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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Arthur%20Wang | Ray Arthur Wang, born Raymond Wang (pronounced Wong), is an American independent filmmaker.
Personal life
Wang was born and raised in Livermore, California, where he graduated from Livermore High School.
In 1999, he acquired his B.S. in electrical engineering and computer Science with music minor from University of C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Sheasby | Chris Sheasby (born 30 November 1966 in Windsor, Berkshire) is an English former international rugby union player, commentator and coach.
Biography
Sheasby was educated at Radley College, King's College London where he graduated in Mathematics in 1989, and at the University of Cambridge.
Club career
He played No.8 i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralf%20Baumeister | Ralf Baumeister (born September 1, 1961 in Schwabach) is a German professor (Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics).
He is currently co-director of the School of Life Sciences at Freiburg University's Institute of Advanced Studies.
He uses the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans in his studies.
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard%20Grill | Bernhard Grill (born January 5, 1961) is one of the developers of the MP3 technology.
Grill was born in Schwabach and studied Electrical Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 1988 to 1995 he engaged in the development and implementation of audio coding algorithms at the Fraunhofe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20Verma%20module | In mathematics, generalized Verma modules are a generalization of a (true) Verma module, and are objects in the representation theory of Lie algebras. They were studied originally by James Lepowsky in the 1970s. The motivation for their study is that their homomorphisms correspond to invariant differential operators ov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirschbaum | Kirschbaum is the German word for cherry tree, and also a surname. It may refer to:
People
Bill Kirschbaum (1902–1953), U.S. Olympic swimmer
Carl Ludwig Kirschbaum (1812–1880), German entomologist, professor of biology, and museum director
Charlotte von Kirschbaum (1899–1975), German theologian
Eliezer Simon Kirschbau... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomaso%20Poggio | Tomaso Armando Poggio (born 11 September 1947 in Genoa, Italy), is the Eugene McDermott professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and director of both the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91-Hydroxyglutaric%20acid | α-Hydroxyglutaric acid (2-hydroxyglutaric acid) is an alpha hydroxy acid form of glutaric acid.
In biology
In humans the compound is formed by a hydroxyacid-oxoacid transhydrogenase whereas in bacteria is formed by a 2-hydroxyglutarate synthase. The compound can be converted to α-ketoglutaric acid through the action o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry%20Festival | The Geometry Festival is an annual mathematics conference held in the United States.
The festival has been held since 1985 at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland, the University of North Carolina, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Duke University and New York University's Courant ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Caws | Peter J. Caws (May 25, 1931 – April 20, 2020) was a British American philosopher and administrator, and University Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Human Sciences at the George Washington University.
Biography
Peter Caws was born in Southall, Middlesex, England in 1931. He received his B.Sc. in Physics at the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20aquarium%20life | Lists of aquarium life include lists of fish, amphibians, invertebrates and plants in freshwater, brackish and marine aquariums.
In fishkeeping, suitable species of aquarium fish, plants and other organisms vary with the size, water chemistry and temperature of the aquarium.
The lists include:
List of brackish aquari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Milsum | John H. Milsum (August 15, 1925 – November 9, 2008) was a Canadian control engineer who was Professor and first Director at the Biomedical Engineering Department of the McGill University in Montreal, and a professor at the University of British Columbia. Milsum is known for his book "Biological Control Systems Analysi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacoinformatics | Drug discovery and development requires the integration of multiple scientific and technological disciplines. These include chemistry, biology, pharmacology, pharmaceutical technology and extensive use of information technology. The latter is increasingly recognised as Pharmacoinformatics. Pharmacoinformatics relates t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20A.%20Barclay | James Alexander Barclay (October 29, 1923 – December 3, 2011) was a Scottish Canadian oil industry engineer (Applied Chemistry) and executive, golfer, and golf historian. He was elected to the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 2008.
Barclay was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He began golf as a youth, with cut-down hickory-sha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%20Rubin | Milton D. Rubin (1914–1996) was an American systems engineer and inventor, who was president of the Society for General Systems Research in 1968.
