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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther%20W.%20Graef | Luther W. Graef is the founder of Graef, Anhalt, Schloemer and Associates Inc., former President of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the fourth president of ASCE Foundation.
Graef graduated from Marquette University in 1952. After he finished his MS in civil engineering from University of Wisconsin–Milwa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat%20Glogger | Beat Glogger (born 12 March 1960) is a Swiss science journalist, television host, and author.
He studied biology and biochemistry in Zurich, graduated as a journalism major, and went on to present MTW, a popular Swiss science TV programme. In 2006 he was nominated for the Descartes Prize in Science Communication award... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Eiberg | Hans Eiberg, (born 8 April 1945) is a Danish geneticist, known for his discovery of the genetic mutation causing blue eyes.
Hans Eiberg graduated as a M.Sc. in 1970. He has worked with genetics at the Institute for Medical Biochemistry and Genetics of Copenhagen University since 1971, and became an associate professor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevalley%E2%80%93Shephard%E2%80%93Todd%20theorem | In mathematics, the Chevalley–Shephard–Todd theorem in invariant theory of finite groups states that the ring of invariants of a finite group acting on a complex vector space is a polynomial ring if and only if the group is generated by pseudoreflections. In the case of subgroups of the complex general linear group the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1252%20Celestia | 1252 Celestia, provisional designation , is a stony asteroid from the Palladian region, located in the central asteroid belt. It was discovered on 19 February 1933, by astronomer Fred Whipple at the Oak Ridge Observatory operated by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts, United States. The S-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.O.G.%20666 | G.O.G. 666 is a science fiction novel by author John Taine (pseudonym of Eric Temple Bell). It was first published in 1954 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 1,815 copies.
Plot introduction
The novel concerns Russian genetics experiments resulting in a being that is half ape, half brain.
Reception
Anthony Boucher rece... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conorenal%20syndrome | Conorenal syndrome, is a collection of medical conditions that seem to have a common genetic cause.
Presentation
Genetics
The exact gene loci has not been characterized.
NPHP3: Olbrich, et al., found mutations in the NPHP3 gene that cause nepnroonophthisis and a version of Retinitis Pigmentosa called Lebers Congen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20mode | In physics, a zero mode is an eigenvector with a vanishing eigenvalue.
In various subfields of physics zero modes appear whenever a physical system possesses a certain symmetry. For example, normal modes of multidimensional harmonic oscillator (e.g. a system of beads arranged around the circle, connected with springs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Mars | Peter Mars (born 1959 in Portland, Oregon) is an American artist with ties to both the Pop Art and Outsider Art movements.
Early life and education
Mars attended Reed College, a small private college in Portland, Oregon from 1977 to 1982, earning a degree in chemistry.
Art career
In 1982, Mars moved to New Orleans, L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCroth%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Lüroth's theorem asserts that every field that lies between a field K and the rational function field K(X) must be generated as an extension of K by a single element of K(X). This result is named after Jacob Lüroth, who proved it in 1876.
Statement
Let be a field and be an intermediate field between ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20roadmap | The probabilistic roadmap planner is a motion planning algorithm in robotics, which solves the problem of determining a path between a starting configuration of the robot and a goal configuration while avoiding collisions.
The basic idea behind PRM is to take random samples from the configuration space of the robot, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box2D | Box2D is a free open source 2-dimensional physics simulator engine written in C++ by Erin Catto and published under the MIT license. It has been used in Crayon Physics Deluxe, Limbo, Rolando, Incredibots, Angry Birds, Tiny Wings, Shovel Knight, Transformice, Happy Wheels, and many online Flash games, as well as iPhone,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociation%20curve | Dissociation curve may refer to:
Ligand (biochemistry)#Receptor/ligand binding affinity represented in a graph
Oxygen-haemoglobin dissociation curve, a graphical representation of oxygen release from haemoglobin
Melting curve analysis, a biochemical technique relying on heat-dependent dissociation between two DNA stran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4822%20Karge | 4822 Karge, provisional designation , is a bright asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 4 October 1986, by American astronomer Edward Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. The asteroid was later ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval%20chromatic%20number%20of%20an%20ordered%20graph | In mathematics, the interval chromatic number X<(H) of an ordered graph H is the minimum number of intervals the (linearly ordered) vertex set of H can be partitioned into so that no two vertices belonging to the same interval are adjacent in H.
