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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Hilovsky
Jeffrey Hilovsky (born c. 1956) is an American politician. He is a Republican member of the Delaware House of Representatives, representing District 4. Biography Hilovsky was born in c. 1956 and grew up in Long Neck, Delaware. He first attended Grove City College, where he received a bachelor's degree in biology, and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah%20Me%C3%AFr%20Kahana%20Shapira
Isaiah Meïr Kahana Shapira (; 28 July 1828 – 9 January 1887) was a Polish-German rabbi and author. Biography Shapira was born in Memel, Prussia, in 1828. He is said to have been familiar at the age of thirteen with all the sedarim of both Talmudim and with a part of the poskim. About 1845 he studied philosophy, mathem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipalo%20Street
Chipalo Street is an American politician and software engineer serving as a member of the Washington House of Representatives for the 37th district. Elected in November 2022, he assumed office on January 9, 2023. Education He earned a Bachelor of Applied Science and Master of Science in computer science from Brown Un...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Searle
Catherine Searle is an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry and in particular on the curvature and symmetry of manifolds and Alexandrov spaces. She is a professor of mathematics at Wichita State University. Education and career Searle majored in mathematics and physics at Bryn Mawr College, gra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n%20Iribarren
Ramón Iribarren Cavanilles Ing.D (15 April 1900 – 21 February 1967) was a Spanish civil engineer and professor of ports at the School of Civil Engineering (, ETSICCP) in Madrid. He was chairman of the Spanish delegation to the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses (PIANC) and was elected as an ac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahesh%20Kakde
Mahesh Ramesh Kakde (born 1983) is a mathematician working in algebraic number theory. Biography Mahesh Kakde was born on 1983 in Akola, India. He obtained a Bachelor of Mathematics degree at the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore in 2004, and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics at the University of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arming%20Mother%20Nature%3A%20The%20Birth%20of%20Catastrophic%20Environmentalism
Arming Mother Nature is a 2013 non-fiction book by Jacob Darwin Hamblin, a history professor at Oregon State University. His book argues that The Pentagon and its military planning for WW III promoted "catastrophic environmentalism" by funding environmental science in the Cold War after WW II. The Pentagon planners wer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Takane
Martha Yoko Takane Imay is a Mexican mathematician whose research topics include linear algebra, representation theory, and algebraic combinatorics. She is a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a researcher in the UNAM Institute of Mathematics. Education and career Takane studied mathe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Carey
Van P. Carey is an American mechanical engineer. He held the A. Richard Newton Chair in Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2014, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics awarded Carey its Thermophysics Award. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-cen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technoxian
The Technoxian, World Robotics Championship Series is a tournament where teams from all over the world comes to India to participate in various robotics challenges including Bots Combat, Robo Race, Robo Soccer, Maze Solver, Water Rocket, Drone Racing, RC Plane Racing and Innovation. 6th Edition of the championship held...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A9vin%20Rouet
Kévin Rouet (born 12 January 1986) is a French rugby union coach. He is currently the head coach of the Canada women's national rugby union team. Biography Rouet was born in Bordeaux, he played in the amateur divisions in France before migrating to Quebec, Canada in 2009 aged 22. He studied mechanical engineering at ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steward%20Pickett
Steward T. A. Pickett is an American plant ecologist and a distinguished senior scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Pickett is the recipient (together with Lenore Fahrig and Simon A. Levin) of the 2021 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology for "incorporating ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janos%20Hajdu%20%28biophysicist%29
Janos Hajdu (Hungarian: János Hajdú; born 1948) is a Hungarian biophysicist. He is a professor of molecular biophysics at Uppsala University and a senior scientist at the Extreme Light Infrastructure beamline. Education and career Hajdu was born in Budapest, Hungary and studied chemistry at Eötvös Loránd University. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20E.%20Speizer
Frank Erwin Speizer (born 8 June 1935) is an American physician and epidemiologist, currently Professor of Environmental Health and Environmental Science at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Edward H. Kass Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He is be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina%20Perminova
