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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward%27s%20Science | Ward's Science is a supplier of science education materials for K-12 and college-level studies in Rochester, New York. It was founded by Henry Augustus Ward in 1862 as Ward's Natural Science and was renamed in 2012.
Current areas of focus include: geology, earth science, biology, chemistry, environmental science, fore... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlap%20%28term%20rewriting%29 | In mathematics, computer science and logic, overlap, as a property of the reduction rules in term rewriting system, describes a situation where a number of different reduction rules specify potentially contradictory ways of reducing a reducible expression, also known as a redex, within a term.
More precisely, if a num... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Computational%20Innovations | The Center for Computational Innovations (CCI), (formerly the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations) is a supercomputing center located at the Rensselaer Technology Park in Troy, New York.
Motivation
The center is the result of a $100 million collaboration between RPI, IBM, and New York State to further ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul%20Amarel | Saul Amarel (1928 – December 18, 2002) was a professor of computer science at Rutgers University, and best known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence (AI). He also had a career as a scientist, engineer, and teacher. He was a contributor to advanced computing and AI methodologies, both applied to scientifi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence%20Parr | Terence John Parr (born 1964 in Los Angeles) is a professor of computer science at the University of San Francisco. He is best known for his ANTLR parser generator and contributions to parsing theory. He also developed the StringTemplate engine for Java and other programming languages.
Education
Parr holds a Bachelor'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%27s%20theorem%20%28Algebraic%20curves%29 | In mathematics, Weber's theorem, named after Heinrich Martin Weber, is a result on algebraic curves. It states the following.
Consider two non-singular curves C and having the same genus g > 1. If there is a rational correspondence φ between C and , then φ is a birational transformation.
References
Further reading... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamella%20%28cell%20biology%29 | A lamella (: lamellae) in biology refers to a thin layer, membrane or plate of tissue. This is a very broad definition, and can refer to many different structures. Any thin layer of organic tissue can be called a lamella and there is a wide array of functions an individual layer can serve. For example, an intercellular... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunocytochemistry | Immunocytochemistry (ICC) is a common laboratory technique that is used to anatomically visualize the localization of a specific protein or antigen in cells by use of a specific primary antibody that binds to it. The primary antibody allows visualization of the protein under a fluorescence microscope when it is bound b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel%20Scherer | Axel Scherer is the Bernard Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Physics, and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He is also a distinguished visiting professor at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. He is known for fabricating the world's first semiconducting vertical-cavity... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroclinic%20cycle | In mathematics, a heteroclinic cycle is an invariant set in the phase space of a dynamical system. It is a topological circle of equilibrium points and connecting heteroclinic orbits. If a heteroclinic cycle is asymptotically stable, approaching trajectories spend longer and longer periods of time in a neighbourhood of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rom%20Harr%C3%A9 | Horace Romano "Rom" Harré (; 18 December 1927 – 17 October 2019) was a New Zealand-British philosopher and psychologist.
Biography
Harré was born in Āpiti, in northern Manawatu, near Palmerston North, New Zealand, but held British citizenship. He studied chemical engineering and later graduated with a BSc in mathemati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural%20chemistry | Agricultural chemistry is the study of chemistry, especially organic chemistry and biochemistry, as they relate to agriculture. This includes agricultural production, the use of ammonia in fertilizer, pesticides, and how plant biochemistry can be used to genetically alter crops. Agricultural chemistry is not a distinct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proving%20a%20negative | Proving a negative or negative proof may refer to:
Proving a negative, in the philosophic burden of proof
Evidence of absence in general, such as evidence that there is no milk in a certain bowl
Modus tollens, a logical proof
Proof of impossibility, mathematics
Russell's teapot, an analogy: inability to disprove does... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Lengyel | Eric Lengyel is a computer scientist specializing in game engine development, computer graphics, and geometric algebra. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Davis and a master's degree in mathematics from Virginia Tech.
Lengyel is an expert in font rendering technology for 3D applica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Petavel | Sir Joseph Ernest Petavel KBE FRS D.Sc. (14 August 1873 – 31 March 1936) was a British physicist.
