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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela%20Koehler | Angela N. Koehler is an American biochemist who is the Karl Van Tassel (1925) Career Development Professor of Chemical Biology at the Broad Institute. Her research considers the development of chemical tools to understand transcriptional regulation, and the design of next-generation pharmaceuticals.
Early life and edu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Franklin%20Clark | Paul Franklin Clark (March 9, 1882, Portland, Maine – August 23, 1983, Livermore, California) was an American bacteriologist and virologist. He was the president of the American Society for Microbiology in 1938.
Biography
Clark graduated from the Portland Maine, High School in 1900. At Brown University, he graduated w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20D.%20Escobar | Michael David Escobar is an American biostatistician who is known for Bayesian nonparametrics, mixture models.
Education and career
Escobar earned a degree in mathematics at Tufts University in 1981 followed by a doctorate in statistics at Yale University in 1988 under the supervision of John Hartigan. Between 1990 a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycosphere | Mycosphere is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishes research articles and reviews about fungal biology.
The journal was founded in 2010 and is the official journal of the Innovative Institute for Plant Health. The journal is published by Mushroom Research Foundation, as of 2022 editor in chief is Ruvishi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Lyman%20Starkey | Robert Lyman Starkey (September 27, 1899, Fitchburg, Massachusetts – August 8, 1991, Jamesburg, New Jersey) was an American microbiologist. He was the president of the American Society for Microbiology in 1963.
Biography
Starkey graduated in 1921 with a B.S. from Massachusetts Agricultural College (now named the Unive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan%20Clarke | Megan A. Clarke is an American cancer epidemiologist who researches anogenital and endometrial cancers. She is a Stadtman investigator in the clinical genetics branch at the National Cancer Institute.
Life
Clarke was a postbaccalaureate fellow in the clinical genetics branch (CGB) at the National Cancer Institute (NC... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahinaz%20Gadalla | Shahinaz Mohamed Aly Gadalla is a physician-scientist and cancer epidemiologist who researches cancer biomarkers and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. She is a senior investigator in the clinical genetics branch at the National Cancer Institute.
Life
Shahinaz Mohamed Aly Gadalla was born to Mohamed and Sabah. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20C.%20Gage | Julia C. Gage is an American cancer epidemiologist who researches cervical screening and the human papillomavirus infection. She is a staff scientist in the clinical genetics branch at the National Cancer Institute.
Early life and education
Gage completed a B.A. in political science with a concentration in Latin Amer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neelam%20Giri | Neelam K. Giri is an Indian pediatric hematologist/oncologist and physician-scientist who researches bone marrow failure syndromes. She is a staff clinician in the clinical genetics branch at the National Cancer Institute.
Life
Giri received her MBBS and MD degrees from the University of Bombay where she also receive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrinsic%20Geometric%20Flows | Extrinsic Geometric Flows is an advanced mathematics textbook that overviews geometric flows, mathematical problems in which a curve or surface moves continuously according to some rule. It focuses on extrinsic flows, in which the rule depends on the embedding of a surface into space, rather than intrinsic flows such a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra%20Collins%20%28librarian%29 | Sandra Collins (born 16 July 1970) is an Irish mathematician and leading academic librarian, who is the university librarian of University College Dublin, Ireland's largest university, since 2022. She was director of the National Library of Ireland from 2015.
Career
Collins attended University College Dublin, graduati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20Catsicas | Stefan Catsicas, born in 1958, is a Swiss molecular biologist specialised in neurosciences of Italian and Greek origins. He was executive director of Nestlé from 2013 to 2018, vice-president of research of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (EPFL) from 2000 to 2004 and director of the institute of cell biolog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orville%20Wyss | Orville Wyss (September 10, 1912, Medford, Wisconsin – November 11, 1993, Brush, Colorado) was an American microbiologist. He was the president of the American Society for Microbiology in 1965.
Biography
Wyss graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a B.S. in 1937, an M.S. in 1938, and a Ph.D. in 1941. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie%20Ye | Winnie N. Ye is a Canadian electronics engineer specializing in silicon-based photonics. She is a professor of electronics at Carleton University.
