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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l%20Kitaibel
Pál Kitaibel (3 February 1757 – 13 December 1817) was a Hungarian botanist and chemist. He was born at Nagymarton (today Mattersburg, Austria) and studied botany and chemistry at the University of Buda. In 1794 he became Professor and taught these subjects at Pest. As well as studying the flora and hydrography of Hung...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20E.%20Sumner
Eric Eden Sumner (December 17, 1923 – January 19, 1993) was an Austrian-American engineer and scientist, well known for his contributions to the early developments of switching systems. Born in Vienna, he moved to New York City where he went to Brooklyn Technical High School, earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20B.%20Kaiser
Christopher Barina Kaiser is a noted author and scholar, with doctorates in astrophysics (Harvard/University of Colorado) and Christian dogmatics (University of Edinburgh). His Creation and the History of Science (1991) received an outstanding book award from the Templeton Foundation. Henry Margenau and William G. Poll...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rs1800532
In genetics, rs1800532 (A218C) is a genetic variant. It is a single nucleotide polymorphism in the TPH1 gene and located in intron 7. It has been examined in relation to personality traits. A779C is another SNP in same intron. References SNPs on chromosome 11
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Daniel%20%28DJ%29
Jack Daniel (real name Shane Atwell) is a DJ and radio professional who has worked in Charlotte, North Carolina radio since the mid-1970s. Career While Shane Atwell was a student at Concord High School in Concord, North Carolina, he worked at the student radio station WCHS. As a computer science major at East Carolina...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela%20Liversidge
Pamela Edwards Liversidge (born 1949) was the first female president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Life She was born 23 December 1949 (née Humphries) and graduated with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Aston University. After graduating she worked for GKN as a Graduate Trainee, then moved into forg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Mart%C3%ADnez%20%28politician%29
Daniel Carlos Martínez Villamil (born 23 February 1957) is a Uruguayan industrial engineer and politician of the Socialist Party – Broad Front. Background Daniel Martínez pursued a mechanical engineering career prior to taking up a ministerial post. For many years he was Vice President of the Uruguayan Engineers' Asso...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd%20Wedler
Gerd Wedler (19 August 1929 in Braunschweig, Germany – 13 September 2008 in Erlangen, Germany) was a German chemist. Life After graduating from high school in 1949 in his native city of Brunswick, Wedler began his studies in chemistry at the Braunschweig University of Technology. With his thesis "On the mechanism o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Association%20of%20Mathematics%20Teachers
The Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers is the main representative organisation of mathematics teachers in Australia. Membership is via affiliated state organisations. The AAMT conducts a number of activities including Reach for the stars, an activity for students, as well as submissions to government bodie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical%20Psychology%20%28journal%29
Philosophical Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the links between philosophy and psychology. The journal publishes research in ethical and philosophical issues emerging from the cognitive sciences, social sciences, and affective sciences, neurosciences, comparative psychology, clinical psycholo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20model%20railway%20control%20systems
Digital model railway control systems are an alternative to control a layout and simplify the wiring and add more flexibility in operations. A number of control systems are available to operate locomotives on model railways. Analog systems where the speed and the direction of a train is controlled by adjusting the volt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20flow
In astrophysics, dark flow is a theoretical non-random component of the peculiar velocity of galaxy clusters. The actual measured velocity is the sum of the velocity predicted by Hubble's Law plus a possible small and unexplained (or dark) velocity flowing in a common direction. According to standard cosmological mode...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading
Loading may refer to: Biology Carbohydrate loading, a strategy employed by endurance athletes to maximize the storage of glycogen in the muscles Creatine loading, a phase of use of creatine supplements Vocal loading, the stress inflicted on the speech organs when speaking for long periods Engineering Application ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Nitrosothiol
In organic chemistry, S-nitrosothiols, also known as thionitrites, are organic compounds or functional groups containing a nitroso group attached to the sulfur atom of a thiol. S-Nitrosothiols have the general formula , where R denotes an organic group. Originally suggested by Ignarro to serve as intermediates in the a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze%20thaw%20resistance
