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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20H.%20Lienhard%20V | John Henry Lienhard V (born 1961) is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Water and Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on desalination, heat transfer, and thermodynamics. He has also written several engineering textbooks.
Childhood and education
Lienhard was born ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20Raymond%20Hall | Eugene Raymond Hall (11 May 1902, Imes, Kansas – 2 April 1986, Lawrence, Kansas) was an American mammalogist.
Biology
Hall graduated from the University of Kansas with A.B. in 1924 and from the University of California, Berkeley with M.A. in 1925 and Ph.D. in 1928. His doctoral dissertation, under the direction of Jos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm%20I.%20Fages | Malcolm Irving Fages (born 5 December 1946) is a retired vice admiral in the United States Navy who served Deputy Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 2001 to 2004.
A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Fages earned bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Auburn University. He later received a M.A. degre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul%20Thiery | Jean Paul Thiery is a French biologist born on 25 April 1947. He is director of emeritus research at the CNRS-Paris-Diderot University laboratory on complex materials and systems, at the Institut Gustave Roussy's cancer centre and associate professor at several foreign universities.
Biography
Jean Paul Thiery obtai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20Imbert | Michel Imbert (born 29 June 1935 in Béziers, France) is a neuropsychologist teacher-researcher in cognitive neurosciences, professor emeritus at Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University (since 2003) and honorary director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).
Biography
After studies at the So... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth%20Brenton | A. Gareth Brenton FLSW. is a Welsh physicist and chemist known for his work in mass spectrometry.
Early life and education
Gareth was born in South Wales. He went on to attend the University of Wales at Swansea (now Swansea University) in the early 1970s. He received a Ph.D. in physics in 1979.
Career and research ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey%20Vikhlinin | Alexey Vikhlinin (born September 17, 1970) is a Russian-American astrophysicist notable for achievements in the astrophysics of high energy phenomenon, namely galaxy cluster cosmology and the design of space-based X-ray observatories. He is currently a senior astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Age%20of%20A.I. | The Age of A.I. is an eight-episode American science documentary streaming television series narrated and hosted by American actor Robert Downey Jr. The show covers the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in various fields, like health, robotics, space-travel, food, disaster-prevention, and others. Each 30-45 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20H.%20Moellering | John Henry Moellering Sr. (born February 4, 1938) is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Army. He is a 1959 graduate of the United States Military Academy with a B.S. degree in engineering. Moellering also earned an M.S. degree in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962. As a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20J.%20Greenwald | Sarah J. Greenwald is professor of mathematics at Appalachian State University and faculty affiliate of gender, women's and sexuality studies.
Research
Greenwald's research interests include geometry and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She also investigates connections between mathematics and society, such a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry%20energy | In nuclear physics, the symmetry energy reflects the variation of the binding energy of the nucleons in the nuclear matter depending on its neutron to proton ratio as a function of baryon density. Symmetry energy is an important parameter in the equation of state describing the nuclear structure of heavy nuclei and neu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine%20Unger | Nadine Unger (née Bell) is a Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of Exeter. She has studied the role of human activities and forests on the Earth's climate.
Early life and education
Unger earned her doctoral degree in atmospheric chemistry at the University of Leeds, where she worked on isoprene chem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe%20Pikramenou | Zoe Pikramenou is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Photophysics at the University of Birmingham, where she is the first female professor in the chemistry department.
Education and career
Pikramenou graduated in 1987 with a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Athens in Greece. She then moved to Michigan Stat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20numerical%20predicate | In computer science and mathematics, more precisely in automata theory, model theory and formal language, a regular numerical predicate is a kind of relation over integers. Regular numerical predicates can also be considered as a subset of for some arity . One of the main interests of this class of predicates is that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20Strada | Emma Strada (Turin, 18 November 1884 – Turin, 26 September 1970) an Italian civil engineer, was the first woman to obtain a civil engineering degree from the Polytechnic of Turin. She later became the first president of the Italian Association of Women Engineers and Architects.
