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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%20Donald%20Shields | Loran Donald Shields (born September 18, 1936) is an American academic. He was the president of California State University, Fullerton from 1971 to 1980, and of Southern Methodist University from 1980 to 1986.
Biography
Loran Donald Shields was born on September 18, 1936, in San Diego, California. He received a B.A. i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertil%20Gustafsson | Bertil Gustafsson (born 1939) is a Swedish applied mathematician and numerical analyst. He is currently a Professor emeritus in the Department of Information Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden. Gustafsson is known for his work in numerical methods for time-dependent partial differential equations and its applicat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore%20Sidot | Théodore Sidot was a French chemist who, in 1866, discovered the phosphorescence of zinc sulphide. He worked at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris, as chemistry preparator. He was injured in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War at the Fort de Nogent. He received the 1883 Prix Trémont of the Académie des Sciences.
References
19th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echoes%20of%20Life | Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History is a book by Susan M. Gaines, Geoffrey Eglinton, and Jurgen Rullkotter concerning organic chemistry and, in particular, the links between the living and the material Earth. It was published by Oxford University Press in 2008.
Synopsis
Echoes of Life chro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric%20Villani | Cédric Patrice Thierry Villani (; born 5 October 1973) is a French politician and mathematician working primarily on partial differential equations, Riemannian geometry and mathematical physics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010, and he was the director of Sorbonne University's Institut Henri Poincaré from 2009 t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Bloch%20oscillations | In physics, a Super Bloch oscillation describes a certain type of motion of a particle in a lattice potential under external periodic driving. The term super refers to the fact that the amplitude in position space of such an oscillation is several orders of magnitude larger than for 'normal' Bloch oscillations.
Bloch ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural%20Akbulut | Ural Akbulut (born 1945) is a professor of chemistry at METU. He had been METU's president from 2002 to 2008. During his presidency, he was involved in a debate with Melih Gökçek regarding the water problem of Ankara.
He coined the word e-memorandum to describe military statements published on the Turkish Armed Forces... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, Watson's lemma, proved by G. N. Watson (1918, p. 133), has significant application within the theory on the asymptotic behavior of integrals.
Statement of the lemma
Let be fixed. Assume , where has an infinite number of derivatives in the neighborhood of , with , and .
Suppose, in addition, eit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adetoye%20Oyetola%20Sode | Adetoye Oyetola Sode is a retired Rear Admiral of the Nigerian Navy and the Military Administrator of Oyo State, Nigeria from December 1993 to September 1994 during the military regime of General Sani Abacha.
Sode gained a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
He became a member of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames%20School%20of%20Mines | The Thames School of Mines is a nationally significant former school of mining in Thames, New Zealand. It is listed as a Category 1 historic building by Heritage New Zealand.
Purpose
As stated in the 1901 Syllabus, the Thames School of Mines taught various subjects. The bulk of which directly related to mining. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulf%20Grenander | Ulf Grenander (23 July 1923 – 12 May 2016) was a Swedish statistician and professor of applied mathematics at Brown University.
His early research was in probability theory, stochastic processes, time series analysis, and statistical theory (particularly the order-constrained estimation of cumulative distribution func... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah%20Krubitzer | Leah Krubitzer is an American neuroscientist, Professor of Psychology at University of California, Davis, and head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Neurobiology. Her research interests center on how complex brains in mammals (e.g., humans) evolve from simpler forms. To do this, she focuses on anatomical connections an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9-Carlos%20Mari%C3%A1tegui | José-Carlos Mariátegui is a scientist, writer, curator and scholar on culture, new media and technology. Born in 1975, he is the son of Peruvian psychiatrist Javier Mariategui and the grandson of Jose Carlos Mariategui, the most influential Latin American Marxist thinker of the 20th century. He studied Mathematics and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinay%20V.%20Deodhar | Vinay Vithal Deodhar (3 December 1948 – 18 January 2015) was a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at Indiana University. He worked in the area of algebraic groups and representation theory.
Early life
Deodhar was born in Mumbai (Bombay), India in 1948.
