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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor%20Rhodin | Thor Nathaniel Rhodin (December 9, 1920 – February 17, 2006) was an American professor of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University and the University of Chicago's James Franck Institute, and is credited with pioneering work in the birth and evolution of surface science beginning with his research on surfac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%20M.%20Tromp | Dr. Rudolf Maria "Ruud" Tromp (born 3 September 1954, Alkmaar) is a Dutch American scientist at IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center and a Physics Professor at Leiden University.
Education
He attended Petrus Canisius College The Lyceum (Alkmaar).
1982 Ph.D. in physics from the University of Utrecht ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Bruce%20Lindsay | Robert Bruce Lindsay (1 January 1900 – 2 March 1985) was an American physicist and physics professor, known for his prolific authorship of physics books in acoustics, and historical and philosophical analyses of physics.
Biography
R(obert) Bruce Lindsay's January 1, 1900, birth date hailed a new century. At the age of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz%20Leon%20Wi%C5%9Bniewski | Janusz Leon Wiśniewski (born 18 August 1954 in Toruń) is a Polish scientist and writer mostly known for his novel S@motność w Sieci translated into English as Loneliness on the Net.
Wiśniewski holds a Master in Physics and Master in Economics, both qualifications obtained from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfson%20Brain%20Imaging%20Centre | The Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre (WBIC) is a UK Biomedical Imaging Centre, located at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, England, on the Cambridge Bio-Medical Campus at the southwestern end of Hills Road. It is a division of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences of the University of Cambridge.
The Centre opened i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnab%20Chakrabarty | Arnab Chakrabarty (born 19 September 1980) is a Hindustani classical musician and sarod player based in Toronto, Canada.
Early life and education
Arnab Chakrabarty grew up in Mumbai, where his father was a professor of chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology. His tutelage commenced under the sarod exponent Bri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Ruvkun | Gary Bruce Ruvkun (born March 1952, Berkeley, California) is an American molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Ruvkun discovered the mechanism by which lin-4, the first microRNA (miRNA) discovered by Victor Ambros, regulates the translatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worknet | A worknet is the term coined to describe a group of online participants and applications to collaborate a certain cause or purpose. It is an area that is concerned with the intersection of organizational behavior and computer science. The activity is called worknetting and was described in 2007 as a new trend for 2008... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahum%20Sonenberg | Nahum Sonenberg, (; born December 29, 1946) is an Israeli Canadian microbiologist and biochemist. He is a James McGill professor of biochemistry at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an HHMI international research scholar from 1997 to 2011 and is now a senior international research scholar. He is be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyse%20Charas | Moyse Charas, or Moses Charas (2 April 1619 – 17 January 1698), was an apothecary in France during the reign of Louis XIV. He became famous for publishing compendiums of medication formulas, which played vital roles in the development of modern pharmacy and chemistry. He is best remembered for his medical compendium p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyz | Phyz (Dax Phyz) is a public domain, 2.5D physics engine with built-in editor and DirectX graphics and sound. In contrast to most other real-time physics engines, it is vertex based and stochastic. Its integrator is based on a SIMD-enabled assembly version of the Mersenne Twister random number generator, instead of trad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denys%20Wilkinson%20Building | The Denys Wilkinson Building is a prominent 1960s building in Oxford, England, designed by Philip Dowson at Arup in 1967.
Overview
The building houses the astrophysics and particle physics sub-departments of the Department of Physics at Oxford University, plus the undergraduate teaching laboratories. It was originally... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena%20Corregido | Elena Mercedes Corregido (born 4 December 1956, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. She sat in the Argentine Senate for Chaco Province in the majority Front for Victory block from 2007 to 2013.
Corregido was educated at the República de Honduras National School and graduated as a chemistry tea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic%20Elias | Vic Elias (1948–2006) was a poet who was born in Chicago, Illinois, and emigrated to Canada in 1979. Settling in London, Ontario, he was a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario. He was also an Affiliate Member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario. In 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Forsythe | George Elmer Forsythe (January 8, 1917 – April 9, 1972) was an American computer scientist and numerical analyst who founded and led Stanford University's Computer Science Department. Forsythe is often credited with coining the term "computer science" and is recognized as a founding figure in the field.
