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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20Lichnerowicz%20Prize
The André Lichnerowicz Prize for Poisson geometry is a mathematics distinction awarded since 2008 to reward notable contributions to Poisson geometry. Description of the prize The prize is assigned once every two years during the International Conference on Poisson Geometry in Mathematics and Physics to one or two yo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin%20Franke
Valentin Alfredovich Franke () (born 16 February 1926) is a Soviet—Russian theoretical physicist, D. Sc., retired professor of the High Energy & Elementary Particle Physics Department of Saint Petersburg State University. Biography V. A. Franke graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1949. After that he was dist...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Otto%20Gross
Alfred Otto Gross (April 8, 1883 – May 9, 1970) was an instructor, ornithologist, and professor of biology at Bowdoin College. He went on two Arctic expeditions to study birds in the region. He studied numerous North American bird species including the ruffed grouse, snowy owl, and goshawk but is best known for his stu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon%20J.%20Park
Moon Jeong Park (박문정) is a Korean chemical engineer who is a Professor of Chemistry at Pohang University of Science and Technology. She is interested in polymers for energy storage and transport. She studies the transport in charge-containing polymeric materials. She is the second non-American recipient to be awarded t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology%20of%20Sex%20Differences
Biology of Sex Differences is an online-only open access scientific journal covering the biological basis of sex differences in humans and other animals. It was established in 2010 and is published by BioMed Central on behalf of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences, of which it is the official journal, as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adol%C3%A9%20Isabelle%20Glitho-Akueson
Adolé Isabelle Glitho-Akueson (born 4 May 1949) is a Togolese entomologist who is Professor of Animal Biology at the University of Lomé. She is the chair of UNESCO's "Women, Science and Sustainable Water Management in West Africa and Central Africa" committee and a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. Biography ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20Purcell
Jessica A. Shepherd Purcell is an American mathematician specializing in low-dimensional topology whose research topics have included hyperbolic Dehn surgery and the Jones polynomial. She is a professor of mathematics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Education Purcell credits a high school mathematics tea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal%20Benslama
Kamal Benslama is a Moroccan-Swiss experimental particle physicist. He is a professor of physics at Drew University, a visiting experimental scientist at Fermilab, and a guest scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory . He worked on the ATLAS experiment, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland, whic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20L.%20Lewis
Frank L. Lewis is an American electrical engineer, academic and researcher. He is a professor of electrical engineering, Moncrief-O’Donnell Endowed Chair, and head of Advanced Controls and Sensors Group at The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). He is a member of UTA Academy of Distinguished Teachers and a charter ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapan%20Sarkar
Tapan Kumar Sarkar (August 2, 1948 – March 12, 2021) was an Indian-American electrical engineer and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. He was best known for his contributions to computational electromagnetics and antenna theory. Sarkar was the re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diederik%20Jekel
Diederik Jekel (born 22 June 1984 at Bilthoven, the Netherlands) is a Dutch science journalist, television presenter and physicist. In 2018, he was elected president of the Dutch Physical Society (NNV). Career Jekel studied physics at Twente University, where he obtained a Master's degree in physics in 2010. Since 20...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrik%20Lund%20Andersen
Ulrik Lund Andersen (born 1972 in Ikast) is a Danish physicist and professor of physics at the Department of Physics at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), who researches quantum optics and quantum networks. He went to Ikast-Brande Gymnasium high school. He received a Master of Science in physics from DTU in 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvie%20Roke
Sylvie Roke (born 1977 in De Bilt, Netherlands) is a Dutch chemist and physicist specialized in photonics and aqueous systems. As a full professor she holds Julia Jacobi Chair of Photomedicine at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and is the director of the Laboratory for fundamental BioPhotonics. Career ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20tradeoff
An evolutionary tradeoff is a situation in which evolution cannot advance one part of a biological system without distressing another part of it. In biology, and more specifically in evolutionary biology, tradeoffs refer to the process through which a trait increases in fitness at the expense of decreased fitness in an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermina%20Uribe%20Bone
