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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20amplifier | In physics, a quantum amplifier is an amplifier that uses quantum mechanical methods to amplify a signal; examples include the active elements of lasers and optical amplifiers.
The main properties of the quantum amplifier are its amplification coefficient and uncertainty. These parameters are not independent; the high... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ata%C3%A7%20%C4%B0mamo%C4%9Flu | Ataç İmamoğlu (born August 12, 1964) is a Turkish-Swiss physicist working on quantum optics and quantum computation. His academic interests are quantum optics, semiconductor physics, and nonlinear optics.
Education
İmamoğlu graduated from TED Ankara College in 1981. He received his BSc in electrical engineering at the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobutyramide | Isobutyramide in chemistry is an amide with the molecular formula C4H9NO.
Isobutyramide can also refer to the functional group with the following chemical formula: R-NH-CO-CH(CH3)2.
See also
Butyramide
Carboxamides |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind%20equalization | Blind equalization is a digital signal processing technique in which the transmitted signal is inferred (equalized) from the received signal, while making use only of the transmitted signal statistics. Hence, the use of the word blind in the name.
Blind equalization is essentially blind deconvolution applied to digita... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20H.%20Barkas | Walter Henry Barkas (2 September 1912 – 28 March 1969) was professor of physics at the University of California, Riverside beginning in 1965. He specialized in the use of nuclear emulsions, i.e., photographic plates having a thick sensitive layer, for purposes of Particle physics.
Together with his collaborators, he d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOTD | LOTD may stand for:
Lesson of the Day- used especially on Twitter
Land of the Dead, the fourth movie in George A. Romero's "Dead Series"
Linux on the Desktop, Linux on the Desktop
Lord of the Dance (disambiguation)
Laws of thermodynamics, physics laws that describe the specifics for the transport of heat and work ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Tijdeman | Robert Tijdeman (born 30 July 1943 in Oostzaan, North Holland) is a Dutch mathematician. Specializing in number theory, he is best known for his Tijdeman's theorem. He is a professor of mathematics at the Leiden University since 1975, and was chairman of the department of mathematics and computer science at Leiden from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack%20patterns | In computer science, attack patterns are a group of rigorous methods for finding bugs or errors in code related to computer security.
Attack patterns are often used for testing purposes and are very important for ensuring that potential vulnerabilities are prevented. The attack patterns themselves can be used to high... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tee%20%28disambiguation%29 | Tee, tees, or TEE may refer to:
Common meaning
Tee, an item of sports equipment, used a.o. in golf
Tee language, a language spoken in Nigeria
tee (command), a shell command in various operating systems
Tee (symbol), symbol used in mathematics, logic and computer science
T-shirt, or tee
As an acronym
Tertiary Entran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foiled%20carbene | A foiled carbene in organic chemistry is a special type of stabilized carbene due to the proximity of a double bond. This type of reactive intermediate is implicated in certain organic reactions. The positive interaction between carbene and double bond is only present in the singlet type and based on through-space elec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad%20Jalali | Ahmad Jalali (, born 1949 in Shahroud) is an Iranian scholar and philosopher.
He authored a dozen articles in social, cultural, historical, philosophical, political and international fields. Jalali was instrumental in registering five Iranian sites as World Heritage Site in UNESCO.
Education
Mechanical Engineering, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20P%20%28mtDNA%29 | In human mitochondrial genetics, Haplogroup P is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
Origin
Haplogroup P is a descendant of Haplogroup R.
Distribution
Today, P is most commonly found in Oceania, especially in Papuans, Melanesians, indigenous Australians, It's 1.4% in mainstream Filipinos but 1.13% in Luzon,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20of%20Astronomy%20%28Heidelberg%20University%29 | The Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg (Center for Astronomy of Heidelberg University) in Heidelberg, Germany, founded in 2005, is an association of three, formerly state-run research institutes: the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, the Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik (Institute for Theoretical Astr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20rose | Polar rose may refer to:
Rose (mathematics), a mathematical curve
Polar Rose (facial recognition), a company out of Malmö, Sweden which makes facial recognition software. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heini%20Hediger | Heini Hediger (30 November 1908 in Basel – 29 August 1992 in Bern) was a Swiss biologist noted for work in proxemics in animal behavior and is known as the "father of zoo biology". Hediger was formerly the director of Tierpark Dählhölzli (1938–1943), Zoo Basel (1944–1953) and Zürich Zoo (1954–1973).
