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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Berg | Gene Berg is a professor of Chemistry at Moorpark College in Moorpark, California.
He has been teaching at Moorpark College since 1970, and became the college's ninth Distinguished Faculty Chair in 2005.
Dr. Berg earned his doctorate in Analytical Chemistry from UCLA.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula%20Szkody | Paula Szkody (born July 17, 1948) is a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington in Seattle. She served as president of the American Astronomical Society from 2020 to 2022.
Early life and education
Szkody was born on July 17, 1948, in Detroit, Michigan. She earned her B.A. degree in ast... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%20theory | In mathematics, Clifford theory, introduced by , describes the relation between representations of a group and those of a normal subgroup.
Alfred H. Clifford
Alfred H. Clifford proved the following result on the restriction of finite-dimensional irreducible representations from a group G to a normal subgroup N of fin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20trigonometry | In mathematics, hyperbolic trigonometry can mean:
The study of hyperbolic triangles in hyperbolic geometry (traditional trigonometry is the study of triangles in plane geometry)
The use of the hyperbolic functions
The use of gyrotrigonometry in hyperbolic geometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wohl | Wohl may refer to:
Chemistry
Wohl–Aue reaction
Wohl degradation
Wohl equation
Wohl–Ziegler bromination
People
Wohl is a spelling of Wahl, which corresponds to English well from German Language well or sure. Also from Polish elected.
Aleksandar Wohl (born 1963), Australian chess player
Alfred Wohl (1863–1939... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Brink | Chris Brink, CBE, FRSSAf (born 31 January 1951) is a South African mathematician and academic. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University between 2007 and December 2016.
Career
After graduating with a degree in maths and computer science from Rand Afrikaans University, Brink undertook post-graduate study at Rh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%20Nieuwland | Julius Aloysius Arthur Nieuwland, CSC, (14 February 1878 – 11 June 1936) was a Belgian-born Holy Cross priest and professor of chemistry and botany at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is known for his contributions to acetylene research and its use as the basis for one type of synthetic rubber, which eventual... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Automated%20Measurement%20and%20Control | Computer-Aided Measurement And Control (CAMAC) is a standard bus and modular-crate electronics standard for data acquisition and control used in particle detectors for nuclear and particle physics and in industry. The bus allows data exchange between plug-in modules (up to 24 in a single crate) and a crate controller, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20Rice%20Rich | Arnold Rice Rich (March 28, 1893 – April 17, 1968) was an American pathologist.
Career
Born March 28, 1893, in Birmingham, Alabama, Rich attended the University of Virginia, majoring in biology, and then the Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland, from which he received his M.D. degree in 1919. He remain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haynes%E2%80%93Shockley%20experiment | In semiconductor physics, the Haynes–Shockley experiment was an experiment that demonstrated that diffusion of minority carriers in a semiconductor could result in a current. The experiment was reported in a short paper by Haynes and Shockley in 1948, with a more detailed version published by Shockley, Pearson, and Ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Strogatz | Steven Henry Strogatz (), born August 13, 1959, is an American mathematician and the Susan and Barton Winokur Distinguished Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Mathematics at Cornell University.
He is known for his work on nonlinear systems, including contributions to the study of synchronization in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units%20of%20energy | Energy is defined via work, so the SI unit of energy is the same as the unit of work – the joule (J), named in honour of James Prescott Joule and his experiments on the mechanical equivalent of heat. In slightly more fundamental terms, is equal to 1 newton metre and, in terms of SI base units
An energy unit that is u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation%20theorem | In mathematics, a representation theorem is a theorem that states that every abstract structure with certain properties is isomorphic to another (abstract or concrete) structure.
Examples
Algebra
Cayley's theorem states that every group is isomorphic to a permutation group.
Representation theory studies propertie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl%20diazoacetate | Ethyl diazoacetate (N=N=CHC(O)OC2H5) is a diazo compound and a reagent in organic chemistry. It was discovered by Theodor Curtius in 1883. The compound can be prepared by reaction of the ethyl ester of glycine with sodium nitrite and sodium acetate in water.
