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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MM2
mm² is a short form for square millimeter, an international unit of area. Mm² is a short form for square megameter, also an international unit of area. MM2 may refer to: MM2, a class of force fields; see force field (chemistry) MM2 (MMS), an interface utilized by the Multimedia Messaging Service standard Mega Man ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Shenk
Thomas Eugene Shenk (born 1947) is an American virologist. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Life Sciences in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Career Shenk received a BS in biology from the University of Detroit, and earned a Ph.D. in Microbiology under the mentorship of Victor Stollar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20F.%20Lyon
Richard "Dick" Francis Lyon (born 1952) is an American inventor, scientist, and engineer. He is one of the two people who independently invented the first optical mouse devices in 1980. He has worked in signal processing and was a co-founder of Foveon, Inc., a digital camera and image sensor company. Early life and ed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%20Tasc%C3%B3n
Luis Tascón Gutiérrez (27 August 1968, Capacho, Táchira – 12 August 2010, Caracas) was a Venezuelan politician and member of the National Assembly. Biography The son of Colombian-born parents, Tascón studied Electrical Engineering at the Universidad de los Andes in Mérida, Venezuela. He was a member of the political...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuvro%20Dev
Shuvro Dev () is a Bangladeshi musician. Background Born in Sylhet, Dev passed the matriculation exam from Sylhet Government Pilot High School. He completed his MSc in biochemistry from the University of Dhaka. He received the President's Award in music on BTV's "Nutun Kuri" contest in 1978. Career Dev started his ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Shlain
Leonard Shlain (August 28, 1937 – May 11, 2009) was an American surgeon, author, and inventor. He was chairperson of laparoscopic surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, and was an associate professor of surgery at University of California, San Francisco. His books include Art & Physics: Par...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Friedrich%20Gauss%20Prize
The Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for Applications of Mathematics is a mathematics award, granted jointly by the International Mathematical Union and the German Mathematical Society for "outstanding mathematical contributions that have found significant applications outside of mathematics". The award receives its name fro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabe%E2%80%93Sugano%20diagram
In coordination chemistry, Tanabe–Sugano diagrams are used to predict absorptions in the ultraviolet (UV), visible and infrared (IR) electromagnetic spectrum of coordination compounds. The results from a Tanabe–Sugano diagram analysis of a metal complex can also be compared to experimental spectroscopic data. They are...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frey%20curve
In mathematics, a Frey curve or Frey–Hellegouarch curve is the elliptic curve associated with a (hypothetical) solution of Fermat's equation The curve is named after Gerhard Frey and (sometimes) . History came up with the idea of associating solutions of Fermat's equation with a completely different mathematical ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20de%20Jaucourt
Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt (; 16 September 1704 – 3 February 1779) was a French scholar and the most prolific contributor to the Encyclopédie. He wrote about 18,000 articles on subjects including physiology, chemistry, botany, pathology, and political history, or about 25% of the entire encyclopaedia, all done volunta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry%20set
A chemistry set is an educational toy allowing the user (typically a teenager) to perform simple chemistry experiments. History Forerunners The forerunners of the chemistry set were 17th century books on "natural magick", "which all excellent wise men do admit and embrace, and worship with great applause; neither is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%20of%20formation%20group%20additivity
Heat of formation group additivity methods in thermochemistry enable the calculation and prediction of heat of formation of organic compounds based on additivity. This method was pioneered by S. W. Benson. Benson model Starting with simple linear and branched alkanes and alkenes the method works by collecting a larg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Earnest
Lester Donald Earnest (born December 17, 1930) is an American computer scientist. Education and career After receiving his B.S. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1953, he began his career as a computer programmer in 1954 during a stint as a U.S. Navy Aviation Electronic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Goldberg
Deborah Esther Goldberg is an American ecologist and Margaret B. Davis Distinguished University Professor Emerita and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emerita in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. Life Prior to becoming the Margaret B. Davis Distinguished University Professor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-partition%20problem
