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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Nelson
David or Dave Nelson may refer to: Academia David Nelson (abolitionist) (1793–1844), founder of Marion College and Mission Institute, Presbyterian minister David Robert Nelson (born 1951), American physicist, professor of biophysics at Harvard University David L. Nelson (born 1956), American human geneticist Dav...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush%20Holt%20Jr.
Rush Dew Holt Jr. (born October 15, 1948) is an American scientist and politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 1999 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party and son of former West Virginia U.S. Senator Rush D. Holt Sr. He worked as a professor of public policy and physics, and during his tenur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%20School%20Lectures
Theory and Techniques for Design of Electronic Digital Computers (popularly called the "Moore School Lectures") was a course in the construction of electronic digital computers held at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering between July 8, 1946, and August 30, 1946, and was the first ti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20%28video%20game%29
Quantum is a color vector arcade video game developed at General Computer Corporation for Atari, Inc. and released in December 1982. It was designed by Betty Ryan () who was the first female developer at GCC. The premise of the game is related loosely to quantum physics; the player directs a probe with a trackball to e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hall%20Gladstone
John Hall Gladstone FRS (7 March 1827 – 6 October 1902) was a British chemist. He served as President of the Physical Society between 1874 and 1876 and during 1877–1879 was President of the Chemical Society. Apart from chemistry, where one of his most notable publications was on bromination of rubber, he undertook pion...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Wislicenus
Johannes Wislicenus (; 24 June 18355 December 1902) was a German chemist, most famous for his work in early stereochemistry. Biography The son of the radical Protestant theologian Gustav Wislicenus, Johannes was born on 24 June 1835 in Kleineichstedt (now part of Querfurt, Saxony-Anhalt) in Prussian Saxony, and entere...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen-Hsiung%20Li
Wen-Hsiung Li (; born 1942) is a Taiwanese-American scientist working in the fields of molecular evolution, population genetics, and genomics. He is currently the James Watson Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago and a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Information Science and Genomi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene%20chemistry
Fullerene chemistry is a field of organic chemistry devoted to the chemical properties of fullerenes. Research in this field is driven by the need to functionalize fullerenes and tune their properties. For example, fullerene is notoriously insoluble and adding a suitable group can enhance solubility. By adding a polyme...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARM
Sarm or SARM may refer to: Places Sarm, Iran Sarm East Studios, a recording studio that was located at the southern end of Brick Lane in east London Sarm West Studios, a recording studio located in Notting Hill, London Special Administrative Region of Macau Biology and medicine Selective androgen receptor modul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albin%20Haller
Albin Haller (7 March 1849, Fellering – 1 May 1925) was a French chemist. Haller founded the École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques in Nancy and in 1917 won the Davy Medal of the Royal Society "On the ground of his important researches in the domain of organic chemistry". Appointed to the French Academy ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu%20Gaolian
Gaolian Liu (, born July, 1932) is a scientist of Engineering Thermal Physics and Hydrodynamics, a professor of Shanghai University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Biography Professor Liu has taught at Shanghai University Mechanics Research Institute. He has long been engaged in the research of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu%20Yuanfang
Liu Yuanfang (; born February 1931) is a Chinese nuclear chemist. He is a chemist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), who is now Professor of Chemistry at Shanghai University. He has studied nuclear chemistry and radiochemistry for forty years and pioneered education in that field in China. References 1931 bir...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Burks
Alice Burks (née Rowe, August 20, 1920 – November 21, 2017) was an American author of children's books and books about the history of electronic computers. Early life and education Burks was born Alice Rowe in East Cleveland, Ohio, in 1920. She began her undergraduate degree at Oberlin College on a competitive mathema...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry%20%28disambiguation%29
Geometry is a branch of mathematics dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry or geometric may also refer to: Geometric distribution of probability theory and statistics Geometric series, a mathematical series with a constant ratio between successive terms Music Geometry (Robert Rich album), a 1991 album by Ameri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curing%20%28chemistry%29
