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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Louis%20Lassaigne
Jean Louis Lassaigne (22 September 1800 – 18 March 1859) was a French chemist. He is best known for the sodium fusion test named after him. Early life Lassaigne was born in Paris. Initially he worked in the laboratory of Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, and in 1828 was named professor of chemistry and physics at the École Roy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20Institute%20of%20Computer%20Science%20and%20Random%20Systems
The Institut de recherche en informatique et systèmes aléatoires is a joint computer science research center of CNRS, University of Rennes 1, ENS Rennes, INSA Rennes and Inria, in Rennes in Brittany. It is one of the eight Inria research centers. Created in 1975 as a spin-off of the University of Rennes 1, merging the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvestre%20Fran%C3%A7ois%20Lacroix
Sylvestre François Lacroix (28 April 176524 May 1843) was a French mathematician. Life He was born in Paris, and was raised in a poor family who still managed to obtain a good education for their son. Lacroix's path to mathematics started with the novel Robinson Crusoe. That gave him an interest in sailing and thus n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/179%20%28number%29
179 (one hundred [and] seventy-nine) is the natural number following 178 and preceding 180. In mathematics 179 is part of the Cunningham chain of prime numbers 89, 179, 359, 719, 1439, 2879, in which each successive number is two times the previous number, plus one. Among Cunningham chains of this length, this one has...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/181%20%28number%29
181 (one hundred [and] eighty-one) is the natural number following 180 and preceding 182. In mathematics 181 is an odd number 181 is a centered number 181 is a centered pentagonal number 181 is a centered 12-gonal number 181 is a centered 18-gonal number 181 is a centered 30-gonal number 181 is a centered squar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%20Streleski
Theodore Landon "Ted" Streleski (b. 1936) is an American former graduate student in mathematics at Stanford University who murdered his former faculty advisor, Professor Karel de Leeuw, with a ball-peen hammer on August 18, 1978. Shortly after the murder, Streleski turned himself in to the authorities, claiming he felt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/191%20%28number%29
191 (one hundred [and] ninety-one) is the natural number following 190 and preceding 192. In mathematics 191 is a prime number, part of a prime quadruplet of four primes: 191, 193, 197, and 199. Because doubling and adding one produces another prime number (383), 191 is a Sophie Germain prime. It is the smallest prime...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/193%20%28number%29
193 (one hundred [and] ninety-three) is the natural number following 192 and preceding 194. In mathematics 193 is the number of compositions of 14 into distinct parts. In decimal, it is the seventeenth full repetend prime, or long prime. It is the only odd prime known for which 2 is not a primitive root of . It...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20parameter
In cryptography, a security parameter is a way of measuring of how "hard" it is for an adversary to break a cryptographic scheme. There are two main types of security parameter: computational and statistical, often denoted by and , respectively. Roughly speaking, the computational security parameter is a measure for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/197%20%28number%29
197 (one hundred [and] ninety-seven) is the natural number following 196 and preceding 198. In mathematics 197 is a prime number, the third of a prime quadruplet: 191, 193, 197, 199 197 is the smallest prime number that is the sum of 7 consecutive primes: 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41, and is the sum of the first...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/199%20%28number%29
199 (one hundred [and] ninety-nine) is the natural number following 198 and preceding 200. In mathematics 199 is a centered triangular number. It is a prime number and the fourth part of a prime quadruplet: 191, 193, 197, 199. 199 is the smallest natural number that takes more than two iterations to compute its digi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick%20Center
The Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences—colloquially referred to as FCIEMAS (pronounced "eff-see-mas") —opened in August 2004 on the West campus of Duke University. Research facilities focus on the fields of photonics, bioengineering, communications, and materials science...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%20of%20Computing
A Bachelor of Computing (B.Comp.) is a bachelor's degree in computing. This degree is offered in a small number of universities, and varies slightly from a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science or Information Technology, a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (B.Sc IT.) or a Bachelor of Computer Scie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCRA
NCRA is an initialism which may stand for: National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, a premier Radio Astronomy research institute in Pune, India National Campus and Community Radio Association, a non-profit association of campus radio and community radio stations in Canada National Coalition for Reform and Advancemen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminophore
