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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sou%C4%8Dek%20space | In mathematics, Souček spaces are generalizations of Sobolev spaces, named after the Czech mathematician Jiří Souček. One of their main advantages is that they offer a way to deal with the fact that the Sobolev space W1,1 is not a reflexive space; since W1,1 is not reflexive, it is not always true that a bounded seque... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinsky%20phenomenon | In mathematics, the Pinsky phenomenon is a result in Fourier analysis. This phenomenon was discovered by Mark Pinsky of Northwestern University. It involves the spherical inversion of the Fourier transform.
The phenomenon involves a lack of convergence at a point due to a discontinuity at boundary.
This lack of conver... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium%20Project | Millennium Project may refer to:
United Nations Millennium Project, a development initiative
The Millennium Project, an independent non-profit think tank composed of futurists
See also
Millennium Mathematics Project, a joint project between the Faculties of Mathematics and Education within the University of Cambrid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sup%C3%A9lec | École supérieure d'électricité, commonly known as Supélec (), was a French graduate school of engineering. It was one of the most prestigious grande écoles in France in the field of electrical engineering, energy and information sciences. In 2015, Supélec merged with École Centrale Paris and became CentraleSupélec, a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Christoph%20M%C3%BCller | Christoph Friedrich Müller (8 October 1751, Allendorf (Lumda) – 10 April 1808, Schwelm) was a theologian and cartographer in Schwelm.
Mueller studied theology, mathematics, astronomy and the sciences. In addition, he learned four languages. He was pastor from 1776 in Bad Sassendorf, from 1782 in Unna, and from 1785 i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20University%20of%20California%2C%20Riverside%20people | This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of the University of California, Riverside.
Notable alumni
Nobel laureates
Richard R. Schrock – Chemistry, 2005, professor at University of California, Riverside
Academia, science, and technology
Peter Adriaens – professor of engineering and entrepreneurship at the [sel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involution | Involution may refer to:
Involute, a construction in the differential geometry of curves
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia, a 1963 study of intensification of production through increased labour inputs
Involution (mathematics), a function that is its own inverse
Involution (m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Laing | Michael Laing (born in Durban, South Africa) taught chemistry at the University of Natal, Durban from 1964 until he retired as Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in 1997. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in the field of x-ray crystallography, specializing in the determination of molecular struc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Siu | Ralph Gun Hoy Siu (1917 – December 29, 1998) was an American scholar, military and civil servant, and author. Siu served as the first Director of the National Institute of Justice from 1968 to 1969.
Early life and education
Siu was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1917. Siu obtained his bachelor's degree in chemistry and m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underpotential%20deposition | Underpotential deposition (UPD), in electrochemistry, is a phenomenon of electrodeposition of a species (typically reduction of a metal cation to a solid metal) at a potential less negative than the equilibrium (Nernst) potential for the reduction of this metal. The equilibrium potential for the reduction of a metal in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20M.%20Wilson | Jack M. Wilson (born 1945) is an American educator, entrepreneur and the President-Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Innovation at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. During his career, he has served various institutions as professor of physics, department chair, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20stability | In chemistry, chemical stability is the thermodynamic stability of a chemical system.
Thermodynamic stability occurs when a system is in its lowest energy state, or in chemical equilibrium with its environment. This may be a dynamic equilibrium in which individual atoms or molecules change form, but their overall numb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%20Podgornik | Rudolf Podgornik (born August 27, 1955 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia) is a physicist. His fields of research are: physics of soft matter, physics of Coulomb fluids, physics of macromolecular interactions, Lifshitz theory of Casimir - van der Waals dispersion interaction, Casimir effect, physics of membranes, polymers and p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romblonella | Romblonella is a genus of myrmicine ants.
Systematics
Romblonella is probably the sister taxon to Stereomyrmex. Closely related genera are Leptothorax and Cardiocondyla.
Biology
Very little is known about these uncommon ants. Most species were found to nest in twigs on trees and to forage on low vegetation.