Guillermina Uribe Bone (1920 - 11 October 2018) was a civil engineer and the first woman to receive a degree in civil engineering from the Faculty of Mathematics and Engineering of the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, graduating on 18 December 1948. Early life Guillermina Uribe was born in Guatemala City in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda%20Duer
Melinda Jane Duer is Professor of Biological and Biomedical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and was the first woman to be appointed to an academic position in the department. Her research investigates changes in molecular structure of the extracellular matrix in tissues in dise...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine%20S.%20Symington
Lorraine S. Symington is a British-American geneticist. As the Harold S. Ginsberg Professor and Director of Graduate Studies of Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University, her laboratory uses genetic, biochemical and molecular approaches to understand mechanisms of homology-directed double-strand break repair usi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga%20Shishkina%20%28physicist%29
Olga Shishkina is a Russian physicist known for her research in fluid mechanics, including turbulence, Rayleigh–Bénard convection, and the structure and motion of boundary layers. She is a researcher in the Laboratory for Fluid Physics, Pattern Formation and Biocomplexity of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20selective%20sweep
In genetics, when multiple copies of a beneficial mutation become established and fix together it is called soft sweep. Depending on the origin of these copies, linked variants might then be retained and emerge as haplotype structures in the population. There are two major forms of soft sweeps: 1) A beneficial mutat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture%20a%20Scientist
Picture a Scientist is a 2020 documentary highlighting gender inequality in science. The movie tells the stories of several prominent female researchers, and brings to light the barriers they encountered, including cases of discrimination and harassment. The movie features MIT's professor of biology Nancy Hopkins, the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Wilson%20Warner
Frank Wilson Warner III (born March 2 1938 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is an American mathematician, specializing in differential geometry. Education and career Warner graduated in 1959 with a bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University and in 1963 with a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vello%20Leito
Vello Leito (born 25 August 1941 in Iisaku) is an Estonian politician. In 1966, he graduated from Tallinn University of Technology in electrical engineering. He took place in 2014 European Parliament election in Estonia. He has been the Chairman of Estonian Independence Party. References Living people 1941 births ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwan%20Hsu
Kwan Hsu (1913-1995) was a Biophysics Professor at Portland State University and cultural liaison for the People's Republic of China. Early life Kwan Hsu was born in 1913 in the Guang-Xi Province of China and grew up in Shanghai. Hsu and her father traveled around Southeast Asia after her mother's death, which occurr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20R.%20Buseck
Peter R. Buseck (born September 30, 1935) is a Regents Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences (SMS) at Arizona State University (ASU). He is a pioneering researcher in the application of transmission electron microscopy to mineralogy, meteoritics, fullerenes and atmospheric chemistry. In 2019 Buseck was awarded...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Michael%20Gadd
Geoffrey Michael Gadd (born 15 July 1954) is a British-Irish microbiologist and mycologist specializing in geomicrobiology, geomycology, and bioremediation. He is currently a professor at the University of Dundee, holding the Boyd Baxter Chair of Biology, and is head of the Geomicrobiology Group. Gadd contributes to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Vorp
David A. Vorp (born July 29, 1964) is an American bioengineer, researcher, entrepreneur, and academic administrator noted for his contributions to aortic aneurysm biomechanics and pathobiology, and tissue engineered vascular grafts. He currently holds the titles of Associate Dean for Research at the University of Pitts...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute%20Ebert
Ute M. Ebert is a German physicist known for her research on plasma physics and electric discharge in gases. She is a researcher in the Netherlands at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, where she heads the research group on multiscale dynamics, and a part-time full professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenie%20Maria%20Morenus
Eugenie Maria Morenus (February 21, 1881 – October 15, 1966) was an American mathematician and college professor. She taught Latin and mathematics at Sweet Briar College from 1909 to 1946. Early life and education Morenus was born in Cleveland, New York, the daughter of Eugene Morenus and Maria Euphemia Van Blarcom M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar%20%C4%90edovac