As a carbene precursor, it is used in the cyclopropanation o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRANN | CRANN, the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices, is Ireland's first purpose-built research institute whose purpose is to perform nanoscience research. It is housed in the Naughton Institute on the campus of Trinity College Dublin. is the Irish word for tree.
The three major research areas ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Smirnov%20%28mathematician%29 | Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov () (10 June 1887 – 11 February 1974) was a mathematician who made significant contributions in both pure and applied mathematics, and also in the history of mathematics.
Smirnov worked on diverse areas of mathematics, such as complex functions and conjugate functions in Euclidean spaces. In ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nil%20satis%20nisi%20optimum | Nil satis nisi optimum ("Nothing but the best is good enough") is a Latin phrase which has been used as the motto of the following:
967 Squadron of the Air Training Corps
Everton FC
Carlton le Willows Academy
Clifton Hunter High School
Community for United Biological Sciences
Escondido Charter High School
John D. O'Br... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Centre%20for%20Genetic%20Engineering%20and%20Biotechnology | The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) was established as a project of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in 1983. The Organisation has three Component laboratories with over 45 ongoing research projects in Infectious and Non-communicable diseases, Medical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-sided | In mathematics, specifically in topology of manifolds, a compact codimension-one submanifold of a manifold is said to be 2-sided in when there is an embedding
with for each and
.
In other words, if its normal bundle is trivial.
This means, for example that a curve in a surface is 2-sided if it has a tubular n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice%20reduction | In mathematics, the goal of lattice basis reduction is to find a basis with short, nearly orthogonal vectors when given an integer lattice basis as input. This is realized using different algorithms, whose running time is usually at least exponential in the dimension of the lattice.
Nearly orthogonal
One measure of n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointwise | In mathematics, the qualifier pointwise is used to indicate that a certain property is defined by considering each value of some function An important class of pointwise concepts are the pointwise operations, that is, operations defined on functions by applying the operations to function values separately for each po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTRI%20Aerospace%2C%20Transportation%20and%20Advanced%20Systems%20Laboratory | The Aerospace, Transportation and Advanced Systems Laboratory (ATAS) is one of eight labs in the Georgia Tech Research Institute and one of three labs under the Sensors and Intelligent Systems directorate. ATAS develops advanced systems concepts and performs research related to aerospace systems, power and energy syste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20de%20Paula%20Triesnecker | Franz de Paula Triesnecker (2 April 1745 – 29 January 1817) was an Austrian Jesuit astronomer.
Biography
Triesnecker was born in Mallon, Kirchberg am Wagram, Austria. When he was 16 he joined the Society of Jesus. He studied philosophy in Vienna and mathematics at Tyrnau, then became a teacher. Following the suppress... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTRI%20Information%20and%20Communications%20Laboratory | The Information and Communications Laboratory (ICL) is one of eight labs in the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Along with the GTRI Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory, it is part of the Information and Cyber Sciences directorate. It conducts a broad range of research in areas of computer science, inf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum%20rule | Sum rule may refer to:
Sum rule in differentiation, Differentiation rules #Differentiation is linear
Sum rule in integration, see Integral #Properties
Addition principle, a counting principle in combinatorics
In probability theory, an implication of the additivity axiom, see Probability axioms #Further consequences
Su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactor%20%28software%29 | Reactor is a physics engine developed by the Irish software company Havok for use in Autodesk 3ds Max. Reactor was fully integrated with 3ds Max from versions 5 to 2011. In 3ds Max 2012, Reactor was replaced by a PhysX-based engine called MassFX. Reactor was often used for realistic physics simulation that would be dif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%20H.%20Kroehl | Julius Hermann Kroehl (in German, Kröhl) (1820 – September 9, 1867) was a German American inventor and engineer. He invented and built the first submarine able to dive and resurface on its own, the Sub Marine Explorer, technically advanced for its era. His achievements in architecture, civil and mechanical engineering ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion%20%28disambiguation%29 | Motion is a change in position of an object over time.