Descript... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20time%20scale | In astrophysics, the thermal time scale or Kelvin–Helmholtz time scale is the approximate time it takes for a star to radiate away its total kinetic energy content at its current luminosity rate. Along with the nuclear and free-fall (aka dynamical) time scales, it is used to estimate the length of time a particular st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20time | Thermal time may refer to:
Thermal time scale, an astrophysical measure
Thermal time hypothesis, the idea in physics that time is emergent
Thermal death time |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Jahoda | Roman Jahoda (born 24 July 1976 in Brno, Czech Republic) is an Austrian judoka, a professional physical therapist and personal trainer, and the CEO of ComplexCore.
Personal life
Jahoda was raised in Czechoslovakia for 10 years before moving to Austria. His father, a member of the Czech Judo national team, was an engi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RING%20finger%20domain | In molecular biology, a RING (short for Really Interesting New Gene) finger domain is a protein structural domain of zinc finger type which contains a C3HC4 amino acid motif which binds two zinc cations (seven cysteines and one histidine arranged non-consecutively). This protein domain contains 40 to 60 amino acids. M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereomyrmex | Stereomyrmex is a genus of myrmicine ants. Two of the described species are known from only a single worker, making this one of the rarest groups of ants in the world.
Biology
The single specimen of S. anderseni was caught in a pitfall trap, and nothing is known about its biology.
Systematics
Stereomyrmex is probably... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20V.%20Neel | James Van Gundia Neel (March 22, 1915 – February 1, 2000) was an American geneticist who played a key role in the development of human genetics as a field of research in the United States. He made important contributions to the emergence of genetic epidemiology and pursued an understanding of the influence of environme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owens%20Valley%20Solar%20Array | The Owens Valley Solar Array (OVSA), also known as Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array (EOVSA), is an astronomical radio telescope array, located at Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), near Big Pine, California, with main interests in studying the physics of the Sun. The instruments of the observatory are designed and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponera | Ponera is a genus of ponerine ants.
The name is the Latinized form () of the Ancient Greek (, 'wicked, wretched').
Description
Workers are very small to small in size (1–4 mm); queen are similar to workers but winged. This genus is very similar to Cryptopone, Hypoponera and Pachycondyla.
Biology
Ponera nests contain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20series | In mathematics, especially in the fields of group theory and Lie theory, a central series is a kind of normal series of subgroups or Lie subalgebras, expressing the idea that the commutator is nearly trivial. For groups, the existence of a central series means it is a nilpotent group; for matrix rings (considered as Li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation%20of%20European%20Neuroscience%20Societies | The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) is a European federation of scientific societies for basic scientists and physicians whose research is focused on the brain and nervous system (i.e., neuroscience).
History
The federation was founded in 1998 to coordinate and present at the European level the re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Sciences%20Raytheon | Computer Sciences Raytheon (CSR) joint venture partnership of Computer Sciences Corporation and Raytheon Technical Services Company. CSR is the contractor that has managed the Eastern Test Range since 1988. CSR is headquartered at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida.
History
In October 1988, CSR took over management of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blattellaquinone | Blattellaquinone, also known as gentisyl quinone isovalerate, is a sex pheromone of the German cockroach (Blattella germanica). Blattellaquinone is secreted by females to attract male cockroaches.
References
External links
Trapping roaches with biochemistry
Insect pheromones
Cockroaches
1,4-Benzoquinones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Frogley | Michael Frogley is a Quaternary palaeoecologist whose research interests currently include:
the use of stable isotope geochemistry to help determine the climatic histories of lake basins;
the analysis of changes in Quaternary palaeobiogeographical patterns of selected invertebrate faunal groups, particularly around the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral%20Transforms%20and%20Special%20Functions | Integral Transforms and Special Functions is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal, specialised in topics of mathematical analysis, the theory of differential and integral equations, and approximation theory, but publishes also papers in other areas of mathematics. It is published by Taylor & Francis and the edito... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20F.%20Grant | William Frederick Grant (October 20, 1924 – October 6, 2011) was a Canadian plant geneticist, biosystematist, educator, and environmental advocate who developed higher plant species for monitoring and testing for mutagenic effects of environmental pollutants. He has carried out research on the genetics of species of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERH%20%28gene%29 | In molecular biology, Enhancer of rudimentary homolog is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ERH gene.