Difference with chromatic number
It is interesting about interval chrom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalisation%20%28mathematics%29 | In elementary algebra, root rationalisation is a process by which radicals in the denominator of an algebraic fraction are eliminated.
If the denominator is a monomial in some radical, say with , rationalisation consists of multiplying the numerator and the denominator by and replacing by (this is allowed, as, by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobel%20Glacier | Jacobel Glacier () is a glacier about long draining to the Sulzberger Ice Shelf, Antarctica, south of Hershey Ridge. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Robert W. Jacobel, holder of the Grace A. Whittier Chair of Physics at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. An Antarctic researcher fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith%20Green | Judith or Judy Green may refer to:
Judith Green (historian), English Anglo-Norman historian based at the University of Edinburgh
Judith Green (swimmer) (born 1967), Australian Paralympic swimmer
Judy Green (mathematician), logician and historian of women in mathematics
Judy Green (socialite) (1931–2001), US novelis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluj-Napoca%20Central%20Park | Central Park is a large public, urban park in central Cluj-Napoca. It was founded in the 19th century and it located on the southern shore of Someşul Mic River. The Park is now home to the University of Arts and Design and to the Chemistry Faculty of the Babeş-Bolyai University.
During 2012, the Central Park was site ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Bopp | Friedrich Arnold "Fritz" Bopp (27 December 1909 – 14 November 1987) was a German theoretical physicist who contributed to nuclear physics and quantum field theory. He worked at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik and with the Uranverein. He was a professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a Presiden... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetal | Vegetal, the adjectival form of vegetable, can be
Vegetal (wine), a descriptive term used in wine tasting
Végétal, the second studio album by singer-songwriter Émilie Simon
the vegetal pole in biology, see Polarity in embryogenesis
See also
Vegetale, a 1997 album by the French band Ulan Bator |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupe%20de%20France%20de%20robotique | Coupe de France de robotique is a robotics competition held in La Roche-sur-Yon, France, organized by Planète Sciences.
History
The Coupe de France de robotique (former "E = M6 Cup of robotics", from the Science TV show) is a competition co-organized since 2016 by the association Planète Sciences and the mixed econom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan%C3%A8te%20Sciences | Planète Sciences is a French voluntary association founded in 1962 dedicated to the sciences.
The organization organizes the Coupe de France de robotique and Eurobot, an international amateur robotics contest
External links
Planète Sciences
Scientific organizations based in France
Scientific organizations establis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20Thornton%20Geer | Helen Thornton Geer (January 7, 1903 in New Castle, Pennsylvania – March 1983 in New Jersey) was a librarian and professor. She was the author of Charging Systems, which detailed 17 of the different circulation control systems that were used in most of the U.S. public and college libraries at the time. From 1947 to 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefschetz%20duality | In mathematics, Lefschetz duality is a version of Poincaré duality in geometric topology, applying to a manifold with boundary. Such a formulation was introduced by , at the same time introducing relative homology, for application to the Lefschetz fixed-point theorem. There are now numerous formulations of Lefschetz du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer%20yellow | Lucifer yellow is a fluorescent dye used in cell biology. The key property of Lucifer yellow is that it can be readily visualized in both living and fixed cells using a fluorescence microscope. Lucifer yellow was invented by Walter W. Stewart at the National Institutes of Health and patented in 1978.
Preparations
Fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%20Gurevich | Yuri Gurevich, Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, is an American computer scientist and mathematician and the inventor of abstract state machines.
Gurevich was born and educated in the Soviet Union. He taught mathematics there and then in Israel before moving to the United States in 1982.
