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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Johnson%20%28game%20designer%29
Harold Johnson is an American game designer and editor, and author of several products and articles for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR. Early life and education Harold Johnson was born in Evanston, Illinois. Johnson attended Northwestern University and got his B.S. in Biology in 1977. Johnso...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidonomy
Eidonomy is the study of the external appearance of an organism. It is thus the opposite of anatomy, which refers to internal morphology. While predominant early in the history of biology, eidonomy is little studied in particular anymore as it is rife with the effects of convergent evolution, or evolution of similar f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonance%20%28particle%20physics%29
In particle physics, a resonance is the peak located around a certain energy found in differential cross sections of scattering experiments. These peaks are associated with subatomic particles, which include a variety of bosons, quarks and hadrons (such as nucleons, delta baryons or upsilon mesons) and their excitation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfenyl%20chloride
In organosulfur chemistry, a sulfenyl chloride is a functional group with the connectivity , where R is alkyl or aryl. Sulfenyl chlorides are reactive compounds that behave as sources of . They are used in the formation of and bonds. According to IUPAC nomenclature they are named as alkyl thiohypochlorites, i.e. est...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Shilov%20%28chemist%29
Alexander E. Shilov () (January 1, 1930 – June 6, 2014) was a Russian chemist, one of the leading figures in Physical Organic Chemistry and Catalysis. Shilov was born in Ivanovo, Russia, studied chemistry in Kiev and received his diploma degree in 1952 from Kiev State University. In 1952-1955 he began working with Nob...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idun%20Reiten
Idun Reiten (born 1 January 1942) is a Norwegian professor of mathematics. She is considered to be one of Norway's greatest mathematicians today. Career She took her PhD degree at the University of Illinois in 1971. She was appointed as a professor at the University of Trondheim in 1982, now named the Norwegian Univer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse%E2%80%93Smale%20system
In dynamical systems theory, an area of pure mathematics, a Morse–Smale system is a smooth dynamical system whose non-wandering set consists of finitely many hyperbolic equilibrium points and hyperbolic periodic orbits and satisfying a transversality condition on the stable and unstable manifolds. Morse–Smale systems a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.%20R.%20Bhat
Beliyar Ramdas Bhat was a professor and head of the department of statistics at Karnataka University for more than two decades. He was elected member of International Statistical Institute, and Fellow of Royal Statistical Society. Bhat obtained a M.A. degree in mathematics from Madras University in 1954, and a M.A. de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldammer
Goldammer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bruno Goldammer (1904–1968 or 1969), German footballer Roger Goldammer (born 1969), Canadian motorcycle builder Johann Goldammer (born 1949), senior scientist at the Max Planck Society for Chemistry, Biogeochemistry Department See also Goldhammer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20S.%20Lundgren
Thomas S. Lundgren is an American fluid dynamicist and Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota He is known for his work in the field of theoretical fluid dynamics. In 2006, Lundgren received Fluid Dynamics Prize by the American Physical Society "for his insightful theore...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat%C3%A9rn%20covariance%20function
In statistics, the Matérn covariance, also called the Matérn kernel, is a covariance function used in spatial statistics, geostatistics, machine learning, image analysis, and other applications of multivariate statistical analysis on metric spaces. It is named after the Swedish forestry statistician Bertil Matérn. It ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munish
Munish may refer to: Munish Arora (born 1971), Indian-born Singaporean cricketer Munish Jolly (born 1974), Indian former cricketer Munish Makhija (born 1968), Indian video jockey Munish Chander Puri (1939–2005), former Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at IIT Delhi Indian masculine given names Masculine given nam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20quadratic%20covariance%20function
In statistics, the rational quadratic covariance function is used in spatial statistics, geostatistics, machine learning, image analysis, and other fields where multivariate statistical analysis is conducted on metric spaces. It is commonly used to define the statistical covariance between measurements made at two poin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challney%20High%20School%20for%20Boys
Challney High School for Boys is a secondary school located in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. The school educates boys between the ages of 11 and 16. History In 2006 the school was awarded Specialist College Status, with an emphasis on Science and Mathematics. In 2007, Ofsted judged Challney High School for Boys to be ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%20variety