In chemistry, a luminophore (sometimes shortened to lumophore) is an atom or functional group in a chemical compound that is responsible for its luminescent properties. Luminophores can be either organic or inorganic. Luminophores can be further classified as fluorophores or phosphors, depending on the nature of the e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dannie%20Heineman%20Prize%20for%20Astrophysics
The Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics is jointly awarded each year by the American Astronomical Society and American Institute of Physics for outstanding work in astrophysics. It is funded by the Heineman Foundation in honour of Dannie Heineman. Recipients Source: AAS See also Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathemat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prochirality
In stereochemistry, prochiral molecules are those that can be converted from achiral to chiral in a single step. An achiral species which can be converted to a chiral in two steps is called proprochiral. If two identical substituents are attached to a sp3-hybridized atom, the descriptors pro-R and pro-S are used to di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20S.%20Kechris
Alexander Sotirios Kechris (; born March 23, 1946) is a set theorist and logician at the California Institute of Technology. Contributions Kechris has made contributions to the theory of Borel equivalence relations and the theory of automorphism groups of uncountable structures. His research interests cover foundation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila%20Williams
Sheila Williams (born 1956) is the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. Early life and education Sheila Williams grew up in a family of five in western Massachusetts. Her mother had a master's degree in microbiology. Williams’ interest in science fiction came from her father, who read Edgar Rice Burroughs boo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive%20learning
Predictive learning is a technique of machine learning in which an agent tries to build a model of its environment by trying out different actions in various circumstances. It uses knowledge of the effects its actions appear to have, turning them into planning operators. These allow the agent to act purposefully in its...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquetta%20Goodwine
Marquetta L. Goodwine is an author, preservationist, and performance artist who serves as Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation. Biography Goodwine is a native of St. Helena Island, South Carolina. She attended Fordham College at Lincoln Center and double majored in computer science and mathematics. In 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corella
Corella may refer to: Biology Corella (bird), a member of a group of cockatoos from the subgenus Licmetis Corella (journal), the journal of the Australian Bird Study Association, formerly called Australian Bird Bander Corella (tunicate), a genus of sea squirts Horticulture Corella Pear, a variety of pear named a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-dragging%20effects
In 19th century physics, there were several situations in which the motion of matter might be said to drag light. This aether drag hypothesis was an attempt by classical physics to explain stellar aberration and the Fizeau experiment, but was discarded when Albert Einstein introduced his theory of relativity. Despite t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Ackerman
Richard Charles Ackerman (born December 5, 1942) is an American Republican politician, who was a California State Senator for the 33rd District, representing inland Orange County, from 2000 to 2008. Born in Long Beach, California, Ackerman earned a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate%20energy%20levels
In quantum mechanics, an energy level is degenerate if it corresponds to two or more different measurable states of a quantum system. Conversely, two or more different states of a quantum mechanical system are said to be degenerate if they give the same value of energy upon measurement. The number of different states c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSTR
CSTR may refer to: The Centre for Speech Technology Research at The University of Edinburgh Coinstar (NASDAQ ticker symbol) Computer Science Technical Report, particularly those from Bell Labs, often seminal Continuous stirred-tank reactor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%20Franz%20Moritz%20Kopp
Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp (30 October 1817 – 20 February 1892), German chemist, was born at Hanau, where his father, Johann Heinrich Kopp (1777–1858), a physician, was professor of chemistry, physics and natural history at the local lyceum. After attending the gymnasium of his native town, he studied at Marburg and He...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%20Kopp
Charles-Émile Kopp (3 March 1817 – 30 November 1875), French chemist, was born at Wasselonne, Alsace. He became in 1847 a professor of toxicology and chemistry at the École supérieure de Pharmacie at Strasbourg. Because of his participation in the demonstration on "revolutionary day" 13 June 1849, he was forced to lea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence%20transformation
