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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecules%20%28journal%29 | Molecules is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that focuses on all aspects of chemistry and materials science. It was established in March 1996 and is published monthly by MDPI. From 1997 to 2001, Molbank was published as a section of the journal, before splitting into its own journal. The editor-in-chief ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex%20Models | Ex Models is an American no wave-influenced post-hardcore band based in Brooklyn, New York.
Career
The band, based around brothers Shahin and Shahryar Motia, was started while they were in high school. They reunited after college to make their first album, Other Mathematics, released in 2001 on Ace Fu Records. The sub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Columb%27s%20College | St Columb's College () is a Roman Catholic boys' grammar school in Derry, Northern Ireland. Since 2008, it has been a specialist school in mathematics. It is named after Saint Columba, the missionary monk from County Donegal who founded a monastery in the area. The college was originally built to educate young men int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnie%20%C3%89lectro-M%C3%A9canique | Compagnie Électro-Mécanique (CEM) was a French electrical engineering manufacturer based in Paris, Le Havre, Lyon, Le Bourget, Nancy, Dijon. It was a subsidiary company of Brown, Boveri & Cie.
Production
The company produced DC motors, AC motors, generators, turbines, transformers and railway locomotives. Examples of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Cary | Henry Cary (3 May 1908 – 20 December 1991) was an American engineer and the co-founder of the Applied Physics Corporation (later known as Cary Instruments), along with George W. Downs and William Miller. The Cary 14 UV-Vis-NIR and the Cary Model 81 Raman Spectrophotometer were particularly important contributions in sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary%20Instruments | Cary Instruments was founded in 1946 by Howard Cary, George W. Downs and William C. Miller under the name Applied Physics Corporation. Howard Cary previously had been vice president in charge of development for National Technologies Laboratories (later to become Beckman instruments and eventually Beckman Coulter), wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20physics%20%28disambiguation%29 | Applied physics is physics which is intended for a particular technological or practical use.
Applied physics may also refer to:
Scientific journals
Applied Physics, issued as two separate publications:
Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing
Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics
American Institute of Ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chew%20Choon%20Seng | Chew Choon Seng () is the former chief executive officer of Singapore Airlines (SIA), the former Chairman of the Singapore Exchange and Singapore Tourism Board.
Education
After completing his degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Singapore, Chew graduated with a Master of Science in operations resear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan%20theta%20function | In mathematics, particularly -analog theory, the Ramanujan theta function generalizes the form of the Jacobi theta functions, while capturing their general properties. In particular, the Jacobi triple product takes on a particularly elegant form when written in terms of the Ramanujan theta. The function is named afte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houman%20Younessi | Houman Younessi (28 May 1963 – 23 March 2016) was an Kurdish-American educator, practitioner, consultant and investigator in informatics, large scale software development processes, computer science, decision science, molecular biology and functional genomics. He was a research professor at University of Connecticut, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Symbolic%20Analysis%20of%20Relay%20and%20Switching%20Circuits | "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits" is the title of a master's thesis written by computer science pioneer Claude E. Shannon while attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1937. In his thesis, Shannon, a dual degree graduate of the University of Michigan, proved that Boolean algebr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%20foam | In materials science, a metal foam is a material or structure consisting of a solid metal (frequently aluminium) with gas-filled pores comprising a large portion of the volume. The pores can be sealed (closed-cell foam) or interconnected (open-cell foam). The defining characteristic of metal foams is a high porosity: t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers%E2%80%93Ramanujan%20identities | In mathematics, the Rogers–Ramanujan identities are two identities related to basic hypergeometric series and integer partitions. The identities were first discovered and proved by , and were subsequently rediscovered (without a proof) by Srinivasa Ramanujan some time before 1913. Ramanujan had no proof, but rediscove... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Agnew | Gordon B. Agnew is a Canadian engineering professor at the University of Waterloo. Agnew's primary research interests are in the fields of encryption and data security.
Education
Agnew earned his degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1982.
