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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Gordon%20%28physicist%29
Walter Gordon (13 August 1893 – 24 December 1939) was a German theoretical physicist. Life Walter Gordon was the son of businessman Arnold Gordon and his wife Bianca Gordon (nee Brann). The family moved to Switzerland in his early years. In 1900, he attended school in St. Gallen and in 1915 he began his studies of mat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20force-field%20implementations
This is a table of notable computer programs implementing molecular mechanics force fields. See also Force field (chemistry) List of software for Monte Carlo molecular modeling Molecular mechanics Molecular design software Molecule editor Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling Molecular modeling on GP...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicsek%20fractal
In mathematics the Vicsek fractal, also known as Vicsek snowflake or box fractal, is a fractal arising from a construction similar to that of the Sierpinski carpet, proposed by Tamás Vicsek. It has applications including as compact antennas, particularly in cellular phones. Box fractal also refers to various iterated ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden%20of%20Cosmic%20Speculation
The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a 30 acre (12 hectare) sculpture garden created by landscape architect and theorist Charles Jencks at his home, Portrack House, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Like much of Jencks' work, the garden is inspired by modern cosmology. History Features The garden is inspired by science and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfadolone
Alfadolone (INN), or alphadolone is a neuroactive steroid and general anesthetic. Along with alfaxolone, as alfadolone acetate, it is one of the components of the anesthetic drug mixture althesin. Chemistry See also Ganaxolone Hydroxydione Minaxolone Pregnanolone Renanolone References General anesthetics Neuro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORG-20599
ORG-20599 is a synthetic neuroactive steroid, with sedative effects resulting from its action as a GABAA receptor positive allosteric modulator and, at higher concentrations, agonist. It was developed for use as an anaesthetic agent but was never marketed for this purpose, although it is still used in scientific resear...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitrije%20Vuk%C4%8Devi%C4%87
Dimitrije Vukčević studied Nuclear Physics at the University of Belgrade before embarking on a career in commerce. In the 1990s he spent a number of years living and working in the United States. On his return to Serbia, he was appointed by Zoran Đinđić as the Deputy Minister of Energy and Mining in the Government of S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket%20City%20Math%20League
Rocket City Math League (RCML) is a student-run mathematics competition in the United States. Run by students at Virgil I. Grissom High School in Huntsville, Alabama, RCML gets its name from Huntsville's nickname as the "Rocket City". RCML was started in 2001 and has been annually sponsored by the Mu Alpha Theta Math ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20geochemistry
Regional geochemistry is the study of the spatial variation in the chemical composition of materials at the surface of the Earth, on a scale of tens to thousands of kilometres. Important parameters to consider when designing or evaluating a geochemical survey are: Areal extent of the survey Sampling density The type...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/836%20%28number%29
836 (eight hundred [and] thirty-six) is the natural number following 835 and preceding 837. In mathematics The factorization of 836 is , so its proper factors are 1, 2, 4, 11, 19, 22, 38, 44, 76, 209, and 418. They sum to 844. As this is greater than 836, it is an abundant number, but no subset sums to 836, so it is n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20for%20Mathematics%20and%20Computers%20in%20Simulation
The International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS) has the goal to establish means of communication between researchers on simulation. It is incorporated in the United States and Belgium, with affiliates in other countries. IMACS organizes conferences, and publishes scientific journals an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMACS
IMACS or Imacs can refer to: International Master in Cinema Studies, a network of European and American research universities delivering a common program in film studies International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, a Belgian-American network for researchers on simulation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20Neumann%20paradox
In mathematics, the von Neumann paradox, named after John von Neumann, is the idea that one can break a planar figure such as the unit square into sets of points and subject each set to an area-preserving affine transformation such that the result is two planar figures of the same size as the original. This was proved ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-safes%20in%20nanotechnology
Fail-safes in nanotechnology are devices or features integrated with nanotechnology which, in the event of failure, respond in a way that will cause no harm, or at least a minimum of harm, to other devices or personnel. Fail-safe principles are governed by national standards and engineering practices, and are widely us...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leri%20Gogoladze