Irina Vasilievna Perminova (born February 9, 1960) is Russian scientist, Professor, Dr. Habil. in Analytical Chemistry, Chief Scientist, Head of the Laboratory of Natural Humic Systems at the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Fine Organic Synthesis of the Department of Chemistry of the Moscow University, Moscow, Russ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Stewart%20%28Oklahoma%20politician%29
Jack Stewart is an American politician who has served as the Oklahoma Senate member from the 18th district since November 16, 2022. Education and career Stewart graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. Prior to running for the Oklahoma Senate, he served as a Canad...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuensanta%20Aroca
Fuensanta Aroca Bisquert is a Spanish mathematician who works in Mexico as a researcher in the Institute of Mathematics (Cuernavaca unit) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her mathematical research involves the use of power series to solve differential equations, singularity theory, and tropical g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%20Lambert
Nathan Lambert is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2022, representing the seat of Preston. Early life Before entering politics, Lambert studied computer science and creative arts at the University of Melbourne. He also served as a non-executive dire...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicut
In mathematics, a dicut is a partition of the vertices of a directed graph into two subsets, so that each edge that has an endpoint in both subsets is directed from the first subset to the second. Each strongly connected component of the graph must be entirely contained in one of the two subsets, so a strongly connecte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodall%27s%20conjecture
In the mathematics of directed graphs, Woodall's conjecture is an unproven relationship between dicuts and dijoins. It was posed by Douglas Woodall in 1976. Statement A dicut is a partition of the vertices into two subsets such that all edges that cross the partition do so in the same direction. A dijoin is a subset o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucchesi%E2%80%93Younger%20theorem
In the mathematics of directed graphs, the Lucchesi–Younger theorem is a relationship between dicuts and dijoins. It was published by Cláudio L. Lucchesi and Daniel H. Younger in 1978. Their proof resolved a conjecture that had been posed roughly a decade earlier by Younger, and in unpublished work by Neil Robertson, m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijoin
In mathematics, a dijoin is a subset of the edges of a directed graph, with the property that contracting every edge in the dijoin produces a strongly connected graph. Equivalently, a dijoin is a subset of the edges that, for every dicut, includes at least one edge crossing the dicut. Here, a dicut is a partition of th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarja%20Kruusmaa
Maarja Kruusmaa (maiden name Maarja Sink; born 4 January 1970) is an Estonian computer scientist, professor at Tallinn University of Technology, vice-rector for research and head of the biorobotics center at that university. Her main research area is bio-inspired underwater robotics to imitate the movements of fish and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%2013/15%20multiple%20bonds
Heteroatomic multiple bonding between group 13 and group 15 elements are of great interest in synthetic chemistry due to their isoelectronicity with C-C multiple bonds. Nevertheless, the difference of electronegativity between group 13 and 15 leads to different character of bondings comparing to C-C multiple bonds. Bec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20L.%20Hankins
Thomas Leroy Hankins (born September 9, 1933, in Lawrence, Kansas) is an American historian of science. Education and career Hankins studied physics at Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1956 and at Harvard University with an M.A.T. (Master of Arts in Teaching) in 1958. From 1958 to 1962 he taught high school...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansour%20Ali%20Haseeb
Mansour Ali Haseeb FRCP FRCPh (; 1 January 1910 – 29 September 1973) was a Sudanese professor of microbiology and parasitology. Haseeb was born into a family of scholars. He graduated with a diploma from the Kitchener School of Medicine and continued his studies in the United Kingdom, obtaining a Diploma in Bacteriol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita%20muscaria%20var.%20inzengae
Amanita muscaria var. inzengae, commonly known as Inzenga's fly agaric, is a basidiomycete fungus of the genus Amanita. It is one of several varieties of the Amanita muscaria fungi, all commonly known as fly agarics or fly amanitas. Biochemistry As with other Amanita muscaria, the inzengae variety contains ibotenic ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%20Creutzig
Felix Creutzig (born 1979) is a German physicist, and professor of Sustainability Economics at Technical University of Berlin. Education Creutzig was born in Hanover. He studied physics and medicine at the University of Freiburg from 1999 to 2002. As student of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, he obtained a Mas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana%20Lara