In mathematics, a sequence transformation is an operator acting on a given space of sequences (a sequence space). Sequence transformations include linear mappings such as convolution with another sequence, and resummation of a sequence and, more generally, are commonly used for series acceleration, that is, for improvi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/211%20%28number%29
211 (two hundred [and] eleven) is the natural number following 210 and preceding 212. It is also a prime number. In mathematics 211 is an odd number. 211 is a primorial prime, the sum of three consecutive primes (), a Chen prime, a centered decagonal prime, and a self prime. 211 is the smallest prime separated by ei...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoholomorphic%20curve
In mathematics, specifically in topology and geometry, a pseudoholomorphic curve (or J-holomorphic curve) is a smooth map from a Riemann surface into an almost complex manifold that satisfies the Cauchy–Riemann equation. Introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gromov, pseudoholomorphic curves have since revolutionized the study ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-shrinking%20generator
A self-shrinking generator is a pseudorandom generator that is based on the shrinking generator concept. Variants of the self-shrinking generator based on a linear-feedback shift register (LFSR) are studied for use in cryptography. Algorithm In difference to the shrinking generator, which uses a second feedback shift...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20H.%20Gelb
Professor Michael H. Gelb (born 1957) is an American biochemist and chemist specializing in enzymes and particularly those of medical significance. He is the Boris and Barbara L. Weinstein Endowed Chair in Chemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle. He also teaches Honors Organic Chemistry, Chemical Biology...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfonium
In organic chemistry, a sulfonium ion, also known as sulphonium ion or sulfanium ion, is a positively-charged ion (a "cation") featuring three organic substituents attached to sulfur. These organosulfur compounds have the formula . Together with a negatively-charged counterion, they give sulfonium salts. They are typ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel%20deLeeuw
Karel deLeeuw, or de Leeuw ( – ), was a mathematics professor at Stanford University, specializing in harmonic analysis and functional analysis. Life and career Born in Chicago, Illinois, he attended the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago, earning a B.S. degree in 1950. He stayed at Chicago...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/223%20%28number%29
223 (two hundred [and] twenty-three) is the natural number following 222 and preceding 224. In mathematics 223 is a prime number. Among the 720 permutations of the numbers from 1 to 6, exactly 223 of them have the property that at least one of the numbers is fixed in place by the permutation and the numbers less than...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/227%20%28number%29
227 (two hundred [and] twenty-seven) is the natural number between 226 and 228. It is also a prime number. In mathematics 227 is a twin prime and the start of a prime triplet (with 229 and 233). It is a safe prime, as dividing it by two and rounding down produces the Sophie Germain prime 113. It is also a regular prim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic%20peroxides
In organic chemistry, organic peroxides are organic compounds containing the peroxide functional group (). If the R′ is hydrogen, the compounds are called hydroperoxides, which are discussed in that article. The O−O bond of peroxides easily breaks, producing free radicals of the form (the dot represents an unpaired el...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitin%20Saxena
Nitin Saxena (born 3 May 1981) is an Indian scientist in mathematics and theoretical computer science. His research focuses on computational complexity. He attracted international attention for proposing the AKS Primality Test in 2002 in a joint work with Manindra Agrawal and Neeraj Kayal, for which the trio won the 2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covering%20system
In mathematics, a covering system (also called a complete residue system) is a collection of finitely many residue classes whose union contains every integer. Examples and definitions The notion of covering system was introduced by Paul Erdős in the early 1930s. The following are examples of covering systems: ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomologist%27s%20Gazette
The Entomologist's Gazette is a British entomological journal. It contains articles and notes on the biology, ecology, distribution, taxonomy and systematics of all orders of insects, but with a bias towards Lepidoptera. It is produced quarterly and was first published in 1950. Although originally restricted to the ent...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-diagonal%20matrix
In mathematics, an anti-diagonal matrix is a square matrix where all the entries are zero except those on the diagonal going from the lower left corner to the upper right corner (↗), known as the anti-diagonal (sometimes Harrison diagonal, secondary diagonal, trailing diagonal, minor diagonal, off diagonal or bad diago...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Lindley%20%28physicist%29
