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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20wavefunction | The universal wavefunction or the wavefunction of the universe is the wavefunction or quantum state of the entire universe. It is regarded as the basic physical entity in the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, and finds applications in quantum cosmology. It evolves deterministically according to a wave eq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20M.%20Whitesides | George McClelland Whitesides (born August 3, 1939) is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He is best known for his work in the areas of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, organometallic chemistry, molecular self-assembly, soft lithography, microfabrication, microfluidics, and nan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.%20Barry%20Cooper | S. Barry Cooper (9 October 1943 – 26 October 2015) was an English mathematician and computability theorist. He was a professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Leeds.
Early life and education
Cooper grew up in Bognor Regis and attended Chichester High School for Boys, during which time he played scrum-half for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witt%20vector | In mathematics, a Witt vector is an infinite sequence of elements of a commutative ring. Ernst Witt showed how to put a ring structure on the set of Witt vectors, in such a way that the ring of Witt vectors over the finite field of order is isomorphic to , the ring of -adic integers. They have a highly non-intuitive ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genus%20of%20a%20multiplicative%20sequence | In mathematics, a genus of a multiplicative sequence is a ring homomorphism from the ring of smooth compact manifolds up to the equivalence of bounding a smooth manifold with boundary (i.e., up to suitable cobordism) to another ring, usually the rational numbers, having the property that they are constructed from a seq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad%20Dasypodius | Conrad Dasypodius (1532 – 26 April 1600) was a professor of mathematics in Strasbourg, Alsace. He was born in Frauenfeld, Thurgau, Switzerland. His first name was also rendered as Konrad or Conradus or Cunradus, and his last name has been alternatively stated as Rauchfuss, Rauchfuß, and Hasenfratz. He was the son of P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic%20simulation | In computer science, a simulation is a computation of the execution of some appropriately modelled state-transition system. Typically this process models the complete state of the system at individual points in a discrete linear time frame, computing each state sequentially from its predecessor. Models for computer pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Jurafsky | Daniel Jurafsky is a professor of linguistics and computer science at Stanford University, and also an author. With Daniel Gildea, he is known for developing the first automatic system for semantic role labeling (SRL). He is the author of The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu (2014) and a textbook on speech a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20surface%20area | The polar surface area (PSA) or topological polar surface area (TPSA) of a molecule is defined as the surface sum over all polar atoms or molecules, primarily oxygen and nitrogen, also including their attached hydrogen atoms.
PSA is a commonly used medicinal chemistry metric for the optimization of a drug's ability to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witt%20ring | In mathematics, a Witt ring may be
A ring of Witt vectors
The Witt ring (forms), a ring structure on the Witt group of symmetric bilinear forms
See also Witt algebra, a Lie algebra. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witt%20group | In mathematics, a Witt group of a field, named after Ernst Witt, is an abelian group whose elements are represented by symmetric bilinear forms over the field.
Definition
Fix a field k of characteristic not equal to two. All vector spaces will be assumed to be finite-dimensional. We say that two spaces equipped with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinfeld%20module | In mathematics, a Drinfeld module (or elliptic module) is roughly a special kind of module over a ring of functions on a curve over a finite field, generalizing the Carlitz module. Loosely speaking, they provide a function field analogue of complex multiplication theory. A shtuka (also called F-sheaf or chtouca) is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamidala%20Ramulu | Dr. Ramulu Mamidala (M. Ramulu) is a mechanical engineering professor at University of Washington. Usually goes by the name 'Ram', or 'M.R.', he is recognized for his leadership and outstanding record in promoting collaborative education and research with industry. He is currently the director of Manufacturing Science ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%20Hall%20%28academic%29 | Lyman Hall (February 18, 1859 – August 16, 1905) was a professor and president of the Georgia School of Technology (now called the Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech). Hall's administration introduced degrees in electrical engineering and civil engineering in December 1896, textile en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20Riess | Ludwig Riess (1 December 1861 – 27 December 1928) was a German-born historian and educator, noted for his work in late 19th century Japan.