Freeze thaw resistance, or freezing and thawing resistance, is the property of solids to resist cyclic freezing and melting. See also Frost weathering Further reading Phase transitions Condensed matter physics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravara%20Rural%20College%20of%20Pharmacy
Pravara Rural College of Pharmacy (P.R.C.O.P.), is an institution affiliated to the University of Pune, India and is recognized by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi (India). The institute provides certified diploma, bachelors and masters(Pharmacognosy, Pharmaceutics and Pharmachemistry),Dr. Of pharma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phason
In physics, a phason is a form of collective excitation found in aperiodic crystal structures. Phasons are a type of quasiparticle: an emergent phenomenon of many-particle systems. Similar to phonons, phasons are quasiparticles associated with atomic motion. However, whereas phonons are related to the translation of at...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac%20%28software%29
Dirac (named after Paul Dirac; own notation DIRAC) is a relativistic ab initio quantum chemistry program. The full name is Program for Atomic and Molecular Direct Iterative Relativistic All-electron Calculations, in short PAM DIRAC. It is capable of calculating various molecular properties using the Hartree–Fock, MP2, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20flow%20block%20diagram
A functional flow block diagram (FFBD) is a multi-tier, time-sequenced, step-by-step flow diagram of a system's functional flow. The term "functional" in this context is different from its use in functional programming or in mathematics, where pairing "functional" with "flow" would be ambiguous. Here, "functional flow"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQM
CQM can refer to: Ciudad Real Central Airport, IATA airport code Classical Quantum Mechanics Custom Quantization Matrix Creative Quadratic Modulaton, a sound synthesis technology developed by E-mu Systems implemented on later-model ViBRA chips to replace the internal Yamaha OPL3 FM synthesizer chips
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20object
A mathematical object is an abstract concept arising in mathematics. In the usual language of mathematics, an object is anything that has been (or could be) formally defined, and with which one may do deductive reasoning and mathematical proofs. Typically, a mathematical object can be a value that can be assigned to a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian%20connection
In mathematics, a Hermitian connection is a connection on a Hermitian vector bundle over a smooth manifold which is compatible with the Hermitian metric on , meaning that for all smooth vector fields and all smooth sections of . If is a complex manifold, and the Hermitian vector bundle on is equipped with a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismut%20connection
In mathematics, the Bismut connection is the unique connection on a complex Hermitian manifold that satisfies the following conditions, It preserves the metric It preserves the complex structure The torsion contracted with the metric, i.e. , is totally skew-symmetric. Bismut has used this connection when provi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-resistance%20network
A constant-resistance network in electrical engineering is a network whose input resistance does not change with frequency when correctly terminated. Examples of constant resistance networks include: Zobel network Lattice phase equaliser Boucherot cell Bridged T delay equaliser Electrical engineering Physics-rela...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20Sue%20Carter
C. Sue Carter is an American biologist and behavioral neurobiologist. She is an internationally recognized expert in behavioral neuroendocrinology. In 2014 she was appointed Director of The Kinsey Institute and Rudy Professor of Biology at Indiana University. Carter was the first person to identify the physiological me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Wilson%20%28neurobiologist%29
Rachel Wilson is a professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Wilson's work integrates electrophysiology, neuropharmacology, molecular genetics, functional anatomy, and behavior to explore how neural circuits are organized to react and sense a complex envi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20H.%20Bube
Richard H. Bube (August 10, 1927 – June 9, 2018) was an American scientist. Academic career Bube received his B.S. in physics from Brown University in 1946 and his M.A. (1948) and Ph.D. (1950) in physics from Princeton University. He was a researcher at RCA Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey, from 1948 to 1962. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20prizes%2C%20medals%2C%20and%20awards%20in%20Sri%20Lanka
This is a list of prizes, medals and awards including cups, trophies, bowls, badges, state decorations etc., awarded in Sri Lanka. National honours, Military and Police medals Sri Lankan honours system Awards and decorations of the military of Sri Lanka Awards and decorations of the Sri Lanka Police Science, mathemat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rs4680
