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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Close
Francis Edwin Close, (born 24 July 1945) is a particle physicist who is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Education Close was a pupil at King's School, Peterborough (then a grammar school), where he was taught Latin by John Dexter, brother of author Coli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Steane
Andrew Martin Steane is Professor of physics at the University of Oxford. He is also a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He was a student at St Edmund Hall, Oxford where he obtained his MA and DPhil. His major works to date are on error correction in quantum information processing, including Steane codes. He was awar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Dwek
Raymond Allen Dwek CBE FRS FRSC (born 10 November 1941) is a scientist at the University of Oxford and co-founder of the biotechnology company Oxford GlycoSciences Ltd. Biography Dwek was educated at Carmel College, and the University of Manchester, where he studied chemistry (1960–64). He then went to Oxford Universi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Pierpont%20%28mathematician%29
James P. Pierpont (June 16, 1866 – December 9, 1938) was a Connecticut-born American mathematician. His father Cornelius Pierpont was a wealthy New Haven businessman. He did undergraduate studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, initially in mechanical engineering, but turned to mathematics. He went to Europe after...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinacy
Determinacy is a subfield of set theory, a branch of mathematics, that examines the conditions under which one or the other player of a game has a winning strategy, and the consequences of the existence of such strategies. Alternatively and similarly, "determinacy" is the property of a game whereby such a strategy exis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%20disc
The Newton disc, also known as the disappearing colour disc, is a well-known physics experiment with a rotating disc with segments in different colours (usually Newton's primary colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet or ROYGBIV) appearing as white (or off-white or grey) when it spun rapidy about ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mopac
Mopac has the following meanings: Missouri Pacific Railroad Mopac Expressway, State Highway Loop 1 in Austin, Texas, U.S. MOPAC, a computational chemistry program Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, a group which oversees the Metropolitan Police in London, U.K. Mountain Pacific Curling Association, a regional curli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathi%20Shaqaqi
Fathi Ibrahim Abdulaziz Shaqaqi (; 4 January 1951 – 26 October 1995) was the founder and Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine. Fathi Shaqaqi was born in the Gaza Strip to a refugee family and received his early education at a United Nations school. He studied physics and mathematics at Bir Zeit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmoo%20plot
In electrical engineering, a shmoo plot is a graphical display of the response of a component or system varying over a range of conditions or inputs. Origin The origin of the shmoo plot is unclear. It is referenced in a 1966 IEEE paper. Another early reference is in manuals for IBM 2365 Processor Storage. The inven...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian%20solitaire
In mathematics and game theory, Bulgarian solitaire is a card game that was introduced by Martin Gardner. In the game, a pack of cards is divided into several piles. Then for each pile, remove one card; collect the removed cards together to form a new pile (piles of zero size are ignored). If is a triangular number...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering%20and%20Physical%20Sciences%20Research%20Council
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is a British Research Council that provides government funding for grants to undertake research and postgraduate degrees in engineering and the physical sciences, mainly to universities in the United Kingdom. EPSRC research areas include mathematics, physic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%20Jacobson
Nathan Jacobson (October 5, 1910 – December 5, 1999) was an American mathematician. Biography Born Nachman Arbiser in Warsaw, Jacobson emigrated to America with his family in 1918. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1930 and was awarded a doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University in 1934. While wo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%20Higman
Graham Higman FRS (19 January 1917 – 8 April 2008) was a prominent English mathematician known for his contributions to group theory. Biography Higman was born in Louth, Lincolnshire, and attended Sutton High School, Plymouth, winning a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. In 1939 he co-founded The Invariant Societ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Whittle%20%28mathematician%29
Peter Whittle (27 February 1927 – 10 August 2021) was a mathematician and statistician from New Zealand, working in the fields of stochastic nets, optimal control, time series analysis, stochastic optimisation and stochastic dynamics. From 1967 to 1994, he was the Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Rese...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Forbes%20%28mineralogist%29