Career
After earning his P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadro | Quadro was Nvidia's brand for graphics cards intended for use in workstations running professional computer-aided design (CAD), computer-generated imagery (CGI), digital content creation (DCC) applications, scientific calculations and machine learning from 2000 to 2020.
Quadro-branded graphics cards differed from the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale%20Child%20Study%20Center | The Yale Child Study Center is a department at the Yale University School of Medicine. The center conducts research and provides clinical services and medical training related to children and families. Topics of investigation include autism and related disorders, Tourette syndrome, other pediatric mental health concern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20Lui | Danny Lui (; 7 January 1957 – 1 July 2012) was a Hong Kong entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He graduated from Imperial College, London with a degree in Computer Science before returning to Hong Kong and winning the Hong Kong Young Industrialist Award in 1992. He is best-known for co-founding Lenovo. He maintained w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prafulla%20Chandra%20Ray | Sir Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray, CIE, FNI, FRASB, FIAS, FCS (also spelled Prafulla Chandra Rây and Prafulla Chandra Roy; Praphulla Chandra Rāy; 2 August 1861 – 16 June 1944) was an Indian chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist. He established the first modern Indian research school in chem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Computer%20Science%20School | The National Computer Science School (NCSS) is an annual computer science summer school open to high school students in Australia and New Zealand. It has taken place annually since 1996 over an eleven-day period in the January school holidays. Attending students participate in an intensive course in computer programmin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage%20%28disambiguation%29 | Garbage is an unwanted or undesired material or substance discarded by residents. The term is often used interchangeably with municipal solid waste.
Garbage may also refer to:
Litter, improperly disposed waste products
Garbage (computer science), unreferenced data in a computer's memory
Garbage (band), a rock band
Gar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAMELA%20detector | PAMELA (Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics) was a cosmic ray research module attached to an Earth orbiting satellite. PAMELA was launched on 15 June 2006 and was the first satellite-based experiment dedicated to the detection of cosmic rays, with a particular focus on their antimatt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Anosov%20map | In mathematics, specifically in topology, a pseudo-Anosov map is a type of a diffeomorphism or homeomorphism of a surface. It is a generalization of a linear Anosov diffeomorphism of the torus. Its definition relies on the notion of a measured foliation introduced by William Thurston, who also coined the term "pseudo-A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulliken%20population%20analysis | Mulliken charges arise from the Mulliken population analysis and provide a means of estimating partial atomic charges from calculations carried out by the methods of computational chemistry, particularly those based on the linear combination of atomic orbitals molecular orbital method, and are routinely used as variabl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Clark%20%28dermatologist%29 | Richard A.F. Clark is a dermatologist and biomedical engineer currently at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in Stony Brook, New York. Clark co-edited, with Peter M. Henson, of The Molecular and Cellular Biology of Wound Repair (Plenum Press, 1988) and is a contributor to wound repair, dermatology, and an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dill%20Faulkes | Martin C. "Dill" Faulkes (born 1944) is a British businessman.
Faulkes has a Special Mathematics degree from Hull University, a PhD in mathematics from Queen Elizabeth College, London and did postdoctoral work in general relativity.
He then left academia and went into software. He worked for the company Logica, then ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagliari%20Observatory | The Cagliari Observatory (, or OAC) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Italy's Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (National Institute for Astrophysics, INAF). It is located 20 km away from Cagliari in Sardinia. It was founded in 1899 to study the Earth's rotation.
See also
List of astronomical observ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-tree | In computer science tree data structures, an X-tree (for eXtended node tree) is an index tree structure based on the R-tree used for storing data in many dimensions. It appeared in 1996, and differs from R-trees (1984), R+-trees (1987) and R*-trees (1990) because it emphasizes prevention of overlap in the bounding boxe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Herman | Robert Herman (August 29, 1914 – February 13, 1997) was an American scientist, best known for his work with Ralph Alpher in 1948–50, on estimating the temperature of cosmic microwave background radiation from the Big Bang explosion.