Biography
Riess was born in Deutsch-Krone, Prussia (present-day Wałcz, West Pomeranian Voivodeship), as the youngest of five children in a German Jewish family. He was proficient i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Johnsen | Peter Berghsey Johnsen (born 1950) is an American scientist, administrator and adventurer.
Education
Johnsen received his bachelor's (1974) and Ph.D. (1978) degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in zoology and continued his training as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in neurobiology... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Mauderli | Walter Mauderli DSc (March 8, 1924 – March 27, 2005) was a pioneer in the development of the field of medical physics. He earned his doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology under the instruction of notable physicists as Nobel Laureate physicist Wolfgang Pauli.
Career
Mauderli trained in the dosimetry... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonor%20F.%20Loree | Leonor F. Loree (April 23, 1858 – September 6, 1940) was an American civil engineer, lawyer, railroad executive, and founder of the American Newcomen Society.
He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in 1877, a Master of Science in 1880, a Civil Engineering degree in 1896 and a Doctor of Law in 1917, all from Rutgers ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Visualization%20Laboratory | The Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) is an interdisciplinary research lab and graduate studies program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, bringing together faculty, students and staff primarily from the Art and Computer Science departments of UIC. The primary areas of research are in computer graphics,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20J.%20Thouless | David James Thouless (; 21 September 1934 – 6 April 2019) was a British condensed-matter physicist. He was the winner of the 1990 Wolf Prize and a laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize for physics along with F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantamath | Cantamath is a mathematics competition competed in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand by years 6 to 10 students.
There are two sections, the Competition section and the Project section.
The sponsors of Cantamath are Casio, Trimble Navigation, Every Educaid, Mathletics and University of Canterbury.
Team Competit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Australian%20Regional%20Computing%20Centre | Western Australian Regional Computing Centre (WARCC) was part of the University of Western Australia, formed to provide computing services to the university, other universities in Western Australia, government departments, and to some private companies. It specialised in technical and scientific computing. It was form... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venation | Venation may refer to:
Venation (botany), the arrangement of veins in leaves
Wing venation, the arrangement of veins in insect wings
See also
Vernation, the arrangement of leaves in a bud
Biology disambiguation pages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20variational%20principles%20in%20physics | In physics, a variational principle is an alternative method for determining the state or dynamics of a physical system, by identifying it as an extremum (minimum, maximum or saddle point) of a function or functional. This article describes the historical development of such principles.
Antiquity
Variational princip... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso%20de%20Ribera | Alonso de Ribera y Zambrano (; 1560 – March 9, 1617) was a Spanish soldier and twice Spanish royal governor of Chile (1601–1605 and 1612–1617).
Early life
Born in Úbeda, he was the illegitimate son of Hidalgo and Captain Jorge de Ribera Zambrana y Dávalos, who claimed descent from the kings of Aragon.
After studying ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Thimbleby | Harold W. Thimbleby (born 19 July 1955) is a British professor of computer science at Swansea University, Wales. He is known for his works on user interface design within the realm of human computer interaction.
Overview
Harold Thimbleby held the post of director of UCLIC, University College London's Interaction Ce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93modify%E2%80%93write | In computer science, read–modify–write is a class of atomic operations (such as test-and-set, fetch-and-add, and compare-and-swap) that both read a memory location and write a new value into it simultaneously, either with a completely new value or some function of the previous value. These operations prevent race cond... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%E2%80%93Sommerfeld%20rule | In chemistry, the Grimm–Sommerfeld rule predicts that binary compounds with covalent character that have an average of 4 electrons per atom will have structures where both atoms are tetrahedrally coordinated (e.g. have the wurtzite structure). Examples are silicon carbide, the III-V semiconductors indium phosphide and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Russell%20Nichols | Albert Russell Nichols (1859–1933 ) was an English museum curator and zoologist who worked mainly in Ireland.
