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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20Zineddaine
Mohamed Zineddaine (born 1 January 1957 in Oued Zem) is a Moroccan-Italian journalist, photographer, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. Biography Education In 1983, he moved to France to study computer science in Nice. After a year, he moved to Bologna to study directing at the DAMS (Department of Art, Music and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20things%20named%20after%20Ren%C3%A9%20Descartes
This is the list of things named after René Descartes (1596–1650), a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Computer science Cartesian genetic programming Cartesian tree Mathematics Cartesian closed category Cartesian geometry Cartesian coordinate system Cartesian equations Cartesian plane Cartesian tensor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20things%20named%20after%20Georg%20Cantor
This is a list of things named after Georg Cantor (1845–1918), a German mathematician. Mathematics Cantor algebra Cantor cube Cantor distribution Cantor function Cantor normal form Cantor pairing function Cantor set Cantor space Cantor tree surface Cantor's back-and-forth method Cantor's diagonal argument Cantor's int...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias%20Kolle
Mathias Kolle is a German physicist specializing in bio-inspired optics, optoelectronics and materials science and head of the Laboratory for Biologically Inspired Photonic Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He currently holds the Rockwell Career Development Professorship and is Associate P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut%20Rechenberg
Helmut Rechenberg (November 6, 1937, in Berlin – November 10, 2016, in Munich) was a German physicist and science historian. Rechenberg studied mathematics, physics and astronomy at the University of Munich and graduated in 1964. At Munich, his work was in experimental physics, studying the magnetism of solids. He mov...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeRobotics
WeRobotics is a not-for-profit organization that uses drones for humanitarian purposes. In 2018, responding to a Zika outbreak, the organization released 284,2000 sterile mosquitoes in Brazil. The organization has also worked in Peru, Papua New Guinea, Nepal, and Tanzania delivering medical products and mapping disas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Meier%20%28humanitarian%29
Patrick Meier invented the concept of using crisis mapping in humanitarian emergencies, and is a co-founder and the Executive Director of WeRobotics. Early life The son of a businessman, Meier grew up in Kenya, Ivory Coast, and Austria. As a 13-year old in Kenya, Meier created an online map of Iraq during the 1991 G...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20graph
In graph theory, an area of mathematics, common graphs belong to a branch of extremal graph theory concerning inequalities in homomorphism densities. Roughly speaking, is a common graph if it "commonly" appears as a subgraph, in a sense that the total number of copies of in any graph and its complement is a large f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thia-crown%20ether
In organic chemistry, thia-crown ethers are organosulfur compounds which are the thia analogues of crown ethers (cyclic polyethers). That is, they have a sulfur atom (sulfide linkage, ) in place of each oxygen atom (ether linkage, ) around the ring. While the parent crown ethers have the formulae , the parent thia-crow...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroecology
Neuroecology studies ways in which the structure and function of the brain results from adaptations to a specific habitat and niche. It integrates the multiple disciplines of neuroscience, which examines the biological basis of cognitive and emotional processes, such as perception, memory, and decision-making, with th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tad%20Czapski
Tadeusz Czapski (born May 1957) is a British Formula One engineer. Career From childhood, Czapski's passion was electronics. After graduating from school, he became a student of the Electronics Department of Bangor University, where he obtained a bachelor's degree. Then he decided to research a relatively new digital...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachiappan%20Chockalingam
Nachiappan Chockalingam, professionally known as Nachi Chockalingam is a British scientist, academic practitioner and expert in Clinical Biomechanics. He is a professor at Staffordshire University and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and has been appointed to a panel of experts for the R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindrome%20tree
In computer science a palindrome tree, also called an EerTree, is a type of search tree, that allows for fast access to all palindromes contained in a string. They can be used to solve the longest palindromic substring, the k-factorization problem (can a given string be divided into exactly k palindromes), palindromic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabienne%20Comte
Fabienne Comte is a French statistician known for her research on topics including statistical finance, stochastic volatility, autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity, and deconvolution. She is a professor in the unit for mathematics and computer science at the University of Paris. Education and career Comte stu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie%20Inchausp%C3%A9
