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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula%20R%C3%B6thlisberger
Ursula Röthlisberger is a professor of computational chemistry at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She works on density functional theory using mixed quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical methods. She is an associate editor of the American Chemical Society Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation and a fel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sham%20Kakade
Sham Machandranath Kakade is an American computer scientist. He is a Gordon McKay Professor in Computer Science at Harvard University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Statistics. He co-founded the Algorithmic Foundations of Data Science Institute. Kakade's research includes work on Reinforcement Learning...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Deymier
Pierre A. Deymier is a researcher in phononics, acoustic metamaterial, and materials science. He is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and previously department head at the University of Arizona. He holds appointments with the applied mathematics graduate interdisciplinary program, BIO5 institute, and Sch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Sherrington%20%28physicist%29
David Sherrington is a British theoretical physicist and Wykeham Professor of Physics Emeritus at the University of Oxford. He is known for his work in condensed matter and statistical physics, and particularly for the invention of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model, an exactly solvable mean-field model of a spin glas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype%20methods
Prototype methods are machine learning methods that use data prototypes. A data prototype is a data value that reflects other values in its class, e.g., the centroid in a K-means clustering problem. Methods The following are some prototype methods K-means clustering Learning vector quantization (LVQ) Gaussian mixt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%20Archaeological%20Sciences%20Conference
The United Kingdom Archaeological Sciences Conference is a biennial conference established in 1987 at the University of Glasgow. From 1987 to 1999 the conference proceedings were published. Major topics discussed at the conference include stable isotope analysis, proteomics, ancient genetics and material analysis. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leemor%20Joshua-Tor
Leemor Joshua-Tor is the W.M. Keck Professor of Structural Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Her research focuses on the role of the argonaute complex in RNA interference. Early life and education Leemor Joshua-Tor was born in Rehovot, Israel. She received a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmyla%20Yanukovych
Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Yanukovych (; , née Nastenko (Настенко); born 9 October 1949) is the ex-wife of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and former First Lady of Ukraine. Biography Lyudmyla was born in Yenakiieve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine SSR on 9 October 1949. She graduated from the Donbas National Academy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20Iris%20Bahar
R. Iris Bahar is Department Head of Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines. Previously, she was professor at the School of Engineering at Brown University. Her interests include computer architecture; computer-aided design for synthesis, verification and low-power applications; and design, test, and reliabili...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna%20Shenoy
Krishna Vaughn Shenoy (1968–2023) was an American neuroscientist and neuroengineer at Stanford University. Shenoy was the Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim Professor in the Stanford University School of Engineering. He focused on neuroscience topics, including neurotechnology such as brain-computer interfaces. On 21 Janua...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%20Mooney-Slater
Rose Camille LeDieu Mooney-Slater (23 October 1902 – 21 November 1981) was a professor of physics at the Newcomb College of the Tulane University and the first female X-ray crystallographer in the United States. Life Rose Camille LeDieu was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mooney-Slater received a B.S. and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly%20Michael
Holly Michael is an American hydrogeologist and Associate Professor of geology at the University of Delaware's College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment. Early life and education Holly earned her BS in Civil Engineering at the University of Notre Dame in 1998 and her Ph.D. in Hydrology at the Massachusetts Institute o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent%20Waters
Brent R. Waters is an American computer scientist, specializing in cryptography and computer security. He is currently a professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Career Waters attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he graduated in 2000 with a BS in computer science. He ear...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20Homburg
Ernst Homburg (born 2 August 1952 in Venlo) is a Dutch emeritus professor of History of Science and Technology at Maastricht University. He published on the History of Chemistry and Technology in the 19th and 20th century in the Netherlands and Europe. Biography Ernst Homburg was born in Venlo, the Netherlands, on 2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20M%C3%BCller%20%28linguist%29
Stefan Müller is a professor of linguistics at the Humboldt University of Berlin specializing in syntax, where he is the head of the German Grammar group (). Education and career Stefan Müller was born in Jena in 1968, majoring in computer science, linguistics, and computational linguistics at the Humboldt University...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%20Ach%C3%BAcarro
Ana Achúcarro Jiménez (born 1962) is a Spanish researcher, academic, and professor of particle astrophysics and quantum field theory at the University of Leiden in Leiden, Netherlands. Her research considers the early universe, supergravity, black holes and solitons. Early life and education Achúcarro graduated from...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavis%20Hinds
