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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle%20of%20maximum%20work | In the history of science, the principle of maximum work was a postulate concerning the relationship between chemical reactions, heat evolution, and the potential work produced there from. The principle was developed in approximate form in 1875 by French chemist Marcellin Berthelot, in the field of thermochemistry, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%E2%80%93hydrogen%20bond%20activation | In organic chemistry, carbon–hydrogen bond functionalization ( functionalization) is a type of organic reaction in which a carbon–hydrogen bond is cleaved and replaced with a bond (where X is usually carbon, oxygen, or nitrogen). The term usually implies that a transition metal is involved in the cleavage process. R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20White%20%28author%29 | Michael White (16 February 1959 – 6 February 2018) was a British writer who was based in Perth, Australia. He studied at King's College London (1977–1982) and was a chemistry lecturer at d'Overbroeck's College, Oxford (1984–1991).
He was a science editor of British GQ, a columnist for the Sunday Express in London and,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit%20Woolsey | Kit Woolsey (born Christopher Robin Woolsey in 1943) is an American bridge and backgammon player. He was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2005.
Personal life
Woolsey was born in Washington, DC. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1964 and earned a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20La%20Salle%20University%20College%20of%20Science | The College of Science (COS) of De La Salle University was originally part of the College of Arts and Sciences. In 1982, the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics separated to form the College of Science while the liberal arts departments formed the College of Liberal Arts. Although the College of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majid%20Naini | Majid Naini (Persian: مجید نایینی; born 24 October 1963) is a scholar and speaker.
Biography
Majid Naini was born on 24 October 1963. Naini earned a B.S. in Electronics Engineering, Master's Degree in Computer Science, and Ph.D. in Computer & Information Science & Technology from University of Pennsylvania.
Naini ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Tavenas | François Tavenas, (12 September 1942 – 13 February 2004) was a Canadian engineer and academic.
Born in Bourg-de-Péage, Drôme, France, he received an engineering degree in civil engineering from Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon in 1963 and a doctorate with specialization in soil mechanics in 1965 from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYS | In cryptography, What You See Is What You Sign (WYSIWYS) is a property of digital signature systems that ensures the semantic content of signed messages can not be changed, either by accident or intent.
Mechanism of WYSIWYS
When digitally signing a document, the integrity of the signature relies not just on the soundn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%20Motz | Lloyd Motz (June 5, 1909, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania – March 14, 2004, New York City) was an American astronomer.
Biography
Born in Pennsylvania, Motz graduated from the City College of New York 1930 and earned a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University in 1936. Motz began teaching at Columbia the same year he complet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Altshuler | Boris Leonidovich Altshuler (, born 27 January 1955, Leningrad, USSR) is a professor of theoretical physics at Columbia University. His specialty is theoretical condensed matter physics.
Education and career
Altshuler attended State Secondary School 489 in Saint Petersburg. He received his diploma in physics from Leni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating%20tank | A rotating tank is a device used for fluid dynamics experiments. Typically cylinders filled with water on a rotating platform, the tanks can be used in various ways to simulate the atmosphere or ocean.
For example, a rotating tank with an ice bucket in the center can represent the Earth, with a cold pole simulated by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectangular%20potential%20barrier | In quantum mechanics, the rectangular (or, at times, square) potential barrier is a standard one-dimensional problem that demonstrates the phenomena of wave-mechanical tunneling (also called "quantum tunneling") and wave-mechanical reflection. The problem consists of solving the one-dimensional time-independent Schröd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Dinneen | Michael J. Dinneen is an American-New Zealand mathematician and computer scientist working as a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is co-director of the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. He does research in combinatorial algorithms, distributive programming, e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Arnoldi | Vladimir Mitrofanovich Arnoldi () (Kozlov (Michurinsk), Russia (1871–1924)) was a Russian professor of biology. He was a Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences and scientifically listed a number of valuable plants in Malaysia.
He lived in the Russian city of Tambov for much of his life. His son Konstantin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okorokov%20effect | The Okorokov effect () or resonant coherent excitation, occurs when heavy ions move in crystals under channeling conditions. V. Okorokov predicted this effect in 1965 and it was first observed by Sheldon Datz in 1978.
