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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby%E2%80%93Siebenmann%20class | In mathematics, more specifically in geometric topology, the Kirby–Siebenmann class is an obstruction for topological manifolds to allow a PL-structure.
The KS-class
For a topological manifold M, the Kirby–Siebenmann class is an element of the fourth cohomology group of M that vanishes if M admits a piecewise linear ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic%20R4 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Exotic R4}}
In mathematics, an exotic is a differentiable manifold that is homeomorphic (i.e. shape preserving) but not diffeomorphic (i.e. non smooth) to the Euclidean space The first examples were found in 1982 by Michael Freedman and others, by using the contrast between Freedman's theorems about to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donaldson%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, and especially differential topology and gauge theory, Donaldson's theorem states that a definite intersection form of a compact, oriented, smooth manifold of dimension 4 is diagonalisable. If the intersection form is positive (negative) definite, it can be diagonalized to the identity matrix (negative ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Simberloff | Daniel Simberloff is an American biologist and ecologist. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969. He is currently Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Tennessee, editor-in-chief of the journal Biological Invasions, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Early lif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan%20August%20Wahlberg | Johan August Wahlberg (9 October 1810, in Lackarebäck, Sweden – 6 March 1856, in Lake Ngami, Bechuanaland) was a Swedish naturalist and explorer.
Wahlberg started studying chemistry at the University of Uppsala in 1829, and later forestry, agronomy and natural science, graduating from the Swedish Forestry Institute in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Ludwig%20von%20Cancrin | Franz Ludwig von Cancrin (February 21, 1738 in Breidenbach – 1812) was a German mineralogist, metallurgist, architect and writer.
He was born into a German mining family where he was trained by his father in the science of mining. In 1764, he entered the service of the landgrave of Hesse-Kassel at Hanau, becoming prof... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20T.%20Schwartz |
Jacob Theodore "Jack" Schwartz (January 9, 1930 – March 2, 2009) was an American mathematician, computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He was the designer of the SETL programming language and started the NYU Ultracomputer project. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Bowen | Jonathan P. Bowen FBCS FRSA (born 1956) is a British computer scientist and an Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University, where he headed the Centre for Applied Formal Methods. Prof. Bowen is also the Chairman of Museophile Limited and has been a Professor of Computer Science at Birmingham City University, Vis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20for%20America | Math for America (MfA) is a nonprofit organization, founded in January 2004 by American billionaire mathematician, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist Jim Simons to promote recruitment and retention of mathematics teachers in New York City secondary schools.
History
According to Simons, he founded the program to ad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton%20Lewis%20Jr. | Ashton Lewis Jr. (born January 22, 1972) is an American former stock car racing driver who competed in 226 races over 11 seasons. Lewis earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. After his racing career, he earned his MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke Univer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid%20W.%20Barton | Reid William Barton (born May 6, 1983) is a mathematician and also one of the most successful performers in the International Science Olympiads.
Biography
Barton is the son of two environmental engineers. Barton took part-time classes at Tufts University in chemistry (5th grade), physics (6th grade), and subsequentl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornstein%E2%80%93Uhlenbeck%20process | In mathematics, the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process is a stochastic process with applications in financial mathematics and the physical sciences. Its original application in physics was as a model for the velocity of a massive Brownian particle under the influence of friction. It is named after Leonard Ornstein and George E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh%20Fisher | Joseph A "Josh" Fisher is an American and Spanish computer scientist noted for his work on VLIW architectures, compiling, and instruction-level parallelism, and for the founding of Multiflow Computer. He is a Hewlett-Packard Senior Fellow (Emeritus).
Biography
Fisher holds a BA (1968) in mathematics (with honors) fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Arab%20Americans | This is a list of Arab Americans. It includes prominent and notable Arab American individuals from various fields, such as business, science, entertainment, sports and fine arts.
Academia
Science
Elias J. Corey, Lebanese, organic chemistry professor at Harvard University, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa%20Eta%20Kappa | Kappa Eta Kappa () is a co-ed professional fraternity, nationally recognized in the United States, that was founded in 1923 at the University of Iowa. KHK requires that members are majoring or will major in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science.