Curing is a chemical process employed in polymer chemistry and process engineering that produces the toughening or hardening of a polymer material by cross-linking of polymer chains. Even if it is strongly associated with the production of thermosetting polymers, the term "curing" can be used for all the processes whe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Rapoport
Henry Rapoport (November 16, 1918 – March 6, 2002) was an internationally renowned organic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He is widely recognized for his work in the development of the chemical synthesis of biologically important compounds and pharmaceuticals. Henry Rapo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton%20Heathcock
Clayton Heathcock is an organic chemist, professor of chemistry, and dean of the college of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Heathcock is well known for his accomplishments in the synthesis of complex polycyclic natural products and for his contributions to the chemistry community. In 1995 he beca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Halavais
Alexander Halavais (born July 21, 1971) is an Associate Professor and Graduate Director of the Social Data Science master's program at Arizona State University, a social media researcher and former President of the Association of Internet Researchers. Before joining the faculty at Arizona State University, Halavais tau...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOvA
The NOνA (NuMI Off-Axis νe Appearance) experiment is a particle physics experiment designed to detect neutrinos in Fermilab's NuMI (Neutrinos at the Main Injector) beam. Intended to be the successor to MINOS, NOνA consists of two detectors, one at Fermilab (the near detector), and one in northern Minnesota (the far de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nv%20network
A Nv network is a term used in BEAM robotics referring to the small electrical Neural Networks that make up the bulk of BEAM-based robot control mechanisms. Building blocks The most basic component included in Nv Networks is the Nv neuron. The purpose of a Nv neuron is simply to take an input, do something with it, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Character%20of%20Physical%20Law
The Character of Physical Law is a series of seven lectures by physicist Richard Feynman concerning the nature of the laws of physics. Feynman delivered the lectures in 1964 at Cornell University, as part of the Messenger Lectures series. The BBC recorded the lectures, and published a book under the same title the foll...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid%20file
In computer science, a grid file or bucket grid is a point access method which splits a space into a non-periodic grid where one or more cells of the grid refer to a small set of points. Grid files (a symmetric data structure) provide an efficient method of storing these indexes on disk to perform complex data lookups....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Antonio%20Regional%20Hospital
San Antonio Regional Hospital (SARH), previously known as San Antonio Community Hospital, is an acute, full service medical center in Upland, California. The hospital offers a comprehensive range of general medical and surgical services, along with cardiac care, cancer care, orthopedics, neurosciences, women’s health...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography%20law
Cryptography is the practice and study of encrypting information, or in other words, securing information from unauthorized access. There are many different cryptography laws in different nations. Some countries prohibit export of cryptography software and/or encryption algorithms or cryptoanalysis methods. Some countr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alar%20Kotli
Alar Kotli (27 August 1904 in Väike-Maarja – 4 October 1963 in Tallinn) was an Estonian architect. He studied sculpture at the art school Pallas in Tartu during 1922–1923 and mathematics at the University of Tartu. He graduated from the University of technology in Gdańsk (then Free City of Danzig) in 1927 as an archite...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Dourish
Paul Dourish (born 1966) is a computer scientist best known for his work and research at the intersection of computer science and social science. Born in Scotland, he holds the Steckler Endowed Chair of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, where he joined the faculty in 2000, and w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtoneritimorpha
Cyrtoneritimorpha, also Cyrtoneritida, is a clade of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the clade Neritimorpha. This order contains two extinct families: Orthonychiidae and Vltaviellidae. References The Paleobiology Database Prehistoric gastropods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy%20mapping
In genetics, HAPPY Mapping, first proposed by Paul H. Dear and Peter R. Cook in 1989, is a method used to study the linkage between two or more DNA sequences. According to the Single Molecule Genomics Group, it is "Mapping based on the analysis of approximately HAPloid DNA samples using the PolYmerase chain reaction". ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea%20Steriade