David Forbes FRS (6 September 18285 December 1876) was a Manx mineralogist, metallurgist, and chemist. Life Forbes was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, the brother of Edward Forbes, and received his early education there and at Brentwood in Essex. When he was fourteen he had already acquired a knowledge of chemistry. Thi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20Physics%20Laboratory
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (Applied Physics Laboratory, or APL) is a not-for-profit university-affiliated research center (UARC) in Howard County, Maryland. It is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University and employs 8,500 people as of 2023. APL is the nation's largest UARC. The lab serves ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Materials%2C%20University%20of%20Oxford
The Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, England was founded in the 1950s as the Department of Metallurgy, by William Hume-Rothery, who was a reader in Oxford's Department of Inorganic Chemistry. It is part of the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division Around 190 staff work in t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley%20R.%20Elsberry
Wesley Royce Elsberry (born January 23, 1960) is a data scientist with an interdisciplinary background in marine biology, zoology, computer science, and wildlife and fisheries sciences. He also became notably involved in the defense of evolutionary science against creationist rejection of evolution. Early life Elsber...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeb%20foliation
In mathematics, the Reeb foliation is a particular foliation of the 3-sphere, introduced by the French mathematician Georges Reeb (1920–1993). It is based on dividing the sphere into two solid tori, along a 2-torus: see Clifford torus. Each of the solid tori is then foliated internally, in codimension 1, and the divid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puiseux%20series
In mathematics, Puiseux series are a generalization of power series that allow for negative and fractional exponents of the indeterminate. For example, the series is a Puiseux series in the indeterminate . Puiseux series were first introduced by Isaac Newton in 1676 and rediscovered by Victor Puiseux in 1850. The de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Drysdale%20Dakin
Henry Drysdale Dakin FRS (12 March 188010 February 1952) was an English chemist. He was born in London as the youngest of 8 children to a family of steel merchants from Leeds. As a school boy, he conducted water analysis with the Leeds City Analyst. He was taught chemistry by Julius B. Cohen at the University of Leeds...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete%20quadrangle
In mathematics, specifically in incidence geometry and especially in projective geometry, a complete quadrangle is a system of geometric objects consisting of any four points in a plane, no three of which are on a common line, and of the six lines connecting the six pairs of points. Dually, a complete quadrilateral is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20divisor%20of%20zero
In mathematics, an element of a Banach algebra is called a topological divisor of zero if there exists a sequence of elements of such that The sequence converges to the zero element, but The sequence does not converge to the zero element. If such a sequence exists, then one may assume that for all . If is no...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval%20exchange%20transformation
In mathematics, an interval exchange transformation is a kind of dynamical system that generalises circle rotation. The phase space consists of the unit interval, and the transformation acts by cutting the interval into several subintervals, and then permuting these subintervals. They arise naturally in the study of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Ray%20Guthrie
Edwin Ray Guthrie (; January 9, 1886 – April 23, 1969) was a behavioral psychologist who began his career as a mathematics teacher and philosopher. But, he became a psychologist at the age of 33. He spent most of his career at the University of Washington, where he became full professor and then emeritus professor in p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUCTeX
AUCTeX is an extensible package for writing and formatting TeX files in Emacs and XEmacs. AUCTeX provides syntax highlighting, smart indentation and formatting, previews of mathematics and other elements directly in the editing buffer, smart folding of syntactical elements, macro and environment completion. It also su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%20Green%20%28ufologist%29
Gabriel Green (November 11, 1924 – September 8, 2001) was an American early ufologist who claimed contact with extraterrestrials. Green was a write-in United States presidential candidate in 1960 and 1972. Biography Green claimed to have graduated with a PhD in physics from UC Berkeley in 1953, and to have made sever...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s%20algorithm
In electrical engineering and computer science, Lloyd's algorithm, also known as Voronoi iteration or relaxation, is an algorithm named after Stuart P. Lloyd for finding evenly spaced sets of points in subsets of Euclidean spaces and partitions of these subsets into well-shaped and uniformly sized convex cells. Like t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm%20Perry%20%28physicist%29
