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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20T.%20McGuire
Michael Terrence McGuire (1929/1930 - February 1, 2016) was an American psychiatrist who made contributions to the theory of psychoanalysis, biological psychiatry, evolutionary biology, sociobiology and the theory and practice of psychiatry. Career McGuire was Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry/Biobehavioral Sciences a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximising%20measure
In mathematics — specifically, in ergodic theory — a maximising measure is a particular kind of probability measure. Informally, a probability measure μ is a maximising measure for some function f if the integral of f with respect to μ is "as big as it can be". The theory of maximising measures is relatively young an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20consensus
In computer science, Uniform consensus is a distributed computing problem that is a similar to the consensus problem with one more condition which is no two processes (whether faulty or not) decide differently. More specifically one should consider this problem: Each process has an input, should on decide an output (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%20Energy%20Systems
Apollo Energy Systems is a U.S. multinational alternative energy corporation headquartered in Pompano Beach, Florida, that develops, produces, and markets fuel cell power plants, electric propulsion systems, and alternative energy generation equipment. The company was founded by Robert R. Aronson in 1966 as the Electri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perimeter%20%28disambiguation%29
The perimeter is the distance around a given two-dimensional object. Perimeter may also refer to: Perimeter Aviation, an airline Perimeter fence, the demarcation of a perimeter, when the protection of assets, personnel or buildings is required Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an independent research c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plancherel%20theorem%20for%20spherical%20functions
In mathematics, the Plancherel theorem for spherical functions is an important result in the representation theory of semisimple Lie groups, due in its final form to Harish-Chandra. It is a natural generalisation in non-commutative harmonic analysis of the Plancherel formula and Fourier inversion formula in the represe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Llewellyn
Paul Llewellyn (born 8 June 1957) is an Australian politician. Early life Llewellyn graduated with a Bachelor of Science in biology from Murdoch University in 1977, and a Masters of Science in natural resource management and policy from the University of Western Australia school of Agricultural and Resource Economics ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INBO
INBO can refer to: Research Institute for Nature and Forest International Network of Basin Organizations Indian National Biology Olympiad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zden%C4%9Bk%20Mat%C4%9Bjka
Zdeněk Matějka (April 30, 1937 – October 2, 2006) was a Czech chemist known for his contributions to development of ion exchange. Zdeněk Matějka was born in 1937 in Teplice. In 1955 he moved to Prague, to study chemistry at Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague. He received his master's degree in 1960. While work...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypograph
Hypograph may refer to: Hypograph (mathematics), the set of points lying below the graph of a function Hypograph, or hypogram, something written at the end of a document (for example, a postscript) See also Hypergraph, in mathematics Hypographa, a genus of moths Hypographia, another, obsolete, genus of moths H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20McIntyre%20%28scientist%29
Paul C. McIntyre is a Canadian-American Rick and Melinda Reed Professor, Director of Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy. He served as Department Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University from 2014 to 2019. McIntyre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Colby
Kenneth Mark Colby (1920 – April 20, 2001) was an American psychiatrist dedicated to the theory and application of computer science and artificial intelligence to psychiatry. Colby was a pioneer in the development of computer technology as a tool to try to understand cognitive functions and to assist both patients and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant%20problem
In mathematics, the constant problem is the problem of deciding whether a given expression is equal to zero. The problem This problem is also referred to as the identity problem or the method of zero estimates. It has no formal statement as such but refers to a general problem prevalent in transcendental number theor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acebrochol
Acebrochol (INN), also known as cholesteryl acetate dibromide or 5α,6β-dibromocholestan-3β-ol acetate, is a neuroactive steroid which was described as a sedative and hypnotic but was never marketed. Chemistry See also Allopregnanolone Ganaxolone Hydroxydione Progesterone References Cholestanes Hypnotics Sedativ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproterol
Reproterol is a short-acting β2 adrenoreceptor agonist used in the treatment of asthma. It was patented in 1965 and came into medical use in 1977. Stereochemistry Reproterol contains a stereocenter and is chiral. There are thus two enantiomers, the (R)-form and the (S)-form. The commercial preparations contain the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obed%20Crosby%20Haycock
Obed Crosby Haycock (1901–1983) was a scientist and educator. He was born in Panguitch, Utah on October 5, 1901. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah in 1925. He also had studied at Utah State University. He received a master of Science from Purdue University in 1931. He was a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UrQMD
UrQMD (Ultra relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics) is a fully integrated Monte Carlo simulation package for Proton+Proton, Proton+nucleus and nucleus+nucleus interactions. UrQMD has many applications in particle physics, high energy experimental physics and engineering, shielding, detector design, cosmic ray studies...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/Session
In cryptography, Master/Session is a key management scheme in which a pre-shared Key Encrypting Key (called the "Master" key) is used to encrypt a randomly generated and insecurely communicated Working Key (called the "Session" key). The Working Key is then used for encrypting the data to be exchanged. Its advantage is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20odometry
In robotics and computer vision, visual odometry is the process of determining the position and orientation of a robot by analyzing the associated camera images. It has been used in a wide variety of robotic applications, such as on the Mars Exploration Rovers. Overview In navigation, odometry is the use of data from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby%20G.%20Woodson
Ruby Garrard Woodson (June 22, 1931 – February 8, 2008) was an educator and chemistry teacher who founded Cromwell Academy in Washington, D. C. and Florida Academy of African American Culture in Sarasota, Florida. She was born in Houston County, Alabama, but raised in Sarasota. Her mother, Ella Mae Garrard (later, Si...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20Saturne
code_saturne is a general-purpose computational fluid dynamics free computer software package. Developed since 1997 at Électricité de France R&D, code_saturne is distributed under the GNU GPL licence. It is based on a co-located finite-volume approach that accepts meshes with any type of cell (tetrahedral, hexahedral, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor%20domain
In molecular biology, a Tudor domain is a conserved protein structural domain originally identified in the Tudor protein encoded in Drosophila. The Tudor gene was found in a Drosophila screen for maternal factors that regulate embryonic development or fertility. Mutations here are lethal for offspring, inspiring the na...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT%20Subject%20Test%20in%20Biology%20E/M
The SAT Subject Test in Biology was the name of a one-hour multiple choice test given on biology by the College Board. A student chose whether to take the test depending upon college entrance requirements for the schools in which the student is planning to apply. Until 1994, the SAT Subject Tests were known as Achievem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replenishment%20%28photography%29
Replenishment is a component in the processing of photographic film and paper, where fresh chemistry is used to replace exhausted chemistry in a continuous or per-batch fashion. Replenishment rates are calculated by the quantity of film processed in each individual bath; as well as by the amount of film push-processed ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Schwerdtfeger
Peter Schwerdtfeger (born September 1, 1955) is a German scientist. He holds a chair in theoretical chemistry at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand, serves as Director of the Centre for Theoretical Chemistry and Physics, is the Head of the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, and is a former president of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yozo%20Matsushima
was a Japanese mathematician. Early life Matsushima was born on February 11, 1921, in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He studied at Osaka Imperial University (later named Osaka University) and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics in September 1942. At Osaka, he was taught by mathematicians K...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Melsens
Louis-Henri-Frédéric Melsens (July 11, 1814 in Leuven – April 20, 1886 in Brussels) was a Belgian physicist and chemist. In 1846, he became professor of chemistry at the Royal Veterinary School of Cureghem in Anderlecht, Brussels. Melsens applied the principle of the Faraday cage to lightning conductors and invented ti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Cohn
Paul Moritz Cohn FRS (8 January 1924 – 20 April 2006) was Astor Professor of Mathematics at University College London, 1986–1989, and author of many textbooks on algebra. His work was mostly in the area of algebra, especially non-commutative rings. Ancestry and early life He was the only child of Jewish parents, Jame...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Biela%C5%84ski
Adam Bielański (; 14 December 1912 – 4 September 2016) was a Polish chemist and professor of Jagiellonian University. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He was the author of several university-level books on inorganic chemistry, many of which are standard textbooks for students at most universities in P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus%C5%82aw%20Bobra%C5%84ski