Forsythe came ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmut%20Surmann | Hartmut Surmann (born 1963 in Dülmen, West Germany) is a roboticist and Professor for Autonomous Systems at Applied University of Gelsenkirchen and Researcher at the Fraunhofer Society's Institut Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssystem (IAIS). His primary research interests are autonomous mobile robotics and
comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Josef%20Oomens | Wilhelm Josef Oomens SJ (14 September 1918 – 27 June 2008) was a Dutch Jesuit and painter.
Wilhelm Josef Oomens was born in The Hague, Netherlands. He studied mathematics, physics and psychology. In 1949, he entered the congregation of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and begun a study of philosophy and Catholic theolog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20Eugene%20Stanley | Harry Eugene Stanley (born March 28, 1941) is an American physicist and University Professor at Boston University. He has made seminal contributions to statistical physics and is one of the pioneers of interdisciplinary science. His current research focuses on understanding the anomalous behavior of liquid water, but h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic%20science | Aquatic science is the study of the various bodies of water that make up our planet including oceanic and freshwater environments. Aquatic scientists study the movement of water, the chemistry of water, aquatic organisms, aquatic ecosystems, the movement of materials in and out of aquatic ecosystems, and the use of wat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Riederer | Peter Riederer (born 21 March 1942) is a German neuroscientist with several thousands of citations and around 950 scientific writings. He has published more than 620 scientific papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals that are indexed in Medline. He has been author and co-author of more than 20 books relevant to the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20number%20%28chemistry%29 | The concept of magic numbers in the field of chemistry refers to a specific property (such as stability) for only certain representatives among a distribution of structures. It was first recognized by inspecting the intensity of mass-spectrometric signals of rare gas cluster ions.
In case a gas condenses into clusters... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columnaria | Columnaria is an extinct genus of rugose coral that lived from the Late Ordovician to the Late Devonian. Its remains have been found in Australia, Europe, and North America.
Sources
Columnaria at the Field Museum's Evolving Planet
External links
Columnaria in the Paleobiology Database
Rugosa
Prehistoric Hexacorall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyptocrinus | Glyptocrinus is an extinct genus of sea lily that lived from the Middle Ordovician to the Early Silurian (471.8 - 436.0 Ma). Its remains have been found in North America.
References
External links
Glyptocrinus in the Field Museum's Evolving Planet
Glyptocrinus in the Paleobiology Database
Monobathrida
Prehistoric cr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reteocrinus | Reteocrinus is an extinct genus of sea lily that lived in the Middle to Late Ordovician. Its remains have been found in North America.
Sources
Reteocrinus in the Field Museum's Evolving Planet
External links
Reteocrinus in the Paleobiology Database
Diplobathrida
Prehistoric crinoid genera
Ordovician crinoids
Ordov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptocrinites | Eucalyptocrinites is an extinct genus of crinoid that lived from the Silurian to the Middle Devonian. Its remains have been found in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America.
Sources
Eucalyptocrinites in the Paleobiology Database
Monobathrida
Prehistoric crinoid genera
Silurian crinoids
Devonian crinoids
Paleozo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e%20Moissan | The Musée Moissan is a museum dedicated to Henri Moissan (1852–1907), winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. It is maintained by the Université René Descartes-Paris 5 faculty of pharmaceutical and biological sciences, and located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris at 4, avenue de l'Observatoire, Paris, France. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogitBoost | In machine learning and computational learning theory, LogitBoost is a boosting algorithm formulated by Jerome Friedman, Trevor Hastie, and Robert Tibshirani.
The original paper casts the AdaBoost algorithm into a statistical framework. Specifically, if one considers AdaBoost as a generalized additive model and then ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Pounds | Kenneth Alwyne Pounds, CBE, FRS (born 17 November 1934) is Emeritus Professor of physics at the University of Leicester.