In mathematics, an arithmetic variety is the quotient space of a Hermitian symmetric space by an arithmetic subgroup of the associated algebraic Lie group. Kazhdan's theorem Kazhdan's theorem says the following: References Further reading See also Arithmetic Chow groups Arithmetic of abelian varieties Abelian vari...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NC%20ratio
The nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio (also variously known as the nucleus:cytoplasm ratio, nucleus-cytoplasm ratio, N:C ratio, or N/C) is a measurement used in cell biology. It is a ratio of the size (i.e., volume) of the nucleus of a cell to the size of the cytoplasm of that cell. The N:C ratio indicates the maturity of a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May-Britt%20Moser
May-Britt Moser (born 4 January 1963) is a Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist, who is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She and her former husband, Edvard Moser, shared half of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded for wor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20WACE%20courses
List of WACE courses is an article on the courses available to complete the Western Australian Certificate of Education. Courses Courses available in 2009 Format WACE courses. Subject code is "Stage number + unit letter + course code".Examples: Stage 3 mathematics unit C = 3CMAT Stage 1 physical education studies u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa%20organism
In biology, Kappa organism or Kappa particle refers to inheritable cytoplasmic symbionts, occurring in some strains of the ciliate Paramecium. Paramecium strains possessing the particles are known as "killer paramecia". They liberate a substance also known as paramecin into the culture medium that is lethal to Parameci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarle%20Aarbakke
Jarle Aarbakke (born 18 November 1942) was the rector at the University of Tromsø from 2002 until 2013, and the mayor of Tromsø municipality from October 2015 to July 2016 Before being elected rector in 2001, Aarbakke served as a professor of pharmacy at the Department of Medical Microbiology. From 2007 to 2009 he was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega%20and%20agemo%20subgroup
In mathematics, or more specifically group theory, the omega and agemo subgroups described the so-called "power structure" of a finite p-group. They were introduced in where they were used to describe a class of finite p-groups whose structure was sufficiently similar to that of finite abelian p-groups, the so-called...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Institute%20of%20Occupational%20Health
National Institute of Occupational Health, also known as Statens arbeidsmiljøinstitutt or STAMI is a government body organised by the Norwegian Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion. The institute deals with a range of occupational health areas, with staff with competence in medicine, physiology, chemistry, biology, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putteridge%20High%20School
Putteridge High School is a co-educational secondary school located in the Putteridge area of Luton, in the English county of Bedfordshire. History It was previously a community school administered by Luton Borough Council. The school was also awarded specialist status as a Mathematics and Computing College. In Februa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul%20Hameed%20Nayyar
Abdul Hameed Nayyar (Born 1945), also known as A.H. Nayyar, is a Pakistani physicist, author, and a freelance consultant on the issues of education, nuclear safety, and energy. His field of specialization is in the physics of condensed matter, and served in the faculties of the Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad from...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro%20%28software%29
Avogadro is a molecule editor and visualizer designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. It is extensible via a plugin architecture. Features Molecule builder-editor for Windows, Linux, Unix, and macOS. All source code is lic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20E.M.%20Wagner
Carlos Wagner is a particle physicist. He specializes in theoretical physics, elementary particles and supersymmetric theories. He currently works for the High Energy Physics (HEP) division of the Argonne National Laboratory and is also a professor at the Physics Department of the University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi In...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20Instruments%20and%20Methods%20in%20Physics%20Research
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research (Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res.) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. It was established in 1957 as Nuclear Instruments. It focuses on detectors descriptions and data analysis methods. History Nuclear Instruments (1957–1958) Nuclear Instrum...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible%20Computational%20Chemistry%20Environment
The Extensible Computational Chemistry Environment (ECCE, pronounced "etch-ā") provides a sophisticated graphical user interface, scientific visualization tools, and the underlying data management framework enabling scientists to efficiently set up calculations and store, retrieve, and analyze the rapidly growing volum...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil%20Masters