Jessie Inchauspé, also known as Glucose Goddess, is a French biochemist and New York Times bestselling author. She writes about the importance of balancing one's blood sugar for optimal health. Early life Inchauspé was born in 1992. She holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from King's College London, and a master...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker%20Markl
Volker Markl (born 1971) is a German computer scientist and database systems researcher. Career In 1999, Markl received his PhD in computer science under the direction of Rudolf Bayer at the Technical University of Munich. His doctoral research led to the development of the UB-Tree. From 1997 to 2000, he was research ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20A.%20Deschamps
Georges Armand Deschamps (October 18, 1911 — June 20, 1998) was a French American engineer and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is best known for his contributions to electromagnetic theory, microwave engineering and antenna theory. He is a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Sook%20Chung
Jum Sook Chung () is a South Korean carcinologist who researches the impact of neuroendocrine regulation on crustacean physiology, sex differentiation, and stress responses. She is a professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology. Education Ju...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duminda%20Wijesekera
Duminda Wijesekera is an American Computer Scientist of Sri Lankan descent. He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University and acting chair of Cyber Security Engineering Department. He is also a visiting research scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerica%20Corporation
Numerica Corporation is an air and missile defense company specialized in developing innovative products and solutions used in critical defense systems worldwide. History Numerica was founded by Aubrey B. Poore, an applied mathematics professor at Colorado State University, in 1996. It is based in Fort Collins, Color...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20G.%20Glagoleva
Elena Georgievna Glagoleva (, 8 April 1926 – 20 July 2015) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and mathematics educator who organized a correspondence school for the mathematics in the Soviet Union based at Moscow State University, and as part of the project coauthored two mathematics textbooks with Israel Gelfand. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephter%20Andronikashvili%20Institute%20of%20Physics
Elephter Andronikashvili Institute of Physics () is a Institute of Science based on Tbilisi State University. History This Institute of Physics was established in December 1950 and was a part of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences until 2006. The idea of establishing the institute belonged to Academician Elephte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Mosconi
Lisa Mosconi is an Italian American neuroscientist, educator, and author known for her books The XX Brain and Brain Food. She is the Director of the Women’s Brain Initiative and Director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic, both at Weill Cornell Medical College where she is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience in N...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Mackaness
George Bellamy Mackaness (20 August 1922 – 4 March 2007) was an Australian professor of microbiology, immunologist, writer and administrator, who researched and described the life history of the macrophage. He showed that by infecting mice with intracellular bacteria, macrophages could be activated to attack other bact...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Laufer
Michael Laufer (sometimes styled as Mixæl Laufer) is the de facto leader of the open-source anarchist biohacking network, Four Thieves Vinegar Collective. Laufer is notable for creating the EpiPencil, an open source alternative to the Epipen. Education Laufer has a Ph.D. in mathematics and physics from the CUNY Gradu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innopolis%20University
Innopolis University () is a private university located in the city of Innopolis, Tatarstan, Russia. The university was established on 10 December 2012 and specializes in information technology and robotics, as well as the development of information technology both internationally and in Russia; as of 2016, it has an e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Franklin%20Wood
Eric Franklin Wood (1947 – 3 November 2021) was a Canadian-American hydrologist. Wood was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1947. He earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of British Columbia in 1970, and completed a doctor of science degree in the subject at the Massachusetts Institute...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Calisher
Charles Calisher is professor emeritus of microbiology at the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University. Education and career Calisher received a bachelor's degree in bacteriology from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, a master's degree in biology and gnotobiosi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20P.%20Lettenmaier
