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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%20M.%20J.%20Byrne | Ruth M.J. Byrne, FTCD, MRIA, (born 1962) is an Irish cognitive scientist and author of several books on human reasoning. She is the Professor of Cognitive Science, in the School of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin. She is the former Vice Provost of Trinity College Dublin.
Career
Byrne w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendroid%20%28topology%29 | In mathematics, a dendroid is a type of topological space, satisfying the properties that it is hereditarily unicoherent (meaning that every subcontinuum of X is unicoherent), arcwise connected, and forms a continuum. The term dendroid was introduced by Bronisław Knaster lecturing at the University of Wrocław, although... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrite%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a dendrite is a certain type of topological space that may be characterized either as a locally connected dendroid or equivalently as a locally connected continuum that contains no simple closed curves.
Importance
Dendrites may be used to model certain types of Julia set. For example, if 0 is pre-peri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Kwok | Sun Kwok (, born September 15, 1949) is a Hong Kong astronomer best known for his work on physics and chemistry of the late stages of stellar evolution. In 1978, he proposed a new theory on the origin of planetary nebulae. which has transformed our understanding of the death of Sun-like stars. He is a pioneer on the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASJA%20Boys%27%20College | ASJA Boys' College is a Muslim secondary school in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. It was founded in 1960 by the Anjuman Sunnat ul Jamaat Association (ASJA), a muslim organization that operates mosques and schools in Trinidad.
Facilities
Facilities at this institution includes:
Information Technology Laboratory... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalin%20de%20Silva | Thakurartha Devadithya Guardiyawasam Lindamulage Nalin Kumara de Silva (Sinhala: නලින් ද සිල්වා; born 20 October 1944) is a Sri Lankan philosopher and a political analyst. He is the former Sri Lankan ambassador in Myanmar. He was a professor in the department of mathematics, a member of University Grant Commission and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20L.%20Hubbell | Wayne L. Hubbell (born 24 March 1943) is an American biochemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is Professor of Biochemistry and Jules Stein Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on the visual system, and is primarily supported by a grant from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle%20infrastructure%20integration | Vehicle infrastructure integration (VII) is an initiative fostering research and application development for a series of technologies directly linking road vehicles to their physical surroundings, first and foremost in order to improve road safety. The technology draws on several disciplines, including transport engine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykhailo%20Domontovych | Mykhailo (Mykola) Domontovych () (Zlobintsev) (1875? – 1933?)
Mykhailo (in Yemetz he is noted as being Mykola) Domontovych's real name was Mykhailo Zlobintsev. He was a graduate of Kyiv University, where he completed his studies in mathematics (1909). He used the stage name Domontovych inspired by the fact that he cam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Trouble%20with%20Physics | The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next is a 2006 book by the theoretical physicist Lee Smolin about the problems with string theory. The book strongly criticizes string theory and its prominence in contemporary theoretical physics, on the grounds that string theo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Embree | Mark Embree is professor of computational and applied mathematics at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Until 2013, he was a professor of computational and applied mathematics at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Mark Embree was awarded Man of the Year and Outstanding Student in the College of Arts and Sciences ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear%20%28journal%29 | Wear is a scientific journal publishing papers on wear and friction. The papers may fall within the subjects of physics, chemistry, material science or mechanical engineering. It is published by Elsevier.
See also
List of periodicals published by Elsevier
External links
Wear homepage
Elsevier academic journals
Phy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorna%20Casselton | Lorna Ann Casselton, (18 July 1938 – 14 February 2014) was a British academic and biologist. She was Professor Emeritus of Fungal Genetics in the Department of Plant Science at the University of Oxford, and was known for her genetic and molecular analysis of the mushroom Coprinus cinereus and Coprinus lagopus.
Early ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovo | SoVo may refer to:
Someron Voima, association football club from Somero, Finland.
Southern Voice (newspaper), an LGBT newspaper published since 1988 in Atlanta, Georgia
Southern Voices, the annual literary magazine published by Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHAMPS%20Project | The CHAMPS Project (Creating High Achievements in Mathematics, Problem-solving, and Science) is a combined effort of the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science and the Mississippi University for Women aimed at improving various aspects of education in Mississippi. The goal of the CHAMPS Project is to improve st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Diederich | François Diederich (9 July 1952, in Ettelbruck – 23 September 2020) was a Luxembourgian chemist specializing in organic chemistry.