Aleksandar Đedovac (; born 20 November 1969) is a politician in Serbia. He was the mayor of Bačka Palanka from 2013 to 2016 and has served in the Assembly of Vojvodina since 2016. Đedovac is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party. Private career Đedovac has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch%20Schieber
Baruch M. Schieber (Hebrew: ברוך שיבר; born: December 1958) is a Professor of the Department of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Director of the Institute for Future Technologies. Early life and education Baruch Schieber was born in Tel Aviv and was raised in Givatayim (a suburb of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim%20Ziad
Karim Ziad (born 1966) is an Algerian musician. A percussionist, drummer, singer and composer, Ziad's music melds influences from North African music and jazz. Ziad was involved in a hard rock band in his youth in Algiers, before moving to Paris to study biology, where he became a jazz drummer for Cheb Mami, Khaled and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anson%20equation
In electrochemistry, the Anson equation defines the charge-time dependence for linear diffusion control in chronocoulometry. The Anson equation is written as: where, Q = charge in coulombs n = number of electrons (to reduce/oxidize one molecule of analyte) F = Faraday constant, 96485 C/mol A = area of the (planar) el...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme-ultraviolet%20Stellar%20Characterization%20for%20Atmospheric%20Physics%20and%20Evolution
The Extreme-ultraviolet Stellar Characterization for Atmospheric Physics and Evolution (ESCAPE) mission aims to find environments beyond Earth's solar system that might host planets with thick atmospheres to support life. The long-term stability of exoplanetary atmospheres depends critically on the extreme-ultraviolet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20I.%20Winey
Karen Irene Winey is an American materials scientist and chair of the University of Pennsylvania department of materials science and engineering. Education Winey majored in materials science and engineering for her undergraduate degree (1985) at Cornell University. Winey earned her masters (1989) and PhD (1991) in po...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Code%20Breaker
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race is a non-fiction book authored by American historian and journalist Walter Isaacson. Published in March 2021 by Simon & Schuster, it is a biography of Jennifer Doudna, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the CR...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Michael%20Speckter
Johannes Michael Speckter (5 July 1764, Uthlede - 1 March 1845, Hamburg) was a German lithographer and graphics collector. Life and work His father was a teacher from Hanover. Around 1785, he moved to Hamburg. Under the influence of the architect, , he intiially studied architecture, but then switched to studying mat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp%20Kukura
Philipp Kukura FRSC (born 26 March 1978) is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He is best known for pioneering contributions to femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS), interferometric scattering microscopy (iSCAT) and the development of mass photometry....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni%20L.%20Rutter
Joni L. Rutter is an American geneticist and director of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). Rutter was previously director of the scientific programs in the All of Us initiative and served as the neuroscience and behavior division director at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Her scie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina%20Sullivan
Regina Sullivan is an American developmental behavioral neuroscientist, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine and senior research scientist in the Emotional Brain Institute at The Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research. Life and work Sullivan's work focus...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meers%20Oppenheim
Meers Oppenheim (born 1962, Bethesda, Maryland) is an American physicist who is Professor of Astronomy at Boston University. His primary research interests include computational and theoretical space plasma physics, dynamics of the ionosphere and solar atmosphere, particle-wave interactions in plasmas, and the physics ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Arpaci-Dusseau
Andrea Carol Arpaci-Dusseau (also published as Andrea Dusseau) is an American computer scientist interested in operating systems, file systems, data storage, distributed computing, and computer science education. She is a professor of computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Education and career Arpac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20T.%20Starmer
William Thomas Starmer (born 1944) is an emeritus professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. Starmer is known for his work on population genetics, specifically the ecological genetics of the interactions between cactus, yeast, and fruit flies (Drosophila). Spe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20S.%20Greenspan
Daniel S. Greenspan is an American biomedical scientist, academic and researcher. He is Kellett professor of Cell and Regenerative Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. He has authored over 120 publications. His research has mainly focused on genes encoding proteins of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudha%20Ram