Dennis P. Lettenmaier is an American hydrologist. Lettenmaier earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington in 1970, then attended George Washington University, where he pursued a master's degree in civil, mechanical and environmental engineering. He returned to UW to complete ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Russell
Andrea Russell is an American chemist who is a professor at the University of Southampton. She is vice president of the International Society of Electrochemistry. Her research considers the use of spectroscopy to better understand the interface between electrodes and electrolytes. Early life and education Russell wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manohar%20Balaji%20Sarwate
Manohar Balaji Sarwate (15 March 1910 – 19 February 1967), was an Indian engineer who served as the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union from 1965 until his death in 1967. He had previously served as the first ITU Deputy Secretary-General, for five years from 1960. Education Sarwate was a Bac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy%20I.%20Bugbee
Percy Isaac Bugbee was an American academic administrator and mathematics professor who served as the second president of the State University of New York at Oneonta. Percy Isaac Bugbee was born in Colton, New York to John F. and Clementina P. Gates Bugbee. His family soon moved to Canton, New York. He attended and gr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato%20Renner
Renato Renner (born 11 December 1974) is a Swiss professor for Theoretical Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, where he is head of the Research Group for Quantum Information Theory. His research interests include Quantum Information and Computation, the Foundations of Quantum Physics a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolie%20Sidorenko
Anatolie S. Sidorenko (born September 15, 1953 in Bălți, Moldova) is a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences and professor at the Technical University of Moldova. He specializes in condensed matter physics with the focus on electronic transport and magnetic properties of low dimensional systems – thin films and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toycathon
Toycathon, is an inter-ministerial initiative of the Indian government that focuses on conceptualizing toys or games based on Indian civilization, heritage, culture, mythology, history, ethos, technology, ethnicity, national heroes and important events. It aims to promote vedic mathematics, positive behaviour, physical...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard%20Barrows
Willard Barrows ( – ) was an American civil engineer. Willard Barrows was born in in Monson, Massachusetts. His early youth was spent in New England, after which he became a teacher in Elizabeth, New Jersey, but this occupation he soon relinquished for the profession of civil engineering. He accomplished the govern...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline%20Whitelaw
Jacqueline Whitelaw (29 May 1957 – 20 July 2021), usually credited as Jackie Whitelaw, was a British technical journalist and editor, based in London. She focused on civil engineering, infrastructure, and transportation planning topics. Early life Whitelaw completed a degree in history and archaeology at the Universi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact%20Ignition%20Tokamak
The Compact Ignition Tokamak (CIT) was a plasma physics experiment that was designed but not built. It was designed by an inter-organizational team in the USA led by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. The experiment was designed to achieve a self-sustaining Thermonuclear fusion reaction (ignition) in a Tokamak with t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariolina%20Padula
Mariarosaria (Mariolina) Padula (died 29 September 2012) was an Italian mathematical physicist specializing in fluid dynamics, including free boundary problems and compressible flow with viscosity. She was a professor of mathematical physics at the University of Ferrara, and is also known for revitalizing and heading t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomis%20Kapitan
Tomis Kapitan (1949–2016) was an American philosopher and Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University. He worked primarily in metaphysics and philosophy of language. Kapitan was especially interested in the free will debate, where he was a "compatibilist," defending the view that free wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe%20Grimm
Uwe Grimm (March 9, 1963 in Gütersloh, Germany – October 28, 2021 in Oxford, United Kingdom) was a German mathematician and physicist. He was one of the pioneers in aperiodic tilings and their dynamical and spectral properties. He also worked in statistical physics and combinatorics. Uwe Grimm earned his PhD from the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotyped%20Nature-Inspired%20Aerial%20Grasper
The Stereotyped Nature-Inspired Aerial Grasper or SNIAG is a robotic created like a bird perching. The SNIAG was created by Dr. William Roderick, a researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. References Robotics projects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Thole
Karen A. Thole (born July 11, 1960) is an American engineer. She is a Distinguished Professor and former head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. Early life and education Thole was born on July 11, 1960, in Breese, Illinois to an army veteran father. She was raised on a dairy ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak%20Physics%20Experiment