Mircea Steriade (August 20, 1924 – April 14, 2006), MD, DSc, was a prominent researcher in systems neuroscience. He was born in Bucharest, Romania, and studied medicine at University of Bucharest. He emigrated to Canada in 1968, where he became a professor of physiology at Université Laval in Quebec, a position he held...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20accelerated%20region%201
In molecular biology, Human Accelerated Region 1 (Highly Accelerated Region 1, HAR1) is a segment of the human genome found on the long arm of chromosome 20. It is a human accelerated region. It is located within a pair of overlapping long non-coding RNA genes, HAR1A (HAR1F) and HAR1B (HAR1R). HAR1A HAR1A is expressed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland%20Academy%20for%20Science%2C%20Mathematics%20and%20Technology
The Queensland Academies – Science Mathematics & Technology Campus (QASMT) is a high school in Toowong, Queensland, Australia. It was developed in partnership with the University of Queensland. QASMT offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme to students in Years 11 and 12, and also offers the Internation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20P.%20Morse
Stephen Paul Morse (born May 1940) is the architect of the Intel 8086 chip and is the originator of the "One Step" search page tools used by genealogists. Early life Morse was born in Brooklyn, New York. He has degrees in electrical engineering from the City College of New York, the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eifion%20Jones
William Eifion Jones (1925 – March 2004) was a Welsh marine botanist, noted for his study of marine algae. He was born and brought up in Aberystwyth and studied botany at the University of Wales under Professor Lilly Newton. He moved to Bangor in 1953 to join the newly founded Marine Biology Station as a lecturer wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20C.%20Taylor%20%28philosopher%29
Mark C. Taylor (born 13 December 1945) is a postmodern religious and cultural critic. He has published more than twenty books on theology, metaphysics, art and architecture, media, technology, economics, and postmodernity. After graduating from Wesleyan University in 1968, he received his doctorate in the study of rel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NNLS
NNLS may refer to Non-negative least squares, an optimization problem in mathematics New North London Synagogue, see Sternberg Centre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel%20polynomials
In mathematics, the Bessel polynomials are an orthogonal sequence of polynomials. There are a number of different but closely related definitions. The definition favored by mathematicians is given by the series Another definition, favored by electrical engineers, is sometimes known as the reverse Bessel polynomials T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20cohesion
In sociology, structural cohesion is the conception of a useful formal definition and measure of cohesion in social groups. It is defined as the minimal number of actors in a social network that need to be removed to disconnect the group. It is thus identical to the question of the node connectivity of a given graph in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobaea
Jacobaea is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Senecioneae and the family Asteraceae. Its members used to be placed in the genus Senecio, but have been separated into the segregate genus Jacobaea on the basis of molecular phylogenetics in order to maintain genera that are monophyletic. Species The following spec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl%20Arrowsmith
Cheryl H. Arrowsmith is a Canadian structural biologist and is the Chief Scientist at the Toronto laboratory of the Structural Genomics Consortium. Her contributions to protein structural biology includes the use of NMR and X-ray crystallography to pursue structures of proteins on a proteome wide scale. She received ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-interacting%20dark%20matter
In astrophysics and particle physics, self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is an alternative class of dark matter particles which have strong interactions, in contrast to the standard cold dark matter model (CDM). SIDM was postulated in 2000 as a solution to the core-cusp problem. In the simplest models of DM self-inte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20of%20knowledge
In cryptography, a proof of knowledge is an interactive proof in which the prover succeeds in 'convincing' a verifier that the prover knows something. What it means for a machine to 'know something' is defined in terms of computation. A machine 'knows something', if this something can be computed, given the machine as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20Quinn
Helen Rhoda Arnold Quinn (born 19 May 1943) is an Australian-born particle physicist and educator who has made major contributions to both fields. Her contributions to theoretical physics include the Peccei–Quinn theory which implies a corresponding symmetry of nature (related to matter-antimatter symmetry and the poss...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble%20%28physics%29
A bubble is a globule of a gas substance in a liquid. In the opposite case, a globule of a liquid in a gas, is called a drop. Due to the Marangoni effect, bubbles may remain intact when they reach the surface of the immersive substance. Common examples Bubbles are seen in many places in everyday life, for example: A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Rasp