He was born in London and educated at Lausanne, Geneva, before he joined University College, London, in 1893, where he studied mechanical and electrical engineering. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1907.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Jackson%20Holmes | Samuel Jackson Holmes (March 7, 1868 – March 5, 1964) was an American zoologist and eugenicist. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1912 to 1938. He was a genetics researcher who studied animal behavior, heredity, and evolution. Over the course of his career he migrated from studying ani... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester%20Foundation%20for%20Biomedical%20Research | The Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research (WFBR) was a non-profit biomedical research institute based in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, United States.
History
The foundation was established as an independent research center under the name Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology (WFEB) in 1944 by Hudson Hoagla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typed%20assembly%20language | In computer science, a typed assembly language (TAL) is an assembly language that is extended to include a method of annotating the datatype of each value that is manipulated by the code. These annotations can then be used by a program (type checker) that processes the assembly language code in order to analyse how it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg%20Sushkov | Oleg Sushkov is a professor at the University of New South Wales and a leader in the field of high temperature super-conductors. Educated in Russia in quantum mechanics and nuclear physics, he now teaches in Australia.
Education
1974 MSc, Novosibirsk State University, Russia
1978 PhD in Physics, Budker Institute of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocontainment | One use of the concept of biocontainment is related to laboratory biosafety and pertains to microbiology laboratories in which the physical containment of pathogenic organisms or agents (bacteria, viruses, and toxins) is required, usually by isolation in environmentally and biologically secure cabinets or rooms, to pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben%20Hersh | Reuben Hersh (December 9, 1927 – January 3, 2020) was an American mathematician and academic, best known for his writings on the nature, practice, and social impact of mathematics. Although he was generally known as Reuben Hersh, late in life he sometimes used the name Reuben Laznovsky in recognition of his father's an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombineering | Recombineering (recombination-mediated genetic engineering) is a genetic and molecular biology technique based on homologous recombination systems, as opposed to the older/more common method of using restriction enzymes and ligases to combine DNA sequences in a specified order. Recombineering is widely used for bacter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20S.%20Lee | David S. Lee (李信麟; pinyin: Lǐ Xìnlín) is the CEO, president and Chairman of the Board of eOn Communications Corporation, a telecom services company based in Kennesaw, Georgia. Lee was born in China around 1938.
Education
Lee received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Montana State University in 1960. He obtained... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint%20algebra | In theoretical physics, a constraint algebra is a linear space of all constraints and all of their polynomial functions or functionals whose action on the physical vectors of the Hilbert space should be equal to zero.
For example, in electromagnetism, the equation for the Gauss' law
is an equation of motion that does... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenan%20Malik | Kenan Malik (born 26 January 1960) is an Indian-born British writer, lecturer and broadcaster, trained in neurobiology and the history of science. As an academic author, his focus is on the philosophy of biology, and contemporary theories of multiculturalism, pluralism, and race. These topics are core concerns in The M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran%20HaCohen | Ran HaCohen (; born 1964) is an Israeli scholar, university teacher, and translator known for his strong criticism of Israel's policies. Having graduated from university with a B.A. in Computer Science, an M.A. in Comparative Literature and a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies, he works as a literary translator of German, English... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze%20operator | In quantum physics, the squeeze operator for a single mode of the electromagnetic field is
where the operators inside the exponential are the ladder operators. It is a unitary operator and therefore obeys , where is the identity operator.
Its action on the annihilation and creation operators produces
The squeeze o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodobenzene | Iodobenzene is an organoiodine compound consisting of a benzene ring substituted with one iodine atom. It is useful as a synthetic intermediate in organic chemistry. It is a volatile colorless liquid, although aged samples appear yellowish.
Preparation
Iodobenzene is commercially available, or it can be prepared in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%20tangent | In mathematics, particularly calculus, a vertical tangent is a tangent line that is vertical. Because a vertical line has infinite slope, a function whose graph has a vertical tangent is not differentiable at the point of tangency.
Limit definition
A function ƒ has a vertical tangent at x = a if the difference quotien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grob%20fragmentation | In chemistry, a Grob fragmentation is an elimination reaction that breaks a neutral aliphatic chain into three fragments: a positive ion spanning atoms 1 and 2 (the "electrofuge"), an unsaturated neutral fragment spanning positions 3 and 4, and a negative ion (the "nucleofuge") comprising the rest of the chain.
For ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge%20Godard | Serge Godard (born 25 March 1936) is a French politician. He represented the French department of Puy-de-Dôme in the French Senate from September 1998 to September 2001 and again from March 2010 to September 2011.
Born in Gerzat, Puy-de-Dôme, he studied in Clermont-Ferrand, Sedan, Lille then Paris and in 1966, he rece... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Gauthier | Jacques Armand Gauthier (born June 7, 1948, in New York City) is an American vertebrate paleontologist, comparative morphologist, and systematist, and one of the founders of the use of cladistics in biology.
Life and career
Gauthier is the son of Edward Paul Gauthier and Patricia Marie Grogan. He received a B.S. degr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displacement%20operator | In the quantum mechanics study of optical phase space, the displacement operator for one mode is the shift operator in quantum optics,
,
where is the amount of displacement in optical phase space, is the complex conjugate of that displacement, and and are the lowering and raising operators, respectively.
The na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexibility%20%28engineering%29 | Flexibility is used as an attribute of various types of systems. In the field of engineering systems design, it refers to designs that can adapt when external changes occur. Flexibility has been defined differently in many fields of engineering, architecture, biology, economics, etc. In the context of engineering desig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specht%20module | In mathematics, a Specht module is one of the representations of symmetric groups studied by .
They are indexed by partitions, and in characteristic 0 the Specht modules of partitions of n form a complete set of irreducible representations of the symmetric group on n points.
Definition
Fix a partition λ of n and a com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrate%20Palaeontology%20%28book%29 | Vertebrate Palaeontology is a basic textbook on vertebrate paleontology by Michael J. Benton, published by Blackwell's. It has so far appeared in four editions, published in 1990, 1997, 2005, and 2015. It is designed for paleontology graduate courses in biology and geology as well as for the interested layman.
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda%20Lapidot | Yehuda Lapidot (born August 13, 1928) is an Israeli historian, former professor of biochemistry, and veteran of the Zionist militia Irgun.
Yehuda Lapidot was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1928. At age 15, he joined Irgun, taking the nom de guerre "Nimrod". He was active in the Irgun's Combat Corps (Hayil Kravi), and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowout%20%28well%20drilling%29 | A blowout is the uncontrolled release of crude oil and/or natural gas from an oil well or gas well after pressure control systems have failed. Modern wells have blowout preventers intended to prevent such an occurrence. An accidental spark during a blowout can lead to a catastrophic oil or gas fire.
Prior to the adven... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg-eating%20snake | Egg-eating snake can refer to six different species of snake, found within two genera:
Dasypeltis, the group of African egg-eating snakes
Indian egg-eating snake (Elachistodon westermanni)
Animal common name disambiguation pages
Biology disambiguation pages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary%20ring | In mathematics, especially in the area of abstract algebra known as module theory, a ring R is called hereditary if all submodules of projective modules over R are again projective. If this is required only for finitely generated submodules, it is called semihereditary.
For a noncommutative ring R, the terms left her... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiliated%20operator | In mathematics, affiliated operators were introduced by Murray and von Neumann in the theory of von Neumann algebras as a technique for using unbounded operators to study modules generated by a single vector. Later Atiyah and Singer showed that index theorems for elliptic operators on closed manifolds with infinite fun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylcobalamin | Methylcobalamin (mecobalamin, MeCbl, or MeB) is a cobalamin, a form of vitamin B. It differs from cyanocobalamin in that the cyano group at the cobalt is replaced with a methyl group. Methylcobalamin features an octahedral cobalt(III) centre and can be obtained as bright red crystals. From the perspective of coordinat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Whitman%20Bailey | Jacob Whitman Bailey (1811–1857) was an American naturalist, known as the pioneer in microscopic research in America.
Biography
Jacob Whitman Bailey was born in Auburn, Massachusetts on April 29, 1811, and in 1832 graduated at West Point, where, after 1834, he was successively assistant professor, acting professor, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis%20Caswell | Alexis Caswell (January 29, 1799 – January 8, 1877) was an American educator, born in Taunton, Massachusetts. He graduated Brown University in 1822, and entered the Baptist ministry.