The best-known... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZ | PZ may refer to:
PZ Cussons, a manufacturer
PZ Myers (born 1957), an evolutionary developmental biologist, professor and blogger
Peshawar Zalmi, a cricket team franchise in Pakistan Super League
Porphyrazine, in chemistry, a tetrapyyrolic macrocycle
Province of Potenza, Italy
Pozidriv, a type of screw head and s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Basic%20Educational%20Skills%20Test | The California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST) is a standardized test administered in the state of California. It is available as an option in Oregon and Nevada. The test is intended to score basic proficiency in reading, mathematics, and writing. The test is divided into three sections: the reading and math sect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus%20school | Abacus school is a term applied to any Italian school or tutorial after the 13th century, whose commerce-directed curriculum placed special emphasis on mathematics, such as algebra, among other subjects. These schools sprang up after the publication of Fibonacci's Book of the Abacus and his introduction of the Hindu–Ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genera%20Filicum | Genera Filicum was one of the important systematic works on the ferns, fully published in London in 1842. This was a collaborative work between Sir William Jackson Hooker, who wrote the text, and Franz Bauer, illustrator. The later Species Filicum by Hooker expanded and updated this work.
References
Nature.com
Phylo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo%20amino%20acid%20composition | Pseudo amino acid composition, or PseAAC, in molecular biology, was originally introduced by Kuo-Chen Chou in 2001 to represent protein samples for improving protein subcellular localization prediction and membrane protein type prediction. Like the vanilla amino acid composition (AAC) method, it characterizes the prote... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamming%20%28physics%29 | Jamming is the physical process by which the viscosity of some mesoscopic materials, such as granular materials, glasses, foams, polymers, emulsions, and other complex fluids, increases with increasing particle density. The jamming transition has been proposed as a new type of phase transition, with similarities to a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy%20chain%20%28electrical%20engineering%29 | In electrical and electronic engineering, a daisy chain is a wiring scheme in which multiple devices are wired together in sequence or in a ring, similar to a garland of daisy flowers. Daisy chains may be used for power, analog signals, digital data, or a combination thereof.
The term daisy chain may refer either to l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20Niementowski | Stefan Niementowski (August 4, 1866 – July 13, 1925 was a Polish chemist. He discovered the Niementowski quinoline synthesis and the Niementowski quinazoline synthesis. He was a president of Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists (1920–22).
References
External links
Polish Chemistry
1866 births
1925 deaths
Poli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei%20Kravchuk | Andrei Yurievich Kravchuk (; born 13 April 1962 in Leningrad) is a Russian television and film director and screenwriter best known for his films The Italian (2005) and Admiral (2008).
Career
Kravchuk had almost completed his master's thesis in mathematics when he met filmmakers Aleksei German and Vladimir Vengerov a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Albert%20Browne%20Jr. | Charles Albert Browne Jr. (August 12, 1870 – February 3, 1947) was a sugar chemist and former head of the Bureau of Chemistry, which later became the Food and Drug Administration. He is also considered a leader in the study of the history of chemistry in North America.
Early life and education
Charles Albert Browne Jr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza%20of%20the%20Americas%20%28Gainesville%2C%20Florida%29 | The Plaza of the Americas is a major center of student activity on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. It is located in the quad between Library West, Peabody Hall, the University Auditorium, and the Chemistry Building.
In 2008, the Plaza of the Americas became a contributing property in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried%20Fl%C3%BCgge | Siegfried Flügge (16 March 1912, in Dresden – 15 December 1997, in Hinterzarten) was a German theoretical physicist who made contributions to nuclear physics and the theoretical basis for nuclear weapons. He worked on the German nuclear energy project. From 1941 onward he was a lecturer at several German universities, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoch-Campbell%20ethylenimine%20synthesis | In organic chemistry the Hoch-Campbell ethylenimine synthesis is a method for constructing ethyleneimines from oximes. The oxime is treated with Grignard reagents:
References
Aziridines
Oximes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Math%20Solver | Microsoft Math Solver (formerly Microsoft Mathematics and Microsoft Math) is an entry-level educational app that solves math and science problems. Developed and maintained by Microsoft, it is primarily targeted at students as a learning tool. Until 2015, it ran on Microsoft Windows. Since then, it has been developed fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjorn%20Dahlem | Björn Dahlem (born 1974) is an artist based in Potsdam.
Dahlem was born in Munich. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1994 to 2000. He makes sculptures based on space and astrophysics out of ordinary household materials.
