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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn%20McGrath | Kathryn McGrath is a New Zealand chemical scientist. She is deputy vice-chancellor (research) at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Biography
McGrath was educated at Burnside High School in Christchurch, and went on to study at the University of Canterbury, where she completed a BSc(Hons) degree in chemi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margo%20Edwards | Margo Helen Edwards is a marine geologist known for mapping of the seafloor and hydrothermal vents. She led the 1999 SCICEX and was the first women to live aboard a United States' Navy submarine while doing under-ice research.
Education and career
Edwards has an undergraduate degree in computer science and geology fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%20Kerr | Jeremy Kerr is a biology professor at the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) where he holds the University Research Chair in Macroecology and Conservation. Kerr is a member of the NSERC Council, including its executive committee, and the past president of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE). He is the Cha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20Non-Discrimination%20Act | The Genetic Non-Discrimination Act () of 2017, also known as Bill S-201 during the 2nd Session of the 41st Parliament of Canada and the 1st Session of the 42nd Parliament of Canada, originated in a Private Member's Bill. It was introduced by Senators James Cowan and Jennifer O'Connell. The Act was designed to prevent, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%20Olsson%20%28scientist%29 | Eva Olsson (born 12 October 1960) is a Swedish physicist who is a professor at Chalmers University of Technology. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and part of the selection committee for the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Early life and education
Olsson was an undergraduate student in Gothenburg at t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Corces | Victor Corces (born August 16, 1952, in Asturias, Spain) is a professor of human genetics at Emory University. His work has focused on understanding the mechanisms by which chromosomes are folded in the three-dimensional nuclear space. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for pioneering work in epigeneti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huazhen%20Lin | Huazhen Lin () is a Chinese statistician known for her research on survival analysis and nonparametric statistics. She works as a professor of statistics and director of the Center of Statistical Research at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu.
Education and career
Lin studied mathematics at Si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Brookmeyer | Ronald S. Brookmeyer (born on September 4, 1954) is an American public health researcher. He is a professor of biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
Early life and education
Brookmeyer was born on September 4, 1954, in New York, US. He completed his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satish%20Nagarajaiah | Satish Nagarajaiah is an Indian-American academic professor, who teaches and conducts research in the departments of civil engineering and of mechanical engineering at Rice University. He was elected in 2019 to the United States National Academy of Inventors. He got elected in 2021 as Distinguished Member of American S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centro%20de%20Estudos%20Aeron%C3%A1uticos%20da%20Universidade%20Federal%20de%20Minas%20Gerais | Centro de Estudos Aeronáuticos da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (in English: The Center for Aeronautical Studies) or simply CEA, is a Brazilian research organization part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the School of Engineering at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. It is similar to the Akafl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Cristina | David Vinagre Cristina (born 1978, in Portimão) is a Portuguese humorist, stand-up comedian, storyteller, podcaster, radio and television personality, corporate executive, entrepreneur, stock investor and investment consultant, with a PhD on the field of genetics of ageing (University of California, San Francisco) and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxana%20Mehran | Roxana Mehran is an Iranian-American cardiologist and Mount Sinai Endowed Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is known for her work in interventional cardiology.
Early life and education
Mehran was born in Tehran, Iran, before coming to the United States. She earned a bachelor's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rie%20Chavez-Demoulin | Valérie Chavez-Demoulin is a Swiss statistician whose research includes statistical models of extreme events and their application to risk management. She is a professor of statistics at HEC Lausanne.
Education and career
Chavez-Demoulin studied mathematics and statistics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausann... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20engineering | This glossary is split across multiple pages due to technical limitations.
By Alphabetical Order
Glossary of engineering: A–L
Glossary of engineering: M–Z
By Category
Glossary of civil engineering
Glossary of electrical and electronics engineering
Glossary of mechanical engineering
Glossary of structural eng... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokimate%20Harwood | Hokimate Pamela Harwood is a bicultural science researcher at Te Papa, New Zealand's national museum. She uses a background in biology and traditional Māori knowledge () to research historical Māori textiles.