References
Charge carriers
Ions
Physical chemistry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20Milan | The following is a list of people from Milan.
Scientists
Mathematics
Eugenio Calabi (1923–2023)
Marco Abate (born 1962)
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), the world's first woman to write a mathematics handbook and the first woman appointed as a mathematics professor at a university, wrote the first book discussing b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction%20intermediate | In chemistry, a reaction intermediate, or intermediate, is a molecular entity arising within the sequence of a stepwise chemical reaction. It is formed as the reaction product of an elementary step, from the reactants and/or preceding intermediates, but is consumed in a later step. It does not appear in the chemical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOM%20%28journal%29 | JOM is a technical journal devoted to exploring the many aspects of materials, science and engineering published monthly by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) (a member-based professional society). JOM reports scholarly work that explores the many aspects of materials science and engineering within the broa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgical%20and%20Materials%20Transactions | Metallurgical and Materials Transactions is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published in three sections (A, B, and E) covering metallurgy and materials science. The journals are jointly published by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society and ASM International.
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A
This mont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles%20and%20Misra%20method | The Miles and Misra Method (or surface viable count) is a technique used in Microbiology to determine the number of colony forming units in a bacterial suspension or homogenate.
The technique was first described in 1938 by Miles, Misra and Irwin who at the time were working at the LSHTM. The Miles and Misra method has... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Govindadasa%20College | Govindadasa College (established in 1967) is affiliated to Mangalore University in Mangalore, India. It offers bachelor's degree courses in Science (Bsc), Commerce (Bcom), Arts (BA) and Management (BBA), BCA. The college is also offers Mcom and Msc in chemistry. When the college was started, it was affiliated to Univer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfonamide%20%28disambiguation%29 | Sulfonamide or sulphonamide may refer to:
Sulfonamide (chemistry) – the sulfonamide functional group in organic chemistry
Sulfonamide (medicine) – the group of sulfonamide antibacterial drugs. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole%20nationale%20sup%C3%A9rieure%20de%20chimie%2C%20de%20biologie%20et%20de%20physique | The École nationale supérieure de chimie, de biologie et de physique or ENSCPB (or "CPB" in common parlance) - which can be translated as Graduate School of Chemistry, Biology and Physics - is one of the French grandes écoles, whose main purpose is to form chemical and physical engineers (with a level "bac+5"). It is l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidderdale | Lidderdale may refer to:
People
Charles Sillem Lidderdale (1830-1895), British painter
Kathleen Lidderdale (1894 - 1973), English hockey and tennis player
William Lidderdale (1832–1902), governor of the Bank of England
Places
Lidderdale, Iowa, United States
Biology
Lidderdale's dawnfly (Capila lidderdali), a bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad%20Ali%20Taraghijah | Mohammad-Ali Taraghijah (; 1943 – August 12, 2010) was an Iranian painter, whose work often featured rural, Iranian, landscape imagery.
Biography
Born 1943 in Tehran, Iran. He graduated from the College of Science & Technology with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, yet his heart was set on creating art. He particip... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Rosenbaum | Joel Rosenbaum (born October 4, 1933) is a professor of cell biology at Yale University.
Rosenbaum received his bachelor's degree from Syracuse University in 1955, and later his M.Sc. Ed. from St. Lawrence University in 1957. He returned later to Syracuse for his master's degree in 1959 and Ph.D. in 1963.
His lab at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SynthEdit | SynthEdit is a modular audio plugin development environment which uses a visual editor. First conceived in 1987 by programmer Jeff McClintock and initially distributed in 1999, it was officially released in 2005.