Education and career
Ye's parents are both computer scientist professors. She studied electrical engineering as an undergraduate at Carleton University. After earning a mas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20L.%20McMaster | Mary Lou McMaster is an American oncologist and clinical trialist who researches familial cancer genetics. She is a senior clinical trial specialist at the National Cancer Institute and a captain in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
Life
McMaster received her M.D. from the Wake Forest School... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Mirabello | Lisa J. Mirabello is an American medical geneticist who researches genetic susceptibility to pediatric cancer and the genomics of HPV carcinogenicity. She is a senior investigator in the clinical genetics branch at the National Cancer Institute.
Life
Lisa Mirabello earned her Ph.D. in biomedical sciences with a focus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Fratzl | Peter Fratzl (born 13 September 1958 in Vienna) is an Austrian physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam.
Life
After studying in Strasbourg and Paris, and graduating as an engineer from the École polytechnique in 1980, Fratzl received his doctorate in physics from the U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabha%20Bagchi | Amitabha Bagchi is an Indian author, who was awarded DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2019 and shortlisted for JCB Prize for Literature and The Hindu Literary Prize for his novel Half the Night is Gone. He is the author of four novels.
Personal life
He was born in 1974 in Delhi and is currently serving as Prof... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Aoun | Ali Aoun (in Arabic علي عون), born May 6, 1946, in Temacine in Algeria, is an Algerian politician, he was the CEO of the pharmaceutical group Saidal for 12 years.
He is currently the Minister of Industry since March 18, 2023.
Biography
Early life and education
After obtaining his degree in Industrial Chemistry Engi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila%20Willis | Sheila Willis (born 11 June 1952) is a pioneer of the introduction of DNA profiling to the Irish legal system. She contributed to the establishment of the national DNA Database System in 2015.
Education
Willis attended University College Dublin graduating with PhD in Chemistry in 1977 and with DSc in Forensic Science ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiko%20Nishikawa | Keiko Nishikawa (, born 27 November 1948) is a Japanese physical chemist known for her studies of supercritical fluids. She is an emeritus professor at Chiba University and research fellow at the Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute.
Education and career
Nishikawa studied chemistry at the University of Toky... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20Carried%20Forward | Error Carried Forward (ECF) is an informal principle for grading employed within computational fields of study such as mathematics, physics, engineering and computer science. In questions with multiple parts, it is common that the answer to the current part builds on an answer to the previous part. As such, if the answ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUM%20School%20of%20Computation%2C%20Information%20and%20Technology | The TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) is a school of the Technical University of Munich, established in 2022 by the merger of three former departments. As of 2022, it is structured into the Department of Mathematics, the Department of Computer Engineering, the Department of Computer Science, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUM%20School%20of%20Natural%20Sciences | The TUM School of Natural Sciences (NAT) is a school of the Technical University of Munich, established in 2022 by the merger of various former departments. As of 2022, it is structured into the Department of Biosciences, the Department of Chemistry, and the Department of Physics. The school is located at the Garching ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Shilov | Nikolai Alexandrovich Shilov (10 July 1872 – 17 August 1930) was a Russian and Soviet chemist who studied reactions, catalysis, and induction.
Shilov was born in Moscow and graduated in 1895 after which he worked in Leipzig in Wilhelm Ostwald's laboratory on chemical kinetics. In 1910 he became a professor of inorgan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang%20Yihong | Hang Yihong (; born July 1962) is a Chinese engineer who is the party secretary of the China Academy of Engineering Physics since September 2015. He was a representative of the 19th and the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He was an alternate member of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph%20Beckermann | Christoph Beckermann is a University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Iowa. He also directs the Solidification Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering there.
Education
Beckermann, who grew up in Osnabrück, Germany, studied Mechanical Engineering... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Bowen%20Sarles | William Bowen Sarles (October 1, 1906, Viroqua, Wisconsin – November 14, 1987, Madison, Wisconsin) was an American microbiologist. He was the president of the American Society for Microbiology in 1967.