Biography
In 1914 Milton Rubin was born in Boston and attended Boston Latin School. He received his formal education at Harvard University in communications engineering and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Mogi | is a Japanese scientist. He is a senior researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories and a visiting professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. According to the profile posted at his personal blog, his mission is "to solve the so-called mind-brain problem."
After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1985... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%20and%20Religion | Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology (1999) is a book on the religious views of Nobel prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein by Max Jammer, published by Princeton University Press.
Contents
The book includes acknowledgments, an introduction, three chapters, an appendix, and an index. Chapter one is "Einstein's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20William%20Arrol%20%26%20Co. | Sir William Arrol & Co. was a Scottish civil engineering and construction business founded by William Arrol and based in Glasgow. It built some of the most famous bridges in the United Kingdom including the second Tay Bridge, the Forth Bridge and Tower Bridge in London.
Early history
The Company was founded by William... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Shubin | Neil Shubin (born December 22, 1960) is an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer. He is the Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Associate Dean of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and Professor on the Committee of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20F.%20Franklin | Gene F. Franklin (July 25, 1927 – August 9, 2012) was an American electrical engineer and control theorist known for his pioneering work towards the advancement of the control systems engineering – a subfield of electrical engineering. Most of his work on control theory was adapted immediately into NASA's U.S. space pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20J.%20Kushner | Harold Joseph Kushner is an American applied mathematician and a Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. He is known for his work on the theory of stochastic stability (based on the concept of supermartingales as Lyapunov functions), the theory of non-linear filtering (based on the Kushner equati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.%20N.%20Bose%20National%20Centre%20for%20Basic%20Sciences | S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS) is an autonomous research institute dedicated to basic research in mathematics sciences under the Department of Science and Technology of Government of India. It is located in West Bengal, Salt Lake, Kolkata. This institute was named after the Indian scientist Sat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Crouse | Jeff Crouse (born September 10, 1980 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American artist and hacker/creative technologist who works with live data feeds from the internet to make art works.
Background
Crouse's undergraduate study in Computer Science and Fiction Writing led to creating works that continued the history of aut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle%20Tuve | Merle Anthony Tuve (June 27, 1901 – May 20, 1982) was an American geophysicist who was the Chairman of the Office of Scientific Research and Development's Section T, which was created in August 1940. He was founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the main laboratory of Section T du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer%20G.%20Gilbert | Elmer Grant Gilbert was an American aerospace engineer and a Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Instrumentation Engineering from Michigan in 1957.
He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of the 1994 IEEE Control Systems Awa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Athans | Michael Athans (born Michael Athanassiades in Drama, Greece, May 3, 1937 - May 26, 2020) was a Greek-American control theorist and a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a Fellow of the IEEE (1973) and a Fellow of the AA... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Zaborszky | John Zaborszky (May 13, 1914 – February 11, 2008) was a noted Hungarian-born applied mathematician and a professor in the Department of systems science and mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis. He received the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 1986. He was elected to the National Academy of Engine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg%20University%20Faculty%20of%20Biosciences | The Faculty of Biosciences is one of twelve faculties at the University of Heidelberg. It comprises the Institute of Zoology, the Institute for Plant Science, the Neurobiology, and the Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology. The Faculty has around 2,000 students taught and assisted by about 70 professors, 40... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Frunzenets-Liha-99%20Sumy | FC Frunzenets-Liha-99 Sumy was a football club based in a city of Sumy in Ukraine. The club represented a mechanical engineering factory of the Frunze Science and Production Association in Sumy.
History
The club was founded in 1960 as FC Avanhard Sumy. That used to be a common name of all newly founded football clubs ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Rucker | Sir Arthur William Rucker (or Rücker) (23 October 1845, Clapham Park, London, England – 1 November 1915, Yattendon, Berkshire) was a British physicist.