Career
Caswell was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Brown University from 1828 to 1850, and of mathematics and astrono... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorotation | In chemistry, a pseudorotation is a set of intramolecular movements of attached groups (i.e., ligands) on a highly symmetric molecule, leading to a molecule indistinguishable from the initial one. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) defines a pseudorotation as a "stereoisomerization resulting ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve%20%28category%20theory%29 | In category theory, a discipline within mathematics, the nerve N(C) of a small category C is a simplicial set constructed from the objects and morphisms of C. The geometric realization of this simplicial set is a topological space, called the classifying space of the category C. These closely related objects can provid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advantage | Advantage may refer to:
Advantage (debate), an argument structure in competitive debate
Mechanical advantage, in engineering, the ratio of output force to input force on a system
Advantage of terrain, in military use, a superiority in elevation over an opposing force
Advantage (cryptography), a measure of the effe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptochirality | In stereochemistry, cryptochirality is a special case of chirality in which a molecule is chiral but its specific rotation is non-measurable. The underlying reason for the lack of rotation is the specific electronic properties of the molecule. The term was introduced by Kurt Mislow in 1977.
For example, the alkane 5-e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIC | FIC may refer to:
Federazione Italiana Canottaggio (Italian Rowing Federation)
Falkland Islands Company
Fascia iliaca block
Family Institute of Connecticut
Family integrated church
Federation of Irish Cyclists
Feline idiopathic cystitis
Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry
Fellowship for Intentional Com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliahu%20I.%20Jury | Eliahu Ibrahim Jury (May 23, 1923 – September 20, 2020) was an Iraqi-born American engineer. He received his the E.E. degree from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Mandatory Palestine (now, Israel), in 1947, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 1949, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Devlin%20%28entrepreneur%29 | Mike Devlin is a U.S. entrepreneur who co-founded Rational Software Corporation, a software development company based in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Devlin graduated from the United States Air Force Academy 1977 after studying electrical engineering and computer science. He completed an M.S. in computer science at Stanf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Favis-Mortlock | David T. Favis-Mortlock is an English geomorphologist and musician.
Born David Mortlock on 27 August 1953, he grew up in Barking, Essex, UK, later moving to Basildon New Town, where he attended Barstable School. He studied environmental sciences at Lancaster University, graduating in 1975. After several years as a mus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Lawrence%20Smith%20%28chemist%29 | John Lawrence Smith (December 17, 1818 – October 12, 1883) was an American chemist and mineralogist.
He published extensively on analytical chemistry and mineralogy, including Mineralogy and Chemistry, Original Researches (1873; enlarged with biographical sketches, 1884). His collection of meteorites was the finest i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fej%C3%A9r%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Fejér's theorem, named after Hungarian mathematician Lipót Fejér, states the following:
Explanation of Fejér's Theorem's
Explicitly, we can write the Fourier series of f as
where the nth partial sum of the Fourier series of f may be written as
where the Fourier coefficients are
Then, we can define
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohesion | Cohesion may refer to:
Cohesion (chemistry), the intermolecular attraction between like-molecules
Cohesion (computer science), a measure of how well the lines of source code within a module work together
Cohesion (geology), the part of shear strength that is independent of the normal effective stress in mass movemen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Lovering | Joseph Lovering (25 December 1813 – 18 January 1892) was an American scientist and educator.
Biography
Lovering graduated from Harvard in 1833. In 1838, he was named Hollis Professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Harvard. He held this chair until 1888, when he was appointed Professor Emeritus, after 50 yea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2%20Cacciatore | Niccolò Cacciatore (; 26 January 1770 – 28 January 1841) was an Italian astronomer.
