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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20Economics%20Applications%20Laboratory | The Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a regional science research center for advanced graduate students in the fields of economics, geography, urban and regional planning, computer science and mathematics. Professor Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, one of its f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20stress | In physical oceanography and fluid dynamics, the wind stress is the shear stress exerted by the wind on the surface of large bodies of water – such as oceans, seas, estuaries and lakes. Stress is the quantity that describes the magnitude of a force that is causing a deformation of an object. Therefore, stress is define... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20quaternions | In mathematics, quaternions are a non-commutative number system that extends the complex numbers. Quaternions and their applications to rotations were first described in print by Olinde Rodrigues in all but name in 1840, but independently discovered by Irish mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton in 1843 and applied ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thieme%20Medical%20Publishers | Thieme Medical Publishers is a German medical and science publisher in the Thieme Publishing Group. It produces professional journals, textbooks, atlases, monographs and reference books in both German and English covering a variety of medical specialties, including neurosurgery, orthopaedics, endocrinology, urology, ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%20Institute%20of%20Technology%20School%20of%20Computer%20Science | The School of Computer Science is an academic unit located within the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). It conducts both research and teaching activities related to computer science at the undergraduate and graduate levels. These activities focus on the roots of the computing d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRST%20Lego%20League%20Explore | FIRST LEGO League Explore (FLLE) (formerly known as FIRST LEGO League Jr.) is a non-competitive robotics program designed for children ages six to ten. It is one of the programs established by FIRST.
FIRST LEGO League Explore follows the same theme given to the FIRST LEGO League Challenge. While FIRST LEGO League Chal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Gordon%20Rice | Henry Gordon Rice (July 18, 1920 – April 14, 2003) was an American logician and mathematician best known as the author of Rice's theorem, which he proved in his doctoral dissertation of 1951 at Syracuse University with thesis advisor Paul C. Rosenbloom. Rice was also a Professor of Mathematics at the University of New ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalian%20Species | Mammalian Species is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Society of Mammalogists. The journal publishes accounts of 12–35 mammal species yearly. The articles summarize the current literature about each mammal and its systematics, genetics, fossil history, di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deactivation | Deactivation may refer to;
Protein denaturation, the process of disrupting the structure of proteins or nucleic acids
Drug metabolism
Sterilization (microbiology), the process of killing or deactivating all life and other biological agents, rendering them unable to cause disease, function, or replicate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren%20Brunak | Søren Brunak (born 1958) is a Danish biological and physical scientist working in bioinformatics, systems biology, and medical informatics. He is a professor of Disease Systems Biology at the University of Copenhagen and professor of bioinformatics at the Technical University of Denmark. As Research Director at the No... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Breaking%20Bad%20episodes | Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created by Vince Gilligan, which premiered in 2008 on the cable network AMC. The story is about Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a 50-year-old high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After White is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, he uses his chemi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20%28Breaking%20Bad%29 | "Pilot" (titled "Breaking Bad" on DVD and Blu-ray releases) is the series premiere of the American television crime drama series Breaking Bad. The episode was directed and written by series creator and showrunner Vince Gilligan. It first aired on AMC on January 20, 2008.
In the episode, chemistry teacher Walter White ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogensen%E2%80%93Scott%20encoding | In computer science, Scott encoding is a way to represent (recursive) data types in the lambda calculus. Church encoding performs a similar function. The data and operators form a mathematical structure which is embedded in the lambda calculus.
