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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20S.%20Wesson
Paul S. Wesson, B.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.A.S (September 11, 1949 – September 16, 2015) was a professor of astrophysics and theoretical physics. Education and career He was educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge in England, and spent most of his career at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He also spen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20O.%20Chua
Leon Ong Chua (; ; born June 28, 1936) is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist. He is a professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley, which he joined in 1971. He has contributed to nonlinear circuit theory and cellular neural networ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Cussler
Edward L. Cussler (born 1940) is an American chemical engineer and professor in the department of chemical engineering and materials science at the University of Minnesota. He is internationally known for his work in fluid mechanics, transport phenomena, and gas separations, especially in the areas of membranes and gas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20Daeschler
Edward B. 'Ted' Daeschler is an American vertebrate paleontologist and Associate Curator and Chair of Vertebrate Biology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. He is a specialist in fish paleontology, especially in the Late Devonian, and in the development of the first limbed vertebrates. He is the disco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisTrails
VisTrails is a scientific workflow management system developed at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah that provides support for data exploration and visualization. It is written in Python and employs Qt via PyQt bindings. The system is open source, released under the GPL v2 license....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%20Fischer%20%28physicist%29
Fritz Fischer (9 February 1898, Oberdiessbach im Emmenthal BE, Switzerland – 28 December 1947, Zurich, Switzerland) was a technical physicist, engineer and inventor. He was married to Maud Schätti. Fritz Fischer studied electrical engineering at the ETH Zurich from 1917 till 1921 and graduated as Dr. sc. tech in 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alister%20Watson
Alister George Douglas Watson (2 May 1908 – 16 October 1982) was a mathematician who was identified by several writers as a key member of the Cambridge spy ring. Early years Born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, Watson attended Winchester School and studied mathematics at King's College, Cambridge. He was elected a fe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Technology%2C%20Iraq
The University of Technology, Iraq is one of Iraq's largest universities. It is situated in the city of Baghdad, Iraq. The university is specialized in Engineering, Computer Sciences, and Applied Sciences and Technologies. It was founded in 1975. History The university started with steady scientific achievements. It...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20limit
Hard limit may refer to: Clipping (signal processing), in which a 'hard limit' clips an electronic signal at a certain threshold. Limits (BDSM), in which a 'hard limit' is an activity or context for an activity is considered completely off-limits in BDSM scenes and relationships.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engel%20group
In mathematics, an element x of a Lie group or a Lie algebra is called an n-Engel element, named after Friedrich Engel, if it satisfies the ''n-Engel condition that the repeated commutator [...[[x,y],y], ..., y] with n copies of y is trivial (where [x, y] means xyx−1y−1 or the Lie bracket). It is called an Engel eleme...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic%20Rare%20Event%20Search%20with%20Superconducting%20Thermometers
The Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers (CRESST) is a collaboration of European experimental particle physics groups involved in the construction of cryogenic detectors for direct dark matter searches. The participating institutes are the Max Planck Institute for Physics (Munich), Technical Un...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese%28III%29%20oxide
Manganese(III) oxide is a chemical compound with the formula Mn2O3. It occurs in nature as the mineral bixbyite (recently changed to bixbyite-(Mn)) and is used in the production of ferrites and thermistors. Preparation and chemistry Heating MnO2 in air at below 800 °C produces α-Mn2O3 (higher temperatures produce Mn3...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20Can%20Do%20Athletics%2C%20btw
"You Can Do Athletics, btw" was the third single by We Are The Physics and the first to be released from their debut album on new label This Is Fake DIY Records. It is a song about upgrading the human body/posthumanism but is regularly introduced by singer Michael M as 'a song about running very fast'. The single rece...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchberger
Buchberger may refer to: People Bruno Buchberger (born 1942), professor of computer mathematics at Johannes Kepler University Hubert Buchberger (born 1951), German violinist, conductor and music university teacher Kelly Buchberger (born 1966), Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player Kerri Buchberg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative%20elongation%20factor