Psychology
Hedig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20adduct | In molecular genetics, a DNA adduct is a segment of DNA bound to a cancer-causing chemical. This process could lead to the development of cancerous cells, or carcinogenesis. DNA adducts in scientific experiments are used as biomarkers of exposure. They are especially useful in quantifying an organism's exposure to a ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARIA%20%28cipher%29 | In cryptography, ARIA is a block cipher designed in 2003 by a large group of South Korean researchers. In 2004, the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards selected it as a standard cryptographic technique.
The algorithm uses a substitution–permutation network structure based on AES. The interface is the same as AE... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20conservation | Genetic conservation may refer to:
Conserved sequences, DNA or protein sequences that are conserved over evolutionary time
Conservation genetics, the field of science concerned with maintaining genetic diversity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20Allen%20%28mathematician%29 | Arnold Oral Allen (died 2004) was an American instructor, public speaker, and writer who worked at IBM and Hewlett-Packard, and specialized in the analysis and mathematical modelling of computer performance.
Biography
Allen earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at UCLA in 1962 under Angus Taylor with a dissertation entitled B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9raud%20de%20Cordemoy | Géraud de Cordemoy (6 October 1626 in Paris – 15 October 1684 in Paris) was a French philosopher, historian and lawyer. He is mainly known for his works in metaphysics and for his theory of language.
Biography
Géraud de Cordemoy was born in a family of ancient nobility coming from Auvergne (from the town of Royat). H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preorder%20%28disambiguation%29 | The term preorder may refer to:
In mathematics:
Preorder, a reflexive, transitive relation
Preorder field, a field of sets structure on a set with preorder
Preordered field, a field with a preorder
Preordering, a vertex ordering from a tree or other graph traversal; see Depth-first search#Vertex orderings
In marketin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherulite%20%28polymer%20physics%29 | In polymer physics, spherulites (from Greek sphaira = ball and lithos = stone) are spherical semicrystalline regions inside non-branched linear polymers. Their formation is associated with crystallization of polymers from the melt and is controlled by several parameters such as the number of nucleation sites, structure... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Argoli | Andrea Argoli (in Latin, Andreas Argolus) (15 March 1570 – 27 September 1657), born in Tagliacozzo, was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. He was one of the most important 17th-century makers of ephemerides, which gave the positions of astronomical objects in the sky at a given time or times.
He was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteus%20%28watercraft%29 | Proteus is an experimental watercraft developed by Marine Advanced Robotics, Inc. (formerly Marine Advanced Research). It is the first vessel of the wave adaptive modular vessel-type (WAM-V). The vessel was developed by Ugo Conti. Because of its use of four legs connecting the superstructure to the outriggers, the ship... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Yeguada | La Yeguada (also known as Chitra-Calobre) is a massive stratovolcano located in Veraguas Province, Panama, north of the Azuero Peninsula.
Description
De Boer et al. were the first to show that La Yeguada volcano is active and part of the extension of the Central American volcanic arc in Panama. Further detailed work o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrightSide%20Technologies | BrightSide Technologies Inc. (formerly Sunnybrook Technologies) was a firm spun-out from the Structured Surface Physics Laboratory of the University of British Columbia, developing and commercializing electronic display technologies, specifically high brightness display technology called HDR. The privately held company... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression%20index | Within computing and computer science, an expression index, also known as a function based index, is a database index that is built on a generic expression, rather than one or more columns. This allows indexes to be defined for common query conditions that depend on data in a table, but are not actually stored in that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Charpy | Georges Augustin Albert Charpy (1 September 1865 – 25 November 1945) was the French scientist who created the Charpy impact test. He attended École Polytechnique from 1885 to 1887 and graduated with a degree in Marine Artillery. In 1887 he became a professor at École Monge. In 1892 he published his physics thesis. In 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRobot%20Create | iRobot Create is a hobbyist robot manufactured by iRobot that was introduced in 2007 and based on their Roomba vacuum cleaning platform. The iRobot Create is explicitly designed for robotics development and improves the experience beyond simply hacking the Roomba. The Create replaces its Roomba predecessor's vacuum cle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null%20function | In computer science, a null function (or null operator) is a subroutine that leaves the program state unchanged. When it is part of the instruction set of a processor, it is called a NOP or NOOP (No OPeration).