Nichols was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in mathematics as 16th wrangler in 1882. Nichols came from England to Dublin in 1883 as Assistant in the Museum of Science and Art (now the Nat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antireductionism | Antireductionism is the position in science and metaphysics that stands in contrast to reductionism (anti-holism) by advocating that not all properties of a system can be explained in terms of its constituent parts and their interactions.
General concepts
The opposite of reductionism is holism, a word coined by Jan S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertram%20Raphael | Bertram Raphael (born 1936) is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence.
Early life and education
Raphael was born in 1936 in New York. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1957, and an MS degree in Applied Math from Brow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermileonidae | The Brachyceran family Vermileonidae (the sole family in the infraorder Vermileonomorpha) is a small family of uncertain affinities and unusual biology. It includes fewer than 80 described species, most of them rare and with restricted distribution, in 10 genera. Historically the vermileonids had been regarded as belon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI/ISA-95 | ANSI/ISA-95, or ISA-95 as it is more commonly referred, is an international standard from the International Society of Automation for developing an automated interface between enterprise and control systems. This standard has been developed for global manufacturers. It was developed to be applied in all industries, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenestration | Fenestration or fenestrate may refer to:
Fenestration (architecture), relating to openings in a building
Fenestra, in anatomy, medicine, and biology, any small opening in an anatomical structure
Leaf window, or fenestration, a translucent or transparent area in a plant leaf
Perforate leaf, sometimes described as f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunophilins | In molecular biology, immunophilins are endogenous cytosolic peptidyl-prolyl isomerases (PPI) that catalyze the interconversion between the cis and trans isomers of peptide bonds containing the amino acid proline (Pro). They are chaperone molecules that generally assist in the proper folding of diverse "client" protein... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophysical%20Journal | The Biophysical Journal is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Cell Press on behalf of the Biophysical Society. The journal was established in 1960 and covers all aspects of biophysics.
The journal occasionally publishes special issues devoted to specific topics. In addition, a supplemental "abstr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%C5%A1an%20Ristanovi%C4%87 | Dušan Ristanović (February 1933 in Čačak, Serbia July 2017) was a Professor of Medical Biophysics at the Department of Biophysics of the Belgrade Medical School.
Biography
Prof. Dušan Ristanović is author of more than 400 scientific papers, with over 150 cited publications. He was also head of the Yugoslav Biophysical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20Lewis%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Theodore Gyle (Ted) Lewis (born 1941) is an American computer scientist and mathematician, and professor at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Biography
Lewis received his BS in Mathematics and his PhD in computer Science. He started his career at the Oregon State University, where he became Professor of Computer Science... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Chang%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Carl Kochao Chang () is Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Human Computer Interaction and Director of Software Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University, where he served as its department chair from 2002 to 2013. He received a PhD in computer science from Northwester... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20W.%20Fuller | Robert Works Fuller (born 1936) is an American physicist, author, social reformer, and former president of Oberlin College.
Biography
Robert Fuller attended Oberlin College, leaving without graduating in order to earn his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton University in 1961. He taught at Columbia University, where he co-a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third%20eye%20%28disambiguation%29 | The third eye is a spiritual concept associated with enlightenment and direct communication with a higher plane of existence.
Third eye may also refer to:
Biology
Parietal eye or a third eye
Pineal gland or the third eye, a gland found in the brain of most vertebrates
Film
The Third Eye (serial), a 1920 film seri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20B.%20Tucker | Jonathan B. Tucker (August 2, 1954 – July 31, 2011) was a United States chemical and biological weapons expert.
Early life and education
Tucker was born on August 2, 1954, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Deborah Tucker. Tucker earned a B.S. in biology from Yale University and a Ph.D. in political science (focusing on def... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20R.%20N.%20Murthy | M. R. N. Murthy (Mattur Ramabhadrashastry Narasimha Murthy), was a professor of molecular biophysics at the Indian Institute of Science, IISc, Bangalore. He currently teaches at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Bengaluru. His chief contributions are in the area of X-ray crystallography. He was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%20Wohlwill | Wolf Emil Wohlwill (24 November 1835 in Seesen – 2 February 1912 in Hamburg) was a German-Jewish engineer of electrochemistry. He invented the Wohlwill process in 1874.