Along with Native Instruments' Reaktor and the closely related FlowStone (previously known as SynthMaker) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Military%20Academy | Eastern Military Academy (EMA) was a high school military academy founded in 1944 in Connecticut, United States, by Roland R. Robinson, a former mathematics teacher at Peekskill Military Academy (now also defunct), and his brother-in-law, Carleton Witham. The relationship with the local town was poor from the start, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesics%20as%20Hamiltonian%20flows | In mathematics, the geodesic equations are second-order non-linear differential equations, and are commonly presented in the form of Euler–Lagrange equations of motion. However, they can also be presented as a set of coupled first-order equations, in the form of Hamilton's equations. This latter formulation is develope... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Jech | Thomas J. Jech (, ; born January 29, 1944, in Prague) is a mathematician specializing in set theory who was at Penn State for more than 25 years.
Life
He was educated at Charles University (his advisor was Petr Vopěnka) and from 2000 is at the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Sears%20McCulloh | Richard Sears McCulloh (18 March 1818 – 1894) was an American civil engineer and professor of mechanics and thermodynamics at the Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia.
Career
McCulloh was born on 18 March 1818 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
He graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1836, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Pinsky | Mark A. Pinsky (15 July 1940 – 8 December 2016) was Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern University. His research areas included probability theory, mathematical analysis, Fourier Analysis and wavelets. Pinsky earned his Ph.D at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
His published works include 125 researc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction%20%28disambiguation%29 | Abstraction is a process or result of generalization, removal of properties, or distancing of ideas from objects.
Abstraction may also refer to:
Abstraction (art), art unconcerned with the literal depiction of things from the visible world
Abstraction (computer science), a process of hiding details of implementatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%20Zhi%20%28guitarist%29 | Chen Zhi () is a Chinese guitar teacher (pedagogue) and promoter, who is today known for the exceptionally high level that his classical guitar students reach. He is one of China's best-known personalities of the guitar in general (not just the classical guitar).
Chen Zhi studied Mathematics and Chemistry.
Chen Zhi l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efflux | Efflux may refer to:
Efflux (microbiology), a mechanism responsible for moving compounds out of cells
e-flux, a publishing platform and archive
See also
Efflux time, part of a measure of paint viscosity
Flux (biology), movement of a substance between compartments
Influx (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo%20Marchiori | Massimo Marchiori (Padua, 1970) is an Italian mathematician and computer scientist.
Biography
In July, 2004, he was awarded the TR35 prize by Technology Review (the best 35 researchers in the world under the age of 35).
He is Professor in Computer Science at the University of Padua, and Research Scientist at MIT’s Co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Plomin | Robert Joseph Plomin (born 1948) is an American/British psychologist and geneticist best known for his work in twin studies and behavior genetics. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Plomin as the 71st most cited psychologist of the 20th century. He is the author of several books on geneti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubert%20Stryer | Lubert Stryer (born March 2, 1938, in Tianjin, China) is the Emeritus Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor of Cell Biology, at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research over more than four decades has been centered on the interplay of light and life. In 2007 he received the National Medal of Science from Presiden... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pine%20Barrens | The Pine Barrens is a 1968 book by American writer John McPhee about the history, people and biology of the New Jersey Pine Barrens that originally appeared in The New Yorker in 1967.
The book is an early example of McPhee's acclaimed creative nonfiction literary style. The book employs a nonlinear narrative that inco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly%20%28robot%29 | Polly was a robot created at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Ian Horswill for his PhD and published in 1993 as a technical report.
Polly was the first mobile robot to move at animal-like speeds (1m per second) using computer vision for its navigation. It was an example of behavior-based robotics. Horswil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raghunath%20Dhondo%20Karve | Raghunath Dhondo Karve (14 January 1882 – 14 October 1953) was a professor of mathematics and a social reformer from Maharashtra, India. He was a pioneer in initiating family planning and birth control for masses in Mumbai in 1921.