Early life
He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, where he went to Salt Grammar School (now Titus Salt School in Baildon). He then attended University College London where he gained his BSc and in 1961... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico%20Persico | Enrico Persico (August 9, 1900 – June 17, 1969) was an Italian physicist notable for propagating the field of quantum mechanics in Italy. He was a professor at the University of Turin and is also notable as the doctoral advisor of Ugo Fano.
Career
Persico was born in Rome on 9 August 1900. During his university years ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Burgman | Mark A. Burgman is an Australian ecologist, Professor in Risk Analysis & Environmental Policy and former Director of the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Conservation Biology. He was Director of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis (ACERA), l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemically%20inert | In chemistry, the term chemically inert is used to describe a substance that is not chemically reactive. From a thermodynamic perspective, a substance is inert, or nonlabile, if it is thermodynamically unstable (positive standard Gibbs free energy of formation) yet decomposes at a slow, or negligible rate.
Most of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, Tucker's lemma is a combinatorial analog of the Borsuk–Ulam theorem, named after Albert W. Tucker.
Let T be a triangulation of the closed n-dimensional ball . Assume T is antipodally symmetric on the boundary sphere . That means that the subset of simplices of T which are in provides a triangulation o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurobot | Eurobot is an international robotics contest dedicated to universities and robotics clubs.
History
Eurobot, whose first edition took place in May 1998 in Paris was created by Nicolas Goldzahl (president of VM Productions) with the help of the association Planet Science, 4 years after the creation of the French cup of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Tr%C4%85bka | Jan J. Trąbka (21 June 1931 – 27 July 2012) was a full professor of neurological and computer sciences at the Jagiellonian University Medical College. He went to the Faculty of Medicine of the Kraków Academy of Medicine and received his MD from the Academy of Medicine, Kraków in 1955 and defended his PhD in 1961, thes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20Morse%20theory | Discrete Morse theory is a combinatorial adaptation of Morse theory developed by Robin Forman. The theory has various practical applications in diverse fields of applied mathematics and computer science, such as configuration spaces, homology computation, denoising, mesh compression, and topological data analysis.
Not... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Arthur%20Jennings | Stephen Arthur Jennings (May 11, 1915 – February 2, 1979) was a mathematician who made contributions to the study of modular representation theory . His advisor was Richard Brauer, and his student Rimhak Ree discovered two infinite series of finite simple groups known as the Ree groups. Jennings was an editor of Math... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes%20stream%20function | In fluid dynamics, the Stokes stream function is used to describe the streamlines and flow velocity in a three-dimensional incompressible flow with axisymmetry. A surface with a constant value of the Stokes stream function encloses a streamtube, everywhere tangential to the flow velocity vectors. Further, the volume fl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polylysine | Polylysine refers to several types of lysine homopolymers, which may differ from each other in terms of stereochemistry (D/L; the L form is natural and usually assumed) and link position (α/ε). Of these types, only ε-poly-L-lysine is produced naturally.
Chemical structure
The precursor amino acid lysine contains two ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Philip%20Sidney%20game | In biology and game theory, the Sir Philip Sidney game is used as a model for the evolution and maintenance of informative communication between relatives. Developed by John Maynard Smith as a model for chick begging behavior, it has been studied extensively including the development of many modified versions.
It was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb%20wave%20function | In mathematics, a Coulomb wave function is a solution of the Coulomb wave equation, named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. They are used to describe the behavior of charged particles in a Coulomb potential and can be written in terms of confluent hypergeometric functions or Whittaker functions of imaginary argument.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPASS | SPASS is an automated theorem prover for first-order logic with equality developed at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science and using the superposition calculus. The name originally stood for Synergetic Prover Augmenting Superposition with Sorts. The theorem-proving system is released under the FreeBSD license.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory%20Physics | Factory Physics is a book written by Wallace Hopp and Mark Spearman, which introduces a science of operations for manufacturing management. According to the book's preface, Factory Physics is "a systematic description of the underlying behavior of manufacturing systems. Understanding it enables managers and engineers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier%E2%80%93Bros%E2%80%93Iagolnitzer%20transform | In mathematics, the FBI transform or Fourier–Bros–Iagolnitzer transform is a generalization of the Fourier transform developed by the French mathematical physicists Jacques Bros and Daniel Iagolnitzer in order to characterise the local analyticity of functions (or distributions) on Rn. The transform provides an alterna... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20T.%20Schafer | Alice Turner Schafer (June 18, 1915 – September 27, 2009) was an American mathematician. She was one of the founding members of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 1971.
