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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto%20Superior%20de%20Tecnologia%20em%20Ci%C3%AAncias%20da%20Computa%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20do%20Rio%20de%20Janeiro
The Instituto Superior de Tecnologia em Ciências da Computação do Rio de Janeiro (Superior Institute of Technology in Computer Science of Rio de Janeiro - IST-Rio) is a technological university maintained by the FAETEC. IST-Rio is one of the newest and innovative universities of technology of Brazil, using new teachi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Barr
Stephen Matthew Barr (born November 28, 1953) is an American physicist who is a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Delaware. A member of its Bartol Research Institute, Barr does research in theoretical particle physics and cosmology. In 2011, he was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfennig%20%28surname%29
Pfennig (also Pfenning or Pfenninger) is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Frank Pfenning, professor of computer science Fritz Pfenninger Norbert Pfennig (1925–2008), German microbiologist (born 1944), German jazz musician, lyricist (1880–1963), German architect (1937–2008), German tra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Kahn
Jeffry Ned Kahn is a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University notable for his work in combinatorics. Education Kahn received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1979 after completing his dissertation under his advisor Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri. Research In 1980 he showed the importance of the bundle theorem fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Hairer
Sir Martin Hairer (born 14 November 1975) is an Austrian-British mathematician working in the field of stochastic analysis, in particular stochastic partial differential equations. He is Professor of Mathematics at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and at Imperial College London. He previously held appoi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20speckle
In physics, dynamic speckle is a result of the temporal evolution of a speckle pattern where variations in the scattering elements responsible for the formation of the interference pattern in the static situation produce the changes that are seen in the speckle pattern, where its grains change their intensity (grey lev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerian%20Professor%20of%20Chemistry
The Fullerian Chairs at the Royal Institution in London, England, were established by John 'Mad Jack' Fuller. Fullerian Professors of Chemistry 1833 Michael Faraday 1868 William Odling 1874 John Hall Gladstone 1877 James Dewar 1923 William Henry Bragg 1942 Henry H. Dale 1946 Eric Keightley Rideal 1950 Edward N...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam%20Lay%20Yong
Lam Lay Yong (maiden name Oon Lay Yong, ; born 1936) is a retired Professor of Mathematics. Academic career From 1988 to 1996 she was Professor at the Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore (NUS). She graduated from the University of Malaya (later becoming University of Singapore) in 1957 and pur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20David%20Birkhoff%20Prize
The George David Birkhoff Prize in applied mathematics is awarded – jointly by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) – in honour of George David Birkhoff (1884–1944). It is currently awarded every three years for an outstanding contribution to: "applied ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Institute%20of%20Chemists
The American Institute of Chemists (AIC) is an organization founded in 1923 with the goal of advancing the chemistry profession in the United States. The institute is known for its yearly awards recognizing contributions of individuals in this field of work. The American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal, given since 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20W.%20Hoffmann
Geoffrey W. Hoffmann, (born October 20, 1944) is an Australian-Canadian theoretical biologist. Hoffmann was a faculty member in the Department of Physics at the University of British Columbia and the founder of Network Immunology Inc. in Vancouver, Canada. He is best known for symmetric immune network theory. Educati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organyl%20group
In organic and organometallic chemistry, an organyl group is an organic substituent with one (sometimes more) free valence(-s) at a carbon atom. The term is often used in chemical patent literature to protect claims over a broad scope. Examples Acetonyl group Acyl group (e.g. acetyl group, benzoyl group) Alkyl gro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Sabatier
Pierre Célestin Sabatier (11 July 1935 – 13 July 2023) was a French physicist. Biography Pierre Célestin Sabatier was born in Casablanca, Morocco on 11 July 1935. The grand-nephew of François Nau, he graduated from École Normale Supérieure, Paris in physics and mathematics in 1958 then spent a year in Princeton Univer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20conditional%20probabilities
In mathematics and computer science, the method of conditional probabilities is a systematic method for converting non-constructive probabilistic existence proofs into efficient deterministic algorithms that explicitly construct the desired object. Often, the probabilistic method is used to prove the existence of math...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation%20for%20Psychocultural%20Research
The Foundation for Psychocultural Research (The FPR) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles that supports and advances interdisciplinary and integrative research and training on interactions of culture, neuroscience, psychiatry, and psychology, with an emphasis on cultural processes as central. The ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrain%2C%20Inc.