Adriana Lara López is a Mexican computer scientist whose research involves evolutionary computation, memetic algorithms, and multi-objective optimization. She is a professor in the school of physics and mathematics at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico. Education and career Lara graduated from the Instituto ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Wright%20%28astronomer%29
Jason Thomas Wright is an American astronomer. He is a professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics in the Eberly College of Science at Pennsylvania State University, where he also serves as director of the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center. He is known for his research on the search for extr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concei%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20Bettencourt
Conceição Bettencourt works in the field of neuro-epigenetics. She studies the involvement of disrupted molecular pathways and DNA methylation in neurodegenerative diseases using human post-mortem brain tissue. She is research fellow of the Alzheimer's Research UK and co-leads the Genetics and Omics Working Group of th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyle%20Norman%20Long
Lyle Norman Long is an academic, and computational scientist. He is a Professor Emeritus of Computational Science, Mathematics, and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, and is most known for developing algorithms and software for mathematical models, including neural networks, and robotics. His research ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Zavadovsky
Mikhail Mikhailovich Zavadovsky (German form Zawadowsky) (; 29 July 1891 – 28 March 1957) was a Russian and Soviet biologist who specialized in the reproductive biology of livestock. A professor at Moscow University, he conducted experiments on sex hormones, the control of sexual characters and hormonal cycles. He note...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20G.%20Howson
Albert Geoffrey Howson (1931 – 1 November 2022) was a British mathematician and educationist. He started to work as algebraist and in 1954 published the Howson property of groups and proved it for some types of groups. Later he devoted himself to the mathematics education and participated in reforms of mathematics edu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabar%20Amin
Jabar Karim Mohamad Amin (born 1959) is a Swedish politician and former member of the Riksdag, the national legislature. A member of the Green Party, he represented Västerbotten County between October 2010 and September 2018. Amin studied mathematics at Umeå University. He has a political science degree from the unive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenia%20O%27Reilly-Regueiro
Eugenia O'Reilly-Regueiro is a Mexican mathematician specializing in algebraic combinatorics and particular in the symmetries of combinatorial designs, circulant graphs, and abstract polytopes. She is a researcher in the Institute of Mathematics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Education and car...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Clowes%20Huneke
Samuel Clowes Huneke is an American historian of modern Europe, author, and essayist. He is assistant professor of history at George Mason University. Huneke graduated from Amherst College with a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in German and Mathematics in 2011. In 2012, he earned an MSc with Distinction in Applica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20A.%20Paller
Ken A. Paller is an American neuroscientist who is a professor of psychology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He holds the James Padilla Chair in Arts & Sciences and serves as Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program in the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences at Northwestern. He directs the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadou%20Wagu%C3%A9
Ahmadou Wagué is an African physicist who is a professor of physics at the Cheikh Anta Diop University. He has served as Vice President of the African Physical Society, President of the African Laser, Atomic Molecular, and Optical Sciences Network, member of the Senegalese National Academy of Science and Technology and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janez%20Rakovec
Janez Rakovec (April 22, 1949 – October 19, 2008) was a Slovenian mathematician. His principal field of work was topology, mainly 3-manifolds. He worked at the Mathematics Department of the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Ljubljana; in 1992 he was retired early. His bibliography comprises 73 units. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizar%20Touzi
Nizar Touzi (born 1968 in Tunisia) is a Tunisian-French mathematician. He is a professor of applied mathematics at École polytechnique. His research focuses on analysis, statistics and algebra. He is being known for publications on optimization and stochastic control. Education Touzi completed his PhD in Applied Math...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga%20Dudko
Olga Dudko is a Ukrainian physicist who is a professor at the University of California, San Diego. Her research makes use of theoretical physics to understand complex biological problems. She was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022. Early life and education Dudko completed undergraduate and postgr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloromethyl%20methyl%20sulfide