Sudha Ram is an Indian American business professor. She holds the Anheuser-Busch Chair in MIS, Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management and directs the INSITE: Center for Business Intelligence and Analytics. Early life and education Ram completed her Bachelor of Scienc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco%20Pratesi
Franco Pratesi (born 1940) is a retired professor of materials science and games researcher from Florence, Italy. He has contributed to the history of chess, draughts, playing cards (including Tarot games, Gemini-Minchiate) and Go. Pratesi spent years studying the archives in Florence and other towns to uncover the ear...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula%20Reimer
Paula Jo Reimer is a radiocarbon and archaeological scientist. Reimer is the former director of the 14Chrono Centre for Climate, the Environment, and Chronology at Queen's University Belfast. Biography Reimer has a BSc in Physics (1974) and MSc in Biophysics (1976) from Iowa State University. She was awarded her PhD ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaitlyn%20Sadtler
Kaitlyn Noelle Sadtler is an American immunologist and bioengineer and Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, known for completing the first population-wide serosurvey during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States in 2020. Education Sadtler attended ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Sass
Friedrich Sass (6 January 1883 – 26 February 1968) was a German engineer, university professor and historian. Life and career Friedrich Sass was born in Koldenbüttel and attended the Gymnasium (grammar school) in Schleswig. He studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich, and marine engineeri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarmo%20K%C3%B5uts%20%28marine%20scientist%29
Tarmo Kõuts (born 11 April 1963) is an Estonian marine scientist. On 19 March 2021, Kõuts was convicted of spying for China, and specifically for Chinese military intelligence (Intelligence Bureau of the Joint Staff). Kõuts graduated from the University of Tartu in 1989. In 1999 he received his Ph.D in environmental p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Nicholson
Professor Ann E. Nicholson (born June 1965), is Dean in the Faculty of Information Technology of Australia's largest university, Monash University in Melbourne. She is a researcher in the specialised area of Bayesian networks. Nicholson completed her BSc and MSc in Computer Science at the University of Melbourne. In ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibhuti%20Roy
Bibhuti Roy is an engineer and professor. He is a researcher at the University of Bremen at the ITB in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and a visiting professor at international universities. His research interests include Computer Based Training, Curriculum development, Biotechnology for sustainable ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20H.%20R.%20Maunsell
John Henry Richard Maunsell (born 1955) is a British-American neuroscientist who is the Albert D. Lasker Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Chicago. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Formerly the editor-in-chief of The Jour...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20H.%20Sampson
Joseph Harold Sampson Jr. (1926 – 2003) was an American mathematician known for his work in mathematical analysis, geometry and topology, especially his work about harmonic maps in collaboration with James Eells. He obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1951 under the supervision of Salomon Boc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolande%20Berbers
Yolande Berbers is a Belgian computer scientist whose interests include software engineering, middleware, distributed systems, ubiquitous computing, model-driven architecture, and context awareness. She is a professor of computer science at KU Leuven, vice-dean of the KU Leuven Faculty of Engineering, and president of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenne%20Ba%C3%B1uelos
Selenne Bañuelos (born January 29, 1985) is an American mathematician and associate professor of mathematics at California State University Channel Islands. Her research is in the areas of differential and difference equations and dynamical systems, with a focus on their applications to mathematical biology. Early lif...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len%20Fisher
Leonard Ross Fisher (born 1942) is an Australian physicist, and visiting senior research fellow at the University of Bristol, UK. He is known for his research into everyday topics, such as the optimal way to dunk a biscuit, and the optimum use of cheese in a cheese sandwich. Education Fisher received a BSc in chemis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Percy%20Hilditch
Thomas Percy Hilditch (22 April 1886 – 9 August 1965) was an English chemist who researched organic synthesis, lipid chemistry, and catalytic production techniques. He served as a professor of industrial chemistry at the University of Liverpool. Hilditch was born in North Islington to Thomas and Priscilla née Hall. He...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirenberg%27s%20conjecture
