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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp%20Justice%20%28Guantanamo%29
Camp Justice is the name given to the portion of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base where the Guantanamo military commissions are held. It was named by TSgt Neil Felver of the 122 Civil Engineering Squadron in a name the camp contest. Initially the complex was to be a permanent facility, costing over $100 million. The Unite...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20H.%20Field
Elizabeth Hirak Field is an academic scholar and professor in the University of Iowa’s Department of Internal Medicine. Education Field received her BS degree in physics (magna cum laude) from Millersville University of Pennsylvania. She received her MD degree from Penn State's Hershey Medical Center, where she also p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babak%20Hassibi
Babak Hassibi (, born in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-American electrical engineer, computer scientist, and applied mathematician who is the inaugural Mose and Lillian S. Bohn Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). From 2011 to 201...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsaacRobot
IsaacRobot is a biped humanoid robot, produced and realized by the IsaacTeam, a group of students of the Politecnico di Torino. The project is a combination of several branches of engineering (mechanics, computer science, automation, electronics), and in March 2007 it was presented in its second version, under the nam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanobatteries
Nanobatteries are fabricated batteries employing technology at the nanoscale, particles that measure less than 100 nanometers or 10−7 meters. These batteries may be nano in size or may use nanotechnology in a macro scale battery. Nanoscale batteries can be combined to function as a macrobattery such as within a nanopor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Sauveur
Joseph Sauveur (; 24 March 1653 – 9 July 1716) was a French mathematician and physicist. He was a professor of mathematics and in 1696 became a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Life Joseph Sauveur was born in La Flèche, the son of a provincial notary. Despite a hearing and speech impairment that kept him tota...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Minnesota%20College%20of%20Science%20and%20Engineering
The College of Science and Engineering (CSE) is one of the colleges of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. On July 1, 2010, the college was officially renamed from the Institute of Technology (IT). It was created in 1935 by bringing together the university's programs in engineering, mining, architec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac%20%28cipher%29
In cryptography, Zodiac is a block cipher designed in 2000 by Chang-Hyi Lee for the Korean firm SoftForum. Zodiac uses a 16-round Feistel network structure with key whitening. The round function uses only XORs and S-box lookups. There are two 8×8-bit S-boxes: one based on the discrete exponentiation 45x as in SAFER, t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20J.%20Klein
Martin Jesse Klein (June 25, 1924 – March 28, 2009), usually cited as M. J. Klein, was a science historian of 19th and 20th century physics. Biography Klein was born in the Bronx, New York City. He was an only child and both his parents were schoolteachers. After graduating from James Monroe High School at the age of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20B.%20Feinberg
David Barish Feinberg (November 25, 1956 – November 2, 1994) was an American writer and AIDS activist. Biography Early life Born in Lynn, Massachusetts to Jewish parents, Feinberg grew up in Syracuse, New York. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring in mathematics and studying creative writin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane%20Theory
Membrane Theory may refer to: M-theory, a theory in physics that unifies all of the consistent versions of superstring theory Membrane theory of shells, describes the mechanical properties of shells Membrane potential, a theory that explained the resting potential of nerve and muscle as a diffusion potential
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%20bundle
In mathematics, a Clifford bundle is an algebra bundle whose fibers have the structure of a Clifford algebra and whose local trivializations respect the algebra structure. There is a natural Clifford bundle associated to any (pseudo) Riemannian manifold M which is called the Clifford bundle of M. General construction ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldassarre%20Boncompagni
Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni-Ludovisi (10 May 1821 – 13 April 1894), was an Italian historian of mathematics and aristocrat. Biography Boncompagni was born in Rome, into an ancient noble and wealthy Roman family, the Ludovisi-Boncompagni, as the third son of Prince Luigi Boncompagni Ludovisi and Princess Maria Madda...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroamination
In organic chemistry, hydroamination is the addition of an bond of an amine across a carbon-carbon multiple bond of an alkene, alkyne, diene, or allene. In the ideal case, hydroamination is atom economical and green. Amines are common in fine-chemical, pharmaceutical, and agricultural industries. Hydroamination can be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20pre-Columbian%20engineering%20projects%20in%20the%20Americas