Early life
Emma Strada was born on 18 N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Physics%20Awards | The Institute of Physics awards numerous prizes to acknowledge contributions to physics research, education and applications. It also offers smaller specific subject-group prizes, such as for PhD thesis submissions.
Bilateral awards
The Max Born Medal and Prize is awarded yearly by the German Physical Society and the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20Behrens%20%28neuroscientist%29 | Timothy E.J. Behrens is a British neuroscientist. He is Deputy Director of the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Professor of Computational Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, and Honorary Lecturer, Wellcome Centre for Imaging Neuroscience, University College London.
He earned an M.Eng. and a D.P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac%20Medal%20%28ICTP%29 | The Dirac Medal of the ICTP is given each year by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in honour of physicist Paul Dirac. The award, announced each year on 8 August (Dirac's birthday), was first awarded in 1985.
An international committee of distinguished scientists selects the winners from a list o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena%20Besley | Elena Besley (née Bichoutskaia) is a British scientist who is Professor of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at the University of Nottingham. She holds a Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship and is Associate Editor of Nano Letters.
Early life and education
Besley studied physics at Saint Petersburg State Universit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAD%28P%29 | In biochemistry, NAD(P) may refer to:
NAD, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
NADP, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on%20d%27Andrimont | Victor Léon d'Andrimont (1836–1905) was a Belgian politician and financier.
Life
D'Andrimont was born in Liège on 29 March 1836, the son of the industrialist and politician Julien d'Andrimont. On 2 May 1859 he married baroness Caroline Maria de Moffarts. After studying civil engineering he entered politics, first in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20L.%20Feldman | Jack L. Feldman is an American neuroscientist, David Geffen School of Medicine Chair in Neuroscience and Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research contributions include elucidating the mechanisms underlying breathing and sighing. He discovered and named th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Garc%C3%ADa%20Velarde | Manuel García Velarde (; born 14 September 1941) is a Spanish physicist and university professor, currently a member of the Academia Europaea, the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain and the European Academy of Sciences. Velarde has worked in American and European universities and research organizations, focusing on flui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther%20von%20Hahn | Walther von Hahn (born 26 April 1942 in Marburg/Lahn) is a German linguist and computer scientist. From 1977 to 2007, von Hahn taught Computer Science and Linguistics at Universität Hamburg.
Education and career
Von Hahn studied German linguistics and literature, philosophy, and Latin and Protestant theology in Marbu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20Mills | Emma Mills (born March 20, 1989) is an American writer of young adult romance novels, scientist, and YouTuber.
Biography
Mills first started writing her debut novel First & Then in high school. She completed the book in college. She has a Ph.D. in Anatomy and Cell Biology from Indiana University.
She started the YouT... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Wight%20Washburn | Edward Wight Washburn (May 10, 1881 – February 6, 1934) was an American chemist.
Washburn was born in Beatrice, Nebraska, in the family of William Gilmor Washburn, a lumber and brick merchant. Having taken all the chemistry courses available at the University of Nebraska (1899-1900) while teaching high school students... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Norberg | Arthur Lawrence Norberg (born 1938; died August 9, 2021) was an American historian of science and technology who had been Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota since 2005. Previously, he held the ERA Land-Grant Chair in History of Technology at the University of Minnesota, where he was a Professor of Comput... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20S.%20Wolfbeis | Otto S. Wolfbeis (born 18 July 1947) was a professor of analytical chemistry and Interface chemistry at the University of Regensburg in Germany until his retirement in 2013.
Biography
Wolfbeis studied chemistry at the University of Graz (Austria) and in 1972 received a PhD in organic chemistry. He then was a post-do... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary%20Godwin | Hilary Joan Arnold Godwin (born December 1, 1967) is a professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington and the dean of the School of Public Health. Godwin studies the biochemistry of lead and how to diminish the impact of climate change on public health.