The 3-partition problem is a strongly NP-complete problem in computer science. The problem is to decide whether a given multiset of integers can be partitioned into triplets that all have the same sum. More precisely: The input to the problem is a multiset S of n = 3 positive integers. The sum of all integers is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual%20%28musician%29
Manual is the performing name of electronic musician Jonas Munk Jensen, (born 1981 or 1982), from Odense, Denmark. He makes music in the style of ambient dream pop and indietronica. His sound tends to contain a mix of software synthesizers, guitars (sometimes sampled or heavily processed), and various digital signal pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona%20Brinkman
Fiona Brinkman (née Lawson) is a Professor in Bioinformatics and Genomics in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, and is a leader in the area of microbial bioinformatics. She is interested in developing "more sustainable, holistic approaches for in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thioesterase
In biochemistry, thioesterases are enzymes which belong to the esterase family. Esterases, in turn, are one type of the several hydrolases known. Thioesterases exhibit esterase activity (splitting of an ester into an acid and an alcohol, in the presence of water) specifically at a thiol group (). Thioesterases or thi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier%E2%80%93Bessel%20series
In mathematics, Fourier–Bessel series is a particular kind of generalized Fourier series (an infinite series expansion on a finite interval) based on Bessel functions. Fourier–Bessel series are used in the solution to partial differential equations, particularly in cylindrical coordinate systems. Definition The Fou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20of%20Molecular%20Cell%20Biology%20and%20Genetics
The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) is a biology research institute located in Dresden, Germany. It was founded in 1998 and was fully operational in 2001. Research groups in the institute work in molecular biology, cell biology, developmental biology, biophysics, and systems biol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Briefer%20History%20of%20Time%20%28Hawking%20and%20Mlodinow%20book%29
A Briefer History of Time is a 2006 popular-science book by the English physicist Stephen Hawking and the American physicist Leonard Mlodinow. Overview The book is an update and rewrite of Hawking's 1988 A Brief History of Time. In this book Hawking and Mlodinow present quantum mechanics, string theory, the big bang ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doln%C3%BD%20Kub%C3%ADn%20District
Dolný Kubín District (okres Dolný Kubín) is a district in the Žilina Region of central Slovakia. District is located in a hilly area north of Malá Fatra mountain range. Core of the district economy represent engineering, electrical engineering, metallurgy and wood processing industry. In the district are several middle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Wiseman
Jennifer J. Wiseman is Senior Project Scientist on the Hubble Space Telescope, and an American astronomer, born in Mountain Home, Arkansas. She earned a bachelor's degree in physics from MIT and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University in 1995. Wiseman discovered periodic comet 114P/Wiseman-Skiff while working as a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine%20guidance%20sensor
A fine guidance sensor (FGS) is an instrument on board a space telescope that provides high-precision pointing information as input to the telescope's attitude control systems. Interferometric FGSs have been deployed on the Hubble Space Telescope; a different technical approach is used for the James Webb Space Telescop...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta%20plane
In geophysical fluid dynamics, an approximation whereby the Coriolis parameter, f, is set to vary linearly in space is called a beta plane approximation. On a rotating sphere such as the Earth, f varies with the sine of latitude; in the so-called f-plane approximation, this variation is ignored, and a value of f appro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublingual%20nucleus
In the substance of the formatio reticularis are two small nuclei of gray matter. The one near the dorsal aspect of the hilus of the inferior olivary nucleus is called the Sublingual nucleus (inferior central nucleus, nucleus of Roller.) References External links NIF Search - Sublingual Nucleus via the Neuroscience ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia%20University%20Physics%20Department
The Columbia University Physics Department includes approximately 40 faculty members teaching and conducting research in the areas of astrophysics, high energy nuclear physics, high energy particle physics, atomic-molecular-optical physics, condensed matter physics, and theoretical physics. This research is conducted ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Novak
Kate Novak is an American fantasy author. Biography Novak grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a BS in Chemistry. She primarily published in the Forgotten Realms and Ravenloft shared worlds. She is married to writer and game designer Jeff Grubb. Novak and Gru...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagonally%20dominant%20matrix