Literary works
Galilei und sein Kampf für die copernikanische Lehre, the 1st volume, 1909
the 2nd volume, 1926
See also
Wohlwill process
Wohlwi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October%201972 | The following events occurred in October 1972:
October 1, 1972 (Sunday)
Publication of the first reports of the production of a recombinant DNA molecule marked the birth of modern molecular biology methodology.
Singapore Airlines (SIA), with 10 aircraft, and Malaysia Airlines, were created with the breakup of Malaysia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Chang | Carl Chang may refer to:
Carl Chang (businessman) (born 1969), American entrepreneur and former tennis coach
Carl Chang (computer scientist), professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20%26%20Engineering%20News | Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) is a weekly news magazine published by the American Chemical Society, providing professional and technical news and analysis in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering. It includes information on recent news and research in these fields, career and employment information, bus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekin%20Dereli | Tekin Dereli (November 30, 1949) is a Turkish theoretical physicist.
Life and academic career
He studied at Ankara Science High School and the Middle East Technical University.
He was an associate professor and a Professor of Physics at Middle East Technical University (1984–1987, 1993–2001); professor at Faculty o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict%20%28disambiguation%29 | The term strict refers to relational operators in mathematics.
Strict may also refer to:
Strict, a function classification in programming languages - see Strict function
the strict pragma in the programming language Perl used to restrict unsafe constructs
See also
List of people known as the Strict
Strict histor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inexact%20differential | An inexact differential or imperfect differential is a differential whose integral is path dependent. It is most often used in thermodynamics to express changes in path dependent quantities such as heat and work, but is defined more generally within mathematics as a type of differential form. In contrast, an integral o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A4umler | Bäumler or Baeumler [ˈbɔʏmlɐ] (Americanized as Baumler) is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Albert Baumler (1914–1973), American fighter ace
Alfred Baeumler (1887–1968), German philosopher
Andreas J. Bäumler, German-born professor for microbiology and immunology at the University of Calif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroduplex%20analysis | Heteroduplex analysis (HDA) is a method in biochemistry used to detect point mutations in DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) since 1992. Heteroduplexes are dsDNA molecules that have one or more mismatched pairs, on the other hand homoduplexes are dsDNA which are perfectly paired. This method of analysis depend up on the fact ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexin%20A5%20affinity%20assay | In molecular biology, an annexin A5 affinity assay is a test to quantify the number of cells undergoing apoptosis. The assay uses the protein annexin A5 to tag apoptotic and dead cells, and the numbers are then counted using either flow cytometry or a fluorescence microscope.
The annexin a5 protein binds to apoptotic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewald%20Wollny | Martin Ewald Wollny (March 20, 1846, Berlin – January 8, 1901, München) was a German founder of agrophysics (Agrikulturphysiker).
He taught at the Technical University of Munich (since 1872).
See also
Rainfall simulator
Literary works
Editor & contributor of the "Forschungen auf dem Gebiete der Agrikulturphysik", ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20inhibitory%20concentration | In microbiology, the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) is the lowest concentration of a chemical, usually a drug, which prevents visible in vitro growth of bacteria or fungi. MIC testing is performed in both diagnostic and drug discovery laboratories.
The MIC is determined by preparing a dilution series of the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance%20technical%20computing | High-performance technical computing (HPTC) is the application of high performance computing (HPC) to technical, as opposed to business or scientific, problems (although the lines between the various disciplines are necessarily vague). HPTC often refers to the application of HPC to engineering problems and includes com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Kleppner | Daniel Kleppner, born 1932, is the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and co-founder and co-director of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms. His areas of science include atomic, molecular, and optical physics, and his research interests include experimental ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silyl%20enol%20ether | In organosilicon chemistry, silyl enol ethers are a class of organic compounds that share the common functional group , composed of an enolate () bonded to a silane () through its oxygen end and an ethene group () as its carbon end. They are important intermediates in organic synthesis.