Gilbert 'Gil' Masters is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (emeritus) at Stanford University. Though he officially retired in 2002, he continues to teach two classes at the university. He is the author of six books, including the leading environmental science textbook Introduction to Environmental En...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewald%20Roode
Johannes Dewald Roode (July 16, 1940 – Sept 27, 2009) was a South African academic and Professor at the University of Pretoria, specializing in Information Systems research. Biography Dewald Roode received a B.A. in theoretical physics, an M.A. in mathematics from the University of Potchefstroom in South Africa, anoth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20%28disambiguation%29
Ian is a common given name, the Scottish Gaelic version of the name John. Ian or IAN may also refer to: IAN, the inferior alveolar nerve (biology) IAN, IATA airport code for Bob Baker Memorial Airport (Kiana, Alaska) -ian, a suffix meaning member of or resident of, e.g., Virginian or Wikipedian International Arti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leloir%20Institute
The Leloir Institute is a non-profit research center in Buenos Aires specializing in biochemistry, cellular biology, molecular biology, and related activities. Overview The research center was inaugurated in 1947 by way of an initiative of University of Buenos Aires Physiology Professors Bernardo Houssay and Luis Lelo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilmi%20Volkan%20Demir
Hilmi Volkan Demir is a Turkish scientist, best known for his works on white light generation. Biography Hilmi Volkan Demir was born on July 4, 1976, in Kars, Turkey. He received his B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1998, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Van%20Vleck
Tom Van Vleck is an American computer software engineer. Life and work Van Vleck graduated from MIT in 1965 with a BS in Mathematics. He worked on CTSS at MIT, and co-authored its first email program with Noel Morris. In 1965, he joined Project MAC, the predecessor of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20transitive%20finite%20linear%20groups
In mathematics, especially in areas of abstract algebra and finite geometry, the list of transitive finite linear groups is an important classification of certain highly symmetric actions of finite groups on vector spaces. The solvable finite 2-transitive groups were classified by Bertram Huppert. The classification o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/285th%20Civil%20Engineering%20Squadron
The United States Air Force's 285th Civil Engineering Squadron (285 CES) is an Air National Guard civil engineering unit located at St Croix ANGS. History On 7 May 1980 the 285th Combat Communications Flight (CMBTCF) was established, creating the first unit of the Virgin Islands Air National Guard. The flight was upg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aix-Marseille%20University%20Faculty%20of%20Sciences
Aix-Marseille University Faculty of Sciences is one of the faculties of Aix-Marseille University. The faculty is divided into seven departments across six campuses. With 8000 students and 1600 staff and faculty it is one of the largest science faculties in France. The notable faculty include Carlo Rovelli. Department...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%20Gruber
Jeremy Gruber is a lawyer, writer, and public policy advocate and is the senior vice president at Open Primaries. He is the former President and Executive Director of the Council for Responsible Genetics. He has testified before the United States Congress on genetic privacy and discrimination issues. He was a leader...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical%20Computation%20Review
Biomedical Computation Review (BCR) is a quarterly, open-access magazine funded by the National Institutes of Health and published by the Mobilize Center at Stanford University. First published in 2005, BCR covers such topics as molecular dynamics, genomics, proteomics, physics-based simulation, systems biology, and ot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Mazur
Barry Charles Mazur (; born December 19, 1937) is an American mathematician and the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University. His contributions to mathematics include his contributions to Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in number theory, Mazur's torsion theorem in arithmetic geometry, the Mazur sw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Gates%20Computer%20Science%20Building
William Gates Computer Science Building may refer to: William Gates Computer Science Building (Stanford) William Gates Computer Science Building (Cambridge) See also William Gates Building (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordell%E2%80%93Weil%20theorem
In mathematics, the Mordell–Weil theorem states that for an abelian variety over a number field , the group of K-rational points of is a finitely-generated abelian group, called the Mordell–Weil group. The case with an elliptic curve and the field of rational numbers is Mordell's theorem, answering a question app...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric%20tensor
In mathematics, a symmetric tensor is a tensor that is invariant under a permutation of its vector arguments: for every permutation σ of the symbols Alternatively, a symmetric tensor of order r represented in coordinates as a quantity with r indices satisfies The space of symmetric tensors of order r on a finite-di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20and%20Science%20Academy%20UTB