Engineering in the Americas before the arrival of Christopher Columbus was advanced in agriculture, hydrology, irrigation systems, transportation, mechanical engineering, civil engineering and astronomy. In addition Native Americans made extensive use of fire to change the landscape and to create open areas for farming...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20M.%20Schmidt
Wolfgang M. Schmidt (born 3 October 1933) is an Austrian mathematician working in the area of number theory. He studied mathematics at the University of Vienna, where he received his PhD, which was supervised by Edmund Hlawka, in 1955. Wolfgang Schmidt is a Professor Emeritus from the University of Colorado at Boulder ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumho%20Engineering%20and%20Construction
Kumho Engineering and Construction is a Korean civil engineering and construction company based in South Korea. It is a corporate member of the Kumho Asiana Group. External links Construction and civil engineering companies of South Korea Kumho Asiana Group Construction and civil engineering companies established...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20chemical%20engineering
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to chemical engineering: Chemical engineering – deals with the application of physical science (e.g., chemistry and physics), and life sciences (e.g., biology, microbiology and biochemistry) with mathematics and economics, to the process of converti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker%20Lee%20Cisler
Walker Lee Cisler (October 8, 1897 – October 18, 1994) was a noted American engineer, business executive, and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering. Early life Walker Lee Cisler was born on October 8, 1897, in Marietta, Ohio. Cisler received a degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wender%20Taxol%20total%20synthesis
Wender Taxol total synthesis in organic chemistry describes a Taxol total synthesis (one of six to date) by the group of Paul Wender at Stanford University published in 1997. This synthesis has much in common with the Holton Taxol total synthesis in that it is a linear synthesis starting from a naturally occurring comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEA-M
In cryptography, FEA-M (Fast Encryption Algorithm for Multimedia) is a block cipher developed in 2001 by X. Yi, C. H. Tan, C. K. Siew, and M. R. Syed. With the unusually large block size of 4096 bits, all of FEA-M's calculations operate on 64×64 binary matrices. Unlike most block ciphers, FEA-M does not use multiple r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20A.%20Kraus
Charles August Kraus (August 15, 1875 – June 27, 1967) was an American chemist. He was professor of chemistry and director of the chemical laboratories at Clark University, where he directed the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I. Later, he became professor of chemistry and director of the chemical laboratori...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam%20number
In mathematics, the Ulam numbers comprise an integer sequence devised by and named after Stanislaw Ulam, who introduced it in 1964. The standard Ulam sequence (the (1, 2)-Ulam sequence) starts with U1 = 1 and U2 = 2. Then for n > 2, Un is defined to be the smallest integer that is the sum of two distinct earlier ter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafail%20Ostrovsky
Rafail Ostrovsky is a distinguished professor of computer science and mathematics at UCLA and a well-known researcher in algorithms and cryptography. Biography Rafail Ostrovsky received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1992. He is a member of the editorial board of Algorithmica , Editorial Board of Journal of Cryptology and E...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid%20puzzle
Pyramid puzzle may refer to: Mathematics Cannonball problem, a mathematical problem Tower of Hanoi, a mathematical game Other Pyramid puzzle, a type of mechanical puzzle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharging%20method%20%28discrete%20mathematics%29
The discharging method is a technique used to prove lemmas in structural graph theory. Discharging is most well known for its central role in the proof of the four color theorem. The discharging method is used to prove that every graph in a certain class contains some subgraph from a specified list. The presence of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LFCS
LFCS may refer to: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, a research institute in Edinburgh, Scotland Linux Foundation Certified System, a certification program of the Linux Foundation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut%20Metzner
Helmut Metzner (15 September 1925, Osnabrück, Germany – 20 September 1999, Tübingen, Germany) was a plant physiologist, Professor of Biochemical Plant Physiology at University of Tübingen, the founder of the European Academy of Environmental Affairs and a co-founder of the Weikersheim Think Tank. Academic career Metz...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-square%20%28disambiguation%29
A T-square is a drafting and technical drawing tool. T-square may also refer to: T-shaped square (tool), in carpentry T-square (fractal), in mathematics, a two-dimensional fractal T-Square (software), an early drafting software program T-Square (band), a Japanese jazz fusion band A variation of grand cross in astrolo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Kuzemsky