Whereas Church encoding starts with representations of the basic data ty... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20for%20Experimental%20Biology | The Society for Experimental Biology is a learned society for animal, cell and plant biologists. It was founded in 1923 at Birkbeck College to "promote the art and science of experimental biology in all its branches". It aims to demonstrate the importance and impact of experimental biology research to the wider public ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasticidin%20S | Blasticidin S is an antibiotic that is used in biology research for selecting cells in cell culture. Cells of interest can express the blasticidin resistance genes BSD or bsr, and can then survive treatment with the antibiotic. Blasticidin S is a nucleoside analogue antibiotic, resembling the nucleoside cytidine. Blast... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift%20space | In symbolic dynamics and related branches of mathematics, a shift space or subshift is a set of infinite words that represent the evolution of a discrete system. In fact, shift spaces and symbolic dynamical systems are often considered synonyms. The most widely studied shift spaces are the subshifts of finite type and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rode | Rode may refer to:
People
Ajmer Rode, Canadian writer
Bernd Michael Rode (born 1946), Austrian chemistry professor
Bernhard Rode (1725–1797), German painter
Ebbe Rode (1910–1998), Danish stage and film actor
Franc Rode (born 1934), Slovenian cardinal
Gautam Rode (born 1977), Indian actor
Hans Henrik Rode (1767–1830),... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanillyl%20group | In organic chemistry, the vanillyl group (also known as vanilloyl) is a functional group. Compounds containing a vanillyl group are called vanilloids, and include vanillin, vanillic acid, capsaicin, vanillylmandelic acid, etc.
References
Functional groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Seife | Charles Seife is an American author, journalist, and professor at New York University. He has written extensively on scientific and mathematical topics.
Career
Seife holds a mathematics degree from Princeton University (1993), an M.S. in mathematics from Yale University and a M.S. in journalism from Columbia Universi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HICESC | Hertfordshire Intensive Care & Emergency Simulation Centre (HICESC) is an advanced teaching facility based at the University of Hertfordshire. At its creation in 1998, it was an inter-Faculty practical laboratory hosted by the Department of Electronic, Communication and Electrical Engineering (ECEE) for access by medic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Chemistry%20of%20Death | The Chemistry of Death is a novel by the British crime fiction writer Simon Beckett, first published in 2006. The novel introduced the character of Dr David Hunter, who has gone on to feature in other novels by the writer.
The Chemistry of Death was nominated for the Duncan Lawrie Dagger by the Crime Writer's Associati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%2B | R+ or R Plus may refer to:
R+ tree, a data structure in computer science
, the set of positive real numbers (or, depending on author, the set of non-negative real numbers)
Positive reinforcement, in behavioural psychology
Rammstein, German band
R Plus (musician), pseudonym of music producer Rollo Armstrong
Rocks... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labile%20cell | In cellular biology, labile cells are cells that continuously multiply and divide throughout life . Labile cells replace the cells that are lost from the body. When injured, labile cells are repaired rapidly due to an aggressive TR response. This continual division of labile cells allows them to reproduce new stem cel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey%20Favorsky | Alexey Yevgrafovich Favorsky (; – 8 August 1945), was a Russian and Soviet chemist. Hero of Socialist Labour (1945).
Life
Favorsky studied chemistry at the imperial Saint Petersburg State University from 1878 to 1882. He joined Alexander Butlerov's laboratory for several years, and in 1891 became a lecturer. In 1895,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstine%20theorem | In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, the Goldstine theorem, named after Herman Goldstine, is stated as follows:
Goldstine theorem. Let be a Banach space, then the image of the closed unit ball under the canonical embedding into the closed unit ball of the bidual space is a weak*-dense subset.
The conc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migratory%20insertion | In organometallic chemistry, a migratory insertion is a type of reaction wherein two ligands on a metal complex combine. It is a subset of reactions that very closely resembles the insertion reactions, and both are differentiated by the mechanism that leads to the resulting stereochemistry of the products. However, oft... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERP | CERP may refer to
Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner
Chemistry Education Research and Practice
Cluster of European Research Projects
Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan
Commander's Emergency Response Program
European Confederation of Public Relations
Commercial Engine Replacement Program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20N.%20Duckett | Catherine N. Duckett (born 1961) is the Associate Dean of the School of Science at Monmouth University. Formerly she worked as Associate Director of the Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, and the Program Manager of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System at Rutgers University,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Conover%20Smock | John Conover Smock (September 21, 1842 – April 21, 1926) was an American geologist.