Education and career
Rucker gained his BA at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1871, and was a Fellow there from 1871 to 1876. He was Professor of Physics, and the firs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langford%20pairing | In combinatorial mathematics, a Langford pairing, also called a Langford sequence, is a permutation of the sequence of 2n numbers 1, 1, 2, 2, ..., n, n in which the two 1s are one unit apart, the two 2s are two units apart, and more generally the two copies of each number k are k units apart. Langford pairings are name... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn%20Shuayb | Abu l-`Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Shuayb al-Kirjani, known as Ibn Shuayb or Ibn Suhayb (; died 1 March 1349) was a Moroccan scholar of medicine, alchemy, botany, astronomy, mathematics, a poet, and the chancellor of the Marinid sultan Abu al Hassan. He was born in Taza, and died in Tunis.
References
Sources
Mor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderhorstia | Vanderhorstia is a genus of gobies native to the Indian and Pacific oceans. The name of this genus honours the Dutch biologist Cornelius van der Horst (1889-1951) of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, who was well known for his interest in marine biology.
Species
There are currently 29 recognized speci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Wood%20%28psychologist%29 | Robert Wood is a British psychologist and writer.
Biography
Robert Wood was born on 10 March 1941 in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne. Born to an English father and a Welsh mother, Wood was raised in Sunderland. After a grammar school education, Wood attended the University of Nottingham in September 1959 where he stu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg%20University%20Faculty%20of%20Chemistry%20and%20Earth%20Sciences | The Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences is one of twelve faculties at the University of Heidelberg. It comprises the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Institute of Geography, Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Institute of Mineralogy, and the Inst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg%20University%20Faculty%20of%20Mathematics%20and%20Computer%20Science | The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science is one of twelve faculties at the University of Heidelberg. It comprises the Institute of Mathematics, the Institute of Applied Mathematics, the School of Applied Sciences, and the Institute of Computer Science. The faculty maintains close relationships to the Interdiscip... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Oil%20%28Iraq%29 | The Ministry of Oil () is the Iraqi government agency responsible for Iraqi petroleum. The Minister of Oil since October 2022 is Hayyan Abdul Ghani.
Abdul Ghani, a former director general of the South Gas Co, was also previously director general of Basra Oil Co. He holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Aird%20%26%20Co. | John Aird & Co. was once a leading British civil engineering business based in London.
Early history
The company was founded in 1848 by John Aird (1800–1876) with the objective of laying mains for gas and water companies in London.
In 1851 Aird was joined by his son, also called John, and the business was for a while... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20M%C3%A9ray | Hugues Charles Robert Méray (12 November 1835, in Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire – 2 February 1911, in Dijon) was a French mathematician. He is noted as the first to publish an arithmetical theory of irrational numbers. His work did not have much of a role in the history of mathematics because France, at that time, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahakal%20Institute%20of%20Technology | Mahakal Institute of Technology (commonly known as MIT, Ujjain) is an institution of the Mahakal Group of Institutes near the village of Karchha, Behind Air Strip, Datana about 20 km from Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh India. It was founded in 2001 and offers courses in a variety of engineering disciplines, including Civil Eng... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sy%20Friedman | Sy-David Friedman (born May 23, 1953, in Chicago) is an American and Austrian mathematician and a (retired) professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna and the former director of the Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic. His main research interest lies in mathematical logic, in particular in set t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell%20Construction | Mitchell Construction was once a leading British civil engineering business based in Peterborough.
History
The business was founded by F.G. (Tiny) Mitchell in London in 1933 as an offshoot of Mitchell Engineering, his engineering business. In 1940 the Company moved to Peterborough because of the destruction created in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Willem%20Storm%20van%20Leeuwen | Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen (born 1941, Dutch East Indies) is a consultant in chemistry and energy systems.
Storm van Leeuwen received his Master of Science, physical chemistry, at the Technical University Eindhoven. He is a senior scientist at Ceedata Consultants. He also develops courses for chemistry teachers for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto%20Blanco%20%28poet%29 | Alberto Blanco (born February 18, 1951) is a Mexican poet. Born in Mexico City, he spent his childhood and adolescence in that city, and he studied chemistry at the Universidad Iberoamericana and philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. For two years, he pursued a master's degree in Asian Studies, spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg%20University%20Faculty%20of%20Physics%20and%20Astronomy | The Faculty of Physics and Astronomy is one of twelve faculties at the University of Heidelberg. It comprises the Kirchhoff Institute of Physics, the Institute of Physics, Theoretical Physics, Environmental Physics and Theoretical Astrophysics.