Synthesis
Silyl enol ethers are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painlev%C3%A9 | Painlevé, a surname, may refer to:
People
Jean Painlevé (1902–1989), French film director, actor, translator, animator, son Paul
Paul Painlevé (1863–1933), French mathematician and politician, twice Prime Minister of France
Mathematics
Painlevé conjecture, a conjecture about singularities in the n-body problem by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeuwenhoek%20Lecture | The Leeuwenhoek Lecture is a prize lecture of the Royal Society to recognize achievement in microbiology. The prize was originally given in 1950 and awarded annually, but from 2006 to 2018 was given triennially. From 2018 it will be awarded biennially.
The prize is named after the Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Wertheim | Margaret Wertheim (born 20 August 1958) is an Australian-born science writer, curator, and artist based in the United States. She is the author of books on the cultural history of physics, and has written about science, including for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, Aeon and Cabinet. Wertheim and her t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermostability | In materials science and molecular biology, thermostability is the ability of a substance to resist irreversible change in its chemical or physical structure, often by resisting decomposition or polymerization, at a high relative temperature.
Thermostable materials may be used industrially as fire retardants. A thermo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas%20Godin | Nicolas Godin (born 25 December 1969) is a French musician best known for being half of the music duo Air.
Early life
Godin was born in Paris, Île-de-France, France, and studied architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles, along with soon to be musical partner, Jean-Benoît Dunckel, a ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Beno%C3%AEt%20Dunckel | Jean-Benoît Dunckel (born 7 September 1969) is a French musician best known for being one half of the French music duo Air, along with Nicolas Godin.
In the 1980s, he formed the band Orange with Alex Gopher, Xavier Jamaux and Jean de Reydellet. He studied mathematics and physics and taught at a middle school in Paris,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich-structured%20composite | In materials science, a sandwich-structured composite is a special class of composite materials that is fabricated by attaching two thin-but-stiff skins to a lightweight but thick core. The core material is normally low strength, but its higher thickness provides the sandwich composite with high bending stiffness with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exciter%20%28effect%29 | An exciter (also called a harmonic exciter or aural exciter) is an audio signal processing technique used to enhance a signal by dynamic equalization, phase manipulation, harmonic synthesis of (usually) high frequency signals, and through the addition of subtle harmonic distortion. Dynamic equalization involves variati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhancer | Enhancer may refer to:
Enhancer (genetics), a short region of DNA that can increase transcription of a gene
Exciter (effect), audio effect unit
See also
Enhance (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Parker | Leonard Emanuel Parker (born Leonard Pearlman in 1938) is a distinguished professor emeritus of physics and a former director of the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. During the late 1960s, Parker established a new area of physics—quantum field theory in curved spacetime. S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20book%20decomposition | In mathematics, an open book decomposition (or simply an open book) is a decomposition of a closed oriented 3-manifold M into a union of surfaces (necessarily with boundary) and solid tori. Open books have relevance to contact geometry, with a famous theorem of Emmanuel Giroux (given below) that shows that contact geom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasul%20Guliyev | Rasul Guliyev (; born 10 December 1947) was Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan from 1993 to 1996.