Ideals
The preamble to the constitution of KHK... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serre%27s%20property%20FA | In mathematics, Property FA is a property of groups first defined by Jean-Pierre Serre.
A group G is said to have property FA if every action of G on a tree has a global fixed point.
Serre shows that if a group has property FA, then it cannot split as an amalgamated product or HNN extension; indeed, if G is contained... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth%20Shapiro | Beth Alison Shapiro (born 1976) is an American evolutionary molecular biologist. She is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Shapiro's work has centered on the analysis of ancient DNA. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2009 and a Royal So... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20University%20of%20G%C3%B6ttingen%20people | This is a list of people who have taught or studied at the University of Göttingen:
Natural sciences and mathematics
A
Wilhelm Ackermann — Mathematics
Immo Appenzeller — Astrophysics
Cahit Arf — (Doctorate in Mathematics)
B
Heinrich Behmann — Mathematical Logic
Paul Bernays — Mathematics, mathematical logic — (Stu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ziman | John Michael Ziman (16 May 1925 – 2 January 2005) was a British-born New Zealand physicist and humanist who worked in the area of condensed matter physics. He was a spokesman for science, as well as a teacher and author.
Ziman was born in Cambridge, England, in 1925. His parents were Solomon Netheim Ziman and, Nellie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%20Wilhelm%20Knoch | August Wilhelm Knoch (June 8, 1742 – June 2, 1818) was a German naturalist born in Braunschweig. He was a professor of physics at Collegium Carolinum.
He studied theology at the University of Leipzig. In 1775 he was hired as a caretaker at the Collegium Carolinum, during which time his interests turned to natural scie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HWP | HWP may refer to:
Science and technology
Half-wave plate, an optical device
Hangul (word processor), Korean software
Hardy–Weinberg principle, in population genetics
Other uses
Heavy weapons platoon
Highland Wildlife Park, in Scotland
Human Waste Project, an American band
Hutchison Whampoa Property, a property... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving%20Friedman | Irving Friedman (January 12, 1920 – June 28, 2005) was a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientist and a pioneer in geochemistry. Born in New York City, New York, he obtained a B.S. degree in chemistry from Montana State University, a M.S. degree in chemistry from Washington State University, and a Ph.D. in geochemistry ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNRC | CNRC may refer to:
Cajal Neuroscience Research Center
Cascadia Natural Resource Consultants
Centre National du Registre du Commerce
Children's Nutrition Research Center
Clinical Nutrition Research Center
Columbia Network Research Center
Council of National Resource Centers, a group of U.S. universities which h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%2C%20Hell%20or%20Right | Love Hell or Right (Da Come Up) is an album by the hip hop producer DJ Mathematics, who is a DJ with Wu-Tang Clan.
Completely mixed, arranged and produced by Mathematics himself, Love, Hell or Right was released August 26, 2003, on his own Quewisha Records label in conjunction with High Times Records, and it went on t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eater%20%28novel%29 | Eater is a hard science fiction novel by American writer Gregory Benford. It was published in May 2000 by Eos. Heavy on the physics information, Eater describes humankind's encounter with a cosmic intelligence that comes in the form of a small black hole.
Plot summary
In the early 21st century, astronomers detect what... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Remigius%20Fresenius | Carl Remigius Fresenius (28 December 1818 – 11 June 1897), was a German chemist, known for his studies in analytical chemistry.
Biography
Fresenius was born on 28 December 1818, in Frankfurt, Germany. After working for some time for a pharmacy in his native town, he entered Bonn University in 1840, and a year later m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner%20solution | In mathematics and economics, a corner solution is a special solution to an agent's maximization problem in which the quantity of one of the arguments in the maximized function is zero. In non-technical terms, a corner solution is when the chooser is either unwilling or unable to make a trade-off between goods.
In eco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse%20cell | In general biology or reproductive physiology, a nurse cell is a cell which provides food, helps other cells and provides stability to neighboring cells. The term nurse cell is used in several unrelated ways in different scientific fields.