Kirchhoff Institute of Physics
The Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik (Kirchho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanings%20of%20minor%20planet%20names%3A%20182001%E2%80%93183000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM2%20%28ganglioside%29 | In organic chemistry, GM2 is a type of ganglioside. G refers to ganglioside, the M is for monosialic (as in it has one sialic acid), and 2 refers to the fact that it was the second monosialic ganglioside discovered. It is associated with GM2 gangliosidoses such as Tay–Sachs disease.
See also
Ganglioside GM2 activator... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic%20pendulum | In physics and mathematics, in the area of dynamical systems, an elastic pendulum (also called spring pendulum or swinging spring) is a physical system where a piece of mass is connected to a spring so that the resulting motion contains elements of both a simple pendulum and a one-dimensional spring-mass system. The s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMDTA | PMDTA (N,N,,N,N-pentamethyldiethylenetriamine) is an organic compound with the formula [(CH3)2NCH2CH2]2NCH3. PMDTA is a basic, bulky, and flexible, tridentate ligand that is a used in organolithium chemistry. It is a colorless liquid, although impure samples appear yellowish.
Synthesis
PMDTA is prepared from diethyle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animatronics%20%28disambiguation%29 | Animatronics is the use of mechatronics to create machines which simulate animate life with lifelike characteristics.
Animatronics may also refer to:
Animatronic (album), by the Kovenant
Audio-Animatronics, a form of robotics created by Walt Disney Imagineering
See also
Ana Matronic, American singer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionally%20graded%20element | In materials science and mathematics, functionally graded elements are elements used in finite element analysis. They can be used to describe a functionally graded material.
See also
Graded (mathematics)
Finite element method
Materials science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20particle%20physics | Computational particle physics refers to the methods and computing tools developed in and used by particle physics research. Like computational chemistry or computational biology, it is, for particle physics both a specific branch and an interdisciplinary field relying on computer science, theoretical and experimental... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20calculation%20of%20particle%20interaction%20or%20decay | The automatic calculation of particle interaction or decay is part of the computational particle physics branch. It refers to computing tools that help calculating the complex particle interactions as studied in high-energy physics, astroparticle physics and cosmology. The goal of the automation is to handle the full ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%20Knoflacher | Hermann Knoflacher (born 21 September 1940 in Villach) is an Austrian civil engineer. He was the head of the Institute for Transport Planning and Technology at the Vienna University of Technology.
Life and teachings
Knoflacher completed degrees in civil engineering, geodesy, and mathematics. Since 1975 he is a profes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Borst | Alexander "Axel" Borst (born August 18, 1957 in Bad Neustadt an der Saale) is a German neurobiologist. He is director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (formerly Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology) and head of the department Circuits – Computation – Models.
Borst studied biology at the Universi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias%20Bonhoeffer | Tobias Bonhoeffer (born January 9, 1960) is a German-American neurobiologist. He is director of the department Synapses – Circuits – Plasticity and current managing director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (formerly Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology). His father, the neurobiologist Friedrich ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlap%E2%80%93save%20method | In signal processing, overlap–save is the traditional name for an efficient way to evaluate the discrete convolution between a very long signal and a finite impulse response (FIR) filter :
where for m outside the region .