Mavis Kathleen Hinds (1929–2009) was an English meteorologist who, together with Fred Bushby, pioneered the use of computers to carry out meteorological calculations in the UK. She studied Mathematics at University College London (UCL) and on graduating joined the UK Meteorological (Met) Office in 1951, attending their...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Blatchly
Dr. John Marcus Blatchly MBE FSA (7 October 1932 – 3 September 2015) was a schoolmaster, author and noted historian of the county of Suffolk. Life The son of Alfred Ernest Blatchly and Edith Selina Giddings, he studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge and became a chemistry teacher. From 1972 to 1993 he...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula%20Gibson
Ursula J. Gibson is a materials scientist who specialises in novel core optical fibres. Early life and education Gibson was born in Sheffield, England, and moved to the US in the 1960s, living in the Philadelphia area, then Ithaca, New York. She received in A.B. in physics from Dartmouth College. She received her M....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editori%20Riuniti
Editori Riuniti is an Italian publishing house based in Rome that publishes books and magazines on the history of socialism, socialist thought, physics and mathematics theory, and the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. History Editori Riuniti was founded in 1953 by the merger of the Italian Commun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20G.%20Blackman
Eric Glen Blackman (born September 21, 1968 in Rochester, New York) is an American astrophysicist and professor. Education and career Blackman graduated from the Harley School, and then obtained undergraduate degrees in physics and mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked at the General...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Prix%20scientifique%20de%20la%20Fondation%20Louis%20D.
The Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation Louis D. (Scientific Grand Prize of the Louis D. Foundation) is an award conferred annually by the Louis D. Foundation of the Institut de France. It is awarded for fundamental or applied research in the areas of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Each year...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit%20Goffer
Amit Goffer is an inventor and serial entrepreneur and is regarded as one of the pioneers of the exoskeleton industry. He is the chief technology officer and president of UPnRIDE Robotics Ltd. He received his B.Sc. from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, his M.Sc. from Tel-Aviv University and his Ph.D. from Drex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo%20Lichte
Hugo Lichte (11 April 1891 in :de:Mengede, Germany − 27 July 1963 in Berlin, Germany) was a German physicist. He did pioneering work on the theory of sound propagation in the ocean and was a leading developer of motion picture technology during the transition from silent to sound film. Life Hugo Lichte studied mathema...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iv%C3%A1n%20Vargas%20Blanco
Víctor Iván Vargas Blanco (born March 24, 1973) is Costa Rican plasma and nuclear fusion physicist. He is renowned for his work in plasma physics and nuclear fusion. Currently, as a professor and tenured researcher at the Costa Rica Institute of Technology, he heads the Plasma Laboratory for Fusion Energy and Applicati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glennys%20Farrar
Glennys Reynolds Farrar (born 1946) is a professor of physics at New York University who specializes in particle physics, cosmology and the study of dark matter. She has made several significant contributions to the fields of hadron and dark matter phenomenology, helping to develop the working "Standard Cosmological Mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumar%20Wickramasinghe
Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe is Nicolaos G. and Sue Curtis Alexopoulos Presidential Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. Education He graduated from King's College London with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 1970 and a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%20C.%20Bing
Franklin Church Bing (29 December 1902 – 17 October 1988) was an American biochemist, advisor and archivist. He was born in the United States. He got his PhD in the physiological chemistry department of Yale University in 1930. After that he joined the Western Reserve University between 1929 and 1936 and became a facul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OctaDist
OctaDist is computer software for crystallography and inorganic chemistry program. It is mainly used for computing distortion parameters of coordination complex such as spin crossover complex (SCO), magnetic metal complex and metal–organic framework (MOF). The program is developed and maintained in an international co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Hamley
Ian Hamley (born 1965) is a British academic who is the Diamond Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Reading. He is a soft matter scientist and physical chemist with research expertise in self-assembling molecules including polymers, peptides and other biomolecules. He has more than 400 published scient...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20J.%20Sciulli
Frank J. Sciulli (born 22 August 1938 in Philadelphia) is an American experimental physicist, specializing in particle physics. Sciulli studied at the University of Pennsylvania with bachelor's degree in 1960, master's degree in 1961, and PhD in 1965 with a dissertation involving experiments on K-meson decays. At Cal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive%20Humby
Clive Robert Humby (born 3 February 1955) is a British mathematician and entrepreneur in the field of data science and customer-centric business strategies. Since 2014, he has been Chief Data Scientist of the consumer insights company, Starcount. Early life and education Humby was born in Leicester. He attended Shef...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overabundant%20species