Early life
Alice Elizabeth Turner was born on June 18, 1915, in Richmond, Virginia. She received a full scholarship to study at the Universit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recruitment%20%28disambiguation%29 | Recruitment is the process of filling job vacancies with people.
Recruitment or recruiting may also refer to:
Recruitment (biology), the process of developing the next generation of organisms
College recruiting, the process in college athletics whereby coaches add new players to their roster
Military recruitment, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%20Cassiman | Jean-Jacques Cassiman (25 April 1943 – 5 August 2022) was a Belgian geneticist and professor of human genetics.
Education and career
He graduated in 1967 from the Department of Medical Sciences of the Catholic University of Leuven and then did five years research on human genetics at Stanford University in the United ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Sun | Ron Sun is a cognitive scientist who made significant contributions to computational psychology and other areas of cognitive science and artificial intelligence. He is currently professor of cognitive sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and formerly the James C. Dowell Professor of Engineering and Professor o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20Resource%20Center | The Ohio Resource Center (ORC) for mathematics, science and reading, a project of the State University Education Deans, has been funded by the Ohio General Assembly and established by the Ohio Board of Regents to:
Identify effective instructional and professional development resources and best practices and disseminate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%20Vinay%20Shahi | R.V. Shahi is the Chairman of Energy Infratech Private Limited. He previously served as the Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Power and formerly the Chairman and Managing Director of Bombay Suburban Electric Supply Limited.
Early life and education
He graduated in mechanical engineering from the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallophilic%20interaction | In chemistry, a metallophilic interaction is defined as a type of non-covalent attraction between heavy metal atoms. The atoms are often within Van der Waals distance of each other and are about as strong as hydrogen bonds. The effect can be intramolecular or intermolecular. Intermolecular metallophilic interactions ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20semigroup | In mathematics, an automatic semigroup is a finitely generated semigroup equipped with several regular languages over an alphabet representing a generating set. One of these languages determines "canonical forms" for the elements of the semigroup, the other languages determine if two canonical forms represent elements ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20E.%20Brus | Louis Eugene Brus (born 10 August 1943) is the Samuel Latham Mitchell Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He is the co-discoverer of the colloidal semi-conductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Early life and education
Louis Eugene Brus was born in 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Jessell | Thomas Michael Jessell (2 August 1951 – 28 April 2019) was the Claire Tow Professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Columbia University in New York and a prominent developmental neuroscientist. In 2018, Columbia University announced his termination from his administrative positions after an internal investi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Davidson%20%28director%29 | Gordon Davidson (May 7, 1933 – October 2, 2016) was an American stage and film director and the founding artistic director of Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles.
Early life
Gordon Davidson was born on May 7, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Cornell University in 1956, studying electrical engineering, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike%20Isaacs%20%28guitarist%29 | Ike Isaacs (December 1, 1919, Rangoon, Burma – January 11, 1996, Sydney, Australia) was a Burmese-English jazz guitarist, best known for his work with violinist Stéphane Grappelli.
Isaacs was self-taught on guitar. He started playing professionally in college while pursuing a degree in chemistry. In 1946 he moved to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHV%20amplitudes | In theoretical particle physics, maximally helicity violating amplitudes (MHV) are amplitudes with massless external gauge bosons, where gauge bosons have a particular helicity and the other two have the opposite helicity. These amplitudes are called MHV amplitudes, because at tree level, they violate helicity conse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20William%20Kerst | Donald William Kerst (November 1, 1911 – August 19, 1993) was an American physicist who worked on advanced particle accelerator concepts (accelerator physics) and plasma physics. He is most notable for his development of the betatron, a novel type of particle accelerator used to accelerate electrons.