Ea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Goesling | Bill Goesling is an American politician and retired United States Navy test pilot who served as a member of Idaho House of Representatives from 2018 to 2020.
Early life and education
Goesling was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1963, Goesling earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry from the University of Montana. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20A.%20Lind | David Arthur Lind (September 12, 1918 – March 6, 2015) was an American physics professor, Guggenheim Fellow, mountain climber, and skier. He was part of a five-man team that made the first ascent of Forbidden Peak in the North Cascades in 1940.
Lind was born in Seattle, Washington. He received a B.S. in physics in 194... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morwen | Morwen may refer to:
People with the given name
Morwen Thistlethwaite, knot theorist and professor of mathematics
Characters
Morwen Eledhwen, the wife of Húrin and the mother of his children in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
Morwen Steelsheen, the mother of King Théoden of Rohan in J. R. R. Tolkien's The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song-Chun%20Zhu | Song-Chun Zhu () is a Chinese computer scientist and applied mathematician known for his work in computer vision, cognitive artificial intelligence and robotics. Zhu currently works at Peking University and was previously a professor in the Departments of Statistics and Computer Science at the University of California,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%27s%20Unfinished%20Revolution | Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum is a non-fiction book on quantum mechanics by the American theoretical physicist Lee Smolin. The book was initially published by Penguin Press on April 9, 2019. In this book, his sixth, Smolin tries to provide criticism of quantum mechanics a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan%20Bohannan | Brendan J. M. Bohannan is a microbial and evolutionary biologist. He is a professor of Environmental Studies and Biology at the director of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon. He is a contributor to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He is an Alec and Kay Keith Professo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeneen%20Interlandi | Jeneen Interlandi (born 1977) is a staff writer at the New York Times magazine and a member of The New York Times editorial board.
Interlandi was born in Medellín, Colombia, adopted by Sicilian-Americans, and raised in Central New Jersey. After a bachelor's degree in biology at Rutgers University, Interlandi earned a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvature%20Renormalization%20Group%20Method | In theoretical physics, the curvature renormalization group (CRG) method is an analytical approach to determine the phase boundaries and the critical behavior of topological systems. Topological phases are phases of matter that appear in certain quantum mechanical systems at zero temperature because of a robust degener... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viviana%20Gradinaru | Viviana Grădinaru (born 1981) is a Romanian-American neuroscientist who is a Professor of Neuroscience and Biological Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. She develops neurotechnologies including optogenetics CLARITY tissue clearing, and gene delivery vectors. She has been awarded the Presidential Ear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amide%20%28functional%20group%29 | In chemistry, the term amide ( or or ) is a compound with the functional group RnE(=O)xNR2, where n and x may be 1 or 2, E is some element, and each R represents an organic group or hydrogen. It is a derivative of an oxoacid RnE(=O)xOH with an hydroxy group –OH replaced by an amine group –NR2.
Some important subclass... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation%20theory%20of%20semisimple%20Lie%20algebras | In mathematics, the representation theory of semisimple Lie algebras is one of the crowning achievements of the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras. The theory was worked out mainly by E. Cartan and H. Weyl and because of that, the theory is also known as the Cartan–Weyl theory. The theory gives the structural descri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiayang%20Sun | Jiayang Sun is an American statistician whose research has included work on simultaneous confidence bands for multiple comparisons, selection bias, mixture models, Gaussian random fields, machine learning, big data, statistical computing, graphics, and applications in biostatistics, biomedical research, software bug tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayaraman%20Sivaguru | Jayaraman Sivaguru (Siva) is the Antonia and Marshall Wilson Professor of Chemistry and the Associate Director, Center for Photochemical Sciences at the Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. He is a recipient of 2008 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2010 Grammaticakis-Ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20W.%20Durkee | Frank Williams Durkee (October 5, 1861 – May 21, 1939) was an American football player and coach and a college faculty member. He served as a player-coach at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts in 1887, compiling a record of 4–6. He was also a team captain on the school's baseball team in 1888.