Bogusław Bobrański (; 10 May 1904 in Nowy Sącz - 1991) was a Polish chemist. He was the rector of Wrocław Medical University from 1957 - 1962. Biography Graduating in Chemistry from the Lviv Polytechnic, Bobrański received his engineering diploma in 1926. He worked in the Department of Organic Chemistry of his univer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz%20Boraty%C5%84ski
Kazimierz Boratyński (; July 30, 1906, in Gródek – December 8, 1991, in Wrocław) was a Polish chemist. He specialised in the field of soil science. In his research work, he dealt with the chemistry of mineral fertilisers, soil chemistry and physics, humus processes in soil, and soil geography. Publications O kwasach...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exa%20Corporation
Exa Corporation was a developer and distributor of computer-aided engineering (CAE) software. Its main product was PowerFLOW, a lattice-boltzmann derived implementation of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), which can very accurately simulate internal and external flows in low-Mach regimes. PowerFLOW is used extensivel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%20resonance
In atomic physics, giant resonance is a high-frequency collective excitation of atomic nuclei, as a property of many-body quantum systems. In the macroscopic interpretation of such an excitation in terms of an oscillation, the most prominent giant resonance is a collective oscillation of all protons against all neutron...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%20J.%20Bard
Allen Joseph Bard (born December 18, 1933) is an American chemist. He is the Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair Professor and director of the Center for Electrochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. Bard is considered a "father of modern electrochemistry" for his innovative work developing the scanning electrochemi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acedapsone
Acedapsone (INN) is an antimicrobial drug, which also has antimalarial activity. Acedapsone is the INN for diacetyldapsone. It was synthesized and developed in 1937 by Ernest Fourneau and his team in the pharmaceutical chemistry laboratory of Pasteur Institute, and it was marketed as Rodilone by the Rhône-Poulenc comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sialome
In biochemistry, the term sialome may refer to two distinct concepts: The set of mRNA and proteins expressed in the salivary glands, especially of mosquitoes, ticks, and other blood-sucking arthropods. The total complement of sialic acid types and linkages and their modes of presentation on a particular organelle, c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Joseph%20Scherer
Johann Joseph Scherer (18 March 1814 – 17 February 1869) was a German physician and chemist born in Aschaffenburg. In 1836 he graduated from the University of Würzburg, where he studied medicine, chemistry, geology and mineralogy. From 1836 to 1838 he practiced medicine in Wipfeld, afterwards relocating to the Univers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregated%20indices%20randomization%20method
In applied mathematics and decision making, the aggregated indices randomization method (AIRM) is a modification of a well-known aggregated indices method, targeting complex objects subjected to multi-criteria estimation under uncertainty. AIRM was first developed by the Russian naval applied mathematician Aleksey Kry...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Purnell
Mark Andrew Purnell is a British palaeontologist, Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Leicester. Purnell is an expert in conodont biostratigraphy (principally Carboniferous) and conodont palaeobiology, focussing especially on attempts to uncover the function of conodont elements. Using conventional functio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive%20ascent%20parser
In computer science, recursive ascent parsing is a technique for implementing an LALR parser which uses mutually-recursive functions rather than tables. Thus, the parser is directly encoded in the host language similar to recursive descent. Direct encoding usually yields a parser which is faster than its table-driven...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Sansom
Ivan Sansom (born Prestatyn) is a British palaeontologist, Senior Lecturer in Palaeobiology at the University of Birmingham. His research primarily has focused on the conodont palaeobiology and the early Palaeozoic radiation of vertebrates. Sansom is an editor of the Journal of the Geological Society. In 2001 Sansom ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20Paul%20Smith
M. Paul Smith is a British palaeontologist, head of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and professor in Kellogg College. Previously he was Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Birmingham, head of the university's School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Director of its Lapworth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Catherine%27s%20College%2C%20Eastbourne
St Catherine's College (previously The Bishop Bell Church of England Mathematics & Computing Specialist School) is a coeducational Church of England secondary school situated on the south coast of England in Eastbourne. The school is part of the Diocese of Chichester Academy Trust. History Formerly Bedewell School on ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable%20Energy%20Systems