In molecular biology, the NELF (negative elongation factor) is a four-subunit protein complex (NELF-A, NELF-B, NELF-C/NELF-D, and NELF-E) that negatively impacts transcription by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) by pausing about 20-60 nucleotides downstream from the transcription start site (TSS). Structure The NELF has fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Thomas
Tony Thomas may refer to: Tony Thomas (film historian) (1927-1997) Tony Thomas (footballer) (born 1971), English footballer with Tranmere Rovers, Everton and Motherwell Tony Thomas (guitarist) (aka Tony "Strat" Thomas), American funk and blues guitarist Tony Thomas (physicist) (born 1949), Professor of Physics at ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20E.%20Heiles
Carl Eugene Heiles (born 1939) is an American astrophysicist noted for his contribution to the understanding of diffuse interstellar matter through observational radio astronomy. Biography Heiles was born in Toledo, Ohio. He did his undergraduate work at Cornell University, receiving a degree in engineering physics, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asantha%20Cooray
Asantha R. Cooray is a professor and a chancellor's fellow at University of California, Irvine, California, US, and a member of the research faculty at the California Institute of Technology. His research expertise is in the field of space science, cosmology, astrophysics and is a member of several space-based and NASA...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izold%20Pust%C3%B5lnik
Izold Pustõlnik (Изольд Бенционович Пустыльник, Izold Bentsionovich Pustylnik; 17 March 1938 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR – 2 May 2008 in Tartu, Estonia) was an eminent Estonian astronomer who authored numerous scientific publications and served as editor of the Central European Journal of Physics and vice-chairman of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabolic%20arch
A parabolic arch is an arch in the shape of a parabola. In structures, their curve represents an efficient method of load, and so can be found in bridges and in architecture in a variety of forms. Description The mathematics While a parabolic arch may resemble a catenary arch, a parabola is a quadratic function whil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20lattice
In the mathematics of matroids and lattices, a geometric lattice is a finite atomistic semimodular lattice, and a matroid lattice is an atomistic semimodular lattice without the assumption of finiteness. Geometric lattices and matroid lattices, respectively, form the lattices of flats of finite, or finite and infinite,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Clarke%20%28physicist%29
John Clarke (born 10 February 1942) is a British physicist and a Professor of Experimental Physics at University of California at Berkeley. Clarke received BA, MA, and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge namely Christ's College, Cambridge and Darwin College, Cambridge in 1964, 1968, and 1968, respectivel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nao%20%28robot%29
Nao (pronounced now) is an autonomous, programmable humanoid robot formerly developed by Aldebaran Robotics, a French robotics company headquartered in Paris, which was acquired by SoftBank Group in 2015 and rebranded as SoftBank Robotics. The robot's development began with the launch of Project Nao in 2004. On 15 Augu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Needham
Roger Michael Needham (9 February 1935 – 1 March 2003) was a British computer scientist. Early life and education Needham was born in Birmingham, England, the only child of Phyllis Mary, née Baker (c.1904–1976) and Leonard William Needham (c.1905–1973), a university chemistry lecturer. He attended Doncaster Grammar S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Muthana%20University
Al Muthanna University is an Iraqi university located in Samawah, Al Muthanna Province, Iraq. It was established in 2007. Colleges College of Agriculture College of Education College of Science College of engineering (chemical engineering, civil engineering, Architecture ) College of medicine College of Law College of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Binder
Kurt Binder (10 February 1944 – 27 September 2022) was an Austrian theoretical physicist. Biography He received his Ph.D. in 1969 at the Technical University of Vienna, and his habilitation degree 1973 at the Technical University of Munich. He decided to accept a professorship post for Theoretical Physics at the Saarl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20equation
In mathematics, the Ernst equation is an integrable non-linear partial differential equation, named after the American physicist . The Ernst equation The equation reads: For its Lax pair and other features see e.g. and references therein. Usage The Ernst equation is employed in order to produce the exact solutions...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatt%20Al-Arab%20University%20College
Shatt Al-Arab University College is a private Iraqi university established in 1993 in Basrah in the south of Iraq. Faculties Faculty of Computer Science Faculty of English Language Faculty of Management Faculty of Law Faculty of Economics Faculty of Computer engineering Faculty of Civil engineering Shatt Al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajagopal%20Sathish