In mathematics, Nirenberg's conjecture, now Osserman's theorem, states that if a neighborhood of the sphere is omitted by the Gauss map of a complete minimal surface, then the surface in question is a plane. It was proved by Robert Osserman in 1959. Original reference Osserman, R (1959) . "Proof of a Conjecture of Nir...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temiloluwa%20Prioleau
Temiloluwa O. Prioleau is a Nigerian computer scientist, assistant professor of computer science at Dartmouth College. In January 2019, she became the first black woman tenure-track faculty member in computer science at an Ivy League university. Her research work is on the application of data science to human sensing a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flajolet%20Lecture%20Prize
The Philippe Flajolet Lecture Prize is awarded to for contributions to analytic combinatorics and analysis of algorithms, in the fields of theoretical computer science. This prize is named in memory of Philippe Flajolet. History The Flajolet Lecture Prize has been awarded since 2014. The Flajolet Lecture Prize is a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yrj%C3%B6%20Neuvo
Yrjö Aunus Olavi Neuvo (born 21 July 1943) is a Finnish engineer and professor emeritus. In 1976 Neuvo was appointed professor of electronics (1976–1992) at Tampere University of Technology. Under his leadership, postgraduate education from digital signal processing (DSP) began immediately at Tampere University of Tec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Griffiths%20%28cognitive%20scientist%29
Thomas L. Griffiths (born circa 1978) is an Australian academic who is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Information Technology, Consciousness, and Culture at Princeton University. He studies human decision-making and its connection to problem-solving methods in computation. His book with Brian Christian, Algorithms to Li...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa%20Schleper
Christa Schleper is a German microbiologist known for her work on the evolution and ecology of Archaea. Schleper is Head of the Department of Functional and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Vienna in Austria. Life and education Schleper received a Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in 1995 and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Ehrlich%20%28physicist%29
Robert Ehrlich (born 1938) is an American physicist. He has a Bachelor of Science (ϕβκ) from Brooklyn College (1959), and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University (1964), where he participated in the Nobel prize-winning muon neutrino experiment. From 1963 to 1966 he held a postdoctoral position at the University o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20J%20Whitaker
Rachel J Whitaker is a professor of Microbiology in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her laboratory's research focuses on the evolution of Archaea, Bacteria, and Viruses in both natural and clinical environments. Education and career Whitaker received her...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian%20Hayes
Gillian Rachael Hayes is an American computer scientist. She is the Robert A. and Barbara L. Kleist Professor in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate Division at UC Irvine. Early life and education Hayes completed her Bachelor of S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina%20Forest
Katrina T. Forest (born 1966) is an American biologist who is the EB Fred Professor of Bacteriology and Chair in the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research considers the use of structural biology to better understand pathogenesis. Forest is a Fellow of the American Society for M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara%20Bals
Sara Bals (born 1977) is a Belgian nanoscientist known for her research on electron tomography and its application in the study of nanomaterials such as perovskite nanocrystals. She is a professor of electron microscopy for materials science at the University of Antwerp. Education and career Bals was born 25 August 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyssa%20Rosenzweig
Alyssa Rosenzweig is a software developer and software freedom activist known for her work on free software graphics drivers. Education Rosenzweig attended Dougherty Valley High School, with enrichment classes at Harvard Summer School and the Center of Talented Youth. As of 2021, she studies mathematics at Innis Col...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhargav%20Bhatt%20%28mathematician%29
Bhargav Bhatt (born 1983) is a mathematician who is the Fernholz Joint Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University and works in arithmetic geometry and commutative algebra. Early life and education Bhatt graduated with an B.S. in Applied Mathematics, summa cum laude from Columbia University ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Mannion%20%28American%20politician%29
John Mannion (born July 8, 1968) is an American politician. A Democrat, he is currently a member of the New York State Senate representing the 50th district. He was first elected in 2020. Prior to becoming a state senator, Mannion was a biology teacher. Mannion was elected to the 50th district of the New York State Sen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine%20Jungjohann