The RES Group (Renewable Energy Systems) is a global renewable energy company which has been active in the renewable energy industry for over 40 years. Its core business is to develop, construct and operate large-scale, grid-connected renewable energy projects worldwide for commercial, industrial and utility clients. R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Chemistry%20Set%20%28American%20band%29
The Chemistry Set was an indie pop band from Dallas, Texas, USA, formed in 2002. The four band members met at a party and created a psychedelic pop, progressive band. Stephen Duncan wrote the band's songs with influences including David Bowie, the Beatles, the Flaming Lips, Led Zeppelin and the Shins. The band has two ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino%20Meyer-Bahlburg
Heino F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg (born 1940) is a German-born psychologist best known for his work on biology of sexual orientation, gender identity, intersexuality, and HIV. Education and career Meyer-Bahlburg earned his Diplom from University of Hamburg in 1966 and his Dr. rer. nat. in Psychology from University of Düsse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current%20Pharmaceutical%20Design
Current Pharmaceutical Design is a peer-reviewed medical journal which covers issues related to pharmacology and medicinal chemistry. Each issue is devoted to a single major therapeutic area. For each issue, an executive editor is chosen who is an acknowledged authority in that field. The Journal is published by Benth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Gallian
Joseph A. Gallian (born January 5, 1942) is an American mathematician, the Morse Alumni Distinguished University Professor of Teaching in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Professional career Gallian completed his Ph.D. thesis, entitled Two-Step Centralizers in Finite ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20J.%20Rosenblum
Lawrence Jay Rosenblum (born 1944) is an American mathematician, and Program Director for Graphics and Visualization at the National Science Foundation. Career Rosenblum received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Ohio State University in 1971. From 1992 to 1994, he was Liaison Scientist for Computer Science at the Of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20problem
Identity problem may refer to: An additional psychiatric condition from DSM-IV, code 313.82. See also: Identity disorder; A constant problem in mathematics, an indistinctness over whether an expression equals zero.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoinduced%20phase%20transitions
Photoinduced phase transition is a technique used in solid-state physics. It is a process to the nonequilibrium phases generated from an equilibrium by shining on high energy photons, and the nonequilibrium phase is a macroscopic excited domain that has new structural and electronic orders quite different from the star...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornstein%E2%80%93Uhlenbeck%20operator
In mathematics, the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck operator is a generalization of the Laplace operator to an infinite-dimensional setting. The Ornstein–Uhlenbeck operator plays a significant role in the Malliavin calculus. Introduction: the finite-dimensional picture The Laplacian Consider the gradient operator ∇ acting on sca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20H.%20McCormick
Bruce Howard McCormick (1928–2007) was an American computer scientist, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Computer Science, and founding director of the Brain Networks Lab at Texas A&M University. Biography McCormick took his BS in Physics from MIT in 1950, followed by two years on a Fulbright Scholarship to Cam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport%E2%80%93Schmidt%20theorem
In mathematics, specifically the area of Diophantine approximation, the Davenport–Schmidt theorem tells us how well a certain kind of real number can be approximated by another kind. Specifically it tells us that we can get a good approximation to irrational numbers that are not quadratic by using either quadratic irr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography%20Research
Cryptography Research, Inc. is a San Francisco based cryptography company specializing in applied cryptographic engineering, including technologies for building tamper-resistant semiconductors. It was purchased on June 6, 2011 by Rambus for $342.5M. The company licenses patents for protecting cryptographic devices ag...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20M.%20Gray
Robert M. Gray (born November 1, 1943) is an American information theorist, and the Alcatel-Lucent Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He is best known for his contributions to quantization and compression, particularly the development of vector quantization. Awards In...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shokichi%20Iyanaga
was a Japanese mathematician. Early life Iyanaga was born in Tokyo, Japan on April 2, 1906. He studied at the University of Tokyo from 1926 to 1929. He studied under Teiji Takagi. As an undergraduate, he published two papers in the Japanese Journal of Mathematics and the Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Tokyo. B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow%20of%20Biomaterials%20Science%20and%20Engineering