Career
Deodhar earned his Ph.D. from the Univers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Arkansas%20Chemistry%20Building | The Chemistry Building at the University of Arkansas is a building on the University's campus in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
History
Although there was already a chemistry building on campus, by 1925 it had become too small. There were plans to bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid-%C3%89tienne%20Brunet | Wilfrid-Étienne Brunet (October 21, 1832 – March 7, 1899) was a Canadian pharmacist and the founder of the company Brunet.
Born in Quebec City, Lower Canada, the son of Jean-Olivier Brunet and Cécile-Adélaide Lagueux, Brunet studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1841 to 1850. From 1850 to 1855, he studied chem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Joshua%20Weiss | Joseph Joshua Weiss (J J Weiss) (30 August 1905 – 9 April 1972) was a Jewish-Austrian chemist and Professor at the Newcastle University. He was a pioneer in the field of radiation chemistry and photochemistry.
Education and career
Weiss was born in 1905 in Austria. He had obtained a Dipl.Ing. degree in the Technisc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd%20B%C3%BCchner | Bernd Büchner (born 26 May 1961) is, since 2003, Director of the Institute for Solid State Research, IFW Dresden and Professor for Experimental Physics at the Dresden University of Technology. Büchner is known for contributions to the field of high-temperature superconductivity,
recent work on iron-based superconductor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Mott%20%28statistician%29 | Richard Mott is Weldon Professor of Computational and Statistical Genetics in the research department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London. He was previously at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics and a Professor by Research at Oxford University.
He has worked on physical mapping with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Marletta | Michael A. Marletta is an American biochemist. He was born in Rochester, New York, the son of Italian immigrants. He graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 1973 with an A.B. degree in biology and chemistry, and from the University of California, San Francisco in 1978 with a Ph.D. degree in pharm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Physics%20Edward%20Appleton%20Medal%20and%20Prize | The Edward Appleton Medal and Prize is awarded by the Institute of Physics for distinguished research in environmental, earth or atmospheric physics. Originally named after Charles Chree, the British physicist and former President of the Physical Society of London, it was renamed in 2008 to commemorate Edward Victor A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Passage%20to%20Infinity | A Passage to Infinity: Medieval Indian Mathematics from Kerala and Its Impact is a 2009 book by George Gheverghese Joseph chronicling the social and mathematical origins of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. The book discusses the highlights of the achievements of Kerala school and also analyses the hypot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homothetic%20preferences | In consumer theory, a consumer's preferences are called homothetic if they can be represented by a utility function which is homogeneous of degree 1. For example, in an economy with two goods , homothetic preferences can be represented by a utility function that has the following property: for every :
In mathematics,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20Wijesundera | Stanley Wijesundera was a Sri Lankan academic. A professor of Chemistry, he was the first vice chancellor of the University of Colombo from 1979 to 1989 and was the chairman of the Association of Commonwealth Universities from 1983 to 1984.
He was born in Kandy, and educated at Trinity College, Dharmaraja College and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedek%20J%C3%A1vor | Benedek Jávor (born 2 July 1972) is a Hungarian politician and a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 to 2019. He is a member of Dialogue for Hungary, part of the European Green Party.
Biography
He finished his secondary studies at the Benedictine High School of Pannonhalma. He graduated in biology... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Felix%20Marchand | Richard Felix Marchand (August 25, 1813, Berlin – August 2, 1850, Halle an der Saale) was a German chemist. His son was the physician Felix Jacob Marchand (1846–1928).
In 1840, Marchand was appointed professor at the University of Berlin. In 1843, he accepted an appointment as associate professor of chemistry at the U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guofang%20Wei | Guofang Wei is a mathematician in the field of differential geometry. She is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Education
Wei earned a doctorate in mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1989, under the supervision of Detlef Gromoll. Her dissertation produced funda... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%20of%20Dimes%20Prize%20in%20Developmental%20Biology | The March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology is awarded once a year by the March of Dimes. It carries a $150,000 award "to scientific leaders who have pioneered research to advance our understanding of prenatal development and pregnancy".