Biography
Harwood attended secondary school at the Catholic Regional College in Traralgon in Victoria, Austra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glugging | Glugging (also referred to as "the glug-glug process") is the physical phenomenon which occurs when a liquid is poured rapidly from a vessel with a narrow opening, such as a bottle. It is a facet of fluid dynamics.
As liquid is poured from a bottle, the air pressure in the bottle is lowered, and air at higher pressur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Perlmann | Rolf Thomas Perlmann (born March 2, 1959, in Stockholm, Sweden) is a professor of molecular developmental biology at Karolinska Institute. In 2006, he became a member of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute. He became an adjunct member of Karolinska Institutet's Nobel Committee in 2008 and was then elected in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence%20Merlev%C3%A8de | Florence Merlevède is a French probability theorist whose research interests focus on dependent and weakly dependent random variables, including Bernstein inequalities and central limit theorems for these variables. She is a professor in the laboratory for analysis and applied mathematics at Gustave Eiffel University, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla%20Meledandri | Carla J. Meledandri is a New Zealand chemistry academic, and in 2020 was promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Otago.
Academic career
After a 2009 PhD titled 'NMR studies of membrane-bound nanoparticles and nanoparticle assemblies' at the Dublin City University, Meledandri moved to the University of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Mohr | Catherine Jane Mohr (née Anderson, b. 1968) is a medical researcher from New Zealand, residing in the United States, who specializes in developing telemanipulator robotics for making surgery less invasive, and therefore providing faster recovery for patients. She had also designed fuel cells for land vehicles and high-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pere%20Estupiny%C3%A0 | Pere Estupinyà Giné (born 17 October 1974) is a Spanish biochemist known for his work in popular science in books, conferences and TV shows.
Biography
Born in Tortosa (Spain), he studied at the University of Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, where he majored in biochemistry; he holds a master's in nutrition and metaboli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Jones%20%28engineer%29 | Linda Ellen Jones is an academic in the field of chemical engineering, and known for her work in high temperature chemistry. She is a professor at Western New England University and an elected fellow of the American Ceramic Society.
Education and career
Jones has a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Mary Washington ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Hodge | Andrea M. Hodge is a Colombian-born materials scientist and academic leader. She is the Department Chair of the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science at University of Southern California, and the Arthur B. Freeman Professor and Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Aer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian%20Bradley | Lillian Bradley may refer to:
Lillian K. Bradley (1921–1995), American mathematician and mathematics educator
Lillian Trimble Bradley (1875–1959), American theatrical director and playwright |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tord%20Ekel%C3%B6f | Tord Johan Carl Ekelöf (born 12 September 1945 in Uppsala, Sweden) is a Swedish professor of particle physics at Uppsala University.
Biography
Ekelöf is the son of Per Olof Ekelöf and Marianne (Hesser) Ekelöf. He graduated in 1964 from the Cathedral School in Uppsala. Ekelöf became a bachelor of philosophy in 1966, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Flood%20%28politician%29 | Ann Flood is an American politician. She is a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 138th district in Northampton County since 2021.
Biography
Flood graduated from Pen Argyl High School and received a BS in biology from Moravian College.
In 2020, Flood was elected to the Pen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wonderful%20World%20of%20Chemistry | The Wonderful World of Chemistry is a 1964 industrial musical revue by Michael Brown. Regular performances were a feature of the DuPont Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair.
The extravaganza of mid 20th century American material optimism extolled the virtues of DuPont products such as nylon, mylar, and corfam, f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelia%20geniculata | Obelia geniculata is a species of cnidarian belonging to the family Campanulariidae.
The species has cosmopolitan distribution.
Population genetics
Estimates of divergence times and distinctive haplotypes provide evidence of glacial refugia around Iceland and southeastern Canada. In one study, O. geniculata was firs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goong%20Chen | Goong Chen (, born July 7, 1950, Kaohsiung, Taiwan) is an applied mathematician known for his use of computer forensics and computer simulation to recreate what may have occurred in aviation accidents. He is currently Professor of Mathematics at Texas A&M University.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Chen led an interdisc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20A.%20Holm | Elizabeth A. Holm, Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Professor of Engineering, is chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan. Her research focus is computational materials. She worked at Sandia National Laboratories for 20 years before joining the faculty of Carnegie Mellon in 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin%20Krylov | Konstantin Anatolyevich Krylov (, 1967–2020) was a Russian nationalist writer, journalist and philosopher.