Durkee later wor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20W.%20Fairchild | Raymond Wilbur Fairchild (September 9, 1889 – June 12, 1956) was an American college administrator and college football coach. He served as the president of Illinois State Normal University (now Illinois State University) from 1933 to 1955. He was previously a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20C.%20Evans%20%28paleontologist%29 | David Christopher Evans (born 1980) is a Canadian palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist who specializes in the evolution and paleobiology of Cretaceous dinosaurs in western North America. He received his B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He is a fellow of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mechanical%20engineering%20awards | This list of mechanical engineering awards is an index to articles about notable awards for mechanical engineering.
Awards
See also
Lists of awards
Lists of science and technology awards
List of engineering awards
References
Mechanical engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GivePower | GivePower is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that develops clean water and energy systems in communities across the world. GivePower has installed 2,650 solar power installations in villages across 17 different countries and in underdeveloped areas of the United States.
History
GivePower was co-founded in 2013 in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Debunne | Georges Debunne (2 May 1918 – 21 September 2008) was a Belgian trade union leader.
Born in Menen, Debunne qualified as a teacher, and worked in Halle, joining the trade union. After World War II, he was elected as full-time secretary of the civil engineering section of the General Union of Public Services, then as na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Lynskey | Michael Thomas Lynskey is a New Zealand academic and psychiatrist. He is Professor of Addictions in the National Addictions Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience of King's College London in the United Kingdom. He has previously held positions at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Murashko | Mikhail Albertovich Murashko (; born 9 January 1967) is a Russian physician and a politician, serving as the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation since 21 January 2020.
Biography
Born in Sverdlovsk, he graduated from a city school with an in-depth study of physics, mathematics and chemistry. From 1986 to 1988,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isiah%20Warner | Isiah Manuel Warner is the Boyd and Phillip W. West Professor of Surface and Analytical Chemistry and the Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at Louisiana State University. He’s also a professor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Warner has won numerous national and international awards for chemistry and ment... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoch%20Gutfreund | Hanoch Gutfreund (Hebrew: חנוך גוטפרוינד; born 1935) is the Andre Aisenstadt Chair in theoretical physics and was the president at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to his presidency, he was a professor at the university.
Biography
Gutfreund received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the Hebrew University o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang%20Shouxian | Fang Shouxian (; October 28, 1932 – January 19, 2020) was a Chinese physicist who served as President of the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Biography
Fang was born in Shanghai, Republic of China, on October 28, 1932. After graduating from Fudan University in October 1955, he was a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20T.%20Cunningham | Brian T. Cunningham is an American engineer, researcher and academic. He is a Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a professor of Bioengineering.
Cunningham's research interests include biophotonics, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%20%28radio%20show%29 | Andromeda is a Croatian radio show covering topics in astronomy, astrophysics, and astronautics.
History
The show was started by journalist Tanja Devčić and astronomer Ante Radonić, head of the planetarium at the Technical Museum in Zagreb. It has been broadcast since 1997 on the second program of Croatian Radio, ever... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Vogels | Tim P. Vogels is a professor of theoretical neuroscience and research leader at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. He is primarily known for his scholarly contributions to the study of neuronal plasticity related to learning and memory in the brain.