Biography details
Early years
Guliyev was born on December 10, 1947 in the Gazanchy village of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. After completing his secondary education in 1965, he entered th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFN | SFN may refer to:
Short filename, the 8.3 filename limitation of the DOS computer operating system
SFN Group, Inc., a North American temporary work agency
Single-frequency network, a broadcast network where several transmitters simultaneously send the same signal over the same frequency channel
Small Fiber Neuropathy
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo%20D.%20Sontag | Eduardo Daniel Sontag (born April 16, 1951, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine-American mathematician, and distinguished university professor at Northeastern University, who works in the fields control theory, dynamical systems, systems molecular biology, cancer and immunology, theoretical computer science, ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Jayawardhana | Ray Jayawardhana is the Harold Tanner Dean of the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences and a Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University, effective September 1, 2018. He was formerly Dean of Science and a Professor of physics & astronomy at York University. Prior to that, he was a Professor of Astronomy & A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J4 | J4/J04, J-4/J-04 or J.4/J.04 may refer to:
In science and academia
ATC code J04 Antimycobacterials, a subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
Janko group J4, in mathematics
S/2003 J 4, a natural satellite of Jupiter
J04 : acute laryngitis and tracheitis ICD-10 code
Square cupola, J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K0 | K0 may refer to:
Spectral class K0, a star spectral class
the 1965 first model of the Honda CB450 motorbike
the Grothendieck group in abstract algebra
the Lateral earth pressure at rest
the neutral kaon, a strange meson with no charge in nuclear physics
K0 may refer to Khinchin's constant
K0 the order-zero grap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquin%20Mazdak%20Luttinger | Joaquin (Quin) Mazdak Luttinger (December 2, 1923 – April 6, 1997) was an American physicist well known for his contributions to the theory of interacting electrons in one-dimensional metals (the electrons in these metals are said to be in a Luttinger-liquid state) and the Fermi-liquid theory. He received his BS and Ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre%20H%C3%A9bert | Jean-Pierre Hébert (1939 – March 28, 2021) was an American artist of French origin. He specialized in algorithmic art, drawings, and mixed media. He co-founded the Algorists in 1995 with Roman Verostko. From 2003 until his death, he held an artist-in-residence position at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (K... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aziridines | In organic chemistry, aziridines are organic compounds containing the aziridine functional group (chemical structure ), a three-membered heterocycle with one amine () and two methylene bridges (). The parent compound is aziridine (or ethylene imine), with molecular formula . Several drugs feature aziridine rings, incl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Keasling | Jay D. Keasling is a professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also associate laboratory director for biosciences at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and chief executive officer of the Joint BioEnergy Institute. He is considered one of the foremost au... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Voting%20Consortium | The Open Voting Consortium (OVC) is a non-profit advocacy group dedicated to the development, maintenance, and delivery of trustable and open voting systems for use in public elections.
OVC was founded in December 12, 2003 by Alan Dechert, Dr. Arthur Keller and computer science professor Dr. Doug Jones. The purpose of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith%20Clarke | Edith Clarke (February 10, 1883 – October 29, 1959) was the first woman to be professionally employed as an electrical engineer in the United States, and the first female professor of electrical engineering in the country. She was the first woman to deliver a paper at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand%20Kurlbaum | Ferdinand Kurlbaum (4 October 1857 in Burg bei Magdeburg – 29 July 1927 in Berlin) was a German physicist.
Life and work
As the son of a magistrate, he had to follow his frequently transferred father. Problems at school were the result, and it wasn't until he was 23 that he graduated from high school. He studied math... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Patrick%20Coohill | Thomas Patrick Coohill (born August 25, 1941) is considered one of the world's experts on the effects of light on living systems (Photobiology).
Biography
Thomas Patrick Coohill, son of Francis Coohill and Mary Donnelly, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 25 August 1941. He has/had four brothers, Francis, William, Edm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Wichard%20Pohl | Robert Wichard Pohl (10 August 1884 – 5 June 1976) was a German physicist at the University of Göttingen. Nevill Francis Mott described him as the "father of solid state physics".