In mathematics, a square matrix is said to be diagonally dominant if, for every row of the matrix, the magnitude of the diagonal entry in a row is larger than or equal to the sum of the magnitudes of all the other (non-diagonal) entries in that row. More precisely, the matrix A is diagonally dominant if where aij deno...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Zernike%20polynomials
In mathematics, pseudo-Zernike polynomials are well known and widely used in the analysis of optical systems. They are also widely used in image analysis as shape descriptors. Definition They are an orthogonal set of complex-valued polynomials defined as where and orthogonality on the unit disk is given as where t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Levoy
Marc Levoy is a computer graphics researcher and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, a vice president and Fellow at Adobe Inc., and (until 2020) a Distinguished Engineer at Google. He is noted for pioneering work in volume rendering, light fields, and computational ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupin%20Hall
Pupin Physics Laboratories , also known as Pupin Hall, is home to the physics and astronomy departments of Columbia University in New York City. The building is located on the south side of 120th Street, just east of Broadway. In 1965, Pupin was named a National Historic Landmark for its association with experiments re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Steiner
Mark Steiner (May 6, 1942 – April 6, 2020) was an American-born Israeli professor of philosophy. He taught philosophy of mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Steiner died after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Biography Mark Steiner was born in the Bronx, New York. He gradua...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarenflurbil
Tarenflurbil, Flurizan or R-flurbiprofen, is the single enantiomer of the racemate NSAID flurbiprofen. For several years, research and trials for the drug were conducted by Myriad Genetics, to investigate its potential as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease; that investigation concluded in June 2008 when the company a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20R.%20Little
John R. Little is best known as a writer of horror and dark fantasy fiction. He was born in London, Ontario, Canada on August 16, 1955, and he currently resides in Ayr, ON Canada. John R. Little has an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Western Ontario where his major was Computer Science and he ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative%20Computational%20Project%20Number%204
The Collaborative Computational Project Number 4 in protein crystallography (CCP4) was set up in 1979 in the United Kingdom to support collaboration between researchers working in software development and assemble a comprehensive collection of software for structural biology. The CCP4 core team is located at the Resear...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Thomson%20%28botanist%29
Thomas Thomson (4 December 1817 – 18 April 1878) was a British surgeon with the British East India Company before becoming a botanist. He was a friend of Joseph Dalton Hooker and helped write the first volume of Flora Indica. He was born in Glasgow the son of Thomas Thomson, chemistry professor at Glasgow University. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson%20Mazoka
Anderson K. Mazoka (22 March 1943 – 24 May 2006) was a Zambian politician and President of the United Party for National Development (UPND), the current ruling party. Life Mazoka was born in Monze. He attended Union College, where he graduated in 1969 with a degree in mechanical engineering. For his senior thesis, M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratoire%20d%27Informatique%20de%20Paris%206
The LIP6, the computer science laboratory of Sorbonne University's Faculty of Science and Engineering is a joint research laboratory of Sorbonne University and CNRS, the French national research organization. The current name comes from the acronym of its historical name, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6. It was f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Environmental%20Sciences%20and%20Engineering
The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Engineering (IESE) is located at Islamabad, Federal Capital Territory, Pakistan. It is affiliated with the National University of Sciences and Technology. It is a teaching and research institute offering BS, MS, and PhD programs in Environmental Engineering and Sciences along...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Klein%20%28philosopher%29
Jacob Klein (March 3, 1899 – July 16, 1978) was a Russian-American philosopher and interpreter of Plato, who worked extensively on the nature and historical origin of modern symbolic mathematics. Biography Klein was born in Libava, Russian Empire. He studied at Berlin and Marburg, where he received his Ph.D. in 1922. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher%20category%20theory
In mathematics, higher category theory is the part of category theory at a higher order, which means that some equalities are replaced by explicit arrows in order to be able to explicitly study the structure behind those equalities. Higher category theory is often applied in algebraic topology (especially in homotopy t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%20Holyszewski