The Drosophila protein enhancer of rudimentary protein is a small protein of 104 amino acids. It has been found to be an enhancer of the rudimentary gene, involved in pyrimidine biosynthesis.
From an evolutio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational%20sex%20ratio | In the evolutionary biology of sexual reproduction, operational sex ratio (OSR) is the ratio of sexually competing males that are ready to mate to sexually competing females that are ready to mate, or alternatively the local ratio of fertilizable females to sexually active males at any given time. This differs from phy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDFY3 | WD repeat and FYVE domain-containing protein 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the WDFY3 gene.
This gene encodes a protein which contains WD repeats and an FYVE domain. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found for this gene, but the full-length nature of some variants has not been d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNPO2 | Transportin-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TNPO2 gene.
Interactions
TNPO2 has been shown to interact with NXF1, NUP98 and Ran (biology).
References
Further reading |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm%20McMahon | Malcolm Patrick McMahon, OP, KC*HS (born 14 June 1949) is an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Since 2014, he has been the ninth Archbishop of Liverpool. Previously, he was Bishop of Nottingham from 2000 to 2014.
Early life and ministry
Malcolm McMahon was born in London, the second of three brothers and s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic%20square | In Indian mathematics, a Vedic square is a variation on a typical 9 × 9 multiplication table where the entry in each cell is the digital root of the product of the column and row headings i.e. the remainder when the product of the row and column headings is divided by 9 (with remainder 0 represented by 9). Numerous geo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Environmental%20Sciences%20and%20Technology | The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) is a non-profit, technical society where professionals who impact controlled environments connect, gain knowledge, receive advice, and work together to create industry best practices. The organization uniquely serves environmental test engineers, qualificati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Aylward | Gordon Hillis Aylward is an Australian chemical author. He is known for writing the SI Chemical Data book.
Biography
Aylward graduated on 20 May 1952 with a BSc (Honours) in Applied Chemistry from the then-new University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Later he received a MSc from the same university, and con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20van%20Abeelen | Hans van Abeelen (20 November 1936 – 21 August 1998) was the first Dutch behaviour geneticist. He obtained his M.Sc from the University of Groningen and his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Nijmegen in 1965, where he stayed for the rest of his career as "wetenschappelijk hoofdmedewerker". He was a founding member ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Structure%20and%20Biology%20of%20Arctic%20Flowering%20Plants | The Structure and Biology of Arctic Flowering Plants is a classical scientific work on morphology and anatomy in relation to the harsh arctic environment. It was initiated by Eugenius Warming and conducted by himself and a suite of students and colleagues at the University of Copenhagen.
Warming, E. ed. (1908-1921) Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lix%20da%20Cunha | Lix da Cunha () (April 9, 1896 in Mogi-Mirim – August 6, 1984 in Campinas) was an engineer and architect. In 1924, he founded a homonymous construction company located in Campinas, Brazil. The SP-73 highway is named after him.
External links
Lix da Cunha S.A.
Construction and civil engineering companies of Brazil
C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNC93B1 | Unc-93 homolog B1 (C. elegans), also known as UNC93B1, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the UNC93B1 gene.
Function
This gene encodes a protein with similarity to the Caenorhabditis elegans unc93 protein. The Unc93 protein is involved in the regulation or coordination of muscle contraction in the worm.
Mol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orto%20Botanico%20dell%27Universit%C3%A0%20di%20Tor%20Vergata | The Orto Botanico dell'Università di Tor Vergata is a botanical garden at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. The first part of the collection was established in late 2007 with the biology department Center for Conservation of Germoplasm. Its mission is to preserve genetic biodiversity, and contains advanc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALEPH%20experiment | ALEPH was a particle detector at the Large Electron-Positron collider (LEP) at CERN. It was designed to explore the physics predicted by the Standard Model and to search for physics beyond it.
Detector
The ALEPH detector was built to measure events created by electron positron collisions in LEP. It operated from 1989... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard%20Streminger | Gerhard Streminger is an Austrian Philosopher and author, born in Graz in 1952 . From 1970, he studied philosophy and mathematics in Graz, Goettingen, Edinburgh with G.E.Davie and Oxford with J. L. Mackie. He gained his PhD in 1978 at the University of Graz, where he held posts from 1975 until 1997. In 1981 he was Visi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr%20Construction | Barr Construction was a major Scottish contracting organisation operating throughout the United Kingdom.