Cacciatore was born at Casteltermini, in Sicily. While studying mathematics and physics in Palermo, he became acquainted with Giuseppe Piazzi, head of the Palermo Astronomical Observatory, and became a graduate student assistant at the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Frederick%20Barker | George Frederick Barker (July 14, 1835, in Charlestown, Massachusetts – May 24, 1910) was an American physician and scientist. He graduated from the Yale Scientific School in 1858. He was successively chemical assistant in Harvard Medical School in 1858–1859 and 1860–1861, professor of chemistry and geology in Wheaton ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Lerner | Richard Alan Lerner (August 26, 1938 – December 2, 2021) was an American research chemist. He was best known for his work on catalytic antibodies and combinatorial antibody libraries. Lerner served as President of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) from 1987 until January 1, 2012, and was a member of its Skaggs In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20Poisson%20equation | In mathematics, the discrete Poisson equation is the finite difference analog of the Poisson equation. In it, the discrete Laplace operator takes the place of the Laplace operator. The discrete Poisson equation is frequently used in numerical analysis as a stand-in for the continuous Poisson equation, although it is al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfiability%20modulo%20theories | In computer science and mathematical logic, satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) is the problem of determining whether a mathematical formula is satisfiable. It generalizes the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) to more complex formulas involving real numbers, integers, and/or various data structures such as lists, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20H.%20Golub | Gene Howard Golub (February 29, 1932 – November 16, 2007), was an American numerical analyst who taught at Stanford University as Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science and held a courtesy appointment in electrical engineering.
Personal life
Born in Chicago, he was educated at the University of Illinois at Urban... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admissible%20set | In set theory, a discipline within mathematics, an admissible set is a transitive set such that is a model of Kripke–Platek set theory (Barwise 1975).
The smallest example of an admissible set is the set of hereditarily finite sets. Another example is the set of hereditarily countable sets.
See also
Admissible ord... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn%20%28biochemistry%29 | A turn is an element of secondary structure in proteins where the polypeptide chain reverses its overall direction.
Definition
According to one definition, a turn is a structural motif where the Cα atoms of two residues separated by a few (usually 1 to 5) peptide bonds are close (less than ). The proximity of the te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapticity | In coordination chemistry, hapticity is the coordination of a ligand to a metal center via an uninterrupted and contiguous series of atoms. The hapticity of a ligand is described with the Greek letter η ('eta'). For example, η2 describes a ligand that coordinates through 2 contiguous atoms. In general the η-notation o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20F.%20Van%20Loan | Charles Francis Van Loan (born September 20, 1947) is an emeritus professor of computer science and the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering at Cornell University, He is known for his expertise in numerical analysis, especially matrix computations.
In 2016, Van Loan became the Dean of Faculty at Cornell University.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walsh%20Report | Walsh Report may refer to
Walsh Report (cryptography), an Australian cryptography policy review
The Commission on Industrial Relations (also known as the Walsh Commission) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagata%27s%20conjecture%20on%20curves | In mathematics, the Nagata conjecture on curves, named after Masayoshi Nagata, governs the minimal degree required for a plane algebraic curve to pass through a collection of very general points with prescribed multiplicities.
History
Nagata arrived at the conjecture via work on the 14th problem of Hilbert, which asks... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongabay | Mongabay (mongabay.com) is a conservation news web portal that reports on environmental science, energy, and green design, and features extensive information on tropical rainforests, including pictures and deforestation statistics for countries of the world. It was founded in 1999 by economist Rhett Ayers Butler in ord... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville%27s%20algorithm | In mathematics, Neville's algorithm is an algorithm used for polynomial interpolation that was derived by the mathematician Eric Harold Neville in 1934. Given n + 1 points, there is a unique polynomial of degree ≤ n which goes through the given points. Neville's algorithm evaluates this polynomial.
Neville's algorithm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Salvesen | Guy Salvesen is a South African-born biochemist, best known for his work in the field of apoptosis. His research focuses on proteases and their inhibitors in humans, with particular emphasis on the caspases of the apoptotic cell death pathway.
His PhD in biochemistry is from the University of Cambridge, studying under... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissiveness | Permissiveness may refer to:
Permissiveness (biology), between hormones and cells
Permissive society, liberalization of social norms in a society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miodrag%20Stojkovi%C4%87 | Miodrag Stojković () (born July 5, 1964, in Leskovac, Serbia, then Yugoslavia) is a Serbian researcher in genetics with the Institute of Human Genetics at Newcastle University. He holds a PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. As of January 2006, he is serving as a deputy director and head of Cellular Re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Simpson%20Woodward | Robert Simpson Woodward (July 21, 1849 – June 29, 1924) was an American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician.