Motion(s) or The Motion(s) may also refer to:
Law and government
Motion (legal), a procedural device in law
Motion (parliamentary procedure), a formal proposal by a member of a deliberative assembly
Mathematics, science and technology
Motion (geometry), a ty... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendre%27s%20equation | In mathematics, Legendre's equation is the Diophantine equation
The equation is named for Adrien-Marie Legendre who proved in 1785 that it is solvable in integers x, y, z, not all zero, if and only if
−bc, −ca and −ab are quadratic residues modulo a, b and c, respectively, where a, b, c are nonzero, square-free, pairw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meager | Meager or Meagre may refer to:
Meagre set (also meager set) in mathematics
Mount Meager (British Columbia) in British Columbia, Canada
Mount Meager massif in British Columbia, Canada
Meager Creek, a creek in British Columbia, Canada
Meagre, Argyrosomus regius, a fish |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-abelian%20group | In mathematics, and specifically in group theory, a non-abelian group, sometimes called a non-commutative group, is a group (G, ∗) in which there exists at least one pair of elements a and b of G, such that a ∗ b ≠ b ∗ a. This class of groups contrasts with the abelian groups, where all pairs of group elements commute.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell%20theory | The term shell theory may refer to:
The shell theorem of fields and potentials due to a spherically symmetrical body
Part of the theory of plates and shells in continuum mechanics
The membrane theory of shells in continuum mechanics
The nuclear shell model in quantum mechanics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermathematics | Supermathematics is the branch of mathematical physics which applies the mathematics of Lie superalgebras to the behaviour of bosons and fermions. The driving force in its formation in the 1960s and 1970s was Felix Berezin.
Objects of study include superalgebras (such as super Minkowski space and super-Poincaré algebr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau%20%28disambiguation%29 | Tau (Τ or τ) is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
Tau may also refer to:
Mathematics
Tau (mathematical constant), a circle constant equal to (6.28318...)
Tau test in statistics (tau-a, tau-b and tau-c tests or Kendall tau rank correlation coefficient)
Tau function (disambiguation), several
Geography
Tau, No... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Widrow | Bernard Widrow (born December 24, 1929) is a U.S. professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. He is the co-inventor of the Widrow–Hoff least mean squares filter (LMS) adaptive algorithm with his then doctoral student Ted Hoff. The LMS algorithm led to the ADALINE and MADALINE artificial neural network... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context%20%28computing%29 | In computer science, a task context is the minimal set of data used by a task (which may be a process, thread, or fiber) that must be saved to allow a task to be interrupted, and later continued from the same point. The concept of context assumes significance in the case of interruptible tasks, wherein, upon being inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20neuroscience | From the ancient Egyptian mummifications to 18th-century scientific research on "globules" and neurons, there is evidence of neuroscience practice throughout the early periods of history. The early civilizations lacked adequate means to obtain knowledge about the human brain. Their assumptions about the inner workings ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric%20connection | In mathematics, a metric connection is a connection in a vector bundle E equipped with a bundle metric; that is, a metric for which the inner product of any two vectors will remain the same when those vectors are parallel transported along any curve. This is equivalent to:
A connection for which the covariant derivat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holomorphic%20vector%20bundle | In mathematics, a holomorphic vector bundle is a complex vector bundle over a complex manifold such that the total space is a complex manifold and the projection map is holomorphic. Fundamental examples are the holomorphic tangent bundle of a complex manifold, and its dual, the holomorphic cotangent bundle. A holomo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactic | Tactic(s) or Tactical may refer to:
Tactic (method), a conceptual action implemented as one or more specific tasks
Military tactics, the disposition and maneuver of units on a particular sea or battlefield
Chess tactics
Political tactics
TACTIC (military program), a U.S. military research program conducted by DAR... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balian%E2%80%93Low%20theorem | In mathematics, the Balian–Low theorem in Fourier analysis is named for Roger Balian and Francis E. Low.
The theorem states that there is no well-localized window function (or Gabor atom) g either in time or frequency for an exact Gabor frame (Riesz Basis).