Education
He obtained both his diploma and PhD (first synthesis of Kekulene) from the University of Heidelberg in 1977 and 1979, respectively.
Career and research
After postdoctoral studi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer%20High%20School%20%28Alaska%29 | Palmer High School is a high school located in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in the city of Palmer, Alaska. It offers classes in fine arts, mathematics, world languages, physical education and health, science, English, social sciences, and career and technical education. Student support services are available for stud... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDGE%20Foundation | The EDGE Foundation (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education) is an organization which helps women get advanced degrees in mathematics.
History
The EDGE program was launched in 1998 by Sylvia Bozeman and Rhonda Hughes to support female students pursuing graduate degrees in the mathematical sciences. The first EDGE ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20things%20named%20after%20Srinivasa%20Ramanujan | Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887 – 1920) is the eponym of all of the topics listed below.
Mathematics
Brocard–Ramanujan Diophantine equation
Dougall–Ramanujan identity
Landau–Ramanujan constant
Ramanujan's congruences
Hardy–Ramanujan number
Hardy–Ramanujan theorem
Hardy–Ramanujan asymptotic formula
Ramanujan identity
Ramanuj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20vibration | In mechanical engineering, random vibration is motion which is non-deterministic, meaning that future behavior cannot be precisely predicted. The randomness is a characteristic of the excitation or input, not the mode shapes or natural frequencies. Some common examples include an automobile riding on a rough road, wave... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity%20time%20control | Sensitivity time control (STC), also known as swept-gain control, is a system used to attenuate the very strong signals returned from nearby ground clutter targets in the first few range gates of a radar receiver. Without this attenuation, the receiver would routinely saturate due to the strong signals. This is used in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20%28disambiguation%29 | A is the first letter of the Latin and English alphabet.
A may also refer to:
Science and technology
Quantities and units
a, a measure for the attraction between particles in the Van der Waals equation
A value, a measure of substituent effects on the stereochemistry of cyclohexane
absorbance (A)
acceleration (a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Einstein%20Institute | Albert Einstein Institute or similar may refer to:
The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, a physics research institute in Germany
The Albert Einstein Institution, a non-profit organisation involved in non-violent methods of political resistance (based in the United States)
The Einstein Institute of Math... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukaiyama%20aldol%20addition | In organic chemistry, the Mukaiyama aldol addition is an organic reaction and a type of aldol reaction between a silyl enol ether () and an aldehyde () or formate (). The reaction was discovered by Teruaki Mukaiyama (1927–2018) in 1973. His choice of reactants allows for a crossed aldol reaction between an aldehyde and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persulfide | In chemistry, persulfide refers to the functional group R-S-S-H. Persulfides are intermediates in the biosynthesis of iron-sulfur proteins and are invoked as precursors to hydrogen sulfide, a signaling molecule.
Nomenclature
The nomenclature used for organosulfur compounds is often non-systematic. Sometimes persulfi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%20%28disambiguation%29 | F is the sixth letter of the Latin alphabet.
F may also refer to:
Science and technology
Mathematics
F or f, the number 15 in hexadecimal and higher positional systems
pFq, the hypergeometric function
F-distribution, a continuous probability distribution
F-test, a statistical test
f, SI prefix femto, factor 10−... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%20%28disambiguation%29 | U is the twenty-first letter of the Latin alphabet.
U may also refer to:
Science
Mathematics
, union (set theory)
U-set, a set of uniqueness
U, the unitary group
Chemistry
Uranium, symbol U, a chemical element
u, the Dalton (unit), a unified atomic mass unit to express atomic and molecular masses
Astronomy
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treviso%20Arithmetic | The Treviso Arithmetic, or Arte dell'Abbaco, is an anonymous textbook in commercial arithmetic written in vernacular Venetian and published in Treviso, Italy, in 1478.