Alexander Leonidovich Kuzemsky (; born 1944) is a Russian (and former Soviet) theoretical physicist. Biography Kuzemsky studied physics at the Faculty of Physics in Moscow State University (1963—1969). He received B.Sc. degree in 1969 (promotor professor L. A. Maksimov, correspondent member of Russian Academy of Scie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beppo%20Levi
Beppo Levi (14 May 1875 – 28 August 1961) was an Italian mathematician. He published high-level academic articles and books, not only on mathematics, but also on physics, history, philosophy, and pedagogy. Levi was a member of the Bologna Academy of Sciences and of the Accademia dei Lincei. Early years Beppo Levi wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Musser
David "Dave" Musser is a professor emeritus of computer science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, United States. He is known for his work in generic programming, particularly as applied to C++, and his collaboration with Alexander Stepanov. Their work together includes coining the term "generi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92-Cryptoxanthin
β-Cryptoxanthin is a natural carotenoid pigment. It has been isolated from a variety of sources including the fruit of plants in the genus Physalis, orange rind, papaya, egg yolk, butter, apples, and bovine blood serum. Chemistry In terms of structure, β-cryptoxanthin is closely related to β-carotene, with only the a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication%20theorem
In mathematics, the multiplication theorem is a certain type of identity obeyed by many special functions related to the gamma function. For the explicit case of the gamma function, the identity is a product of values; thus the name. The various relations all stem from the same underlying principle; that is, the relati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughan%20Hart
Vaughan Hart is a leading architectural historian, and Professor Emeritus of Architecture in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath. He served as head of department between 2008 and 2010. Biography Hart was born in Ireland in 1960 and spent part of his childhood in Hong Kong. H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vytautas%20Barkauskas
Vytautas Barkauskas (25 March 1931 – 25 April 2020) was a Lithuanian composer and Professor of Composition of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Life and career Barkauskas was born in Kaunas. He studied music at the Vilnius Conservatory with Antanas Račiūnas, a pupil of Nadia Boulanger. He also studied math...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenobiotica
Xenobiotica is a peer-reviewed medical journal that publishes comprehensive research papers on all areas of xenobiotics. It is published by Informa plc and covers six main areas: General xenobiochemistry, including in vitro studies concerned with the metabolism, disposition and excretion of drugs, and other xenobioti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irell%20%26%20Manella%20Graduate%20School%20of%20Biological%20Sciences
The Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences (formerly the City of Hope Graduate School of Biological Sciences) is a graduate school for biology in the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California. Program The Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences is a doctoral and masters ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlink
Interlink may refer to: Hyperlinks Interlink Electronics Interlink (interbank network) Interlink Airlines Interlink Publishing B-Train road trains in southern Africa T. F. Green Airport (MBTA station), in Warwick, Rhode Island, US Interlink Computer Sciences Interlink, former trading name for a European parcel company,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%20numbers%20and%20exponential%20generating%20functions%20in%20symbolic%20combinatorics
The use of exponential generating functions (EGFs) to study the properties of Stirling numbers is a classical exercise in combinatorial mathematics and possibly the canonical example of how symbolic combinatorics is used. It also illustrates the parallels in the construction of these two types of numbers, lending suppo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20quaternion
In mathematics, the dual quaternions are an 8-dimensional real algebra isomorphic to the tensor product of the quaternions and the dual numbers. Thus, they may be constructed in the same way as the quaternions, except using dual numbers instead of real numbers as coefficients. A dual quaternion can be represented in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo%20Hirotsu
was a Japanese novelist, literary critic and translator active in the Shōwa period. Early life Hirotsu was born in the Ushigome neighborhood in Tokyo as the second son of the noted novelist Hirotsu Ryurō, whose pupils included Kafū Nagai. He had problems completing Azabu Middle School due to poor health and his comple...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Riley%20%28professor%29
Norman Riley is an Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of East Anglia in Norwich (UK). Biography Following High School education at Calder High School, Mytholmroyd he read Mathematics at Manchester University graduating with first class honours in 1956, followed by a PhD in 1959. Norman Riley s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latency%20%28audio%29