Charles Rasp, born Hieronymous Salvator Lopez von Pereira, (7 October 1846 – 22 May 1907) is known as the first person to identify the economic potential of the ore deposits at Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He was born at Stuttgart, Duchy of Württemberg, where he was educated and he was trained in chemistry...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity%20%28disambiguation%29
Complexity is the behaviour of a system whose components interact in multiple ways so possible interactions are difficult to describe. Complexity may also refer to: Complexity (journal), a scientific journal Computational complexity, in computer science Computational complexity theory Game complexity, in combinat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Barry%20Bernstein
Richard Barry Bernstein (October 31, 1923 – July 8, 1990) was an American physical chemist. He is primarily known for his research in chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics by molecular beam scattering and laser techniques. He is credited with having founded femtochemistry, which laid the groundwork for developments ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Cantor
Charles R. Cantor (born August 26, 1942) is an American molecular geneticist who, in conjunction with David Schwartz, developed pulse field gel electrophoresis for very large DNA molecules. Cantor's three-volume book Biophysical Chemistry, co-authored with Paul Schimmel, was an influential textbook in the 1980s and 199...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frattini%27s%20argument
In group theory, a branch of mathematics, Frattini's argument is an important lemma in the structure theory of finite groups. It is named after Giovanni Frattini, who used it in a paper from 1885 when defining the Frattini subgroup of a group. The argument was taken by Frattini, as he himself admits, from a paper of A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20manager
An object manager is a concept, and often a piece of software, found in object-oriented programming. The object manager provides rules for retention, naming and security of objects. Object (computer science)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.%20M.%20Dharmadasa
I.M. Dharmadasa is Professor of Applied Physics and leads the Electronic Materials and Solar Energy (solar cells and other Semiconductor Devices) Group at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Dharme has worked in semiconductor research since becoming a PhD student at Durham University as a Commonwealth Scholar in 1977, und...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LORAX
The Life On ice: Robotic Antarctic eXplorer or LORAX is an experimental robotics project being developed by the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, supported by NASA. The intent of the project is to create an autonomous rover to survey the distribution of microbes on Antarctica's ice sheets. It is unknown...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction%20map
A restriction map is a map of known restriction sites within a sequence of DNA. Restriction mapping requires the use of restriction enzymes. In molecular biology, restriction maps are used as a reference to engineer plasmids or other relatively short pieces of DNA, and sometimes for longer genomic DNA. There are other ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drucker%20Medal
The Daniel C. Drucker medal was instituted in 1997 by the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The Drucker Medal is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the fields of applied mechanics and mechanical engineering. The award is given in honor of Daniel C. Druc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Needleman
Alan Needleman (born September 2, 1944) is a professor of materials science & engineering at Texas A&M University. Prior to 2009, he was Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Early life and education Needleman received his B.S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roofnet
Roofnet was an experimental 802.11b/g mesh network developed by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Research included link-level measurements of 802.11, finding high-throughput routes in the face of lossy links, link adaptation, and developing ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn
Steorn Ltd () was a small, private technology development company based in Dublin, Ireland. In August 2006, it announced that it had developed a technology to provide "free, clean, and constant energy" via an apparent perpetual motion machine, something which is contrary to the law of conservation of energy, a fundamen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium%20on%20Logic%20in%20Computer%20Science
The ACM–IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) is an annual academic conference on the theory and practice of computer science in relation to mathematical logic. Extended versions of selected papers of each year's conference appear in renowned international journals such as Logical Methods in Computer Scien...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organocopper%20chemistry
Organocopper chemistry is the study of the physical properties, reactions, and synthesis of organocopper compounds, which are organometallic compounds containing a carbon to copper chemical bond. They are reagents in organic chemistry. The first organocopper compound, the explosive copper(I) acetylide (), was synthes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalziel%20Hammick