Biography
Smock was born in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, graduated at Rutgers College in 1862, and was tutor in chemistry there 1865–67. He became Professor-elect of Mining and Metallurgy in 1867, holding the chair 1871–75, meantime s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology%20Today%3A%20An%20Issues%20Approach | Biology Today: An Issues Approach is a college-oriented Biology textbook by Eli C. Minkoff and Pamela J. Baker designed to integrate the teaching of biological concepts within the context of current societal issues relating to these topics. It is the original issues-oriented introductory-level general biology textbook.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20Minor | Gregory Charles Minor was one of three American middle-management engineers (known as the GE Three) who resigned from the General Electric nuclear reactor division in 1976 to protest against the use of nuclear power in the United States. A native of Fresno, California, Minor received a BS degree in electrical engineeri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynuclear | Polynuclear may refer to:
Chemistry
multiple rings in a polycyclic compound
Biology
Multinucleate, containing multiple nuclei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bees%20algorithm | In computer science and operations research, the bees algorithm is a population-based search algorithm which was developed by Pham, Ghanbarzadeh et al. in 2005. It mimics the food foraging behaviour of honey bee colonies. In its basic version the algorithm performs a kind of neighbourhood search combined with global se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current%20Biology | Current Biology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers all areas of biology, especially molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, neurobiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. The journal includes research articles, various types of review articles, as well as an editorial magazine section. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20waves%20named%20after%20people | This is a list of waves named after people (eponymous waves).
See also
Eponym
List of eponymous laws
Waves
Scientific phenomena named after people
References
Waves
Fluid dynamics
Water waves
Waves in plasmas
Mountain meteorology
Atmospheric dynamics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding%20coefficient | In medicinal chemistry and pharmacology, a binding coefficient is a quantity representing the extent to which a chemical compound will bind to a macromolecule. The preferential binding coefficient can be derived from the Kirkwood-Buff solution theory of solutions. Preferential binding is defined as a thermodynamic expr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20Biology%20%28book%29 | Evolutionary Biology is a college-level evolutionary biology textbook written by Eli C. Minkoff that is 627 pages long. It was published in 1983 by Addison-Wesley. This is Minkoff's first foray into the world of college-level textbook authorship. The book contains an index and various biographical references.
About th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%20Shiyi | Chen Shiyi (; born 1956) is a Chinese mechanical engineer and physicist. He is the President of South University of Science and Technology of China.
Previously, he was the Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Chair in Engineering and Science, the Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Professor at both Department of Applied M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplygin%20problem | In mathematics, particularly in the fields of nonlinear dynamics and the calculus of variations, the Chaplygin problem is an isoperimetric problem with a differential constraint. Specifically, the problem is to determine what flight path an airplane in a constant wind field should take in order to encircle the maximum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVD | SVD may stand for:
Geography
Argyle International Airport (IATA airport code SVD) on Saint Vincent island
Mathematics
Singular value decomposition of a matrix in mathematics
Media
Svenska Dagbladet (SvD), a Swedish newspaper
Medicine
Spontaneous vaginal delivery, a type of birth
Swine vesicular disease
Small ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinna | Pinna may refer to:
Biology
Pinna (anatomy), or auricle, the outer part of the ear
Pinna (bivalve), a genus of molluscs
Pinna (botany), a primary segment of a compound leaf
People
Surname
Christophe Pinna (born 1968), French martial artist
Giovanni Pinna, a paleontologist and describer of the Triassic reptile... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Genetic%20Counseling | The Journal of Genetic Counseling is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed medical journal focusing on genetic counseling. It is produced by the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) and published by Springer Publishing Company from 1992 to 2018 and is currently published by John Wiley & Sons.
External links
Medical g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20geometry%20of%20surfaces | In mathematics, the differential geometry of surfaces deals with the differential geometry of smooth surfaces with various additional structures, most often, a Riemannian metric.
Surfaces have been extensively studied from various perspectives: extrinsically, relating to their embedding in Euclidean space and intrinsic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics%20simulator | A robotics simulator is a simulator used to create an application for a physical robot without depending on the physical machine, thus saving cost and time. In some case, such applications can be transferred onto a physical robot (or rebuilt) without modification.