Mathematically, a (computer) function is null if and only if its execution leaves the program state unchan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Env%20%28disambiguation%29 | Env or ENV may refer to:
Biology
Env (gene), a viral envelope
Devices
ENV, a hydrogen motorcycle
LG enV (VX9900), a Verizon cellular phone
General Motors EN-V, an electric autonomous vehicle with cabin on two wheels
Entities
IATA code for Wendover Airport
E.N.V. Motor Syndicate, an early Anglo-French aircra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle%20%28robot%29 | Turtles are a class of educational robots designed originally in the late 1940s (largely under the auspices of researcher William Grey Walter) and used in computer science and mechanical engineering training. These devices are traditionally built low to the ground with a roughly hemispheric (sometimes transparent) shel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient%20authority | Ambient authority is a term used in the study of access control systems.
A subject, such as a computer program, is said to be using ambient authority if it only needs to specify the names of the involved object(s) and the operation to be performed on them in order for a permitted action to succeed.
In this definition... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential%20polynomial | In mathematics, exponential polynomials are functions on fields, rings, or abelian groups that take the form of polynomials in a variable and an exponential function.
Definition
In fields
An exponential polynomial generally has both a variable x and some kind of exponential function E(x). In the complex numbers the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Tinkham | Michael Tinkham (February 23, 1928 – November 4, 2010) was an American physicist. He was Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay Research Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University. He is best known for his work on superconductivity.
Professional life
Tinkham was born and raised in Brooklyn Township, a f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anytime%20algorithm | In computer science, an anytime algorithm is an algorithm that can return a valid solution to a problem even if it is interrupted before it ends. The algorithm is expected to find better and better solutions the longer it keeps running.
Most algorithms run to completion: they provide a single answer after performing s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20development | Image development can refer to:
Corporate image development – a process known as branding or positioning
Imaging science – creating and developing images, mainly using signal processing methods
Graphic image development – creating and developing graphic images, using visual art skills
Illustrating – developing and ren... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyweight%20%28disambiguation%29 | Flyweight may mean:
Flyweight pattern, a software design pattern in computer science;
Flyweight, a class in boxing;
Flyweight (MMA), a class in mixed martial arts.
Fly weight, a weight connected to a spinning axle, as most frequently found in flywheels. However, a fly weight may also be used in other applications, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangamagrama | Sangamagrama is a town in medieval Kerala believed to be the Brahminical Grama of Irinjalakuda which includes parts of Irinjalakuda Municipality, Aloor, Muriyad and Velookara Panchayaths, Thrissur District. It is associated with the noted mathematician Madhava of Sangamagrama, founder of the Kerala school of astronom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20De%20Micheli | Giovanni De Micheli is Professor and Director of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and of the Integrated Systems Centre at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He is program leader of the Nano-Tera.ch program. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madjars | The Madjars or Madi-yar people are a Turkic ethnic group in Kazakhstan. They number about 1,000–2,000 and live mostly in the Kostanay Region.
Ethnonym
Turkologist scholar Dr. Imre Baski claims that the ethnonym Madjar means 'faithful Muslim', literally 'friend or follower of Muhammad', ultimately from Muhammad-i-yar.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix%20Pollaczek | Félix Pollaczek (1 December 1892 in Vienna – 29 April 1981 at Boulogne-Billancourt) was an Austrian-French engineer and mathematician, known for numerous contributions to number theory, mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and probability theory. He is best known for the Pollaczek–Khinchine formula in queueing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeshir%20Hosseinpour | Ardeshir Hosseinpour (; 1962 – 15 January 2007) was an Iranian nuclear scientist, physics professor, and electromagnetism expert, who was involved in the Iranian nuclear program. He died mysteriously in early 2007 during his nuclear work at Isfahan.