Biography
He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UWM) in 1925 with a B.S., in 1927 with an M.S., and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Chien-Wei%20Liao | Eric Liao is an American pediatric surgeon-scientist. He specializes in plastic and reconstructive craniofacial surgery, especially in the surgical treatment of cleft lip and palate, rhinoplasty, otoplasty, and nasal reconstruction.. Liao's research interests are focused on the genetics and developmental biology that g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Redwing | Joan M. Redwing is an American materials scientist known for research on electronic and optoelectronic materials, including the processing of semiconductor thin films and nanomaterials by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). Redwing is a distinguished professor of materials science and engineering and electr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20Lewis%20Lipps | Emma Lewis Lipps (8 February 1919 - 19 July 1996) was an American botanist, botany collector, and a professor of biology and Earth science at Shorter College, Rome. Her work was primarily focused on discovering and studying the Pleistocene vertebrates' specimens from the Marshall Forest in Floyd County and the Ladd's Q... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Shaw%20Devesa | Susan Shaw Devesa (born June 24, 1944) is an American cancer epidemiologist who conducts descriptive research of the patterns of cancer in the United States. She was a section chief of descriptive studies at the National Cancer Institute.
Life
Devesa was born June 24, 1944, in Washington, D.C. She completed a B.A. in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter%20Fraser | Hunter B. Fraser is a Professor of Biology at Stanford University and the chief PI of the Fraser lab at Stanford. He is also a member of Bio-X, Stanford's interdisciplinary biosciences institute, the Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI), the Stanford Cancer Institute, and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne%20S.%20Danska | Jayne S. Danska is an immunologist in Canada. Danska is a Senior Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children, a Professor at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine, and the Anne and Max Tanenbaum Chair in Molecular Medicine.
Research
Danska holds a PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology from Cornell Universit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Kablukov | Ivan Alekseyevich Kablukov (, 2 September 1857 – 5 May 1942) was a Russian and Soviet physical chemist. He helped develop ideas on ions, electrochemistry, and conductivity. He published influential textbooks on organic chemistry and was a professor at Moscow State University at the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy.
Ka... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikael%20Skoglund | Mikael Skoglund is an academic born 1969 in Kungälv, Sweden. He is a professor of Communication theory, and the Head of the Division of Information Science and Engineering of the Department of Intelligent Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. His research focuses on source-channel coding, signal processing, inf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Bean | Alice Louise Bean is an American physicist whose research concerns particle physics, and particularly particles beyond those predicted from the standard model of particle physics. She is a distinguished professor of physics at the University of Kansas.
Education and career
Bean earned bachelor's degrees in Physics, as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Leslie%20Scott | Francis Leslie Scott MRIA (3 July 1928 – 14 January 2008) was an Irish chemist in the field of organic chemistry, though he contributed equally to the wider scientific world.
Scott began his career at University College Cork, where he published twenty-eight internationally refereed papers on organonitrogen chemistry, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla%20Fr%C3%B6hlich | Carla Fröhlich is a Swiss and American nuclear astrophysicist whose research has included the neutrino p-process for nucleosynthesis in supernovae, and the study of multi-messenger astronomy. She is a professor of physics and University Faculty Scholar at North Carolina State University.
Education and career
Fröhlich ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey%20Kislitsyn | Sergey S. Kislitsyn, () is a Russian mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and coding theory.
Kislitsyn was born January 5, 1935, in Ivanovo, Soviet Union. He received his M.S. in mathematics from Leningrad State University in 1957. From 1962 until 1970 he worked at Yekaterinburg branch of the Steklov Institut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Alan%20Morton | Richard Alan Morton FRS was the Johnston Professor of Biochemistry at University of Liverpool from 1944 until 1966. He was a pioneer in the application of spectroscopy to biological molecules. His research group were the first to identify vitamin A2 and related compounds. They were also among the first to characterise ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoeurycea%20jaguar | Pseudoeurycea jaguar, or the jaguar salamander (), is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to Veracruz, Mexico.
Habitat
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests of the Sierra de Zongolica in Veracruz. At its type locality, it was found in Cupressus forests.