Dalziel Llewellyn Hammick FRS (8 March 1887 in West Norwood, London, England – 17 October 1966) was an English research chemist. His major work was in synthetic organic chemistry. Along with Walter Illingworth he promulgated the Hammick-Illingworth rule, which predicts the order of substitution in benzene derivatives. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learnable%20evolution%20model
The learnable evolution model (LEM) is a non-Darwinian methodology for evolutionary computation that employs machine learning to guide the generation of new individuals (candidate problem solutions). Unlike standard, Darwinian-type evolutionary computation methods that use random or semi-random operators for generating...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai%20University%20Computer%20Engineering%20Science%20School
Shanghai University School of Computer Engineering and Science is considered a leading school in computer science and engineering fields in Shanghai, China, the school was one of earliest established in Shanghai. Professor Sanli Li, Dean of the school, is one of China's pioneers in computer science and engineering. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20University%20of%20Tokyo%20people
Notable alumni Nobel prize laureates Of UTokyo winners, five have been physicists, one chemists, two for literature, one for physiology or medicine and one for efforts towards peace. Yasunari Kawabata, Literature, 1968 Leo Esaki, Physics, 1973 Eisaku Satō, Peace, 1974 Kenzaburō Ōe, Literature, 1994 Masatoshi Koshi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl-Henric%20Svanberg
Carl-Henric Svanberg (born 29 May 1952), is a Swedish businessman and current Chairman of Volvo. He was Chairman of BP for eight years, from 2010 to 2018. Life and career Svanberg holds a master's degree in applied physics from the Linköping Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree in business administration f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker%E2%80%93Sochacki%20method
In mathematics, the Parker–Sochacki method is an algorithm for solving systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), developed by G. Edgar Parker and James Sochacki, of the James Madison University Mathematics Department. The method produces Maclaurin series solutions to systems of differential equations, with the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertram%20Boltwood
Bertram Borden Boltwood (July 27, 1870 Amherst, Massachusetts – August 15, 1927, Hancock Point, Maine) was an American pioneer of radiochemistry. Boltwood attended Yale University, became a professor there and in 1910 was appointed chair of the first academic department of radiochemistry. He established that lead was ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tightness%20of%20measures
In mathematics, tightness is a concept in measure theory. The intuitive idea is that a given collection of measures does not "escape to infinity". Definitions Let be a Hausdorff space, and let be a σ-algebra on that contains the topology . (Thus, every open subset of is a measurable set and is at least as fine a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo%20Trancho
Gonzalo Javier Trancho Gayo (Madrid, 8 February 1955) is a Spanish anthropologist. He obtained doctor and bachelor degrees in Biological Sciences at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he is also a professor in the Zoology and Anthropology Department. His thesis dealt with a cell biology study of populations ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Eckhardt%20%28trader%29
William Eckhardt is a trader. Education Eckhardt never finished his PhD in mathematics, claiming that he left graduate school for the trading pits after an unexpected change of thesis advisors. Despite leaving academia prematurely, Eckhardt has published several papers in academic journals. In 1993, Eckhardt's articl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20calculus
Calculus is a branch of mathematics focused on limits, functions, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series. This subject constitutes a major part of contemporary mathematics education. Calculus has widespread applications in science, economics, and engineering and can solve many problems for which algebra alone is i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A1s%20Kornai
András Kornai (born 1957 in Budapest), son of economist János Kornai, is a mathematical linguist. He has earned two PhDs. He earned his first in Mathematics in 1983 from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, where his advisor was Miklós Ajtai, and his second in Linguistics in 1991 from Stanford University, where his ad...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAMC
CAMC may refer to: Charleston Area Medical Center, a complex of hospitals in Charleston, West Virginia Carlsberg Meridian Telescope, formerly known as the Carlsberg Automatic Meridian Circle Computer-Aided Manufacturing Capability Committee on the American Mathematics Competitions, the organization that oversees t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopa%20%28disambiguation%29
Scopa may refer to: Scopa, a card game Scopa (biology), an anatomical feature of insects Scopa, Piedmont, a municipality in Italy An acronym for the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania SCOPA FC, a Samoan football club See also SOCPA, the Serious Organized Crimes and Police Act, a UK anti-terrorism law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar%20Despi%C4%87