Between 2005 and 2011, Dahlem was a guest professor Berlin University of the Arts (U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20R.%20Katritzky | Alan Roy Katritzky FRS (18 August 1928 – 10 February 2014) was a British-born American chemist, latterly working at the University of Florida. He was a heterocyclic chemistry pioneer, who played a leading role in the subject’s elucidation and development.
Early life and education
Alan Roy Katritzky was born in Harrin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKnight%20Brain%20Institute | The Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute (MBI) at the University of Florida (UF) is a comprehensive and diverse neuroscience research center that houses the UF College of Medicine’s four “neuro” departments: neuroscience, neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry.
The MBI is one of the nation’s most comprehe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Cruz%20Institute%20for%20Particle%20Physics | The Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) is an organized research unit within the University of California system focused on theoretical and experimental high-energy physics and astrophysics.
Research
SCIPP's scientific and technical staff are and have been involved in several cutting edge research proje... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulware | Boulware is a surname. It may refer to:
People
Ben Boulware, American football player
Bill Boulware, American television producer of One on One (TV series), co-creator of 227 (TV series)
Caldwell Elwood Boulware (1909–1990), long time mathematics professor at North Carolina Central University, active in the Am... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato%20Kizito%20Sesana | Renato "Kizito" Sesana (born 1943) is an Italian Comboni missionary, journalist and humanitarian worker. He is well known for his work to rescue the street children of Nairobi.
Early life
Renato Sesana was born in Lecco, Italy in 1943. In 1962, he graduated with a junior degree in mechanical engineering, and went to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20Intelligence%20Laboratory | Artificial Intelligence Laboratory may refer to:
Kiev Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, a research institute in Kiev, Ukraine
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, an interdisciplinary research entity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laborato... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat%20grazing%20problem | The goat grazing problem is either of two related problems in recreational mathematics involving a tethered goat grazing a circular area: the interior grazing problem and the exterior grazing problem. The former involves grazing the interior of a circular area, and the latter, grazing an exterior of a circular area. Fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon%20Schweidler | Egon Schweidler, (* 10 February 1873, in Vienna; † 10 February 1948, in Salzburg Seeham) was an Austrian physicist.
Biography
He was born in 1873 as the son of the court and Gerichtsadvokaten Emil von Schweidler born in Vienna. After studying physics and mathematics, he earned his doctorate with a dissertation "On the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Levy | Stuart Levy may refer to:
Stuart Levy (producer) (1907–1966), British film producer
Stuart B. Levy, microbiology researcher and physician at Tufts University
Stuart J. Levy (born 1967), founder of the manga media company Tokyopop
See also
Stuart A. Levey, former Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intellig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiangen%20Hu | Xiangen Hu is a professor in cognitive psychology at the University of Memphis and is a senior researcher at its Institute for Intelligent Systems (IIS).
Background
Hu obtained an MS in applied mathematics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1985. He then completed an MA in social science in 1991 an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispin%20Nash-Williams | Crispin St John Alvah Nash-Williams FRSE (19 December 1932 – 20 January 2001) was a British mathematician. His research interest was in the field of discrete mathematics, especially graph theory.
Biography
Nash-Williams was born on 19 December 1932 in Cardiff, Wales. His father, Victor Erle Nash-Williams ( Williams), ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Clarke | Steven G. Clarke, (born November 19, 1949) an American biochemist, is a director of the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA biochemistry department. Clarke heads a laboratory at UCLA's department of chemistry and biochemistry. Clarke is famous for his work on molecular da... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincunx%20matrix | In mathematics, the matrix
is sometimes called the quincunx matrix. It is a 2×2 Hadamard matrix, and its rows form the basis of a diagonal square lattice consisting of the integer points whose coordinates both have the same parity; this lattice is a two-dimensional analogue of the three-dimensional body-centered cu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20of%20Mathematics%20and%20Naval%20Construction | The Central School of Mathematics and Naval Construction was a short-lived shipbuilding college at Portsmouth Dockyard on the south coast of England. It was founded in 1848 but only lasted five years, until 1853. The first Principal was Joseph Woolley, who in 1864 would found the Royal School of Naval Architecture and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%20Jensen | Viktor Thor William Jensen (born 30 December 1987) is an Icelandic racing driver, with dual (British) nationality. His father is Canadian-born British radio DJ David Jensen.