Biography
Konstantin Krylov was born in Moscow in 1967. He graduated from the Faculty of Cybernetics of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute and the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. His moth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humu%20%28software%29 | Humu is a software company that uses machine learning to send "nudges," small recommendations based in nudge theory, to employees at work.
History
Humu was founded in May 2017 by former Google executives Laszlo Bock, Wayne Crosby, and Jessie Wisdom. Before founding Humu, Laszlo Bock served as Google's original Head o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara%20Matise | Tara Matise is an American geneticist at Rutgers University. Since 2018, she has served as chair of the Department of Genetics. Her research interests span computational genetics, data science, and human genetics. She is co-director of the Rutgers University Genetics Coordinating Center.
Early life and education
A na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui%20Song | Rui Song is a Chinese-American statistician. Her research interests include machine learning, causal inference, and independence screening for variable selection, with applications to precision medicine and economics. She works for Amazon as a senior principal scientist.
Education and career
Song studied mathematics a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatsala%20Thirumalai | Vatsala Thirumalai is a scientist at Neural Circuits and Development Laboratory, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru. She secured B Tech degree in biotechnology from Anna University, Chennai and PhD degree in neuroscience from Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9a%20W.%20Richa | Andréa Werneck Richa is a Brazilian-American computer scientist known for her research in distributed computing, self-organizing particle systems, network routing and replication, and bio-inspired computing. She is a President's Professor of computer science and engineering at Arizona State University.
Education and c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian%20Abbot | Dorian Schuyler Abbot is an American geophysicist. He is an associate professor at the University of Chicago.
Education
Abbot completed a A.B. (2004) in physics and a S.M. (2004) and Ph.D. (2008) in applied mathematics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His dissertation was tit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20M.%20Boothby | William Munger Boothby (April 1, 1918 – February 14, 2021) was an American mathematician and professor emeritus of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis, known for his work in differential geometry including the book An introduction to differentiable manifolds and Riemannian geometry (1975; 2nd ed. 1986).
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia%20Bieri | Lydia Rosina Bieri (born 1972) is a Swiss-American applied mathematician, geometric analyst, mathematical physicist, cosmologist, and historian of science whose research concerns general relativity, gravity waves, and gravitational memory effects. She is a professor of mathematics and director of the Michigan Center fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty%20W.%20Holz | Betty Rose Weber Holz (September 15, 1919 – September 3, 2005) was an American mathematician who worked for the United States Army.
Early life and education
Betty Rose Weber was born in Florida, the daughter of William Wilson Weber and Rosalie I. Langford Weber. Her father was a math professor.
Weber earned a bachel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%20Spectrometer%20and%20Imager | The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI), is a gamma-ray telescope expected to launch in 2027 as a NASA small astrophysics mission. It is intended to study the recent history of star birth, star death, and the formation of chemical elements in the Milky Way.
"For more than 60 years, NASA has provided opportunities ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debdeep%20Mukhopadhyay | Debdeep Mukhopadhyay is an Indian cryptographer and professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in 2021 for his contributions to micro-ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleiman%20Elias%20Bogoro | Suleiman Elias Bogoro (born 6 June 1958) is a professor of Animal Science, specializing in Biochemistry and Ruminant Nutrition, who served as the 5th and 8th Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (abb. TETFund) in Nigeria.
Early life and education
Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro, a local of Gwarangah i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20S.%20Rosen | Matthew S. Rosen is an American physicist.
After graduating from The Knox School in St. James, New York, in 1988, Rosen completed a bachelor's degree in physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, followed by a doctorate in the same subject at the University of Michigan. Rosen was elected a fellow of the American Phy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N58A | N58A is a peptide depressant β-neurotoxin found in the venom of certain East Asian scorpions. The toxin affects voltage-gated sodium channels, specifically Nav1.8 & Nav1.9 channels.