Ingrain, Inc. operated digital rock physics laboratories in Houston, Brazil, Colombia, and Abu Dhabi with imaging technology that allowed it to compute the physical properties and fluid flow characteristics of rocks from petroleum reservoirs, including porosity, absolute and relative permeability, electrical resistivi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Flack%20Norris%20Award%20for%20Outstanding%20Achievement%20in%20the%20Teaching%20of%20Chemistry
The James Flack Norris Award is an award handed out yearly for "outstanding contributions to the field of chemical education". The award, which was established in 1950 and was handed out the first time in 1951 was created by the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society in memory of the contributions of Jam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Awodey
Steven M. Awodey (; born 1959) is an American mathematician and logician. He is a Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University. Biography Awodey studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Marburg and the University of Chicago. He earned his Ph.D. from Chicago under Saunders Mac La...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Detlefsen
Michael Detlefsen (20 October 1948 – 21 October 2019) was an American philosopher who was a McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His areas of special interest were logic, history of mathematics, philosophy of mathematics and epistemology. Biography Michael "Mic" Detlefsen was born on ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abubakar%20Sadiq%20A.%20Mohammed
Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq Mohammed (born 14 October 1961) in Nafada town LGA of Gombe state. He was appointed Nigerian Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation on 6 April 2010, when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan announced his new cabinet. He obtained a B.Sc (Physics) in 1985 from University of Maiduguri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei%20Knyazev%20%28mathematician%29
Andrew Knyazev is an American mathematician. He graduated from the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of Moscow State University under the supervision of Evgenii Georgievich D'yakonov () in 1981 and obtained his PhD in Numerical Mathematics at the Russian Academy of Sciences under the supervision of V...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pochhammer%20contour
In mathematics, the Pochhammer contour, introduced by and , is a contour in the complex plane with two points removed, used for contour integration. If A and B are loops around the two points, both starting at some fixed point P, then the Pochhammer contour is the commutator ABA−1B−1, where the superscript −1 denote...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril%20Hopkirk
Cyril Spottiswoode Moy Hopkirk (30 October 1894 – 25 September 1987) was a New Zealand animal science administrator and veterinary scientist. He was a world authority on bovine mastitis. Early career Born at Hamua, north of Eketāhuna, in 1894, Hopkirk started his scientific career as a cadet in the laboratory of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Forchhammer
Johannes Georg Forchhammer (22 May 1861 – 23 July 1938) was a Danish educator of the deaf, who was director of several deaf schools in Nyborg and Fredericia from 1891 to 1926. Born to a family of academics, in Aalborg, first training as a chemist, he taught physics for several years before starting work as a deaf educa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellew
Pellew is a surname, and may refer to: Caroline Pellew (b. 1882), geneticist Charles Pellew, 7th Viscount Exmouth (1863-1945), chemistry professor and British peer Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757–1833), British naval officer and admiral Edward Pellew, 3rd Viscount Exmouth (1811–1876), British peer Edward Pel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammoid
In matroid theory, a field within mathematics, a gammoid is a certain kind of matroid, describing sets of vertices that can be reached by vertex-disjoint paths in a directed graph. The concept of a gammoid was introduced and shown to be a matroid by , based on considerations related to Menger's theorem characterizing ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triflyl%20group
In organic chemistry, the triflyl group (systematic name: trifluoromethanesulfonyl group) is a functional group with the formula and structure . The triflyl group is often represented by –Tf. The related triflate group (trifluoromethanesulfonate) has the formula , and is represented by –OTf. See also Triflyl azide,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Renewable%20and%20Sustainable%20Energy
The Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy is a free and rapid publishing peer-reviewed, online-only, open access, scientific journal published by the American Institute of Physics covering most areas of renewable and sustainable energy-related fields that apply to the physical science and engineering communities...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRPN
VRPN (Virtual-Reality Peripheral Network) is a device-independent, network-based interface for accessing virtual reality peripherals in VR applications. It was originally designed and implemented by Russell M. Taylor II at the Department of Computer Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. VRPN was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca%20Incurvati