Laureates
Source: March of Dimes
2022-23 Patrica Hunt
2021 Alan W. Flake... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness%20%28morphology%29 | In biology, robustness is used to describe a taxon with a stronger and heavier build (morphology) when compared to a related gracile taxon. The terms are used in contrast to one another. The term is used by physical anthropologists and paleoanthropologists to refer to a big-boned and muscular body.
For example, member... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, robustness is the ability of a computer system to cope with errors during execution and cope with erroneous input. Robustness can encompass many areas of computer science, such as robust programming, robust machine learning, and Robust Security Network. Formal techniques, such as fuzz testing, are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20H.%20Myers | John H. Myers (born July 2, 1945) is an American businessman.
Education and early life
Myers was raised in Richmond Hill, Queens by Jack & Edna (née Stroudhoff) Myers. He is also the brother of David Myers. He graduated from Wagner College with a bachelor's degree in Mathematics in 1967. He then attended and graduated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGAS | PGAS may refer to:
Partitioned global address space, a parallel programming model in computer science
Provisional Government of Autonomous Siberia, an ephemeral government in Siberia in 1918
Pertamina Gas Negara, Indonesia Stock Exchange symbol PGAS
Pegatron Corporation, Luxembourg Stock Exchange symbol PGAS
Poly... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Luebbers | Dr. Raymond J. Luebbers (born 2 September 1946) was Professor of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University and Ohio University, a Research Scientist at the Lockheed Martin Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, CA and founder of Remcom, Inc.
Education and academic career
Luebbers received the B.S.E.E. fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch%2C%20physics%20and%20gestures | In human–computer interaction, MPG stands for "multi-touch, physics and gestures", referencing a common method of interacting with computers and various electronic devices. The most notable MPG device is the Apple Inc iPhone, which makes use of many multi-touch gestures to operate various functions of the phone and app... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20fragment%20library | Protein backbone fragment libraries have been used successfully in a variety of structural biology applications, including homology modeling, de novo structure prediction, and structure determination. By reducing the complexity of the search space, these fragment libraries enable more rapid search of conformational spa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilah%20Leder | Gilah Chaja Leder (born 1941) is an adjunct professor at Monash University and a professor emerita at La Trobe University. Her research interests are in mathematics education, gender, affect, and exceptionality. Leder was the 2009 recipient of the Felix Klein Medal.
Early life
She was born in 1941, during the II Worl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/368th%20Training%20Squadron | The 368th Training Squadron is a United States Air Force ground training unit, located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. The squadron reports to the 782d Training Group, part of the 82d Training Wing, at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas and conducts training for airmen in civil engineering, (including Engineering Assistant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prabodh%20Chandra%20Goswami | Prabodh Chandra Goswami (1911–1984) was an Indian school teacher who worked in Jenkins School, Cooch Behar from 1951 to 1971. He was one of the most competent Mathematics teachers in the school during that period and also taught other subjects such as English, Bengali and Sanskrit.
He graduated with Mathematics in 193... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLab | The nLab is a wiki for research-level notes, expositions and collaborative work, including original research, in mathematics, physics, and philosophy, with a focus on methods from type theory, category theory, and homotopy theory. The nLab espouses the "n-point of view" (a deliberate pun on Wikipedia's "neutral point o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunct%20matrix | In mathematics, a logical matrix may be described as d-disjunct and/or d-separable. These concepts play a pivotal role in the mathematical area of non-adaptive group testing.
In the mathematical literature, d-disjunct matrices may also be called super-imposed codes or d-cover-free families.
According to Chen and Hwan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewart%20Jones | Sir Ewart Ray Herbert Jones FRS (16 March 1911 – 7 May 2002) was a Welsh organic chemist and academic administrator, whose fields of expertise led him to discoveries into the chemistry of natural products, mainly steroids, terpenes and vitamins. His work also led to the creation of the Jones oxidation.
Personal life
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20McDonald%20%28economist%29 | James B. McDonald (born c. 1942) is the Clayne L. Pope Professor of Economics at Brigham Young University, specializing in econometrics. He received his B.S. in Mathematics from Utah State University in 1964; his M.S. in Mathematics from Utah State University in 1966; and his Ph.D. in Economics from Purdue University ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vere%20Chappell | Vere Claiborne Chappell ( March 22, 1930 – January 28, 2019) was an American philosopher and scholar specializing in early modern philosophy, history of philosophy, philosophy of mind and action, and metaphysics.