The author explains the motivation for writing this textbook:
The Treviso Arithmetic is the earliest known printed mathematics book in the West, and o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartaruga | Tartaruga may refer to:
Biology
The term Tartaruga is a word in Italian, Portuguese and Galician that may refer to:
Testudines, including:
Turtle, an aquatic reptile
Tortoise, a land-dwelling reptile
Places
Praia da Tartaruga / Tartaruga Beach in Rio das Ostras
Other
Tartaruga, nickname for FS Class E.444 loco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20virtualization | In computer science, full virtualization (fv) is a modern virtualization technique developed in late 1990s. It is different from simulation and emulation. Virtualization employs techniques that can create instances of a virtual environment, as opposed to simulation, which models the environment; and emulation, which r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20M.%20Bingham | Paul Montgomery Bingham (born February 25, 1951) is an American molecular biologist and evolutionary biologist, Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Stony Brook University and Vice President for Research at Rafael Pharmaceuticals. He is known for his work in molecular biology, and h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehn%E2%80%93Sommerville%20equations | In mathematics, the Dehn–Sommerville equations are a complete set of linear relations between the numbers of faces of different dimension of a simplicial polytope. For polytopes of dimension 4 and 5, they were found by Max Dehn in 1905. Their general form was established by Duncan Sommerville in 1927. The Dehn–Sommerv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewrite | Rewrite and rewriting may refer to:
Script doctoring, revisions to an existing script for stage and screen productions
Rewriting, methods for replacing elements of a formula with other suitable expressions, in mathematics, computer science, and logic, such as:
Graph rewriting, technique of creating a new graph out of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Association%20for%20Research%20in%20Computing%20Science | The Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS) provides leadership in computing within India. Its members are leading researchers in Computer Science drawn from major institutions from all over the country. Madhavan Mukund is the President of the association as of 2016.
IARCS aims at promoting excell... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20and%20Systems%20Neuroscience | Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE or CoSyNe) is an annual scientific conference for the exchange of experimental and theoretical/computational approaches to problems in systems neuroscience. It is an important meeting for computational neuroscientists where many levels of approaches are discussed. It is a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban%20number | In recreational mathematics, a ban number is a number that does not contain a particular letter when spelled out in English; in other words, the letter is "banned." Ban numbers are not precisely defined, since some large numbers do not follow the standards of number names (such as googol and googolplex).
There are sev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20Y | In human mitochondrial genetics, Haplogroup Y is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
Origin
Haplogroup Y is a descendant of haplogroup N9.
Distribution
Haplogroup Y has been found with high frequency in many indigenous populations who live around the Sea of Okhotsk, including approximately 66% of Nivkhs, ap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole%20Goble | Carole Anne Goble, (born 10 April 1961) is a British academic who is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. She is principal investigator (PI) of the myGrid, BioCatalogue and myExperiment projects and co-leads the Information Management Group (IMG) with Norman Paton.
Education
Goble was educat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyGrid | The myGrid consortium produces and uses a suite of tools design to “help e-Scientists get on with science and get on with scientists”. The tools support the creation of e-laboratories and have been used in domains as diverse as systems biology, social science, music, astronomy, multimedia and chemistry.
The consortiu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20Q%20%28mtDNA%29 | In human mitochondrial genetics, haplogroup Q is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup typical for Oceania. It is a subgroup of haplogroup M29'Q.
Origin
Haplogroup Q is a descendant of haplogroup M.
Distribution
Today, mitochondrial DNA Haplogroup Q is found in the southern Pacific region, especially in New Gu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20G%20%28mtDNA%29 | In human mitochondrial genetics, Haplogroup G is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
Origin
Haplogroup G is a descendant of haplogroup M. Haplogroup G is divided into subclades G1, G2, G3, and G4.
Distribution
It is an East Asian haplogroup. Today, haplogroup G is found at its highest frequency in indigenou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20CZ | In human mitochondrial genetics, the Haplogroup CZ is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
Origin
Haplogroup CZ is a descendant of haplogroup M8 and is a parent to the haplogroups C and Z. The C and Z subclades share a common ancestor dated to approximately 36,500 years ago.