Chloromethyl methyl sulfide is the organosulfur compound with the formula . In terms of functional groups, it is a thioether and an alkyl chloride. The compound is structurally related to sulfur mustards, i.e., it is a potentially hazardous alkylating agent. The compound finds some use in organic chemistry as a prot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WB%20Group
WB Group is a Polish electronics and aeronautics manufacturer, and one of Europe's largest private defence contractors. The company was established in 1997 and is based in Ożarów Mazowiecki. Through its various subsidiaries, WB produces military communications equipment, command and control systems, fire-control system...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda%20Sheffield%20Morris
Amanda Sheffield Morris is an American developmental scientist, known primarily for her work on parenting, emotion regulation, and the neuroscience of adversity and resilience in terms of optimal child and adolescent development. She is currently the Regents Professor of Psychology at Oklahoma State University. Morris...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter%20of%20three%20hundred
The Letter of three hundred () was a 22-page memorandum signed by about 300 scientists in order to highlight the destruction of Soviet science in general and genetics in particular by the pseudoscientist Trofim Lysenko. It was sent to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on October 11, 1955....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil%20H.%20Brown
Cecil H. Brown (born 1944) is a distinguished research professor emeritus of anthropology at Northern Illinois University. His work relates to comparative linguistics and ethnobiology. Brown attended Tulane University for his undergraduate and graduate degrees, receiving a B.A. in 1966 and PhD in 1971. As an undergrad...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika%20Ben%C3%ADtez
Erika María Benítez Lizaola is a Mexican astronomer whose research involves blazars and active galactic nuclei. She is a professor in the Faculty of Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a researcher in the UNAM Institute of Astronomy. Education and career Benítez studied physics as an un...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jana%20Zaumseil
Jana Zaumseil (born 1977) is a German chemist who is a professor of physical chemistry at Heidelberg University. She serves as dean of the faculty of chemistry and earth sciences. Her research considers organic electronic materials for optoelectronics. Early life and education Zaumseil was born in Jena and studied ch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Murray%20%28lichenologist%29
James Murray (1923–1961) was an organic chemist at the University of Otago. He was the first twentieth century lichenologist in New Zealand. Career James Murray worked at the University of Otago in Dunedin as a senior lecturer in chemistry. Murray began research with lichens in the 1950s, applying his knowledge and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20E.%20Love
Paul Ernest Love is an American physician and Immunologist. He is a senior investigator and head of the Section on Hematopoiesis and Lymphocyte Biology at Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. His research focus is in the area of mammalian hematopoiesis. Education Love earned...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas%20Dauphas
Nicolas Dauphas (born December 10, 1975) is a planetary scientist and isotope geochemist. He is a professor of geochemistry and cosmochemistry in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences and Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago, where he a Louis Block professor, being appointed to that professorship i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutz%20Espig
Lutz Espig (born 5 January 1949) is a German chess Grandmaster (1983) who was thrice East German Chess Champion (1969, 1971 and 1988). Lutz also was a Euroteams bronze medal winner (1970). Biography Espig learned to play chess at the age of nine. His first club was Lok Greiz, later he played for Buna Halle. He studie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine%20Savitz
Maxine Savitz is the vice president of the National Academy of Engineering, and holds a Ph. D in organic chemistry. She has more than 30 years of experience as a manager for research, development and implementation programs in both the public and private sectors. She had been a member of the President's Council of Adv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franck%20Lalo%C3%AB
Franck Laloë (born May 28, 1940) is a French quantum physicist, author, and open archive initiator. He is emeritus research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Education and career Laloë was born in Rabat, Morocco and studied physics at the École Polytechnique in Paris from 1960 to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix%20de%20l%27%C3%89tat
The Prix de l'État (English: National Prize) of the French Academy of Sciences is a science award founded by the French National Convention in 1795 and financed by state funds. It is awarded in the fields of mathematics, physics, mechanics, computer science, earth sciences, biology and chemistry and is endowed with 760...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet%20Gave%20Willingly
Violet Gave Willingly is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Claire Sanford and released in 2022. A profile of her mother, textile artist Deborah Dumka, the film centres on their conversations about the sexism and misogyny that Dumka encountered when she went to university to study electrical engineering in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%20hole%20interactions