A graduate of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient%20equilibrium | In nuclear physics, transient equilibrium is a situation in which equilibrium is reached by a parent-daughter radioactive isotope pair where the half-life of the daughter is shorter than the half-life of the parent. Contrary to secular equilibrium, the half-life of the daughter is not negligible compared to parent's ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness%20Books | Eyewitness Books (called Eyewitness Guides in the UK) is a series of educational nonfiction books. They were first published in Great Britain by Dorling Kindersley in 1988. The series now has over 160 titles on a variety of subjects, such as dinosaurs, Ancient Egypt, flags, chemistry, music, the solar system, film, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olimp%C3%ADada%20Brasileira%20de%20Matem%C3%A1tica | The Brazilian Mathematical Olympiad (, also known as OBM) is a mathematics competition held every year for students of Brazil. The participants are awarded gold, silver and bronze medals in accordance with their performance. The main purpose of this competition is to help in selecting students to represent Brazil at th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-heuristic | A hyper-heuristic is a heuristic search method that seeks to automate, often by the incorporation of machine learning techniques, the process of selecting, combining, generating or adapting several simpler heuristics (or components of such heuristics) to efficiently solve computational search problems. One of the motiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction%20to%20systolic%20geometry | Systolic geometry is a branch of differential geometry, a field within mathematics, studying problems such as the relationship between the area inside a closed curve C, and the length or perimeter of C. Since the area A may be small while the length l is large, when C looks elongated, the relationship can only take the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huimin%20Zhao | Huimin Zhao is the Steven L. Miller Chair Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, as well as the leader of the Biosystems Design research theme in the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. His research focuses on directed evolution, metabolic engineeri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug%20Hughes | Douglas Hughes is an American theatre director.
Early life
Hughes is the son of acting couple Barnard Hughes (1915–2006) and Helen Stenborg. He attended Harvard University, starting as a biology major and graduating with a degree in English.
Career
Hughes worked for 12 years as the associate artistic director of Seat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesh%20Kumar%20Nibhoria | Ramesh Nibhoria is a Punjabi engineer and entrepreneur, and creator of biomass pellet fueled cook stove.
Business
After completing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandigarh_College_of_Engineering_and_Technology, Nibhoria worked in various shop floor jobs and eventually reached executive level mechanical engineering ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C2%B7p%20perturbation%20theory | In solid-state physics, the k·p perturbation theory is an approximated semi-empirical approach for calculating the band structure (particularly effective mass) and optical properties of crystalline solids. It is pronounced "k dot p", and is also called the "k·p method". This theory has been applied specifically in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuck%20unknot | In mathematics, a stuck unknot is a closed polygonal chain in three-dimensional space (a skew polygon) that is topologically equal to the unknot but cannot be deformed to a simple polygon when interpreted as a mechanical linkage, by rigid length-preserving and non-self-intersecting motions of its segments.
Similarly a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20knot%20theory | Physical knot theory is the study of mathematical models of knotting phenomena, often motivated by considerations from biology, chemistry, and physics (Kauffman 1991). Physical knot theory is used to study how geometric and topological characteristics of filamentary structures, such as magnetic flux tubes, vortex filam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urology%20robotics | Urology Robotics, or URobotics, is a new interdisciplinary field for the application of robots in urology and for the development of such systems and novel technologies in this clinical discipline. Urology is among the medical fields with the highest rate of technology advances, which for several years has included the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Wills | George Wills may refer to:
George Alfred Wills (1854–1928), president of Imperial Tobacco
George G. Wills (1903–1983), Michigan politician
George S. V. Wills, (1849-1932) English chemist and founder of the Westminster College of Chemistry and Pharmacy
George Wills, founder of Australian softgoods company G. & R. W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Yablo | Stephen Yablo is a Canadian-born American philosopher. He is David W. Skinner Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and taught previously at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He specializes in the philosophy of logic, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20B.%20Darnell | Robert Bernard Darnell (born October 29, 1957) is an American neurooncologist and neuroscientist, founding director and former CEO of the New York Genome Center, the Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor of Cancer Biology at The Rockefeller University, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flory | Flory may refer to:
Flory (surname)
Flory Van Donck (1912-1992), Belgian golfer
Flory Cirque, a cirque (valley) in Victoria Land, Antarctica
Flory (heraldry), in heraldry
See also
Flory convention in chemistry
Cross fleury, heraldic element
Fleury (disambiguation)
Fleurey (disambiguation)
Florey (disambigu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram%20Bode | Wolfram Bode (born March 8, 1942) is a German biochemist.