Human physiology
Nurse cells are specialized macrophages residing in the bone m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Photonic%2C%20Electronic%20and%20Atomic%20Collisions | ICPEAC, the International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions, is a biennial scientific conference. It is held in late July. The first conference was held in New York City in 1958. Since then it has been held in the following locations:
References
Physics conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward%20secrecy | In cryptography, forward secrecy (FS), also known as perfect forward secrecy (PFS), is a feature of specific key-agreement protocols that gives assurances that session keys will not be compromised even if long-term secrets used in the session key exchange are compromised. For HTTPS, the long-term secret is typically th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%20cross%20section | In nuclear physics, the concept of a neutron cross section is used to express the likelihood of interaction between an incident neutron and a target nucleus. The neutron cross section σ can be defined as the area in cm2 for which the number of neutron-nuclei reactions taking place is equal to the product of the number ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Ann%20cherry | The Royal Ann or Royal Anne (also called Napoleon, Napoleon Bigarreau and Queen Anne) is a variety of cherry, similar in appearance and taste to the 'Rainier cherry'.
Biology
About Royal Ann
Royal Ann cherry trees are perennial semi-dwarfs that bloom early April with harvest in mid-summer. They are deciduous trees t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen%20bond | In chemistry, a dihydrogen bond is a kind of hydrogen bond, an interaction between a metal hydride bond and an OH or NH group or other proton donor. With a van der Waals radius of 1.2 Å, hydrogen atoms do not usually approach other hydrogen atoms closer than 2.4 Å. Close approaches near 1.8 Å, are, however, character... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietaria%20officinalis | Parietaria officinalis, the eastern pellitory-of-the-wall, also known as upright pellitory and lichwort, is a plant of the nettle family. Its leaves, however, are non-stinging. The plant grows on rubbish and on walls, hence the name.
The pollen is a cause of allergy.
Uses
It was once used in the making of certain m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20M.%20Morse | Philip McCord Morse (August 6, 19035 September 1985), was an American physicist, administrator and pioneer of operations research (OR) in World War II. He is considered to be the father of operations research in the U.S.
Biography
Morse graduated from the Case School of Applied Science in 1926 with a B.S. in physics.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicene | In organic chemistry, helicenes are ortho-condensed polycyclic aromatic compounds in which benzene rings or other aromatics are angularly annulated to give helically-shaped chiral molecules. The chemistry of helicenes has attracted continuing attention because of their unique structural, spectral, and optical features.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EES | EES may refer to:
Education
Electrical Engineering Society or EES, a popular student chapter in Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat
Government
Entry/Exit System, a proposed biometric database in the European Union
European Economic Senate
European Employment Strategy
Places
Ees (place ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosque%20School | Bosque School is an independent, co-educational, college preparatory school for grades 6–12 founded in 1994. The school sits on a site along the Rio Grande bosque in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Surrounded by the riparian forest of the bosque, the school emphasizes environmental science, the arts, and service learning. Wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Noug%C3%A9 | Paul Nougé (12 February 1895 – 6 November 1967) was a Belgian poet, founder and theoretician of surrealism in Belgium, sometimes known as the "Belgian Breton".
Biography
Born of a French father who originated from the Charent region in France and a Belgian mother, Paul Nougé attended a French school in Brussels study... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20M.%20Silver | Lee M. Silver (born 1952) is an American biologist. He is a professor at Princeton University in the Department of molecular biology and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He also has joint appointments in the Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, the Center for Health and Wel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decomposition%20%28computer%20science%29 | Decomposition in computer science, also known as factoring, is breaking a complex problem or system into parts that are easier to conceive, understand, program, and maintain.