Education and career
Hosseinpour held a B.S. degree in electrical en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIPHERUNICORN-E | In cryptography, CIPHERUNICORN-E is a block cipher created by NEC in 1998. It was among the cryptographic techniques recommended for Japanese government use by CRYPTREC in 2003. However, it has been dropped to "candidate" level by the CRYPTREC revision of 2013.
The algorithm has a 16-round modified Feistel network str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIPHERUNICORN-A | In cryptography, CIPHERUNICORN-A is a block cipher created by NEC in 2000. It was among the cryptographic techniques recommended for Japanese government use by CRYPTREC in 2003. However, it has been dropped to "candidate" level by the CRYPTREC revision of 2013.
The algorithm uses a 16-round Feistel network structure ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20E.%20B.%20Du%20Bois%20High%20School | W. E. B. Du Bois High School of Environmental Science (officially referred to as W. E. B. Du Bois High School) was a public high school located in northeast Baltimore, Maryland. The school was named after sociologist and civil-rights activist Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois. The school was situated in the former Northern High Sch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Tartu%20University%20people | This is a list of notable people associated with the University of Tartu at Tartu, Estonia.
Notable lecturers and professors
Nobel laureate
Wilhelm Ostwald, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1909)
Humanities and social sciences
Jüri Allik, psychologist
Walter Anderson, folklorist
Paul Ariste, linguist
Jan Baudouin de Court... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTF | NTF may refer to:
Biology
Neurotrophic factors, a family of biomolecules
Organizations
National Society for Road Safety (), a Swedish road safety organization
National Task Force, of the Swedish police
National Turkey Federation, US
Nigeria Trust Fund
Norsk Toppfotball, a Norwegian football organization
Norw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology%20of%20Tolkien%27s%20legendarium | The cosmology of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium combines aspects of Christian theology and metaphysics with pre-modern cosmological concepts in the flat Earth paradigm, along with the modern spherical Earth view of the Solar System.
The created world, Eä, includes the planet Arda, corresponding to the Earth. It is cre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportster | Sportster may refer to several things, such as:
Harley-Davidson Sportster, a line of motorcycles manufactured since 1957.
ADI Sportster aircraft
Sportster line of modems, manufactured by USRobotics
a term used in Britain to describe 18th- and early 19th-century wealthy men of leisure who frequented sporting events su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando%20Lima%20Bello | Fernando Lima Bello (27 November 1931 – 3 June 2021) was Portugal's only member of the International Olympic Committee since 1989, when he ended his term at the presidency of the Olympic Committee of Portugal.
Bello was born in Lisbon. He was a civil engineering alumnus of the University of Lisbon, the director of a r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Czeyir%20Garih | Üzeyir Garih (1929 – August 25, 2001) was a Turkish engineer, businessman, writer and investor.
Early years
Üzeyir Garih was born in İstanbul on 28 June 1929. He graduated from Istanbul Technical University ranking in the Dean's Honors list. He received his Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1951. L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoeppritz%20equations | In geophysics and reflection seismology, the Zoeppritz equations are a set of equations that describe the partitioning of seismic wave energy at an interface, due to mode conversion. They are named after their author, the German geophysicist Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, who died before they were published in 1919.
The equ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay%E2%80%93Wells%20syndrome | Hay–Wells syndrome (also known as AEC syndrome; see Naming) is one of at least 150 known types of ectodermal dysplasia. These disorders affect tissues that arise from the ectodermal germ layer, such as skin, hair, and nails.
Genetics
Hay–Wells syndrome is autosomal dominant, caused by a missense mutation in the Steri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello%20Pirani | Marcello Stefano Pirani (July 1, 1880 – January 11, 1968) was a Italian physicist known for his invention of the Pirani vacuum gauge, a vacuum gauge based on the principle of heat loss measurement. Throughout his career, he worked on advancing lighting technology and pioneered work on the physics of gas discharge.
Bio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Wilson%20Group | Scott Wilson Group plc was a global integrated design and engineering consultancy with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. Founded as a civil engineering firm in 1951, the company broadened its range of services through acquisitions. Scott Wilson offered consultancy and professional services in the railways, buildi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano%20Fadiga | Luciano Fadiga (born 8 August 1961) is a neurophysiologist at the Human Physiology Section of the University of Ferrara and a Senior Researcher at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia of Genoa, Italy.