The term robotics simulator can refer to several diffe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20School%20of%20Naval%20Architecture | The first School of Naval Architecture opened in 1811 in Portsmouth. The school was principally established to offer a deeper study of the principles of ship design than had traditionally been retained through the apprenticeship model. To this end, students were taught mathematics, science, drawing, history, geography ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaperone | Chaperone or Chaperon may refer to:
Chaperone (social) or chaperon, a person who accompanies or supervises young people on social occasions
Chaperone (clinical), a person who acts as a witness during a medical examination or procedure
Chaperon (headgear), a form of hood or hat worn in Western Europe in the Middle Ages... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%E2%80%93Green%20vortex | In fluid dynamics, the Taylor–Green vortex is an unsteady flow of a decaying vortex, which has an exact closed form solution of the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations in Cartesian coordinates. It is named after the British physicist and mathematician Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and his collaborator A. E. Green.
Origina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incongruent%20transition | Incongruent transition, in chemistry, is a mass transition between two phases which involves a change in chemical composition. This is contrasted with congruent transition, for which the composition remains the same.
The transition may be that of melting, vaporization or allotropism. The concept is also often extend... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishnananda%20Saraswati | Swami Krishnananda Saraswati (25 April 1922 – 23 November 2001) was a disciple of Sivananda Saraswati and served as the General Secretary of the Divine Life Society in Rishikesh, India from 1958 until 2001. Author of more than 40 texts, and lecturing extensively, on yoga, religion, and metaphysics, Krishnananda was a p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fluid%20flows%20named%20after%20people | This is a list of fluid flows named after people (eponymous flows).
See also
Eponym
List of hydrodynamic instabilities named after people
List of laws in science
Scientific phenomena named after people
References
Fluid flows
Fluid dynamics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Mikhailov%20%28information%20scientist%29 | Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailov (; 6 December 1905, Zemetchino – 6 February 1988, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian engineer and information scientist. He was one of the most influential thinkers related to the field of information science in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc.
Biography
Mikhailov graduated in 1931 i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitation%20function | Excitation function ( yield curve) is a term used in nuclear physics to describe a graphical plot of the yield of a radionuclide or reaction channel as a function of the bombarding projectile energy or the calculated excitation energy of the compound nucleus. The yield is the measured intensity of a particular transiti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev%20Chugaev | Lev Aleksandrovich Chugaev (16 October 1873 – 26 September 1922) was a chemist from the Russian Empire. At the height of his career, he was professor of chemistry at the University of Petersburg, being the successor to Dmitri Mendeleev. He was active in the fields of inorganic chemistry, especially platinum group comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Stenhouse | David Stenhouse (born 23 May 1932, in Sutton, Surrey, England. He proposed the "4-factor" theory of evolutionary intelligence and was active in ethology, education, evolutionary biology and philosophy of science in Australia and New Zealand.
He died after a short illness on 27 August 2013 in Palmerston North, New Zeal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waring%20Brothers | Waring Brothers was an English company specialising in railway structures.
History
The company was founded by Charles Waring, William Waring and Henry Waring in 1841 in York as a civil engineering business.
By 1853 the company was working for the Central Peninsular Railway Company in Portugal.
It went on to complete... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20N.%20Keating | Dr. Patrick N. Keating was a theoretical physicist who contributed to several fields of solid-state physics, including semiconductors, semi-insulators and the basic properties of solid materials, and to other fields including optics, liquid crystals, acoustic holography, and signal processing. He was best known for the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockville%20Collegiate%20Institute | Brockville Collegiate Institute (BCI) is a Brockville public intermediate and high school that follows the Ontario curriculum.
The French immersion and extended core French programs involve approximately 125 students in grades 9–12. Business, mathematics, computers, science, liberal arts, and communication programs ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6rtler%20vortices | In fluid dynamics, Görtler vortices are secondary flows that appear in a boundary layer flow along a concave wall. If the boundary layer is thin compared to the radius of curvature of the wall, the pressure remains constant across the boundary layer. On the other hand, if the boundary layer thickness is comparable to t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Solereder | Hans Solereder (11 September 1860 Munich – 8 November 1920 Erlangen), was a German botanist and university professor.