Luca Incurvati is a logician and philosopher, currently an Associate Professor at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam. Incurvati's research areas include set theory, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, and metaethics. In set theory and philosophy of maths, Incurvati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Chen%20%28businessman%29
Paul Chen is a Canadian entrepreneur based in Toronto, founder of two technology companies, FloNetwork and Fortiva. Chen has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto. In his early career, he held senior development positions with IBM, Honeywell and Bell-Northern Research....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi%20Leonard
Naomi Ehrich Leonard is the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. She is the director of the Princeton Council on Science and Technology and an associated faculty member in the Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, and the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyting%20field
A Heyting field is one of the inequivalent ways in constructive mathematics to capture the classical notion of a field. It is essentially a field with an apartness relation. Definition A commutative ring is a Heyting field if ¬, either or is invertible for every , and each noninvertible element is zero. The first tw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20J.%20Mooney
David James Mooney (born November 1, 1964) is Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is also a founding core faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. Research Born in Madison, Wisconsin, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly%20V.%20Oleynik
Anatoly Vasilievich Oleynik, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nizhni Novgorod. Currently serving as the scientific supervisor for the photochemistry lab as well as the v-rector for the University for scientific research at University of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia. Dr. Oleynik graduated from Gorky State Univer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Kuntzmann
Jean Kuntzmann (1 June 1912 – 18 December 1992) was a French mathematician, known for his works in applied mathematics and computer science, pushing and developing both fields at a very early time. Kuntzmann earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Paris under supervision of Georges Valiron (thesis: ). ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trion%20%28physics%29
A trion is a localized excitation which consists of three charged particles. A negative trion consists of two electrons and one hole and a positive trion consists of two holes and one electron. The trion itself is a quasiparticle and is somewhat similar to an exciton, which is a complex of one electron and one hole. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDD-AGE
In biochemistry and molecular biology, SDD-AGE is short for Semi-Denaturating Detergent Agarose Gel Electrophoresis. This is a method for detecting and characterizing large protein polymers which are stable in 2% SDS at room temperature, unlike most large protein complexes. This method is very useful for studying prion...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwan-ichi%20Terazawa
was a Japanese mathematician and administrator. Terazawa was born in Yonezawa, graduated from the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1908 following the study of physics, and earned his D.Sc. degree in 1917. His career at the Imperial University of Tokyo lasted from 1918 to his retirement in 1949 where he was professor of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auerbach%27s%20lemma
In mathematics, Auerbach's lemma, named after Herman Auerbach, is a theorem in functional analysis which asserts that a certain property of Euclidean spaces holds for general finite-dimensional normed vector spaces. Statement Let (V, ||·||) be an n-dimensional normed vector space. Then there exists a basis {e1, ..., ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khabibullin%27s%20conjecture%20on%20integral%20inequalities
Khabibullin's conjecture is a conjecture in mathematics related to Paley's problem for plurisubharmonic functions and to various extremal problems in the theory of entire functions of several variables. The conjecture was named after its proposer, B. N. Khabibullin. There are three versions of the conjecture, one in t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammed%20K.%20Abubakar
Muhammed K. Abubakar (born 19 October 1959) was appointed Nigerian Minister of Science and Technology on 6 April 2010, when acting president Goodluck Jonathan announced his new cabinet. Abubakar was born on 19 October 1959 at Zuru in Kebbi State. He studied biochemistry at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where he earn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale%E2%80%93Shapley%20algorithm
In mathematics, economics, and computer science, the Gale–Shapley algorithm (also known as the deferred acceptance algorithm or propose-and-reject algorithm) is an algorithm for finding a solution to the stable matching problem, named for David Gale and Lloyd Shapley. It takes polynomial time, and the time is linear in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadhams
Wadhams is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Dick Wadhams (born 1955), Republican political consultant Edgar Philip Prindle Wadhams, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg Peter Wadhams, professor of Ocean Physics, Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group in the University of Cambr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20J.%20Lippard
Stephen James Lippard (born October 12, 1940) is the Arthur Amos Noyes Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is considered one of the founders of bioinorganic chemistry, studying the interactions of nonliving substances such as metals with biological systems. He is also consi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaciones%20peligrosas
Relaciones peligrosas (English: Dangerous Affairs), originally known as Física o Química (Physics or Chemistry), is an American Spanish-language telenovela produced by Telemundo Studios, Miami. It is an adaptation of the Spanish television series Física o Química. Starring Sandra Echeverría, Gabriel Coronel, Maritza Bu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaowei%20Zhuang
Xiaowei Zhuang (; born January 1972) is a Chinese-American biophysicist who is the David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Professor of Physics at Harvard University, and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is best known for her work in the deve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%20Gecko
In robotics and mechanical engineering, on November 15, 2008, China's Technology Daily reported Dr. Li Hiu Yeung and his research group of the New Concept Aircraft (ZHUHAI) Co., Ltd. had recently successfully developed the Mechanical Gecko named "Speedy Freelander". The "Speedy Freelander" is a new intelligent robot w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20cone%20%28biology%29
Double cones (DCs), known as twin cones when the two members are the same, are two cone cells (colour detecting photoreceptors) joined together that may also be coupled optically/electrically. They are the most common type of cone cells in fish, reptiles, birds, and monotremes such as the platypus and are present in mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathesis
Mathesis may refer to 454 Mathesis, an asteroid discovered in 1900 Mathesis (journal), a Belgian mathematics journal founded in 1881 Mathesis (philosophy), the science of establishing a systematic order for things according to Michel Foucault Mathesis (society), an Italian association of mathematics teachers Mathesis u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Leo
Karl Leo (born 10 July 1960 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) is a German physicist. Career Leo studied physics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and obtained the Diplomphysiker degree with a thesis on solar cells under supervision of Adolf Goetzberger at the Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bateman%20function
In mathematics, the Bateman function (or k-function) is a special case of the confluent hypergeometric function studied by Harry Bateman(1931). Bateman defined it by Bateman discovered this function, when Theodore von Kármán asked for the solution of the following differential equation which appeared in the theory o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto%20function
In mathematics, the Toronto function T(m,n,r) is a modification of the confluent hypergeometric function defined by , Weisstein, as Later, Heatley (1964) recomputed to 12 decimals the table of the M(R)-function, and gave some corrections of the original tables. The table was also extended from x = 4 to x = 16 (Heatley...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren%20H.%20Rieseberg
Loren H. Rieseberg (born 1961) is a Canadian-American botanist. Born in Alberta, Canada, his family moved to the US. He graduated from Washington State University with a Ph.D. in 1987. He is a Professor of Botany at the University of British Columbia and a Distinguished Professor of Biology at Indiana University, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Rosenzweig
Amy C. Rosenzweig is a professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences at Northwestern University. She was born in 1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her current research interests include structural biology and bioinorganic chemistry, metal uptake and transport, oxygen activation by metalloenzymes, and characterizatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20L.%20Biggs
Norman Linstead Biggs (born 2 January 1941) is a leading British mathematician focusing on discrete mathematics and in particular algebraic combinatorics. Education Biggs was educated at Harrow County Grammar School and then studied mathematics at Selwyn College, Cambridge. In 1962, Biggs gained first-class honours in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronecker%20sum%20of%20discrete%20Laplacians
In mathematics, the Kronecker sum of discrete Laplacians, named after Leopold Kronecker, is a discrete version of the separation of variables for the continuous Laplacian in a rectangular cuboid domain. General form of the Kronecker sum of discrete Laplacians In a general situation of the separation of variables in t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuovo%20Cimento