Malcolm John Perry (born 13 November 1951) is a British theoretical physicist and emeritus professor of theoretical physics at University of Cambridge and professor of theoretical physics at Queen Mary University of London. His research mainly concerns quantum gravity, black holes, general relativity, and supergravity....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20sieve
In mathematics, the rational sieve is a general algorithm for factoring integers into prime factors. It is a special case of the general number field sieve. While it is less efficient than the general algorithm, it is conceptually simpler. It serves as a helpful first step in understanding how the general number field ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peetre%27s%20inequality
In mathematics, Peetre's inequality, named after Jaak Peetre, says that for any real number and any vectors and in the following inequality holds: The inequality was proved by J. Peetre in 1959 and has founds applications in functional analysis and Sobolev spaces. See also References . . . External links ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling%20ball%20argument
In topology, quantum mechanics and geometrodynamics, rolling-ball arguments are used to describe how the perceived geometry and connectedness of a surface can be scale-dependent. If a researcher probes the shape of an intricately curved surface by rolling a ball across it, then features that are continually curved but...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Springs%20Charter%20High%20School%20of%20Arts%20and%20Sciences
North Springs Charter High School (formerly called North Springs High School from 1963 to 2007) is a charter high school located in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States. It is the only magnet school in the Fulton County School System that offers both arts and sciences. Students may participate in the Visual & Arts co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic%20differential
In mathematics, a quadratic differential on a Riemann surface is a section of the symmetric square of the holomorphic cotangent bundle. If the section is holomorphic, then the quadratic differential is said to be holomorphic. The vector space of holomorphic quadratic differentials on a Riemann surface has a natural int...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%20Chu
Gilbert Chu () is an American biochemist. He is a Professor of Medicine (Oncology) and Biochemistry at the Stanford Medical School. Biography Chu graduated from Garden City High School in New York in 1963. He received a B.A. in physics from Princeton University in 1967, a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T. in 1973, and an ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatic%20Harvester
The Bioinformatic Harvester was a bioinformatic meta search engine created by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and subsequently hosted and further developed by KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for genes and protein-associated information. Harvester currently works for human, mouse, rat, zebrafish, drosoph...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNDO/2
Complete Neglect of Differential Overlap (CNDO) is one of the first semi empirical methods in quantum chemistry. It uses the core approximation, in which only the outer valence electrons are explicitly included, and the approximation of zero-differential overlap. CNDO/2 is the main version of CNDO. The method was firs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%20Strang
William Gilbert Strang (born November 27, 1934) is an American mathematician known for his contributions to finite element theory, the calculus of variations, wavelet analysis and linear algebra. He has made many contributions to mathematics education, including publishing mathematics textbooks. Strang was the MathWork...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Fix
George J. Fix (10 May 1939 – 10 March 2002) was an American mathematician who collaborated on several seminal papers and books in the field of finite element method. In addition to his work in mathematics, Fix was a beer and homebrewing enthusiast and educator, as well as the author of several books about brewing. He d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder%20set
In mathematics, the cylinder sets form a basis of the product topology on a product of sets; they are also a generating family of the cylinder σ-algebra. General definition Given a collection of sets, consider the Cartesian product of all sets in the collection. The canonical projection corresponding to some is th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20Ryan%20Gregory
T. Ryan Gregory (born May 16, 1975) is a Canadian evolutionary biologist and genome biologist and a Professor of the Department of Integrative Biology and the Division of Genomic Diversity within the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Career Gregory completed his...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Annals%20of%20the%20History%20of%20Computing
The IEEE Annals of the History of Computing is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the IEEE Computer Society. It covers the history of computing, computer science, and computer hardware. It was founded in 1979 by the AFIPS, in particular by Saul Rosen, who was an editor until his death in 1991. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Marcuse