The Mathematics and Science Academy (MSA), a high school located in Brownsville, Texas, was established by the 79th Texas Legislature in May 2005. It was designed as a commuter program at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College (UTB) for high school-aged students who are :gifted in mathemat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Franklin%20Greene
Benjamin Franklin Greene (1817–1895) was the third senior professor and first director of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire on October 25, 1817. He graduated from Rensselaer in 1842. He taught mathematics at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland from 1843 to 1846. He married...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20W.%20Mullin
John William Mullin FRSc FIChemE FREng (22 August 1925 – 11 March 2009) was a Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering and world expert in crystallisation. Education and career Between 1945 and 1948 Mullin was with the RAF. After leaving the RAF, he studied at the University of Wales and gained a first class...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Stored%20Ambulatory%20Record
COmputer STored Ambulatory Record (COSTAR) is an electronic medical record using the MUMPS programming language. It was developed by the Laboratory of Computer Science at Massachusetts General Hospital between 1968 and 1971 for Harvard Community Health Plan by Octo Barnett and Jerome Grossman. References Hattwick, Mi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial%20nuclide
In geochemistry, geophysics and nuclear physics, primordial nuclides, also known as primordial isotopes, are nuclides found on Earth that have existed in their current form since before Earth was formed. Primordial nuclides were present in the interstellar medium from which the solar system was formed, and were formed ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio%20Superti-Furga
Giulio Superti-Furga (born 17 May 1962 in Milan) is an Italian molecular and systems biologist based in Vienna, Austria. He is the Scientific Director of CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (CeMM), and Professor of Medical Systems Biology at the Medical University of Vienna. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maciej%20Popowicz
Maciej Popowicz (born 1984) – creator of nasza-klasa.pl, the Polish version of social networking site Classmates.com and student of computer science at University of Wrocław. He became one of the youngest Polish millionaires, after he sold 20% of shares of nasza-klasa.pl (20,000,000 zlotys, about $6,300,000, €4,500,000...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Buican
Denis Buican (born Dumitru Buican-Peligrad; 21 December 1934 in Bucharest) is a Romanian-French scientist, bilingual writer, biologist, philosopher and a historian of science. He has studied genetics. Background His father Dumitru Peligrad a boyar and philanthropist was placed under house arrest after the invasion of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20memory%20%28computer%20science%29
In computer science, genetic memory refers to an artificial neural network combination of genetic algorithm and the mathematical model of sparse distributed memory. It can be used to predict weather patterns. Genetic memory and genetic algorithms have also gained an interest in the creation of artificial life. Referen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Tour%20Chayes
Jennifer Tour Chayes is dean of the college of computing, data science, and society at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Berkeley, she was a technical fellow and managing director of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which she founded in 2008, and Microsoft Research New Yo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near%20sets
In mathematics, near sets are either spatially close or descriptively close. Spatially close sets have nonempty intersection. In other words, spatially close sets are not disjoint sets, since they always have at least one element in common. Descriptively close sets contain elements that have matching descriptions. Such...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia%20Dwork
Cynthia Dwork (born June 27, 1958) is an American computer scientist best known for her contributions to cryptography, distributed computing, and algorithmic fairness. She is one of the inventors of differential privacy and proof-of-work. Dwork works at Harvard University, where she is Gordon McKay Professor of Comput...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Davis
Ernest Davis may refer to: Ernie Davis (1939–1963), American football running back Sir Ernest Davis (brewer) (1872–1962), New Zealand brewer and mayor of Auckland Ernest Davis (professor), Professor of Computer Science at New York University Ernest D. Davis, mayor of Mount Vernon, New York See also Ernest Davies (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compugoal%20College
Compugoal Technical College is a private college located in Nairobi, Kenya. The college was founded in 1996. The Principal of the College is Dr. Patrick Mulwa, Phd. The College offers Courses and Distance Learning(Zoom Classes) in computer Science, Business Studies, Hospitality Management, Tourism Management and Langua...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge%20Cuesta