History
The company started in the late 19th century as a joinery firm known as W & J Barr & Sons and gradually expanded into civil engineering projects. As Barr began to grow its operations out of its native Ayr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology%20in%20the%20medieval%20Islamic%20world | Islamic psychology or ʿilm al-nafs (Arabic: علم النفس), the science of the nafs ("self" or "psyche"), is the medical and philosophical study of the psyche from an Islamic perspective and addresses topics in psychology, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and psychiatry as well as psychosomatic medicine. In Islam, mental ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallman%20compactification | In mathematics, the Wallman compactification, generally called Wallman–Shanin compactification is a compactification of T1 topological spaces that was constructed by .
Definition
The points of the Wallman compactification ωX of a space X are the maximal proper filters in the poset of closed subsets of X. Explicitly, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20B.%20Suntzeff | Nicholas B. Suntzeff (born November 22, 1952, San Francisco) is an American astronomer and cosmologist. He is a University Distinguished Professor and holds the Mitchell/Heep/Munnerlyn Chair of Observational Astronomy in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University where he is Director of the Astronom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptanilla | Leptanilla is a genus of ant in the subfamily Leptanillinae. Like other genera in this subfamily, the queen is fed by the hemolymph of their own larvae, which have specialized processes for this purpose.
Biology
Some species form colonies consisting of several hundred workers in the soil. They feed on small arthropods... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Campbell%20%28philosopher%29 | Keith Campbell (born 1938) is an Australian philosopher working in metaphysics.
Biography
With D. M. Armstrong, Campbell is one of the founders of so-called Australian materialism and, within it, of a variety of trope theory. He also has a distinctive view of concrete and abstract objects: the former can exist by them... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20L.%20Williams | Kenneth Lee Williams (September 4, 1934 – November 1, 2017) was an American herpetologist and author of books on the subject of snake biology and classification. Williams retired from teaching in Northwestern State University's biology department and received emeritus status in 2001. Williams is considered an authorit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%20hyperbolic%203-manifold | In mathematics, more precisely in group theory and hyperbolic geometry, Arithmetic Kleinian groups are a special class of Kleinian groups constructed using orders in quaternion algebras. They are particular instances of arithmetic groups. An arithmetic hyperbolic three-manifold is the quotient of hyperbolic space by a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Organization%20for%20Medical%20Physics | The International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) is a professional organization for medical physics with nearly 22,000 members in 84 countries.
Objectives and History
IOMP is charged with a mission to advance medical physics practice worldwide by disseminating scientific and technical information, fostering ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual%20property | Residual property may refer to:
Residual property (mathematics), a property of groups
Residual property (physics), a thermodynamic term
it:Grandezze residue |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha%20Madras | Bertha Kalifon Madras is a professor of psychobiology in the Department of Psychiatry and the chair of the Division of Neurochemistry at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University. She served as associate director for public education in the division on Addictions at Harvard Medical School. Madras has published researc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Matthiessen | Alex Matthiessen (born July 3, 1964) is an environmentalist and lives in New York City. He is the son of author and naturalist Peter Matthiessen.
Biography
Mr. Matthiessen graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1988 with a BA in Biology and Environmental Studies, and earned his Masters of Public ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20L.%20Sebastian | Kizhakeyil Lukose Sebastian is a professor of chemistry at the department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry of Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad, India. Prior to becoming a professor at IIT Palakkad, he was a professor of chemistry at the department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry at Indian Institute of Sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilinear%20time%E2%80%93frequency%20distribution | Bilinear time–frequency distributions, or quadratic time–frequency distributions, arise in a sub-field of signal analysis and signal processing called time–frequency signal processing, and, in the statistical analysis of time series data. Such methods are used where one needs to deal with a situation where the frequenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendel%20Rosenblum | Mendel Rosenblum (born 1962) is a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and co-founder of VMware.