In biology, overabundant species refers to an excessive number of individuals and occurs when the normal population density has been exceeded. Increase in animal populations is influenced by a variety of factors, some of which include habitat destruction or augmentation by human activity, the introduction of invasive s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planar%20SAT
In computer science, the planar 3-satisfiability problem (abbreviated PLANAR 3SAT or PL3SAT) is an extension of the classical Boolean 3-satisfiability problem to a planar incidence graph. In other words, it asks whether the variables of a given Boolean formula—whose incidence graph consisting of variables and clauses c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel%20Sagiv
Mooly (Shmuel) Sagiv (born 11 April 1959, Israel) is an Israeli computer scientist known for his work on static program analysis. He is currently Chair of Software Systems in the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, and CEO of Certora, a startup company providing formal verification of smart contracts. S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Vliegenthart
Johannes Frederik Gerardus (Hans) Vliegenthart (born April 7, 1936 in Zuilen, the Netherlands) is a Dutch emeritus professor in bioorganic chemistry of Utrecht University, well known for his research on the synthesis and characterisation of carbohydrates, and biomolecules containing sugar moieties such as glycoproteins...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20Goodale
Christine Goodale is an ecosystem ecologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. Goodale conducts research that studies the cycling of water, carbon, nitrogen and other nutrients through forest ecosystems. Education Christine Goodale attended Dartmout...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20H.%20Egelman
Edward "Ed" H. Egelman (born 1952) is a Harrison Distinguished Chair of biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on the application of cryo-EM in the study of protein-DNA complexes. He is a former president of the Biophysical Society, and an elected fellow of the National ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20Kolodziejski
Leslie Ann Kolodziejski (born July 31, 1958) is an American professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She works on fabricating novel photonic devices after synthesizing the constituent material via molecular-beam epitaxy. She is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloshing%20bucket%20model%20of%20evolution
The sloshing bucket model of evolution is a theory in evolutionary biology that describes how environmental disturbances varying in magnitude will affect the species present. The theory emphasizes the causal relationship between environmental factors that impinge and affect genealogical systems, providing an overarchin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takamatsu%20Construction%20Group
is a conglomerate of construction and civil engineering companies headquartered in Osaka, Japan. Its subsidiaries specialize in the architecture of high-rise buildings, health and welfare facilities, shrines & temples, and public civil engineering projects such as airports, harbors, railways, roadways and residential d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang%20Weilu
Huang Weilu (; 18 December 1916 – 23 November 2011) was a Chinese aerospace and electrical engineer who was a specialist in the control systems of missiles and rockets. The chief designer of JL-1, China's first submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), he was awarded the Two Bombs, One Satellite Meritorious Medal in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20A.%20Liu
Margaret A. Liu (born June 11, 1956) is a physician and researcher studying gene expression, immune responses, and vaccines. From 2015 to 2017, Liu served as president of the International Society of Vaccines. She is currently a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco (UC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte%20Werndl
Charlotte Werndl is an Austrian philosopher. She holds a chair in logic and philosophy of science at the University of Salzburg and a visiting professorship at the London School of Economics. Werndl is known for her works on philosophy of science and is a winner of Cushing Memorial Prize in History and Philosophy of Ph...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiverer%20mouse
Shiverer mice are mice which possess the shiverer (shi/shi) mutation in the MBP gene. Shiverer mice develop a characteristic "shaking" or "shivering" gait within a few weeks of birth. They are commonly used as animal models of leukodystrophy in neuroscience research. Characteristics The shiverer mutation is an autoso...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20J.%20H.%20Scott
Peter J. H. Scott FRSC CChem (born July 27, 1979) is a British and American chemist and radiochemist who is a professor of radiology, professor of pharmacology and professor of medicinal chemistry, as well as a core member of the Rogel Cancer Center at the University of Michigan in the United States. He is Chief of Nu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael%20Falk%20%28geneticist%29
Raphael "Rafi" Falk (July 14, 1929 – September 15, 2019) was a German-born Israeli geneticist and historian of science. He was professor emeritus of genetics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. His early research was on the genetics of Drosophila; from 1983 he was active in researching the history and phil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20D.%20Hager
Gregory D. Hager (born May 9, 1961) is the Mandell Bellmore Professor of Computer Science and founding director of the Johns Hopkins Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare at Johns Hopkins University. His principal areas of research are collaborative and vision-based robotics, time-series analysis of image data, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonance%20escape%20probability
In nuclear physics, resonance escape probability is the probability that a neutron will slow down from fission energy to thermal energies without being captured by a nuclear resonance. A resonance absorption of a neutron in a nucleus does not produce nuclear fission. The probability of resonance absorption is called t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohru%20Eguchi