Biography and career
Born in the Bronx, New York City, Herman graduated cum laude with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelung%20synthesis | In organic chemistry, Madelung synthesis is a chemical reaction that produces (substituted or unsubstituted) indoles by the intramolecular cyclization of N-phenylamides using strong base at high temperature. The Madelung synthesis was reported in 1912 by Walter Madelung, when he observed that 2-phenylindole was synthes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%20prime | In mathematics, a prime number p is called a Chen prime if p + 2 is either a prime or a product of two primes (also called a semiprime). The even number 2p + 2 therefore satisfies Chen's theorem.
The Chen primes are named after Chen Jingrun, who proved in 1966 that there are infinitely many such primes. This result wo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Nisbet%20LeConte | Joseph Nisbet LeConte (February 7, 1870 – February 1, 1950) was an American explorer of the Sierra Nevada. He was also a cartographer, a photographer and a professor of mechanical engineering.
Early life
Joseph Nisbet LeConte was born in Oakland, California to Joseph and Caroline (Nisbet) LeConte. He went by "Little J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroboration | In organic chemistry, hydroboration refers to the addition of a hydrogen-boron bond to certain double and triple bonds involving carbon (, , , and ). This chemical reaction is useful in the organic synthesis of organic compounds.
Hydroboration produces organoborane compounds that react with a variety of reagents to p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-dependent%20density%20functional%20theory | Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a quantum mechanical theory used in physics and chemistry to investigate the properties and dynamics of many-body systems in the presence of time-dependent potentials, such as electric or magnetic fields. The effect of such fields on molecules and solids can be studie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genus%20%28disambiguation%29 | In Linnaean taxonomy, genus is the rank between family and species.
Genus may also refer to:
Genus, a taxonomic rank used for the purpose of cloud classification
Genus: Journal of Population Sciences, a journal of population genetics founded by Nora Federici
Genus (mathematics), a classifying property of a mathemat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%20modular%20form | In mathematics, a Hilbert modular form is a generalization of modular forms to functions of two or more variables. It is a (complex) analytic function on the m-fold product of upper half-planes satisfying a certain kind of functional equation.
Definition
Let F be a totally real number field of degree m over the ratio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particular%20values%20of%20the%20Riemann%20zeta%20function | In mathematics, the Riemann zeta function is a function in complex analysis, which is also important in number theory. It is often denoted and is named after the mathematician Bernhard Riemann. When the argument is a real number greater than one, the zeta function satisfies the equation
It can therefore provide the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icho | Icho or ICHO or IChO may refer to:
International Chemistry Olympiad
Kaori Icho (born 1984), Japanese freestyle wrestler
Chiharu Icho, (born 1981), Japanese wrestler
Icho Candy, Jamaican reggae singer
Icho Ccollo, Hispanicized spelling of Jichu Qullu (disambiguation)
Japanese-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%20Is%20Life%3F | What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell is a 1944 science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schrödinger. The book was based on a course of public lectures delivered by Schrödinger in February 1943, under the auspices of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, where he was Director of T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto%20Nacional%20de%20Matem%C3%A1tica%20Pura%20e%20Aplicada | The Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics) is widely considered to be the foremost research and educational institution of Brazil in the area of mathematics. It is located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, and was formerly known simply as Instituto de Matemát... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly%20optimized%20tolerance | In applied mathematics, highly optimized tolerance (HOT) is a method of generating power law behavior in systems by including a global optimization principle. It was developed by Jean M. Carlson and John Doyle in the early 2000s. For some systems that display a characteristic scale, a global optimization term could po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beilstein%20database | The Beilstein database is the largest database in the field of organic chemistry, in which compounds are uniquely identified by their Beilstein Registry Number. The database covers the scientific literature from 1771 to the present and contains experimentally validated information on millions of chemical reactions and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beilstein%20Institute%20for%20the%20Advancement%20of%20Chemical%20Sciences | The Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences is a non-profit foundation located in Frankfurt am Main (German: Beilstein-Institut zur Förderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften). Founded in 1951 by the Max Planck Society in honor of Friedrich Beilstein, today the institute supports chemistry and related... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beilstein%20Journal%20of%20Organic%20Chemistry | The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal established in 2005. It is published by the Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences, a German non-profit foundation. The editor-in-chief is Peter Seeberger (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces).... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20engineer | Power engineer may refer to:
Power engineering, a subfield of electrical engineering that deals with the generation, transmission, distribution and utilization of electric power
Stationary engineer, operates industrial machinery and equipment that provide energy in various forms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra%20Nevada%20Observatory | The Sierra Nevada Observatory (; OSN; code: J86) is located at Loma de Dilar (2896 m altitude) in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in the province of Granada, Spain; established in 1981. It is operated and maintained by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia - IAA) and contai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaphragm%20seal | In mechanical engineering, a diaphragm seal is a flexible membrane that seals and isolates an enclosure. The flexible nature of this seal allows pressure effects to cross the barrier but not the material being contained.