Jorge Mateo Cuesta Porte-Petit (b. Córdoba, Veracruz, September 23, 1903 – d. Tlalpan, August 13, 1942) was a Mexican chemist, writer and editor. Biography Cuesta attended school in his hometown, before he did his studies at the Faculty of Chemistry of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) until 1925. In 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifunctional
In chemistry, a species with two functional groups is called bifunctional . A bifunctional species has the properties of each of the two types of functional groups, such as an alcohol (), amide (), aldehyde (), nitrile () or carboxylic acid (). Many bifunctional species are used to produce complex materials. They part...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tietze
Tietze is a German surname, sometimes also spelled Tieze. Tietze (surname) Also: Named for German mathematician Heinrich Tietze: Tietze extension theorem Tietze's graph Tietze transformation in mathematics, named after Heinrich Tietze Tietze syndrome in medicine, named after Alexander Tietze
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge%20principle
In physics, a gauge principle specifies a procedure for obtaining an interaction term from a free Lagrangian which is symmetric with respect to a continuous symmetry—the results of localizing (or gauging) the global symmetry group must be accompanied by the inclusion of additional fields (such as the electromagnetic fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organobismuth%20chemistry
Organobismuth chemistry is the chemistry of organometallic compounds containing a carbon to bismuth chemical bond. Applications are few. The main bismuth oxidation states are Bi(III) and Bi(V) as in all higher group 15 elements. The energy of a bond to carbon in this group decreases in the order P > As > Sb > Bi. The f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mico%20%28genus%29
Mico is a genus of New World monkeys of the family Callitrichidae, the family containing marmosets and tamarins. The genus was formerly considered a subgenus of the genus Callithrix. Taxonomy Mico differs from Callithrix in dental morphology, genetics and geographic distribution: Callithrix species are distributed in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Clinical%20Neuroscience
The Journal of Clinical Neuroscience is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering the discipline of neurosurgery and neurology. It was established in 1994 and is published by the Elsevier imprint Churchill Livingstone. It is the official journal of the Asian Australasian Society of Neurological Surgeons. The e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference%20%28disambiguation%29
A reference is a relationship in which one object designates or links to another. Reference or reference point may also refer to: Reference (computer science) Reference (C++) Reference (film), a 1985 Bulgarian film Reference, a citation, i.e., a link to a source of information Reference, a person or employer who - eit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Society%20of%20Human%20Genetics
The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), founded in 1948, is a professional membership organization for specialists in human genetics. As of 2009, the organization had approximately 8,000 members. The society's members include researchers, academicians, clinicians, laboratory practice professionals, genetic couns...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20McLeod
Dan McLeod (born 1943) is one of the founders and the former owner, publisher, and editor of the influential weekly newspaper, the Georgia Straight in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Dan was born and raised in Vancouver. He graduated from Kitsilano High School and went on to study mathematics and meteorology at ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam%20Scheiber
Noam Scheiber is a writer for The New York Times and a former senior editor for The New Republic. He was with The New Republic from 2000 until 2014. Scheiber is a Rhodes Scholar and a Truman Scholar. He holds a master's degree in economics from Oxford University and a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics fr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt%20Stern%20Award
The Curt Stern Award, also known as the Stern Award, honors the memory of Curt Stern (1902–1981) as an outstanding and pioneering human geneticist. Established in 2001, this award is presented annually by the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) for outstanding scientific achievements in human genetics that have o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locally%20catenative%20sequence
In mathematics, a locally catenative sequence is a sequence of words in which each word can be constructed as the concatenation of previous words in the sequence. Formally, an infinite sequence of words w(n) is locally catenative if, for some positive integers k and i1,...ik: Some authors use a slightly different def...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazex%E2%80%93Dupr%C3%A9%E2%80%93Christol%20syndrome
Bazex–Dupré–Christol syndrome is a very rare condition inherited in an X-linked dominant fashion. Physical findings typically include follicular atrophoderma, multiple basal cell carcinomas, hypotrichosis, and hypohidrosis. Genetics BCDS is inherited in an X-linked dominant manner. This means the defective gene resp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Surface%20Chemistry