Born in a Chitpavan Brahmin family, Raghunath was the eldest son of Bharat Ratna Mahars... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Oatley | Sir Charles William Oatley OBE, FRS FREng (14 February 1904 – 11 March 1996) was Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Cambridge, 1960–1971, and developer of one of the first commercial scanning electron microscopes. He was also a founder member of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Biography
He was born i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexamminecobalt%28III%29%20chloride | Hexaamminecobalt(III) chloride is the chemical compound with the formula [Co(NH3)6]Cl3. It is the chloride salt of the coordination complex [Co(NH3)6]3+, which is considered an archetypal "Werner complex", named after the pioneer of coordination chemistry, Alfred Werner. The cation itself is a metal ammine complex wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkovich | Berkovich () is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
E.S. Berkovich, Russian scientist and inventor of the Berkovich hardness indenter
Eyal Berkovich (born 1972), Israeli football player
Miki Berkovich (born 1954), Israeli basketball player
Vladimir Berkovich, Israeli mathematician
Ber... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgerigar%20colour%20genetics | The science of budgerigar color genetics deals with the heredity of mutations which cause color variation in the feathers of the species known scientifically as Melopsittacus undulatus. Birds of this species are commonly known by the terms 'budgerigar', or informally just 'budgie'.
Background
The wildtype (natural-co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20McEuen | Paul McEuen (born 1963) is an American physicist. He received his B.S. in engineering physics at the University of Oklahoma (1985), and his Ph.D. in applied physics at Yale University (1991). After postdoctoral work at MIT (1990–1991), he became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He moved... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sommerfeld%20radiation%20condition | In applied mathematics, and theoretical physics the Sommerfeld radiation condition is a concept from theory of differential equations and scattering theory used for choosing a particular solution to the Helmholtz equation. It was introduced by Arnold Sommerfeld in 1912
and is closely related to the limiting absorption ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEC-RAS | HEC-RAS is simulation software used in computational fluid dynamics – specifically, to model the hydraulics of water flow through natural rivers and other channels. Prior to the 2016 update to Version 5.0, the program was one-dimensional, meaning that there is no direct modeling of the hydraulic effect of cross sectio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigraph | Epigraph may refer to:
An inscription, as studied in the archeological sub-discipline of epigraphy
Epigraph (literature), a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component
Epigraph (mathematics), the set of points lying on or above the graph of a function
Epigraphs (album), an al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravindran%20Kannan | Ravindran Kannan (; born 12 March 1953, Madras) is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India, where he leads the algorithms research group. He is also the first adjunct faculty of Computer Science and Automation Department of Indian Institute of Science.
Before joining Microsoft, he was the William K. Lanman ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Towers | George Hugh Neil Towers FRSC (28 September 1923 – 15 November 2004) was Emeritus Professor of Botany at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
He was awarded the Flavelle Medal in 1986 and was cited extensively for his work in medicinal phytochemistry and ethnopharmacology of medic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bei%20Shizhang | Bei Shizhang (; October 10, 1903 – October 29, 2009), or Shi-Zhang Bei, was a Chinese biophysicist, embryologist, politician, and writer. He was an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He was born in Zhenhai, Zhejiang province, on October 10, 1903.He found the department of biology, Zhejiang University in 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Schmidt | Brian Paul Schmidt (born 24 February 1967) is the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU). He was previously a Distinguished Professor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and astrophysicist at the University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAFARI-1 | SAFARI-1 is a 20 MW light water-cooled, beryllium reflected, pool-type research reactor, initially used for high level nuclear physics research programmes and was commissioned in 1965.
The reactor is owned and operated by South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (NECSA) at their facility in Pelindaba, South Africa.
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20scientific%20priority%20disputes | This is a list of priority disputes in science and science-related fields (such as mathematics).
Mathematics
Rule for solving cubic equations: Niccolò Tartaglia, Gerolamo Cardano
Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy: Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz
Physics
Mechanical equivalent of heat: James Prescott Joule, Juliu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklace%20%28disambiguation%29 | A necklace is an article of jewelry worn around the neck.