Frédéric Holyszewski (Paris, 1970), also known as Dado and Deedrah is a French music producer mostly known his psytrance projects such as Deedrah, Transwave, Krome Angels and Synthetic. Biography He learned classical music since his childhood, playing piano and transverse flute, yet wanted to be a biology teacher. He ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASM
CASM may refer to: Education Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music, an educational unit of the University of Adelaide, South Australia Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics, a former qualification gained from Cambridge University Galleries and museums Canada Aviation and Space Museum, the national aviation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Chalke
Stephen Chalke (born 5 June 1948) is an English author and publisher, particularly of books on cricket and cricketers. Chalke was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He has two undergraduate degrees – one in Drama, English and Philosophy, the other in Mathematics – and a postgraduate degree in English Literature. He has ta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Barton%20%28biologist%29
Michael Barton is an ichthyologist, the H. W. Stodghill Jr. and Adele H. Stodghill Professor of Biology at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He is the author of the third edition of Bond's Biology of Fishes. In 2008 he was recognized for two articles, the first one is "Pupfishes of the Bahamas" which became the co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon%20gas
In physics, a photon gas is a gas-like collection of photons, which has many of the same properties of a conventional gas like hydrogen or neon – including pressure, temperature, and entropy. The most common example of a photon gas in equilibrium is the black-body radiation. Photons are part of a family of particles k...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieb
Lieb may refer to: As a surname R. Eric Lieb, American writer and book editor Eli Lieb (born 1979), American singer and songwriter Elliott H. Lieb (born 1932), American mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics Ernst Lieb, American business executive Fred Lieb (1888–1980), American sportswriter and bas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinde
Grinde may refer to: Places Grinde, Rogaland, a village in Tysvær municipality in Rogaland county, Norway Grinde, Vestland, a village in Sogndal municipality in Vestland county, Norway Geography Grinde (landform), a type of treeless, wet heathland in the Black Forest of Germany People Bjørn Grinde, a biologist worki...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedden%20Iron%20Construction%20Company
Hedden Iron Construction Company was a manufacturer of iron and steel components founded in 1889 and sold in 1931 to the Bethlehem Steel Company. History Eugene Bleything Hedden, son of Viner J. Hedden, president of V.J. Hedden and Sons Construction Co., graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1885 with a d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cresol%20Red
Cresol red (full name: o-cresolsulfonephthalein) is a triarylmethane dye frequently used for monitoring the pH in aquaria. Molecular biology Cresol red can be used in many common molecular biology reactions in place of other loading dyes. Cresol Red does not inhibit Taq polymerase to the same degree as other common lo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament%20of%20the%20Towns
The Tournament of the Towns (International Mathematics Tournament of the Towns, Турнир Городов, Международный Математический Турнир Городов) is an international mathematical competition for school students originating in Russia. The contest was created by mathematician Nikolay Konstantinov and has participants from ov...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalizations%20of%20Pauli%20matrices
In mathematics and physics, in particular quantum information, the term generalized Pauli matrices refers to families of matrices which generalize the (linear algebraic) properties of the Pauli matrices. Here, a few classes of such matrices are summarized. Multi-qubit Pauli matrices (Hermitian) This method of general...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamicist
In thermodynamics, a thermodynamicist is someone who studies thermodynamic processes and phenomena, i.e. the physics that deal with mechanical action and relations of heat. Among the well-known number of famous thermodynamicists, include Sadi Carnot, Rudolf Clausius, Willard Gibbs, Hermann von Helmholtz, and Max Planc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerwein%E2%80%93Ponndorf%E2%80%93Verley%20reduction
The Meerwein–Ponndorf–Verley (MPV) reduction in organic chemistry is the reduction of ketones and aldehydes to their corresponding alcohols utilizing aluminium alkoxide catalysis in the presence of a sacrificial alcohol. The advantages of the MPV reduction lie in its high chemoselectivity, and its use of a cheap enviro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Lutz
Jack Lutz is an American theoretical computer scientist best known for developing the concepts of resource bounded measure and effective dimension; he has also published research on DNA computing and self-assembly. He is a professor of computer science and mathematics at Iowa State University. Education and career Lut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%20Wiechert