The Institute for Surface Chemistry, YKI (the Swedish name is Ytkemiska Institutet) is an industrial research institute in applied surface and colloid chemistry located in Stockholm, Sweden. It is located on the campus of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). YKI's mission is to transfer and develop innovations to c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Allan%20%28geneticist%29
William Allan (1881–1943) was an American physician and geneticist who made pioneering studies in human genetics and hereditary diseases. He established the first course in human genetics, at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, which is now a part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. At Bowman Gray School...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20R.%20Meyer
Albert Ronald da Silva Meyer (born 1941) is Hitachi America Professor emeritus of computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Biography Meyer received his PhD from Harvard University in 1972 in applied mathematics, under the supervision of Patrick C. Fischer. He joined the Department of Electrical...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodgkin%20cycle
In membrane biology, the Hodgkin cycle is a key component of membrane physiology that describes bioelectrical impulses, especially prevalent in neural and muscle tissues. It was identified by British physiologist and biophysicist Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. The Hodgkin cycle represents a positive feedback loop in which an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervin%20Bauer
Ervin Bauer (19 October 1890, Lőcse, Hungary – 11 January 1938 Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a Hungarian biologist. Short Biography In 1935, Ervin Bauer published a monograph Theoretical biology, in which he described the general thermodynamic features of living systems. His writings became particularly influential fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20spot%20effect%20in%20subatomic%20physics
Hot spots in subatomic physics are regions of high energy density or temperature in hadronic or nuclear matter. Finite size effects Hot spots are a manifestation of the finite size of the system: in subatomic physics this refers both to atomic nuclei, which consist of nucleons, as well as to nucleons themselves, which...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SigmaNet
SigmaNet is the Academic Network Laboratory of the University of Latvia Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science. It is also the Latvian NREN (National Research and Education Network), providing Internet services for the academic community in Latvia, including connectivity to the European network GÉANT, hosting, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina%20Kraus
Nina Kraus is a professor at Northwestern University, investigating the neural encoding of speech and music and its plasticity where she is the Hugh S. Knowles Chair. Her Auditory Neuroscience Lab, also known as Brainvolts, examines the biological processing of sound throughout the life span, how it is disrupted in cl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Hoe
James Hoe is a Taiwanese-American professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is interested in many aspects of computer architecture and digital hardware design, including the specific areas of FPGA architecture for computing; digital signal processing hardware; and high-lev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Thiel%20%28chemist%29
Walter Thiel (7 March 1949 in Treysa, Hesse – 23 August 2019) was a German theoretical chemist. He was the president of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC) from 2011. Academic career Thiel studied chemistry at the University of Marburg (West Germany) from 1966 to 1971, where he sub...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20Kempthorne
Oscar Kempthorne (January 31, 1919 – November 15, 2000) was a British statistician and geneticist known for his research on randomization-analysis and the design of experiments, which had wide influence on research in agriculture, genetics, and other areas of science. Born in St Tudy, Cornwall and educated in England,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandro%20Mussa-Ivaldi
Ferdinando (Sandro) Mussa-Ivaldi is an Italian born professor at Northwestern University. He is known for his contributions to the fields of motor control, motor learning and computational neuroscience. Biography Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi obtained a degree (Laurea) in Physics from the University of Torino (1978) and a PhD i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WINLAB%20%28Rutgers%20University%29
WINLAB is the Wireless Information Network Laboratory, a research laboratory at Rutgers University, that is dedicated to research in a number of disciplines related to wireless communications. It consists of a number of faculty members from the Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering departments at Rutge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid%20Kurchevsky
Leonid Vasilyevich Kurchevsky () (September 22, 1890, Pereslavl-Zalessky – November 26, 1937 (January 12, 1939?)) was a Russian/Soviet weapons designer. Kurchevsky was born into a family of a drawing teacher in Pereslavl-Zalessky. He was a student at the Department of Physics and Mathematics of the Moscow State Univer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calf