Viktor read mechanical engineering at Imperial College London and is currently living in Hong Kong.
Career
Karting
Viktor debuted in kart racin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami%20Omar%20Al-Hussayen | Sami Omar Al-Hussayen (born 1973, Saudi Arabia), also known as Sami Al-Hussayen, is a teacher at a technical college in Riyadh. As a Ph.D. graduate student in computer science at the University of Idaho in the United States, he was arrested and charged in 2003 by the United States with running websites as a webmaster t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau%E2%80%93Lifshitz%E2%80%93Gilbert%20equation | In physics, the Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation, named for Lev Landau, Evgeny Lifshitz, and T. L. Gilbert, is a name used for a differential equation describing the precessional motion of magnetization in a solid. It is a modification by Gilbert of the original equation of Landau and Lifshitz.
The various forms of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Levy | Don Levy (1932 – January 1987) was an artist and filmmaker.
Levy was born in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. After studying theoretical chemistry at the University of Sydney, he was awarded a Research Scholarship to the University of Cambridge. There he obtained a PhD in Theoretical Chemical Physics in 1960. Wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge%20exchange | Charge exchange (or charge exchange collision) is a process in which a neutral atom or molecule collides with an ion, resulting in the neutral atom acquiring the charge of the ion. The reaction is typically expressed as
A+ + B -> A + B+.
This reaction has various diagnostic applications, such as in plasma physics and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Robot%20series%20characters | The following is a list of characters in Isaac Asimov's Robot series.
Kelden Amadiro
Kelden Amadiro is a Spacer and the main antagonist in the novels The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire. He is the head of the Robotics Institute on Aurora. He is known for being extremely against the expansion of Earth to other pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Castonguay | Charles Castonguay (born 1940) is a retired associate professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Ottawa.
Biography
A native English speaker, Castonguay was sent by his parents to a French Catholic primary school. He took his first English courses in high school. Enrolled in the Canadian Armed Forces ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20P.%20Fletcher | George P. Fletcher (born March 5, 1939) is the Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University School of Law.
Fletcher attended Cornell University from 1956 to 1959, studying mathematics and Russian. He received a B.A. in 1960 from University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. in 1964 from the University o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omron%20Adept | Omron Adept Technology, Inc. is a multinational corporation with headquarters in Pleasanton, California (San Francisco Bay Area). The company focus on industrial automation and robotics, including software and vision guidance. Adept has offices throughout the United States as well as in Dortmund, Germany, Paris, France... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindel%20Hume | Lindel O. Hume (born June 7, 1942) is a former Democratic member of the Indiana Senate, serving from 1982 until his retirement in 2014. He also previously served eight terms in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1974 through 1982.
Education
Lindel Hume received his education from the following institutions:
BS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Street | Guy Street (officially in ) is a north-south street located in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Concordia University's Integrated Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex is located on this street, as is the John Molson School of Business building. The street is home to the Guy-Concordia Metro station. G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformly%20hyperfinite%20algebra | In mathematics, particularly in the theory of C*-algebras, a uniformly hyperfinite, or UHF, algebra is a C*-algebra that can be written as the closure, in the norm topology, of an increasing union of finite-dimensional full matrix algebras.
Definition
A UHF C*-algebra is the direct limit of an inductive system {An, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20spherical%20harmonics | In mathematics, vector spherical harmonics (VSH) are an extension of the scalar spherical harmonics for use with vector fields. The components of the VSH are complex-valued functions expressed in the spherical coordinate basis vectors.
Definition
Several conventions have been used to define the VSH.
We follow that of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20Tecumseh%20Fitch | William Tecumseh Sherman Fitch III (born 1963) is an American evolutionary biologist and cognitive scientist at the University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria) where he is co-founder of the Department of Cognitive Biology.
Fitch studies the biology and evolution of cognition and communication in humans and other animals, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20homology | In evolutionary developmental biology, the concept of deep homology is used to describe cases where growth and differentiation processes are governed by genetic mechanisms that are homologous and deeply conserved across a wide range of species.