Etymology and Chemistry
The N58A protein is a scorpion depressant β-toxin, in which the asparagine (N) on the 58th position of the pepti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla%20Laws | Priscilla Watson Laws (born 1940) is an American physics educator, known for her work in activity-based physics education. She is a research professor of physics at Dickinson College.
Education and career
Laws majored in physics, with a minor in mathematics, at Reed College, graduating in 1961. She did her graduate st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis%20T.%20Bell | Alexis Tarassov Bell (born October 16, 1942) is an American chemical engineer. He is currently the Dow professor of Sustainable Chemistry in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in UC Berkeley's college of chemistry. He is also the Faculty Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jana%20Fischerov%C3%A1 | Jana Fischerová (born 20 August 1955) is a Czech politician who served in the Chamber of Deputies from 2010 to 2017.
Fischerová was born in 1955 in Havlíčkův Brod. She studied civil engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague, earning her CSc. degree in 1986.
From 2006 to 2010, Fischerová served as the ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%C3%A8le%20Pr%C3%A9ville | Angèle Préville (born 23 November 1955 in Offenburg, Germany) is a French politician.
She is a member of the Socialist Party, and also is a Senator for Lot since 1 October 2017.
Biography
Angèle Préville was a professor of physics and chemistry until June 2017, when she retired from the public service.
She later to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurob%20Inspector | Taurob Inspector is an ATEX certified mobile robot, developed and manufactured by the Austrian company Taurob GmbH. The Inspector was developed from the Taurob Tracker as part of the OGRIP (Offshore Ground Robotics Industrial Pilot) project.
History
Project inception
With Taurob's victory in the ARGOS challenge, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20numerics | Probabilistic numerics is an active field of study at the intersection of applied mathematics, statistics, and machine learning centering on the concept of uncertainty in computation. In probabilistic numerics, tasks in numerical analysis such as finding numerical solutions for integration, linear algebra, optimization... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebun%20Oni | Professor Ebun Oni (21 May 1935 - 2 December 2021) known in early life as Ebun Adegbohungbe and later as Ebun Adefunmilyo Oni (spousal title) was a Nigerian geophysicist, university teacher and writer. One of Nigeria's first indigenous female scientists, she became a world-renowned specialist in geophysics through her... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Li%20%28engineer%29 | Victor C. Li is the James R. Rice Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and the E.B. Wylie Collegiate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is also Director of the Center for Low Carbon Built Environment at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. Li led the team that de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Baccarelli | Andrea Baccarelli (born December 6, 1970) is an Italian American epigeneticist and clinical endocrinologist, best known for his academic contributions in the field of epigenetics, mitochondriomics, and computational epigenomics, with a research focus on investigating the impact of environmental exposures on human healt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serap%20Aksoy | Fatma Serap Aksoy (born in 1955) is a Turkish–American medical entomologist.
Early life and education
Aksoy was born in Fatih, Istanbul in 1955. After graduating from Robert College, she moved to the United States for her Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Vassar College. Following this, she earned a PhD in B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmonic%20catalysis | In chemistry, plasmonic catalysis is a type of catalysis that uses plasmons to increase the rate of a chemical reaction. A plasmonic catalyst is made up of a metal nanoparticle surface (usually gold, silver, or a combination of the two) which generates localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) when excited by light.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDivko%20Kusti%C4%87 | Živko Kustić (12 December 1930 – 19 July 2014) was a Croatian writer. Kustić studied mathematics, physics, and theology at the University of Zagreb before being ordained as a priest of the Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia in Žumberak in 1958. He was the editor of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zagreb-publishe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaos%20Kylafis | Nikolaos Kylafis () is a Greek Theoretical Astrophysicist, who is professor emeritus at the Department of Physics of the University of Crete, Greece.
Kylafis contributed to the founding of the Astrophysics Group of the University of Crete and the Foundation for Research & Technology - Helas (FORTH) in 1985 and led, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Silvester | David James Silvester (born 26 December 1958) is a Scottish numerical analyst. He has a Chair in Numerical Analysis and is the Head of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester.