Emil Johann Wiechert (26 December 1861 – 19 March 1928) was a German physicist and geophysicist who made many contributions to both fields, including presenting the first verifiable model of a layered structure of the Earth and being among the first to discover the electron. He went on to become the world's first Prof...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Haig%20%28biologist%29
__notoc__ David Addison Haig (born 28 June 1958) is an Australian evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and professor in Harvard University's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. He is interested in intragenomic conflict, genomic imprinting and parent–offspring conflict, and wrote the book Genomic Imprintin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemical%20Society
The Biochemical Society is a learned society in the United Kingdom in the field of biochemistry, including all the cellular and molecular biosciences. Structure It currently has around 7000 members, two-thirds in the UK. It is affiliated with the European body, Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS). The ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exceptional%20object
Many branches of mathematics study objects of a given type and prove a classification theorem. A common theme is that the classification results in a number of series of objects and a finite number of exceptions — often with desirable properties — that do not fit into any series. These are known as exceptional objects....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Filippenko
Alexei Vladimir "Alex" Filippenko (; born July 25, 1958) is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Filippenko graduated from Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California. He received a Bachelor of Arts in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20A.%20Noyes
William Albert Noyes (November 6, 1857 – October 24, 1941) was an American analytical and organic chemist. He made pioneering determinations of atomic weights, chaired the chemistry department at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign from 1907 to 1926, was the founder and editor of several important chemical jour...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Blundell
Sir Thomas Leon Blundell, (born 7 July 1942) is a British biochemist, structural biologist, and science administrator. He was a member of the team of Dorothy Hodgkin that solved in 1969 the first structure of a protein hormone, insulin. Blundell has made contributions to the structural biology of polypeptide hormones...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclator
Nomenclator may refer to: Nomenclator omnium rerum propria nomina variis linguis explicata indicans, 16th century book written by Hadrianus Junius Nomenclator, in cryptography, a kind of substitution cypher Nomenclator (nomenclature) as a noun meaning: a book listing names or terms; someone providing names to another ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Abell
Christopher Abell (11 November 1957 – 26 October 2020) was a British biological chemist who was a professor of biological chemistry at the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry and Todd-Hamied Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. On his 2016 election to the Royal Society, Abell's research was described as having "cha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meinhard%20E.%20Mayer
Meinhard Edwin Mayer (March 18, 1929 – December 11, 2011) was a Romanian–born American Professor Emeritus of Physics and Mathematics at the University of California, Irvine, which he joined in 1966. Biography He was born on March 18, 1929, in Cernăuți. He experienced both the Soviet occupation of Northern Bukovina and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Si-chen
Lee Si-chen (; born 13 August 1952 in Gangshan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan), is a Taiwanese engineer specializing in semiconductors, a researcher in amorphous silicon in the early development in Taiwan, and an IEEE Fellow. He has been a professor of electrical engineering since 1982 and the president of National Taiwan Universi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litman
Litman is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Daniel Litman (born 1990), Israeli actor David Litman (born 1957), American technology chief executive Diane Litman, American professor of computer science Ellen Litman (born 1973), American novelist Eric Litman (born 1973), American entrepreneur and ange...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhan%20Tao
Zhan Tao (; born April 1963) is a Chinese mathematician who served as president of Jilin University from 2008 to 2011 and president of Shandong University from 2000 to 2008. Biography Zhan was born in April 1963, in Yanzhou County (now Yanzhou District of Jining), Shandong. He graduated from the Department of Mathemat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treadmilling
In molecular biology, treadmilling is a phenomenon observed within protein filaments of the cytoskeletons of many cells, especially in actin filaments and microtubules. It occurs when one end of a filament grows in length while the other end shrinks, resulting in a section of filament seemingly "moving" across a stratu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escolar
The escolar, Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, a species of fish in the family Gempylidae, is found in deep (200–885 metres, or 656–2,904 ft) tropical and temperate waters around the world. It is also known as snake mackerel, (Hawaiian, sometimes written ), and is sometimes sold as "butterfish" or "white tuna". Biology Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton%E2%80%93Hansen%20connectedness%20theorem