Tohru Eguchi (江口 徹, February 2, 1948 – January 30, 2019) was a Japanese theoretical physicist. Life and career Tohru Eguchi was a professor at the University of Tokyo, and then at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University, of which he was acting director in 2009. From 2012, he was a specially-a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie%20Wirt
Laurie Wirt (1958–2006) was an American scientist working in the fields of hydrology and aquatic geochemistry. She was an activist for water conservation, and was particularly known for her advocacy in the Upper Verde River in Arizona, where she fought against groundwater pumping that threatened river flows. Her resear...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma%20Freud
Selma Freud (b., 21 August 1877, Vienna, d. after 1933, probably in Israel) was an Austrian physicist and the founder of the first official Salvation Army corps in Vienna. She received her doctorate in physics from the University of Vienna in 1906 and was widely thought to be the first Austrian woman to do so, although...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callum%20Bell
Callum James Bell is a biologist. He is the president of the National Center for Genome Resources. Bell completed a Ph.D. at University of Edinburgh where he researched the gravitational biology of Arabidopsis thaliana. His 1988 dissertation was titled Studies of mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) heynh with altered ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamtimes%20and%20Lifetimes
Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists is a book by Sharon Traweek on cultural anthropology and the sociology of science among people in the field of particle physics. It is an ethnography of high energy physicists that chronicles the laboratories, career paths, and values of a community of scient...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang%20Dongju
Zhang Dongju () is a Chinese archeologist and an associate professor at the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences of Lanzhou University. Zhang's research determined that the Xiahe mandible found in the Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau shared DNA with fossilized remains found in the Denisova Cave in Sibe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Wakelee
Heather A. Wakelee is a professor of oncology at Stanford University Medical Center. Her research focuses on lung cancer. Wakelee received a Bachelor's degree in molecular biology from Princeton University in 1992 and MD from Johns Hopkins University in 1996. She is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha. She served as an inte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%20Bagot
Rosemary C. Bagot (born 1981) is a Canadian neuroscientist who researches the mechanisms of altered brain function in depression. She is an assistant professor in behavioral neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her focus in behavioral neuroscience is on understanding t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Wright%20%28architect%29
Gordon Wright (1866-1950) was an architect in New York State. He designed several buildings which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places for their architecture. He was born in Massena, New York in 1866. He graduated from Syracuse University with degrees in civil engineering and architecture. He open...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth%20Goldschmidt
Elisabeth Goldschmidt (; September 22, 1912 – May 6, 1970) was a German-born Israeli geneticist who founded the genetics program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been described as "the founding mother of the field of genetics in Israel". Early life and education Goldschmidt was born Elisabeth Wechsler in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby%20Hendy
Toby Hendy (born 11 July 1995) is a science communicator and YouTuber who focuses on educational content relating to physics, mathematics and astronomy. Early life and education School Hendy attended Katikati College in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. In 2011, she was selected by the Royal Society of New Zealand as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Seidl
Andreas Seidl (born 6 January 1976) is a German motorsport engineer and manager. He is currently the chief executive officer of Sauber Motorsport, and previously team principal of the McLaren Formula One team and the hybrid Porsche LMP1 program. Career Seidl graduated from the Technical University of Munich with a dip...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krystal%20Tsosie
Dr. Krystal Tsosie (Diné) is a Navajo geneticist and bioethicist at Arizona State University and activist for Indigenous data sovereignty. She is also an educator and an expert on genetic and social identities. Her advocacy and academic work in ameliorating disparities in genetics through community-based participatory...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20N.%20Wright
Rebecca N. Wright (born 1967) is an American computer scientist known for her research in computer security. She is the Druckenmiller Professor of Computer Science at Barnard College. Education and career Wright was an undergraduate at Columbia University, graduating in 1988. She went to Yale University for her gradua...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maura%20Hagan
Maura E. Hagan is a Professor of Physics and Dean of the College of Science at Utah State University. She is a Fellow of both the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union, and was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019. Early life and education Hagan studied physics at ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth%20Gwinn
Elisabeth (Beth) Gwinn is a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Gwinn was the first woman to join the Physics faculty at UCSB. Gwinn's research team explores topics at the intersection of nanoscience, biology, and optics. She is particularly well known for her w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Borgs
Christian Borgs is a German-American computer scientist and mathematical physicist. Biography He is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, he was the deputy managing director of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%20Carenco