In genetics, rs4680 (Val158Met) is a genetic variant. It is a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the COMT gene that codes catechol-O-Methyltransferase. The single nucleotide substitution between G--> A results in an amino acid change from valine to methionine at codon 158. The A or Met allele is associated with l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, a plane is a two-dimensional space or flat surface that extends indefinitely. A plane is the two-dimensional analogue of a point (zero dimensions), a line (one dimension) and three-dimensional space. When working exclusively in two-dimensional Euclidean space, the definite article is used, so the Euc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr%20H%C3%A1jek
Petr Hájek (; 6 February 1940 – 26 December 2016) was a Czech scientist in the area of mathematical logic and a professor of mathematics. Born in Prague, he worked at the Institute of Computer Science at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and as a lecturer at the faculty of mathematics and physics at the Cha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensation%20point
In mathematics, a condensation point p of a subset S of a topological space is any point p such that every neighborhood of p contains uncountably many points of S. Thus "condensation point" is synonymous with "-accumulation point". Examples If S = (0,1) is the open unit interval, a subset of the real numbers, then 0 i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%20circle%20problem
In mathematics, the Gauss circle problem is the problem of determining how many integer lattice points there are in a circle centered at the origin and with radius . This number is approximated by the area of the circle, so the real problem is to accurately bound the error term describing how the number of points diff...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphoamino%20acid%20analysis
Phosphoamino acid analysis, or PAA, is an experimental technique used in molecular biology to determine which amino acid or acids are phosphorylated in a protein. Technique A protein is first phosphorylated using 32P-labeled ATP, usually via an in vitro kinase assay. Most of the amino acids in the protein are then hy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Giblin
Peter John Giblin (10 July 1943) is an English mathematician whose primary research involves singularity theory and its application to geometry, computer vision, and computer graphics. Giblin is an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Liverpool where he has served on staff for more than 40 years. His ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology%20of%20depression
Scientific studies have found that different brain areas show altered activity in humans with major depressive disorder (MDD), and this has encouraged advocates of various theories that seek to identify a biochemical origin of the disease, as opposed to theories that emphasize psychological or situational causes. Facto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollin%20Hotchkiss
Rollin Douglas Hotchkiss (September 8, 1911 – December 12, 2004) was an American biochemist who helped to establish the role of DNA as the genetic material and contributed to the isolation and purification of the first antibiotics. His work on bacterial transformation helped lay the groundwork for the field of molecul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoplastic%20polyurethane
Thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) is any of a class of polyurethane plastics with many properties, including elasticity, transparency, and resistance to oil, grease, and abrasion. Technically, they are thermoplastic elastomers consisting of linear segmented block copolymers composed of hard and soft segments. Chemistr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Palmer%20%28physicist%29
E. Paul Palmer (1926–2011) was a Brigham Young University physicist who specialized in geophysics. He coined the term "cold fusion". However he was an early critic of Fleischmann and Pons's claims to have developed a useful method of cold fusion. Palmer served in the US Navy during World War II. He later served as a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers%2C%20institutes%2C%20and%20facilities%20related%20to%20the%20University%20of%20Nevada%2C%20Reno
There are several notable research and academic institutes, centers and facilities associated with the University of Nevada, Reno. Centers, Institutes & Facilities Academy for the Environment Applied Research Facility Arthur Brant Laboratory for Exploration Geophysics Bridge Research and Information Center Candida Adh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental%20world
The mental world is an ontological category in metaphysics, populated by nonmaterial mental objects, without physical extension (though possibly with mental extension as in a visual field, or possibly not, as in an olfactory field) contrasted with the physical world of space and time populated with physical objects, or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUNY%20Poly%20College%20of%20Nanoscale%20Science%20and%20Engineering
The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering is the college of nanotechnology at the SUNY Polytechnic Institute campus in Albany, New York. Founded in 2004 at the University at Albany, SUNY, the college underwent rapid expansion in the late-2000s and early-2010s before merging with the SUNY Institute of Technology ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara%20Mahal
Lara K. Mahal is an American chemist who is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Glycomics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She is also a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Alberta. She is notable both for her pioneering work establishing lectin microarrays as a new technology for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley%20C.%20Edwards