Common uses for diaphragm seals are to protect pressure sensors from the fluid whose pressure is b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemicucurbituril | A hemicucurbituril is a macrocycle composed of alternating methylene bridges (-- units) and N-substituted ethylene urea units. Hemicucurbit[6]uril is a hexamer. This compound closely resembles cucurbituril cut in half along the equator and the chemistry is also similar. The ethylene urea units also alternate with the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard%20Jan%20Dijksterhuis | Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis (28 October 1892, in Tilburg – 18 May 1965, in De Bilt) was a Dutch historian of science.
Career
Dijksterhuis studied mathematics at the University of Groningen from 1911 to 1918. His Ph.d. thesis was entitled "A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Flat Helicoid."
From 1916 to 1953 he was a p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua%20Luogeng | Hua Luogeng or Hua Loo-Keng (; 12 November 1910 – 12 June 1985) was a Chinese mathematician and politician famous for his important contributions to number theory and for his role as the leader of mathematics research and education in the People's Republic of China. He was largely responsible for identifying and nurtur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, arrows or bolts are a type class used in programming to describe computations in a pure and declarative fashion. First proposed by computer scientist John Hughes as a generalization of monads, arrows provide a referentially transparent way of expressing relationships between logical steps in a comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiong%20Qinglai | Xiong Qinglai, or Hiong King-Lai (, October 20, 1893 – February 3, 1969), courtesy name Dizhi (), was a Chinese mathematician from Yunnan. He was the first person to introduce modern mathematics into China, and served as an influential president of Yunnan University from 1937 through 1947. A Chinese stamp was issued in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20J.%20Holman | Matthew J. Holman (born 1967) is a Smithsonian astrophysicist and lecturer at Harvard University. Holman studied at MIT, where he received his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1989 and his PhD in planetary science in 1994. He was awarded the Newcomb Cleveland Prize in 1998.
From 25 January 2015 to 9 February 2021, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis%20field | In theoretical physics a Coriolis field is one of the apparent gravitational fields felt by a rotating or forcibly-accelerated body, together with the centrifugal field and the Euler field.
Mathematical expression
Let be the angular velocity vector of the rotating frame, be the speed of a test particle used to mea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens%20Brothers | Siemens Brothers and Company Limited was an electrical engineering design and manufacturing business in London, England. It was first established as a branch in 1858 by a brother of the founder of the German electrical engineering firm Siemens & Halske. The principal works were at Woolwich where cables and light-curren... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culler | Culler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
David Culler (born 1959), computer scientist
Dick Culler (1915–1964), baseball shortstop
Glen Culler (1927–2003), professor of electrical engineering
Marc Culler (born 1953), American mathematician
Jonathan Culler (born 1944), Professor of English at Cornel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchon | Cauchon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Pierre Cauchon (1371–1442), bishop of Beauvais
Joseph-Édouard Cauchon (1816–1885), Canadian politician, physics textbook author, and railroad investor
Martin Cauchon (born 1962), Canadian lawyer and politician
Robert Cauchon (1900–1980), Canadian polit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDK | DDK abbreviation may refer to:
In software development, a Driver Development Kit, including Microsoft Windows Driver Development Kit
In hull codes of United States Navy, an abolished surface combatant warship category 'Hunter-Killer Destroyer'
In medical signs, Dysdiadochokinesia, a type of cerebellar ataxia
In mol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray%20Van%20Wagoner | Murray Delos Van Wagoner (March 18, 1898June 12, 1986) was an American politician. He served as the 38th governor of Michigan from 1941 to 1943.