Leri Gogoladze, also known as Larry Gogoladze, (, born 1 April 1938) is a retired Georgian water polo goalkeeper who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1960 Summer Olympics; he played three matches and won a silver medal. Around mid-1960s Gogoladze retired from sports to focus on his doctorate in mathematics. He lat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baum%E2%80%93Sweet%20sequence
In mathematics the Baum–Sweet sequence is an infinite automatic sequence of 0s and 1s defined by the rule: bn = 1 if the binary representation of n contains no block of consecutive 0s of odd length; bn = 0 otherwise; for n ≥ 0. For example, b4 = 1 because the binary representation of 4 is 100, which only contains on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarita%20Adve
Sarita Vikram Adve is the Richard T. Cheng Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are in computer architecture and systems, parallel computing, and power and reliability-aware systems. Education and career Adve completed a Bachelor of Technology degree i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate%20cognition
Primate cognition is the study of the intellectual and behavioral skills of non-human primates, particularly in the fields of psychology, behavioral biology, primatology, and anthropology. Primates are capable of high levels of cognition; some make tools and use them to acquire foods and for social displays; some have...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Princeton%20Companion%20to%20Mathematics
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics is a book providing an extensive overview of mathematics that was published in 2008 by Princeton University Press. Edited by Timothy Gowers with associate editors June Barrow-Green and Imre Leader, it has been noted for the high caliber of its contributors. The book was the 2011 w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Usherwood%20Ingold
Keith Usherwood Ingold (31 May 1929 – 8 September 2023) was a British-Canadian chemist. Life and career Keith Usherwood Ingold was born to Sir Christopher Ingold and Dr. Hilda Usherwood, and studied for a BSc in Chemistry at the University of London, completing his degree in 1949. He continued his higher education wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena%20Tulli
Magdalena Tulli (born Maddalena Flavia Tulli; 20 October 1955 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish novelist and translator, one of Poland's leading writers. Life and career Tulli has an Italian father and a Polish-Jewish mother, and grew up partially in Italy. She graduated from high school in 1974 in Warsaw and obtained a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIFAC%20Consortium
The UNIFAC Consortium was founded at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg at the chair of industrial chemistry of Prof. Gmehling to invite private companies to support the further development of the group-contribution methods UNIFAC and its successor modified UNIFAC (Dortmund). Both models are used for the p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garside%20element
In mathematics, a Garside element is an element of an algebraic structure such as a monoid that has several desirable properties. Formally, if M is a monoid, then an element Δ of M is said to be a Garside element if the set of all right divisors of Δ, is the same set as the set of all left divisors of Δ, and this se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20Notes%20from%20a%20Catastrophe
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change is a non-fiction environmental science book by Elizabeth Kolbert that was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2006. The book documents a series of scientific observations and political processes, bringing attention to the causes and effects of global cl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric%20graph
In graph theory, a branch of mathematics, an undirected graph is called an asymmetric graph if it has no nontrivial symmetries. Formally, an automorphism of a graph is a permutation of its vertices with the property that any two vertices and are adjacent if and only if and are adjacent. The identity mapping of a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Dark%20Energy%20Mission
The Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) was an Einstein probe that planned to focus on investigating dark energy. JDEM was a partnership between NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). In August 2010, the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Science Foundation (NSF) recommended the Wide Field Infrared Sur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%20Zymalkowski
Felix Zymalkowski (13 August 1913 – 17 August 2004) was a German Schnellboot commander in World War II, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and since 1963 professor of pharmaceutical chemistry. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harsco%20Infrastructure%20Deutschland%20GmbH
The Harsco Infrastructure Deutschland GmbH (formerly Hünnebeck GmbH), with its headquarters located in Ratingen, Germany, is a subsidiary of the Harsco Corporation. The company develops, rents and sells formwork and scaffolding products for the main construction trade and civil engineering projects. History Emil Maur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Sales%20and%20Account%20Management