Phylogeneti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenjie%20Zhang | Wenjie Zhang is a Professor and Head of the Data and Knowledge Research Group within the School of Computer Science and Engineering, the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney). Her most notable breakthrough is in the area of optimization strategies to process computationally complex large graphs. Her work is among... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20Kilborn | Virginia Kilborn is a professor and radio astronomer with the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University and is Swinburne's first Chief Scientist. She researches galaxy evolution by studying their gas content and is working on the surveys of the next generation of radio telescopes, including the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petar%20Lukovi%C4%87 | Petar Luković (born 21 January 1951 in Kraljevo), nicknamed "Pero s onog sveta" (), is a journalist, newspaper editor and former rock critic. He attended the Sixth Belgrade Gymnasium, graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Belgrade.
He started his career in 1976 as a journalist for D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Edward%20Blair | John Edward Blair (May 30, 1899, Monroe, Maine – March 26, 1980) was an American bacteriologist and serologist. He was the president of the American Society for Microbiology in 1962.
Biography
Blair graduated in 1920 with a bachelor's degree from Clark University. At Brown University, he graduated in 1921 with an M.S.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi%20Cooley | Jodi Ann Cooley (also published as Cooley-Sekula) is an American experimental physicist specializing in the search for particles that might constitute dark matter. She is a professor of physics at Southern Methodist University and the executive director of SNOLAB, an underground laboratory for dark matter physics and n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Carmelle%20Elie | Marie-Carmelle Elie (born October 12, 1973) is an American emergency physician who is Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.
Early life and education
Elie was undergraduate student at Columbia University... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror%20High | Horror High (also known as Twisted Brain and Kiss the Teacher...Goodbye!) is a 1973 American horror film directed by Larry N. Stouffer, written by J.D. Feigelson, and starting Pat Cardi, Austin Stoker, Rosie Holotik, John Niland, Joye Hash, Jeff Alexander and Mike McHenry. The plot follows the story of a shy, yet excep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Selinger | Robin Lillian Blumberg Selinger (née Blumberg) is an American materials scientist. She is professor of physics at Kent State University and the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute. In 2016, Selinger became the first female Kent State University faculty member to be elected a Fellow of the American Physical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiodun%20Adebayo | Abiodun Humphrey Adebayo is a professor of biochemistry and he is the current vice-chancellor of Covenant University. He is also a member of the accreditation panel of National Universities Commission.
Biography
Adebayo, who is the current vice-chancellor, is an elected member of the governing board of the Associatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl%20Benacerraf | Beryl Rice Benacerraf (April 29, 1949 – October 1, 2022) was an American radiologist and professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology and radiology at Harvard Medical School. She was a pioneer in the use of prenatal ultrasound to diagnose fetal abnormalities, including Down syndrome. In 2021, she was re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Charles%20Sherris | John Charles Sherris (March 8, 1921 – May 2, 2021) was an English-American medical doctor, pathologist, and bacteriologist. He was the president of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) in 1983.
Biography
Sherris grew up near London. In Kensington in 1944 he married Elizabeth L. McArthur. At the University of L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum%20of%20two%20cubes | In mathematics, the sum of two cubes is a cubed number added to another cubed number.
Factorization
Every sum of cubes may be factored according to the identity
in elementary algebra.
Binomial numbers are the general of this factorization to higher odd powers.
"SOAP" method
The mnemonic "SOAP", standing for "Same,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20systems%20biology%20modeling%20software | Systems biology relies heavily on building mathematical models to help understand and make predictions of biological processes. Specialized software to assist in building models has been developed since the arrival of the first digital computers. The following list gives the currently supported software applications av... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi%20Bhushan | Ravi Bhushan (born 12 April 1953, in Muzaffarnagar, India) was a Professor of Chemistry at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee who worked in the areas of natural products chemistry, protein chemistry, and chiral analysis by liquid chromatography.
Education and academic career
Bhushan began his education in his na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%20Konarzewski | Marek Konarzewski (; born 18 June 1961 in Białystok) – professor of biology, popular-science author, faculty member at the University of Białystok, and corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since October 2022, President-Elect of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Background
Marek Konarzewski earned his... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Ransone%20Murray | Margaret Ransone Murray (November 16, 1901 – July 13, 1986) was an American scientist known primarily for her work on methods to establish cultures of neuronal cells. Her in vitro studies in cellular neurobiology shed light on both nerve- muscle relationships and axon myelination.