This article uses common abstract notations, such as or in which it is understood that the fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams%20Prize%20%28disambiguation%29 | Adams Prize may refer to:
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, of the American Historical Association
Adams Prize, by the University of Cambridge and St John's College for research in mathematics
Douglas Adams prize, in honor of Douglas Adams, given by St John's College for humorous writing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryse%20Marpsat | Maryse Marpsat (born 1951) is a French sociologist and statistician whose work employs methods drawn from sociology and statistics but also mathematics. Her major sociological works concern poverty, inequality and homeless situation. She is a civil servant, administrator of the French National Institute of Statistics (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPCP | TPCP may refer to:
Tetraphenylcyclopentadienone in Chemistry
Third Party Control Protocol in communications
That Peter Crouch Podcast in entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuruoka%20National%20College%20of%20Technology | is a Japanese National College of Technology that is located in Tsuruoka, Yamagata. The abbreviated name is TNCT (Japanese: 鶴岡高専; Tsuruoka Kousen)。
History
1963 Tsuruoka National College of Technology was founded on April 1, 1963 (the two-class Department of Mechanical Engineering class and Department of Electronic En... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imponderable%20fluid | Imponderable fluids are features of several superseded scientific theories, such as archaic atomic and electromotive theories.
Description
The term has been used in natural philosophy and physics to explain certain phenomena as the result of invisible and practically weightless (Latin: imponderabilis) fluids. Historic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain%20Cappell | Sylvain Edward Cappell (born 1946), a Belgian American mathematician and former student of William Browder at Princeton University, is a topologist who has spent most of his career at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, where he is now the Silver Professor of Mathematics.
He was born in Brussels, Be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20W.%20Stallsmith | Bruce W. Stallsmith is a professor of biology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) in Huntsville, Alabama and served as the 2000–2008 president of the North American Native Fishes Association (NANFA). He now serves as the Research Grant Chair for NANFA.
His current research interests include the reproduct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroaki%20Kitano | is a Japanese scientist. He is the head of the Systems Biology Institute (SBI); Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Sony Group Corporation, Chief Executive Officer of Sony Research Inc. and Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.; a Group Director of the Laboratory for Disease Systems Mode... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole%20polytechnique%20universitaire%20de%20Savoie%20de%20l%27Universit%C3%A9%20de%20Chamb%C3%A9ry | The École Polytechnique d'Ingénieurs de l'Université de Savoie is a French engineering College created in 2006.
It has been created from the merger of the École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs (ESIA) and the École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Chambéry (ESIGEC).
The school trains engineers in five majors :
Building
Industria... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcos | Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corporation (NASDAQ: STRC) is an American developer of robotics and microelectromechanical systems and related technologies. It was founded in the early 1980s when it was spun out from the University of Utah. The company specializes in creating robotic systems for military and industrial ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas%20H%C3%B6kfelt | Tomas Hökfelt (born 29 June 1940) is a Swedish physician and former professor in histology at the Karolinska Institutet from 1979 until 2006, when he got his emeritate. He was linked to the Department of Neuroscience and is specialized in cell biology.
Biography
Tomas Hökfelt was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1940. He ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creaming%20%28chemistry%29 | Creaming, in the laboratory sense, is the migration of the dispersed phase of an emulsion under the influence of buoyancy. The particles float upwards or sink depending on how large they are and density compared to the continuous phase as well as how viscous or how thixotropic the continuous phase might be. For as long... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarkis%20Acopian | Sarkis Acopian (; December 8, 1926 – January 18, 2007) was an inventor, industrialist, environmentalist, and humanitarian.
Early life
Acopian was born in the Iranian city of Tabriz in a family of Armenian refugees from the Ottoman Empire. He came to the United States as an immigrant from Iran in 1945. He studied mech... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter%E2%80%93Saxton%20equation | In mathematical physics, the Hunter–Saxton equation
is an integrable PDE that arises in the theoretical study of nematic liquid crystals. If the molecules in the liquid crystal are initially all aligned, and some of them are then wiggled slightly, this disturbance in orientation will propagate through the crystal, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermite%E2%80%93Hadamard%20inequality | In mathematics, the Hermite–Hadamard inequality, named after Charles Hermite and Jacques Hadamard and sometimes also called Hadamard's inequality, states that if a function ƒ : [a, b] → R is convex, then the following chain of inequalities hold:
The inequality has been generalized to higher dimensions: if is a bou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Are%20the%20Physics%20Are%20OK%20at%20Music | We Are the Physics Are OK at Music is the debut full-length album of We Are the Physics, released via This Is Fake DIY Records on 5 May 2008. The album is to have special "3D artwork": the cd case will fold out into a stage scene, and band members will be available to cut out of card to stick onto the scene. The band s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marden%27s%20theorem | [[File:Marden theorem.svg|thumb|A triangle and its Steiner inellipse. The zeroes of are the black dots, and the zeroes of {{math|p(z)}} are the red dots). The center green dot is the zero of . Marden's theorem states that the red dots are the foci of the ellipse.]]