Sophie Carenco is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research, working on nanochemistry at the Laboratory of Condensed Matter Chemistry of Paris. Her research focuses on novel synthetic routes of exotic nanomaterials for energy application such as CO2 capture. Early life and education Sophie Ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Macklis
Jeffrey D. Macklis is an American neuroscientist. He is the Max and Anne Wien Professor of Life Sciences in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and Center for Brain Science at Harvard University, Professor of Neurology [Neuroscience] at Harvard Medical School, and on the Executive Committee and a Membe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helstrom
Helstrom may refer to: Helstrom (TV series), an American television series, part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Helstrom metric (or Bures metric), in quantum mechanics and mathematics, defining an infinitesimal distance between density matrix operators Echo Helstrom (band), a Portland, Oregon-based rock band Peo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20P.%20Hardy
Matthew Phillip Hardy (1957-2007) was an American reproductive biologist who has made fundamental contributions in Leydig cell differentiation and function. Biography M. P. Hardy was born in Evanston, Illinois, completed elementary education at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC. He received a double bachel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia%20Sohn
Lydia Lee Sohn is a professor of mechanical engineering and bio-engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and the co-founder of Nodexus. In 2002, Sohn and Paul McEuen uncovered figure duplication and fraud in scientific papers on semiconductors written by Jan Hendrik Schön, leading to multiple retractions a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20K.%20Donahoe
Patricia Kilroy Donahoe is an American pediatric surgeon and a leading researcher in the field of developmental biology and oncology. She was the president of the American Pediatric Surgical Association from 2006 to 2007. She currently serves as the director of pediatric surgical research laboratories and chief emerita...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla%20Kirkegaard
Karla Kirkegaard (born 1954) is the Violetta L. Horton Research Professor of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She was the chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology from 2006 to 2010. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20Turkewitz
Gerald Turkewitz (February 25, 1933 – February 24, 2015) was an American psychologist who helped to pioneer the field of developmental psychobiology. He is also recognized for his contributions to child development and the study of human infancy. His influences included Daniel S. Lehrman and T. C. Schneirla, the latter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana%20Wolfner
Mariana Federica Wolfner is the Goldwin Smith Professor of molecular biology and genetics at Cornell University. Her research investigates sexual conflict in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2019 in recognition of her distinguished and continu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20J.%20Butler
Richard James Butler is a vertebrate palaeontologist at the University of Birmingham, where he holds the title of professor of palaeobiology. His research focuses on ornithischian dinosaur evolution, dinosaur origins, and fossil tetrapod macroevolution. Biography Butler's undergraduate degree is a BSc in geology from...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20M.%20Andrews
Anne M. Andrews is an American academic, the Richard Metzner Endowed Chair in Clinical Neuropharmacology, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. Andrews is known for her work on the study of the serotonin system with a spec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaminia%20Catteruccia
Flaminia Catteruccia is an Italian professor of immunology and infectious disease at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, studying the interactions between malaria and the Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit the parasites. Early life and education Catteruccia initially trained in chemistry for her undergradu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Lowey
Susan Lowey (born 22 January 1933 in Vienna) is an American biophysicist researching the structure and function of contractile proteins. She currently teaches in the Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics at the University of Vermont and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir%20Dembo
Amir Dembo (born October 25, 1958, Haifa) is an Israeli-American mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023. Biography Dembo received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Bang
Frederik Barry Bang (1916–1981) was an American medical researcher who developed the Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) test for bacterial endotoxins. He was influential in applying marine biology to medical research, especially immunology. Biography Frederik Bang attended Johns Hopkins University earning an A.B. in 1935...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristie%20Boering
Kristie Ann Boering (born October 6, 1963) is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Science and the Lieselotte and David Templeton Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. She studies atmospheric chemistry and mass transport in the extraterrestrial atmosphere using kinetics and photochemistry. Boering...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosamond%20W.%20Purcell
Rosamond Wolff Purcell (born 1942) is an American photographer. Purcell is known for her photographic works that explore subjects in natural history, science, and biology. She was the subject of the 2016 documentary film An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell by Molly Bernstein. Her work is included in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%20Kendziorski