Biography
Born in Berlin, Bode was educated in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Göttingen, the University of Tübingen and the University of Munich as a fellow of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1971 at the Unive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Arias | Carlos Arias may refer to:
Carlos Arias Ortiz, Mexican biochemist; winner of the Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology (UNESCO, 2001)
Carlos Arias (footballer, born 1956), Bolivian football defender
Carlos Andrés Arias (born 1986), Chilean football (soccer) goalkeeper
Carlos Erwin Arias (born 1982), Bolivian footba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20Estrin | Gerald Estrin (September 9, 1921 – March 29, 2012) was an American computer scientist, and professor at the UCLA Computer Science Department. He is known for his work on the organization of computer systems, on parallel processing and SARA (system architects apprentice).
Early life and education
Estrin was born in New... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact%20trigonometric%20values | In mathematics, the values of the trigonometric functions can be expressed approximately, as in , or exactly, as in . While trigonometric tables contain many approximate values, the exact values for certain angles can be expressed by a combination of arithmetic operations and square roots.
Common angles
The trigono... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame%20%28robot%29 | Flame is the name of a roughly human-shaped robot, developed in the Netherlands by Daan Hobbelen of the Mechanical Engineering department of Delft University. Robot motion is more easily done with wheels, but this robot was designed specifically to study human walking. It is 130 cm tall and weights 15 kg.
Flame is a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20de%20Ronde | Chris (Christiaan) de Ronde (1912 in Schiedam – 1996 in Buenos Aires) was a Dutch–Argentinian chess master.
He was a champion of Rotterdam. He had studied mathematics in Leyden and Paris.
De Ronde played for the Netherlands in the 8th Chess Olympiad at Buenos Aires 1939, scoring 8½ in his 14 games.
After the tourname... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20K.%20Goodwin | Frederick King Goodwin (April 21, 1936 – September 10, 2020) was an American psychiatrist and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center, where he was also director of the Center on Neuroscience, Medical Progress, and Society. He was a specialist in bipolar disorder (also known ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narayan%20Sadashiv%20Hosmane | Narayan S. Hosmane is an Indian-born cancer research scientist who made the featured article in NRI Achievers magazine and is currently distinguished research professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He received the Humboldt Research Award for senior scientists twice. This award is presented annually to scientists wor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genus%20plc | Genus plc is a British-based business selling elite genetics and other products manufactured using biotechnology to cattle and pig farmers. It is headquartered in Basingstoke and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
History
The business has its origins in the former Breeding & Production Division of the Milk Market... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Negus | James Negus (22 February 1927 – 22 February 2008) was a British philatelist and book editor.
Early life
Jim Negus was a student of chemistry and then a civil servant. Later he worked as a literary editor for British publishing houses.
Stanley Gibbons
He had already published some philatelic books at Heinemann when he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo%20H.%20Rapoport | Eduardo Hugo Rapoport (July 3, 1927 - May 16, 2017) was an Argentinian ecologist and emeritus professor at Universidad Nacional del Comahue. He is widely known for his fundamental work on soil biology, biological invasions, and urban ecology and, in particular, for his contributions to the biogeography (see Rapoport's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin%20%28machine%20learning%29 | In machine learning the margin of a single data point is defined to be the distance from the data point to a decision boundary. Note that there are many distances and decision boundaries that may be appropriate for certain datasets and goals. A margin classifier is a classifier that explicitly utilizes the margin of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zonal%20spherical%20function | In mathematics, a zonal spherical function or often just spherical function is a function on a locally compact group G with compact subgroup K (often a maximal compact subgroup) that arises as the matrix coefficient of a K-invariant vector in an irreducible representation of G. The key examples are the matrix coefficie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austek%20Microsystems | Austek Microsystems Pty. Ltd. (1984–1994) was an Australian company founded by Craig Mudge to commercialize technology developed by CSIRO through their VLSI programme. It had a design office in Adelaide, and a marketing and support office in Silicon Valley.