Chappell was born in Rochester, New York, in 1930, receiving his PhD from Yale University in 1958.
In 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahiko%20Yamanouchi | was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for group theory in quantum mechanics first proposed by Yamanouchi in Japan.
Yamanouchi was born in Kanagawa, graduated in physics from the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1926. From 1926 to 1927 he was a research associate at the Imperial University of Tokyo. From 1927 to 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20studies%20on%20Turkish%20people | Population genetics research has been conducted on the ancestry of the modern Turkish people (not to be confused with Turkic peoples) in Turkey. Such studies are relevant for the demographic history of the population as well as health reasons, such as population specific diseases. Some studies have sought to determine ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Tunde%20Bajah | Samuel Babatunde Emiko Bajah (24 April 1934 – 23 February 2008) was science teacher and author. He co-wrote Chemistry: A New Certificate Approach with Arthur Godman.
Personal life
Bajah was born on April 24, 1934, in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria to Joseph Bajah, a clerk with United Africa Company (UAC) in Burutu, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imar%20%28disambiguation%29 | Imar or IMAR may refer to:
Emar, an ancient Amorite city located in modern-day Syria
Ímar, a 9th-century Norse king
Ímar (band), a musical group from the British Isles
Ímar of Limerick, Viking ruler
Imar the Servitor, 1914 American film
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China
Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Campbell%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201910%29 | John Campbell (7 March 1910 – 6 July 1999) was a Scottish professional footballer who scored 116 goals from 205 games in the Football League playing as a forward for Leicester City and Lincoln City.
Career
Campbell was born in Stevenston, Ayrshire. He gave up his chemistry studies to join English First Division club L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlef%20Weigel | Detlef Weigel (born 1961 in Lower Saxony, Germany) is a German American scientist working at the interface of developmental and evolutionary biology.
Education
Weigel was an undergraduate in biology and chemistry at the universities of Bielefeld and Cologne. In 1986, he graduated with a Diploma in biology for this th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Grigg | Ronald Ernest Grigg FRS (1 September 1935 - 10 January 2021) was a British chemist and Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Leeds.
Education
Prior to university, Grigg worked at Glaxo Laboratories from 1952 to 1960 whilst studying part-time for his first degree. He received his PhD from the University ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stig%20Hagstr%C3%B6m | Stig B. Hagström (1932–2011) was a Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University.
Career
He was trained at Uppsala University under the Nobel Laureate Kai Siegbahn. He received his B.Sc. (filosofie kandidat) in 1957, his M.Sc. (filosofie magister) in 1958, his licentiate (filosofie lic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20M.%20Reddy | Christopher Michael Reddy (born 1969) is a Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry.
Reddy's research spans from the source, fate and transport of combustion-derived materials, PCBs, and DDT to the environmental chemistry of oil spills... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga%20Lepeshinskaya%20%28biologist%29 | Olga Borisovna Lepeshinskaya () born as Protopopova () (August 18, 1871 – October 2, 1963), was a Soviet pseudo-scientist, who advanced her career as a biologist in the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences through fraudulent claims and personal ties with Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Trofim Lysenko and Alexander Oparin. S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Strausfeld | Nicholas James Strausfeld FRS (b. 1942) is Regents Professor at the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Arizona, Tucson and Director, Center for Insect Science, University of Arizona.
He received a B.Sc. and Ph.D. at University College, London.
Awards
1994 Guggenheim Fellow
1995 MacArthur Fellows Program... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBE%20%28disambiguation%29 | RBE is relative biological effectiveness, a health physics concept.