Rajagopal Sathish (born 14 January 1981) is an Indian former first-class cricketer who played as an all-rounder. He was captain of the India XI in the Indian Cricket League Twenty20 competition. He played for Tamil Nadu in the Ranji Trophy and for Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. Satish is a mechan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clone%20%28cell%20biology%29
A clone is a group of identical cells that share a common ancestry, meaning they are derived from the same cell. Clonality implies the state of a cell or a substance being derived from one source or the other. Thus there are terms like polyclonal—derived from many clones; oligoclonal—derived from a few clones; and mon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiasma%20%28genetics%29
In genetics, a chiasma (: chiasmata) is the point of contact, the physical link, between two (non-sister) chromatids belonging to homologous chromosomes. At a given chiasma, an exchange of genetic material can occur between both chromatids, what is called a chromosomal crossover, but this is much more frequent during m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Abyzov
Mikhail Anatolyevich Abyzov () is a manager in the Russian energy and engineering industry, He was the chairman of the board of directors of Russia's biggest engineering company, E4 Group. Education Abyzov studied at the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University, but never graduated. Abyzov ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Fox
Dr. Albert Whiting Fox (29 April 1881 – 29 April 1964) was an American chess master. Chess career Born in Boston, he spent a few years in Germany, studying mathematics. By the end of his sojourn in Europe, he won several brilliant games in 1900 and 1901 at Café de la Régence in Paris, and in Antwerp and Heidelberg. F...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie%20Goode
Jamie Goode is a British author with a PhD in plant biology, and a wine columnist of The Sunday Express. Goode also contributes to wine publications such as Harpers, The World of Fine Wine, Decanter, GrapesTALK and Sommelier Journal. Goode played guitar in folk rock band Tintagel which released the album Sword and Ston...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juncheng%20Wei
Juncheng Wei (; born 1968) is a Chinese mathematician working in the area of nonlinear partial differential equations, nonlinear analysis and mathematical biology. Since 1994, he has over 470 published articles in top journals, including Annals of Mathematics, Inventiones Mathematicae, Communications on Pure and Appli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolico%E2%80%93Giancarlo%20algorithm
In computer science, the Apostolico–Giancarlo algorithm is a variant of the Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm, the basic application of which is searching for occurrences of a pattern in a text . As with other comparison-based string searches, this is done by aligning to a certain index of and checking whether a m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle%20value
Principle value may refer to: Principle value (ethics) Cauchy principal value (mathematics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20Stanley%20Williams
Richard Stanley Williams (born 1951) is a research scientist in the field of nanotechnology and a Senior Fellow and the founding director of the Quantum Science Research Laboratory at Hewlett-Packard. He has over 57 patents, with 40 more patents pending. At HP, he led a group that developed a working solid state versio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20City%20College%20of%20New%20York%20people
The following is a list of notable alumni and faculty of the City College of New York. Nobel laureates Julius Axelrod 1933 – Nobel laureate in Medicine, 1970 Kenneth Arrow 1940 – Nobel laureate in Economics, 1972 Robert J. Aumann 1950 – Nobel laureate in Economics, 2005 Herbert Hauptman 1937 – Nobel laureate in C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard%20Linnemann
Eduard Linnemann (2 February 1841 – 4 April 1886) was a German chemist. He studied chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and at the University of Karlsruhe. After he received his Ph.D. he worked with Kekulé at the University of Ghent and with Leopold von Pebal at the University of Lemberg. He was appointed profess...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilio%20saharae
Papilio saharae, the Sahara swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found in North Africa and Arabia. Biology The larva feeds on Deverra chloranthus, Deverra scopularia, Seseli varium, Ferula communis and Pycnocyla glauca. Subspecies Papilio saharae saharae (North Africa, Arabia) Papilio sahara...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietmar%20Dath
Dietmar Dath (born 3 April 1970) is a German author, journalist and translator. Life Born in Rheinfelden, Dath grew up in Schopfheim, Germany, and finished high school in Freiburg. After civilian service he studied German studies and physics in Freiburg. He lives in Freiburg, Frankfurt and Leipzig. Since 1990 he has ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Emich
Friedrich Emich (5 September 1860 – 22 January 1940) was an Austrian chemist. Emich is recognized as the founder of microchemistry and worked at Graz University of Technology. Together with his colleague from the University of Graz, Fritz Pregl he perfected the work in small scales analysis. Fritz Pregl was awarded th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Bunny