Katherine Jungjohann is a scientist and engineer at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) which is part of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. Biography Early life Jungjohann grew up in an academic family. Education Jungjohann received her Bachelor of Science degree in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel%20Shamir
Ariel Shamir () is an Israeli professor of Computer Science. He serves as dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at the IDC Herzliya. and one of the developers of Seam carving. Biography Shamir received a bachelor's and master's degree in mathematics and computer science from the Hebrew University of Jer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20human%20genetics%20conferences
National and international associations and societies for human genetics host regular meetings to advance human genetics in science, health, and society through excellence in research, education, and advocacy. References Human genetics Genetics organizations Conferences Genetics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20M.%20Schneider
Peter Matthias Schneider (31 May 1955 - 9 September 2022) was a German forensic geneticist. He was a full professor at the Institute of Legal Medicine of the University of Cologne. Biography Schneider studied biology at the University of Bonn until 1983. Between 1984 and 1986, he worked as visiting research fellow at ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millicent%20Goldschmidt
Millicent "Mimi" Edna Goldschmidt (née Cohen; born June 1, 1926) is an American microbiologist. Goldschmidt is known for her pioneering work in the field of astrobiology in addition to her medical research and her contributions to rapid testing methods for detecting microbial contaminants. Goldschmidt is a professor em...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annemie%20Bogaerts
Annemie Bogaerts (born 25 October 1971) is a Belgian chemist known for her work in plasma chemistry, plasma-based green chemistry, which include amongst others CO2 conversion, CH4 conversion for H2 synthesis or the synthesis of hydrocarbons and N2 fixation as basis for fertilizer production, as well as for her work in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen%20Hamel
Jürgen Hamel (born 6 June 1951) is a German astronomy historian. His research areas are the history of astronomy in the Middle Ages and the early modern period, the period around 1800, the history of astrophysics, astronomy and cultural history, and the history of astronomical instruments. Life and career Hamel was b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethelwynn%20Rice%20Beckwith
Mary Ethelwynn Rice Beckwith (January 7, 1879 – August 31, 1955) was an American mathematics educator. She held a PhD in economics from Radcliffe College, and taught for over forty years, at the Emma Willard School, Western Reserve University, Vassar College, and Milwaukee-Downer College. Early life and education Mar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna%20Wolk
Donna M. Wolk is an American microbiologist who is Director of Clinical Microbiology at the Geisinger Health System. In 2017, she was honored by the American Society for Microbiology for her efforts to improve patient care using microbiology. Early life and education Wolk grew up in a small town in rural Pennsylvania...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuma%20Miki
is a Japanese light novel editor. He is CEO of Straight Edge Inc, editor-in-chief of LINE novel, and outside director of Egg Firm. He is from the Tokushima prefecture. He graduated from Sophia University as a physics major. Overview After graduating from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Sophia University, Mi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarita%20Gleba
Margarita Gleba is an archaeologist and expert on early textiles and other organic materials. Gleba holds a BS (1997) in biology and art history from Rutgers University, followed by a MA (1999) and PhD (2004) in archaeology from Bryn Mawr College, the latter supervised by Jean MacIntosh Turfa. Her research uses scie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars%20Wanhammar
Lars Wanhammar (born 19 August 1944) is Swedish electrical engineer who is professor emeritus at Linköping University. He has been a pioneer in Swedish digital signal processing (DSP) since 1981. Education Wanhammar studied at Linköping University, where he graduated with a master's degree in 1970, as an engineer in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reidar%20Hedman
Lennart Reidar Armas Hedman (17 June 1896 Vanaja – 26 October 1961 in Tullinge, Stockholm County, Sweden) was a Finnish educator, eugenist and far-right politician. He had a master's degree in philosophy. He had studied genetics at the University of Helsinki under Harry Federley. Reidar Hedman was the director of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aare%20Laht
Aare Laht (born on 6 June 1948) is an Estonian chemist. He has worked at National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics In 1980, he was among the signatories of the Letter of 40 intellectuals. In 2006, he was awarded with Order of the National Coat of Arms, IV class. References Living people 1948 births Est...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aavo%20Sirk
Aavo Sirk (born in 1945) is an Estonian physicist. He has worked at National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics He gave his signature to Letter of 40 intellectuals. In 2006, he was awarded with Order of the National Coat of Arms, IV class. References Living people 1945 births 20th-century Estonian phys...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia%20Plevritis