History
In 1822, the French zoologist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire dis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20Flammersfeld | Arnold Rudolf Karl Flammersfeld (February 10, 1913 – January 5, 2001) was a German nuclear physicist who worked on the German nuclear energy project during World War II. From 1954, he was a professor of physics at the University of Göttingen.
Education
From 1931 to 1937, Flammersfeld studied physics at the Friedrich-W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20manufactured%20fuel%20gases | The history of gaseous fuel, important for lighting, heating, and cooking purposes throughout most of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, began with the development of analytical and pneumatic chemistry in the 18th century. The manufacturing process for "synthetic fuel gases" (also known as "manufa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe%20D.%20Donsker | Monroe David Donsker (October 17, 1924 – June 8, 1991) was an American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at New York University (NYU). His research interest was probability theory.
Education and career
Donsker was born in Burlington, Iowa. He received a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Minnesota ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise%20Menn | Lise Menn (née Lise J. Waldman, born December 28, 1941, in Philadelphia) is an American linguist who specializes in psycholinguistics, including the study of language acquisition and aphasia.
Professional history
Menn earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1962 from Swarthmore College and a master's degree (also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoplanarity | In particle physics, the acoplanarity of a scattering experiment is the degree to which the paths of the scattered particles deviate from being coplanar. Measurements of acoplanarity provide a test of perturbative quantum chromodynamics, because QCD predicts that the emission of gluons can lead to acoplanar scattering ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrashMail | TrashMail is a free disposable e-mail address service created in 2002 by Stephan Ferraro, a computer science student at Epitech Paris which belongs now to Ferraro Ltd. The service provides temporary email addresses that can be abandoned if they start receiving email spam. It mainly forwards emails to a real hidden ema... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress%20in%20artificial%20intelligence | Progress in artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the advances, milestones, and breakthroughs that have been achieved in the field of artificial intelligence over time. AI is a multidisciplinary branch of computer science that aims to create machines and systems capable of performing tasks that typically require human... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXPOSE | EXPOSE is a multi-user facility mounted outside the International Space Station (ISS) dedicated to astrobiology. EXPOSE was developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) for long-term spaceflights and was designed to allow exposure of chemical and biological samples to outer space while recording data during exposure.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Litman | Eric Austin Litman (born August 1, 1973) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor, and currently serves as CEO of the robotics health technology company, aescape, inc. Litman co-founded Proxicom, built Viaduct from a one-man shop through a merger with the Wolf Group, and was the founder and CEO of Medialets, a mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Volhard | Jacob Volhard (4 June 1834 – 14 January 1910) was the German chemist who discovered, together with his student Hugo Erdmann, the Volhard–Erdmann cyclization reaction. He was also responsible for the improvement of the Hell–Volhard–Zelinsky halogenation.
From 1852 to 1855 he studied chemistry at the University of Gies... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar%20Piloty | Oskar Piloty (30 April 1866 – 6 October 1915) was a German chemist.
Life
Oskar Piloty was born the son of the painter Karl von Piloty in Munich. Due to the closeness of the Piloty family to the chemist Ludwig Knorr, who later married the sister of Oskar Piloty, he started studying chemistry at Adolf von Baeyer's labo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Letters%20on%20Computer%20Vision%20and%20Image%20Analysis | Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis (usually abbreviated ELCVIA) is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal focusing on computer vision and image analysis (subfields of artificial intelligence) as well as image processing (a subfield of signal processing). It was established in 2002 and is p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepotential | Prepotential may refer to:
In medicine, the tendency for the action potential of cardiac cell membranes to drift towards threshold following repolarization
In mathematics, the vector superfield in supersymmetric gauge theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier%20Saelens | Xavier Saelens (born 1965) is a Belgian scientist and currently his main research interest is finding a universal influenza vaccine. He is a lecturer in Virology and Group Leader of the Molecular Virology Unit at the University of Ghent (Ghent, Belgium).