Distribution
Today, CZ is found i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HADES%20%28software%29 | HADES (Haskins Analysis Display and Experiment System) refers to a family of signal processing computer programs that was developed in the 1980s at Haskins Laboratories by Philip Rubin and colleagues to provide for the display and analysis of multiple channel physiological, speech, and other sampled data in an experime... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n%20constant | In fluid dynamics, the von Kármán constant (or Kármán's constant), named for Theodore von Kármán, is a dimensionless constant involved in the logarithmic law describing the distribution of the longitudinal velocity in the wall-normal direction of a turbulent fluid flow near a boundary with a no-slip condition. The equ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20fate%20determination | Within the field of developmental biology, one goal is to understand how a particular cell develops into a final cell type, known as fate determination. Within an embryo, several processes play out at the cellular and tissue level to create an organism. These processes include cell proliferation, differentiation, cellu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension%20polymerization | In polymer chemistry, suspension polymerization is a heterogeneous radical polymerization process that uses mechanical agitation to mix a monomer or mixture of monomers in a liquid phase, such as water, while the monomers polymerize, forming spheres of polymer. The monomer droplets (size of the order 10-1000 μm) are su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia%20Kenyon | Cynthia Jane Kenyon (born February 21, 1954) is an American molecular biologist and biogerontologist known for her genetic dissection of aging in a widely used model organism, the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans. She is the vice president of aging research at Calico Research Labs, and emeritus professor of biochemistr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSim | VSim is a cross-platform computational framework for multiphysics including electrodynamics in the presence of metallic and dielectric shapes as well as with or without self-consistent charged particles and fluids. It is compatible with compatible with Windows, Linux, and macOS.
It comes with VSimComposer, a full-feat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20differentiation | In the field of developmental biology, regional differentiation is the process by which different areas are identified in the development of the early embryo. The process by which the cells become specified differs between organisms.
Cell fate determination
In terms of developmental commitment, a cell can either be s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDS%20matrix | An MDS matrix (maximum distance separable) is a matrix representing a function with certain diffusion properties that have useful applications in cryptography. Technically, an matrix over a finite field is an MDS matrix if it is the transformation matrix of a linear transformation from to such that no two differe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Goldammer | Johann Georg Goldammer (born 23 August 1949) is director of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC), hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Mainz, Germany) and Freiburg University (Germany).
Early life
Goldammer was born in Marburg (Germany), first son of Kurt Goldammer, professor for religious studies and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Pollack%20%28biologist%29 | Robert Elliot Pollack is an American biologist whose interests cross many academic lines. He grew up in Brooklyn, attended public schools, and majored in physics at Columbia University, where he graduated from the College in 1961. He received a PhD in Biological Sciences from Brandeis University in 1966, and subsequent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Blank | Brian Blank (September 3, 1953 – December 9, 2018) was a Canadian/American associate professor of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis.
Blank was born in Montreal, Quebec, and earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from McGill University. He received his Masters and Ph.D. in 1980 from Cornell Univ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terre%20Haute%20North%20Vigo%20High%20School | Terre Haute North Vigo High School, also known as Terre Haute North (THN), is a public high school located in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Academics
Advanced Placement classes include Calculus AB, Physics (Mechanics), Physics (Electricity and Magnetism), U.S. History, World History, U.S. Government, Biology, Chemistry, Engl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl%20Meister%20Greengard%20Prize | The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize is an award for women scientists in biology given annually by the Rockefeller University.
The Prize was founded by Nobel laureate Paul Greengard and his wife Ursula von Rydingsvard in honor of Greengard's mother, Pearl Meister Greengard, who died giving birth to him. Greengard began f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20E.%20Counts | Dr. John E. Counts is the fourteenth president of Western New Mexico University, a position he held from November 1993 to June 2011.
Counts worked at the university as Professor of Management and Director of the Division of Business, Math and Computer Science for one year before becoming president.
References
Head... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countably%20compact%20space | In mathematics a topological space is called countably compact if every countable open cover has a finite subcover.
Equivalent definitions
A topological space X is called countably compact if it satisfies any of the following equivalent conditions:
(1) Every countable open cover of X has a finite subcover.
(2) Every ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequentially%20compact%20space | In mathematics, a topological space X is sequentially compact if every sequence of points in X has a convergent subsequence converging to a point in .