Early life
Van Wagoner was born near Kingston, Michigan in Tuscola County. In 1921, he received a civil engineering degree from the University of Michigan. He worked for a fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand%20Boden | Fernand Boden (born 13 September 1943) is a politician from Luxembourg. He was a minister in the government of Luxembourg from 1979 to 2009.
Boden was born in Echternach. He studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Liège, and between 1966 and 1978 he taught at Echternach grammar school. He served as deputy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon%20rocket | A balloon rocket is a rubber balloon filled with air or other gases. Besides being simple toys, balloon rockets are a widely used as a teaching device to demonstrate basic physics.
How it works
To launch a simple rocket, the untied opening of an inflated balloon is released. The elasticity of the balloon contracts th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Genetics%20Commission | The Human Genetics Commission (HGC) was an advisory non-departmental public body that advised the UK government on the ethical and social aspects of genetics. This included genetic testing, cloning and other aspects of molecular medicine. The Commission was created after a review of the UK government biotechnology advi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Wadhams | Peter Wadhams ScD (born 14 May 1948), is emeritus professor of Ocean Physics, and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group
in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge. He is best known for his work on sea ice.
Career
Wadhams has been the leader of 40 polar field expeditions.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythrolitmin | Erythrolitmin (also called erythrolein) is the active ingredient extracted from the Litmus lichen, used in chemistry as a pH indicator. The erythrolitmin molecule is related to the orceins, and consists essentially of several phenoxazone and orcinol residues.
Interaction with acids
The intense coloring of the molecul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Kerwin | James Kerwin, (born October 13, 1973) is an American film director, theatre director, and screenwriter.
Education and academics
Kerwin, who was born in St. Louis, Missouri, attended Parkway Central High School in Chesterfield.
Kerwin graduated with a film degree from Texas Christian University in 1995 and a minor i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20Muslims | This is an incomplete list of notable Muslims who live or lived in the United States.
Academia
Asad Abidi – Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles; member of the National Academy of Engineering
Gul Agha – Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Campbell%20Brown | John Campbell Brown (4 February 1947 – 16 November 2019) was a Scottish astronomer who worked primarily in solar physics. He held the posts of Astronomer Royal for Scotland, the Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow, and honorary professorships at both the University of Edinburgh and the Universit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitrii%20Knorre | Dmitrii G. Knorre (Russian: Дмитрий Георгиевич Кнорре; born July 28, 1926, in Leningrad, Soviet Union; died July 5, 2018) is a chemist and biochemist, a specialist in chemical kinetics of complex reactions, bioorganic chemistry, and molecular biology. He was a Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%20R.%20Jeppson | Morris Richard Jeppson (June 23, 1922 – March 30, 2010) was a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He served as assistant weaponeer on the Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.
Early life
Jeppson was born in Logan, Utah,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forktail%20%28journal%29 | Forktail is the annual peer-reviewed journal of the Oriental Bird Club. It is the principal ornithological journal dedicated to the Oriental region, and publishes manuscripts in English, treating any aspect of its ornithology (e.g. distribution, biology, conservation, ecology, taxonomy and evolution). Forktail's geogra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myles%20Allen | Myles Robert Allen (born 11 August 1965) is an English climate scientist. He is Professor of Geosystem Science in the University of Oxford's
School of Geography and the Environment, and in the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department.
Education
Allen was educated at the British School in the Netherlands... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Slonczewski | Joan Lyn Slonczewski (born 1956) is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel. Their books have twice earned the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel: A Door into Ocean (1987) and The Highest Frontier (2011). With John W. Fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohumil%20Ku%C4%8Dera | Bohumil Kučera (March 22, 1874 in Semily – April 16, 1921 in Prague) was a Czech physicist.