Austek produced a number of digital signal processing chips, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20R.%20Sreenivasan | Katepalli Raju Sreenivasan is an aerospace scientist, fluid dynamicist, and applied physicist whose research includes physics and applied mathematics. He studies turbulence, nonlinear and statistical physics, astrophysical fluid mechanics, and cryogenic helium. He was the dean of engineering and executive vice provost ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munira%20al-Qubaysi | Shaykha Munira Qubaysi (also spelled Qubeysi; ; 1933 – December 25, 2022) was an Islamic scholar.
Education
Qubaysi completed a Bachelor’s degree in biology at the University of Damascus in the 1950s in an era when women in hijab studying at universities was either a rarity or entirely non-existent.
She later earned... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20J.%20Lofgren | Edward Joseph Lofgren (January 18, 1914 – September 6, 2016) was an American physicist in the early days of nuclear physics and elementary particle research at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL). He was born in Chicago. He was an important figure in the breakthroughs that followed the creation of the Bevatron, of w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit%20Sheth | Amit Sheth is a computer scientist at University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. He is the founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence Institute, and a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.
From 2007 to June 2019, he was the Lexis Nexis Ohio Eminent Scholar, director of the Ohio Center of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebald%20Justinus%20Brugmans | Sebald Justinus Brugmans (24 March 1763, Franeker – 22 July 1819, Leiden) was a Dutch botanist and physician. He was the son of naturalist Anton Brugmans (1732-1789).
Brugmans studied philosophy, mathematics and physics at the Universities of Franeker and Groningen, earning his doctorate in 1781. In 1785 he became a p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Gijsbertus%20Samu%C3%ABl%20van%20Breda | Jacob Gijsbertus Samuël van Breda (24 October 1788, in Delft – 2 September 1867, in Haarlem) was a Dutch biologist and geologist.
Jacob was the son of Jacob van Breda, a Dutch physician, physicist and politician, and Anna Elsenera van Campen. His mother died when he was two years old. He studied medicine and physics a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliana%20Fellner | Liliana Beatriz Fellner (born 28 February 1957) is an Argentine politician. She was a National Senator representing Jujuy Province from 2005 to 2017, and a National Deputy elected in the same province from 2003 to 2005.
She is a member of the Kolina party, founded by Alicia Kirchner.
Career
Fellner received a diploma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Brito%20%28businessman%29 | Carlos Alves de Brito (born 1960) is a Brazilian businessman who was CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev from 2008 to 2021. Currently he is CEO of Belron.
Early life and education
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Carlos Alves Brito, a Brazilian citizen, holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Jan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superincreasing%20sequence | In mathematics, a sequence of positive real numbers is called superincreasing if every element of the sequence is greater than the sum of all previous elements in the sequence.
Formally, this condition can be written as
for all n ≥ 1.
Example
For example, (1, 3, 6, 13, 27, 52) is a superincreasing sequence, but (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius%20energy | In mathematics, the Möbius energy of a knot is a particular knot energy, i.e., a functional on the space of knots. It was discovered by Jun O'Hara, who demonstrated that the energy blows up as the knot's strands get close to one another. This is a useful property because it prevents self-intersection and ensures the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada%20Maza | Ada Mercedes Maza (born September 17, 1958, in La Rioja) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. She sat in the Argentine Senate representing La Rioja Province in the majority block of the Front for Victory.
Maza studied in La Rioja then civil engineering in Córdoba Province. Back in La Rioja, she studied minin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT%20Subject%20Test%20in%20Physics | The SAT Subject Test in Physics, Physics SAT II, or simply the Physics SAT, was a one-hour multiple choice test on physics administered by the College Board in the United States. A high school student generally chose to take the test to fulfill college entrance requirements for the schools at which the student was plan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramachandra%20S.%20Hosmane | Ramachandra "(Ram)" S. Hosmane (1944-) is a retired Senior Professor of Organic Chemistry at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. Hosmane has over 160 peer-reviewed research publications in reputed international journals. He holds seven U.S. and World patents, some of which have been licensed to industries. H... |
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