Overview
There are different types of decomposition defined in computer sciences:
In structured programming, algorithmic decomposition breaks... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrud%20Sch%C3%BCpbach | Trudi Schüpbach (born Zurich, Switzerland, February 3, 1950; full name Gertrud M. Schüpbach; published name Trudi Schüpbach) is a Swiss-American molecular biologist. She is an Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, where her laboratory studies molecular and genetic mechanisms in fruit fly (Dr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20Bisque | Software Bisque, Inc. (formerly named Computer Assist Services) is a corporation based in Golden, Colorado that develops robotics telescope mounts and accessories and publishes software used in astronomy. It was founded in 1984 by current president and CEO, Stephen M. Bisque.
History
Bisque initially developed and mar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%20model%20theory | In theoretical computer science, Actor model theory concerns theoretical issues for the Actor model.
Actors are the primitives that form the basis of the Actor model of concurrent digital computation. In response to a message that it receives, an Actor can make local decisions, create more Actors, send more messages,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%20model%20implementation | In computer science, Actor model implementation concerns implementation issues for the Actor model.
Cosmic Cube
The Caltech Cosmic Cube was developed by Chuck Seitz et al. at Caltech providing architectural support for Actor systems. A significant difference between the Cosmic Cube and
most other parallel processors ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacutinga | Jacutinga may refer to:
Biology
Black-fronted piping guan, or jacutinga, a New World bird
Places
Jacutinga, Minas Gerais Brazil
Jacutinga, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Santa Rita de Jacutinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resultant | In mathematics, the resultant of two polynomials is a polynomial expression of their coefficients that is equal to zero if and only if the polynomials have a common root (possibly in a field extension), or, equivalently, a common factor (over their field of coefficients). In some older texts, the resultant is also call... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20zeta%20series | In mathematics, a rational zeta series is the representation of an arbitrary real number in terms of a series consisting of rational numbers and the Riemann zeta function or the Hurwitz zeta function. Specifically, given a real number x, the rational zeta series for x is given by
where qn is a rational number, the va... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%20model%20and%20process%20calculi | In computer science, the Actor model and process calculi are two closely related approaches to the modelling of concurrent digital computation. See Actor model and process calculi history.
There are many similarities between the two approaches, but also several differences (some philosophical, some technical):
There ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkard%20Hillebrands | Burkard Hillebrands (born 1957) is a German physicist and professor of physics. He is the leader of the magnetism research group in the Department of Physics at the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern.
Academic career
Burkard Hillebrands was born in 1957. He studied physics at the University of Cologne (1977–198... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Kuzmin%20distribution | In mathematics, the Gauss–Kuzmin distribution is a discrete probability distribution that arises as the limit probability distribution of the coefficients in the continued fraction expansion of a random variable uniformly distributed in (0, 1). The distribution is named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, who derived it around... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta%20function%20universality | In mathematics, the universality of zeta functions is the remarkable ability of the Riemann zeta function and other similar functions (such as the Dirichlet L-functions) to approximate arbitrary non-vanishing holomorphic functions arbitrarily well.
The universality of the Riemann zeta function was first proven by in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denice%20Denton | Denice Dee Denton (August 27, 1959 – June 24, 2006) was an American professor of electrical engineering and academic administrator. She was the ninth chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Biography
Early years
Denton was born in El Campo, Texas, in Wharton County. She was the oldest child of Bob Gl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphaalkyne | In chemistry, a phosphaalkyne (IUPAC name: alkylidynephosphane) is an organophosphorus compound containing a triple bond between phosphorus and carbon with the general formula R-C≡P. Phosphaalkynes are the heavier congeners of nitriles, though, due to the similar electronegativities of phosphorus and carbon, possess re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium%20fluoride | Potassium fluoride is the chemical compound with the formula KF. After hydrogen fluoride, KF is the primary source of the fluoride ion for applications in manufacturing and in chemistry. It is an alkali halide salt and occurs naturally as the rare mineral carobbiite. Solutions of KF will etch glass due to the format... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20McCabe | Herbert John Ignatius McCabe (2 August 192628 June 2001) was a Dominican priest, theologian and philosopher.
Biography
Herbert McCabe was born in Middlesbrough in the North Riding of Yorkshire. He studied chemistry at Manchester University, but influenced by Dorothy Emmet switched to philosophy. He contributed a num... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front%20velocity | In physics, front velocity is the speed at which the first rise of a pulse above zero moves forward.