Silvester was born in Dumfries, but was educated at Ysgol Ardudwy (Wales) and the University of Ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20H.%20Sawyer%20%28neuroendocrinologist%29 | Charles H. “Tom” Sawyer (January 24, 1915 Ludlow, Vermont - June 20, 2006 Irvine, California) was an American neuroendocrinologist and Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Sawyer was considered a pioneer in the field of neuroendocrinology.
At the age of 91, he ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esmeralda%20Johnson | Esmeralda Johnson is a politician from Saba, and former member of the Saba Island Council for the Windward Islands People's Movement. She held this post since 28 March 2019 when, at age 21, she became the youngest person to serve in that capacity.
Biography
Johnson graduated from Lindenwood University in 2018, with a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Michel%20Boulus | Sister Mary Michel Boulus (born Jumela Ann Boulus, July 27, 1926 – December 9, 2012) was an American Catholic nun, mathematics teacher, and academic administrator who became president of Sacred Heart College in North Carolina.
Life and career
Boulus was born on July 27, 1926, in China Grove, North Carolina, the daught... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor%20Makarikhin | Igor Yuryevich Makarikhin (born 18 June 1964, Perm) is a Russian Physicist, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, who achieved the positions of a professor, a vice-rector of Academic Affairs (2002–2010), was a rector of Perm University.
Biography
Makarikhin graduated from Alexander Pushkin School No. 9 in Perm (Physics ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binoy%20Kumar%20Saikia | Binoy Kumar Saikia is a Principal Scientist at North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat (NEIST), Assam, India. He is also the Group Leader of the Coal and Energy Research Group in the Materials Science and Technology Division of NEIST. His research interests span energy and environment in general and in p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torleif%20Ericson | Torleif Erik Oskar Ericson, born November 2, 1930 in Lund, is a Swedish nuclear theoretical physicist. He is known for 'Ericson fluctuations' and the 'Ericson-Ericson Lorentz-Lorenz effect'. His research has nurtured the link between nuclear and particle physics.
Biography
Career
Ericson studied physics at Lund Univ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicely%20Ridley | Elizabeth Cicely Ridley (née Taylor, September 26, 1927 – December 23, 2008) was a British-American applied mathematician known for her work in numerical quantum chemistry and in climate modeling. The Roble–Dickinson–Ridley code that she and her collaborators created at the National Center for Atmospheric Research was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%20Otto%20Laurenz%20Fischer | Hermann Otto Laurenz Fischer (16 December 1888 – 9 March 1960) was a German American professor of biochemistry and son of Emil Fischer. Fischer's work was on synthesis and the determination of structures of organic compounds.
Fischer was born the eldest son in Würzburg to Emil Fischer, professor of chemistry, and Agne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline%20Palmer | Caroline Palmer is the Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Performance and Professor in the Department of Psychology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She is also an Associate Faculty Member in the Schulich School of Music at McGill. Her research in cognitive science addresses the behavioural and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathi%20Vidal | Kathi Vidal (born 1968) is an American intellectual property lawyer and former engineer who serves as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Education
Vidal earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Binghamton Univ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Hale%20Abbot | Joseph Hale Abbot ( – ) was an American educator, inventor, and science writer.
Background
Joseph Hale Abbot was born on in Wilton, New Hampshire. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1822, was tutor there in 1825-1827, and from 1827 to 1833 was a professor of mathematics and teacher of modern languages at Phillips ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Abramowitz | Sarah Knapp Abramowitz (born 1967) is an American statistician specializing in statistics education and known for her textbooks on the use of statistical software packages. She is the John H. Evans Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Drew University, where she chairs the Mathematics & Computer Science Depa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optogenetic%20methods%20to%20record%20cellular%20activity | Optogenetics began with methods to alter neuronal activity with light, using e.g. channelrhodopsins. In a broader sense, optogenetic approaches also include the use of genetically encoded biosensors to monitor the activity of neurons or other cell types by measuring fluorescence or bioluminescence. Genetically encoded ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%20Bersanelli | Marco Rinaldo Fedele Bersanelli (born 29 January 1960) is an Italian astrophysicist and academic, professor of astronomy at the University of Milan.