Harold Marcuse (born November 15, 1957 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is an American professor of modern and contemporary German history and public history. He teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the grandson of philosopher Herbert Marcuse. Education Marcuse majored in physics at Wesleyan Univer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinke%20Stevens
Brinke Stevens (born Charlene Elizabeth Brinkman, September 20, 1954) is an American actress. A native of San Diego, Stevens initially pursued a career as a marine biologist prior to becoming an actress, earning an undergraduate degree in biology from San Diego State University before studying marine biology at the Scr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll%20rearrangement
The Carroll rearrangement is a rearrangement reaction in organic chemistry and involves the transformation of a β-keto allyl ester into a α-allyl-β-ketocarboxylic acid. This organic reaction is accompanied by decarboxylation and the final product is a γ,δ-allylketone. The Carroll rearrangement is an adaptation of the C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Kerckhoff
Steven Paul Kerckhoff (born 1952) is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University, who works on hyperbolic 3-manifolds and Teichmüller spaces. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1978, under the direction of William Thurston. Among his most famous results is his resolution of the Ni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien%20Lison
Lucien Alphonse Joseph Lison (1908–1984) was a Belgian/Brazilian physician and biomedical scientist, considered the "father of histochemistry". Lison was born in Trazegnies, Belgium. He studied medicine at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, graduating in 1931. Deciding for a career in experimental biological research,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commensurability
Two concepts or things are commensurable if they are measurable or comparable by a common standard. Commensurability most commonly refers to commensurability (mathematics). It may also refer to: Commensurability (astronomy), whether two orbital periods are mathematically commensurate. Commensurability (crystal stru...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole%20figure
A pole figure is a graphical representation of the orientation of objects in space. For example, pole figures in the form of stereographic projections are used to represent the orientation distribution of crystallographic lattice planes in crystallography and texture analysis in materials science. Definition Consider...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSU%20Faculty%20of%20Computational%20Mathematics%20and%20Cybernetics
MSU Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics (CMC) (), founded in 1970 by Andrey Tikhonov, is a part of Moscow State University. Education CMC is a Russian research and training center in the fields of applied mathematics, computing and software development . Education at CMC combines theoretical studies, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final%20Theory
Final Theory may refer to: Theory of everything, a putative theory in physics Final Theory (novel), a 2008 science fiction novel by Mark Alpert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-term
In theoretical physics, one often analyzes theories with supersymmetry in which F-terms play an important role. In four dimensions, the minimal N=1 supersymmetry may be written using a superspace. This superspace involves four extra fermionic coordinates , transforming as a two-component spinor and its conjugate. Ever...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-term
In theoretical physics, one often analyzes theories with supersymmetry in which D-terms play an important role. In four dimensions, the minimal N=1 supersymmetry may be written using a superspace. This superspace involves four extra fermionic coordinates , transforming as a two-component spinor and its conjugate. Ever...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersymmetric%20gauge%20theory
In theoretical physics, there are many theories with supersymmetry (SUSY) which also have internal gauge symmetries. Supersymmetric gauge theory generalizes this notion. Gauge theory A gauge theory is a field theory with gauge symmetry. Roughly, there are two types of symmetries, global and local. A global symmetry i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor-changing%20neutral%20current
In particle physics, flavor-changing neutral currents or flavour-changing neutral currents (FCNCs) are hypothetical interactions that change the flavor of a fermion without altering its electric charge. Details If they occur in nature (as reflected by Lagrangian interaction terms), these processes may induce phenomena...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen%E2%80%93Olesen%20string
In theoretical physics, Nielsen–Olesen string is a one-dimensional object or equivalently a classical solution of certain equations of motion. The solution does not depend on the direction along the string; the dependence on the other two, transverse dimensions is identical as in the case of a Nielsen–Olesen vortex. Q...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen%E2%80%93Olesen%20vortex
In theoretical physics, a Nielsen–Olesen vortex is a point-like object localized in two spatial dimensions or, equivalently, a classical solution of field theory with the same property. This particular solution occurs if the configuration space of scalar fields contains non-contractible circles. A circle surrounding th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle%20zoo