Early life
Mendel Rosenblum was born in 1962. He attended the University of Virginia, where he received a degree in mathematics. While at UVA, he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa.
He graduated with a Ph.D. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NdeI | NdeI is an endonuclease isolated from Neisseria denitrificans.
In molecular biology, it is commonly used as a restriction enzyme.
Recognition sequence
Recognition sequence of NdeI:
5'CATATG
3'GTATAC
The ends generated by NdeI digest:
5'---CA TATG---3'
3'---GTAT AC---5'
Use in molecular biology
NdeI is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian%20Mathematical%20Society | The Norwegian Mathematical Society (, NMF) is a professional society for mathematicians. It was formed in 1918, with Carl Størmer elected as its first president.
It organizes mathematical contests and the annual Abel symposium and also awards the Viggo Brun Prize to young Norwegian mathematicians for outstanding resea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Koukal | Jan Koukal (born 29 July 1951 in Brno) is a Czech politician.
Biography
After studying theoretical physics at the Charles University in Prague (1969–74) Koukal worked at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, specialising on surface physics.
Jan Koukal has been a member of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS). From 1993 t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-shot%20learning%20%28computer%20vision%29 | One-shot learning is an object categorization problem, found mostly in computer vision. Whereas most machine learning-based object categorization algorithms require training on hundreds or thousands of examples, one-shot learning aims to classify objects from one, or only a few, examples. The term few-shot learning is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger%20tree | In computer science, a finger tree is a purely functional data structure that can be used to efficiently implement other functional data structures. A finger tree gives amortized constant time access to the "fingers" (leaves) of the tree, which is where data is stored, and concatenation and splitting logarithmic time ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cis-Cyclooctene | cis-Cyclooctene is a cycloalkene with the formula (CH2)6(CH)2. It is a colorless liquid that is used industrially to produce a polymer. It is also a ligand in organometallic chemistry.
Cyclooctene is the smallest cycloalkene that can be isolated as both the cis- and trans-isomer. cis-Cyclooctene is shaped like the 8-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Cooper%20%28disambiguation%29 | Susan Cooper (born 1935) is a British author of children's books.
Susan Cooper is also the name of:
Susan Cooper (swimmer) (born 1963), British Olympic swimmer
Susan Cooper (physicist), professor of experimental physics at Oxford University
Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813–1894), writer
Susan Rogers Cooper (born 1947), Am... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Carr%20%28paleontologist%29 | Thomas D. Carr is a vertebrate paleontologist who received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2005. He is now a member of the biology faculty at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Much of his work centers on tyrannosauroid dinosaurs. Carr published the first quantitative analysis of tyrannosaurid ontogeny... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20sensor | Within quantum technology, a quantum sensor utilizes properties of quantum mechanics, such as quantum entanglement, quantum interference, and quantum state squeezing, which have optimized precision and beat current limits in sensor technology.
The field of quantum sensing deals with the design and engineering of quantu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coarse%20space | In mathematics, coarse space may refer to
Coarse structure, a family of sets in geometry and topology to measure large-scale properties of a space
Coarse space (numerical analysis), a reduced representation of a numerical problem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangian | In representation theory, a Yangian is an infinite-dimensional Hopf algebra, a type of a quantum group. Yangians first appeared in physics in the work of Ludvig Faddeev and his school in the late 1970s and early 1980s concerning the quantum inverse scattering method. The name Yangian was introduced by Vladimir Drinfeld... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Meeting%20at%20Corvallis | A Meeting at Corvallis is a 2006 science fiction novel by S. M. Stirling. It is third novel in the Emberverse series that began with Dies the Fire and continued with The Protector's War. The story describes the events of roughly a year, some nine to ten years after the Change that altered the Laws of physics. It descri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao%20Yueqiao | Bao Yueqiao (), a distinguished computer programmer, entrepreneur, and go player. He is the co-founder and current president of Beijing OurGame Computer Technology Company Limited.
Biography
Born in 1967 in Yuyao, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, he graduated from the Mathematics Department of Zhejiang University in 1989.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daoxing%20Xia | Daoxing Xia () is a Chinese American mathematician. He is currently a professor at the Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University in the United States. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Science in 1980.