RBE may also refer to:
Rock County Airport, Nebraska, United States: FAA LID code RBE
Ratanakiri Airport, Cambodia: IATA code RBE
Resource-Based Economy
See also
RBE2, a multirole radar developed during the 90s for the French Rafale combat aircraft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgrade%20University%20Library | The University Library Svetozar Marković () is the main library in the University of Belgrade system, named after Svetozar Marković, a Serbian political activist in the 19th century. It is located on King Alexander Boulevard, close to the Faculty of Law and adjacent to the Faculties of Civil Engineering, Electrical E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20metallurgy | Chemical metallurgy is the science of obtaining metals from their concentrates, semi products, recycled bodies and solutions, and of considering reactions of metals with an approach of disciplines belonging to chemistry. As such, it involves reactivity of metals and it is especially concerned with the reduction and oxi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20F.%20Walker | William F. Walker (December 1, 1937 – August 7, 2007) was the President of Auburn University from 2001 to 2004.
Biography
William F. Walker was born on December 1, 1937, in Sherman, Texas. He graduated with a B.A. and an M.A. in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He later got his Ph.D. in me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundaraja%20Sitharama%20Iyengar | Sundaraja Sitharama Iyengar (born August 26, 1947) is an Indian-born American computer scientist and the Distinguished University Professor, Ryder Professor and Director of Computer Science at Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA. He also founded and directs the Robotics Research Laboratory at Louisian... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AITR | AITR may refer to:
Activation-Inducible TNFR family Receptor, also known as TNFRSF18
Acropolis Institute of Technology and Research
The Academy of Information Technology and Robotics at Spruce Creek High School
Annual Income Tax Return |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens%20Franke | Jens Franke (born 28 June 1964) is a German mathematician. He has held a chair at the University of Bonn's Hausdorff Center for Mathematics since 1992. Franke's research has covered various problems of number theory, algebraic geometry and analysis on locally symmetric spaces.
Franke attended the University of Jena, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycled%20fuel | Recycled fuel is fuel made of residues as produced by using a primary fuel.
For example, pollution in the atmosphere, produced by petrol burning or other sources, can be extracted to produce fuel through an artificial photosynthesis based in nanotechnology, which helps to mitigate pollution, climate change and energ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoEDAL%20experiment | MoEDAL (Monopole and Exotics Detector at the LHC) is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Experiment
MoEDAL shares the cavern at Point 8 with LHCb, and its prime goal is to directly search for the magnetic monopole (MM) or dyon and other highly ionizing stable massive particles (SMPs) and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Daniels | Bruce Daniels is an American hydroclimatologist, business executive and computer programmer. He is known in Silicon Valley as one of the pioneers of the personal computer and user-friendly interfaces.
Daniels earned his Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Cruz after receiving an Sc.B. and S.M. in computer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Block | Barbara Block is an American marine biologist and Charles & Elizabeth Prothro Professor of Biology in Marine Sciences at the Stanford University Hopkins Marine Station and a co-director of Stanford University's Tuna Research and Conservation Center, with the Monterey Bay Aquarium. She has published numerous bodies of w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Daniel%20%28biologist%29 | Thomas Louis Daniel (born 1954) is an American biologist, Joan and Richard Komen Endowed Chair of Biology at University of Washington, and leads the Daniel Lab. He was the interim director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering. Since 2006, he has served on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Daniel%20Eakes | Martin Daniel Eakes is an American economic development strategist, and credit union CEO.
Eakes grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina and graduated from Davidson College, where he majored in physics and philosophy, and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an M.P.P. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Interna... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veneziano%20amplitude | In theoretical physics, the Veneziano amplitude refers to the discovery made in 1968 by Italian theoretical physicist Gabriele Veneziano that the Euler beta function, when interpreted as a scattering amplitude, has many of the features needed to explain the physical properties of strongly interacting mesons, such as sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured%20prediction | Structured prediction or structured (output) learning is an umbrella term for supervised machine learning techniques that involves predicting structured objects, rather than scalar discrete or real values.
Similar to commonly used supervised learning techniques, structured prediction models are typically trained by me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20W.%20Moffett | Mark Moffett (born 7 January 1958) is a tropical biologist who studies the ecology of tropical forest canopies and the social behavior of animals (especially ants) and humans. He is also the author of several popular science books and is noted for his macrophotography documenting ant biology.
Early life and education
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Mosley | Stephen James Mosley (born 22 June 1972) is a British Conservative Party politician and former Member of Parliament. He represented the City of Chester from 2010 to 2015.
Education
Stephen Mosley was educated at King Edward's School in Birmingham before reading Chemistry at the University of Nottingham.