Nuovo Cimento is a series of peer-reviewed scientific journals of physics. The series was first established in 1855, when Carlo Matteucci and Raffaele Piria started publishing Il Nuovo Cimento as the continuation of Il Cimento, which they established in 1844. In 1897, it became the official journal of the Italian Physi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N50%2C%20L50%2C%20and%20related%20statistics
In computational biology, N50 and L50 are statistics of a set of contig or scaffold lengths. The N50 is similar to a mean or median of lengths, but has greater weight given to the longer contigs. It is used widely in genome assembly, especially in reference to contig lengths within a draft assembly. There are also t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20multimodal%20optimization
In applied mathematics, multimodal optimization deals with optimization tasks that involve finding all or most of the multiple (at least locally optimal) solutions of a problem, as opposed to a single best solution. Evolutionary multimodal optimization is a branch of evolutionary computation, which is closely related t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrees%20of%20freedom%20%28physics%20and%20chemistry%29
In physics and chemistry, a degree of freedom is an independent physical parameter in the formal description of the state of a physical system. The set of all states of a system is known as the system's phase space, and the degrees of freedom of the system are the dimensions of the phase space. The location of a parti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20%28physics%29
In physics, a field is a physical quantity, represented by a scalar, vector, or tensor, that has a value for each point in space and time. For example, on a weather map, the surface temperature is described by assigning a number to each point on the map; the temperature can be considered at a certain point in time or o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20C.%20Mow
Van C. Mow (; born January 10, 1939) is a Chinese-born-American bioengineer, known as one of the earliest researchers in the field of biomechanics. Van C. Mow has published over 315 full-length peer-reviewed, archival papers and book chapters, has delivered over 450 podium presentations at bioengineering meetings, and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20function
In mathematics, especially real analysis, a flat function is a smooth function all of whose derivatives vanish at a given point . The flat functions are, in some sense, the antitheses of the analytic functions. An analytic function is given by a convergent power series close to some point : In the case of a flat fun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Chyba
Christopher F. Chyba is an American astrobiologist, and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1982, and studied mathematical physics at the University of Cambridge as a Marshall Scholar. He then received...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Brito
José Brito (born 19 March 1944) is a Cape Verdean politician. Biography Brito was born in Dakar, Senegal (then a French colony) to Cape Verdean parents. Later in his years, he moved to Cape Verde. Brito holds a bachelor of science in mathematics and master of sciences in physics and chemistry at the University of Ab...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic%20exchange%20models%20of%20markets
Kinetic exchange models are multi-agent dynamic models inspired by the statistical physics of energy distribution, which try to explain the robust and universal features of income/wealth distributions. Understanding the distributions of income and wealth in an economy has been a classic problem in economics for more t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro%20Space%20Center%20%28Russia%29
This enclave of scientific research is officially known as Astro Space Center of PN Lebedev Physics Institute, (ASC LPI, ) and is under the purview of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Generally speaking, the space center's mission focuses on astrophysics, which includes cosmology. The emphasis is on accomplishing b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happer
Happer may refer to: People William Happer (born 1939), U.S. physicist, specializing in atomic and atmospheric physics William Murray Happer (born 1972), U.S. pro-wrestler Felix Happer, the character played by Burt Lancaster in the 1983 film Local Hero. Science and technology 7345 Happer, a Mars-crossing asteroi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hywel%20Davies%20%28doctor%29
David Hywel Davies (16 August 1924 – December 2016) was a Welsh cardiologist and writer. He wrote extensively on a range of medical and scientific subjects. Career Born in Swansea, Wales in 1924, Davies attended Swansea Grammar School (now known as Bishop Gore School) and gained a Meyricke Exhibition in chemistry at ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezdek
Bezdek may refer to: People Hugo Bezdek, a Czech-American sports figure Károly Bezdek, a professor of mathematics at the University of Calgary Pavel Bezdek, a Czech actor and stunt performer Rudolf Bezděk, a Czech boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. Other 23199 Bezdek a main belt asteroid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Treisman