Education and early research
After graduating from Gymn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan%20Bekinschtein | Tristan Bekinschtein is biologist, Master in Neurophysiology and PhD in neuroscience, Buenos Aires University. He is a university lecturer and Turing Fellow at Cambridge University. Dr. Bekinschtein is primarily known for his work on variable states of consciousness and auditory feedback. He presently runs the Consciou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie%20Higgon | Elsie Higgon (née Hooper; 1879–1969) was the first Joint Secretary of the (National) Association of Women Pharmacists; researcher for King's College, the British Medical Journal and the British Pharmaceutical Codex; Lecturer in Chemistry at Portsmouth Municipal College; proprietor pharmacist of two businesses in Hampst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Education%20and%20Science%20%28Somaliland%29 | The Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Somaliland () () The Ministry of Education and Science of Somaliland is a national executive authority responsible for the state policy development and normative and legal regulation in the sphere of education, research, scientific, technological and innovation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristi%20Kiick | Kristi Lynn Kiick is the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Delaware. She studies polymers, biomaterials and hydrogels for drug delivery and regenerative medicine. She is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute for Medical and Biolog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hvar%20Observatory | The Hvar Observatory, part of the Geodetic school of the University of Zagreb, is an astronomical research observatory located above the city of Hvar (the observatory's dome is between 173 and 245 meters above sea level). Opened in 1972, research at the observatory focuses on solar physics; the photometry of stars, esp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelfand%E2%80%93Fuks%20cohomology | In mathematics, Gelfand–Fuks cohomology, introduced in , is a cohomology theory for Lie algebras of smooth vector fields. It differs from the Lie algebra cohomology of Chevalley-Eilenberg in that its cochains are taken to be continuous multilinear alternating forms on the Lie algebra of smooth vector fields where the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%20Renyu | Hu Renyu (; born 20 July 1931) is a Chinese nuclear physicist who is a researcher and former president at the China Academy of Engineering Physics.
Biography
Hu was born in Shanghai, Republic of China, on July 20, 1931, while his ancestral home in Shangrao, Jiangxi. He secondary studied at Zhejiang Hangzhou High Schoo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20G.%20Genton | Marc G. Genton, (born September 1969 in Geneva, Switzerland) is currently a Distinguished Professor of Statistics with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. He is known as a specialist in Spatio-Temporal Statistics, Data Science and their applications in geophysics, cli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Alford%20%28physicist%29 | Mark G. Alford (born 3 July 1962) is a theoretical physicist and former chair (2012-2022) of the Department of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. He researches dense matter inside neutron stars.
Alford received his bachelor's degree with first-class honors from Oxford in 1984 and his master's and doctoral ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enno%20Dirksen | Enno Dirksen (3 January 1788 – 16 July 1850) was a German mathematician at the University of Berlin.
Early life
Enno Dirksen was born on 3 January 1788 in Eilsum, Prussia to Dirk Heeren Dirksen and Elisabeth Berends. Between 1803 and 1807, he obtained private lessons in mathematics, physics, astronomy and navigation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Ricci%20%28mathematician%29 | Giovanni Ricci (17 August 1904 – 9 September 1973) was an Italian mathematician.
He was born and brought up in Florence, where he did his school education. He then moved to Pisa to study mathematics at the Scuola Normale Superiore (associated with the University of Pisa). He was an assistant professor at the Universit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Prodi | Giovanni Prodi (28 July 1925 – 29 January 2010) was an Italian mathematician, also known for many activities concerning the teaching of mathematics.
There is a professorship of mathematics at the University of Würzburg named in his honour, created in 2006.
Early life
His father, Mario Prodi, was an engineer and his m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Notkin | David Notkin (1 January 1955 – 22 April 2013) was an American software engineer and professor of computer science.
Early life and education
Notkin was born in 1955 in Syracuse, New York, U.S. He pursued his Sc. B. degree from Brown University, graduating in 1977, and later received his doctoral degree from Carnegie M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Girone | Maria Girone is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the CERN openlab. She leads the development of High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies for particle physics experiments.
Early life and education
Girone studied physics at the University of Bari. She earned her doctoral degree in particle physics in 1994. S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxence%20Contout | Auxence Contout (4 February 1925 – 2 January 2020) was a French writer who was from French Guiana.
Biography
In 1947, Contout left South America for Paris, where he studied science and mathematics at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. After this, he began teaching mathematics. During his time in Paris, he fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Paul%20Talbot | Henry Paul Talbot (15 May 1864 in Boston, Massachusetts – 18 June 1927) was an American chemist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He made a significant contribution to the university's reputation in research and teaching.