Every metric space is naturally a topological space, and for metric spaces, the notions of compactness and sequential compactness are equivalent (if one assumes counta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyalectales | Gyalectales is an order of lichen-forming fungi in the class Lecanoromycetes. It contains 5 families, 15 genera and about 550 species.
Taxonomy
The Gyalectales were introduced in a 1974 publication by Aino Henssen and Martin Jahns, but not formally published until 1986 by David Hawksworth and Ove Eriksson.
Phylogeny
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smale%27s%20problems | Smale's problems are a list of eighteen unsolved problems in mathematics proposed by Steve Smale in 1998 and republished in 1999. Smale composed this list in reply to a request from Vladimir Arnold, then vice-president of the International Mathematical Union, who asked several mathematicians to propose a list of proble... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balding%E2%80%93Nichols%20model | In population genetics, the Balding–Nichols model is a statistical description of the allele frequencies in the components of a sub-divided population. With background allele frequency p the allele frequencies, in sub-populations separated by Wright's FST F, are distributed according to independent draws from
where B ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoltan%20I.%20Kertesz | Zoltan I. Kertesz (September 2, 1903 – August 1968) was a Hungarian-born, American food scientist who was involved in the early development of food microbiology and food chemistry. He was also an active member of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT).
Career
Kertesz was born in Hungary, but emigrated to the United... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20American%20Computer%20Chess%20Championship | The North American Computer Chess Championship was a computer chess championship held from 1970 to 1994. It was organised by the Association for Computing Machinery and by Monty Newborn, Professor of Computer Science at McGill University. It was one of the first computer chess tournaments. The 14th NACCC was also the W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraharmonic%20mean | In mathematics, a contraharmonic mean is a function complementary to the harmonic mean. The contraharmonic mean is a special case of the Lehmer mean, , where p = 2.
Definition
The contraharmonic mean of a set of positive numbers is defined as the arithmetic mean of the squares of the numbers divided by the arithmet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale%20Risinger | Dale Risinger is an American civil engineer and Republican politician from Illinois. He was a member of the Illinois State Senate from 2003 to 2011.
Early life, education and business career
He was born January 10, 1944, in Odin, Illinois. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois. He wo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel%20Florkin | Marcel Florkin (Liège, 15 August 1900 – 3 May 1979) was a Belgian biochemist. Florkin was graduated as a Doctor in Medicine and became a professor of biochemistry at the University of Liège.
In 1951, he was the initiator of the Belgian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Together with Christian de Duve, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20aldehyde%20synthesis | Stephen aldehyde synthesis, a named reaction in chemistry, was invented by Henry Stephen (OBE/MBE). This reaction involves the preparation of aldehydes (R-CHO) from nitriles (R-CN) using tin(II) chloride (SnCl2), hydrochloric acid (HCl) and quenching the resulting iminium salt ([R-CH=NH2]+Cl−) with water (H2O). During... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan%20Kaufmann%20Publishers | Morgan Kaufmann Publishers is a Burlington, Massachusetts (San Francisco, California until 2008) based publisher specializing in computer science and engineering content.
Since 1984, Morgan Kaufmann has published content on information technology, computer architecture, data management, computer networking, computer s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Zachman | John A. Zachman (born December 16, 1934) is an American business and IT consultant, early pioneer of enterprise architecture, chief executive officer of Zachman International (Zachman.com), and originator of the Zachman Framework.
Biography
Zachman holds a degree in Chemistry from Northwestern University. He served f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias%20Loomis | Elias Loomis (August 7, 1811 – August 15, 1889) was an American mathematician. He served as a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Western Reserve College (now Case Western Reserve University), the University of the City of New York and Yale University. During his tenure at Western Reserve College in 1838... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilford%20Manual%20of%20Photography | The Ilford Manual of Photography is a comprehensive manual of photography, first published in 1890, written by C.H. Bothamley, and published by the Britannia Works Company, which became Ilford, Limited, in 1901. It is still in print, now named The Manual of Photography.
Technical information regarding optics, chemistr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination%20number | In chemistry, crystallography, and materials science, the coordination number, also called ligancy, of a central atom in a molecule or crystal is the number of atoms, molecules or ions bonded to it. The ion/molecule/atom surrounding the central ion/molecule/atom is called a ligand. This number is determined somewhat di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio%20Rinland | Sergio Rinland (born 17 March 1952) is an Argentine engineer best known for his work in Formula One. He is currently owner and managing director of the automotive engineering and management consulting company Astauto Ltd.