Philip Uri Treisman is an American mathematician and mathematics educator. He is the Director of the Charles A. Dana Center, and is a Professor of Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin. He is credited with pioneering the Emerging Scholars Program (ESP), aimed at helping students from underprivileged backgr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave%20enhanced%20electrochemistry
Microwave radiation was applied in electrochemical methods in 1998 when Frank Marken and Richard G. Compton in Oxford placed a piece of platinum wire inside a microwave cavity in small electrochemical cell. References Microwave chemistry Photoelectrochemistry 1998 introductions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Zerner
Michael Charles Zerner (January 1, 1940 – February 2, 2000) was an American theoretical chemist, professor at the University of Guelph from 1970 to 1981 and University of Florida from 1981 to 2000. Zerner earned his Ph.D. under Martin Gouterman at Harvard, working with the spectroscopy of porphyrins. He conceived and w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Architectural%20Support%20for%20Programming%20Languages%20and%20Operating%20Systems
The International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) is an annual interdisciplinary computer science conference organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Reflecting its focus, sponsorship of the conference is made up of 50% by the ACM's Specia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marci
Marci may refer to: 3791 Marci, a main belt asteroid named after Jan Marek Marci Marci (crater), a lunar crater named after Jan Marek Marci Mars Color Imager (MARCI), camera built for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Marci Beaucoup, a studio album by American hip hop artist Roc Marciano Biology Odetta marci, a speci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazzucato
Mazzucato is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alberto Mazzucato, Italian musician Anna Mazzucato, professor of mathematics Augusto Mazzucato, Italian soccer player Carla Carli Mazzucato, Italian artist Francesca Mazzucato, Italian writer and translator Giovanni Mazzucato (1787-1814), Italian b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C5%82owski
Michałowski (feminine: Michałowska, plural: Michałowscy) is a Polish surname. It may refer to: Aleksander Michałowski (1851-1938), Polish pianist, pedagogue and composer Kazimierz Michałowski (1901–1981), Polish archaeologist and Egyptologist, founder of Nubiology Mark Michalowski (born 1963), the editor of Shout Piot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Dickinson%20%28biologist%29
Michael H. Dickinson (born 1963) is an American fly bioengineer and neuroscientist, and Zarem Professor of Biology and Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology. He studies Drosophila flight control systems and sensory processing and was dubbed the Fly Guy by The Scientist. Early life and education Dick...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyasaka
Miyasaka (written: 宮坂 or 宮阪) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: , Japanese actress, model, dancer and beauty pageant winner , Japanese manga artist , Japanese footballer , Japanese astronomer , Japanese engineer in electrochemistry See also 3555 Miyasaka, a main-belt asteroid Japanese-la...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%20tetrakis%28pentafluorophenyl%29borate
Lithium tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate is the lithium salt of the weakly coordinating anion (B(C6F5)4)−. Because of its weakly coordinating abilities, lithium tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate makes it commercially valuable in the salt form in the catalyst composition for olefin polymerization reactions and in ele...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritional%20neuroscience
Nutritional neuroscience is the scientific discipline that studies the effects various components of the diet such as minerals, vitamins, protein, carbohydrates, fats, dietary supplements, synthetic hormones, and food additives have on neurochemistry, neurobiology, behavior, and cognition. Recent research on nutrition...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricolia%20capensis
Tricolia capensis, common name the pheasant shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae. Description The size of the shell varies between 5 mm and 15 mm. Distribution This marine species occurs off Namibia, South Africa and Mozambique. References Robertson, R. 1985. A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricolia%20neritina
Tricolia neritina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae. Description Distribution This marine species occurs off Namibia, South Africa and Mozambique. References Robertson, R. 1985. Archaeogastropod biology and the systematics of the genus Tricolia (Trochacea: Tricoliid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pignedoli
Pignedoli may refer to: 22263 Pignedoli, minor aster discovered by Antonio Pignedoli, a mathematics professor at the Military Academy of Modena People Sabrina Pignedoli (born 1983), Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament since 2019 Sergio Pignedoli (1910–1980), a prominent Italian Cardinal of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servet