Necklace may also refer to:
Necklace (combinatorics) or fixed necklace, a concept in combinatorial mathematics
"The Necklace", a short story by Guy de Maupassant
"The Necklace (Dynasty)", a 1981 episode of the TV series Dynasty
Necklace (horse)
See also
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B3lya%20Prize | Pólya Prize may refer to:
George Pólya Prize, awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Pólya Prize (LMS), awarded by the London Mathematical Society
See also
George Pólya Award, awarded by the Mathematical Association of America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20P%C3%B3lya%20Prize | The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has three prizes named after George Pólya: the George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition, established in 2013; the George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics, established in 1969, and first awarded in 1971; and the George Pólya Prize in Mathematics, establ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia%20Alexander | Claudia Joan Alexander (May 30, 1959 – July 11, 2015) was a Canadian-born American research scientist specializing in geophysics and planetary science. She worked for the United States Geological Survey and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She was the last project manager of NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter and until... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Berry%20%28statistician%29 | Donald Arthur Berry (born May 26, 1940) is an American statistician and a practitioner and proponent of Bayesian statistics in medical science. He was the chairman of the Department of Biostatistics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center from 1999-2010, where he played a role i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20P%20Moore | Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc. (d/b/a Walter P Moore) is an international company providing structural engineering, diagnostics, civil engineering, traffic engineering, parking consulting, transportation engineering, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) engineering, and water resources engineering services. H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPP | HPP may refer to:
Medicine
Allopurinol, a medication
Hereditary pyropoikilocytosis, a blood disorder
HPP epoxidase, an enzyme
Hypokalemic periodic paralysis, a muscle disease
Hypophosphatasia, a bone disease
Hypoxia preconditioned plasma
Other uses
Hardy-Pomeau-Pazzis model, in computational fluid dynamics
Ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Energy%20Research%20Scientific%20Computing%20Center | The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), is a high-performance computing (supercomputer) National User Facility operated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the United States Department of Energy Office of Science. As the mission computing center for the Office of Science, NERSC house... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mismatch%20negativity | The mismatch negativity (MMN) or mismatch field (MMF) is a component of the event-related potential (ERP) to an odd stimulus in a sequence of stimuli. It arises from electrical activity in the brain and is studied within the field of cognitive neuroscience and psychology. It can occur in any sensory system, but has mos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouyang%20Ziyuan | Ouyang Ziyuan (, born 9 October 1935) is a Chinese cosmochemist, geochemist and space advocate. He is a research professor at the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Asteroid 8919 Ouyangziyuan, discovered in 1996, was named in his honor.
Career
Ouyang was born in 1935 in Ji'an, Jiangxi. He o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microporous%20material | A microporous material is a material containing pores with diameters less than 2 nm. Examples of microporous materials include zeolites and metal-organic frameworks.
Porous materials are classified into several kinds by their size. The recommendations of a panel convened by the International Union of Pure and Applied ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodart | Brodart Company is an international products and services company that serves libraries. Brodart is made up of three divisions: Books & Automation, Contract Library Furniture, and Supplies & Furnishings.
History
Brodart was established as Library Service in 1939, when Columbia University Electrical Engineering studen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%C5%A1anka%20%C4%90oki%C4%87 | Dušanka Đokić-Ristanović (born November 22, 1938) is a former professor of theoretical physics at the Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade.
Biography
Đokić performed research on theoretical physics, in particular involving canonical transformations in degenerate systems, and received her PhD degree in theoretica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branched%20DNA%20assay | In biology, a branched DNA assay is a signal amplification assay (as opposed to a target amplification assay) that is used to detect nucleic acid molecules.
Method
A branched DNA assay begins with a dish or some other solid support (e.g., a plastic dipstick). The dish is peppered with small, single stranded DNA molecu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis%20%28operating%20system%29 | Nemesis was an operating system that was designed by the University of Cambridge, the University of Glasgow, the Swedish Institute of Computer Science and Citrix Systems.
Nemesis was conceived with multimedia uses in mind. It was designed with a small lightweight kernel, using shared libraries to perform functions tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroclinic%20network | In mathematics, a heteroclinic network is an invariant set in the phase space of a dynamical system. It can be thought of loosely as the union of more than one heteroclinic cycle. Heteroclinic networks arise naturally in a number of different types of applications, including fluid dynamics and populations dynamics.
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20H.%20Smith%20%28mathematician%29 | John Howard Smith is an American mathematician and retired professor of mathematics at Boston College. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963, under the supervision of Kenkichi Iwasawa.