The Tokamak Physics Experiment (TPX) was a plasma physics experiment that was designed but not built. It was designed by an inter-organizational team in the USA led by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. The experiment was designed to test theories about how Tokamaks would behave in a high-performance, steady-state re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Vohnsen
Brian Vohnsen is an Associate Professor of Physics at UCD in Dublin, Ireland specializing in optics. He is head of the Advanced Optical Imaging Group which he founded in 2008. He has received recognition for his ability to connect the field of biomedical optics and nano-optics. In 2021 he became a fellow of Optica for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Baumeister
Wolfgang P. Baumeister (born November 22, 1946 in Wesseling bordering Cologne) is a German molecular biologist and biophysicist. His research has been pivotal in the development of Cryoelectron tomography. Education and career After completing his Abitur, Wolfgang Baumeister studied biology, chemistry, and physics fro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20L.%20Miller
Virginia L. Miller is a microbiologist known for her work on studying the factors leading to disease caused by bacteria. Miller is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (2003) and a former Pew Charitable Trust Biomedical Scholar (1989). Education and career Miller has a B.A. from the University of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Schmugge
Thomas J. Schmugge is an American physicist and hydrologist. Schmugge graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1965 with a doctorate in physics, and joined the faculty of Trinity College in Connecticut as an assistant professor of physics. From 1970 to 1986, he worked for Goddard Space Flight Center's ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles%20Martin%20%28businessman%29
Gilles Martin (born 20 October 1963 in Paris) is a French engineer, scientist and billionaire. He is the founder and executive chairman of Eurofins Scientific. Biography Education Martin's parents, Maryvonne Lucie Martin and Gérard-Jean Martin, were both chemistry professors at the University of Nantes. Gilles atten...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto%20Cardelle
Alberto Jose Cardelle is an American educator and academic who is currently serving as the 9th President of the State University of New York at Oneonta. Cardelle is a native of Miami, Florida. He received a bachelor's degree in Biology and Latin American studies from Tulane University, a Master of Public Health degree...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20R.%20Denison
Mark R. Denison (born May 13, 1955) is the Stahlman Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology and director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Denison has been researching the replication, pathogenesis and evolution of coronaviruses for over 30 y...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20W.%20Le%20Duc
James Le Duc is Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Director at University of Texas Medical Branch, and Director of the Galveston National Laboratory, one of the largest active biocontainment facilities in the United States. References External links https://www.c-span.org/person/?91464/JamesLeDuc Living pe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristian%20G.%20Andersen
Kristian Andersen is a evolutionary biologist and professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California. Andersen obtained a BSc in molecular biology from Aarhus University in 2004, and a PhD in immunology from the University of Cambridge in 2009. Research Andersen’s w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20D.%20Bloom
Jesse D. Bloom is an American computational virologist and Professor in the Basic Sciences Division, the Public Health Sciences Division, and the Herbold Computational Biology Program, at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. He is also an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and an Affiliate Professor in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Albert%20Newton%20Friend
John Albert Newton Friend (20 July 1881 – 15 April 1966) was a British chemist and educator who specialized in the chemistry of corrosion and its prevention. He was among the first to note that chromium enhances the corrosion resistance of steel. He edited a multi-volume textbook of inorganic chemistry. Friend was bor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine%20A.%20Allen
Geraldine Anne Allen (born 1950) is a botanist, professor of biology, and herbarium curator at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. She obtained formal education at the University of British Columbia and Oregon State University, earning a Doctor of Philosophy degree in botany and plant pathology from...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%20Ludwig%20Busch
August Ludwig Busch (7 September 1804 – 30 September 1855) was a German astronomer who served as an assistant to Friedrich Bessel and from 1846, headed the Königsberg observatory. Busch was born in Danzig where he went to school and trained in art under Johann Adam Breysig who made him interested in geometry. He then...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Alignment%20Problem