Blue Bunny may refer to: Blue Bunny, ice cream produced by Wells Dairy in Iowa, USA Blue Bunny, ten-kiloton nuclear mine, later renamed Blue Peacock, using the Blue Danube physics package. Blue Bunny, flight suit ("Suit, Flyers, Electrically Heated, Type F-1")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell%20Electron%20Storage%20Ring
The Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR, pronounced Caesar) is a particle accelerator operated by Cornell University and located 40 feet beneath a football field on their Ithaca campus. The accelerator has contributed to fundamental research in high energy physics and accelerator physics, as well as solid state physic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUSB
CUSB (Columbia University-Stony Brook) was a particle detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring. CUSB, along with CLEO, discovered both the Υ(3S) and Υ(4S) meson resonances. They also produced studies of the photon transitions between the Upsilon states and B meson decays. References Particle physics facilitie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Wohl
Alfred Wohl (3 October 1863 – 25 December 1939) was a German chemist. Several chemical reactions are named after him, including the Wohl degradation, Wohl-Aue reaction and the Wohl-Ziegler reaction. Life Wohl studied chemistry at the University of Heidelberg from 1882 until 1886. He received his Ph.D 1886 for work o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skew-symmetric%20graph
In graph theory, a branch of mathematics, a skew-symmetric graph is a directed graph that is isomorphic to its own transpose graph, the graph formed by reversing all of its edges, under an isomorphism that is an involution without any fixed points. Skew-symmetric graphs are identical to the double covering graphs of b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peadar%20%C3%93%20Gealac%C3%A1in
Peadar Uí Gealacáin, aka Peter Galligan (17 March 1792 – Feb. 1860) was an Irish scribe and hedge school master. Of Ballymacane (or Ballymacain) townland in the parish of Moynalty, Kilmainhamwood, Kells, County Meath, Ó Gealacáin was by 1814 a hedge school master, being educated in Irish, English, and mathematics. In...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie%20Worth
Valerie Worth Bahlke (October 29, 1933 – July 31, 1994) was an American poet and writer of children's books under her maiden name, Valerie Worth. Biography Valerie Worth was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where her father taught biology at Swarthmore College. In 1947, the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20W.%20Woodruff%20School%20of%20Mechanical%20Engineering
The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering is the oldest and second largest department in the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The school offers degree programs in mechanical engineering and nuclear and radiological engineering that are accredited by ABET. In its 2019 ranking ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20B.%20Knox
Eric B. Knox (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1993) is a Research Scientist at the Indiana University Biology Department and the Director of the Indiana University Herbarium where he optimizes laboratory protocols and studies the flora of Indiana. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Unive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Robertson%20%28geneticist%29
Alan Robertson (21 February 1920 – 25 April 1989) was an English population geneticist. Originally a chemist, he was recruited after the Second World War to work on animal genetics on behalf of the British government, and continued in this sphere until his retirement in 1985. He was a major influence in the widespread...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinary%20Center%20for%20Scientific%20Computing
The Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (short IWR) is a scientific research institute of the Heidelberg University, Germany. It centralizes scientific activity and promotes research and work in scientific computing. Founded in 1987 by the Heidelberg University and the state of Baden-Württemberg, IWR part...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20sensitivity
Spectral sensitivity is the relative efficiency of detection, of light or other signal, as a function of the frequency or wavelength of the signal. In visual neuroscience, spectral sensitivity is used to describe the different characteristics of the photopigments in the rod cells and cone cells in the retina of the ey...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercompact
In mathematics, the term supercompact may refer to: In set theory, a supercompact cardinal In topology, a supercompact space.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebeca%20Moreno
Rebeca Moreno (born June 17, 1986, in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran beauty queen who won the Nuestra Belleza Universo El Salvador pageant in 2008. She is studying for her bachelor's degree in mathematics. She was the shortest contestant in Miss Universe 2008 and won the title of Miss Congeniality. She is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Dewan