In April 1992, the constituent biomaterials societies of the World Biomaterials Congress, now the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (IUSBSE) experienced the need to recognize all their members who had a status of excellent professional standing and high achievements in the field ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Lewis%20%28chemist%29
William Henry Lewis (1869 – 25 May 1963) was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Exeter for more than 30 years. Lewis was educated at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (as it was then known) and Jesus College, Oxford. After graduating, he was a science teacher at Exeter School for seven years, before b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Max%20Zimmermann
Walter Max Zimmermann (May 9, 1892 – June 30, 1980) was a German botanist and systematist. Zimmernann’s notions of classifying life objectively based on phylogenetic methods and on evolutionarily important characters were foundational for modern phylogenetics. Though they were later implemented by Willi Hennig in his f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-topology
In mathematics, particularly topology, the K-topology is a topology that one can impose on the set of all real numbers which has some interesting properties. Relative to the set of all real numbers carrying the standard topology, the set K = {1/n | n is a positive integer} is not closed since it doesn't contain its (on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela%20L.%20Rus
Daniela L. Rus is a roboticist and computer scientist, Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Biography Daniela...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20J.%20Leonard
John J. Leonard is an American roboticist and Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Leonard is a researcher in simultaneous localization and mapping, and was the team lead for MIT's...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20P.%20Kaelbling
Leslie Pack Kaelbling is an American roboticist and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is widely recognized for adapting partially observable Markov decision processes from operations research for application in artificial intelligence and robot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth%20J.%20Teller
Seth Jared Teller (May 28, 1964 – July 1, 2014) was an American computer scientist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose research interests included computer vision, sensor networks, and robotics. In his Argus and Rover projects of the late 1990s, Teller was an early pioneer in the use of mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Arkansas%20College%20of%20Engineering
The College of Engineering is the University of Arkansas' college for engineering students. History The first engineering degree awarded by the university was in civil engineering in 1888. At the time, it was known as Arkansas Industrial University, and did not have a separate engineering college. The College of Engin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine%20D.%20Brown
Maxine D. Brown is an American computer scientist and retired director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Along with Tom DeFanti and Bruce McCormick, she co-edited the 1987 NSF report, Visualization in Scientific Computing, which defined the field of scienti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20model%20%28disambiguation%29
Standard model may refer to: Standard Model of particle physics The mathematical formulation of the Standard Model of particle physics The Standard Solar Model of solar astrophysics The Lambda-CDM model, the standard model of big bang cosmology Standard model (cryptography) Intended interpretation of a syntactica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinagolide
Quinagolide (, ), sold under the brand name Norprolac, is a selective dopamine D2 receptor agonist which is used to reduce elevated levels of prolactin (hyperprolactinemia). It has also been found to be effective in the treatment of breast pain. It is used in the UK, but it is not available in US. Chemistry Quinagolid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal%20model%20%28set%20theory%29
In set theory, a branch of mathematics, the minimal model is the minimal standard model of ZFC. The minimal model was introduced by and rediscovered by . The existence of a minimal model cannot be proved in ZFC, even assuming that ZFC is consistent, but follows from the existence of a standard model as follows. If th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India-based%20Neutrino%20Observatory
India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is a particle physics research project under construction to primarily study atmospheric neutrinos in a deep cave under INO Peak near Theni, Tamil Nadu, India. This project is notable in that it is anticipated to provide a precise measurement of neutrino mixing parameters. The pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Society%20of%20Japan
The Mathematical Society of Japan (MSJ, ) is a learned society for mathematics in Japan. In 1877, the organization was established as the Tokyo Sugaku Kaisha and was the first academic society in Japan. It was re-organized and re-established in its present form in 1946. The MSJ has more than 5,000 members. They have ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang%20Xin%20%28disambiguation%29