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values is a 2020 non-fiction book by the American writer Brian Christian. It is based on numerous interviews with experts trying to build artificial intelligence systems, particularly machine learning systems, that are aligned with human values. Summary The book is div...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Robert%20Thompson
William Robert Thompson (1923/1924 – October 22, 1979) was a French-born Canadian psychologist. With John L. Fuller, he co-authored a 1960 book entitled Behavior Genetics that is credited with launching the field of behavioral genetics. Biography Thompson was born in Toulon, France, in either 1923 or 1924, to Canadian...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Silvia%20Lucido
Maria Silvia Lucido (22 April 1963 – 4 March 2008) was an Italian mathematician specializing in group theory, and a researcher in mathematics at the University of Udine. Life, education and career Lucido was originally from Vicenza, where she was born on 22 April 1963. After working for a bank and a travel agency, she...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic%20equations%20of%20state
Cubic equations of state are a specific class of thermodynamic models for modeling the pressure of a gas as a function of temperature and density and which can be rewritten as a cubic function of the molar volume. Equations of state are generally applied in the fields of physical chemistry and chemical engineering, p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICBM%20%28disambiguation%29
ICBM refers to an intercontinental ballistic missile. ICBM may also refer to: Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Lower Saxony, Germany International Consortium for Brain Mapping; terms such as ICBM152, ICBM452 refer to brain atlases ICBM, a 2020 computer game by Slitherine Tennison Ga...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun-Ichiro%20Mukai
Jun-Ichiro Mukai (September 30, 1931 - January 5, 1998) is a Japanese biochemist, emeritus professor at faculty of agriculture, Kyushu University. Academic works Mukai won the agricultural chemistry prize (Japan) for A Digestive Endonuclease of Silkworm in 1967. Mukai is a co-author of Fritz Albert Lipmann. Lif...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20graph
In the mathematics of graph theory and finite groups, a prime graph is an undirected graph defined from a group. These graphs were introduced in a 1981 paper by J. S. Williams, credited to unpublished work from 1975 by K. W. Gruenberg and O. Kegel. Definition The prime graph of a group has a vertex for each prime numb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrg%20Tschopp
Jürg Tschopp (born 1951 in Basel — died 22 March 2011 in the Swiss Alps) was a Swiss biochemist, known for his research on apoptosis and the immunology of inflammation. His greatest achievement was perhaps his team's discovery and scientific description of the inflammasome (which he named). Biography Tschopp studied c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Liesganig
Joseph Xaver Liesganig (13 February 1719 – 4 March 1799) was a Jesuit priest and geodesist who was a professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna. He taught mathematics from 1742 at the University of Graz. He was involved in measuring the extent of Austria, establishing the longitude of Vienna and in early trig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%E1%BA%A7n%20Thanh%20V%C3%A2n%20%28physicist%29
Trần Thanh Vân, also known as Jean Trần Thanh Vân, is a Vietnamese French physicist born on 4 July 1936 in Đồng Hới, Quảng Bình Province in Vietnam. Biography Vân attended secondary school in Huế. In 1953 he left Vietnam for France. He studied mathematics and physics at University of Paris and earned his undergraduat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juri%20Rappsilber
Juri Rappsilber (born 1971) is a German chemist in the area of mass spectrometry and proteomics. Career Rappsilber studied chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin, University of Strathclyde, and with Tom Rapoport, Harvard Medical School. In 2001, he earned his Ph.D. in Proteomics jointly from EMBL Heidelberg ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene%20Kulsrud
Helene E. () Kulsrud is a computer scientist known for her work developing graphical languages and compilers for the Cray-1 and other Cray super computers and debugging programs that allowed a user to interactively troubleshoot computer issues. Education and career Kulsrud earned a B.A. in mathematics from Smith Coll...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yafang%20Cheng
Yafang Cheng is a Chinese geoscientist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, in Mainz, Germany. She specialises in atmospheric chemistry and physics. Biography She was born and grew up in Wuhan, China. She received a BSc in environmental science from Wuhan University and a PhD in environmental science from Pekin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Hill
Jeffrey Hill is a British scientist who is currently Vice President and Head of Biology, Center for Translational Research at the Shenzhen Bay Laboratory. He was formerly a Professor of Drug Discovery and director of the Sussex Drug Discovery Centre at the University of Sussex. He contributed to the discovery of Singap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke%20Delaney%20%28astronaut%29