Christina Marie Kendziorski is a biostatistician whose research involves genomics, statistical genetics, and the statistical analysis of data from high-throughput sequencing. She is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Education and career Kendzio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiebke%20Drenckhan
Wiebke Drenckhan, born 6 April 1977 in Bad Belzig, is a German physicist. She is a CNRS research director at the Institut Charles Sadron, where she investigates the physics and physical chemistry of liquid and solid foams and emulsions. She also works as illustrator for scientific journals and popular science books and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Armstrong%20%28geostatistician%29
Margaret Armstrong is an Australian geostatistician, mathematical geoscientist, and textbook author. She works as an associate professor in the School of Applied Mathematics at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Brazil, and as a research associate in the Centre for Industrial Economics of Mines ParisTech in France. Educat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Programme%20on%20Technology%20Enhanced%20Learning
The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) is an Indian e-learning platform for university-level science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects. It is jointly developed by Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institute of Science. The initiative is funded by the centr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra%20J.%20Rosenthal
Sandra J. Rosenthal (born 1966) is the Jack and Pamela Egan Professor of Chemistry, professor of physics and astronomy, pharmacology, chemical and biomolecular engineering, and materials science at Vanderbilt University. She is a joint faculty member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Materials Science and Technol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Keith%20Townes
Henry Keith Townes, Jr. (20 January 1913 – 2 May 1990) was an American entomologist who specialized in the Hymenoptera with a special focus on the Ichneumonidae. Townes was born in Greenville, South Carolina and went to study at the Furman College, receiving bachelor's degrees in 1933 which included a BS in biology an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C2%2C3%2C4%2C5-Pentakis%284-butylphenyl%29-1%2C3-cyclopentadiene
1,2,3,4,5-Pentakis(4-butylphenyl)-1,3-cyclopentadiene is an organochemical compound from the diene group and a cyclopentadiene derivative. The anion of this compound is used as a sterically demanding ligand, often abbreviated as Cp[BIG], in the organometallic chemistry of sandwich compounds. Preparation 1,2,3,4,5-Pe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Milford%20Muller
Paul Milford Muller (1937–2013) was an American aerospace engineer, fiction author, and the co-founder of Sage Group, the United Kingdom's largest software business. Early life and education Muller was born on September 30, 1937, in Los Angeles, California. Muller studied mathematics and history at California State ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20J.%20Johnson
Patricia Jean Johnson is a Professor of Microbiology at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She works on the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis, which is responsible for the most prevalent sexually transmitted infections in the United States, Trichomoniasis. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20Seidman
Christine Edry Seidman is the Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She operates a joint lab with her husband, Jonathan Seidman, where they study genetic mechanisms of heart disease. In recognition of her scien...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarr%E2%80%93Rowe%20effect
In behavioral genetics, the Scarr–Rowe effect, also known as the Scarr–Rowe hypothesis, refers to the proposed moderating effect of low socioeconomic status on the heritability of children's IQ. According to this hypothesis, lower socioeconomic status and greater exposure to social disadvantage during childhood leads t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20growth
In mathematics and physics, surface growth refers to models used in the dynamical study of the growth of a surface, usually by means of a stochastic differential equation of a field. Examples Popular growth models include: KPZ equation Dimer model Eden growth model SOS model Self-avoiding walk Abelian sandpile m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Seidman
Jonathan G. Seidman is the Henrietta B. and Frederick H. Bugher Foundation Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He operates a joint lab with his wife, Christine Seidman, where they study genetic mechanisms of heart disease. Career Jonathan Seidman grew up in Norwalk, Connecticut and went to high school i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne-Claude%20Gingras
Anne-Claude Gingras is a senior investigator at Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, and a professor in the department of molecular genetics at the University of Toronto. She is an expert in mass spectrometry based proteomics technology that allows identification and quantification of protein from various biologica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinh%20Tien-Cuong
Dinh Tien-Cuong (Vietnamese: Đinh Tiến Cường, born May 1973 in Hai Duong, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese mathematician educated by the French school of mathematics, and Provost’s chair professor at National University of Singapore (NUS). He held professorship at Pierre and Marie Curie University (2005–2014), part-time profes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMPLY%20gate
The NIMPLY gate is a digital logic gate that implements a material nonimplication. Symbols A right-facing arrow with a line through it () can be used to denote NIMPLY in algebraic expressions. Logically, it is equivalent to material nonimplication, and the logical expression A ∧ ¬B. Usage The NIMPLY gate is often us...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumford%20Chair%20of%20Physics
The Rumford Chair of Physics (originally the Rumford Chair and Lectureship on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts) is an endowed professorship established at Harvard University in 1816 under the will of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford. Endowment Specifically, an initial annuity of $1000 (with reversion of c...