Latency refers to a short period of delay (usually measured in milliseconds) between when an audio signal enters a system and when it emerges. Potential contributors to latency in an audio system include analog-to-digital conversion, buffering, digital signal processing, transmission time, digital-to-analog conversion ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry-oriented%20education
Industry-oriented education is an approach to education from an industry perspective. Definition Industry oriented education is an approach to learning from an industry perspective where traditional subjects such as maths, physics and science are taught in the context of application of that knowledge to product design...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Doak
David Doak () is a Northern Irish video game designer. Originally from Belfast, he later moved to England, where he studied at Oxford University on biochemistry specialty and worked as a research scientist. Doak began his video game career working with Rare where he provided network support for Donkey Kong Country 3: ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemirani%20Ensemble
The Chemirani ensemble is a notable Persian classical music ensemble. The group is made of Chemirani family: Bijan Chemirani Djamchid Chemirani Keyvan Chemirani Maryam Chemirani In 1988, the Chemirani Trio (Bijan, Keyvan and Jamshid) was born and their special chemistry and peerless virtuosity has popularised the zar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hardy%20%28geneticist%29
Sir John Anthony Hardy (born 9 November 1954) is a human geneticist and molecular biologist at the Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies at University College London with research interests in neurological diseases. Education Hardy attended St Ambrose College in the late 1960s, where his interest in bioc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series%20acceleration
In mathematics, series acceleration is one of a collection of sequence transformations for improving the rate of convergence of a series. Techniques for series acceleration are often applied in numerical analysis, where they are used to improve the speed of numerical integration. Series acceleration techniques may also...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%27s%20Leaning%20Tower%20of%20Pisa%20experiment
Between 1589 and 1592, the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (then professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa) is said to have dropped two spheres of the same volume but different masses from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to demonstrate that their time of descent was independent of their mass, according to a biogra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Decety
Jean Decety is an American–French neuroscientist specializing in developmental neuroscience, affective neuroscience, and social neuroscience. His research focuses on the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms underpinning social cognition, particularly social decision-making, empathy, moral reasoning, altruism, p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSSS
SSSS may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Ssss, music album by duo VCMG, Vince Clarke and Martin Gore, released in 2012 Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad, US TV series SSSS.Gridman, anime series Stand Still, Stay Silent, webcomic She Said She Said, a song by The Beatles Biology and healthcare Staphylococc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20A.%20Beachy
Philip Arden Beachy (born October 25, 1958) is Ernest and Amelia Gallo Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California and an Associate at Stanford's Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Early life Beachy was born in Red Lake, Ontario, on October 25, 1958. Beachy spen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20%C5%9Alopek
Stefan Ślopek (1 December 1914 in Skawa near Kraków – 22 August 1995, Wrocław was a Polish scientist specializing in clinical microbiology and immunology. He is the great grandson of Józef Juraszek Ślopek. He is buried in the in Wrocław. Education After he had completed his secondary education in Tarnopol, he start...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20S.%20Croot%20III
Ernest S. Croot III is a mathematician and professor at the School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology. He is known for his solution of the Erdős–Graham conjecture, and for contributing to the solution of the cap set problem. Education Ernest Croot attended Centre College at Danville, Kentucky, where he r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner-Jauregg%20reaction
The Wagner-Jauregg reaction is a classic organic reaction in organic chemistry, named after (son of Julius Wagner-Jauregg), describing the double Diels–Alder reaction of 2 equivalents of maleic anhydride with a 1,1-diarylethylene. After aromatization of the bis-adduct, the ultimate reaction product is a naphthalene co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Fries%20Frazer
John Fries Frazer (8 July 1812 – 12 October 1872) was a University of Pennsylvania graduate and first assistant geologist to the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. He became a professor of Natural philosophy and Chemistry and in later years he became Vice Provost of the University of Pennsylvania. Childhood Frazer wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neumont%20College%20of%20Computer%20Science