In chemistry, sigma hole interactions (or σ-hole interactions) are a family of intermolecular forces that can occur between several classes of molecules and arise from an energetically stabilizing interaction between a positively-charged site, termed a sigma hole, and a negatively-charged site, typically a lone pair, o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergroup%20%28biology%29
A supergroup, in evolutionary biology, is a large group of organisms that share one common ancestor and have important defining characteristics. It is an informal, mostly arbitrary rank in biological taxonomy that is often greater than phylum or kingdom, although some supergroups are also treated as phyla. Eukaryotic ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masresha%20Fetene
Masresha Fetene FAAS (, born 15 December 1954) is an Ethiopian professor of Plant Ecophysiologist at the Department of Plant Biology and Biodiversity Management, Addis Ababa University. Early life and education Masresha Fetene was born in Mertolemariam, Gojjam, Amhara Region, Ethiopia in 15 December 1954. He obtain...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvia%20Bravo
Silvia Susana Bravo Núñez (1945–2000) was a Mexican astronomer specializing in solar physics including the study of the Sun corona, solar wind, and the Sun's magnetic field. She was one of the pioneering researchers in the department of space sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Institute of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataullah%20Rashidi
'Ataullah Rushdi bin Ahmad Ma'mar was a 17th-century architect and a mathematics writer from the Mughal Empire of present-day India. He designed the Bibi Ka Maqbara at Aurangabad and some buildings at Shahjahanabad. As a mathematics writer, he translated the Arabic-language Khulasat al-Hisab and the Sanskrit-language B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolfo%20Brenner
Rodolfo Roberto Brenner was an Argentine emeritus professor of chemistry. He was the founder and director of the Institute of Biochemical Research of La Plata and the co-founder of the Argentine Society for Biochemical Research. Life and education Rodolfo Brenner was born on July 17, 1922, at Banfield, Buenos Aires P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Kutter
Dr. Elizabeth (Betty) Kutter is a phage biologist based at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, USA, where she is a Professor Emeritus. She led the T4 Genome Sequencing project, and organized the biennial Evergreen International Phage Biology meetings that draw hundreds of phage researchers from all over...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindley%20Winslow
Lindley Winslow is an experimental nuclear and particle physicist, and associate professor at MIT. Biography Winslow grew up in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Winslow completed her BA in physics in 2001 and her PhD in 2008 at University of California at Berkeley, before doing a postdoc at MIT. She was an assistant profe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20S.%20Hunn
Eugene S. Hunn (born 1943) is a professor emeritus in anthropology at the University of Washington. His research interests include ethnobiology, ethnoecology, and cognitive anthropology. Hunn obtained his bachelor's degree in sociology from Stanford University in 1964. He went on to receive a PhD in anthropology from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Antonio%20Jim%C3%A9nez%20Salas
José Antonio Jiménez Salas (10 March 1916 – 15 November 2000) was a Spanish professor of civil engineering and an elected academic of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences. Life and career Jiménez Salas was born in Zaragoza in 1916. He attended a Marist Brothers () school in Zaragoza, before completing his initial edu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leticia%20Carigi
María Leticia Carigi Delgado is a Venezuelan astronomer specializing in cosmochemistry, including the overall metallicity of galaxies and galactic halos, and the evolution of galaxies. She works in Mexico as a researcher and professor in the Institute of Astronomy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lore%20Steubing
Lore Steubing (or Eleonore Steubing) was a German botanist, generally an ecologist, born on February 1, 1922. She was former head of Chair of Plant Ecology in the Department of Biology at University of Giessen in Giessen. Steubing died on January 1, 2012, because of a travel accident, in the Augsburg Clinic. In 1958, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Heydenreich
Johannes Heydenreich (June 20, 1930, in Plauen, Vogtland – June 24, 2015, in Halle (Saale)) was a German physicist who researched on the applications of electron microscopy in solid state physics and materials science. Education and career Heydenreich was born in Plauen near Dresden. Heydenreich studied physics at th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie%20Garmus
Bonnie Jean Garmus (born April 18, 1957 in Riverside, California) is an American author and former copywriter. Garmus is from Seattle. She has worked as a copywriter and creative director in the US, and has lived in Switzerland and Colombia. In April 2022, her debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry, was published. The Gua...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegerfeldt%27s%20theorem