Solereder studied biology from 1880 at the University of Munich, under Radlkofer, and was awarded a PhD in 1885. From 1886 to 1890 he was Assistant, and from 1888 tutor in the botany department's labor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Badoian | Martin J. Badoian (August 23, 1928October 27, 2018) was a teacher of mathematics at Canton High School in Canton, Massachusetts, who taught for 60 years at the school. Badoian was a co-founder and vice-president of the American Regions Mathematics League.
Badoian attended Brown University, graduating in 1952, where he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter%20Matthaei | Dieter Matthaei (born 1 February 1949 in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany) is a German radiotherapist and internist.
Matthaei studied physics and medicine at the universities of Berlin and Göttingen. In 1977, he received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen. He was from 1983 to 1987 a research associate at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIBOT | VIBOT is an abbreviation of VIsion and RoBOTics. It is a 2-year European Masters in Computer Vision and Robotics course, conducted by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, Universitat de Girona in Girona, Spain and Université de Bourgogne in Le Creusot, France. It started in 2006 as part of the European Commis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopentadienylindium%28I%29 | Cyclopentadienylindium(I), C5H5In, is an organoindium compound containing indium in the +1 oxidation state. Commonly abbreviated to CpIn, it is a cyclopentadienyl complex with a half-sandwich structure.
It was the first (1957) low valent organoindium compound reported.
Preparation and chemistry
CpIn can be readily pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinomics | Clinomics is the study of -omics data along with its associated clinical data. The term -omics generally refers to a study of biology. As an example, genomics is the study of the entire genome of an organism and was the first -omics term.
As personalized medicine advances, clinomics will be a bridge between basic bio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display%20contrast | Contrast in visual perception is a felt difference in appearance of two or more parts of a field seen simultaneously or successively (hence: brightness contrast, lightness contrast, color contrast, simultaneous contrast, successive contrast, etc.).
Contrast in physics is a quantity intended to correlate with the perc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20P.%20Balachandran | Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran (born 25 January 1938) is an Indian theoretical physicist known for his extensive contributions to the role of classical topology in quantum physics. He is currently an emeritus professor in the Department of Physics, Syracuse University, where he was previously the Joel Dorman Steele ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parovicenko%20space | In mathematics, a Parovicenko space is a topological space similar to the space of non-isolated points of the Stone–Čech compactification of the integers.
Definition
A Parovicenko space is a topological space X satisfying the following conditions:
X is compact Hausdorff
X has no isolated points
X has weight c, the car... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsmiths%27%20Professor%20of%20Materials%20Science | The Goldsmiths' Professorship of Materials Science is a professorship in the University of Cambridge, associated with the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.
The professorship was established by grace of 20 November 1931 as the Goldsmiths' Professorship of Metallurgy to replace the Goldsmiths' Readership i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy%20Secondary%20School%2C%20Mounthawk | Mercy Secondary School, Mounthawk is a school in Kerry, Ireland, which has approximately 1,300 pupils and 105 teachers (85 permanent and 20 substitutes).
Description
Mounthawk offers the core subjects English, Irish and Mathematics as well as optional subjects such as Art, Science (Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Agri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamaker%20constant | In molecular physics, the Hamaker constant (denoted ; named for H. C. Hamaker) is a physical constant that can be defined for a van der Waals (vdW) body–body interaction:
where are the number densities of the two interacting kinds of particles, and is the London coefficient in the particle–particle pair interaction.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridley%E2%80%93Watkins%E2%80%93Hilsum%20theory | In solid state physics the Ridley–Watkins–Hilsum theory (RWH) explains the mechanism by which differential negative resistance is developed in a bulk solid state semiconductor material when a voltage is applied to the terminals of the sample. It is the theory behind the operation of the Gunn diode as well as several o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry%20Logan%20Emerson%20%28engineer%29 | Cherry Logan Emerson, Sr. (1888–1959) was an American engineer and academic administrator.