David Lindley (born 4 December 1956) is a British theoretical physicist and author. He holds a B.A. in theoretical physics from Cambridge University (1975–1978) and a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Sussex (1978–1981). Then he was a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University. From 1983 to 1986, he was a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show%20control
Show control is the use of automation technology to link together and operate multiple entertainment control systems in a coordinated manner. It is distinguished from an entertainment control system, which is specific to a single theatrical department, system or effect, one which coordinates elements within a single en...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%27s%20Prize
Smith's Prize was the name of each of two prizes awarded annually to two research students in mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge from 1769. Following the reorganization in 1998, they are now awarded under the names Smith-Knight Prize and Rayleigh-Knight Prize. History The Smith Prize f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscosity%20solution
In mathematics, the viscosity solution concept was introduced in the early 1980s by Pierre-Louis Lions and Michael G. Crandall as a generalization of the classical concept of what is meant by a 'solution' to a partial differential equation (PDE). It has been found that the viscosity solution is the natural solution co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exultant%20%28novel%29
Exultant is a science fiction novel by British author Stephen Baxter. It is part two of the Destiny's Children series. The book was published by Victor Gollancz Ltd in September 2004. Overview Much of the book is written as large sections of prose explaining theoretical exotic-matter physics. Baxter also sketches the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable%20map
In mathematics, specifically in symplectic topology and algebraic geometry, one can construct the moduli space of stable maps, satisfying specified conditions, from Riemann surfaces into a given symplectic manifold. This moduli space is the essence of the Gromov–Witten invariants, which find application in enumerative ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation%20%28disambiguation%29
Adaptation, in biology, is the process or trait by which organisms or population better match their environment Adaptation may also refer to: Arts Adaptation (arts), a transfer of a work of art from one medium to another Film adaptation, a story from another work, adapted into a film Literary adaptation, a story f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gromov%E2%80%93Witten%20invariant
In mathematics, specifically in symplectic topology and algebraic geometry, Gromov–Witten (GW) invariants are rational numbers that, in certain situations, count pseudoholomorphic curves meeting prescribed conditions in a given symplectic manifold. The GW invariants may be packaged as a homology or cohomology class in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yambo
Yambo may refer to: Yambo Ouologuem (1940–2017), Malian writer Yambo (writer), Italian writer born Enrico Novelli Yambo, Burkina Faso Yanbu' al Bahr, a Saudi Red Sea port Yambo Records, a recording label Yambo, a trivia game played by guests of The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn YAMBO code, a scientific software pa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20L.%20Harness
Charles Leonard Harness (December 29, 1915 – September 20, 2005) was an American science fiction writer. Biography He was born in Colorado City, Texas, and grew up just outside it, then later in Fort Worth. He earned degrees in chemistry and law from George Washington University and worked as a patent attorney in Co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehmer%20sequence
In mathematics, a Lehmer sequence is a generalization of a Lucas sequence. Algebraic relations If a and b are complex numbers with under the following conditions: Q and R are relatively prime nonzero integers is not a root of unity. Then, the corresponding Lehmer numbers are: for n odd, and for n even. Their...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Biophysical%20Chemistry
The Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (), also known as the Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute (), was a research institute of the Max Planck Society, located in Göttingen, Germany. On January 1, 2022, the institute merged with the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Göttingen to form the M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95-net
An -net or epsilon net in mathematics may refer to: ε-net (computational geometry) in computational geometry and in geometric probability theory ε-net (metric spaces) in metric spaces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirofumi%20Uzawa
was a Japanese economist. Biography Uzawa was born on July 21, 1928, in Yonago, Tottori to a farming family. He attended the Tokyo First Middle School (currently the Hibiya High School ) and the First Higher School, Japan (now the University of Tokyo's College of Arts and Sciences faculty). He graduated from the Ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspidogyne%20mendoncae
Aspidogyne mendoncae is a species of orchid that grows in Brazil. Biology Aspidogyne mendoncae grows in humus on the floor of lowland forests, in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo. Taxonomic history Aspidogyne mendoncae was first described by Alexander Curt Brade and Guido Frederico João Pabst in 1958, under th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Durodi%C3%A9