In mathematics, it is used to describe the velocity of a propagating front in the solution of hyperbolic partial differential equation.
Various velocities
Associated with propagation of a disturbance are several diff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selberg%20class | In mathematics, the Selberg class is an axiomatic definition of a class of L-functions. The members of the class are Dirichlet series which obey four axioms that seem to capture the essential properties satisfied by most functions that are commonly called L-functions or zeta functions. Although the exact nature of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk%20density | In materials science, bulk density, also called apparent density, is a material property defined as the mass of the many particles of the material divided by the bulk volume. Bulk volume is defined as the total volume the particles occupy, including particle's own volume, inter-particle void volume, and the particles'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamellar%20structure | In materials science, lamellar structures or microstructures are composed of fine, alternating layers of different materials in the form of lamellae. They are often observed in cases where a phase transition front moves quickly, leaving behind two solid products, as in rapid cooling of eutectic (such as solder) or eut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defeminization | In developmental biology and zoology, defeminization is an aspect of the process of sexual differentiation by which a potential female-specific structure, function, or behavior is changed by one of the processes of male development.
See also
Sexual differentiation
Defeminization and masculinization
Virilization
F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle | Merkle and Merckle are surnames of German origin. It used as a minimization of Old German given names such as Markwart (meaning "guard of the frontier") or Markhard (meaning "strong frontier"). They may refer to:
Cryptography and computing
Merkle–Damgård construction, a method of building collision-resistant cryptogr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stickelberger%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Stickelberger's theorem is a result of algebraic number theory, which gives some information about the Galois module structure of class groups of cyclotomic fields. A special case was first proven by Ernst Kummer (1847) while the general result is due to Ludwig Stickelberger (1890).
The Stickelberger e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligand%20%28biochemistry%29 | In biochemistry and pharmacology, a ligand is a substance that forms a complex with a biomolecule to serve a biological purpose. The etymology stems from Latin ligare, which means 'to bind'. In protein-ligand binding, the ligand is usually a molecule which produces a signal by binding to a site on a target protein. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair%20Fitter | Alastair Hugh Fitter CBE FRS (born 20 June 1948) is a British ecologist at the University of York.
Fitter was educated at Oxford and at Liverpool, and came to the Department of Biology in York in 1972. In 2004 he was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor, with the Research portfolio. He is a member of Council of the Natural E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plume | Plume or plumes may refer to:
Science
Plume (feather), a prominent bird feather
Plume (fluid dynamics), a column consisting of one fluid moving through another fluid
Eruption plume, a column of volcanic ash and gas emitted into the atmosphere during an eruption
Mantle plume, an upwelling of hot rock within the Ea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison%20Symmetric%20Torus | The Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) is a reversed field pinch (RFP) physics experiment with applications to both fusion energy research and astrophysical plasmas.
MST is located at the Center for Magnetic Self Organization (CMSO) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
RFPs are significantly different from tokamaks (th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures%20and%20promises | In computer science, future, promise, delay, and deferred refer to constructs used for synchronizing program execution in some concurrent programming languages. They describe an object that acts as a proxy for a result that is initially unknown, usually because the computation of its value is not yet complete.
The ter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Johnson%20%28astronomer%29 | Harold Lester Johnson (April 17, 1921 – April 2, 1980) was an American astronomer.
Harold Johnson was born in Denver, Colorado, on April 17, 1921. He received his early education in Denver public schools and went to the University of Denver, graduating with a degree in mathematics in 1942. Johnson was recruited by t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplified%20fragment%20length%20polymorphism | AFLP-PCR or just AFLP is a PCR-based tool used in genetics research, DNA fingerprinting, and in the practice of genetic engineering. Developed in the early 1990s by KeyGene, AFLP uses restriction enzymes to digest genomic DNA, followed by ligation of adaptors to the sticky ends of the restriction fragments. A subset of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFLP | AFLP may refer to:
Amplified fragment length polymorphism, a highly sensitive tool used in molecular biology to detect DNA polymorphisms
Acute fatty liver of pregnancy, a life-threatening liver condition that may occur during pregnancy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20R.%20Riddle | George Read Riddle (1817 – March 28, 1867) was an American engineer, lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party who served as U.S. Representative and as U.S. Senator from Delaware.