Career
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 17, 1952, Rinland studied mechanical engineering... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20de%20Hemptinne | Marc de Hemptinne (Ghent, 1902–1986) was a Belgian physicist. He was the son of Alexandre de Hemptinne, a professor at the University of Leuven. He studied chemistry at the University of Ghent and obtained a PhD in Science in 1926. Marc de Hemptinne was a pioneer of molecular spectroscopy. In 1948 he was awarded the Fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20A.%20D.%20W.%20Anderson | James Arthur Dean Wallace Anderson, known as James Anderson, is a retired member of academic staff in the School of Systems Engineering at the University of Reading, England, where he used to teach compilers, algorithms, fundamentals of computer science and computer algebra, programming and computer graphics.
Anderson... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderic%20D.%20M.%20Page | Roderic Dugald Morton Page (born 1962) is a New Zealand-born evolutionary biologist at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the author of several books. he is professor at the University of Glasgow and was editor of the journal Systematic Biology until the end of 2007. His main interests are in phylogenetics, evol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Alder | Roger William Alder, FRS is an Emeritus Professor of organic chemistry at the University of Bristol.
His research involves the study of novel compounds with unusual properties, such as proton sponges
and stable carbenes.
Alder received the Royal Society of Chemistry Bader Award for organic chemistry in 1993. He has ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhabendra%20Nath%20Saikia | Bhabendra Nath Saikia (; 20 February 1932 – 13 August 2003) was a novelist, short-story writer, editor and film director from Assam, India. Dr. Saikia received his doctorate in physics from the University of London. He began his career as a reader in the Department of Physics, University of Guwahati. He later played an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest%20Virginia%20Governor%27s%20School%20for%20Science%2C%20Mathematics%2C%20and%20Technology | The Southwest Virginia Governor's School for Science, Mathematics, and Technology is one of Virginia's 18 state-initiated magnet Governor's Schools. It is a part-time school where 11th and 12th grade students take advanced classes in the morning (receiving their remaining classes from their home high school.)
The sch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naum%20Ya.%20Vilenkin | Naum Yakovlevich Vilenkin (, October 30, 1920 in Moscow – October 19, 1991 in Moscow) was a Soviet mathematician, an expert in representation theory, the theory of special functions, functional analysis, and combinatorics. He is best known as the author of many books in recreational mathematics aimed at middle and high... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%20S.%20Cooper | Franklin Seaney Cooper (April 29, 1908 – February 20, 1999) was an American physicist and inventor who was a pioneer in speech research.
Biography
He attended the University of Illinois where he received his undergraduate degree in physics in 1931, and received his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Frey-Wyssling | See also Albert Frey (disambiguation)
Dr Albert Friedrich Frey-Wyssling (8 November 1900 – 30 August 1988) was a Swiss botanist who pioneered submicroscopic morphology and helped initiate the study of molecular biology.
Life
Frey-Wyssling was born Albert Frey in Küsnacht, where his father worked at the teacher trai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20J.%20Sakurai | was a Japanese-American particle physicist and theorist.
While a graduate student at Cornell University, Sakurai independently discovered the V-A theory of weak interactions.
He authored the popular graduate text Modern Quantum Mechanics (1985, published posthumously) and other texts such as Invariance Principles and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renormalon | In physics, a renormalon (a term suggested by 't Hooft) is a particular source of divergence seen in perturbative approximations to quantum field theories (QFT). When a formally divergent series in a QFT is summed using Borel summation, the associated Borel transform of the series can have singularities as a function ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Gibb%20Maitland | Andrew Gibb Maitland (30 November 1864 – 27 January 1951) was an English-born Australian geologist.
Maitland was born in Birkby, Yorkshire, England and studied civil engineering at Yorkshire College of Science, Leeds where he was influenced by the professor of geology Alexander Henry Green.