Professor Bill Durodié is a Professor of Politics, Languages and International Studies at the University of Bath, UK, as well as a former head of department there. Education Durodié was educated at the Royal College of Science, part of Imperial College London, where he studied Physics. After completing a final year un...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearline%20storage
Nearline storage (a portmanteau of "near" and "online storage") is a term used in computer science to describe an intermediate type of data storage that represents a compromise between online storage (supporting frequent, very rapid access to data) and offline storage/archiving (used for backups or long-term storage, w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Stoner
Peter Stoner (June 16, 1888 – March 21, 1980) was a Christian writer and Chairman of the departments of mathematics and astronomy at Pasadena City College until 1953; Chairman of the science division, Westmont College, 1953–57; Professor Emeritus of Science, Westmont College; and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20displacement
In analytical mechanics, a branch of applied mathematics and physics, a virtual displacement (or infinitesimal variation) shows how the mechanical system's trajectory can hypothetically (hence the term virtual) deviate very slightly from the actual trajectory of the system without violating the system's constraints. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotations%20in%204-dimensional%20Euclidean%20space
In mathematics, the group of rotations about a fixed point in four-dimensional Euclidean space is denoted SO(4). The name comes from the fact that it is the special orthogonal group of order 4. In this article rotation means rotational displacement. For the sake of uniqueness, rotation angles are assumed to be in the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20H.%20MacArthur
Robert Helmer MacArthur (April 7, 1930 – November 1, 1972) was a Canadian-born American ecologist who made a major impact on many areas of community and population ecology. He is considered a founder of ecology and evolutionary biology. Early life and education MacArthur was born in Toronto, Ontario, to John Wood Mac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzi%20Even
Uzi Even (, born 18 October 1940) is an Israeli professor emeritus of physical chemistry at Tel Aviv University and a former politician well known for being the first openly gay member of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament). Biography Uzi Even was born in Haifa during the British Mandate era. He earned a BSc and MSc ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Jackson
Dave or David Jackson may refer to: Academics David Jackson (art historian) (born 1958), British professor of Russian and Scandinavian art histories David J. Jackson, American political science professor David M. Jackson, Canadian mathematics professor Arts and entertainment David Noyes Jackson (1922–2001), American ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungstate
In chemistry, a tungstate is a compound that contains an oxyanion of tungsten or is a mixed oxide containing tungsten. The simplest tungstate ion is , "orthotungstate". Many other tungstates belong to a large group of polyatomic ions that are termed polyoxometalates, ("POMs"), and specifically termed isopolyoxometalate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20basis%20function
In mathematics a radial basis function (RBF) is a real-valued function whose value depends only on the distance between the input and some fixed point, either the origin, so that , or some other fixed point , called a center, so that . Any function that satisfies the property is a radial function. The distance is us...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Turner%20%28computer%20scientist%29
Richard Turner (born 1954) is a distinguished service professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises of Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. Turner has a BA in mathematics from Huntingdon College, an MS in computer science from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, and a DSc in engineering mana...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingbird%20%28Marvel%20Comics%29
Barbara "Bobbi" Morse is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Astonishing Tales #6 in 1971 as a supporting character and eventual love interest of Ka-Zar, with a Ph.D in biology. She is soon revealed to be the highly trained Agent 19 of S.H....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electropherogram
An electropherogram, or electrophoretogram, can also be referred to as an EPG or e-gram. It is a record or chart produced when electrophoresis is used in an analytical technique, primarily in the fields of forensic biology, molecular biology and biochemistry. The method utilizes data points that correspond with a speci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense%20%28disambiguation%29
A sense in biology and psychology, is a physiological mechanism that supports perception. Sense also may refer to: Music Sense (band), a synthpop trio featuring Paul K. Joyce Sense (In the Nursery album), 1991 Sense (Mr. Children album), 2010 Sense (The Lightning Seeds album), 1992 "Sense" (song), 2021 song by B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucigenin
Lucigenin is an aromatic compound used in areas which include chemiluminescence. Its chemical name is bis-N-methylacridinium nitrate. It exhibits a bluish-green fluorescence. It is used as a probe for superoxide anion in biology, for its chemiluminescent properties. Synthesis It may be prepared from acridone. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotope%20hydrology
Isotope hydrology is a field of geochemistry and hydrology that uses naturally occurring stable and radioactive isotopic techniques to evaluate the age and origins of surface and groundwater and the processes within the atmospheric hydrologic cycle. Isotope hydrology applications are highly diverse, and used for infor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Nowak
Lisa Marie Nowak (née Caputo, born May 10, 1963) is an American aeronautical engineer and former NASA astronaut and United States Navy officer. Nowak served as naval flight officer and test pilot in the Navy, and was selected by NASA for NASA Astronaut Group 16 in 1996, qualifying as a mission specialist in robotics. S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilderness%20101%20Mountain%20Bicycle%20Race
The Wilderness 101 Mountain Bicycle Race is an ultra-endurance mountain bike race held annually in late July. The race is commonly called the W101, akin to a first year college course, such as Physics 101, at the nearby Penn State University. The race was first held in 1991 and been held continuously since 2001. The ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob%20Sigismund%20Beck
Jakob Sigismund Beck (originally Jacob Sigismund Beck; 6 August 1761 – 29 August 1840) was a German philosopher. Biography Beck was born in the village of Liessau (Lisewo) in the rural district of Marienburg (Malbork) in Royal Prussia, Poland in 1761. The son of a priest (of Liessau), he studied (after 1783) mathemati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum%20Boerhaave
Rijksmuseum Boerhaave is a museum of the history of science and medicine, based in Leiden, Netherlands. The museum hosts a collection of historical scientific instruments from all disciplines, but mainly from medicine, physics, and astronomy. The museum is located in a building that was originally a convent in central...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratonovich%20integral
In stochastic processes, the Stratonovich integral or Fisk–Stratonovich integral (developed simultaneously by Ruslan Stratonovich and Donald Fisk) is a stochastic integral, the most common alternative to the Itô integral. Although the Itô integral is the usual choice in applied mathematics, the Stratonovich integral is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LF-space
In mathematics, an LF-space, also written (LF)-space, is a topological vector space (TVS) X that is a locally convex inductive limit of a countable inductive system of Fréchet spaces. This means that X is a direct limit of a direct system in the category of locally convex topological vector spaces and each is a Fr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMR
DMR is an initialism that may refer to: Biology Differentially methylated regions, a genomic region that is methylated differentially on each parental allele Dwarf mistletoe rating system, a scale for rating the severity of a dwarf mistletoe infection Government Device Master Record, a folder containing a technica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20M.%20Bellovin
Steven M. Bellovin is a researcher on computer networking and security who has been a professor in the computer science department at Columbia University since 2005. Previously, Bellovin was a fellow at AT&T Labs Research in Florham Park, New Jersey. In September 2012, Bellovin was appointed chief technologist for the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid%20solution
In general relativity, a fluid solution is an exact solution of the Einstein field equation in which the gravitational field is produced entirely by the mass, momentum, and stress density of a fluid. In astrophysics, fluid solutions are often employed as stellar models. (It might help to think of a perfect gas as a s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrocycle
Macrocycles are often described as molecules and ions containing a ring of twelve or more atoms. Classical examples include the crown ethers, calixarenes, porphyrins, and cyclodextrins. Macrocycles describe a large, mature area of chemistry. Synthesis The formation of macrocycles by ring-closure is called macrocyliza...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex%20%28disambiguation%29
Simplex may refer to: Mathematics Simplex, a term in geometry meaning an n-dimensional analogue of a triangle Pascal's simplex, a version of Pascal's triangle of more than three dimensions Simplex algorithm, a popular algorithm for numerical solution of linear programming problems Simplex graph, derived from the cliqu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Gossard
Arthur C. Gossard was a professor of materials and electrical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1982, he co-discovered the fractional quantum Hall effect. His research is related to molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). He has a doctorate in physics from UC Berkeley. After university, he joined Bel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm%20Beasley
Malcolm Roy Beasley (born January 4, 1940 in San Francisco) is an American physicist. He is Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He is known for his research related to superconductivity. Early life and education Beasley was born at Stanford hospital, moving to Hawaii during World War II with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin%20Quate