Education
He obtained a bachelor's degree in Biology at the Univ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexafluoropropylene%20oxide | Hexafluoropropylene oxide (HFPO) is an intermediate used in industrial organofluorine chemistry; specifically it is a monomer for fluoropolymers. This colourless gas is the epoxide of hexafluoropropylene, which is a fluorinated analog of propylene oxide, HFPO is produced by DuPont and 3M and as a precursor to the lub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20Gaspard%20Monge | The Gaspard Monge Institute of electronics and computer science is the research and teaching body of the University of Marne la Vallée in the fields of computer science, electronics, telecommunications and networks. It is named for Gaspard Monge.
The Institute is composed of four branches:
The Computing research lab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EqWorld | EqWorld is a free online mathematics reference site that lists information about mathematical equations.
It covers ordinary differential, partial differential, integral, functional, and other mathematical equations. It also outlines some methods for solving equations, and lists many resources for solving equations, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost%20Mathieu%20operator | In mathematical physics, the almost Mathieu operator arises in the study of the quantum Hall effect. It is given by
acting as a self-adjoint operator on the Hilbert space . Here are parameters. In pure mathematics, its importance comes from the fact of being one of the best-understood examples of an ergodic Schrödi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-finite%20measure | In measure theory, a branch of mathematics that studies generalized notions of volumes, an s-finite measure is a special type of measure. An s-finite measure is more general than a finite measure, but allows one to generalize certain proofs for finite measures.
The s-finite measures should not be confused with the σ-f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme%20mimic | Enzyme mimic (or Artificial enzyme) is a branch of biomimetic chemistry, which aims at imitating the function of natural enzymes. An enzyme mimic is a small molecule complex that models the molecular structure, spectroscopic properties, or reactivity of an enzyme, sometimes called bioinspired complexes.
Overview
Enz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni%20L | Toni Landomini, better known as Toni L, is one of the three artists comprising the famous German rap group Advanced Chemistry formed in 1987. He is often referred to as “der pate” or “the Godfather,” Toni holds German citizenship but has an Italian background. His Italian roots provide him with material for his rap so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid%20Vaserstein | Leonid Nisonovich Vaserstein () is a Russian-American mathematician, currently Professor of Mathematics at Penn State University. His research is focused on algebra and dynamical systems. He is well known for providing a simple proof of the Quillen–Suslin theorem, a result in commutative algebra, first conjectured by J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving-boundary%20electrophoresis | Moving-boundary electrophoresis (MBE also free-boundary electrophoresis) is a technique for separation of chemical compounds by electrophoresis in a free solution.
History
Moving-boundary electrophoresis was developed by Arne Tiselius in 1930. Tiselius was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Willis | Jane Willis, a partner at Ropes & Gray, served as co-head of the Litigation and Enforcement practice, and then became a member of the firm's Policy Committee in 2019. She is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University in Applied Mathematics in 1991, and graduated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Ma | Jeff Ma or Jeffrey Ma (born 1973) is a former member of the MIT Blackjack Team in the mid-1990s. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. He attended MIT where he graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1994. He was the basis for the main character of the book Bringing Down the House (where he was rename... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Godfray | Sir Hugh Charles Jonathan Godfray CBE FRS (born 27 October 1958) is a British zoologist. He is Professor of Population Biology at Balliol College, Oxford, Director of the Oxford Martin School and Director Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food.
Life
Educated at Millfield and St Peter's College, Oxford, he gain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomboc | Gomboc may refer to:
Mathematics
Gömböc, a convex three-dimensional body that has one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium
People
Andreja Gomboc (born 1969), Slovenian astrophysicist
Adrian Gomboc (born 1995), Slovenian judoka
Ron Gomboc (born 1947), Slovenian-born Australian sculptor
Slovene-language s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUPAC%20nomenclature%20of%20inorganic%20chemistry%202005 | Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry, IUPAC Recommendations 2005 is the 2005 version of Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry (which is informally called the Red Book). It is a collection of rules for naming inorganic compounds, as recommended by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
Summary
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20C.%20Stone | Edward Carroll Stone (born January 23, 1936) is an American space scientist, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, and former director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Biography
Stone was born in Knoxville, Iowa. After receiving his undergraduate education at Iowa's Burlington Ju... |
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