Statement
Suppose g is a square-integrable function on the re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gametrak | Gametrak is a brand of 3-dimensional game control systems based on position tracking, designed for home video game platforms such as video game consoles and personal computers. The first Gametrak was invented in 2000 by Elliott Myers, who developed and guided the Gamester video game peripheral range for Leda Media Prod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesz%20sequence | In mathematics, a sequence of vectors (xn) in a Hilbert space is called a Riesz sequence if there exist constants such that
for all sequences of scalars (an) in the ℓp space ℓ2. A Riesz sequence is called a Riesz basis if
.
Alternatively, one can define the Riesz basis as a family of the form , where is an orth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access%20control%20matrix | In computer science, an access control matrix or access matrix is an abstract, formal security model of protection state in computer systems, that characterizes the rights of each subject with respect to every object in the system. It was first introduced by Butler W. Lampson in 1971.
An access matrix can be envisione... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20biotechnology%20articles |
Biotechnology is a technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food science, and medicine.
Of the many different definitions available, the one formulated by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity is one of the broadest:
"Biotechnology means any technological application that uses biological... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turko-Iranian | Turko-Iranian describes several cultural aspects of Iran, involving various combinations of Turkic and Iranian (or Persian) elements.
The various Turkic and Iranian hybrid traits pertaining to culture, dynasties as well population genetics of various peoples in Central Asia, as well as parts of Southwest Asia and Sout... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20Nanotechnology%20Building | The Marcus Nanotechnology Building (MNB) is a Georgia Institute of Technology facility. The building was constructed on the site of the Electronics Research Building, the former home of GTRI's Information and Communications Laboratory. It was opened on April 24, 2009, as the Marcus Nanotechnology Research Center, a nam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%20Tech%20Europe | Georgia Tech Europe (GTE) is a campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Metz, France and is part of Georgia Tech's International Plan. GTE offers undergraduate and graduate programs in electrical and computer engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, and liberal arts.
Organization
Georgia Tech Eu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin%20B.%20Gottlieb | Melvin Burt Gottlieb (May 25, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois – December 1, 2000 in Haverford Township, Pennsylvania) was a high-energy physicist and director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (1961–1980). With Van Allen he did the early studies of the magnetosphere, and he later led US fusion research.
Personal l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puddling%20%28civil%20engineering%29 | Puddling is both the material and the process of lining a water body such as a channel or pond with puddle clay (puddle, puddling) – a watertight (low hydraulic conductivity) material based on clay and water mixed to be workable.
Puddle clay as a lining
Puddling is used in maintaining canals or reservoirs on permeable... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasing%20%28disambiguation%29 | Phasing may refer to:
Phasing, a technique in musical composition
Phasing, the use of the Phaser (effect), an audio signal processing technique
Science
Phase-out of chlorofluorocarbon
Phase-out of incandescent light bulbs
Fossil fuel phase-out
Phase-out of lightweight plastic bags
Nuclear power phase-out
Entertain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHSV | WHSV may refer to:
Weight Hourly Space velocity (chemistry)
WHSV-TV, a television station (channel 20, virtual 3) licensed to serve Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20A.%20Benner | Steven Albert Benner (born October 23, 1954) is an American chemist. He has been a professor at Harvard University, ETH Zurich, and most recently at the University of Florida, where he was the V.T. & Louise Jackson Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. In 2005, he founded The Westheimer Institute of Science and Technol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glow | Glow or GLOW may refer to:
In science and technology
In computing and telecommunications
Glow (JavaScript library), an open-source JavaScript library created by the BBC
Glow (Scottish Schools National Intranet), a telecommunications project in Scotland
In physics
Incandescence, the emission of electromagnetic rad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetica%20Universalis | Arithmetica Universalis ("Universal Arithmetic") is a mathematics text by Isaac Newton. Written in Latin, it was edited and published by William Whiston, Newton's successor as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. The Arithmetica was based on Newton's lecture notes.
Whiston's original editi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20M.%20Gordon | Deborah M. Gordon (born December 30, 1955) is a biologist, appointed as a professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University.
Major research
Gordon studies ant colony behavior and ecology, with a particular focus on red harvester ants. She focuses on the developing behavior of colonies, even as individual ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simcoe%20Composite%20School | Simcoe Composite School is a high school in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada.