Bradley C. Edwards is an American physicist who has been involved in the development of the space elevator concept. Biography Dr Edwards received his PhD degree in Physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1990. His thesis work was in astrophysics on the soft x-ray background. During his graduate work he wo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.M.S.Kamaraj%20Polytechnic
NMS Kamaraj Polytechnic is a polytechnic college located in Pazhavilai, Kanyakumari District, India. It is 8 km from N.M.S. Kamaraj Polytechnic College, Pazhavilai was established on 22 September 1982. This is the only Government aided Polytechnic College in Kanyakumari District. Courses Offered Basic Science Civil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Tiles
Mary Tiles (born 1946) is a philosopher and historian of mathematics and science. From 2006 until 2009, she served as chair of the philosophy department of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She retired in 2009. Life At Bristol University, Tiles obtained her B.A. in philosophy and mathematics in 1967, and her Ph.D. i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%20Robotics
Evolution Robotics was an American technological company based in Pasadena, California. It specialized in robotics technologies, with computer vision, localization, and autonomous navigation products. Evolution Robotics cooperated with Cambridge University for research in vision technology. Software products of Evolut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Symposium%20on%20Distributed%20Computing
The International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) is an annual academic conference for refereed presentations, whose focus is the theory, design, analysis, implementation, and application of distributed systems and networks. The Symposium is organized in association with the European Association for Theoretic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleon%20pair%20breaking%20in%20fission
Nucleon pair breaking in fission has been an important topic in nuclear physics for decades. "Nucleon pair" refers to nucleon pairing effects which strongly influence the nuclear properties of a nuclide. The most measured quantities in research on nuclear fission are the charge and mass fragments yields for uranium-23...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak%20Hausdorff%20space
In mathematics, a weak Hausdorff space or weakly Hausdorff space is a topological space where the image of every continuous map from a compact Hausdorff space into the space is closed. In particular, every Hausdorff space is weak Hausdorff. As a separation property, it is stronger than T1, which is equivalent to the s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Musser
George Musser (born 1965) is a contributing editor for Scientific American magazine in New York and the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory and of Spooky Action at a Distance. Biography Musser did his undergraduate studies in electrical engineering and mathematics at Brown University and his graduate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Leonard%20Hamblin
Charles Leonard Hamblin (20 November 1922 – 14 May 1985) was an Australian philosopher, logician, and computer pioneer, as well as a professor of philosophy at the New South Wales University of Technology (now the University of New South Wales) in Sydney. Among his most well-known achievements in the area of computer ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram%20Litton
Abram Litton (May 20, 1814 – September 22, 1901) was an Irish-American chemist and educator. He was Washington University in St. Louis's first professor of chemistry, who served as the acting chancellor during 1869–1870. Biography Abram Litton was born in Dublin on May 20, 1814. His family emigrated from Ireland to Na...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCPC
LCPC may refer to: Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, a licensure for mental health professionals Laboratoire central des ponts et chaussées, a French scientific and technical research public establishment Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, a computer science conference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGENE
UGENE is computer software for bioinformatics. It works on personal computer operating systems such as Windows, macOS, or Linux. It is released as free and open-source software, under a GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. UGENE helps biologists to analyze various biological genetics data, such as sequences, an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reentrant
Reentrant or re-entrant can refer to: Re-entrant (landform), the low ground formed between two hill spurs. Reentrancy (computing) in computer programming Reentrant mutex in computer science Reentry (neural circuitry) in neuroscience Salients, re-entrants and pockets in military tactics Reentrant tuning in music Concav...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Brain%20and%20Behaviour%20Society
The European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS) is a scientific society founded in 1968 whose stated purpose is the exchange of information between European scientists interested in the relationships between brain mechanisms and behaviour. It is the oldest neuroscience society in Europe. Notable past presidents include...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multibrot%20set