Leon Dewan is an American artist, inventor, and musician. He collaborates with Brian Dewan on Dewanatron, an electronic music instrument project. The son of an inventor, Dewan received a degree in physics from Yale University in 1989. His musical career draws on this background in physics, and heavily incorporates e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie%20Ethel%20Cone
Bonnie Ethel Cone (June 22, 1907 – March 8, 2003) was an American educator best known as the founder of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Cone was born to a prominent family in Lodge, South Carolina where her father served as Mayor. She earned her B.A. from Coker College and an M.A. in mathematics from Du...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Yarmouk%20University%20College
Al Yarmouk University College is a private Iraqi university established in 1996 in Diyala and the Medical Departments lie in Baghdad, Iraq. Faculties Dentistry Pharmacy Computer Engineering Techniques Computer Science Pathological Analysis Techniques English Language Arabic Language Law See also List of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristian%27s%20algorithm
Cristian's algorithm (introduced by Flaviu Cristian in 1989) is a method for clock synchronization which can be used in many fields of distributive computer science but is primarily used in low-latency intranets. Cristian observed that this simple algorithm is probabilistic, in that it only achieves synchronization if ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polypure
Polypure is a Norwegian company that manufactures and markets monodisperse PEG (polyethylene glycol) derivatives for applications in nanotechnology, biotechnology and in pharmaceutical sciences. Its headquarters are located in the Oslo Innovation Center, Oslo, Norway. The company has been in operation since 1999. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omsk%20State%20Technical%20University
Omsk State Technical University (OmSTU) in Omsk, Russia, is an educational institution in the Western Siberian Region. Omsk State Technical University (OmSTU) was established in 1942. Bachelor courses Mechanical Engineering Design-Technological Support Machine-Building Manufacturing Materials Science And Technolo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Schindhelm
Michael Schindhelm (born 1 October 1960 in Eisenach, Thuringia) is a German-born Swiss author, filmmaker and curator. Biography Academic studies Schindhelm grew up in the former GDR and completed his Abitur with an emphasis on chemistry. He studied at the Voronezh State University in the former Soviet Union graduatin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodynamic%20potential-flow%20code
In fluid dynamics, aerodynamic potential flow codes or panel codes are used to determine the fluid velocity, and subsequently the pressure distribution, on an object. This may be a simple two-dimensional object, such as a circle or wing, or it may be a three-dimensional vehicle. A series of singularities as sources, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20of%20Young%20Geographers
School of Young Geographers () is an extracurricular educational body that prepares primary and secondary school students in geography, geology, environmental science and other related disciplines. The school was founded on 23 February 1975 by a group of students of the Faculty of Geography of the University of Latvia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen%20Quoc%20Quan
Dr. Nguyen Quoc Quan (, born November 20, 1953) is a Vietnamese-born American mathematics researcher and human rights activist and a member of the leadership committee of the anti-communist organization Viet Tan. He was detained in April 17, 2012 after arriving at Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. On A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Mulzer
Johann Hermann Wolfgang Mulzer is a German organic chemist, best known for his work in total synthesis. Since 1996, he has been a professor of chemistry at the University of Vienna (Universität Wien). Awards 1994 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 1997 Ernst Schering Prize 2010 Emil Fischer Medal. Notes References 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthese
Synthese () is a scholarly periodical specializing in papers in epistemology, methodology, and philosophy of science, and related issues. Its subject area is divided into four specialties, with a focus on the first three: (1) "epistemology, methodology, and philosophy of science, all broadly understood"; (2) "foundatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Mansour%20University%20College
Al-Mansour University College is a private Iraqi university established in 1988 in Baghdad, Iraq. Faculties Al-Mansour University College (MUC) consists of the following Departments: Civil Engineering Department Communications Engineering Department Computer Technology Engineering Department Computer Engineering...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Theory%20of%20Island%20Biogeography
The Theory of Island Biogeography is a 1967 book by the ecologist Robert MacArthur and the biologist Edward O. Wilson. It is widely regarded as a seminal work in island biogeography and ecology. The Princeton University Press reprinted the book in 2001 as a part of the "Princeton Landmarks in Biology" series. The book ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annick%20M%C3%A9nardo