Biography
He was born at Rochester, Michigan, on July 21, 1849, to Lysander Woodward and Peninah A. Simpson.
He graduated with a degree in civil engineering at the University of Michigan in 1872. He wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20H.%20Miller%20%28physicist%29 | George H. Miller Ph.D. served as director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) from 2007 until 2011. Dr. Miller, an employee of the Laboratory for 34 years, replaced Michael Anastasio, who left LLNL to head Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Dr. Miller received his B.S. with high honors in physics in 196... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Birch's theorem, named for Bryan John Birch, is a statement about the representability of zero by odd degree forms.
Statement of Birch's theorem
Let K be an algebraic number field, k, l and n be natural numbers, r1, ..., rk be odd natural numbers, and f1, ..., fk be homogeneous polynomials with coeffic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Benjamin%20Prescott | Albert Benjamin Prescott (December 12, 1832, Hastings, New York – February 25, 1905) was an American chemist. He graduated in medicine at the University of Michigan in 1864, and was made assistant professor of organic and applied chemistry, dean of the school of pharmacy, and director of the chemical laboratory over th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Parker%20%28inventor%29 | William P. Parker is an American artist, scientist, and entrepreneur, best known for inventing the modern design of the plasma globe. The invention occurred in 1971, when Parker was working as a student in a physics laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and accidentally filled a test chamber to a grea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairman%20Rogers | Fairman Rogers (November 15, 1833 – August 22, 1900) was an American civil engineer, educator, and philanthropist.
Early life
Fairman Rogers was born in Philadelphia on November 15, 1833. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1853, and taught civil engineering there from 1855 to 1871. He was one of four ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril%20Norman%20Hugh%20Long | Cyril Norman Hugh Long (June 19, 1901 – July 6, 1970) was an English-American biochemist and academic administrator. He was Sterling Professor of physiological chemistry at Yale University for 31 years during the middle part of the 20th century.
Background
Cyril Long was born in Burton, Nettleton, Wiltshire, the firs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parwan%20University | Parwan University () is located in Charikar, capital of Parwan province, central Afghanistan. It was established in 2006. Parwan university has faculties of Economics, Agriculture, Engineering, Computer Science, Islamic Shariia, Language & Literature, Journalism, Social Sciences, Law, and Education.
It Has About 6-7 T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Leamington%20Nichols | Edward Leamington Nichols (September 14, 1854 – November 10, 1937) was an American scientist. He was a physicist and astronomer, professor of physics at Cornell University.
Biography
He was born of American parentage at Leamington, England, and received his education at Cornell University, graduating in 1875. After St... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhj%C3%A1lmur%20%C3%81rnason | Vilhjálmur Árnason (born in Neskaupstaður, Iceland 1953) is professor of philosophy at the University of Iceland. Internationally, he is best known for his research on ethical aspects of controversial genetic research in Iceland by deCODE Genetics.
Books
Hugsmíðar: Um siðferði, stjórnmál og samfélag [Fantasies: On Eth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Edley | Joseph Edley (born 1947) is a professional Scrabble player and author, and the first player to win the National Scrabble Championship three times.
Pre-Scrabble life
Joe Edley grew up in Detroit, Michigan and attended Wayne State University, where he concentrated in mathematics and philosophy. In 1969, he moved to San ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisa%20Brune | Elisa Brune (15 July 1966 – 29 November 2018) was a Belgian writer and journalist. She held a doctorate in environmental science.
Works
Fissures. Paris : L’Harmattan, 1996 (lauréat du prix de la Première Œuvre et du prix Maeterlinck) ; Ancrage, 2000
Petite révision du ciel. Paris : Ramsay, 1999 (récompensé par le p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europium%20anomaly | The europium anomaly is the phenomenon whereby the europium (Eu) concentration in a mineral is either enriched or depleted relative to some standard, commonly a chondrite or mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB). In geochemistry a europium anomaly is said to be "positive" if the Eu concentration in the mineral is enriched rel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie%20Bell | Ronald Percy Bell FRS FRSC FRSE (24 November 1907 – 9 January 1996) was a leading British physical chemist who worked in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford.