More than 800 students attend this rural secondary school and courses range from English, French, Art, Music, and Mathematics to Computer Sciences, Business, Athletics, Cosmetology, Tech, World History, Civics, and Drama class. Megan Timpf, a repres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Revere | Lawrence Revere (born Griffith K. Owens; November 5, 1915 – April 23, 1977) was an author, casino pit boss, and professional blackjack player best known for his book Playing Blackjack as a Business. Revere played under multiple aliases, including Leonard "Speck" Parsons and Paul Mann.
Education and personal life
Reve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20consumption | Energy consumption is the amount of energy used.
Biology
In the body, energy consumption is part of energy homeostasis. It derived from food energy. Energy consumption in the body is a product of the basal metabolic rate and the physical activity level. The physical activity level are defined for a non-pregnant, non-l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonide | Argonide Corporation is a Florida nanotechnology company. The company was formed in 1994 by American Fred Tepper, partly to provide employment for former Russian (government) scientists. Argonide began offering nanometal powders made by the exploding wire method (EWM) in 1997.
Their main product, NanoCeram, uses alumi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoconjugate | Glycoconjugates are the classification family for carbohydrates – referred to as glycans – which are covalently linked with chemical species such as proteins, peptides, lipids, and other compounds. Glycoconjugates are formed in processes termed glycosylation.
Glycoconjugates are very important compounds in biology and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Glasstone | Samuel Glasstone (3 May 1897 – 16 November 1986) was a British-born American academic and writer of scientific books. He authored over 40 popular textbooks on physical chemistry and electrochemistry, reaction rates, nuclear weapons effects, nuclear reactor engineering, Mars, space sciences, the environmental effects o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow%20fluorescent%20protein | Yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) is a genetic mutant of green fluorescent protein (GFP) originally derived from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria. Its excitation peak is 513 nm and its emission peak is 527 nm. Like the parent GFP, YFP is a useful tool in cell and molecular biology because the excitation and emission peak... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade%20Pool | Arcade Pool is a cue sports simulation game developed and published in 1994 by Team17, initially for the Amiga. The game was later ported to MS-DOS. An Amiga CD32 release followed. The game is a top-down pool simulator with accurate physics. It includes many British and American variations of pool as well as two variat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewald%20summation | Ewald summation, named after Paul Peter Ewald, is a method for computing long-range interactions (e.g. electrostatic interactions) in periodic systems. It was first developed as the method for calculating the electrostatic energies of ionic crystals, and is now commonly used for calculating long-range interactions in c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating%20permutation | In combinatorial mathematics, an alternating permutation (or zigzag permutation) of the set {1, 2, 3, ..., n} is a permutation (arrangement) of those numbers so that each entry is alternately greater or less than the preceding entry. For example, the five alternating permutations of {1, 2, 3, 4} are:
1, 3, 2, 4 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard%20Heis | Eduard Heis (18 February 1806, Cologne – 30 June 1877 in Münster) was a German mathematician and astronomer.
He completed his education at the University of Bonn in 1827, then taught mathematics at a school in Cologne. In 1832 he taught at Aachen, and remained there until 1852. He was then appointed by King Frederick ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20cyclic%20group | In mathematics, a primary cyclic group is a group that is both a cyclic group and a p-primary group for some prime number p.
That is, it is a cyclic group of order p, C, for some prime number p, and natural number m.
Every finite abelian group G may be written as a finite direct sum of primary cyclic groups, as stated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze%20Frank | Hosea Jan "Ze" Frank (; born March 31, 1972) is an American online performance artist, composer, humorist and public speaker based in Los Angeles.
Personal life
Frank was born to German-American parents (his father is Chemistry Nobel Laureate Joachim Frank) and raised in a suburb of Albany, New York. He has a sister, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasis%20maze | The oasis maze is a spatial memory task used in psychology and neuroscience research and is the dry version of the Morris water navigation task. It is a land-based spatial memory task in which a thirsty rat uses distal spatial cues to search an open field for a specific location (Oasis) containing water. The maze consi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capstone%20%28cryptography%29 | Capstone is a United States government long-term project to develop cryptography standards for public and government use. Capstone was authorized by the Computer Security Act of 1987, driven by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA); the project began in 1993.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normative%20mineralogy | Normative mineralogy is a calculation of the composition of a rock sample that estimates the idealised mineralogy of a rock based on a quantitative chemical analysis according to the principles of geochemistry.