Early years and education
Robert Wichard Pohl was born in Hamburg as the son of the naval engineer Eugen Robert Pohl and his wife Martha. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour%20Ginsburg | Seymour Ginsburg (December 12, 1927 – December 5, 2004) was an American pioneer of automata theory, formal language theory, and
database theory, in particular; and computer science, in general. His work was influential in distinguishing theoretical Computer Science from the disciplines of Mathematics and Electrical E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHE | The acronym VHE may refer to :
Valve Hammer Editor, a map editor for video games
Very-High Energy, in astronomy and high-energy physics (refers to energies around the TeV)
Voluntary Human Extinction
Alternately, "Vhe" is a name for the Ewe language, spoken in West Africa from Lake Volta to Benin. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gellman | Gellman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Barton Gellman (born 1960), American journalist and author
Cameron Gellman (born 1998), Canadian actor
Yani Gellman (born 1985), Canadian/American actor
See also
Gelman
Murray Gell-Mann, winner of 1969 Nobel Prize in physics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20compound%20microarray | A chemical compound microarray is a collection of organic chemical compounds spotted on a solid surface, such as glass and plastic. This microarray format is very similar to DNA microarray, protein microarray and antibody microarray. In chemical genetics research, they are routinely used for searching proteins that bin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia%20Stewart | Dr. Felicia H. Stewart, MD (1943–2006) was a women's health physician and expert in the field of reproductive health.
Education
Stewart was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with honors in Biochemistry. In 1969, she received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. Stewart com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Jewell%20%28headmaster%29 | David Jewell (24 March 1934 – 21 May 2006) was a British independent school headmaster during the late 20th century.
Life and career
David Jewell was born in 1934 in Porthleven, West Cornwall, the son of a Wing Commander in the Royal Air Force.
Jewell was educated at Blundell's School and St John's College, Oxford, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphomonoester | Phosphomonoesters (or phosphoric esters) are chemical compounds containing one ester bond and a phosphate group.
In biology, phosphomonoesters are needed as the building blocks for the synthesis of Phospholipid cellular membranes, especially those found on neurons. Enzymes which cleave these bonds are known as phospho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amidohydrolase | Amidohydrolases (or amidases) are a type of hydrolase that acts upon amide bonds.
They are categorized under EC number EC 3.5.1 and 3.5.2.
Examples include:
Beta-lactamase
Histone deacetylase
Urease
The amidohydrolase superfamily is a large protein family of more than 20,000 members with diverse chemistry and p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20gap | In solid-state physics, an energy gap or band gap is an energy range in a solid where no electron states exist, i.e. an energy range where the density of states vanishes.
Especially in condensed matter physics, an energy gap is often known more abstractly as a spectral gap, a term which need not be specific to electro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann%20Medal | The Boltzmann Medal (or Boltzmann Award) is a prize awarded to physicists that obtain new results concerning statistical mechanics; it is named after the celebrated physicist Ludwig Boltzmann. The Boltzmann Medal is awarded once every three years by the Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin-Yip%20Chun | Kin-Yip Chun is a Canadian geophysicist at the University of Toronto's Department of Physics. He gained attention when he sued the University of Toronto for alleged racial discrimination.
Academic career
Chun received a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto, an M.A. i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Whissell | David Whissell, BEng (born September 1, 1967) is a Canadian politician, businessman, engineer and former Quebec cabinet minister.
Born in Montreal, Whissell received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the École polytechnique de Montréal in 1990. He worked as an engineer at Whissell Inc., in Lachute, and bec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf%20Pinner | Adolf Pinner (August 31, 1842 – May 21, 1909) was a German chemist.
Early life and education
He was educated at the Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau and at the University of Berlin (Phd in Chemistry (Doctor der Chemie), 1867). In 1871, he became privat-docent at the University of Berlin. In 1873, he became assi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Lamanna | Matthew Carl Lamanna is a paleontologist and the assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, where he oversees the dinosaur collection.
Education
Lamanna graduated from Hobart College in Geneva, New York in 1997. He received high honors in biology and geology. Lamanna went... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechgaard%20salt | In organic chemistry, a Bechgaard salt is any one of a number of organic charge-transfer complexes that exhibit superconductivity at low temperatures. They are named for chemist Klaus Bechgaard, who was one of the first scientists to synthesize them and demonstrate their superconductivity with the help of physicist De... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiral%20derivatizing%20agent | In analytical chemistry, A chiral derivatizing agent (CDA), also known as a chiral resolving reagent, is a derivatization reagent that is a chiral auxiliary used to convert a mixture of enantiomers into diastereomers in order to analyze the quantities of each enantiomer present and determine the optical purity of a sam... |
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