Life
Ronald Percy Bell was the eldest child of Edwin Alfred Bell and his wife Beatrice Annie (née Ash), teachers at an elementary schoo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20and%20Theoretical%20Chemistry%20Laboratory%20%28Oxford%29 | The Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory (PTCL) is a major chemistry laboratory at the University of Oxford, England. It is located in the main Science Area of the university on South Parks Road. Previously it was known as the Physical Chemistry Laboratory.
History
The original Physical Chemistry Laboratory w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan%20Frankel | Stanley Phillips Frankel (1919 – May, 1978) was an American computer scientist. He worked in the Manhattan Project and developed various computers as a consultant.
Early life
He was born in Los Angeles, attended graduate school at the University of Rochester, received his PhD in physics from the University of Califor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Parks%20Road | South Parks Road is a road in Oxford, England. It runs east–west past the main Science Area of the University of Oxford. Many of the university science departments are located nearby or face the road, including parts of the geography, zoology, chemistry, psychology and physiology departments. Also on the road is Rhodes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmetto%20High%20School%20%28South%20Carolina%29 | Palmetto High School is a high school in Williamston, South Carolina, United States. It serves an average of about 900 students.
Academy
Ninth graders are placed in the Freshman Academy, separating them from the rest of the student body for their core classes. The Academy's courses include English II Honors, Biology H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire%20F.%20Gmachl | Claire F. Gmachl is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. She is best known for her work in the development of quantum cascade lasers.
Education and honors
Gmachl earned her M.Sc. in physics from the University of Innsbruck in 1991. She went on to receive her Ph.D. in electr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence%20Waddell | Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell, CB, CIE, F.L.S., L.L.D, M.Ch., I.M.S. RAI, F.R.A.S (29 May 1854 – 19 September 1938) was a Scottish explorer, Professor of Tibetan, Professor of Chemistry and Pathology, Indian Army surgeon, collector in Tibet, and amateur archaeologist. Waddell also studied Sumerian and San... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara%20Davis | Tamara Maree Davis is an Australian astrophysicist. , she is a professor in the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Queensland, where she has been employed since 2008.
The Australian Academy of Science awarded her their Nancy Millis Medal in 2015,
and she was awarded an Australian Laureate Fellows... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Symbolic%20Species | The Symbolic Species is a 1997 book by biological anthropologist Terrence Deacon on the evolution of language. Combining perspectives from neurobiology, evolutionary theory, linguistics, and semiotics, Deacon proposes that language, along with the unique human capacity for symbolic thought, co-evolved with the brain.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics%20of%20terraforming | The ethics of terraforming has constituted a philosophical debate within biology, ecology, and environmental ethics as to whether terraforming other worlds is an ethical endeavor.
Support
On the pro-terraforming side of the argument, there are those like Robert Zubrin and Richard L. S. Taylor who believe that it is hu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Veizer | Ján Veizer (born 22 June 1941) is the Distinguished University Professor (emeritus) of Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa and Institute for Geology, Mineralogy und Geophysics, of Bochum Ruhr University. He held the NSERC/Noranda/CIFAR Industrial Chair in Earth System Isotope and Environmental Geochemistry until... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%20B.%20Cohen | Julius Berend Cohen FRS (6 May 1859 in Eccles – 14 June 1935 in Coniston) was an English chemist. He studied chemistry with Hans von Pechmann at the University of Munich. One of his students was Henry Drysdale Dakin.
Biography
Julius Berend Cohen and his twin brother Adolf were the only boys of ten children of Sigism... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Inglis | Mark Joseph Inglis (born 27 September 1959) is a New Zealand mountaineer, researcher, winemaker and motivational speaker. He holds a degree in Human Biochemistry from Lincoln University, New Zealand, and has conducted research on leukaemia. He is also an accomplished cyclist and, as a double leg amputee, won a silver ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20circle | A math circle is a learning space where participants engage in the depths and intricacies of mathematical thinking, propagate the culture of doing mathematics, and create knowledge. To reach these goals, participants partake in problem-solving, mathematical modeling, the practice of art, and philosophical discourse. So... |
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