Calvin Forrest Quate (December 7, 1923 – July 6, 2019) was one of the inventors of the atomic force microscope. He was a professor emeritus of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Education He earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah College of E...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh-agent
Secure Shell (SSH) is a protocol allowing secure remote login to a computer on a network using public-key cryptography. SSH client programs (such as ssh from OpenSSH) typically run for the duration of a remote login session and are configured to look for the user's private key in a file in the user's home directory (e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%20Ivan%C4%8Di%C4%87
Viktor Ivančić (born 8 October 1960) is a Croatian journalist, best known as the founding member and long-time editor-in-chief of satirical weekly Feral Tribune. A native of Split, Ivančić edited the student paper of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, at the Universit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification%20of%20electromagnetic%20fields
In differential geometry and theoretical physics, the classification of electromagnetic fields is a pointwise classification of bivectors at each point of a Lorentzian manifold. It is used in the study of solutions of Maxwell's equations and has applications in Einstein's theory of relativity. The classification theor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najm%20al-Din%20Kubra
Najm ad-Din Kubra () was a 13th-century Khwarezmian Sufi from Khwarezm and the founder of the Kubrawiya, influential in the Ilkhanate and Timurid dynasty. His method, exemplary of a "golden age" of Sufi metaphysics, was related to the Illuminationism of Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi as well as to Rumi's Sha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publications%20of%20the%20Astronomical%20Society%20of%20the%20Pacific
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (often abbreviated as PASP in references and literature) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal managed by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. It publishes research and review papers, instrumentation papers and dissertation summaries in the fields of a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Russell%20%28inventor%29
James T. Russell (born 1931 in Bremerton, Washington) is an American inventor. He earned a BA in physics from Reed College in Portland in 1953. He joined General Electric's nearby labs in Richland, Washington, where he initiated many types of experimental instrumentation. He designed and built the first electron beam w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%20function
In mathematics, the Euler function is given by Named after Leonhard Euler, it is a model example of a q-series and provides the prototypical example of a relation between combinatorics and complex analysis. Properties The coefficient in the formal power series expansion for gives the number of partitions of k. Tha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anosov%20diffeomorphism
In mathematics, more particularly in the fields of dynamical systems and geometric topology, an Anosov map on a manifold M is a certain type of mapping, from M to itself, with rather clearly marked local directions of "expansion" and "contraction". Anosov systems are a special case of Axiom A systems. Anosov diffeomor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Network%20for%20Training%20and%20Research%20in%20Electrical%20Engineering
Exchange programs for Electrical Engineering students between 18 universities in Europe. It is also known as Entree. Their members are: Chalmers Lindholmen University College (Sweden) University of Aalborg (Denmark) Heriot-Watt University (United Kingdom) Brunel University (United Kingdom) Delft University of T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic%20recoil%20detection
Elastic recoil detection analysis (ERDA), also referred to as forward recoil scattering (or, contextually, spectrometry), is an ion beam analysis technique in materials science to obtain elemental concentration depth profiles in thin films. This technique is known by several different names. These names are listed belo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrees%20of%20freedom%20%28mechanics%29
In physics, the degrees of freedom (DOF) of a mechanical system is the number of independent parameters that define its configuration or state. It is important in the analysis of systems of bodies in mechanical engineering, structural engineering, aerospace engineering, robotics, and other fields. The position of a si...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20Evelyn%20Hutchinson
George Evelyn Hutchinson (January 30, 1903 – May 17, 1991) was a British ecologist sometimes described as the "father of modern ecology." He contributed for more than sixty years to the fields of limnology, systems ecology, radiation ecology, entomology, genetics, biogeochemistry, a mathematical theory of population...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20the%20ACM
The Journal of the ACM is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering computer science in general, especially theoretical aspects. It is an official journal of the Association for Computing Machinery. Its current editor-in-chief is Venkatesan Guruswami. The journal was established in 1954 and "computer scientists uni...