Political car... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Youvan | Douglas Charles Youvan (born January 29, 1955) is an American scientist.
Biography
Youvan received an associate degree in electronics and a bachelor's degree in biology from Pittsburg State University. He received his Ph.D. degree in biophysics from UC Berkeley.
Youvan was an associate professor of chemistry at MIT, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.B.%20Chapman | A. B. Chapman may refer to:
Arthur Barclay Chapman (1908–2004) a Wisconsin animal genetics researcher
Alfred Beck Chapman (1829–1915), California real-estate attorney and investor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU%20Science%20Center | Istanbul Technical University's Science Center, located in Taskisla campus in the district of Taksim, Istanbul, is a center which encourages children to interact with exhibits. It opened in November 2007. The exhibition contains exhibits related to mechanics, electricity and magnetism, mathematics, dna, space and gener... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo%20Jahn | Dr. Alfredo Jahn Hartman (8 October 1867 – 12 July 1940) was a Venezuelan civil engineer, botanist and geographer. Jahn was a member of the Academy of History, the Academy of Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Naturalist of Venezuela and the Venezuelan Society of Natural Sciences and achieved the Order of the Liberator... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasawar%20Hayat | Tasawar Hayat (born 1 January 1969) is a Pakistani mathematician who has made pioneering research contributions to the area of mathematical fluid mechanics. He is considered one of the leading mathematicians working in Pakistan and currently is a Professor of Mathematics at the Quaid-i-Azam University.
Biography
Born ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Baker-Gabb | David John Baker-Gabb is a New Zealand and Australian ornithologist. He is best known for his work on Australian birds of prey and the birds of Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. He also served from 1993 to 1997 as director of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union.
Career
Baker-Gabb studied agriculture and th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Underwater%20Robotics%20Society | The Indian Underwater Robotics Society or IURS (registered as Intelligent Unmanned Robotics Society) is India's first and only non-profit research organisation NGO for the advancement of low-cost robotics and intelligent systems research in developing countries. IURS also imparts education in it is focus areas to impr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy%20in%20the%20medieval%20Islamic%20world | Alchemy in the medieval Islamic world refers to both traditional alchemy and early practical chemistry (the early chemical investigation of nature in general) by Muslim scholars in the medieval Islamic world. The word alchemy was derived from the Arabic word كيمياء or kīmiyāʾ and may ultimately derive from the ancient ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter%20de%20Neyn | Pieter de Neyn, or Deneyn (December 1597 – 16 March 1639) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
According to Houbraken Deneyn's father apprenticed him to a mason, where he stayed a few years but decided to study further, specifically the fields of mathematics and architecture. His parents could not pay for a prop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20subsidence | In geology and geophysics, thermal subsidence is a mechanism of subsidence in which conductive cooling of the mantle thickens the lithosphere and causes it to decrease in elevation. This is because of thermal expansion: as mantle material cools and becomes part of the mechanically rigid lithosphere, it becomes denser t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie%20Hilling | Julie Ann Hilling (born 29 April 1955) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton West from 2010 until 2015.
Background
Hilling was born in Oxford and lived there until the age of 9 when her family moved to Leighton Buzzard. She attended The Cedars School before studying Ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hadley%20%28chemist%29 | John Hadley (1731 – 5 November 1764) was an English chemist and physician.
Born in London to Henry Hadley, he was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1753.
In 1756 he was appointed the fourth Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University, the oldest continuously occupied chair of Chemistry in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20non-marine%20molluscs%20of%20Australia | This is a very incomplete list of the non-marine molluscs of the country of Australia. They are part of the invertebrate fauna of Australia.
Freshwater gastropods
The freshwater molluscs of Australia vary greatly in size, shape, biology and evolutionary history, and more than 99% of the native species occur nowhere e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20Boundaries%20%28contest%29 | No Boundaries is a national competition sponsored by USA Today and NASA. It encourages high school students to learn about careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (the STEM fields).
Students may enter individually, or as a group of up to four. Entrants create a project about a career in STEM, whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Paul%20Jacob | Jean Paul Jacob was a Brazilian electronic engineer, researcher and professor.