Neumont College of Computer Science (formerly Neumont University, originally named Northface University) is a private for-profit career college in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was founded in 2003 by Graham Doxey, Scott McKinley, and Marlow Einelund. The college focuses on applied computer science and is accredited by North...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIKS-1
In cryptography, CIKS-1 is a block cipher designed in 2002 by A.A. Moldovyan and N.A. Moldovyan. Like its predecessor, Spectr-H64, it relies heavily on permutations of bits, so is better suited to implementation in hardware than in software. The algorithm has a block size of 64 bits. It uses an 8 round structure in wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20B.%20Sunderland
Peter B. Sunderland is Professor of Fire Protection Engineering and Keystone Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in mechanical engineering at Cornell University, a Master's Degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a Ph.D. in Aero...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20structure
Understanding the structure of the atomic nucleus is one of the central challenges in nuclear physics. Models The liquid drop model The liquid drop model is one of the first models of nuclear structure, proposed by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker in 1935. It describes the nucleus as a semiclassical fluid made up of ne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20Ludwig%20Taschenberg
Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg (10 January 1818 Naumburg – 19 January 1898 Halle) was a German entomologist. Life After 1836 Taschenberg studied mathematics and natural sciences in Leipzig and Berlin. He went, then, as an auxiliary teacher to the Franckesche Stiftungen and dedicated himself to arranging the important beetl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Gottfried%20Hagen
Karl Gottfried Hagen (24 December 1749 – 2 March 1829) was a German chemist. Hagen was born and died in Königsberg, Prussia. He founded the first German chemical laboratory at the University of Königsberg, thus establishing the scientific discipline of pharmaceutical chemistry in Germany. He worked as a professor in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalen%E2%80%93Lettr%C3%A9%20rearrangement
The Westphalen–Lettré rearrangement is a classic organic reaction in organic chemistry describing a rearrangement reaction of cholestane-3β,5α,6β-triol diacetate with acetic anhydride and sulfuric acid. In this reaction one equivalent of water is lost, a double bond is formed at C10–C11 and importantly the methyl group...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOVA%20School%20of%20Science%20and%20Technology
The NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA or NOVA SST) is a Portuguese faculty of the NOVA University Lisbon located at the Caparica Campus, near Lisbon. The School operates with great autonomy and awards degrees in several engineering and natural sciences specializations. FCT pioneered in offering the firs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiral%20color
In particle physics phenomenology, chiral color is a speculative model which extends quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the generally accepted theory for the strong interactions of quarks. QCD is a gauge field theory based on a gauge group known as color SU(3)C with an octet of colored gluons acting as the force carriers be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumboy%3A%20Crazy%20Adventures
Gumboy: Crazy Adventures is a physics-based platform game released over Steam in 2006. It was developed by Czech developer CINEMAX, Ltd. Gameplay In Gumboy, the player controls the rotation of a physically simulated ball. You move around large, abstract levels by spinning, completing various goals and collecting powe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESSA-8
ESSA-8 was a weather satellite launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on December 15, 1968, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Its name was derived from that of its oversight agency, the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA). ESSA-8 was an 18-sided polygon. It meas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20and%20technology%20in%20Germany
Science and technology in Germany has a long and illustrious history, and research and development efforts form an integral part of the country's economy. Germany has been the home of some of the most prominent researchers in various scientific disciplines, notably physics, mathematics, chemistry and engineering. Befor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Herbert
Andrew James Herbert, OBE, FREng (born 1954) is a British computer scientist, formerly Chairman of Microsoft Research, for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Biography Herbert received a bachelor's of science degree in computational science from the Leeds University in 1975, and a PhD degree in computer scien...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20of%20Science%20and%20Technology
The School of Science and Technology (SST) was an accredited, public high school located in Beaverton, Oregon, United States. It was a magnet program for students who have an interest in mathematics, life and physical sciences, and technology. It is part of the Beaverton School District (BSD). It was established in 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Bishop
Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959) is a British computer scientist. He is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and Director of Microsoft Research AI4Science. He is also Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. Chris was a founding member of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skorokhod%27s%20embedding%20theorem
In mathematics and probability theory, Skorokhod's embedding theorem is either or both of two theorems that allow one to regard any suitable collection of random variables as a Wiener process (Brownian motion) evaluated at a collection of stopping times. Both results are named for the Ukrainian mathematician A. V. Skor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triaxial
Triaxial may refer to: Triaxial cable (electrical cable) Triaxial ellipsoid (mathematics, geometric shapes) Triaxial test (Geotechnical engineering)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Masak
Peter C. Masak (August 17, 1957 – May 22, 2004) was an engineer, inventor, and glider pilot. He graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in mechanical engineering in May 1981 from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He earned his glider pilot license at the age of 16 and his power pilot license at ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Head-Gordon
Martin Philip Head-Gordon (né Martin Philip Head) is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory working in the area of computational quantum chemistry. He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. Education A native of Au...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryochemistry
Cryochemistry is the study of chemical interactions at temperatures below . It is derived from the Greek word cryos, meaning 'cold'. It overlaps with many other sciences, including chemistry, cryobiology, condensed matter physics, and even astrochemistry. Cryochemistry has been a topic of interest since liquid nitrog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens%20Frahm
Jens Frahm (born 29 March 1951 in Oldenburg, Germany) is a German biophysicist and physicochemist. He is Research Group Leader of the Biomedical NMR group at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, Germany (prior to January 1, 2022, at the former MPI for Biophysical Chemistry). Earl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna%20Nasser%20%28academic%29
Hanna Nasir (, alternately transliterated Hanna Nasser) is a Palestinian Christian academic and political figure. He holds a PhD in Nuclear Physics from Purdue University in the United States. Nasser was a long-time president of Birzeit University, which his father, Musa Nasser, founded. He directed the school's transi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20theory%20of%20aging
The network theory of aging supports the idea that multiple connected processes contribute to the biology of aging. Kirkwood and Kowald helped to establish the first model of this kind by connecting theories and predicting specific mechanisms. In departure of investigating a single mechanistic cause or single molecules...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf%20Larson
Erik Gustaf Larson (8 July 1887 – 4 July 1968) was a Swedish automotive engineer and the co-founder of Volvo. He held a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in mechanical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Biography Larson was responsible for the technical design of the first Volvo model ÖV 4...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Fox%20%28clarinet%20maker%29
Stephen Fox is a British clarinetist, saxophonist and clarinet maker, based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. Born in England, Fox completed a master's degree in physics at the University of Saskatchewan before earning a degree in clarinet performance. He began a career in instrument repair in 1985 and started maki...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLST
SLST may refer to: Sri Lanka Standard Time, the time zone for Sri Lanka Sierra Leone Selection Trust, a mining finance house formed in 1934 Single-locus sequence typing, a kind of DNA sequence-based method used in Diagnostic microbiology School of Life Sciences and Technology at Bandung Institute of Technology, I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Gray%20%28physicist%29
Andrew Gray (2 July 1847 – 10 October 1925) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician. Life Born in Lochgelly, Fife, the son of John Gray, he was educated at Lochgelly School and then studied at the University of Glasgow (MA 1876), where he was appointed the Eglinton Fellow in Mathematics in 1876. Perhaps more signi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Tyler%20Bonner
John Tyler Bonner (May 12, 1920 – February 7, 2019) was an American biologist who was a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. He was a pioneer in the use of cellular slime molds to understand evolution and development over a career of 40 years and was one of the world...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semel
Semel or Semels may refer to: David Semel, American film, television director and producer Harry Semels (1887–1946), American film actor Stephen Semel, American film editor, director and producer Terry Semel (born 1943), U.S. businessman, former chairman and chief executive officer of Yahoo! Incorporated Semel I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coparenting