Hegerfeldt's theorem is a no-go theorem that demonstrates the incompatibility of the existence of spatially localized discrete particles with the combination of the principles of quantum mechanics and special relativity. A crucial requirement is that the states of single particle have positive energy. It has been used...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, a diversity is a generalization of the concept of metric space. The concept was introduced in 2012 by Bryant and Tupper, who call diversities "a form of multi-way metric". The concept finds application in nonlinear analysis. Given a set , let be the set of finite subsets of . A diversity is a pair ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth%20Ehrlich
Garth David Ehrlich is a molecular biologist, genomic scientist, academic, and author who is most known for his development of the distributed genome hypothesis and bringing the biofilm paradigm to the field of chronic mucosal bacterial diseases. He is a professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and Otolaryngology-Head...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sairadelphys
Sairadelphys is an extinct genus of didelphine opossums from the Pleistocene of South America. Taxonomy Sairadelphys is a didelphine opossum, described as a sister taxon to Hyladelphys. Sairadelphys tocantinensis is the only recognized species, and it is known from deposits in the Gruta dos Mouras cave, Tocantins, Br...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen%20Kirschner
Jürgen Kirschner (born April 18, 1945) is a German solid state physicist and a director at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics. Kirschner is known for his research in electron spectroscopy, including instrument development and the study of magnetic materials. Education and career Kirschner was born in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissim%20Benvenisty
Nissim Benvenisty is Professor of Genetics, the Herbert Cohn Chair in Cancer Research and the Director of “The Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research” at the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University. Benvenisty earned his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Hebrew University, and condu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa%20Recillas
Elsa Recillas Pishmish (also published as Elsa Recillas-Cruz) is a Mexican astronomer whose research involves photometry of galaxies and their brightest stars, and of emission nebulae. She is a professor and researcher in the Mexican National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics. Education Recillas studie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Hockaday%20%28physicist%29
Mary Yvonne Pottenger Hockaday (born 1957) is an American physicist who works at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. She was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014 and the American Physical Society in 2022. Early life and education Hockaday was an undergraduate student in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Blachman
Nancy Blachman (born 1956 in Palo Alto, CA) is an American educator, supporter of recreational mathematics and mathematical outreach, software book author, and supporter of indie documentary films. In 2007, she founded the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival (JRMF), which has grown into a successful math enrichment ent...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest%20Scientific
Midwest Scientific Instruments, Inc. (MSI), often shortened to Midwest Scientific, was an American computer company founded in Olathe, Kansas, in the early 1970s. Charles C. Childress, a doctorate of biochemistry, founded the company as a way to market his data acquisition and processing interfaces based on programmabl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola%20D%27Alessio
Paola D'Alessio Vessuri (1964–2013) was a British-born planetary scientist who worked in Mexico at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Center for Radioastronomy and Astrophysics. Her research concerned protoplanetary disks. Education and career D'Alessio was born on 30 July 1964 in Oxford, the daughter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demian%20Saffer
Demian (Michael) Saffer is an American geophysicist based at The University of Texas at Austin where he is director of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics and professor at the Department of Geological Sciences of the Jackson School of Geosciences . He studies the role of fluids and friction in the mechanic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellmut%20Fischmeister
Hellmut Friedrich Fischmeister (14 May 1927 – 6 November 2019) was an Austrian metallurgist who was a pioneer in powder metallurgy. Education and career Fischmeister studied physics, mathematics, and chemistry at the University of Graz from 1945 to 1951 and received his doctorate in physical chemistry with Otto Kratk...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei%20Lupa%C8%99
Andrei N. Lupaș (born September 6, 1963, in Bucharest) is a German-Romanian biochemist, molecular biologist, and bioinformatician. Education and career Lupaș was born in Bucharest, Romania, he began his studies in biology at the Technical University of Munich in 1982 before continuing his studies in molecular biology...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Wolf%20%28physicist%29