Biography
Kučera studied physics at the Charles University in Prague and was the first scientist in Czech lands to examine the newly discovered effect of radioactivity. In 1912 he became professor of experimental physics at the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Silliman%20Jr. | Benjamin Silliman Jr. (December 4, 1816 – January 14, 1885) was a professor of chemistry at Yale University and instrumental in developing the petroleum industry.
His father Benjamin Silliman Sr., also a famous Yale chemist, developed the process of fractional distillation that enabled the economical production of ker... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class%20hierarchy | A class hierarchy or inheritance tree in computer science is a classification of object types, denoting objects as the instantiations of classes (class is like a blueprint, the object is what is built from that blueprint) inter-relating the various classes by relationships such as "inherits", "extends", "is an abstract... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20H.%20Smith | Jeffrey Henderson Smith is a former professor of mathematics at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981, under the supervision of Daniel Kan, and was promoted to full professor at Purdue in 1999. His primary research interest is algebraic top... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20Rossi%20Prize | The Bruno Rossi Prize is awarded annually by the High Energy Astrophysics division of the American Astronomical Society "for a significant contribution to High Energy Astrophysics, with particular emphasis on recent, original work". Named after astrophysicist Bruno Rossi, the prize is awarded with a certificate and a g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accumulator | Accumulator may refer to:
Accumulator (bet), a parlay bet
Accumulator (computing), in a CPU, a processor register for storing intermediate results
Accumulator (computer vision), discrete cell structure to count votes, standard component of the Hough transform
Accumulator (cryptography), a value, determined by a set... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Hope | Adam Hope (8 January 1813 – 7 August 1882) was a Canadian businessman and senator. "Adam Hope was trained in mathematics, bookkeeping, and German, studies that were all useful for what his father anticipated would be his pursuits as a merchant." Born to a prosperous Scottish tenant farming family in Dirleton parish, Ad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Baldwin%20%28chemist%29 | Sir Jack Edward Baldwin (8 August 1938 – 5 January 2020) was a British chemist. He was a Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford (1978–2005) and head of the organic chemistry at Oxford.
Education
Baldwin was the second son of Frederick C N Baldwin and Olive F Headland. He was educated at Brighto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%20Lippmann | Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (16 August 1845 – 13 July 1921) was a Franco-Luxembourgish physicist and inventor, and Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference. His parents were French Jews.
Early life and education
Gabriel Lippmann was b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20constraints | Joint constraints are rotational constraints on the joints of an artificial system. They are used in an inverse kinematics chain, in fields including 3D animation or robotics. Joint constraints can be implemented in a number of ways, but the most common method is to limit rotation about the X, Y and Z axis independent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenstein%20integer | In mathematics, the Eisenstein integers (named after Gotthold Eisenstein), occasionally also known as Eulerian integers (after Leonhard Euler), are the complex numbers of the form
where and are integers and
is a primitive (hence non-real) cube root of unity. The Eisenstein integers form a triangular lattice in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Dutens | Louis Dutens (15 January 173023 May 1812) was a French writer born in Tours, of Protestant parents, who lived most of his life in Britain or in British service on the continent.
He went to London, where his uncle was a jeweller, and there obtained a situation as tutor in a private family. In this position he learnt ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Farah | Martha Julia Farah (born 30 August 1955) is a cognitive neuroscience researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked on an unusually wide range of topics; the citation for her lifetime achievement award from the Association for Psychological Science states that “Her studies on the topics of mental imagery... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Laffitte | Pierre Laffitte (21 February 1823 – 4 January 1903) was a French positivist philosopher.