Servet is the Turkish and Albanian (name) People named Servet include: Given name Ethem Servet Boral (1876–1956?), Ottoman officer Servet Coşkun (born 1990), Turkish sport wrestler Servet Çetin (born 1981), Turkish footballer Servet A. Duran, Turkish-American Materials Science professor Servet Kocakaya (born 1973), ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Luttge
Andreas Lüttge is Professor of Earth Science and Professor of Chemistry at Rice University in Houston, Texas (USA). He was also director of the National Corrosion Center (NCC) until 2010. The primary concerns of his research are surface chemical processes at minerals and rocks from low-temperature conditions up to the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%20sphere
In mathematics, a unit sphere is simply a sphere of radius one around a given center. More generally, it is the set of points of distance 1 from a fixed central point, where different norms can be used as general notions of "distance". A unit ball is the closed set of points of distance less than or equal to 1 from a f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420%20%28number%29
420 (four hundred [and] twenty) is the natural number following 419 and preceding 421. In mathematics 420 is: the sum of four consecutive primes (). the sum of the first twenty positive even numbers. a zero of the Mertens function and is sparsely totient. a pronic number. the smallest number divisible by the numbers 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection%20theorem
In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, a selection theorem is a theorem that guarantees the existence of a single-valued selection function from a given set-valued map. There are various selection theorems, and they are important in the theories of differential inclusions, optimal control, and mathematical ec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss%20of%20heterogeneity
Loss of heterogeneity (not to be confused with loss of heterozygosity) may be a disappearance of heterogeneity of Ion channels - see Heterogeneity#Biology Genetic variation in a species - see Ecological extinction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cline
Cline may refer to: Science Cline (biology), a measurable gradient in a single trait in a species across its geographical range Cline (hydrology), a fluid layer with a property that varies Cline (mathematics) or generalised circle, a circle or straight line in inverse geometry Cline of instantiation, a concept in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cline%20%28hydrology%29
In hydrology and related studies, a cline () is a comparatively thin, typically horizontal layer within a fluid, in which a property of the fluid varies greatly over a relatively short vertical distance. Such clines and the respectively varying properties include: Chemocline - chemistry Halocline - salinity Lysocl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Krzy%C5%BCanowski
Adrian Krzyżanowski (born 8 September 1788 in Dębowo - died 21 August 1852 in Warsaw) was a Polish mathematician and translator of German literature. Life From 1805 to 1810 he taught in a school in Warsaw, then was a professor of mathematics in Radzyń and Płock before studying from 1817 to 1820 in Paris. He was also a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%20Pate
Brooks H. Pate is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.S. in Chemistry in 1987, and from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in 1992. He was a NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at NIST (Gaithersburg, MD) from 1992 to 1993. He heads ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine%20Seydoux
Geraldine C. Seydoux (born 1964 in Paris, France) is a Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics (1995–present), the Huntington Sheldon Professor in Medical Discovery (2015–present), and the Vice Dean for Basic Research (2017–present) at Johns Hopkins University. She is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Invest...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoneurobiology
Paleoneurobiology is the study of brain evolution by analysis of brain endocasts to determine endocranial traits and volumes. Considered a subdivision of neuroscience, paleoneurobiology combines techniques from other fields of study including paleontology and archaeology. It reveals specific insight concerning human e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrabody%20%28protein%29
In molecular biology, an intrabody (from intracellular and antibody) is an antibody that works within the cell to bind to an intracellular protein. Due to the lack of a reliable mechanism for bringing antibodies into a living cell from the extracellular environment, this typically requires the expression of the antibo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITR
ITR may refer to Income tax return (India) Indiana Toll Road International Tax Review (ITR) Internet talk radio Inverted terminal repeat (molecular biology) i-Tree Tools software suite from the .itr file extension Ittar, a type of perfume
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORM%20%28symbolic%20manipulation%20system%29
FORM is a symbolic manipulation system. It reads text files containing definitions of mathematical expressions as well as statements that tell it how to manipulate these expressions. Its original author is Jos Vermaseren of Nikhef, the Dutch institute for subatomic physics. It is widely used in the theoretical particle...