In mathematics, the Fulton–Hansen connectedness theorem is a result from intersection theory in algebraic geometry, for the case of subvarieties of projective space with codimension large enough to make the intersection have components of dimension at least 1. It is named after William Fulton and Johan Hansen, who pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Buchstaber
Victor Matveevich Buchstaber (, born 1 April 1943, Tashkent, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician known for his work on algebraic topology, homotopy theory, and mathematical physics. Work Buchstaber's first research work was in cobordism theory. He calculated the differential in the Atiyah-Hirzebruch sp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Ulm
Ulm University () is a public university in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The University was founded in 1967 and focuses on natural sciences, medicine, engineering sciences, mathematics, economics and computer science. With 9,891 students (summer semester 2018), it is one of the youngest public universities in Germa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwartz%27s%20reagent
Schwartz's reagent is the common name for the organozirconium compound with the formula (C5H5)2ZrHCl, sometimes called zirconocene hydrochloride or zirconocene chloride hydride, and is named after Jeffrey Schwartz, a chemistry professor at Princeton University. This metallocene is used in organic synthesis for various ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koszul%E2%80%93Tate%20resolution
In mathematics, a Koszul–Tate resolution or Koszul–Tate complex of the quotient ring R/M is a projective resolution of it as an R-module which also has a structure of a dg-algebra over R, where R is a commutative ring and M ⊂ R is an ideal. They were introduced by as a generalization of the Koszul resolution for the q...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottontail%20%28disambiguation%29
Cottontail may refer to: Biology Cottontail rabbit Dice's cottontail, Sylvilagus dicei Omilteme cottontail, Sylvilagus insonus Desert cottontail, Sylvilagus audubonii Manzano mountain cottontail, Sylvilagus cognatus Mexican cottontail, Sylvilagus cunicularis Eastern cottontail, Sylvilagus floridanus Mountain c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNP%20array
In molecular biology, SNP array is a type of DNA microarray which is used to detect polymorphisms within a population. A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), a variation at a single site in DNA, is the most frequent type of variation in the genome. Around 335 million SNPs have been identified in the human genome, 15 m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etienne%20van%20Heerden
Etienne van Heerden, born 3 December 1954, is a South African author. Biography Van Heerden was born in 1954, six years after the official advent of apartheid. His mother was an English speaking mathematics teacher. His father, an Afrikaans speaking merino stud breeder, farmed the family farm in the Karoo. Van Heerden...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSMB
NSMB may refer to: NSMB (mathematics), a Navier-Stokes finite volume solver Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, an academic journal New Super Mario Bros. (series), a series of 2D platform games by Nintendo consisting of new revivals of classic Mario platformers New Super Mario Bros., the first game in the series, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA%20Space%20Science%20Data%20Coordinated%20Archive
The NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive (NSSDCA) serves as the permanent archive for NASA space science mission data. "Space science" includes astronomy and astrophysics, solar and space plasma physics, and planetary and lunar science. As the permanent archive, NSSDCA teams with NASA's discipline-specific spac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkyl%20nitrite
In organic chemistry, alkyl nitrites are a group of organic compounds based upon the molecular structure , where R represents an alkyl group. Formally they are alkyl esters of nitrous acid. They are distinct from nitro compounds (). The first few members of the series are volatile liquids; methyl nitrite and ethyl nit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2S
In mathematics, S2S is the monadic second order theory of the infinite complete binary tree. S2S may also refer to: Server-to-server, protocol exchange between servers Site-to-site VPN S2S Pte Ltd, a Japanese record label Ski to Sea Race, a race in Whatcom County, Washington Sister2Sister, Christine and Sharon ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling%20geometry
In combinatorial mathematics, a Dowling geometry, named after Thomas A. Dowling, is a matroid associated with a group. There is a Dowling geometry of each rank for each group. If the rank is at least 3, the Dowling geometry uniquely determines the group. Dowling geometries have a role in matroid theory as universal obj...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9418O
{{DISPLAYTITLE:δ18O}} In geochemistry, paleoclimatology and paleoceanography δ18O or delta-O-18 is a measure of the ratio of stable isotopes oxygen-18 (18O) and oxygen-16 (16O). It is commonly used as a measure of the temperature of precipitation, as a measure of groundwater/mineral interactions, and as an indicator...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio%20Morales