Normative mineral calculations can be achieved via either the CIPW Norm or the Barth-Niggli Norm (also known... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hunt%20%28oceanographer%29 | John M. Hunt (1 December 1918 – 23 July 2005) was a geologist, chemist, and oceanographer. He worked at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution beginning in 1968. His specialty was petroleum geochemistry, and he wrote the standard textbook Petroleum Geochemistry and Geology.
References
American oceanographers
Ameri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly%20Vasiliev | Anatoly Alexandrovitch Vasiliev (; born May 4, 1942, Penza Oblast) is a Russian theatre director. He is artistic director of the Moscow Theatre "School of Dramatic Arts", Théâtre de l'Europe, and professor of drama in Lyon, France.
Early years
Vasiliev was born in the Soviet Union and graduated from the faculty of che... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassmann%E2%80%93Cayley%20algebra | In mathematics, a Grassmann–Cayley algebra is the exterior algebra with an additional product, which may be called the shuffle product or the regressive product.
It is the most general structure in which projective properties are expressed in a coordinate-free way.
The technique is based on work by German mathematicia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatheory | A metatheory or meta-theory is a theory the subject matter of which is theory itself, for example as an analysis or description of existing theory. For mathematics and mathematical logic, a metatheory is a mathematical theory about another mathematical theory. Meta-theoretical investigations are part of the philosophy ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Suppes | Patrick Colonel Suppes (; March 17, 1922 – November 17, 2014) was an American philosopher who made significant contributions to philosophy of science, the theory of measurement, the foundations of quantum mechanics, decision theory, psychology and educational technology. He was the Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront%20coding | In optics and signal processing, wavefront coding refers to the use of a phase modulating element in conjunction with deconvolution to extend the depth of field of a digital imaging system such as a video camera.
Wavefront coding falls under the broad category of computational photography as a technique to enhance the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacunary%20value | In complex analysis, a subfield of mathematics, a lacunary value or gap of a complex-valued function defined on a subset of the complex plane is a complex number which is not in the image of the function.
More specifically, given a subset X of the complex plane C and a function f : X → C, a complex number z is called ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%20Prize | The Donald E. Knuth Prize is a prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science, named after the American computer scientist Donald E. Knuth.
History
The Knuth Prize has been awarded since 1996 and includes an award of US$5,000. The prize is awarded by ACM SIGACT and by IEEE Computer Society'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pattern%20on%20the%20Stone | The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work is a book by W. Daniel Hillis, published in 1998 by Basic Books (). The book attempts to explain concepts from computer science in layman's terms by metaphor and analogy.
The book moves from Boolean algebra through topics such as information theory, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Woodruff | Sir Michael Francis Addison Woodruff, (3 April 1911 – 10 March 2001) was an English surgeon and scientist principally remembered for his research into organ transplantation. Though born in London, Woodruff spent his youth in Australia, where he earned degrees in electrical engineering and medicine. Having completed hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPML | UPML may refer to:
Ukrainian Physics and Mathematics Lyceum, a high school in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Uniaxial Perfectly Matched Layer, numerical truncation methodology. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremal%20optimization | Extremal optimization (EO) is an optimization heuristic inspired by the Bak–Sneppen model of self-organized criticality from the field of statistical physics. This heuristic was designed initially to address combinatorial optimization problems such as the travelling salesman problem and spin glasses, although the techn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hana%20Sweid | Hana Sweid (, ; also spelt Hanna Swaid, born 27 March 1955) is an Israeli Arab politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Hadash from 2006 to 2015.
Early life
Born to a Christian Arab family in Eilabun, Sweid studied Civil Engineering at the Technion, gaining a BSc and an MSc. Further studies led to him rece... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum%20%28disambiguation%29 | Momentum, or linear momentum, is a vector quantity in physics.