Laffitte was born at Béguey, Gironde. Residing at Paris as a teacher of mathematics, he became a disciple of Auguste Comte, who appointed him his literary executor. On the schism of the Positivist body which followed Comte's death... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20John%20Aird%2C%201st%20Baronet | Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet (3 December 1833 – 6 January 1911) was an English civil engineering contractor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He also served as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Paddington North from 1887 to 1906, was the first Mayor of Paddington in 1900, and became an enthusiastic coll... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnobiology | Ethnobiology is the scientific study of the way living things are treated or used by different human cultures. It studies the dynamic relationships between people, biota, and environments, from the distant past to the immediate present.
"People-biota-environment" interactions around the world are documented and studie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk%20biology | Folk biology (or folkbiology) is the cognitive study of how people classify and reason about the organic world. Humans everywhere classify animals and plants into obvious species-like groups. The relationship between a folk taxonomy and a scientific classification can assist in understanding how evolutionary theory dea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils%20Bohlin | Nils Ivar Bohlin (17 July 1920 – 26 September 2002) was a Swedish mechanical engineer and inventor who invented the three-point safety belt while working at Volvo.
Biography
Born in Härnösand, Sweden, Bohlin received a diploma in mechanical engineering from Härnösand Läroverk in 1939. In 1942 he started working for th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoological%20society | A zoological society is a group or organization, often a voluntary association, interested in fields of study related to the animal kingdom. These fields generally include zoology, animal physiology, pathology, veterinary medicine, wildlife conservation, conservation biology, and related topics. Zoological societies ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty%20White | A.J. Monty White is a British young Earth creationist and was formerly the Chief Executive of the UK branch of Answers in Genesis. White is a graduate of the University of Wales; he obtained a BSc in Chemistry in 1967 and in 1970 earned his PhD for research in the kinetic theory of gas from Aberystwyth University.
Bio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borel%20summation | In mathematics, Borel summation is a summation method for divergent series, introduced by . It is particularly useful for summing divergent asymptotic series, and in some sense gives the best possible sum for such series. There are several variations of this method that are also called Borel summation, and a generaliz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odometry | Odometry is the use of data from motion sensors to estimate change in position over time. It is used in robotics by some legged or wheeled robots to estimate their position relative to a starting location. This method is sensitive to errors due to the integration of velocity measurements over time to give position esti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborn%20Memorial%20Laboratories | The Osborn Memorial Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut were built in 1913 as the home for biology at Yale University. In the past, they contained both zoology and botany, in the two wings on Sachem Street and Prospect Street (address: 165 Prospect St.). They sit at the base of Sachem's Woods: the original site of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s%20Faculty%20of%20Health%20Sciences | The Queen's Faculty of Health Sciences is a faculty of Queen's University at Kingston in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It contains three schools: the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, and the School of Rehabilitation Therapy.
This faculty also administers Queen's University's highly competitive Life Sciences, B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20methods%20in%20electronics | Mathematical methods are integral to the study of electronics.
Mathematics in electronics
Electronics engineering careers usually include courses in calculus (single and multivariable), complex analysis, differential equations (both ordinary and partial), linear algebra and probability. Fourier analysis and Z-transfor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen%20Vitetta | Ellen S. Vitetta is the director of the Cancer Immunobiology Center at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
Background
Vitetta earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Connecticut College and advanced degrees at New York University Medical and Graduate Schools.
Career
Vitetta is a professor of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentino%20Braitenberg | Valentino Braitenberg (or Valentin von Braitenberg; 18 June 1926 – 9 September 2011) was an Italian neuroscientist and cyberneticist. He was former director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany.
His book Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology became famous in Robotics and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxypropyl%20cellulose | Hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC) is a derivative of cellulose with both water solubility and organic solubility. It is used as an excipient, and topical ophthalmic protectant and lubricant.
Chemistry
HPC is an ether of cellulose in which some of the hydroxyl groups in the repeating glucose units have been hydroxypropyl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20E.%20Shaw | David Elliot Shaw (born March 29, 1951) is an American billionaire scientist and former hedge fund manager. He founded D. E. Shaw & Co., a hedge fund company which was once described by Fortune magazine as "the most intriguing and mysterious force on Wall Street". A former assistant professor in the computer science de... |
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