In mathematics, Marden's theorem''', named after Morr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diphosphorus%20tetraiodide | Diphosphorus tetraiodide is an orange crystalline solid with the formula P2I4. It has been used as a reducing agent in organic chemistry. It is a rare example of a compound with phosphorus in the +2 oxidation state, and can be classified as a subhalide of phosphorus. It is the most stable of the diphosphorus tetrahal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle%20of%20least%20motion | In organic chemistry, the principle of least motion is the hypothesis that when multiple species with different nuclear structures could theoretically form as products of a given chemical reaction, the more likely to form tends to be the one requiring the least amount of change in nuclear structure or the smallest chan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20C.%20Dahlberg | Kenneth C. Dahlberg is an American engineer and corporate executive. Dahlberg was CEO, chairman of the board, and president of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). He became CEO on November 3, 2003 and chairman of the board on July 16, 2004.
Dahlberg majored in electrical engineering at Drexel Univer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20point | In mathematics, a hyperbolic point is a certain kind of point, one of:
A point in a hyperbolic geometry
A point of negative Gaussian curvature on a smooth surface
A hyperbolic equilibrium point of a dynamical system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo%20Wallimann | Theo Wallimann (born 13 October 1946 in Alpnach, Obwalden, Switzerland) is a Swiss biologist who was research group leader and Adjunct-Professor at the Institute of Cell Biology ETH Zurich and later at the Institute of Molecular Health Science at the ETH Zurich at the Biology Department, of the ETH Zurich, Switzerland.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Shaw%20Ashton | Peter Shaw Ashton (born 27 June 1934) is a British botanist. He is Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry at Harvard University, and director of the Arnold Arboretum there from 1978 to 1987.
Born in Boscombe, Bournemouth, England, Ashton received his B.A. in Biology (1956), M.A. in Biology (1960) and Ph.D. Botany (1962... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20%2B%20Building | Light + Building is a biennial architectural design and technology trade fair mainly focused on the fields of lighting, electrical engineering, building automation, and civil-engineering software. It is held at the Messe Frankfurt in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and combined with the Luminale lighting design and art fes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Frontenac | Roger Frontenac was a French navy officer and a scholar of Nostradamus' prophecies. He proposed an interpretation system for the text of Les Propheties, based upon a form of cryptography known as the Vigenère table.
Biography
Roger Frontenac, as a navy officer, was in charge of military ciphers. After World War II, h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intramolecular%20Diels%E2%80%93Alder%20cycloaddition | In organic chemistry, an intramolecular Diels-Alder cycloaddition is a Diels–Alder reaction in which the diene and a dienophile are both part of the same molecule. The reaction leads to the formation of the same cyclohexene-like structure as usual for a Diels–Alder reaction, but as part of a more complex fused or bridg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acta%20Biochimica%20et%20Biophysica%20Sinica | Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica (ABBS) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishes original research articles, short communications, and reviews in the fields of biochemistry and biophysics. Established in 1958, the journal is sponsored by the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, an institute of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kameya%20Tokujir%C5%8D | was a Japanese photographer. Kameya's original surname was Abe (); he was adopted by a family named Kameya. He learned photography at Deshima, the Dutch enclave in the harbour of Nagasaki where physicians Jan Karel van den Broek and J. L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort taught photography in addition to medicine and chemistr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritional%20anthropology | Nutritional anthropology is the study of the interplay between human biology, economic systems, nutritional status and food security. If economic and environmental changes in a community affect access to food, food security, and dietary health, then this interplay between culture and biology is in turn connected to bro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additively%20indecomposable%20ordinal | In set theory, a branch of mathematics, an additively indecomposable ordinal α is any ordinal number that is not 0 such that for any , we have Additively indecomposable ordinals are also called gamma numbers or additive principal numbers. The class of additively indecomposable ordinals may be denoted , from the Ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kretschmarr%20Cave%20mold%20beetle | The Kretschmarr Cave mold beetle (Texamaurops reddelli) is a small mold beetle.