Born in 1961. M.D., University of Bologna, Ph.D. in Neuroscience, University of Parma. Senior Researcher at the Univer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%20K.%20Thauer | Rudolf K. Thauer (born October 5, 1939) is a biologist and a retired professor of microbiology and heads the Emeritus group at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg. Thauer taught in the faculty of Biology at the University of Marburg for about 15 years and is known primarily for his work on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel%20Committee%20for%20Physics | The Nobel Committee for Physics is the Nobel Committee responsible for proposing laureates for the Nobel Prize for Physics. The Nobel Committee for Physics is appointed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It usually consists of Swedish professors of physics who are members of the Academy, although the Academy in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether%20%28cell%20biology%29 | Biological cells which form bonds with a substrate and are at the same time subject to a flow can form long thin membrane cylinders called tethers. These tethers connect the adherent area of the substrate to the main body of the cell. Under physiological conditions, neutrophil tethers can extend to several micrometers.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variadic | In computer science, an operator or function is variadic if it can take a varying number of arguments; that is, if its arity is not fixed.
For specific articles, see:
Variadic function
Variadic macro in the C preprocessor
Variadic template
Variadic templates in C++11
Programming language theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramona%20Douglass | Ramona E. Douglass (-2007) was an American activist. In addition to her work as a medical sales and marketing professional, she was a prominent advocate for multiracial Americans.
Education
Douglass was a graduate of Colorado State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in geology and chemistry.
Activism
Doug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett%20Kelleher | Garrett Kelleher is an Irish real estate developer and businessman with additional corporate interests in finance, film and education.
Early life and education
Kelleher was born in Dublin, Ireland. Educated at Belvedere College, Kelleher first went to the United States on a tennis scholarship. He then studied mathema... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Centre%20for%20Excellence%20in%20the%20Teaching%20of%20Mathematics | The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) is an institution set up in the wake of the Smith Report to improve mathematics teaching in England.
It provides strategic leadership for mathematics-specific CPD and aims to raise the professional status of all those engaged in the teaching of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Easton | Thomas A. Easton (born 17 July 1944) is a teacher and well-known science fiction critic and author. He retired as a professor from Thomas College of Maine in 2014 and now teaches part-time at Mount Ida College in Newton, MA.
Easton holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Colby College and a doctorate in theoretical b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-chase%20analysis | In biochemistry and molecular biology, a pulse-chase analysis is a method for examining a cellular process occurring over time by successively exposing the cells to a labeled compound (pulse) and then to the same compound in an unlabeled form (chase).
Mechanism
A selected cell or a group of cells is first exposed to a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen%20Gmehling | Jürgen Gmehling (born January 13, 1946, in Duisburg) is a retired German professor of technical and industrial chemistry at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.
Biography
His career started with an apprenticeship as a laboratory assistant at the Duisburg copper works before he studied chemical engineering ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie%20Kelleher | Robbie Kelleher is a former Gaelic footballer who played for the Dublin county team. He is All-Ireland winning.
Biography
He grew up in Glasnevin, County Dublin. He was educated at Coláiste Mhuire, where he excelled in his studies which included an A in Higher Level Mathematics. He went on to study economics at Univer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay%20Seshadri | Vijay Seshadri (born 13 February 1954) is an American poet, essayist and literary critic based in Brooklyn.
Vijay won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, for 3 Sections.
Early life
Vijay's parents immigrated to the United States from Bangalore, India when he was five.
He grew up in Columbus, Ohio, where his father t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20E.%20Wynn-Williams | Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams (5 March 1903 – 30 August 1979), was a Welsh physicist, noted for his research on electronic instrumentation for use in nuclear physics. His work on the scale-of-two counter contributed to the development of the modern computer.
Early life and studies
Wynn-Williams was born at 'Glasfryn' in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Chaikin | Paul Michael Chaikin (born November 14, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American physicist known particularly for many significant contributions to the field of soft condensed matter physics.