Early life and family
Riddle was born in New Castle, Delaware, and studied civil engineering... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renninger%20negative-result%20experiment | In quantum mechanics, the Renninger negative-result experiment is a thought experiment that illustrates some of the difficulties of understanding the nature of wave function collapse and measurement in quantum mechanics. The statement is that a particle need not be detected in order for a quantum measurement to occur,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervalence%20charge%20transfer | In chemistry, intervalence charge transfer, often abbreviated IVCT or even IT, is a type of charge-transfer band that is associated with mixed valence compounds. It is most common for systems with two metal sites differing only in oxidation state. Quite often such electron transfer reverses the oxidation states of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit%20formulae%20for%20L-functions | In mathematics, the explicit formulae for L-functions are relations between sums over the complex number zeroes of an L-function and sums over prime powers, introduced by for the Riemann zeta function. Such explicit formulae have been applied also to questions on bounding the discriminant of an algebraic number fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour%20Stewart | Balfour Stewart (1 November 182819 December 1887) was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist.
His studies in the field of radiant heat led to him receiving the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society in 1868. In 1859 he was appointed director of Kew Observatory. He was elected professor of physics at Owens College, Manches... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin%20Schwartz | Melvin Schwartz (; November 2, 1932 – August 28, 2006) was an American physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Way%20Kendall | Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999) was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Coleman%20Richardson | Robert Coleman Richardson (June 26, 1937 – February 19, 2013) was an American experimental physicist whose area of research included sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3. Richardson, along with David Lee, as senior researchers, and then graduate student Douglas Osheroff, shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20fluid%20mechanics | The history of fluid mechanics is a fundamental strand of the history of physics and engineering. The study of the movement of fluids (liquids and gases) and the forces that act upon them dates back to pre-history. The field has undergone a continuous evolution, driven by human dependence on water, meteorological condi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20power%20density | In physics and engineering, surface power density is power per unit area.
Applications
The intensity of electromagnetic radiation can be expressed in W/m2. An example of such a quantity is the solar constant.
Wind turbines are often compared using a specific power measuring watts per square meter of turbine disk are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o%20Magueijo | João Magueijo (born 1967) is a Portuguese cosmologist and professor in theoretical physics at Imperial College London. He is a pioneer of the varying speed of light (VSL) theory.
Education and career
João Magueijo studied physics at the University of Lisbon. He undertook graduate work and Ph.D. at Cambridge Universit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurophilosophy | Neurophilosophy or philosophy of neuroscience is the interdisciplinary study of neuroscience and philosophy that explores the relevance of neuroscientific studies to the arguments traditionally categorized as philosophy of mind. The philosophy of neuroscience attempts to clarify neuroscientific methods and results usin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macro-engineering | In engineering, macro-engineering (alternatively known as mega engineering) is the implementation of large-scale design projects. It can be seen as a branch of civil engineering or structural engineering applied on a large landmass. In particular, macro-engineering is the process of marshaling and managing of resources... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dries%20Buytaert | Dries Buytaert (born 19 November 1978) is a Belgian open-source software programmer. He is the founder and lead developer of the Drupal content management system. He also serves as the CTO of Acquia.
Career
Buytaert was born in Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium. He defended his PhD dissertation in computer science on 27 Janu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon%20Ingram | Vernon Martin Ingram, (May 19, 1924 – August 17, 2006) was a German–American professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Biography
Ingram was born in Breslau as Werner Adolf Martin Immerwahr, Lower Silesia. When he was 14, he and his family left Nazi Germany because of their opposition to Nazi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20revolution | The cognitive revolution was an intellectual movement that began in the 1950s as an interdisciplinary study of the mind and its processes. It later became known collectively as cognitive science. The relevant areas of interchange were between the fields of psychology, linguistics, computer science, anthropology, neuros... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20atom | In physical chemistry, a hot atom is an atom that has a high kinetic or internal energy.