Early life and education
Margaret ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20J.%20Eppstein | Margaret Jean (Maggie) Eppstein (also published as Margaret J. E. Heinrich) is an American multidisciplinary scholar whose research involves the computational modeling of complex systems in various application domains. She is a professor emerita and research professor of computer science at the University of Vermont.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Albert%20Evans | Charles Albert Evans (February 18, 1912, Minneapolis – December 4, 2008) was an American physician, professor of microbiology, and researcher on poliomyelitis virus. He was the president of the American Society for Microbiology in 1960.
Biography
At the University of Minnesota, Evans graduated in 1935 with a B.S., in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20coefficient%20%28biochemistry%29 | Control coefficients are used to describe how much influence (i.e., control) a given reaction step has on the steady-state flux or species concentration level. In practice, this can be accomplished by changing the expression level of a given enzyme and measuring the resulting changes in flux and metabolite levels. Cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias%20Uddin%20Biswas | Elias Uddin Biswas (born 15 December 1964) is a Bangladeshi educationalist. He is a professor at Mathematics Department at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) and current vice-chancellor at North East University Bangladesh (NEUB). Before joining North East University Bangladesh he served as treasurer ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Leeuwen | Van Leeuwen may refer to:
Van Leeuwen (surname), a Dutch surname
Van Leeuwen Ice Cream, an American ice cream parlor chain
Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group, a Dutch steel distributor
Bohr–Van Leeuwen theorem, a physics theorem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keum-Shik%20Hong | Keum-Shik Hong (; born 1957) is a South Korean mechanical engineer, academic, author, and researcher. He is a professor emeritus in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Pusan National University. He is also a Distinguished Professor in the Institute For Future, Qingdao University, China.
Education and early career
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20A.%20Feinberg | Eugene A. Feinberg is an American mathematician and distinguished professor of applied mathematics and statistics at Stony Brook University. He is noted for his work in probability theory, real analysis, and Markov decision processes.
Biography
Feinberg was born in Moscow, Russia in 1954. He received his masters degr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Arthur%20Stuart | Charles Arthur Stuart (May 26, 1893 – October 17, 1962) was an American physician and professor of bacteriology. He was the president of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) in 1956.
Biography
After education in public schools at Plattsburgh, New York, Stuart matriculated in 1914 at Brown University. There he g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol%20E.%20Anway | Carol Elizabeth Anway (also published as Carol Anway-Wiese; born 1965) is a retired American physicist known for her work on computational industrial physics for Boeing, and particularly on lightning protection for airplanes.
Education and career
Anway grew up in Superior, Wisconsin, and studied physics and mathematic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20J.%20Clark | Samuel J. "Sam" Clark is a demographer with expertise in epidemiology and data science. He has worked as a professor in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University and the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. He is an expert on ascertaining cause of death using verbal autopsy.
Educatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria%20Ferrari | Valeria Ferrari is an Italian physicist whose research concerns the theoretical modeling of gravitational waves, and the oscillations in black holes and neutron stars that could cause them. She is a professor of theoretical physics at Sapienza University of Rome.
Education and career
Ferrari was born on 21 March 1952 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20Alessandra%20Papa | Maria Alessandra Papa (born 1967) is an Italian physicist specializing in the observation of gravitational waves. She is a professor of gravitational wave astronomy at Leibniz University Hannover, and a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute). At the Max Planck Insti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Pomeroy%20Autor | Anne Pomeroy Autor (January 26, 1935 – November 13, 2018) was a Canadian scientist who was a professor of biochemistry at the University of British Columbia. She worked closely with policy makers to inform public health campaigns and was committed to improving access to medical education.
Early life and education
Aut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Wallace%20Watson | Dennis Wallace Watson (April 29, 1914, Morpeth, Ontario – December 1, 2008, Saint Paul, Minnesota) was a Canadian-American professor of microbiology. He was the president of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) in 1969.