Calf (: calves) most often refers to: Calf (animal), the young of domestic cattle. Calf (leg), in humans (and other primates), the back portion of the lower leg Calf or calves may also refer to: Biology and animal byproducts Veal, meat from calves Calfskin, leather Vellum, calf hide processed as a writing materia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parviz%20Jabehdar%20Maralani
Parviz Jabehdar Maralani is an Iranian electrical engineering emeritus professor and fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Iran. He has contributed significantly to the education of electrical engineering in Iran and trained many students. Biography Jabedar was born in Tabriz in 1941. He received his B.S. and M.S. degr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip%20Hing%20Construction
Hip Hing Construction Group Ltd. () is a general contractor based in Hong Kong SAR, engaging in various types of construction and civil engineering projects serving the Hong Kong SAR Government and various other domestic and foreign entities in the public and private sector, e.g. Public Housing Estates in Hong Kong and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheilosia%20fasciata
Cheilosia fasciata is a European species of hoverfly. Like most Cheilosia it is mostly black, Cheilosia semifasciata (Becker, 1894) is often misidentified as Cheilosia fasciata. Distribution It is widespread in Europe, but absent from Great Britain. Biology It is usually found in association with ramsons (Allium ur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylamide
In biochemistry, an N-methylamide (NME) is a blocking group for the C-terminus end of peptides. When the carboxyl group of the C-terminus is replaced with a methylamide, further elongation of the peptide chain is prevented. C-Terminal modified peptides are also useful for the modulation of structure-activity relation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20C.%20Chakrabarti
Mukund Chand Chakrabarti (died 1972) a statistician from Bengal of the British India was the founder head of the department of statistics, University of Mumbai India. He nurtured the department from its birth in 1948 until he died in 1972. The department of mathematics at University of Mumbai was established later in 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20surface
In mathematics, regular surface may refer to: Regular surface (differential geometry) Non-singular algebraic variety of dimension two
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical%20University%20of%20Civil%20Engineering%20of%20Bucharest
The Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest () is a public university in Bucharest, Romania, founded in 1948. It was formerly known as the Institute of Civil Engineering of Bucharest. UTCB is a member of the Romanian Alliance of Technical Universities (ARUT). Academics Technical University of Civil En...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Pite%C8%99ti
The University of Piteşti (, abbreviated UPIT) is a public university in Piteşti, Romania, founded in 1991. History The first Higher Education Institution in Piteşti was founded in 1962 and was called "The 3-year Pedagogical Institute" with pedagogical specialisations in Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Philo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanu%C5%A1a
Bogdanuša is a white grape variety, which is grown on the Croatian island of Hvar, where it originated on the Stari Grad Plain. Wines from this grape tend to be dry with a green-yellow to golden color and from 12% alcohol on up. Premium quality Bogdanuša wines are produced by Dalmacijavino, and Plančić Winery. Origin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminar%E2%80%93turbulent%20transition
In fluid dynamics, the process of a laminar flow becoming turbulent is known as laminar–turbulent transition. The main parameter characterizing transition is the Reynolds number. Transition is often described as a process proceeding through a series of stages. "Transitional flow" can refer to transition in either dir...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarrowia
Yarrowia is a fungal genus in the family Dipodascaceae. For a while the genus was monotypic, containing the single species Yarrowia lipolytica, a yeast that can use unusual carbon sources, such as hydrocarbons. This has made it of interest for use in industrial microbiology, especially for the production of specialty l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Lahn
Bruce Lahn is a Chinese-born American geneticist. Lahn came to the U.S. from China to continue his education in the late 1980s. He is the William B. Graham professor of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. He is also the founder of the Center for Stem Cell Biology and Tissue Engineering at Sun Yat-sen Universit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Glasgow
Robert Glasgow (February 28, 1942 – September 22, 2023) was an American Democratic Party politician from Stephenville, Texas, who held office as a member of the Senate of Texas. Glasgow was trained as a lawyer. He was the winner of the 1994 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry for sponsoring a 1989 drug law that made it illegal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connected%20ring
In mathematics, especially in the field of commutative algebra, a connected ring is a commutative ring A that satisfies one of the following equivalent conditions: A possesses no non-trivial (that is, not equal to 1 or 0) idempotent elements; the spectrum of A with the Zariski topology is a connected space. Examples...