Karl Martin Wolf (born 1961) is a German experimental physicist specializing in electron and optical spectroscopy and their use for studying the dynamical processes in solid state materials, surfaces, and interfaces. He is the current director of the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Fritz Haber Institute of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Mathematicians%20and%20Their%20Works
Black Mathematicians and Their Works is an edited volume of works in and about mathematics, by African-American mathematicians. It was edited by Virginia Newell, Joella Gipson, L. Waldo Rich, and Beauregard Stubblefield, with a foreword by Wade Ellis, and published in 1980 by Dorrance & Company. The Basic Library List ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Charm-Tau%20factory
Super Charm-Tau factory (SCT) is an electron–positron collider being designed and built by Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk. Its main goal is to study the CP-violation in the processes involving charmed hadrons, to investigate decays of the τ-lepton as well as to search for new forms of matter: glueba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Coe
Hugh Coe is a British atmospheric physicist, currently Head of Atmospheric Sciences and Professor of Atmospheric Composition at the University of Manchester. His research investigates the physics and chemistry of atmospheric aerosols, including their role in climate change and air pollution. Early life and career Co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Goriely
Anne Goriely is a British geneticist who is a professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford. Her research investigates the molecular mechanisms that underpin genetic variation, particularly mutations in the male germline. Early life and education Goriely was an undergraduate student in agronomy at the Unive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Halliday%20%28writer%29
Thomas John Dixon Halliday is a British palaeobiologist and author. Halliday earned a degree in natural sciences (zoology) from the University of Cambridge, followed by a master's in palaeobiology from the University of Bristol, and a PhD in palaeobiology from University College London. Halliday was awarded the Linn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos%20Maritan
Amos Maritan is an Italian theoretical physicist, currently full professor of theoretical physics at the University of Padua. He is noted for his contributions in statistical physics and biophysics. He was awarded the Matteucci Medal in 2021 and the EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Prize in 2023. Biography He gr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Delaney
Sarah Delaney is an American chemist who is a professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Brown University. Her research investigates DNA damage and how it is related to human disease. Early life and education Delaney was an undergraduate student at Middlebury College, where she majored in chemistry, research...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate-limiting%20step%20%28biochemistry%29
In biochemistry, a rate-limiting step is a step that controls the rate of a series of biochemical reactions. The statement is, however, a misunderstanding of how a sequence of enzyme catalyzed reaction steps operate. Rather than a single step controlling the rate, it has been discovered that multiple steps control the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi-Man%20Shao
Qi-Man Shao (; born 1962) is a Chinese probabilist and statistician mostly known for his contributions to asymptotic theory in probability and statistics. He is currently a Chair Professor of Statistics and Data Science at the Southern University of Science and Technology. Biography He earned a bachelor's degree in M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ballato
John Ballato is an American materials scientist, entrepreneur, and academic. He holds the J. E. Sirrine Endowed Chair of Optical Fiber and is a professor of materials science and engineering, electrical and computer engineering, as well as physics and astronomy at Clemson University. He has received many international ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20museum%20Aachen
The Computer museum Aachen (officially called ) existed from 1987 to 2009. It was created in cooperation with the Rogowski Institute for Electrical Engineering of the RWTH Aachen University. It was housed in the RWTH's "Campus Melaten" until the demolition of the building at Sommerfeldstrasse No. 32, Aachen. Overview ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20H.%20Gallagher
Richard H. Gallagher (November 17, 1927 – September 30, 1997) was an American civil and aerospace engineer, researcher and president of Clarkson University from 1988 to 1995. Early life and education Gallagher was born in Manhattan, New York City in 1927. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he studied civ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek%20Dost%C3%A1l
František Dostál (21 July 1938 – 5 December 2022) was a Czech photographer. Life and career Born in Prague, the son of a maid and a tailor, during his youth Dostál was a junior national champion in high jump, and a record holder in the sprint relay and high jump. He studied at the Industrial School of Mechanical Eng...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang%20Hongxiao
Tang Hongxiao (; 4 October 1931 – 16 December 2022) was a Chinese engineer who was a professor at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Biography Tang was born in Xushui County (now Xushui District of Baoding), Hebei, ...