Luke Delaney (born 1979) is a retired major in the United States Marine Corps and NASA astronaut candidate. Delaney is from DeBary, Florida. Early life and education He graduated from Deltona High School in Deltona, Florida. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of North Florida and a master’...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Williams%20%28astronaut%29
Christopher Leigh Williams is an American medical physicist and NASA astronaut candidate. He resides in Boston, Massachusetts. Background Williams grew up in Potomac, Maryland. He graduated Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland in 2001. He graduated from Stanford University in 2005 with a bachelor’s de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%20Birch
Christina Marie Birch (born November 17, 1986) is an American professional racing cyclist and NASA astronaut candidate. Early life and career Birch grew up in Gilbert, Arizona, and graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, biochemistry, and molecular biophysics. Birch began cyc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre%20Douglas
Andre Douglas is an American systems engineer and NASA astronaut candidate. Early life and education Douglas is a Virginia native. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the United States Coast Guard Academy, a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, a master’s ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvature%20of%20Space%20and%20Time%2C%20with%20an%20Introduction%20to%20Geometric%20Analysis
Curvature of Space and Time, with an Introduction to Geometric Analysis is an undergraduate-level textbook for mathematics and physics students on differential geometry, focusing on applications to general relativity. It was written by Iva Stavrov, based on a course she taught at the 2013 Park City Mathematics Institut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim%20van%20Saarloos
Wim van Saarloos is a Dutch physicist, academic and researcher. He is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Leiden University (emeritus since July 2021) Van Saarloos has written over 280 papers and has been cited over 12000 times. His research interests include Statistical Physics, non-equilibrium pattern formation an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Hamilton%20Curtiss
Ralph Hamilton Curtiss (8 February 1880 – 25 December 1929) was an American astronomer and a professor of astrophysics at the University of Michigan. His main work was on stellar spectra and the identification of spectral binaries as well as quantitative studies based on the stellar spectra to study their atmospheres. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liran%20Carmel
Liran Carmel (Hebrew: לירן כרמל, born August 7, 1971) is an Israeli scientist, professor of computational biology at the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Carmel is the Snyder Granadar Chair for Genetics, and is the 2021 Massry Prize laureate for his studies in the fiel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Berliner%20Research%20Fellowship
The Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship for Women was established in 1908 by Emile Berliner in honor of his mother, and first awarded in 1909. The fellowship was award biennially and provided $1200 to support a woman studying physics, chemistry, or biology in either America or Europe. The fellowship was open to women ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eran%20Meshorer
Eran Meshorer (Hebrew: ערן משורר, born May 12, 1971) is an Israeli scientist, professor of epigenetics and stem cells at the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, and The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Meshorer is the Arthur Gutterman Chair for Stem Cell R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren%20Ranco
Darren Ranco is a Penobscot Nation anthropologist and academic. His scholarship centers on how climate and environmental science interfaces with Indigenous knowledge systems. His research focuses on how using Indigenous diplomacy and critiques of the liberalism applied to practices of environmental upheaval, to protect...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradusta
Paradusta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. Species Paradusta barclayi (Reeve, 1857) Paradusta hungerfordi (G. B. Sowerby III, 1888) References Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxhe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred%20Steiner%20%28physician%29
Manfred Steiner (born 1932) is an Austrian-born American hematologist and physicist who taught at Brown Medical School until 2000. He completed a Ph.D. in Physics at the age of 89 in September 2021. Life Steiner was born in Vienna in 1932. He earned a medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1955 and moved to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyune-Ju%20Kim
H. Hyune-Ju Kim is a Korean-American statistician known for her research on change point detection, segmented regression, and applications to the analysis of mortality and incidence of cancer. She is a professor in the department of mathematics at Syracuse University. Kim earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Bonilla%20S%C3%A1nchez
Carlos Bonilla Sánchez (December 26, 1979 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is the current Minister of Housing, Habitat and Buildings of the Dominican Republic under the presidency of Luis Abinader. Between 2020 until 2021 was director of the National Housing Institute (INVI). Bonilla Sánchez studied civil engineer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan%20Frederickson