Momentum may also refer to:
Economics
Momentum (finance), an empirical tendency for rising asset prices to continue to rise
Momentum (technical analysis), an indicator used in technical analysis of asset prices
Momentum investing, a system of buying st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20N.%20Stevens | Kenneth Noble Stevens (March 24, 1924 – August 19, 2013) was the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and professor of health sciences and technology at the research laboratory of electronics at MIT. Stevens was head of the speech communication group in MIT's research laboratory o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuneko%20Okazaki | is a Japanese pioneer of molecular biology known for her work on DNA replication and specifically for discovering Okazaki fragments, along with her husband Reiji. Dr. Tsuneko Okazaki has continued to be involved in academia, contributing to more advancements in DNA research.
Early life and education
Tsuneko Okazaki ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position%20operator | In quantum mechanics, the position operator is the operator that corresponds to the position observable of a particle.
When the position operator is considered with a wide enough domain (e.g. the space of tempered distributions), its eigenvalues are the possible position vectors of the particle.
In one dimension, if ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPW | UPW may refer to:
Union of Post Office Workers, the former name of the Union of Communication Workers, in the United Kingdom.
Ultimate Pro Wrestling, a defunct professional wrestling promotion.
Ultrapure Water, a type of water used during semiconductor manufacturing or chem./physics experiencies.
United Public Workers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval | Retrieval could refer to:
Computer science
RETRIEVE, Tymshare database that inspired dBASE and others
Data retrieval
Document retrieval
Image retrieval
Information retrieval
Knowledge retrieval
Medical retrieval
Music information retrieval
Text retrieval
Psychology
The process of recalling information that i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrase%20search | In computer science, phrase searching allows users to retrieve content from information systems (such as documents from file storage systems, records from databases, and web pages on the internet) that contains a specific order and combination of words defined by the user.
Phrase search is one of many search operators... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Patten | Tim Patten (born 1952) is a former roller derby athlete now a self-published author having seven books under his name.
Early life and education
In 1973, Patten moved from Wisconsin to San Francisco. He studied computer science in college and has worked off and on in the computer industry ever since. Patten skated for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mechanical%20Universe | The Mechanical Universe...And Beyond is a 52-part telecourse, filmed at the California Institute of Technology, that introduces university level physics, covering topics from Copernicus to quantum mechanics. The 1985-86 series was produced by Caltech and INTELECOM, a nonprofit consortium of California community college... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presheaf%20%28category%20theory%29 | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a presheaf on a category is a functor . If is the poset of open sets in a topological space, interpreted as a category, then one recovers the usual notion of presheaf on a topological space.
A morphism of presheaves is defined to be a natural transformation of functors. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20T.%20Todd%20Jr. | Lee Trover Todd Jr. (born May 6, 1946 in Earlington, Kentucky) was the 11th president of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky.
Early life and education
Todd was born in 1946 in Earlington, Kentucky, a small town close to Madisonville. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Univer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto%20Palacio | Alberto de Palacio y Elissague (1856-1939) was a Spanish engineer and architect born in Sare (Northern Basque Country) and grown up in Gordexola.
He studied architecture in Barcelona and completed his education in Paris, studying mathematics, engineering, astronomy and medicine. He was also a student & disciple of Gus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Rudder | Christian Rudder (born September 1, 1975) is an American entrepreneur, writer, and musician.
Education
Rudder graduated from Little Rock Central High School in 1993. He attended Harvard University, graduating with a degree in mathematics in 1998.
SparkNotes
Rudder joined SparkNotes in October 1999, a few months after... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Ludwig%20Kratz | Karl-Ludwig Kratz (born April 23, 1941, in Jena, Thuringia) is a German nuclear chemist and astrophysicist. He is professor for nuclear chemistry at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and adjunct professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.
One of the main interests of Kratz is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20product | In mathematics, especially in the field of group theory, the central product is one way of producing a group from two smaller groups. The central product is similar to the direct product, but in the central product two isomorphic central subgroups of the smaller groups are merged into a single central subgroup of the ... |
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