Biography
In 1986 he graduated in physics at the University of Milan with professor Giorgio Sironi as supervisor. Later he was Visiting Scholar at the Lawrence Berkeley... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varda%20Caivano | Varda Caivano (born 1971) is an Argentinian artist who lives and works in London, England.
Born in Buenos Aires, Caivano graduated Goldsmiths University, London in the early 2000s, having previously studied biology and art history at the University of Buenos Aires. She received a master's degree in art from the Royal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20L.%20Kahn | Mark L. Kahn is a cardiologist currently serving as the Edward S. Cooper, M.D./Norman Roosevelt and Elizabeth Meriwether McLure Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, Kahn additionally serves as Director of Center for Vascular Biology and Director of Molecul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20H.%20Schmid | Christopher H. Schmid is a Professor of Biostatistics and chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the Brown University School of Public Health. Schmid was a founding member formerly Co-Director of Brown's Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health.
Schmid grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. He earned a bachelor of arts in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss%20Bland-Hawthorn | Jonathan (Joss) Bland-Hawthorn (born 31 May 1959 in Ide Hill, Kent, England) is a British-Australian astrophysicist. He is a Laureate professor of physics at the University of Sydney, and director of the Sydney Institute for Astronomy.
Early life and education
Bland-Hawthorn was born 31 May 1959 in Ide Hill, Kent, Eng... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord%20diagram | A chord diagram may refer to:
Chord diagram (music), a diagram showing the fingering of a chord on a guitar or other fretted musical instrument
Chord diagram (information visualization), a diagram showing a many-to-many relationship between objects as curved arcs within a circle
Chord diagram (mathematics), a circularl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord%20diagram%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a chord diagram consists of a cyclic order on a set of objects, together with a one-to-one pairing (perfect matching) of those objects. Chord diagrams are conventionally visualized by arranging the objects in their order around a circle, and drawing the pairs of the matching as chords of the circle.
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Hunter%20Dammond | William Hunter Dammond (October 26, 1873 – December 8, 1956) was an American civil engineer. He studied civil engineering at the Western University of Pennsylvania and, in 1893, was the first African American to graduate from that institution. As a black man Dammond found it difficult to secure employment as an engin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euscelis%20incisa | Euscelis incisa is a leafhopper species in the family Cicadellidae. It is found in Europe, North Africa, and Asia. It is formerly known as Euscelis plebejus, among other names.
Biology
Euscelis incisa can be used as a vector of the bacterium Spiroplasma citri, a mollicute bacterium that is the causative agent of the C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuria%20Mart%C3%AD%20Guti%C3%A9rrez | Nuria Martí Gutiérrez is currently a senior research associate at the Center for Embryonic Cell and Gene Therapy at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). She received her bachelors in biological sciences from the University of Valencia with a specialty in reproductive science. She received her Master's degree in C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanko%20Ishaya | Tanko Ishaya is a Nigerian Professor of Computer Science and the vice chancellor of the University of Jos. He was elected into office in December 2021.
Early life and career
Ishaya obtained a bachelor of science in Mathematics Education from the University of Jos in 1992 and began to teach Mathematics at the College ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Dolin%20%28film%20critic%29 | Anton Vladimirovich Dolin (; ) is a Russian film critic, journalist, radio host, blogger and podcaster. He was the chief editor of the Iskusstvo Kino magazine from 2017 to 2022 and the regular film reviewer of Evening Urgant from 2012 to 2020.