Zhang Xin (born 1965) is the CEO of SOHO China. Zhang Xin may also refer to: Zhang Xin (footballer) (born 1992),Chinese International footballer Zhang Xin (writer) (born 1954), Chinese author Zhang Xin (skier) (born 1985), Chinese freestyle skier Xin Zhang (engineer), Chinese-born mechanical engineering researcher at...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odderon
In particle physics, the odderon corresponds to an elusive family of odd-gluon states, dominated by a three-gluon state. When protons collide elastically with protons or with anti-protons at high energies, even or odd numbers of gluons are exchanged. Exchanging an even number of gluons is a crossing-even part of elasti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential%20range
In mathematics, particularly measure theory, the essential range, or the set of essential values, of a function is intuitively the 'non-negligible' range of the function: It does not change between two functions that are equal almost everywhere. One way of thinking of the essential range of a function is the set on whi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation%20of%20State%20Calculations%20by%20Fast%20Computing%20Machines
"Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines" is a scholarly article published by Nicholas Metropolis, Arianna W. Rosenbluth, Marshall N. Rosenbluth, Augusta H. Teller, and Edward Teller in the Journal of Chemical Physics in 1953. This paper proposed what became known as the Metropolis Monte Carlo algorit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Madere
Steve Madere was the founder and CEO of Deja News (now Google Groups) and holds a Masters in Science degree in physics from the University of California, San Diego. He has held numerous other positions at other firms including IBM, The Kernel Group (now Symantec), Barfly Interactive Networks, an interactive signage com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20chemistry
Crystal chemistry is the study of the principles of chemistry behind crystals and their use in describing structure-property relations in solids. The principles that govern the assembly of crystal and glass structures are described, models of many of the technologically important crystal structures (alumina, quartz, pe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrodynamic%20voltammetry
In analytical chemistry, hydrodynamic voltammetry is a form of voltammetry in which the analyte solution flows relative to a working electrode. In many voltammetry techniques, the solution is intentionally left still to allow diffusion-controlled mass transfer. When a solution is made to flow, through stirring or some...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IISc%20Guidance%2C%20Control%20and%20Decision%20Systems%20Laboratory
The Guidance, Control and Decision Systems Laboratory (GCDSL) is situated in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. The Mobile Robotics Laboratory (MRL) is its experimental division. They are headed by Dr. Debasish Ghose, Full Professor. GCDSL was established in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20%28engineering%29
In mechanical engineering, a key is a machine element used to connect a rotating machine element to a shaft. The key prevents relative rotation between the two parts and may enable torque transmission. For a key to function, the shaft and rotating machine element must have a keyway and a keyseat, which is a slot and po...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20S.%20Humphries
Frederick Stephen Humphries Sr. (December 26, 1935 – June 24, 2021) was an American academic administrator and chemistry professor. He served as President of Tennessee State University (1974 to 1985), and President of Florida A&M University (1985 to 2001). He was also President and CEO of the National Association for E...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert%20Sch%C3%BCcking
Engelbert Levin Schücking (May 23, 1926 – January 5, 2015), in English-language works often cited as E. L. Schucking, was a physics professor at New York University in New York City. His research interests were theoretical astrophysics, general relativity and cosmology. Biography Engelbert Levin Schücking was born ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen%20transformation
In mathematics, especially in the area of abstract algebra known as combinatorial group theory, Nielsen transformations, named after Jakob Nielsen, are certain automorphisms of a free group which are a non-commutative analogue of row reduction and one of the main tools used in studying free groups, . They were introduc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Meslans
Maurice Meslans (1862–1938) was a French pharmacist and chemist, Henri Moissan's advanced student, and a pioneer in organofluorocompounds chemistry. References 1862 births 1938 deaths 20th-century French chemists Nancy-Université alumni 19th-century French chemists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%20Lvov
Yuri Lvov is a micromanufacturing specialist, a chemistry professor, and the Tolbert Pipes Eminent Endowed Chair on Micro and Nanosystems at the Institute for Micromanufacturing (Louisiana Tech University). He earned his B.S. in 1974 and his Ph.D. in 1979 in Physical Chemistry (protein crystallography) from Moscow Stat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Yun