Education
Emerson graduated from Georgia Tech with two bachelor's degrees: one in mechanical engineering (1908) and one in electrical engineering (1909). He was also a charter member of Georgia Tech's ANAK Society, Editor-in-Chi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Trodden | Mark Trodden (born 1968) is a theoretical cosmologist and particle physicist. He is the Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor of Physics and Co-Director of the Center for Particle Cosmology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Education and career
Trodden received both his Bachelor (mathematics) degree and a Certifica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Henrichs | Susan Henrichs became provost of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) in July 2007, after serving as dean of the Graduate School and vice provost of UAF from 2003 to 2007.
Career
Henrichs was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. She earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry and chemical oceanography from the Univer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Balankin | Alexander Balankin (born March 3, 1958) is a Mexican scientist of Russian origin (Баланкин, Александр Сергеевич) whose work in the field of fractal mechanics and its engineering applications won him the UNESCO Science Prize in 2005.
Currently he is a professor of physics at the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20forcing%20notions | In mathematics, forcing is a method of constructing new models M[G] of set theory by adding a generic subset G of a poset P to a model M. The poset P used will determine what statements hold in the new universe (the 'extension'); to force a statement of interest thus requires construction of a suitable P. This article ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix%20Louis%20L%27Herminier | Félix Louis L'Herminier (18 May 1779 – 25 October 1833) was a French pharmacist and naturalist born in Paris. His son, Ferdinand Joseph L'Herminier (1802 – 1866), was a botanist and zoologist.
Felix L'Herminier studied chemistry and natural history in Paris, and in 1798 travelled to Guadeloupe, where he spent a number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volta%20potential | The Volta potential (also called Volta potential difference, contact potential difference, outer potential difference, Δψ, or "delta psi") in electrochemistry, is the electrostatic potential difference between two metals (or one metal and one electrolyte) that are in contact and are in thermodynamic equilibrium. Specif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20W.%20Alden%20III | Raymond W. Alden III is the current Provost of Touro University Nevada.
Alden attended the Stetson University for his bachelor's degree in biology, and he received his Doctorate in Zoology from the University of Florida. He began his academic career on the faculty at Old Dominion University, spending 21 years there. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20biological%20effectiveness | In radiobiology, the relative biological effectiveness (often abbreviated as RBE) is the ratio of biological effectiveness of one type of ionizing radiation relative to another, given the same amount of absorbed energy. The RBE is an empirical value that varies depending on the type of ionizing radiation, the energies ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis%E2%80%93Numakura%20lemma | In mathematics, the Ellis–Numakura lemma states that if S is a non-empty semigroup with a topology such that S is compact and the product is semi-continuous, then S has an idempotent element p, (that is, with pp = p). The lemma is named after Robert Ellis and Katsui Numakura.
Applications
Applying this lemma to the S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Thierry%20Preyer | William Thierry Preyer (4 July 1841 – 15 July 1897) was an English-born physiologist who worked in Germany.
Biography
Preyer was born in Rusholme at Manchester. He studied physiology and chemistry at Heidelberg, where he received his doctorate in 1862. In 1866 he earned his medical degree at the University of Bonn, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao%20Jiuzhang | Zhao Jiuzhang (; 15 October 1907 – 26 October 1968), also known as Jeou Jang Jaw, was a Chinese meteorologist and physicist. He was a pioneer of Chinese space technology and is considered as a founding father of China's satellite program.
Life
Born in Kaifeng, Henan Province on 15 October 1907. From 1925 to 1927, he s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Miers%20%28botanist%29 | John Miers, FRS FLS (25 August 1789 – 17 October 1879. Kensington), knight grand cross of the Order of the Rose, was a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina.
Miers was born in London to a jeweller from Yorkshire, and showed interest in mineralogy and chemistry from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20S.%20Pollitzer | Dr. William Sprott Pollitzer (May 6, 1923 – March 12, 2002) was an American anatomist. He was a professor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and past president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (from 1979 to 1981), and the Human Biology Council (1986–1988).