Sylvia Katina Plevritis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University. Education Plevritis holds a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from The Cooper Union in 1985, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1986, a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele%20Swanson
Michele S. Swanson is an American biologist who is a professor of microbiology at the University of Michigan. She has investigated the water-borne pathogen Legionella pneumophila. Swanson is interested in the metabolic cues that underpin the virulence of L. pneumophila and how it is transmitted to humans. She served as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20for%20Women%20in%20Mathematics%20Newsletter
Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter is the membership journal of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and is published bimonthly. The inaugural issue appeared in May 1971, a few months after the AWM began. The first editor was Mary W. Gray, who was also the first "chairman" of the AWM. Gray was ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simona%20Hunyadi%20Murph
Simona Hunyadi Murph is a Romanian-American scientist, engineer, inventor at Savannah River National Laboratory (Aiken, South Carolina), and she is an adjunct professor in the physics and astronomy department at the University of Georgia (in Athens, Georgia, United States). Biography Early life As a young child, Simo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou%20Youyuan
Zhou Youyuan (; July 30, 1938 – March 12, 2021) was a Chinese astrophysicist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Biography Zhou was born in Shanghai, on July 30, 1938, while his ancestral home was in Nanjing, Jiangsu. In 1960, he graduated from Peking University, where he majored in physics. He join...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andres%20Keevallik
Andres Keevallik (born 24 February 1943 in Pärnu) is an Estonian scientist in mechanics. In 1966, he graduated from Tallinn Polytechnical Institute in computer science (cum laude). In 1974, he graduated from the university in Moscow. Since 1992, he is professor of roads' engineering. 2000-2005 and 2010–2015, he was t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig%20Schmidt
Ludvig Schmidt (24 November 1894 Tallinn – 23 February 1982 Tallinn) was an Estonian chemist. In 1930, he graduated from Leningrad State University in chemistry. In 1940, he graduated from Leningrad Institute of Technology in chemistry. 1951–1959, he was the rector of Tallinn Polytechnical Institute. References 189...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Mahl
Richard Mahl (28 August 1898, Kreis Ösel – 26 June 1964, Tallinn) was an Estonian chemist. In 1930, he graduated from Leningrad Polytechnical Institute in chemistry. 1948–1951, he was the rector of Tallinn Polytechnical Institute. References 1898 births 1964 deaths People from Kreis Ösel People from Orissaare Acade...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht%20Altma
Albrecht Altma (23 March 1897 Palmse Parish – 8 May 1969 Tallinn) was an Estonian physicist. In 1927, he graduated from University of Tartu in physics. In 1938, he defended his doctoral thesis at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. 1944–1948, he was the rector of Tallinn Polytechnical Institute. References 1897...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiit%20Land
Tiit Land (born 25 September 1964, Tartu) is an Estonian biochemist. From 1994 until 1999, Land worked as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health in the United States. From 1999 until 2006, he was a researcher and lecturer at the Stockholm University's Neurochemistry Neurotoxicology Institute. From 2007 unti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter%20B.%20Herrmann
Dieter Bernhard Herrmann (3 January 1939 – 25 November 2021) was a German historian of astronomy and author of numerous popular science books on astronomy. He was director of the Zeiss Major Planetarium in Berlin from 1987 to 2004. In his scientific work he dealt with the early development of astrophysics and the appli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suse%20Broyde
Suse Broyde is an American chemical biologist who is a professor at New York University. Her research considers the mechanisms that underpin DNA damage. Broyde is the author of the Wiley textbook The Chemical Biology of DNA Damage. Early life and education Broyde moved to New York City in 1940. She was the only child...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgenia%20Smirni
Evgenia Smirni is a Greek-American computer scientist, the Sidney P. Chockley Professor of Computer Science and Computer Science Chair at the College of William & Mary. Her research concerns computer performance evaluation, load balancing, dynamic resource provisioning, and the matrix analytic method for Markov chains....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OV1-4
Orbiting Vehicle 1-4 (also known as OV1-4), launched 30 Mar 1966, was the fourth, and second successful, satellite in the OV1 series of the United States Air Force's Orbiting Vehicle program. OV1-4 was a long-term bioscience and materials science satellite, designed to return data relevant to long-term human presence i...