Aleksandar Despić (January 6, 1927–April 7, 2005) was a Serbian physicist and academic. Despić received his PhD degree from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. He was a professor at the Faculty of Technology, University of Belgrade and his scientific interests include fundamental and applied electro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME%20Object%20Security%20Services
MIME Object Security Services (MOSS) is a protocol that uses the multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted framework to apply digital signature and encryption services to MIME objects. Details The services are offered through the use of end-to-end cryptography between an originator and a recipient at the application la...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%20G.%20Debus
Allen George Debus (August 16, 1926 – March 6, 2009) was an American historian of science, known primarily for his work on the history of chemistry and alchemy. In 1991 he was honored at the University of Chicago with an academic conference held in his name. Paul H. Theerman and Karen Hunger Parshall edited the proceed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi%20Wigderson
Avi Wigderson (; born 9 September 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist. He is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the school of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America. His research interests include complexity theory, parallel algorithms, gra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Gaitsgory
Dennis Gaitsgory is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University known for his research on the geometric Langlands program. Born in Chișinău, now in Moldova, he grew up in Tajikistan, before studying at Tel Aviv University under Joseph Bernstein (1990–1996). He received his doctorate in 1997 for a thesis entitle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder%20set%20measure
In mathematics, cylinder set measure (or promeasure, or premeasure, or quasi-measure, or CSM) is a kind of prototype for a measure on an infinite-dimensional vector space. An example is the Gaussian cylinder set measure on Hilbert space. Cylinder set measures are in general not measures (and in particular need not be ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sixth%20Dimension
The Sixth Dimension or Sixth Dimension may refer to: Six-dimensional space, a concept in mathematics and physics Sixth Dimension, a 2017 album by Power Quest The Sixth Dimension, a fictional place in the 1982 film Forbidden Zone The Sixth Dimension, a fictional place in the British-Canadian TV series Ace Lightning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20self
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the human self: Self – individuality, from one's own perspective. To each person, self is that person. Oneself can be a subject of philosophy, psychology and developmental psychology; religion and spirituality, social science and neuroscience. I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian%20measure
In mathematics, Gaussian measure is a Borel measure on finite-dimensional Euclidean space Rn, closely related to the normal distribution in statistics. There is also a generalization to infinite-dimensional spaces. Gaussian measures are named after the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. One reason why Gaussian ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron%E2%80%93Martin%20theorem
In mathematics, the Cameron–Martin theorem or Cameron–Martin formula (named after Robert Horton Cameron and W. T. Martin) is a theorem of measure theory that describes how abstract Wiener measure changes under translation by certain elements of the Cameron–Martin Hilbert space. Motivation The standard Gaussian measur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exceptional%20Lie%20algebra
In mathematics, an exceptional Lie algebra is a complex simple Lie algebra whose Dynkin diagram is of exceptional (nonclassical) type. There are exactly five of them: ; their respective dimensions are 14, 52, 78, 133, 248. The corresponding diagrams are: G2 : F4 : E6 : E7 : E8 : In contrast, simple Lie algebras t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGH
CGH may refer to: Comparative genomic hybridization Computer-generated holography the IATA airport code of Congonhas-São Paulo Airport Changi General Hospital, a hospital in Simei, Singapore Colorado General Hospital, former name of University of Colorado Hospital cGh physics, a characterization of unified physi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland%20High%20School%20%28Bakersfield%2C%20California%29
Highland High School is a public high school in Bakersfield, California, United States, providing technology-based instruction across the curriculum. Advanced Placement (AP) and Honors classes are offered for juniors and seniors in English, calculus, statistics, math analysis, U.S. History, government/economics, chemis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thioureas
In organic chemistry, thioureas are members of a family of organosulfur compounds with the formula and structure . The parent member of this class of compounds is thiourea (). The thiourea functional group has a planar core. Structure and bonding Thioureas have planar core. The bond distance is near 1.71 Å, which ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendren%20v.%20Campbell