Co-parenting is an enterprise undertaken by parents who together take on the socialization, care, and upbringing of children for whom they share equal responsibility. The co-parent relationship differs from an intimate relationship between adults in that it focuses solely on the child. The equivalent term in evolutio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Davies%20%28disambiguation%29
Alan Davies (born 1966) is a British comedian and actor. Alan Davies may also refer to: Alan Davies (footballer) (1961–1992), English-born Welsh international footballer Alan Davies, guitarist of the Soft Boys Alan Davies (mathematician) (born 1945), professor of mathematics at the University of Hertfordshire, Eng...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Davies%20%28mathematician%29
Alan Davies (born 22 December 1945) is a British professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Hertfordshire. He obtained a first class honours degree in mathematics (1968) from Southampton University. He followed that with a master's degree, with distinction, in structural engineering (1974) and a doctorate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure%20and%20Applied%20Chemistry
Pure and Applied Chemistry is the official journal for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). It is published monthly by Walter de Gruyter and contains recommendations and reports, and lectures from symposia. References Chemistry journals Academic journals established in 1960 De Gruyter academ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20Science%20Services%20Administration
The Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA) was a United States Federal executive agency created in 1965 as part of a reorganization of the United States Department of Commerce. Its mission was to unify and oversee the meteorological, climatological, hydrographic, and geodetic operations of the United Stat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne%20Grunberg-Manago
Marianne Grunberg-Manago (January 6, 1921 – January 3, 2013) was a Soviet-born French biochemist. Her work helped make possible key discoveries about the nature of the genetic code. Grunberg-Manago was the first woman to lead the International Union of Biochemistry and the 400-year-old French Academy of Sciences. Earl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Soal
Samuel George Soal (1889–1975) was a British mathematician and parapsychologist. He was charged with fraudulent production of data in his work in parapsychology. Biography Soal graduated with first class honours in mathematics from Queen Mary College (then East London College) in 1910. After service in World War I, in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic%20hyperpolarizability
Intrinsic hyperpolarizability in physics, mathematics and statistics, is a scale invariant quantity that can be used to compare molecules of different sizes. The intrinsic hyperpolarizability is defined as the hyperpolarizability divided by the Kuzyk Limit. This quantity is scale invariant and thus is independent of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derepression
In genetics and cell biology, repression is a mechanism often used to decrease or inhibit the expression of a gene. Removal of repression is called derepression. This mechanism may occur at different stages in the expression of a gene, with the result of increasing the overall RNA or protein products. Dysregulation of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Sennert
Daniel Sennert (25 November 1572 – 21 July 1637) was a renowned German physician and a prolific academic writer, especially in the field of alchemy or chemistry. He held the position of professor of medicine at the University of Wittenberg for many years. Biographical information Daniel Sennert was born in 1572 in th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Reppe
Walter Julius Reppe (29 July 1892 in Göringen – 26 July 1969 in Heidelberg) was a German chemist. He is notable for his contributions to the chemistry of acetylene. Education and career Walter Reppe began his study of the natural sciences University of Jena in 1911. Interrupted by the First World War, he obtained his ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharitonov%20region
A Kharitonov region is a concept in mathematics. It arises in the study of the stability of polynomials. Let be a simply-connected set in the complex plane and let be the polynomial family. is said to be a Kharitonov region if is a subset of Here, denotes the set of all vertex polynomials of complex interval po...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack%20%27n%20Roll
Rack 'n Roll was the game for the 2007 FIRST Robotics Competition season, announced on January 6, 2007. In it, two alliances of three teams each competed to arrange ring-shaped game pieces on a central arena element known as 'The Rack'. Robots Classes Robots fall under three different classes restricting their maxim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20England
Philip Christopher England FRS (born 30 April 1951) is a British geophysicist and former Chair of Geology at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, whose research centres upon the evolution, deformation and metamorphism of mountain ranges and the development of island arcs. He has widely used applied m...