Biography
Anton Dolin is a son of a Soviet poet Veronika Dolina and profes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohei%20Itoh%20%28physicist%29 | Kohei Ito (born 1965) is a Japanese physicist. He is the president of Keio University and Chairman of the Keio University Athletic Association. His research fields are solid-state physics, quantum computers, electronic materials, nanotechnology, and semiconductor isotope engineering. His favorite words are "the world b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsu%20Tamura | Tetsu Tamura (also known as "S. Tetsu Tamura"; birth name: Satoru Tamura); October 18, 1876August 19, 1909) was a Japanese meteorologist and oceanographer, who utilized higher mathematics, active in the United States (U.S. National Weather Service) before Syukuro Manabe (2021 Nobel Prize in Physics) and Japan during t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias%20Scheffler | Matthias Scheffler (born June 25, 1951, in Berlin) is a German theoretical physicist whose research focuses on condensed matter theory, materials science, and artificial intelligence. He is particularly known for his contributions to density-functional theory and many-electron quantum mechanics and for his development ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Squires | Catherine Louise Kearney Squires was a microbiologist known for her work on ribosomal RNA using Escherichia coli as a model organism. She was an elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Education and career
Squires grew up in Winters, Californ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Kelso%20Carter | Russel Kelso Carter (November 18, 1849 - August 23, 1928) was an American Christian minister, professor, and songwriter.
Biography
Russel Kelso Carter was born in Baltimore, Maryland on November 18, 1849. He attended the Pennsylvania Military Academy, graduating in 1867 with a degree in Civil Engineering. After gradua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20Ecology%20and%20Evolution | Plant Ecology and Evolution is a triannual peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering ecology, phylogenetics, and systematics of plants (including algae, fungi, and slime molds), including related fields such as comparative and developmental morphology, conservation biology, evolution, phytogeography, reprod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Benenson | Walter Benenson (born April 27, 1936) is a university distinguished professor emeritus in the department of physics and astronomy at Michigan State University. He retired in 2008, but continued to teach for another 10 years.
Research
Walter Benenson obtained his Ph.D. in experimental nuclear physics from the Universit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol%20R.%20Bradford | Carol R. Bradford is an American otolaryngologist. She is the 15th dean of the Ohio State University College of Medicine and vice president for Health Sciences at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
Early life and education
Bradford earned her master’s degree in microbiology/immunology and her medical deg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20de%20Mart%C3%AD%20Franqu%C3%A9s | Antonio de Martí Franqués, Antoni Martí i Franquès or Marti d'Ardenya (14 June 1750 – 19 August 1832) was a Catalan noble and polymath who contributed to ideas in biology, geology, meteorology and chemistry. He was largely self-taught, amassed large collections of books, learned several European languages and conducted... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brellochs%20reaction | In organoboron chemistry, the Brellochs reaction provides a way to generate the monocarboranes. The use of acetylenes to insert two carbons into boron hydrides is well established. The Brellochs method uses formaldehyde to insert single carbon atoms into boron hydrides.
Illustrative is the synthesis of CB9H14− from c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Francis%20Walling | Henry Francis Walling (June 11, 1825 - April 8, 1889) was a notable American civil engineer and cartographer.
Walling was born in Burrillville, Rhode Island, where he was educated at public schools. After graduation he became an assistant librarian in the Providence Athenaeum, during which time he studied mathematics ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilie%20Kaufmann | Emilie Kaufmann (born 1987) is a French statistician and computer scientist specializing in machine learning, and particularly known for her research on the multi-armed bandit problem. She is a researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), associated with the Centre de Recherche en Informati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian%20Cohen | Lillian Cohen (June 19, 1878–June 5 1949) was an American inorganic chemist and chemistry professor at the University of Minnesota. She was the first woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Minnesota and the first female member of its chemistry faculty.
Life and career
Educated in the Minneapo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger%20Becker | Holger Becker (born 15 July 1964) is a German businessman and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since the 2021 German federal election, representing the constituency of Jena – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I.
Early life and education
Becker studied physics at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20Wieleitner | Heinrich Wieleitner (31 October 1874 – 27 December 1931) was a German mathematician and historian of mathematics. He became an honorary professor of mathematics at the University of Munich but for much of his career worked in school- and college-level education.
Wieleitner was born in Wasserburg and was educated at t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eamonn%20O%27Brien%20%28mathematician%29 | Eamonn Anthony O'Brien is a professor of mathematics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, known for his work in computational group theory and -groups.
Education
O'Brien obtained his B.Sc. (Hons) from the National University of Ireland (Galway) in 1983.
He completed his Ph.D. in 1988 at the Australian Nationa... |
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