Hendren et al. v. Campbell et al. was a 1977 ruling by an Indiana state superior court that the young-earth creationist textbook could not be used in Indiana public schools. Jon Hendren, a ninth-grade student in the West Clark Community Schools, sued when the district picked Biology: A Search For Order In Complexity, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita%20Dolly%20Panek
Anita Dolly Haubenstock Panek is a Brazilian biochemist. She emigrated from Poland to Brazil because of World War II. She received a B.Sc. in Chemistry, 1954 and a Ph.D. in 1962. She became a professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. In 1988 she showed that endogenous trehalose protects cells against th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean%20Journal%20of%20Science
The Caribbean Journal of Science is a triannual peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal publishing articles, research notes, and book reviews related to science in the Caribbean, with an emphasis on botany, zoology, ecology, conservation biology, geology, archaeology, and paleontology. The journal was established ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20evolutionary%20genetics
Human evolutionary genetics studies how one human genome differs from another human genome, the evolutionary past that gave rise to the human genome, and its current effects. Differences between genomes have anthropological, medical, historical and forensic implications and applications. Genetic data can provide import...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos%20Steiner
Lajos Steiner (14 June 1903, in Nagyvárad (Oradea) – 22 April 1975, in Sydney) was a Hungarian–born Australian chess master. Steiner was one of four children of Bernat Steiner, a mathematics teacher, and his wife Cecilia,(née Schwarz). His elder brother was Endre Steiner. He was educated at the Technical High School ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20First%20Immortal
The First Immortal (1998) is a novel by James L. Halperin about life of a man born in 1925 who dies in 1988 and is re-animated after a cryonics procedure. The novel spans 200 years and gives a futuristic account of the first immortal human. The novel explores the future prospects of cryonics, A.I., nanotechnology, and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Historic%20Mechanical%20Engineering%20Landmarks
The following is a list of Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks as designated by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) since it began the program in 1971. The designation is granted to existing artifacts or systems representing significant mechanical engineering technology. Mechanical Engineering He...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level%20set%20%28data%20structures%29
In computer science a level set data structure is designed to represent discretely sampled dynamic level sets functions. A common use of this form of data structure is in efficient image rendering. The underlying method constructs a signed distance field that extends from the boundary, and can be used to solve the mot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico%20Barone
Enrico Barone (; 22 December 1859, Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies – 14 May 1924, Rome, Italy) was a soldier, military historian, and an economist. Biography Barone studied the classics and mathematics before becoming an army officer. He taught military history for eight years from 1894 at the Officers' Training S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marisha%20Pessl
Marisha Pessl (born October 26, 1977) is an American writer known for her novels Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Night Film, and Neverworld Wake. Early life Pessl was born in Clarkston, Michigan, to Klaus, an Austrian engineer for General Motors, and Anne, an American homemaker. Pessl's parents divorced when she w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Greenblatt
Jack Greenblatt is the Ann and Max Tannenbaum Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. He has been a recipient of a Medical Research Council of Canada Distinguished Scientist Award, and an International R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paley%E2%80%93Wiener%20integral
In mathematics, the Paley–Wiener integral is a simple stochastic integral. When applied to classical Wiener space, it is less general than the Itō integral, but the two agree when they are both defined. The integral is named after its discoverers, Raymond Paley and Norbert Wiener. Definition Let be an abstract Wiene...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Fedkiw
Ronald Paul "Ron" Fedkiw (born February 27, 1968) is a full professor in the Stanford University department of computer science and a leading researcher in the field of computer graphics, focusing on topics relating to physically based simulation of natural phenomena and machine learning. His techniques have been empl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Mazur%20theorem
In functional analysis, a field of mathematics, the Banach–Mazur theorem is a theorem roughly stating that most well-behaved normed spaces are subspaces of the space of continuous paths. It is named after Stefan Banach and Stanisław Mazur. Statement Every real, separable Banach space is isometrically isomorphic to a ...