When molecule AB adsorbs on a surface dissociatively,
both A and B adsorb on the surface, or
only A adsorbs on the surface, and B desorbs from the surface.
In case 2, B gains a high translational energy from the adsorption ene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%26E | M&E may refer to:
Morris and Essex Railroad
Morris & Essex Lines
Morristown and Erie Railway
Monitoring and Evaluation
Electromechanics, combines mechanical engineering and electrical engineering
Mechatronics, a portmanteau of mechanics and electronics
Machinery and Equipment (accounting)
Meals and Entertainment (acco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusher%20trailer | A pusher trailer is a device attached to the rear of a vehicle or bike that provides force to assist the vehicle.
For bikes
Electric
Electric pusher trailers use energy stored in a battery, typically of lithium ion or sealed lead acid chemistry, to provide power. Two wheel and one wheel designs are common.
Gas
Gas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldar%20Djangirov | Eldar Djangirov (born January 28, 1987), also known as Eldar, is an American jazz pianist. He was born in Bishkek, Kyrgyz SSR, Soviet Union to Tatiana, a piano teacher, and Emil, a professor of mechanical engineering, and is of Volga Tatar and Russian descent. He grew up in Kansas City, MO from the age of 10 and also l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20J.%20Berry | Robert James "Sam" Berry (26 October 1934 – 29 March 2018) was a British geneticist, naturalist and Christian theorist. He was professor of genetics at University College London between 1974 and 2000. Before that he was a lecturer in genetics at The Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in London. He was president fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Lombardi | Steven Kenneth Lombardi (born April 18, 1961) is an American professional wrestler and road agent, better known by his ring name, the Brooklyn Brawler. He is best known for his tenure in WWE, as well as several independent promotions.
Early life
Lombardi studied biochemistry at St. Francis College prior to his wrestl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Gottlieb%20N%C3%B6rremberg | Johann Gottlieb Christian Nörremberg (11 August 1787, in Pustenbach – 20 July 1862) was a German physicist who worked on the polarization of light.
From 1823 he taught classes in mathematics and physics at the military school in Darmstadt. In 1833 he became a professor of mathematics, physics and astronomy at the Univ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Steenbock | Harry Steenbock (August 16, 1886, Charlestown, Wisconsin – December 25, 1967, Madison, Wisconsin) was a professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Steenbock graduated from Wisconsin in 1916, where he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.
Vitamin D
Steenbock was born in Charlestown, Wiscon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek%20Burney%20Jr. | Derek Burney is the former president of Corel Corporation.
In 1988, at the age of 26, Burney entered the Computer Science program at Carleton University, spending co-op terms at Nortel and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL). He began his career with Corel as a developer and, with the help of his mentor Michael Cow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Pashley | Robert Pashley (4 September 1805 – 29 May 1859) was a 19th-century English traveller, lawyer and economist.
Pashley was born in York and he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. Distinguished in mathematics and Classics, in 1830 he was elected a Fellow of Trinity at his first sitting. In 1832 he took his MA degree, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson%20localization | In condensed matter physics, Anderson localization (also known as strong localization) is the absence of diffusion of waves in a disordered medium. This phenomenon is named after the American physicist P. W. Anderson, who was the first to suggest that electron localization is possible in a lattice potential, provided t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson%20kernel | In mathematics, and specifically in potential theory, the Poisson kernel is an integral kernel, used for solving the two-dimensional Laplace equation, given Dirichlet boundary conditions on the unit disk. The kernel can be understood as the derivative of the Green's function for the Laplace equation. It is named for Si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry%20processing | Geometry processing, or mesh processing, is an area of research that uses concepts from applied mathematics, computer science and engineering to design efficient algorithms for the acquisition, reconstruction, analysis, manipulation, simulation and transmission of complex 3D models. As the name implies, many of the co... |
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