Biography
Watson graduated in 1934 with a bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Ding | Li Ding is the David English Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Washington University. She is known for the development of multiple computational tools now commonly used in cancer biology research, including VarScan, HotSpot3D, and BreakDancer.
Education
Ding obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in biolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%20Gurnett | Christina A. Gurnett is the A. Ernest and Jane G. Stein Professor of Neurology, the director of the Division of Pediatric and Developmental Neurology at Washington University in St. Louis, and the chief of Neurology at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
Early life and education
In 1991, Gurnett completed her B.S. in biol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara%20Doering | Tamara Lea Doering is an American microbiologist known for her research in Cryptococcus neoformans, a pathogenic fungus. She is currently a professor of molecular microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine.
Early life and education
Doering earned her bachelor's degree with honors from Johns Hopkins Uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syb-prII-1 | Syb-prII-1 is a β-type neurotoxin from the venom of the scorpion Olivierus martensii. It reduces the activity and the expression of the voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1.8.
Sources
Syb-prII-1 is a neurotoxin isolated from the venom of the Chinese scorpion Olivierus martensii, previously known as Buthus martensii.
Ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laufey%20%C3%81mundad%C3%B3ttir | Laufey Thora Ámundadóttir is an Icelandic cell biologist and geneticist who researches pancreatic cancer. She is a senior investigator in the laboratory of translational genomics at the National Cancer Institute. She was head of the division of cancer genetics at deCODE genetics from 1998 to 2007.
Life
Ámundadóttir r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bea%20Knecht | Bea Knecht (born 1967, Brugg, Switzerland) is a Swiss computer scientist, entrepreneur and founder of Zattoo.
Life
Knecht grew up in Windisch and studied computer science at the University of California at Berkeley. She completed a master's degree in Business Administrations at the International Institute for Manage... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa%20Giustina | Marissa Giustina is an American physicist who is a senior research scientist at the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab. Her research considers the development of quantum computing and experimental tests of quantum theory.
Early life and education
Giustina became interested in computing as a child. She was an undergr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaella%20Schneider | Raffaella Schneider (born 1971) is an Italian astrophysicist whose research concerns the first generations of stars, galaxies, and black holes in the early universe. She is a professor of astrophysics at Sapienza University of Rome.
Education and career
Schneider studied physics at Sapienza University of Rome, earning... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broca-Sulzer%20effect | The Broca-Sulzer effect or Broca-Sulzer phenomenon is an experimental observation related to the psychophysics of vision. It has two parts, temporal and spatial. In the temporal effect, the perceived brightness of a single flash of light first increases with the flash duration, then reaches a maximum, and decreases for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot-Plateau%20law | The Talbot-Plateau law is an experimental observation related to the psychophysics of vision. If a light flickers so rapidly that it appears as continuous, then its perceived brightness will be determined by the relative periods of light and darkness: the longer the darkness, the weaker the light.
The law was first r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20O.%20Mines%20Jr. | Richard O. Mines Jr. is an American civil/environmental engineer, academic, and author. He is an emeritus professor of environmental and civil engineering at Mercer University. His research is primarily focused on the activated sludge process and biological nutrient removal processes, with particular emphasis on enviro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20Science | Thermal Science is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal founded in 1997 and published by Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences. The journal is focused on physics and chemistry, and aims to amplify recent scientific results accomplished in Serbia and Southeast Europe.
The editor-in-chief is Vukman Bakić (Vinča ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June%20Lorraine%20Matthews | June Lorraine Matthews is an American nuclear physicist.
Career
June Lorraine Matthews was born August 1, 1939, to Mildred and Ralph Matthews and is the eldest granddaughter of Harlow Shapley.
Matthews completed her undergraduate degree in Physics at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota in 1960 and her PhD in 1967... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Michael%20Foster | Edwin Michael Foster (January 1, 1917, Alba, Texas – February 11, 2013, Madison, Wisconsin) was an American microbiologist, specializing in food microbiology. He was the president of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) in 1970.
Biography
Foster grew up in poverty on a small cotton farm in East Texas. At North ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venigalla%20Rao | Venigalla Basaveswara Rao is an Indian-American biochemist who is a professor of biology at the Catholic University of America. He serves as Director of the Bacteriophage Medical Research Center. In 2021, he was elected a Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology and the National Academy of Inventors.