Annick Ménardo is a contemporary perfumer who has worked for the fragrance firm Firmenich since 1991. Education Ménardo has a background in biochemistry and medicine. She studied perfumery and is a graduate of the French perfume academy ISIPCA. She was mentored by Michel Almairac while working at Créations Aromatiques...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arun%20G.%20Phadke
Arun Phadke is a University Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. Along with fellow Virginia Tech professor James Thorp, Dr. Phadke received The Franklin Institute's 2008 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering for their contributions to t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance-hereditary%20graph
In graph theory, a branch of discrete mathematics, a distance-hereditary graph (also called a completely separable graph) is a graph in which the distances in any connected induced subgraph are the same as they are in the original graph. Thus, any induced subgraph inherits the distances of the larger graph. Distance-h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%2C%20Civics%20and%20Sciences%20Charter%20School
The Mathematics, Civics and Sciences Charter School (MCSCS) is a charter school serving students in grades 1–12 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1999, the school is located in the Center City neighborhood and had a 100% graduation rate in 2015–2016. History The Mathematics, Civics and Sciences ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflection%20%28physics%29
In physics, deflection is a change in a moving object's velocity, hence its trajectory, as a consequence of contact (collision) with a surface or the influence of a non-contact force field. Examples of the former include a ball bouncing off the ground or a bat; examples of the latter include a beam of electrons used to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20metal%20indenyl%20complex
In organometallic chemistry, a transition metal indenyl complex is a coordination compound that contains one or more indenyl ligands. The indenyl ligand is formally the anion derived from deprotonation of indene. The η5-indenyl ligand is related to the η5cyclopentadienyl anion (Cp), thus indenyl analogues of many cycl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.C.%20Mits
T.C. Mits (acronym for "the celebrated man in the street"), is a term coined by Lillian Rosanoff Lieber to refer to an everyman. In Lieber's works, T.C. Mits was a character who made scientific topics more approachable to the public audience. The phrase has enjoyed sparse use by authors in fields such as molecular bio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried%20Christoph%20Beireis
Gottfried Christoph Beireis (2 March 1730 – 18 September 1809) was a German chemist and doctor. He was also a collector of curiosities who rescued some of Jacques de Vaucanson's automata. Biography Beireis was born in Mühlhausen. He taught anatomy, medicine, surgery, chemistry, botany, natural history, pharmacy, miner...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif%20Tronstad
Leif Hans Larsen Tronstad DSO, OBE (27 March 1903 – 11 March 1945) was a Norwegian inorganic chemist, intelligence officer and military organizer. He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1927 and was a prolific researcher and writer of academic publications. A professor of chemistry at the Norwegian ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Georg%20Bock
Hans Georg Bock (born 9 May 1948) is a German university professor for mathematics and scientific computing. He has served as managing director of Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing of Heidelberg University from 2005 to 2017. Before this, he had been vice managing director from 1993 to 2004. Hans Georg ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi%20Fermi%20level
A quasi Fermi level (also called imref, which is "fermi" spelled backwards) is a term used in quantum mechanics and especially in solid state physics for the Fermi level (chemical potential of electrons) that describes the population of electrons separately in the conduction band and valence band, when their population...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20multiple%20shooting%20method
In the area of mathematics known as numerical ordinary differential equations, the direct multiple shooting method is a numerical method for the solution of boundary value problems. The method divides the interval over which a solution is sought into several smaller intervals, solves an initial value problem in each of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming-Jun%20Lai
Ming-Jun Lai is an American mathematician, currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Georgia. His area of research is splines and their numerical analysis. He has published a text on splines called Splines Functions on Triangulations. He was born in Hangzhou, China. Lai received a B.Sc. from Hangzhou ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician%20Data%20Query
Physician Data Query (PDQ) is the US National Cancer Institute's (NCI) comprehensive cancer database. It contains peer-reviewed summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, and supportive care, and complementary and alternative medicine; a registry of more than 6,000 open and 17,000 closed cancer cli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Bates%20%28technologist%29