Gregorio Morales (7 July 1952 – 22 June 2015), was a Spanish novelist. Gregorio Morales represents a movement named quantum aesthetics that aims to look at human difficulties of all ages from a new perspective that solely derives from modern sciences such as particle physics, astronomy or psychology. In this way, Puer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20McGoveran
David McGoveran (born 1952) is an American computer scientist and physicist, software industry analyst, and inventor. In computer science, he is recognized as one of the pioneers of relational database theory. Education David McGoveran majored in physics and mathematics, and minored in cognition and communication at...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Kleitman
Daniel J. Kleitman (born October 4, 1934) is an American mathematician and professor of applied mathematics at MIT. His research interests include combinatorics, graph theory, genomics, and operations research. Biography Kleitman was born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, the younger of Bertha and Milton Kleitman's two ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy%20Shaw%20%28writer%29
Sandy Shaw (formerly Sandy Shakocius) (born 1943) is an American writer on health. She is an advocate of life extension. Education Sandy Shaw's father was an engineer and her mother a housewife. She received her degree from U.C.L.A. in 1966, with a double major in chemistry and zoology and a minor in mathematics. W...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Weiss%20%28philosopher%29
Paul Weiss (; May 19, 1901 – July 5, 2002) was an American philosopher. He was the founder of The Review of Metaphysics and the Metaphysical Society of America. Early life and education Paul Weiss grew up on the Lower East Side of New York City. His father, Samuel Weiss (d. 1917), was a Jewish emigrant who moved from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BB06
BB06 might refer to: Big Brother Australia 2006, the sixth season of the Australian television series Big Brother Australia Big Brother Suomi 2006, the second season of the Finnish reality television series Big Brother Suomi Branch Barks 2006: The Lost Generation Cryptography: the signature forgery attack created by D...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regehr
Regehr is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Duncan Regehr (born 1952), Canadian stage, film and television actor Ernie Regehr, Canadian peace researcher John Regehr, American computer science professor Kaitlyn Regehr, Canadian ethnographer and broadcaster Richie Regehr (born 1983), Canadian ice hoc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKB%20%28disambiguation%29
The WKB approximation is a method for solving equations in applied mathematics. WKB may also refer to: Warracknabeal Airport (IATA: WKB), in Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia Well-known binary, a language for marking up vector geometry objects on a map See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thallium%28I%29%20iodide
Thallium(I) iodide is a chemical compound with the formula TlI. It is unusual in being one of the few water-insoluble metal iodides, along with AgI, CuI, SnI2, SnI4, PbI2 and HgI2. Chemistry TlI can be formed in aqueous solution by metathesis of any soluble thallium salt with iodide ion. It is also formed as a by-prod...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20anticoincidence
Electronic anticoincidence is a method (and its associated hardware) widely used to suppress unwanted, "background" events in high energy physics, experimental particle physics, gamma-ray spectroscopy, gamma-ray astronomy, experimental nuclear physics, and related fields. In the typical case, a desired high-energy i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano%20Osorio
Mariano de Osorio (; 1777–1819) was a Spanish general and Governor of Chile, from 1814 to 1815. Early career Osorio was born in Seville, Spain. He joined the Spanish army and as many of his contemporaries, his military career began during the Spanish Peninsular War in 1808 as an artillery general, as well as the profe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jozef%20T.%20Devreese
Jozef T. Devreese was a Belgian scientist, with a long career in condensed matter physics. He was Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics at the University of Antwerp. He died on November 1st, 2023. Academic career Jozef T. Devreese graduated in 1960 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven where he received his PhD...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angewandte
Angewandte may refer to: Angewandte Chemie, a peer-reviewed chemistry journal University of Applied Arts Vienna, a university of higher education in Austria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology%20of%20ancient%20Greek%20mathematicians
This is a chronology of ancient Greek mathematicians. See also References Ancient Greek mathematicians Greek mathematics History of geometry History of mathematics Mathematics timelines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorn%27s%20Law
Zorn's law is a maxim coined by Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn as an English Wikipedia prank. It stated that, in any debate, the first person to hurl the insult, "get a life!" is the loser. Zorn's lemma is a proposition used in many areas of theoretical mathematics.