In voting theory, he is known for the Smith set, the smallest nonempty set of candidates such th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMSF | In biochemistry, phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF) is a serine protease inhibitor (serine hydrolase inactivator) commonly used in the preparation of cell lysates. PMSF does not inactivate all serine proteases. The effective concentration of PMSF is between 0.1 - 1 mM. The half-life is short in aqueous solutions (11... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT%20Department%20of%20Physics | The MIT Department of Physics has over 120 faculty members, is often cited as the largest physics department in the United States, and hosts top-ranked programs. It offers the SB, SM, PhD, and ScD degrees. Fourteen alumni of the department and nine current or former faculty members (two of whom were also students at MI... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiara%20Nappi | Chiara Rosanna Nappi (born 21 February 1951) is an Italian physicist. Her research areas have included mathematical physics, particle physics, and string theory.
Academic career
Nappi obtained the Diploma della Scuola di Perfezionamento in physics from the University of Naples in 1976. Her advisor was Giovanni Jona-L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau%20quantization | In quantum mechanics, Landau quantization refers to the quantization of the cyclotron orbits of charged particles in a uniform magnetic field. As a result, the charged particles can only occupy orbits with discrete, equidistant energy values, called Landau levels. These levels are degenerate, with the number of electr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20French | Anthony Philip French (November 19, 1920 – February 3, 2017) was a British physicist. At the time of his death he was professor emeritus of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Biography
French was born November 19, 1920 in Brighton, England. French won a scholarship to study at Sydney Sussex College... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GT%20Pro%20Series | GT Pro Series is a racing video game developed by MTO and published by Ubisoft as a launch title for Wii. It includes over 80 licensed Japanese cars, next-gen physics and many gameplay modes, including Championship, Quick Race, Time Attack, Versus (4 players), Drift, and Replay. The game uses a cel-shaded style. Critic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/359%20%28number%29 | 359 (three hundred [and] fifty-nine) is the natural number following 358 and preceding 360. 359 is the 72nd prime number.
In mathematics
359 is a Sophie Germain prime: (also a Sophie Germain prime).
It is also a safe prime, because subtracting 1 and halving it gives another prime number (179, itself also safe).
Si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20cognition | Numerical cognition is a subdiscipline of cognitive science that studies the cognitive, developmental and neural bases of numbers and mathematics. As with many cognitive science endeavors, this is a highly interdisciplinary topic, and includes researchers in cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, neuroscience ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomaterial | A biomaterial is a substance that has been engineered to interact with biological systems for a medical purpose, either a therapeutic (treat, augment, repair, or replace a tissue function of the body) or a diagnostic one. The corresponding field of study, called biomaterials science or biomaterials engineering, is abou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risto%20N%C3%A4%C3%A4t%C3%A4nen | Risto Kalervo Näätänen (14 June 1939 – 5 October 2023) was a Finnish psychological scientist, pioneer in the field of cognitive neuroscience, and known worldwide as one of the discoverers of the electrophysiological mismatch negativity. He was a much-cited social scientist and one of the few individuals appointed perma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitrios%20Karakasis | Dimitrios Karakasis () was a Greek physician.
He was born in Siatista in 1734. He went to Halle, in Saxony, where he studied medicine, philosophy and mathematics. He took a Degree in medicine in 1760. He exercised his occupation as physician in Vienna, Larisa, Siatista, Kozani, Bucharest, and also taught in his birthp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Tiedje | James Michael Tiedje (born 1942) is University Distinguished Professor and the director of the NSF Center for Microbial Ecology (CME) at Michigan State University, as well as a Professor of Crop and Soil Sciences and Microbiology. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003 and served as president of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20traversal | In computer science, graph traversal (also known as graph search) refers to the process of visiting (checking and/or updating) each vertex in a graph. Such traversals are classified by the order in which the vertices are visited. Tree traversal is a special case of graph traversal.
Redundancy
Unlike tree traversal, gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%20effect | Due to Einstein's prolific output, the term Einstein effect may refer to any one of a large number of possible effects in different fields of physics.