Jeff Bates, also known as hemos, is the co-founder of Slashdot along with Rob Malda ("CmdrTaco"). Biography Bates graduated from Holland Christian High School in 1994 and received a Bachelor's degree in History and Biology from Hope College in 1998. Malda and Bates created Slashdot in 1997, while undergraduates at ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Arctic%20Buoy%20Program
The International Arctic Buoy Program is headquartered at the Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington, United States. The program's objectives include to provide meteorological and oceanographic data in order to support operations and research for UNESCO's Wor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleotide%20universal%20IDentifier
The nucleotide universal IDentifier (nuID) in molecular biology, is designed to uniquely and globally identify oligonucleotide microarray probes. Background Oligonucleotide probes of microarrays that are sequence identical may have different identifiers between manufacturers and even between different versions of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Mills%20%28college%20president%29
Barry Mills (born September 8, 1950) is an American attorney and academic who served as the fourteenth president of Bowdoin College. Early life and education A native of Warwick, Rhode Island, Mills graduated cum laude with a double major in biochemistry and government from Bowdoin College in 1972. He then went on to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel%20Shadbolt
Sir Nigel Richard Shadbolt (born 9 April 1956) is Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. He is chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Tim Berners-Lee. He is also a visiting professor in the School of Electr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Markert%20%28physicist%29
John T. Markert is a professor in The University of Texas at Austin physics department and was department chair from 2005 to 2009. His group has done extensive research on high temperature superconducting materials, high-q oscillator experiments, dynamics of ferromagnets, nuclear magnetic resonance microscopy and spect...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan%20Vandewalle
Johan Vandewalle (born 15 February 1960) is a Belgian linguist. He teaches at Ghent University and specializes in Turkic languages. Life Vandewalle first became interested in Turkish at the age of thirteen, during a family holiday to Turkey. He initially studied civil engineering and architecture, before deciding to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20history%20of%20the%20British%20Isles
The genetic history of the British Isles is the subject of research within the larger field of human population genetics. It has developed in parallel with DNA testing technologies capable of identifying genetic similarities and differences between both modern and ancient populations. The conclusions of population gene...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean%20%28disambiguation%29
Mean is a term used in mathematics and statistics. Mean may also refer to: Music Mean (album), a 1987 album by Montrose "Mean" (song), a 2010 country song by Taylor Swift from Speak Now "Mean", a song by Pink from Funhouse Meane, or mean, a vocal music term from 15th and 16th century England Other uses Content (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity
Negativity may refer to: Negativity (quantum mechanics), a measure of quantum entanglement in quantum mechanics Negative charge of electricity Electronegativity, a chemical property pertaining to the ability to attract electrons Positivity/negativity ratio, in behavioral feedback. Negativity effect, a psychologic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA%20immunoprecipitation%20chip
RIP-chip (RNA immunoprecipitation chip) is a molecular biology technique which combines RNA immunoprecipitation with a microarray. The purpose of this technique is to identify which RNA sequences interact with a particular RNA binding protein of interest in vivo. It can also be used to determine relative levels of gene...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactol
In organic chemistry, a lactol is a functional group which is the cyclic equivalent of a hemiacetal () or a hemiketal (). The compound is formed by the intramolecular, nucleophilic addition of a hydroxyl group () to the carbonyl group () of an aldehyde () or a ketone (). A lactol is often found as an equilibrium mixtu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMX
MMX may refer to: 2010, in Roman numerals Science and technology MMX (instruction set), a single-instruction, multiple-data instruction set designed by Intel MMX Mineração, a Brazilian mining company Martian Moons eXploration, a Japanese mission to retrieve samples from Mars' moon Phobos Michelson–Morley experim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Rapp
Anne Rapp is an American filmmaker, screenwriter and script supervisor. She has worked on more than 50 feature films since 1981 and collaborated with filmmaker Robert Altman during the last decade of his career. Early life Rapp was born in Texas. She got a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Wayland Baptist College...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ill%20Chemistry
Ill Chemistry is a spoken word/beatboxing/hip hop group based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The group consists of Carnage the Executioner and Desdamona. History Ill Chemistry's members, Desdamona and Carnage the Executioner met in 1998 at a cafe in Minneapolis's Dinkytown neighborhood, where they exchanged...