Career
Xia was born on October 20, 1930, in Taizhou, Jiangsu. He pursued his undergradua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%20Hartmann%20%28physicist%29 | Werner Hartmann (30 January 1912 – 8 March 1988) was a German physicist who introduced microelectronics into East Germany. He studied physics at the Technische Hochschule Berlin and worked at Siemens before joining Fernseh GmbH. At the end of World War II, he and his research staff were flown to the Soviet Union to wor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%20Jiangong | Chen Jiangong (; 1893–1971), or Jian-gong Chen, was a Chinese mathematician. He was a pioneer of modern Chinese mathematics. He was the dean of the Department of Mathematics, National Chekiang University (now Zhejiang University), and a founding academician the Chinese Academy of Sciences (elected 1955).
Life
Chen was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact%20pressure | In compressible fluid dynamics, impact pressure (dynamic pressure) is the difference between total pressure (also known as pitot pressure or stagnation pressure) and static pressure. In aerodynamics notation, this quantity is denoted as or .
When input to an airspeed indicator, impact pressure is used to provide a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexaquark | In particle physics hexaquarks, alternatively known as sexaquarks, are a large family of hypothetical particles, each particle consisting of six quarks or antiquarks of any flavours. Six constituent quarks in any of several combinations could yield a colour charge of zero; for example a hexaquark might contain either s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%20Hesheng | Hu Hesheng (; born 20 June 1928) is a Chinese mathematician. She served as vice-president of Chinese Mathematical Society, president of the Shanghai Mathematical Society, and is an academician of Chinese Academy of Science. She held the Noether Lecture in 2002.
Education and career
Born in Shanghai, Hu studied mathema... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith%20Roitman | Judith "Judy" Roitman (born November 12, 1945) is a mathematician, a retired professor at the University of Kansas. She specializes in set theory, topology, Boolean algebras, and mathematics education.
Biography
Roitman was born in 1945 in New York City. She attended Oberlin College, followed by Sarah Lawrence College... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atwood%20number | The Atwood number (A) is a dimensionless number in fluid dynamics used in the study of hydrodynamic instabilities in density stratified flows.
It is a dimensionless density ratio defined as
where
= density of heavier fluid
= density of lighter fluid
Field of application
Atwood number is an important parameter i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Kirkwood | Thomas Burton Loram Kirkwood CBE FMedSci (6 July 1951, Durban, South Africa) is an English biologist who made his contribution to the biology of ageing by proposing the disposable soma theory of aging. He is currently a researcher and Associate Dean for Ageing in Newcastle University and he headed the Institute for Age... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent%20molecular%20geometry | In chemistry, molecules with a non-collinear arrangement of two adjacent bonds have bent molecular geometry, also known as angular or V-shaped. Certain atoms, such as oxygen, will almost always set their two (or more) covalent bonds in non-collinear directions due to their electron configuration. Water (H2O) is an exam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped%20molecular%20geometry | In chemistry, T-shaped molecular geometry describes the structures of some molecules where a central atom has three ligands. Ordinarily, three-coordinated compounds adopt trigonal planar or pyramidal geometries. Examples of T-shaped molecules are the halogen trifluorides, such as ClF3.
According to VSEPR theory, T-sha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Adolf%20Suckow | Georg Adolf Suckow sometimes Adolph (28 January 1751, Jena – 13 March 1813, Heidelberg) was a German physicist, chemist, mineralogist, mining engineer and naturalist.
Suckow was a professor of physics, chemistry, and natural history at the University of Heidelberg. He wrote many books and articles on chemistry, botany,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%20of%20rings | In mathematics, the category of rings, denoted by Ring, is the category whose objects are rings (with identity) and whose morphisms are ring homomorphisms (that preserve the identity). Like many categories in mathematics, the category of rings is large, meaning that the class of all rings is proper.