Education and research career
After graduating from Stuyvesant High School in New York City, Paul Chaikin earned his B.S. i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20quantum%20mechanics | The history of quantum mechanics is a fundamental part of the history of modern physics. The major chapters of this history begin with the emergence of quantum ideas to explain individual phenomena -- blackbody radiation, the photoelectric effect, solar emission spectra -- an era called the Old or Older quantum theorie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piara%20Singh%20Gill | Piara Singh Gill (28October 1911 – 23March 2002) was an Indian nuclear physicist and a pioneer in cosmic ray nuclear physics. He was the first Director of Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO) of India. He was research fellow of University of Chicago (1940). He was research Professorship fellow of Tata Ins... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Henrik%20Andersen | Hans Henrik Andersen (May 1, 1937 in Frederiksberg, Denmark – November 3, 2012) was a professor at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen (emeritus since 2004). He was the founder and subsequently co-editor of the scientific journal "Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B".
He has made... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Klyshko | David Nikolaevich Klyshko (Давид Николаевич Клышко), (1929—2000) was a Russian physicist and professor. A highly regarded Physics professor at Moscow State University, was known for his imperative approach for Quantum Optics understanding. His most known contributions were in the field of quantum electronics and quant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Moffatt | Henry Keith Moffatt, FRS FRSE (born 12 April 1935) is a British mathematician with research interests in the field of fluid dynamics, particularly magnetohydrodynamics and the theory of turbulence. He was Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge from 1980 to 2002.
Early life and education
Moffa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Dalgarno | Alexander Dalgarno FRS (5 January 1928 – 9 April 2015) was a British physicist who was a Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University.
Biography
Alexander Dalgarno was born in London in 1928, and spent his childhood there. He was educated in mathematics and atomic physics at University College, London, earnin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn%20Cramer | Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer (born April 16, 1962) is an American science fiction writer, editor, and literary critic.
Early years
Kathryn Cramer is the daughter of physicist John G. Cramer. She grew up in Seattle and graduated from Columbia University with degrees in mathematics and American studies.
Career
Cramer has ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20H.%20Ahl | David H. Ahl (born May 17, 1939) is an American author who is the founder of Creative Computing magazine. He is also the author of many how-to books, including BASIC Computer Games, the first computer book to sell more than a million copies.
Career
After earning degrees in electrical engineering and business administr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manaf%20Suleymanov | Manaf Faraj oglu Suleymanov (; 3 March 1912, Lahich – 12 September 2001, Baku) was an Azerbaijani writer, translator and historian.
Life
Manaf Suleymanov was born in 1912, in the village of Lahich in Azerbaijan. He graduated from the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute with honours and worked in the Azerbaijan Inst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PVLAS | PVLAS (Polarizzazione del Vuoto con LASer, "polarization of the vacuum with laser") aims to carry out a test of quantum electrodynamics and possibly detect dark matter at the Department of Physics and National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Ferrara, Italy. It searches for vacuum polarization causing nonlinear optical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KN-Cipher | In cryptography, KN-Cipher is a block cipher created by Kaisa Nyberg and Lars Knudsen in 1995. One of the first ciphers designed to be provably secure against ordinary differential cryptanalysis, KN-Cipher was later broken using higher order differential cryptanalysis.
Presented as "a prototype...compatible with DES",... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trough%20battery | The trough battery was a variant of Alessandro Volta's voltaic pile and was designed by the Scottish professor of chemistry William Cruickshank in 1800.
Disadvantage of the pile
Volta's battery consisted of brine-soaked pieces of cloth sandwiched between zinc and copper discs, piled in a stack. This resulted in elec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whalleyana | Whalleyana is an enigmatic genus of moths in the lepidopteran group Obtectomera, endemic to Madagascar. The genus contains two species, whose biology are unknown. The genus had been placed in the picture-winged leaf moths, (Thyrididae), but then was placed in its own family (Minet, 1991), and later elevated to its own ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigs%20of%20Rods | Rigs of Rods (RoR) is a free and open source vehicle-simulation game which uses soft-body physics to simulate the motion destruction and deformation of vehicles. The game uses a soft-body physics engine to simulate a network of interconnected nodes (forming the chassis and the wheels) and gives the ability to simulate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simhah%20Pinsker | Simhah Pinsker (, March 17, 1801 – October 29, 1864) was a Polish-Jewish scholar and archeologist born in Tarnopol, Habsburg West Galicia (now Ternopil, Ukraine). He received his early Hebrew education in a cheder and from his father, Shebaḥ ha-Levi, a noted preacher, who instructed him in mathematics and German langua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian%20isoperimetric%20inequality | In mathematics, the Gaussian isoperimetric inequality, proved by Boris Tsirelson and Vladimir Sudakov, and later independently by Christer Borell, states that among all sets of given Gaussian measure in the n-dimensional Euclidean space, half-spaces have the minimal Gaussian boundary measure.