In mathematics, a Multibrot set is the set of values in the complex plane whose absolute value remains below some finite value throughout iterations by a member of the general monic univariate polynomial family of recursions. The name is a portmanteau of multiple and Mandelbrot set. The same can be applied to the Julia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krattaspis
Krattaspis is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida (family Cheiruridae), that existed during the lower Ordovician in what is now Estonia. It was described by Öpik in 1937, and the type species is Krattaspis viridatus. The type locality was the Maekula Strata. References External links Krattaspis at the Paleo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landyia
Landyia is a trilobite in the order Phacopida, that existed during the lower Ordovician in what is now Australia. It was described by Jell in 1985, and the type species is Landyia elizabethae. The type locality was the Digger Island Formation in Victoria. References External links Landyia at the Paleobiology Databas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochotomidae
Trochotomidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pleurotomarioidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family has no subfamilies. Genera Genera within the family Trochotomidae include: Trochotoma, the type genus Referenc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Chromatography%20B
The Journal of Chromatography B is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research papers in analytical chemistry, with a focus on chromatography techniques and methods in the biological and life sciences. According to the Journal Citation Reports, 'Journal of Chromatography B'' has a 2020 impact factor of 3.205...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-dimensional%20algebra
In mathematics, especially (higher) category theory, higher-dimensional algebra is the study of categorified structures. It has applications in nonabelian algebraic topology, and generalizes abstract algebra. Higher-dimensional categories A first step towards defining higher dimensional algebras is the concept of 2-c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betim%20Mu%C3%A7o
Betim Muço (21 January 1947 – 15 January 2015) was an Albanian writer, poet, translator, and seismologist. Biography Betim Muço was born in Tirana, the capital of Albania, on January 21, 1947. He graduated in nuclear physics from the University of Tirana in 1970, specializing in seismology. He held a PhD in Earth Scie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation%20hypothesis
The Escalation Hypothesis is an evolutionary theory in biology put forward by Geerat J. Vermeij. It states that organisms are in constant conflict with one another and therefore devote many resources to thwarting the adaptations evolution brings to all competing organisms as time advances. This is in contrast to adapt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Romley%20Alder%20Wright
Charles Romley Alder Wright FCS, FRS (7 September 1844 – 25 June 1894) was an English lecturer in chemistry and physics at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, England. He was a founder of the Royal Institute of Chemistry. Alder Wright developed hundreds of new opiate compounds and was the first person to synt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladesmore%20Community%20School
Gladesmore Community School is a coeducational secondary school located in Tottenham, London, England. The school's specialisms include Gifted and Talented, Mathematics and Computing, and Applied Learning. History Gladesmore combines a number of previous schools in the vicinity: Crowland Road School opened in 1911 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%20pair
In mathematics, a Bailey pair is a pair of sequences satisfying certain relations, and a Bailey chain is a sequence of Bailey pairs. Bailey pairs were introduced by while studying the second proof Rogers 1917 of the Rogers–Ramanujan identities, and Bailey chains were introduced by . Definition The q-Pochhammer symbol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20L.%20Flurry
Robert Luther Flurry, Jr. (November 15, 1933 – September 3, 2008) was a chemistry professor and researcher who authored three chemistry textbooks. After serving in the U.S. Navy as a musician, he received his B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. from Emory University and completed his post-doctoral studies at Illinois Institute of T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Walters
Matthew Jeremy Walters (born August 22, 1979) is a former American football player. While at Eau Gallie High School, Walters lettered in three sports, including golf and basketball. Scouted by Baylor University as well as the universities of Florida and Virginia, he chose the University of Miami. Majoring in mechanica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep%20Pons%20Rosell
Josep Pons Rosell (September 20, 1918 - July 28, 2013) is an anthropologist and professor at the Anthropology Department of the Biology Faculty of the University of Barcelona (UB) from 1973 to his retirement. In 1991 he was made academic of the Reial Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts of Barcelona. Pons was born in L'Arboç...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF
RDF may refer to: Science and technology Computing Resource Description Framework, a W3C metadata standard used for graphing RDF Schema, its language Physics Radial distribution function, describes how density varies as a function of distance from a reference particle Radio direction finding, techniques used whe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme%20McFarland
Graeme E. McFarland was an American football quarterback for the Indiana Hoosiers football team in 2003, 2005 and 2006. He appeared in 27 games and completed 33 of 72 passes for 355 yards and four touchdowns. In 2007, McFarland graduated magna cum laude from Indiana University with a bachelor's degree in biology. He l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Hill%20Smith
Harold Hill Smith (April 24, 1910 – October 19, 1994) was an American geneticist who first fused a human cell and a plant cell. Life and career Born in Kearny, New Jersey, Smith graduated from Rutgers University and earned master's and doctoral degrees in genetics at Harvard University. He then worked for seven years...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovan%20Marku%C5%A1
Jovan Markuš (; 20 January 1949) is a Montenegrin politician, journalist, publicist, historian and heraldist. He is the former mayor of Cetinje, Montenegro's Old Capital. Biography Jovan Markuš graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 1974. In the 1980s he was elected into the lo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckold
A cuckold is the husband of an adulterous wife; the wife of an adulterous husband is a cuckquean. In biology, a cuckold is a male who unwittingly invests parental effort in juveniles who are not genetically his offspring. A husband who is aware of and tolerates his wife's infidelity is sometimes called a wittol or witt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kummer%27s%20conjecture
In mathematics, Kummer's conjecture is either of two the conjectures made by Ernst Eduard Kummer: The Kummer–Vandiver conjecture about class numbers of cyclotomic fields Kummer's conjecture about the Kummer sum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde%20tracing
In neuroscience, anterograde tracing is a research method that is used to trace axonal projections from their source (the cell body, or soma) to their point of termination (the synapse). A hallmark of anterograde tracing is the labeling of the presynaptic and the postsynaptic neuron(s). The crossing of the synaptic cle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny%20Sackett
Penny Diane Sackett (born 28 February 1956) is an American-born Australian astronomer and former director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA) at the Australian National University (ANU). Professor Sackett was the Chief Scientist of Australia from November 2008 until March 2011. Early life and s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrone%20Hayes
Tyrone B. Hayes (born July 29, 1967) is an American biologist and professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his research in frogs, concluding that the herbicide atrazine is an endocrine disruptor that demasculinizes male frogs, causing them to display female characteri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20mathematics
This is a timeline of pure and applied mathematics history. It is divided here into three stages, corresponding to stages in the development of mathematical notation: a "rhetorical" stage in which calculations are described purely by words, a "syncopated" stage in which quantities and common algebraic operations are be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekrem%20Ekinci
Ekrem Ekinci is Professor of Chemistry. Between 2008 and 2010, he was the rector of Işık University in Istanbul, Turkey. References Turkish chemists Living people Rectors of universities and colleges in Turkey Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Turkish people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobb%20Hopkins
Bobb Hopkins, also known as Santa Fe Bo, is an American writer, director, actor, and producer who was founding director of the National Hobo Association. Early life and education Hopkins was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, and attended Swampscott High School. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a degre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Journal%20of%20Medical%20Genetics
American Journal of Medical Genetics is a peer-reviewed medical journal dealing with human genetics published in three separate sections (parts) by Wiley-Liss: American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics American Journal of Medical Genetics Part ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Alexander%20%28politician%29
Anton Alexander (19 September 1870 – 10 October 1945) was a Norwegian educator and politician for the Liberal Party. He was born in Tvedestrand as the son of sailor Alexander Paulsen (1841-1871) and his wife Anna Andersen (1834-1887). He graduated as cand.real. in 1892, and studied mathematics in Leipzig from 1894 to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9chet%20distance
In mathematics, the Fréchet distance is a measure of similarity between curves that takes into account the location and ordering of the points along the curves. It is named after Maurice Fréchet. Intuitive definition Imagine a person traversing a finite curved path while walking their dog on a leash, with the dog tra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20T.%20Mason