The Institute for Sales and Account Management (ISAM) is a Dutch knowledge institute that was founded in 1996 as part of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. ISAM conducts research in the field of neuroeconomics; a science in which economics, psychology, and neuroscience are combined. Serving as an example is the researc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudin%E2%80%93Shapiro%20sequence
In mathematics, the Rudin–Shapiro sequence, also known as the Golay–Rudin–Shapiro sequence, is an infinite 2-automatic sequence named after Marcel Golay, Walter Rudin, and Harold S. Shapiro, who independently investigated its properties. Definition Each term of the Rudin–Shapiro sequence is either or . If the binary ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Joseph%20Bittner
John Joseph Bittner (February 25, 1904 – December 14, 1961) was a geneticist and cancer biologist, who made many contributions on the genetics of breast cancer research, which were of value, not only in cancer research, but also in a variety of other biological investigations. Biography Bittner was born in Meadville,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20wave%20model
In fluid dynamics, wind wave modeling describes the effort to depict the sea state and predict the evolution of the energy of wind waves using numerical techniques. These simulations consider atmospheric wind forcing, nonlinear wave interactions, and frictional dissipation, and they output statistics describing wave he...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinomial%20tree
The trinomial tree is a lattice-based computational model used in financial mathematics to price options. It was developed by Phelim Boyle in 1986. It is an extension of the binomial options pricing model, and is conceptually similar. It can also be shown that the approach is equivalent to the explicit finite differenc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20of%20Czech%20mathematicians%20and%20physicists
The Union of Czech mathematicians and physicists (, JČMF) is one of the oldest learned societies in Czech lands existing to this day. It was founded in 1862 as the Association for free lectures in mathematics and physics (Union of Czech mathematicians). From the beginning, its goal was improvement of teaching physics a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simion%20Stoilow%20Prize
The Simion Stoilow Prize () is the prize offered by the Romanian Academy for achievements in mathematics. It is named in honor of Simion Stoilow. The prize is awarded either for a mathematical work or for a cycle of works. The award consists of 30,000 lei and a diploma. The prize was established in 1963 and is awarded...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20IWX%20%28mtDNA%29
In human genetics, Haplogroup IWX was a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup. It was thought to cluster haplogroups I, W, and X. Studies suggested haplogroup IWX to be highly protective against AIDS progression. It is now known that Haplogroup I is descendant of Haplogroup N1. It has also been proposed that Hapl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20intelligence
Decision intelligence is an engineering discipline that augments data science with theory from social science, decision theory, and managerial science. Its application provides a framework for best practices in organizational decision-making and processes for applying Artificial Intelligence technologies as machine lea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Arne%20Ruzicka
Peter Arne Ruzicka (born 16 April 1964) is a Norwegian businessman. Ruzicka's father was Czech, migrated to Norway in 1951 and ultimately became professor of chemistry. Ruzicka earned siv.øk. and MBA degrees at Oslo Business School. In 1990 he was hired in Hakon Gruppen by Stein Erik Hagen. He became director of marke...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian%20Society%20for%20Photobiology%20and%20Photomedicine
The Norwegian Society for Photobiology and Photomedicine (NOFFOF) was founded at the University Hospital (St Olav's Hospital) in Trondheim, Norway on May 9, 1983. Thirty members enrolled during the first membership year. Since then, membership has varied between 30 and 80. Statutes The statutes of the Society prescr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergence%20%28computer%20science%29
In computer science, a computation is said to diverge if it does not terminate or terminates in an exceptional state. Otherwise it is said to converge. In domains where computations are expected to be infinite, such as process calculi, a computation is said to diverge if it fails to be productive (i.e. to continue prod...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Dionisio
John M. Dionisio leads AECOM (NYSE: ACM), an $8-billion global provider of professional technical and management support services, as chief executive officer from 2005 to 2011. He served as chairman of the company's board of directors from 2011 to 2014, becoming executive chairman in 2014. He earned a master of science...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nai-Chang%20Yeh
Nai-Chang Yeh (; born 1961) is a Taiwanese-American physicist specializing in experimental condensed matter physics. Early life and education She was born and grew up in Chiayi, Taiwan and received her B. Sc. from National Taiwan University in the capital Taipei City in 1983. She went to the US for graduate education...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quan-Sheng%20Shu