Mathematical formulation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston%20Estep | Preston "Pete" Wayne Estep III is an American biologist and science and technology advocate. He is a graduate of Cornell University, where he did neuroscience research, and he earned a Ph.D. in Genetics from Harvard University. He did his doctoral research in the laboratory of genomics pioneer Professor George M. Churc... |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Marohasy | Jennifer Marohasy (born 1963) is an Australian biologist, columnist and blogger. She was a senior fellow at the free-market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs between 2004 and 2009 and director of the Australian Environment Foundation until 2008. She holds a PhD in biology from the University of Queensland. Sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20Symbolic%20Calculator |
The Inverse Symbolic Calculator is an online number checker established July 18, 1995 by Peter Benjamin Borwein, Jonathan Michael Borwein and Simon Plouffe of the Canadian Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics (Burnaby, Canada). A user will input a number and the Calculator will use an algorithm to sea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahn%E2%80%93Hilliard%20equation | The Cahn–Hilliard equation (after John W. Cahn and John E. Hilliard) is an equation of mathematical physics which describes the process of phase separation, by which the two components of a binary fluid spontaneously separate and form domains pure in each component. If is the concentration of the fluid, with indicat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Murray%20%28biologist%29 | Sir Kenneth "Ken" Murray FRS FRSE FRCPath (30 December 1930 – 7 April 2013) was a British molecular biologist and the Biogen Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Edinburgh.
An important early figure in genetic engineering, Murray cofounded Biogen. There, he and his team developed one of the first vaccin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley%E2%80%93Leverett%20equation | In fluid dynamics, the Buckley–Leverett equation is a conservation equation used to model two-phase flow in porous media. The Buckley–Leverett equation or the Buckley–Leverett displacement describes an immiscible displacement process, such as the displacement of oil by water, in a one-dimensional or quasi-one-dimension... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodger%20O.%20Riney | Rodger O. Riney (born 1945) is an American billionaire and the founder of Scottrade, a stockbrokerage that was acquired by TD Ameritrade in 2017.
Early life
Riney was born in 1945 and was introduced to the stock market by his grandparents after giving him 10 shares of a stock. Riney earned a Bachelor of Science in civ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20K.%20Chu | Paul K. Chu (朱劍豪) is a specialist in plasma surface modification and materials science. He is Chair Professor of Materials Engineering in the Department of Physics, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, and Department of Biomedical Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong.
Biography
He received his BS ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third%20derivative | In calculus, a branch of mathematics, the third derivative or third-order derivative is the rate at which the second derivative, or the rate of change of the rate of change, is changing. The third derivative of a function can be denoted by
Other notations can be used, but the above are the most common.
Mathematical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tj%C3%A4rn%C3%B6%20Marine%20Biological%20Laboratory | The Tjärnö Marine Laboratory is a marine science field station in Sweden. It is part of the University of Gothenburg and located on the island Tjärnö, Strömstad Municipality in the northern part of Bohuslän province.
TML was founded as a field station for university education in marine biology in 1963. During the firs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antagonism%20%28chemistry%29 | Chemical antagonists impede the normal function of a system. They function to invert the effects of other molecules. The effects of antagonists can be seen after they have encountered an agonist, and as a result, the effects of the agonist is neutralized. Antagonists such as dopamine antagonist slow down movement in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Pilyugin | Nikolai Alekseevich Pilyugin (; , Krasnoye Selo - 2 August 1982) was Soviet chief designer of rocket guidance systems.
He was a designer of control systems for boosters and spacecraft.
He participated in design of the first ICBM "R-7" and Soviet space shuttle Buran.
A graduate of the Baumann higher technical school ... |
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