Matthew Thomas Mason (born August 24, 1952 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American roboticist and the former Director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Mason is a researcher in the area of robotic manipulation, and is the author of two highly cited textbooks in the field. In 2004, Mason recei...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acyclic%20model
In algebraic topology, a discipline within mathematics, the acyclic models theorem can be used to show that two homology theories are isomorphic. The theorem was developed by topologists Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders MacLane. They discovered that, when topologists were writing proofs to establish equivalence of variou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Niemann
Carl George Niemann (July 6, 1908 – April 29, 1964) was an American biochemist who worked extensively on the chemistry and structure of proteins, publishing over 260 research papers. He is known, with Max Bergmann, for proposing the Bergmann-Niemann hypothesis that proteins consist of 288 residue polypeptides or multip...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral%20and%20Brain%20Functions
Behavioral and Brain Functions is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by BioMed Central. It publishes articles on "all aspects of neurobiology where the unifying theme is behavior or behavioral dysfunction". It was established in 2005 with Terje Sagvolden as founding editor-in-chief, who was succee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory%20of%20Nano%20and%20Quantum%20Engineering
The Laboratory of Nano and Quantum Engineering (LNQE) is an interdisciplinary research center for nanotechnology of the Leibniz University Hannover in Germany. Goals The Laboratory of Nano and Quantum Engineering (LNQE) is an interdisciplinary research center of the Leibniz Universität Hannover in the field of nanote...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry%20Quality%20Eurolabels
The Chemistry Quality Eurolabels or European Quality Labels in Chemistry (Labels européens de Qualité en Chimie) is a marketing scheme for chemistry degrees at institutions located within the 45 countries involved in the Bologna process. Labels are awarded to qualifying institutions under the names are Eurobachelor and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia%20of%20Cryptography%20and%20Security
The Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security is a comprehensive work on Cryptography for both information security professionals and experts in the fields of Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Information Theory, Data Encryption, etc. It consists of 460 articles in alphabetical order and is availabl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseen%20equations
In fluid dynamics, the Oseen equations (or Oseen flow) describe the flow of a viscous and incompressible fluid at small Reynolds numbers, as formulated by Carl Wilhelm Oseen in 1910. Oseen flow is an improved description of these flows, as compared to Stokes flow, with the (partial) inclusion of convective acceleration...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20O.%20Limb
John O. Limb is an Australian engineer, known for fundamental contributions to the development of digital video communications and holder of a series of patents related to computer communications. Early life and education Born in Western Australia, he got a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (B.E.E.) (1963) and a Ph.D...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20F.%20Stevens
Peter Francis Stevens is a British botanist born in 1944. He is a researcher at the Missouri Botanical Garden and professor of Biology of the University of Missouri–St. Louis. He is a member of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group which created the APG, APG II, APG III, and APG IV systems. He maintains a web site, APweb, h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Physics%2C%20Lund%20University
The Department of Physics in Lund is a department that belongs to both the Faculty of Natural Sciences and the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University. The main goals are to expand the understanding of physics, its applications and to share scientific progress to new generations. Research is conducted in most of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default%20mode%20network
In neuroscience, the default mode network (DMN), also known as the default network, default state network, or anatomically the medial frontoparietal network (M-FPN), is a large-scale brain network primarily composed of the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, precuneus and angular gyrus. It is b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex%20enumeration%20problem
In mathematics, the vertex enumeration problem for a polytope, a polyhedral cell complex, a hyperplane arrangement, or some other object of discrete geometry, is the problem of determination of the object's vertices given some formal representation of the object. A classical example is the problem of enumeration of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20Lakes%20Observatory
The Large Lakes Observatory (or LLO) is a research institute located in Duluth, Minnesota, USA which studies the major lakes of the world. The researchers focus on a variety of sciences including aquatic chemistry, geochemistry and paleoclimatology. Its stated purpose dedicates the LLO to "performing innovative, cross-...