Megan Frederickson is a Canadian evolutionary biologist who is a professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. Her research considers the evolution of cooperation and the ecological genetics of mutualism. Early life and education As a teenager, Frederickson volunteered for a rainforest e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20Federation%20of%20Synthetic%20Chemistry%20Workers%27%20Unions
The Japanese Federation of Synthetic Chemistry Workers' Unions (, Gokaroren) was a trade union representing workers in the chemical industry in Japan. The union was founded in 1950, with the merger of two unions representing ammonium sulfate and phosphate workers. The same year, it was a founding affiliate of the Gen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teoman%20Dural%C4%B1
Şaban Teoman Duralı (7 February 1947 – 6 December 2021) was Turkish philosopher, thinker and academician, who was faculty at the Department of Philosophy, Ibn Haldun University. He wrote many articles and books and was widely published in areas such as history of philosophy, history of biology, linguistics, political p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeWiki
LifeWiki is a wiki dedicated to Conway's Game of Life. It hosts over 2000 articles on the subject and a large collection of Life patterns stored in a format based on run-length encoding that it uses to interoperate with other Life software such as Golly. LifeWiki was founded in 2009 by Nathaniel Johnston, a professor ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Plank
Michael John Plank (born 1979) is an English-born professor in mathematics and statistics at the University of Canterbury, and a principal investigator at Te Pūnaha Matatini. Plank's research has focused on mechanistic mathematical and stochastic models and areas of expertise include ecological and social networks, pop...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%20Moore%20%28scientist%29
Professor Graham Moore (born March 1958) is a British scientist, an internationally recognised researcher and Director of the John Innes Centre, Norwich. Most of his research has focused on understanding cereal genetics. Professor Moore developed the pioneering concept of cereal ‘Synteny’, for which he was awarded the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AofA%E2%80%94International%20Meeting%20on%20Combinatorial%2C%20Probabilistic%2C%20and%20Asymptotic%20Methods%20in%20the%20Analysis%20of%20Algorithms
AofA, the International Meeting on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms is an academic meeting that has been held regularly since 1993 in the field of computer science, focusing on mathematical methods from analytic combinatorics and probability for the study of properties ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred%20Schidlowski
Manfred Schidlowski (13 November 1933 – 3 October 2012) was a German Professor of Geochemistry at the Max-Planck-Institut for Chemistry (Otto-Hahn-Institut) in Mainz. His research was concerned with the biochemistry of the Early Earth with a focus on isotope-biogeochemistry and the evidence of the earliest life process...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Cohen-Boulakia
Sarah Cohen-Boulakia (born 1980) is a French computer scientist and data scientist known for her research on data provenance in science, and especially in bioinformatics. She is a professor of bioinformatics in the Laboratory for Computer Science () of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and Paris-Saclay...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20P.%20Grant
Richard P. Grant is a British biologist and former writer/editor of The Scientist. Early life and education Grant's father was a non-commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force. At University of Oxford, Grant was awarded Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin) Biochemistry and a Doctor of Philosophy, then did p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allograpta%20piurana
Allograpta piurana is a species of hoverfly. Description This species was described by Shannon (1927) based on a female specimen collected in the Department Piura in Peru. It is part of the Allograpta obliqua species group. Range This species has been recorded in Chile and Peru. Habitat Inland valleys to highland ec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiaya%20Jia
Jiaya Jia () is a tenured professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is an IEEE Fellow, the associate editor-in-chief of one of IEEE’s flagship and premier journals- Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), as well as on th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20A.%20Adam%20%28mathematician%29
John Anthony Adam is a British-American applied mathematician known for his work on patterns in nature and on mathematical modeling of the growth patterns of cancer and blood vessels. He is University Professor of Mathematics at Old Dominion University in Virginia. Education and career Adam is a 1971 graduate, with fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Evans%20%28scientist%29
Trevor Evans FRS (26 April 1927 — 10 October 2010) was a British physical scientist who specialised in the properties of diamonds. Evans grew up in Wales. Following national service in the RAF, he moved to the University of Bristol to study physics. He later took up a research fellowship at the University of Reading, ...