These may include:
Gravitational redshift
Gravitational lensing
and more specifically,
The Bose-Einstein effect
The Einstein-de Haas effect
See also
List of thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Demos | Peter T. Demos (July 18, 1918 – September 18, 2012) was a professor in the Department of Physics and the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at MIT. A native of Peterborough, Ontario, Demos attended Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School and Queen's University, and received a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 1951. He w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20R.%20Canizares | Claude R. Canizares is an American physicist who stepped down June 30, 2015 from his post as Vice President of MIT. He remains the Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics at MIT and associate director for MIT of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center.
Academic career
Canizares earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in physic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acene | In organic chemistry, the acenes or polyacenes are a class of organic compounds and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons made up of benzene () rings which have been linearly fused. They follow the general molecular formula .
The larger representatives have potential interest in optoelectronic applications and are activel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic%20rational%20functions | In mathematics the elliptic rational functions are a sequence of rational functions with real coefficients. Elliptic rational functions are extensively used in the design of elliptic electronic filters. (These functions are sometimes called Chebyshev rational functions, not to be confused with certain other functions o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Westbrook | Jeff Westbrook is a TV writer best known for his work on The Simpsons and Futurama, for which he is a three-time winner of the WGA Award.
Education and pre-TV
Prior to becoming a TV writer, Westbrook was a successful algorithms researcher. After majoring in physics and history of science at Harvard University, he stu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longsnout%20pipefish | The longsnout pipefish (Leptonotus norae) is a pipefish of the family Syngnathidae. It has only been recorded from midwater and bottom trawls at depths of . The habitat and biology of this species are almost unknown but juveniles have been recorded in the stomachs of blue penguins and Snares penguins.
Etymology
The f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20B.%20Wake | David Burton Wake (June 8, 1936 – April 29, 2021) was an American herpetologist. He was professor of integrative biology and Director and curator of herpetology of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. Wake is known for his work on the biology and evolution of salamanders as well a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20Duncan | Wayne Duncan is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Jonathon Sammy-Lee. He made his first screen appearance as Wayne during the episode broadcast on 4 February 1993. Wayne becomes a chemistry teacher at Erinsborough High with an unorthodox approach. He is arrogant, intelligent and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%20Avril | Philippe Avril (1654 – 1698 (presumed)) was a Jesuit explorer of the Far East. He was born at Angoulême, France on 16 September 1654.
Avril was a professor of philosophy and mathematics at Paris when he was dispatched to the Jesuit missions of China. Following the instructions of Ferdinand Verbiest, another Jesuit, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diosdado%20Sim%C3%B3n | Diosdado Simón Villares (Torremenga, October 15, 1954-Cáceres, April 28, 2002) was a Spanish researcher, biologist, botanist, tree surgeon and environmental teacher.
He studied Biology in UCM, and investigated Extremaduran vegetation. He was the manager of Cáceres' parks and gardens and a member of ADENEX. This associ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20Stratton%20High%20School | Long Stratton High School is a secondary school located in the town of Long Stratton in the English county of Norfolk. It educates children from ages 11 to 16 and has around 650 pupils at any one time. The school has a specialism in teaching Mathematics and ICT.
Description
The school was last fully inspected in 2012... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20G.%20Woolston | Thomas G. Woolston is a patent attorney, and the patented inventor of several online auction business methods. He is also the founder of MercExchange.
Mr. Woolston served in the US Air Force, has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from George Washington University and a law degree. He has also worked fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Nabarro | Frank Reginald Nunes Nabarro MBE OMS FRS (7 March 1916 – 20 July 2006) was an English-born South African physicist and one of the pioneers of solid-state physics, which underpins much of 21st-century technology.
Education
Born 7 March 1916 in London, UK, into a Sephardi Jewish family, he studied at Nottingham High Sch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Kleiner | Alfred Kleiner (24 April 1849 – 3 July 1916) was a Swiss physicist and Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Zurich. He was Albert Einstein's doctoral advisor or Doktorvater. Initially Einstein's advisor was Heinrich F. Weber. However, they had a major falling out, and Einstein chose to switch to Klei... |
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