Quan-Sheng Shu () is an American physicist and a naturalized American citizen. Born in China, he has a Ph.D in physics and is also the President of AMAC International, a high-tech company with offices in his hometown of Newport News, Virginia and in Beijing. Shu came to the United States in 1990. He worked at the Uni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrolidonyl-%CE%B2-naphthylamide
Pyrrolidonyl-β-naphthylamide (PYR) is a molecule used in microbiology to detect the presence of pyrrolidonyl peptidase. In the presence of bacteria with pyrrolidonyl peptidase, it is broken down to pyroglutamic acid and 2-naphthylamine. To detect this process, p-dimethylaminocinnamaldehyde is added and a change to a p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus%20Schmiegel
Klaus Schmiegel (born June 28, 1939), is a German chemist best known for his work in organic chemistry, which led to the invention of Prozac, a widely used antidepressant. Biography Early life and education Klaus Schmiegel was born in Chemnitz, Germany on June 28, 1939. After he immigrated to the United States in 195...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20Haefliger
André Haefliger (; 22 May 19297 March 2023) was a Swiss mathematician who worked primarily on topology. Education and career Haefliger went to school in Nyon and then attended his final years at Collège de Genève in Geneva. He studied mathematics at the University of Lausanne from 1948 to 1952. He worked for two year...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Laflamme
Raymond Laflamme (born 1960), OC, FRSC is a Canadian theoretical physicist and founder and until mid 2017, was the director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. He is also a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo and an associate faculty membe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec%20diamond
In combinatorial mathematics, an Aztec diamond of order n consists of all squares of a square lattice whose centers (x,y) satisfy |x| + |y| ≤ n. Here n is a fixed integer, and the square lattice consists of unit squares with the origin as a vertex of 4 of them, so that both x and y are half-integers. The Aztec diamond...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FKG%20inequality
In mathematics, the Fortuin–Kasteleyn–Ginibre (FKG) inequality is a correlation inequality, a fundamental tool in statistical mechanics and probabilistic combinatorics (especially random graphs and the probabilistic method), due to . Informally, it says that in many random systems, increasing events are positively corr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%AAm%C3%BBr%C3%AA%20Xel%C3%AEl
Têmûrê Xelîl (born 1949) is a contemporary Yezidi-Kurdish journalist, writer and translator. He is a member of the Kurdish Institute of Paris, editor of the Kurdish journal Roja Nû and lives in Sweden. Biography He was born in Yerevan, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (Armenian SSR) and after receiving a bachelor's...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure%20constants
In mathematics, the structure constants or structure coefficients of an algebra over a field are the coefficients of the basis expansion (into linear combination of basis vectors) of the products of basis vectors. Because the product operation in the algebra is bilinear, by linearity knowing the product of basis vector...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulpinic%20acid
Vulpinic acid is a natural product first found in and important in the symbiosis underlying the biology of lichens. It is a simple methyl ester derivative of its parent compound, pulvinic acid, and a close relative of pulvinone, both of which derive from aromatic amino acids such as phenylalanine via secondary metaboli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20Hollander
Anthony Hollander (born 4 February 1964) has worked at the University of Liverpool since June 2014, starting out as the Head of the Institute of Integrative Biology, he was then appointed as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research & Impact in August 2017. A post he still occupies as well as being the Professor of Stem Ce...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erez%20Lieberman%20Aiden
Erez Lieberman Aiden (born 1980, né Erez Lieberman) is an American research scientist active in multiple fields related to applied mathematics. He is an associate professor at the Baylor College of Medicine, and formerly a fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and visiting faculty member at Google. He is an adjunct ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Grafton%20Page
Charles Grafton Page (January 25, 1812 – May 5, 1868) was an American electrical experimenter and inventor, physician, patent examiner, patent advocate, and professor of chemistry. Like his more famous contemporaries Michael Faraday and Joseph Henry, Page began his career as an astute natural philosopher who developed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYZ%20inequality
In combinatorial mathematics, the XYZ inequality, also called the Fishburn–Shepp inequality, is an inequality for the number of linear extensions of finite partial orders. The inequality was conjectured by Ivan Rival and Bill Sands in 1981. It was proved by Lawrence Shepp in . An extension was given by Peter Fishburn ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20knowledge%20management
In computer science, semantic knowledge management is a set of practices that seeks to classify content so that the knowledge it contains may be immediately accessed and transformed for delivery to the desired audience, in the required format. This classification of content is semantic in its nature – identifying conte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20W.%20Housner