He received his electronic engineering degree from the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, in Brazil, and his MS and PhD degrees in Mathematics and Engineering from the University of California, at Berkeley, in 1966.
After working in Fra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20quantum%20characteristics | Quantum characteristics are phase-space trajectories that arise in the phase space formulation of quantum mechanics through the Wigner transform of Heisenberg operators of canonical coordinates and momenta. These trajectories obey the Hamilton equations in quantum form and play the role of characteristics in terms of w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketan%20Mulmuley | Ketan Mulmuley is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, and a sometime visiting professor at IIT Bombay. He specializes in theoretical computer science, especially computational complexity theory, and in recent years has been working on "geometric complexity theory", an approac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomathematics | Geomathematics (also: mathematical geosciences, mathematical geology, mathematical geophysics) is the application of mathematical methods to solve problems in geosciences, including geology and geophysics, and particularly geodynamics and seismology.
Applications
Geophysical fluid dynamics
Geophysical fluid dynamics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien%20Winter | Maximilien Winter (1871–1935) was a French philosopher of mathematics.
In 1893 Winter helped Xavier Léon to found the Revue de métaphysique et de morale. After the First World War Winter ran the Supplément of the Revue until his death in 1935.
Works
La méthode dans la philosophie des mathématiques [Method in the phil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloro%28dimethyl%20sulfide%29gold%28I%29 | Chloro(dimethyl sulfide)gold(I) is a coordination complex of gold. It is a white solid. This compound is a common entry point into gold chemistry.
Structure
As for many other gold(I) complexes, the compound adopts a nearly linear (176.9°) geometry about the central gold atom. The Au-S bond distance is 2.271(2) Å, wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%20Lagendijk | Ad Lagendijk (born 18 November 1947 in Zwanenburg) is a Dutch physicist working at the FOM-institute AMOLF in Amsterdam and at the University of Amsterdam. He is also a part-time professor at the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands.
Research
Ad Lagendijk is a physicist with a background in physical chemistry... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langworthy%20Professor | The Langworthy Professor is the holder of an endowed chair in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, UK.
History
It was founded by a bequest of £10,000 for the purpose of endowing a professorship of experimental physics by the businessman and politician E. R. Langworthy at Owens College,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wajih%20Owais | Wajih Mousa Owais () (born November 5, 1947) is a Jordanian Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research. He was appointed as Minister in February 2011. Dr. Owais was the Professor of Genetics, a researcher, Chairman of Board of Directors of King Abdullah University Hospital, and the President of Jordan Univers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Leland%20Champe | John Leland Champe (1895–1978) was an academic and archaeologist especially influential in the area of Great Plains archaeology.
Champe was born in 1895 in Elwood, Nebraska. In 1921, he earned a BA from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in mathematics. In 1924, he married Flavia Waters. Before moving to New York to e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation%20lemma | In theoretical computer science, the term isolation lemma (or isolating lemma) refers to randomized algorithms that reduce the number of solutions to a problem to one, should a solution exist.
This is achieved by constructing random constraints such that, with non-negligible probability, exactly one solution satisfies ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Hodes | Louis Hodes (June 19, 1934 – June 30, 2008) was an American mathematician, computer scientist, and cancer researcher.
Early life and computer science work
Louis Hodes got his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He got his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the Massachusetts Institut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryptic%20soy%20broth | Tryptic soy broth or Trypticase soy broth (frequently abbreviated as TSB) is used in microbiology laboratories as a culture broth to grow aerobic bacteria. It is a complex, general purpose medium that is routinely used to grow certain pathogenic bacteria, which tend to have high nutritional requirements (i.e., they are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Luckham | David Luckham is an emeritus professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he was one of the implementers of the first systems for the programming language Lisp.
He is best known as the originator of complex event processing (CEP) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis%20Fox | Phyllis Ann Fox (March 13, 1923 – May 23, 2017) was an American mathematician and computer scientist.
Early life and education
Fox was born on March 13, 1923, and raised in Colorado. She did her undergraduate studies at Wellesley College, earning a B.A. in mathematics in 1944.
From 1944 until 1946 she worked for Gen... |
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