As a concrete cate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%20%28physics%29 | A monster, in quantum physics, is an arrangement of matter that has maximum disorder. The high-entropy state of monsters has been theorized as being responsible for the high entropy of black holes; while the likelihood of any given star entering a "monster" state while collapsing is small, quantum mechanics takes into ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Brewer | Leo Brewer (13 June 1919, St. Louis, Missouri – 22 February 2005, Lafayette, California) was an American physical chemist. Considered to be the founder of modern high-temperature chemistry, Brewer received his BS from the California Institute of Technology in 1940 and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink%20Palace%20Museum%20and%20Planetarium | The Museum of Science & History - Pink Palace in Memphis, Tennessee, serves as the Mid-South's major science and historical museum and features exhibits ranging from archeology to chemistry. Over 240,000 people visit the museum each year.
The museum is part of the Museum of Science & History - Memphis, a collection of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Yuan%20%28mathematician%29 | Wang Yuan (; 29 April 1930 – 14 May 2021) was a Chinese mathematician and writer known for his contributions to the Goldbach conjecture. He was a president of the Chinese Mathematical Society and head of the Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Life
Wang was born in Lanxi, Zhejiang, China. His fathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20technique | A scientific technique is any systematic way of obtaining information about a scientific nature or to obtain a desired material or product.
Scientific techniques can be divided in many different groups, e.g.:
Preparative techniques
Synthesis techniques, e.g. the use of Grignard reagents in organic chemistry
Growth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coras | Coras may refer to:
People
Jean de Coras (1515–1572), French jurist
Jacques de Coras (1630–1677), French poet
Marcel Coraş (born 1959), Romanian footballer
Biology
Coras (spider), a genus of spiders
Other
The Cora people, a native people of Mexico; see also:
Cora language
Misión Santiago de Los Coras
Coras F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Haass | Christian Haass (born 19 December 1960 in Mannheim, Germany) is a German biochemist who specializes in metabolic biochemistry and neuroscience.
Haass studied biology in Heidelberg from 1981 to 1985. From 1990 on he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dennis Selkoe at Harvard Medical School, where he worked ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoflower | A nanoflower, in chemistry, refers to a compound of certain elements that results in formations which in microscopic view resemble flowers or, in some cases, trees that are called nanobouquets or nanotrees. These formations are nanometers long and thick so they can only be observed using electron microscopy.
Producti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessible%20category | The theory of accessible categories is a part of mathematics, specifically of category theory. It attempts to describe categories in terms of the "size" (a cardinal number) of the operations needed to generate their objects.
The theory originates in the work of Grothendieck completed by 1969, and Gabriel and Ulmer (19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20ceremony | In cryptography, a key ceremony is a ceremony held to generate or use a cryptographic key.
A public example is the signing of the DNS root zone for DNSSEC.
Root Key Signing Ceremony
In public-key cryptography and computer security, a root key ceremony is a procedure for generating a unique pair of public and private ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung%20Tao%20Yang | Chung Tao Yang, or Chung-Tao Yang, Yang Zhongdao () (May 4, 1923 – 2005), was a notable Chinese American topologist. He was an academician of the Academia Sinica and served as the chair of the Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania.
Life
Born in Pingyang County, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, he graduated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Wilson%20Hudson | William Wilson Hudson (1808-June 14, 1859) was an American educator and third President of the University of Missouri.
He was born in Orange County, Virginia in 1808 and graduated from Yale University with an A.B. in 1827 and an A.M. in 1830. He was a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at the University ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Ricklefs | Robert Eric Ricklefs (born June 6, 1943) is an American ornithologist and ecologist. He was the Curators' Professor of Biology at the University of Missouri, St. Louis from 1996 until August 2019.
Education
Born in 1943, he grew up near Monterey, California, where his interest in biology was fostered by a teacher. He ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuan-Chih%20Hsiung | Chuan-Chih Hsiung (Chinese: 熊全治, Pinyin: Xióng Quánzhì) (1916–2009), also known as Chuan-Chih Hsiung, C C Hsiung, or Xiong Quanzhi, was a Chinese-born American mathematician specializing in differential geometry. He was Professor of Mathematics at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States.
He was the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephelauxetic%20effect | The nephelauxetic effect is a term used in the inorganic chemistry of transition metals. It refers to a decrease in the Racah interelectronic repulsion parameter, given the symbol B, that occurs when a transition-metal free ion forms a complex with ligands. The name "nephelauxetic" comes from the Greek for cloud-expand... |
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