George W. Housner (December 9, 1910 in Saginaw, Michigan – November 10, 2008 in Pasadena, California) was a professor of earthquake engineering at the California Institute of Technology and National Medal of Science laureate. Biography Housner received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20%26%20Environmental%20Science
Energy & Environmental Science is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original (primary) research and review articles. The journal covers work of an interdisciplinary nature in the biochemical and biophysical sciences and chemical and mechanical engineering disciplines. It covers energy area. Energy &...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrative%20Biology
Integrative Biology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the interface between biology and the fields of physics, chemistry, engineering, imaging, and informatics. It was published by the Royal Society of Chemistry from its launch in 2008 until 2018. Since 2019, it has been published by Oxford Univers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20QCD
In theoretical physics, super QCD is a supersymmetric gauge theory which resembles quantum chromodynamics (QCD) but contains additional particles and interactions which render it supersymmetric. The most commonly used version of super QCD is in 4 dimensions and contains one Majorana spinor supercharge. The particle c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar%20Ritter
Oskar Ritter (born 1913, date of death unknown) was a German physicist. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club. Education Ritter studied at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and the Universität Leipzig. In 1943, he received his doctorate in physics...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%20Werner%20Siemens
Hermann Werner Siemens (August 20, 1891 (Charlottenberg) -1969) was a German dermatologist who first described multiple skin diseases and was one of the inventors of the twin study. Siemens' work in twin studies is influential in modern genetics and is used to address the environmental and genetic impacts upon traits. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20paperfolding%20sequence
In mathematics the regular paperfolding sequence, also known as the dragon curve sequence, is an infinite sequence of 0s and 1s. It is obtained from the repeating partial sequence by filling in the question marks by another copy of the whole sequence. The first few terms of the resulting sequence are: If a strip of p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina%20Biological%20Supply%20Company
Carolina Biological Supply Company is a worldwide supplier of science education materials to teachers, college professors, home-school educators, and professionals in health and science-related fields. History Carolina was founded in 1927 by Dr. Thomas E. Powell Jr., a young geology and biology professor at Elon Coll...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brillouin%27s%20theorem
In quantum chemistry, Brillouin's theorem, proposed by the French physicist Léon Brillouin in 1934, relates to Hartree–Fock wavefunctions. Hartree–Fock, or the self-consistent field method, is a non-relativistic method of generating approximate wavefunctions for a many-bodied quantum system, based on the assumption tha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavana%20Sarma
Kandula Varaha Narasimha Sarma known in Telugu literary circles as Kavana Sarma (23 September 1939 – 25 October 2018). was an Indian professor of civil engineering who was also a novelist and writer of Telugu fiction. He retired from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and served as an advisor to Rachana Masa Pa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springwood%20State%20High%20School
Springwood State High School is a Queensland state school located in the Logan City suburb of Springwood. The school opened in 1977 to Grade 8 students with its official opening in 1978. Springwood State High School is situated on of bushland and includes a lagoon which is used by senior Biology students. In addition ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad%20Seppelt
Konrad Seppelt (born September 2, 1944 in Leipzig) is a academic author, professor and former vice president of the Free University Berlin. Publications Popular publications Cutting Edge, Konrad Seppelt, The (London) Times Higher Education Supplement, November 10, 2000, p. 24. The Future of Chemistry ... , Editoria...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponitrite
In chemistry, hyponitrite may refer to the anion ([ON=NO]2−), or to any ionic compound that contains it. In organic chemistry, it may also refer to the group −O−N=N−O−, or any organic compound with the generic formula R1−O−N=N−O−R2, where R1 and R2 are organic groups. Such compounds can be viewed as salts and esters...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeobiology
Archaeobiology, the study of the biology of ancient times through archaeological materials, is a subspecialty of archaeology. It can be seen as a blanket term for paleobotany, animal osteology, zooarchaeology, microbiology, and many other sub-disciplines. Specifically, plant and animal remains are also called ecofacts....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Riley
