction.
Origin and definition
The words "paracrystallinity" and "paracrystal" were coined by th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter%20M.%20Ziegler | Günter Matthias Ziegler (born 19 May 1963) is a German mathematician who has been serving as president of the Free University of Berlin since 2018. Ziegler is known for his research in discrete mathematics and geometry, and particularly on the combinatorics of polytopes.
Biography
Ziegler studied at the Ludwig Maximi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Hillston | Jane Elizabeth Hillston (born 1963) is a British computer scientist who is professor of quantitative modelling and head of school in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Early life and education
Hillston received a BA in Mathematics from the University of York in 1985, an MSc in Mathematics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury%20Zakharov | Yury Aleksandrovich Zakharov (; born March 30, 1938) is a Soviet and Russian chemist and professor. Rector of Kemerovo State University from 1978 to 2005.
He graduated from Tomsk State University in 1960. Ph.D. in Chemistry, Professor.
He's an author of numerous papers on solid-state chemistry.
He has been a member ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.%20V.%20V.%20J.%20Swamy | Nyayapathi Venkata Vaikuntha Jagannatha Swamy was a mathematical physicist. He is well known for his contributions to the physics of relativistic harmonic oscillator
which found wide applications in Atomic, Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Some of the citations to Swamy's work on the relativistic oscillator are given i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-approximation%20of%20k-hitting%20set | In computer science, k-approximation of k-hitting set is an approximation algorithm for weighted hitting set. The input is a collection S of subsets of some universe T and a mapping W from T to non-negative numbers called the weights of the elements of T. In k-hitting set the size of the sets in S cannot be larger than... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomic%20rank | In biology, taxonomic rank is the relative level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in an ancestral or hereditary hierarchy. A common system of biological classification (taxonomy) consists of species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, and domain. While older approaches to taxonomic classification were pheno... |
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