Life
Talbot earned a bachelor's degree in analytical chemistry from the Massachusett... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20Na%20Liu | Laura Na Liu (born 1979) is a Chinese physicist focused on researching nano-optics of three-dimensional meta materials as it applies to biology and chemistry. After receiving her undergraduate and master's degree in China, she has had many global opportunities for education and research including Germany and the United... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjana%20Rao | Anjana Rao is a cellular and molecular biologist of Indian ethnicity, working in the US. She uses immune cells as well as other types of cells to understand intracellular signaling and gene expression. Her research focuses on how signaling pathways control gene expression.
Education and Career
Rao earned her master’s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley%20Sundquist | Wesley I. Sundquist (born 1959) is an American biochemist. Sundquist is known for studying the cellular, molecular and structural biology of retroviruses, particularly HIV. He is also known for studying the ESCRT pathway in cell division.
Wesley Sundquist was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1959. He grew up in St. Paul ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Palmiter | Richard Palmiter (born April 5, 1942) is a cellular biologist. He was born in Poughkeepsie, NY, and later went on to earn a BA in Zoology from Duke University and a PhD in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. He is employed with the University of Washington where he is a professor of biochemistry and genome sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Baylor | Denis Aristide Baylor (January 30, 1940 – March 16, 2022) was an American neurobiologist. He was professor emeritus of neurobiology at Stanford University. He is known for his research on nerve cells in the retina of the eye. He developed a widely-used method for observing the electrical activity of single rod and cone... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20J.%20Lennarz | William Joseph Lennarz (May, 1934 – October 27, 2021) was a biochemist at Stony Brook University. He was born in May 1934 in New York City. Before Lennarz began his tenure at Stony Brook, he studied chemistry and organic chemistry. After working as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard, he developed an interest in bioch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis%20and%20Cognition%3A%20The%20Realization%20of%20the%20Living | Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living is a cybernetic work in systems theory and the philosophy of biology by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela. It was first published under the title De Maquinas y Seres Vivos (English: 'On Machines and Living Beings') in 1972 in Chile by Editorial Universitaria... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Xavier%20Aynscom | Francis Xavier Aynscom (1624–1660) was a Flemish Jesuit of English extraction. He was born in Antwerp in 1624 and entered the Society of Jesus there, becoming a teacher of literature and mathematics in the order. In 1656 he published a book defending Grégoire de Saint-Vincent's work on squaring the circle. He died in A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patti%20Frazer%20Lock | Patricia Frazer Lock (born 1953) is an American mathematician, mathematics educator, statistician, statistics educator, and textbook author whose research interests include social networks and quantum logic. She is the Cummings Professor of Mathematics at St. Lawrence University.
Education and career
Lock is the daugh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang%20Xue | Zhang Xue (; born July 1964) is a Chinese geneticist currently serving as president and deputy party chief of Harbin Medical University.
Biography
Zhang was born in Zhaozhou County, Heilongjiang, in July 1964. He earned a bachelor's degree in clinical medicine in 1986, a master's degree in genetics in 1989, and a doct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20Oberschelp | Arnold Oberschelp (born 5 February 1932 in Recklinghausen) is a German mathematician and logician. He was for many years professor of logic and in Kiel.
Life
Oberschelp studied mathematics and physics at the universities of Göttingen and Münster. In Münster he received in December 1957 his doctorate in mathematical l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20task%20scheduling | Parallel task scheduling (also called parallel job scheduling or parallel processing scheduling) is an optimization problem in computer science and operations research. It is a variant of optimal job scheduling. In a general job scheduling problem, we are given n jobs J1, J2, ..., Jn of varying processing times, which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie%20Sunderland | Elsie M. Sunderland is a Canadian toxicologist and environmental scientist and the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Chemistry at Harvard University. She studies processes through which human activities increase and modify pollutants in natural ecosystems and living systems.