Rachel Annabelle Riley (born 11 January 1986) is a British television presenter. She co-presents the Channel 4 daytime puzzle show Countdown and its comedy spin-off 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. She is a mathematics graduate. Her television debut came when she joined Countdown aged 22. With an interest in populari...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tisiphone%20%28disambiguation%29
Tisiphone is the name of two figures in Greek mythology. Tisiphone may also refer to: In Biology: Tisiphone (genus), a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae An archaic taxonomic synonym for Agkistrodon, a.k.a. moccasins, a genus of venomous pitvipers found in North America from t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Breslauer
Kenneth Breslauer is the Linus C. Pauling Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University. He is the Founding Dean of the Division of Life Sciences and served as vice president for Health Science Partnerships. Kenneth Breslauer's research focuses on defining and characterizing the molec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphons%20St%C3%BCbel
Moritz Alphons Stübel (26 July 1835 – 10 November 1904) was a German geologist and naturalist. Biography He studied chemistry and mineralogy at the University of Leipzig. With geologist Wilhelm Reiss (1838–1908), he conducted geological and volcanological research in the Andes—Colombia and Ecuador—from 1868 to 1874....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20dynamical%20system
In mathematics, the concept of graph dynamical systems can be used to capture a wide range of processes taking place on graphs or networks. A major theme in the mathematical and computational analysis of GDSs is to relate their structural properties (e.g. the network connectivity) and the global dynamics that result. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%20%E2%80%93%20A%20Mathemagical%20Adventure
L – A Mathemagical Adventure is an educational adventure game that was created for the BBC/Acorn class of computers in 1984. It was written by members of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics and found its way into school computers, predominantly in the UK. The game is controlled by a contemporaneous two-word inpu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%20Kippenhahn
Rudolf Kippenhahn (24 May 1926 – 15 November 2020) was a German astrophysicist and science author. Biography Rudolf Kippenhahn was born in Pernink, Czechoslovakia. He originally studied mathematics and physics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg before changing to Astronomy. From 1975 to 1991, Kippenhahn was dire...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard%20Hjelt
Edvard Immanuel Hjelt (28 June 1855 – 2 July 1921) was a Finnish chemist, politician and a member of the Senate of Finland. Hjelt studied chemistry in Finland and in Germany and became rector of the University of Helsinki in 1899. He opposed the increasing influence of Russia in the Grand Duchy of Finland and started h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne%20Talley
Lynne Talley (born May 18, 1954) is a physical oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography known for her research into the large-scale circulation of water masses in the global ocean. Early life and education Talley received a B.A. in physics in 1976 from Oberlin College and a Bachelor of Music (B.M.) in pia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Gropp
William Douglas Gropp is the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is also the founding Director of the Parallel Computing Institute. Gropp helped to create the Me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic%20unconstrained%20binary%20optimization
Quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO), also known as unconstrained binary quadratic programming (UBQP), is a combinatorial optimization problem with a wide range of applications from finance and economics to machine learning. QUBO is an NP hard problem, and for many classical problems from theoretical comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamari%20lattice
In mathematics, a Tamari lattice, introduced by , is a partially ordered set in which the elements consist of different ways of grouping a sequence of objects into pairs using parentheses; for instance, for a sequence of four objects abcd, the five possible groupings are ((ab)c)d, (ab)(cd), (a(bc))d, a((bc)d), and a(b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry%20Zubarev
Dmitry Nikolayevich Zubarev (; November 27, 1917 – July 29, 1992) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist known for his contributions to statistical mechanics, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, plasma physics, theory of turbulence, and to the development of the double-time Green function's formalism. Biography Dm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juozas%20Adomaitis-%C5%A0ernas
Juozas Adomaitis known by his pen name Šernas (1859–1922) was a Lithuanian non-fiction writer. He contributed to the Lithuanian-language newspapers Aušra and briefly served as editor of Varpas. In 1895, he moved to the United States where he worked as editor of the Lithuanian weekly . He published about 20 popular scie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy%20Java%20Simulations
Easy JavaScript Simulations (EJSS), formerly known as Easy Java Simulations (EJS), is an open-source software tool, part of the Open Source Physics project, designed for the creation of discrete computer simulations. A discrete computer simulation, or simply a computer simulation, is a computer program that tries to r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytochemistry%20%28journal%29
Phytochemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering pure and applied plant chemistry, plant biochemistry and molecular biology. It is published by Elsevier and is an official publication for the Phytochemical Society of Europe, the Phytochemical Society of North America, and the Phytochemical Society of Asia....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECCC
ECCC may refer to: East Central Community College, a junior college in Decatur, Mississippi, USA Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference, a college-level bicycle-racing association in the eastern USA Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity, an electronic archive of computer science papers Electronic Commerce C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetrizoic%20acid
Acetrizoic acid is a pharmaceutical drug that was used as an iodinated contrast medium for X-ray imaging. It was applied in form of its salt, sodium acetrizoate, but is no longer in clinical use. Chemistry and mechanism of action The substance has high osmolality and is water-soluble. The three iodine atoms in the mol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahram%20Akasheh
Bahram Akasheh (born 1936) is an Iranian geophysicist and seismologist and Professor of Geophysics at University of Tehran. He is considered one of Iran's leading experts on earthquakes and seismic activity. Dr. Akasheh has done much work in Iran to encourage scientific research and study into earthquakes and possible...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marnie%20Bassett
Flora Marjorie (Marnie) Bassett (30 June 1889 – 3 February 1980) was an Australian historian, biographer and travel writer. Her writing focussed on women's and family history, with particular attention to people from Australia. Early life Bassett was born in Melbourne to academic parents, Sir David Orme Masson, a pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handedness%20and%20mathematical%20ability
Researchers have suggested a link between handedness and ability with mathematics. This link has been proposed by Geschwind, Galaburda, Annett, and Kilshaw. The suggested link is that a brain without extreme bias towards locating language in the left hemisphere would have an advantage in mathematical ability. Body o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less%20than%203
Less than 3 may refer to: <3, an emoticon meaning love or heart, see List of emoticons Less Than Three, a single and a song by the band We Are the Physics Less than 3, an album by the band Mindless Self Indulgence Less Than Three, a song by German music producer TheFatRat Less Than Three, a song made by Australia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorononanoic%20acid
Perfluorononanoic acid, or PFNA, is a synthetic perfluorinated carboxylic acid and fluorosurfactant that is also an environmental contaminant found in people and wildlife along with PFOS and PFOA. Chemistry and properties In acidic form it is a highly reactive strong acid. In its conjugate base form as a salt it is st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatromathematicians
Iatromathematicians (from Greek ἰατρική "medicine" and μαθηματικά "mathematics") were a school of physicians in 17th-century Italy who tried to apply the laws of mathematics and mechanics in order to understand the functioning of the human body. They were also keen students of anatomy. These iatromathematicians made an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Backus%20%28acoustician%29
John Graham Backus (April 29, 1911 – October 28, 1988) was a Lithuanian American physicist and acoustician. John Backus was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, where he studied at Reed College, receiving a BA in 1932. He went on to graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he did research in n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Weissleder
Ralph Weissleder (born November 8, 1958 in Zell am Harmersbach, Germany) is an American clinician scientist. Biography Ralph Weissleder is a professor at Harvard Medical School, director of the Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and an attending interventional radiologist at MGH. Weiss...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spdfgh
Spdfgh ( were an Australian rock band from the 1990s. The founding members were: Kim Bowers (as Wikky Malone) (guitar, vocals), Liz Payne (as Rosy Glo, Lou Marvel, Belle) (guitar, vocals), Tania Bowers (as Tania May) (bass guitar, vocals), Melanie Thurgar (as Finnius) (drums), and Angela Morosin (vocals). Name origi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organobromine%20chemistry
Organobromine chemistry is the study of the synthesis and properties of organobromine compounds, also called organobromides, which are organic compounds that contain carbon bonded to bromine. The most pervasive is the naturally produced bromomethane. One prominent application of synthetic organobromine compounds is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi-interaction
In chemistry, π-effects or π-interactions are a type of non-covalent interaction that involves π systems. Just like in an electrostatic interaction where a region of negative charge interacts with a positive charge, the electron-rich π system can interact with a metal (cationic or neutral), an anion, another molecule a...