In 1888 he was assigned S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoelectronics | Nanoelectronics refers to the use of nanotechnology in electronic components. The term covers a diverse set of devices and materials, with the common characteristic that they are so small that inter-atomic interactions and quantum mechanical properties need to be studied extensively. Some of these candidates include:... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substrate%20%28biology%29 | In biology, a substrate is the surface on which an organism (such as a plant, fungus, or animal) lives. A substrate can include biotic or abiotic materials and animals. For example, encrusting algae that lives on a rock (its substrate) can be itself a substrate for an animal that lives on top of the algae. Inert substr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Regis%20%28author%29 | Edward Regis, Jr (born 1944) — known as Ed Regis — is an American philosopher, educator and author. He specializes in books and articles about science, philosophy and intelligence. His topics have included nanotechnology, transhumanism and biological warfare. His articles have appeared in several scientific magazine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Kelly%20%28mathematician%29 |
Francis Patrick Kelly, CBE, FRS (born 28 December 1950) is Professor of the Mathematics of Systems at the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He served as Master of Christ's College, Cambridge from 2006 to 2016.
Kelly's research interests are in random processes, networks and optimisation, especially in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf%20Naef | Adolf Naef (1 May 1883 – 11 May 1949) was a Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist who worked on cephalopods and systematics. Although he struggled with academic politics throughout his career and difficult conditions during World War I and II, his work had lasting influences on the fields of phylogenetics, morphology, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organoaluminium%20chemistry | Organoaluminium chemistry is the study of compounds containing bonds between carbon and aluminium. It is one of the major themes within organometallic chemistry. Illustrative organoaluminium compounds are the dimer trimethylaluminium, the monomer triisobutylaluminium, and the titanium-aluminium compound called Tebbe's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin%20Fues | Erwin Richard Fues (17 January 1893 in Stuttgart, Germany – 17 January 1970, Germany), was a German theoretical physicist who made contributions to atomic physics and molecular physics, quantum wave mechanics, and solid-state physics.
Education and career
During the period 1912 to 1914, Fues studied at the University ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Edward%20Anderson | John Edward Anderson (born May 15, 1927) is an American engineer and proponent of personal rapid transit.
Career
Anderson was born in China in the 1920s. His family returned to the United States in the 1930s. He obtained a BS from Iowa State University and a master's from the University of Minnesota - both in the fiel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard%20Myron%20Allen | Willard Myron Allen (November 5, 1904 – August 15, 1993) was an American gynecologist. He was born in 1904 in Farmington, New York, near Rochester, New York. As an undergraduate student at Hobart College (now Hobart and William Smith Colleges) in Geneva, New York, Allen had studied organic chemistry. This would come in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undulated%20moray | The undulated moray (Gymnothorax undulatus) is a moray eel of the family Muraenidae, found in the Indo-Pacific and east-central Pacific Ocean at depths down to 30 m. Their length is up to 1.5 m.
Description and biology
The undulated moray can easily be identified by its yellow head and brown spots covering its body.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20College%20of%20Science%20Association | The Royal College of Science Association (RCSA) was set up in 1908 and is a Chapter under the Imperial College Association umbrella comprising the former students from the Departments of Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Maths and Physics (collectively termed the "Royal College of Science") at Imperial College London.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20High%20Energy%20Physics | ICHEP or International Conference on High Energy Physics is one of the most prestigious international scientific conferences in the field of particle physics, bringing together leading theorists and experimentalists of the world. It was first held in 1950, and is biennial since 1960. Since the first conferences of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Magnus | Hans Heinrich Wilhelm Magnus known as Wilhelm Magnus (February 5, 1907 in Berlin, Germany – October 15, 1990 in New Rochelle, New York) was a German-American mathematician. He made important contributions in combinatorial group theory, Lie algebras, mathematical physics, elliptic functions, and the study of tessellatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20model | In computational chemistry, a water model is used to simulate and thermodynamically calculate water clusters, liquid water, and aqueous solutions with explicit solvent. The models are determined from quantum mechanics, molecular mechanics, experimental results, and these combinations. To imitate a specific nature of mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCNI | CCNI may refer to:
Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations, supercomputing centre at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, government body regulating charities in Northern Ireland
CCNI (gene), also known as Cyclin 1
CCNI S.A., Compañía Chilena de Navegación Inte... |
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