Research
Sunderland's research atte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20structure | Block structure may refer to:
In mathematics, block structure is a possible property of matrices – see block matrix
In computer science, a programming language has block structure if it features blocks, which can be nested to any depth
In linguistics, block structure is a representation of sentence grammar now most... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20McClintock | James McClintock may refer to:
James B. McClintock, American professor of biology
James H. McClintock (1864–1934), American historian and volunteer cavalry officer in Roosevelt's Rough Riders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeste%20Nelson | Celeste M. Nelson (born 21 August 1976) is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Director of the Program in Engineering Biology at Princeton University. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and was a finalist in the 2017 and 2018 Blavatnik Awards ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judie%20Alimonti | Judie Barbara Alimonti (1960–2017) was a Canadian immunologist known for her research on the RVSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccine.
In 1991, Alimonti received a Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology from the University of British Columbia. She later earned a PhD in immunology from the University of Manitoba.
Alimonti managed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Qiao%20%28engineer%29 | Wang Qiao (; born 13 August 1957) is a Chinese environmentalist currently serving as director of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment Center for Satellite Application on Ecology and Environment.
Biography
Wang was born in Chongqing on August 13, 1957. In 1982 he graduated from Nankai University, majoring in mathema... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu%20Zuxin | Xu Zuxin (; born April 1956) is a Chinese female environmentalist who is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University.
Biography
Xu was born in Pingxiang, Jiangxi, in April 1956. She earned her bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctor's degree all ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna%20Wilson | Joanna Yvonne Wilson (born 27 January 1970) is a Canadian aquatic toxicologist and physiologist. Wilson is a multidisciplinary scientist whose work intersects the fields of environmental physiology, biochemistry, toxicology, bioinformatics and functional genomics. Her research focuses on studying cytochrome P450 enzyme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Makower | Alfred Jacques Makower (9 May 1876, in London – 1 February 1941) was electrical engineer and community activist. He was head of the Electrical Engineering Department of South-Western Polytechnic.
Alfred was the son of a German silk merchant. He attended University College School from 1884, the University College itsel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri%20Sivan | Uri Sivan (אורי סיון)(born 1955), an Israeli physicist, is the 17th President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He is also the holder of the Bertoldo Badler Chair in the Technion's Faculty of Physics.
Biography
Uri Sivan's parents immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from Poland in 1936. They studied at t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Gabor%20Award%20%28disambiguation%29 | The Dennis Gabor Award, named after Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist Dennis Gabor, can refer to:
the Gabor Medal of the Royal Society
the Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics
the Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics of the SPIE
the International Dennis Gabor Award of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey%20Goldberg | Michael E. Goldberg (born August 10, 1941), also known as Mickey Goldberg, is an American neuroscientist and David Mahoney Professor at Columbia University. He is known for his work on the mechanisms of the mammalian eye in relation to brain activity. He served as president of the Society for Neuroscience from 2009 to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Van%20Essen | David C. Van Essen (born September 14, 1945) is an American neuroscientist specializing in neurobiology and studies the structure, function, development, connectivity and evolution of the cerebral cortex of humans and nonhuman relatives. After over two decades of teaching at the Washington University in St. Louis Schoo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20W.%20Doty | Robert W. Doty (January 10, 1920 – January 14, 2011) was an American neuroscientist who contributed to the understanding of the separate functions of the cerebral hemispheres, discovered light sensitive luxotonic cells, and helped to found the Society for Neuroscience, serving as its president from 1975 to 1976.
Earl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20T.%20Coyle | Joseph Thomas Coyle Jr. (born October 9, 1943) is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist that is known for his work on the neurobiology of mental illness, more specifically on schizophrenia. He is currently the Eben S. Draper Chair of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michal%20Rivlin | Michal Rivlin is a Senior Scientist and Sara Lee Schupf Family Chair in Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. She was awarded the 2019 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists for her research on the neuronal circuitry of the retina.
Early life and education
Rivlin was born in Jerusalem. She served in the S... |
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