Pollitzer was born on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprot%20%28surname%29 | Sprot (or Sprott or Sprotte) is a family name. Notable people with the name include:
Adrian Sprott, Scottish footballer
Sir Alexander Sprot, 1st Baronet
Sprot Baronets
Bert Sprotte, German actor
Cecilia Sprot, British viscountess
Charles B. Sprott, Canadian former professional wrestler, known as Ricky Hunter
Clin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20White | Simon David Manton White (born 30 September 1951), FRS, is a British astrophysicist. He was one of directors at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics before his retirement in late 2019.
Life
White studied mathematics at Jesus College, Cambridge in the University of Cambridge (B.A. 1972) and Astronomy at the Unive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20Eckert | Gerald Eckert (born 27 December 1960) is a German composer, cellist, and painter. He currently lives in Eckernförde.
Biography
Eckert, born in Nuremberg, studied mathematics at the University of Erlangen, violoncello and conducting at the conservatory of Nürnberg. Then he studied of composition with Nicolaus A. Huber ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry%20Okhotsimsky | Dmitry Yevgenyevich Okhotsimsky () was a Russian engineer in the former Soviet space program who pioneered the studies in robotics, controls, and space ballistics.
He wrote fundamental works in applied celestial mechanics, spaceflight dynamics and robotics.
Biography
Okhotsimsky was born and lived his whole life in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean%20plane | In mathematics, a Euclidean plane is a Euclidean space of dimension two, denoted . It is a geometric space in which two real numbers are required to determine the position of each point. It is an affine space, which includes in particular the concept of parallel lines. It has also metrical properties induced by a dista... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denavit%E2%80%93Hartenberg%20parameters | In mechanical engineering, the Denavit–Hartenberg parameters (also called DH parameters) are the four parameters associated with a particular convention for attaching reference frames to the links of a spatial kinematic chain, or robot manipulator.
Jacques Denavit and Richard Hartenberg introduced this convention in 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Hartley%20Raney | Second Lieutenant Paul Hartley Raney (25 December 1892 – 21 August 1917) was a Canadian fighter pilot in the First World War. Born in Toronto, he attended West Toronto Public School, St. Andrew's College from 1906 to 1908, and Oakwood Collegiate. He studied Applied Science from 1910 onwards, graduating with a degree in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Letheby | Henry Letheby (1816 – 28 March 1876) was an English analytical chemist and public health officer.
Early life
Letheby was born at Plymouth, England, in 1816, and studied chemistry at the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. In 1837 he commenced the study of medicine and became the assistant of Jonathan Pereira. He gradu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Junior%20Science%20Olympiad | The International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) is an annual science competition for students aged 15 and under. It is one of International Science Olympiads and an international academical competition that covers physics, chemistry and biology at the same time. The first IJSO was held in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2004. A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20You | Wang You (; 7 June 1910 – 6 May 1997), also known as Yu Wang, was a Chinese biochemist. He was a pioneer of antibiotics and biochemistry studies in China.
Life
Wang was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He first studied applied chemistry at Zhejiang University. He went to Nanjing and graduated from the Department o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feinstein%20Institutes%20for%20Medical%20Research | The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in Manhasset, Nassau County, New York, United States, on Long Island, constitute the research arm of Northwell Health. Feinstein is home to 50 research labs, 2,500 clinical research studies, and 5,000 professional and support staff. Feinstein scientists conduct research in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schanuel%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, especially in the area of algebra known as module theory, Schanuel's lemma, named after Stephen Schanuel, allows one to compare how far modules depart from being projective. It is useful in defining the Heller operator in the stable category, and in giving elementary descriptions of dimension shifting.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRST%20Championship | The FIRST Championship is a four-day robotics championship held annually in April at which FIRST student robotics teams compete. For several years, the event was held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia, but moved to the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Missouri in 2011, where it remained through 2017. In 2017, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregeometry | In mathematics and physics, pregeometry has several meanings:
Pregeometry (model theory), another name for a matroid
Pregeometry (physics), a structure from which geometry arises |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregeometry%20%28physics%29 | In physics, a pregeometry is a hypothetical structure from which the geometry of the universe develops. Some cosmological models feature a pregeometric universe before the Big Bang. The term was championed by John Archibald Wheeler in the 1960s and 1970s as a possible route to a theory of quantum gravity. Since quantum... |
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