Lawrence Yun is a Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Research at the National Association of Realtors. Early life Yun was born in Suncheon, South Jeolla Province, South Korea. While Yun was a child, his family moved to Columbia, South Carolina. Education In 1987, Yun earned a bachelor of science degree in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Completeness
Complete may refer to: Logic Completeness (logic) Completeness of a theory, the property of a theory that every formula in the theory's language or its negation is provable Mathematics The completeness of the real numbers, which implies that there are no "holes" in the real numbers Complete metric space, a metric...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20scientific%20research%20in%20Canada
This article outlines the history of natural scientific research in Canada, including physics, astronomy, space science, geology, oceanography, chemistry, biology, and medical research. Neither the social sciences nor the formal sciences are treated here. The beginnings of science (AD 1600 – AD 1850) The Europeans: e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen%E2%80%93Schreier%20theorem
In group theory, a branch of mathematics, the Nielsen–Schreier theorem states that every subgroup of a free group is itself free. It is named after Jakob Nielsen and Otto Schreier. Statement of the theorem A free group may be defined from a group presentation consisting of a set of generators with no relations. That i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Borenstein
Johann Borenstein is an Israeli roboticist and Professor at the University of Michigan. Borenstein is well known for his work in autonomous obstacle avoidance, and is credited with the development of the Vector Field Histogram. Borenstein received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and D.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering from the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen%20P%C3%B3lya
Jenő Sándor Pólya, , (April 30, 1876 – 1944) was a Hungarian surgeon who was a native of Budapest. He was the brother of George Pólya (1887–1985), who was a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. He studied in Budapest, and in 1898 earned his medical doctorate. In 1909 he was habilitated for surgical anatom...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutation%20theorem%20for%20traces
In mathematics, a commutation theorem for traces explicitly identifies the commutant of a specific von Neumann algebra acting on a Hilbert space in the presence of a trace. The first such result was proved by Francis Joseph Murray and John von Neumann in the 1930s and applies to the von Neumann algebra generated by ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20Aspects%20of%20Life
Quantum Aspects of Life, a book published in 2008 with a foreword by Roger Penrose, explores the open question of the role of quantum mechanics at molecular scales of relevance to biology. The book contains chapters written by various world-experts from a 2003 symposium and includes two debates from 2003 to 2004; givin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotelian
Aristotelian may refer to: Aristotle (384–322 BCE), Greek philosopher Aristotelianism, the philosophical tradition begun by Aristotle Aristotelian ethics Aristotelian logic, term logic Aristotelian physics, the natural sciences Aristotelian Society, founded at a meeting on 19 April 1880 Aristotelian theology Ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMB
MMB may refer to: Music Michigan Marching Band, of the University of Michigan The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, a band from Boston Computing, science, and technology MMB (cipher), a block cipher in cryptography 3-Mercapto-3-methylbutan-1-ol, a chemical found in some wines Minimal metabolic behaviors, for modeling met...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPP
RPP may refer to: Academic journals Review of Philosophy and Psychology Review of Particle Physics, a Particle Data Group publication Media Grupo RPP, a Peruvian media conglomerate Radio Programas del Perú, their news radio station RPP FM, an Australian community radio station Political parties People's Ral...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20Perspectives%20on%20Divine%20Action
Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action is a five volume set that represents more than a decade of scientific-theological conferences sponsored by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences. Volumes Neuroscience and the Person: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action Chaos and Comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright%20omega%20function
In mathematics, the Wright omega function or Wright function, denoted ω, is defined in terms of the Lambert W function as: Uses One of the main applications of this function is in the resolution of the equation z = ln(z), as the only solution is given by z = e−ω(π i). y = ω(z) is the unique solution, when for x ≤ −1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang%20Ximing
Jiang Ximing (; 20 September 1913 – 1990), was a Chinese zoologist and politician. Life Jiang was born in 1913 in Guanyun County, Jiangsu Province. July 1936, Jiang graduated from the Department of Biology, Zhejiang University. Just after his graduation, Jiang became a lecturer in the same department. In February 1937...