Biology
It is less than inch long and their body color can range from a dark purple to a light reddish-brown color and is sparsely and weakly dotted with small pits. They have short wings and long legs. The beetle lives under rocks and lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parahaplogroup | A parahaplogroup is a term used in genetics to identify a paraphyletic haplogroup.
They are normally described with the name of their parent haplogroup plus an asterisk (for instance: F*, U2*), meaning that it includes all derivates from the parent haplogroup (F or U2 in the examples) except those mentioned elsewhere... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20M.%20Young%20Jr. | David M. Young Jr. (October 20, 1923 – December 21, 2008) was an American mathematician and computer scientist who was one of the pioneers in the field of modern numerical analysis/scientific computing.
Contributions
Dr. Young is best known for establishing the mathematical framework for iterative methods (a.k.a. prec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Bridge | American Bridge may refer to:
American Bridge Company, civil engineering firm
American Bridge 21st Century, super PAC
The American Bridge, Newbury, a former road bridge in Newbury, England
The American Bridge, Saint Petersburg, a railway bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia
See also
American Bridge Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simply%20connected%20at%20infinity | In topology, a branch of mathematics, a topological space X is said to be simply connected at infinity if for any compact subset C of X, there is a compact set D in X containing C so that the induced map
is the zero map. Intuitively, this is the property that loops far away from a small subspace of X can be collap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng%20Jiamu | Peng Jiamu (, born 19 May 1925, disappeared 17 June 1980) was a Chinese biochemist and explorer.
Biography
Peng was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, in 1935. He received a biology degree from Central University of China (now Nanjing University), graduating in 1947 and subsequently joined the Shanghai Institute o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology%20%28disambiguation%29 | Biology is the scientific study of life, also referred to as biosciences.
Biology may also refer to:
Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life, a college-level textbook compiled by Cecie Starr and Ralph Taggart
Biology (textbook), a textbook by Neil Campbell, first published in 1987
Miller & Levine Biology, a textb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20law | Uniform law may refer to:
Uniform distribution (disambiguation), any of several concepts in mathematics
Uniform Act, a model statute designed to be adopted by many jurisdictions
A body of harmonised laws, see harmonisation of law
Dress code
School uniform rules or regulations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasul%20Jan | Muhammad Rasul Jan is a Pakistani chemist in the field of analytical chemistry. He served as Vice-Chancellor of University of Malakand from 14 April 2008 till 1 October 2012. He also served as Vice-Chancellor at University of Peshawar and currently he is serving as Vice-Chancellor at the University of Poonch in Rawalak... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam%C3%A9%20function | In mathematics, a Lamé function, or ellipsoidal harmonic function, is a solution of Lamé's equation, a second-order ordinary differential equation. It was introduced in the paper . Lamé's equation appears in the method of separation of variables applied to the Laplace equation in elliptic coordinates. In some special ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Sp%C3%A4rck%20Jones | Karen Spärck Jones (26 August 1935 – 4 April 2007) was a self-taught programmer and a pioneering British computer scientist responsible for the concept of inverse document frequency (IDF), a technology that underlies most modern search engines. She was an advocate for women in the field of computer science. She even c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gewiss%E2%80%93Ballan | Gewiss–Ballan was an Italian-based road bicycle racing team active from 1993 to 1997, named after the Italian electrical engineering company Gewiss. The team was successful in the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France as well as several classics during the early 1990s.
History
The team was sponsored by the Mecair compa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmelin%20database | The Gmelin database is a large database of organometallic and inorganic compounds updated quarterly. It is based on the German publication Gmelins Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie ("Gmelin's Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry") which was originally published by Leopold Gmelin in 1817; the last print edition, the 8th, app... |
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