Early life... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan%20Hu | Nan Hu is a Chinese physician-scientist, molecular geneticist, and cancer epidemiologist who researches gastrointestinal cancers. She is a staff scientist in the metabolic epidemiology branch at the National Cancer Institute.
Life
Hu received a medical degree from the Shanxi Medical College in 1976, followed by a mas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%20Venerable | Grant D. Venerable was the first African-American graduate of the California Institute of Technology, earning a BS in chemistry in 1932. He entered Caltech in 1929, as a transfer student from UCLA. An undergraduate residence hall at Caltech was named after him in 2021.
References
California Institute of Technology al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet%20Scott%20Salmon%20Blyth | Janet Scott Salmon Blyth (19 February 1902 - 1972) was a Scottish geneticist who specialised in poultry genetics and husbandry in the interwar and post-war decades and played a prominent role in establishing the Poultry Research Centre, one of several institutions that would eventually be amalgamated to form the Rosli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perucca | Perucca is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Ángel Perucca (1918–1981), Argentine footballer
Eligio Perucca (1890–1965), Italian physics instructor and researcher
Italian-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan%20Hassan%20%28astrophysicist%29 | Sultan Hassan () is a Sudanese computational astrophysicist and NASA Hubble Fellow.
Hassan was born in Saudi Arabia. In 2009, he received a BSc in Physics from the University of Khartoum, Sudan. In 2013, he received an MSc in Astrophysics & Space Science from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and a PhD from t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fionn%20Dunne | Fionn Patrick Edward Dunne is a Professor of Materials Science at Imperial College London and holds the Chair in Micromechanics and the Royal Academy of Engineering/Rolls-Royce Research Chair. Professor Dunne specialises in computational crystal plasticity and microstructure-sensitive nucleation and growth of short f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alojz%20Kodre | Alojzij Franc 'Alojz' Kodre (born 22 February 1944 in Villach, Austria) is a Slovenian physicist and translator.
Kodre was a professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in Ljubljana, where he lectured Mathematical Physics and Model Analysis. In Mathematical Physics, he succeeded Ivan Kuščer, who was the first ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfriede%20Tungl | Elfriede Tungl (4 July 1922 – 25 August 1981) was an Austrian civil engineer. She was the first Austrian woman to earn a doctorate in civil engineering and in 1973 became the first female associate professor at the Vienna University of Technology.
Early life and education
Elfriede Tungl was born on 4 July 1922 in Vie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashmi%20Sinha%20%28epidemiologist%29 | Rashmi Sinha is a nutritional and cancer epidemiologist who researches diets, cancer risk, and the microbiome. She is a senior investigator in the metabolic epidemiology branch of the National Cancer Institute.
Life
Sinha received a B.S. with honors and M.Sc. in biochemistry from the University of Stirling. She earne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela%20Mosier-Boss | Pamela A. Mosier-Boss is an American analytical chemist who spent her career at the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific. Her research considered the development of environmental sensors and low-energy nuclear reaction.
Early life and education
Mosier-Boss' mother was a nurse. Mosier-Boss studied biology and chem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Thorp%20%28researcher%29 | John Martin Thorp (1927 – 23 March 2017) was a New Zealand chemistry researcher, university lecturer, and the author of several books, including two autobiographies on his life as a trans man.
Early life, education, and transition
Born in 1927 in the United Kingdom, Thorp was educated at University of London, graduat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Loerting | Thomas Loerting (born October 29, 1973) is an Austrian chemist and associate professor at the University of Innsbruck. His research focuses on amorphous systems, the physics and chemistry of ice and chemistry at low temperatures.
Biography
Thomas Loerting was born in Innsbruck where he also graduated from high-schoo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Albatros | Sam Albatros is a pseudonymous Greek-born author, queer artist and poetry translator. They wear masks and have never shown their face publicly.
Early life and education
Albatros was born and raised in rural Greece. They hold an MPhil in Psychology from University of Cambridge and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from ... |
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