In particle physics, the term particle zoo is used colloquially to describe the relatively extensive list of known subatomic particles by comparison to the variety of species in a zoo. In the history of particle physics, the topic of particles was considered to be particularly confusing in the late 1960s. Before the d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet%20completion
In theoretical physics, ultraviolet completion, or UV completion, of a quantum field theory is the passing from a lower energy quantum field theory to a more general quantum field theory above a threshold value known as the cutoff. In particular, the more general high energy theory must be well-defined at arbitrarily ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Sarfatti
Jack Sarfatti (born September 14, 1939) is an American theoretical physicist. Working largely outside academia, most of Sarfatti's publications revolve around quantum physics and consciousness. Sarfatti was a leading member of the Fundamental Fysiks Group, an informal group of physicists in California in the 1970s who...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolegomena%20to%20Any%20Future%20Metaphysics
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science () is a book by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, published in 1783, two years after the first edition of his Critique of Pure Reason. One of Kant's shorter works, it contains a summary of the Critique‘s main conclusions, sometim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canalization
Canalization may refer to: Canalization, the process of introducing weirs and locks to a river so as to secure a defined depth suitable for navigation Channelization, the process of modifying a stream so it follows a restricted path Canalisation (genetics), a measure of the ability of a genotype to produce the same ph...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithful%20representation
In mathematics, especially in an area of abstract algebra known as representation theory, a faithful representation ρ of a group on a vector space is a linear representation in which different elements of are represented by distinct linear mappings . In more abstract language, this means that the group homomorphism...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Newton-Smith
William Herbert Newton-Smith (May 25, 1943 – April 8, 2023) was a Canadian philosopher of science. Biography Newton-Smith's undergraduate degree from Queen's University was in Mathematics and Philosophy, in 1966. He took an MA from Cornell University in Philosophy, in 1968, and a DPhil in philosophy from Balliol Colle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational%20instanton
In mathematical physics and differential geometry, a gravitational instanton is a four-dimensional complete Riemannian manifold satisfying the vacuum Einstein equations. They are so named because they are analogues in quantum theories of gravity of instantons in Yang–Mills theory. In accordance with this analogy with s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Lynch%20%28writer%29
Aaron Lynch (February 18, 1957 – November 14, 2005) was an American writer, best known for his book Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society. Biography After obtaining bachelor's degrees in mathematics and philosophy from the University of Illinois, Lynch accepted a position in 1979 as an engineering phys...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Lockhart%20Bennett
Gordon Lockhart Bennett, (October 10, 1912 – February 11, 2000) was a Canadian teacher, politician and the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island. Born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, he received a Bachelor of Science in 1937 and a Master of Science in Chemistry in 1947 from Acadia University. He st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20benzo%20compounds
In organic chemistry the addition of the prefix benzo to the name of a chemical compound indicates the addition of an even number of carbon atoms to an unsaturated or already aromatic compound by which a new aromatic ring is formed. Between the prefix benzo and the name of the parent compound then place of the addition...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, a flow formalizes the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid. Flows are ubiquitous in science, including engineering and physics. The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations. Informally, a flow may be viewed as a continuous motion of points over time. More formally, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20flow
In mathematics, the vector flow refers to a set of closely related concepts of the flow determined by a vector field. These appear in a number of different contexts, including differential topology, Riemannian geometry and Lie group theory. These related concepts are explored in a spectrum of articles: exponential ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrix
Tetrix may refer to: Tetrix (band), a Canadian rock/improv band Tetrix (insect), a genus of insects in the family Tetrigidae called ground-hoppers Tetrix Robotics Kit, an educational robotics kit 8598 Tetrix, a main-belt asteroid A three-dimensional analog of the Sierpiński triangle. The name of some clones of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional%20convergence
In mathematics, specifically functional analysis, a series is unconditionally convergent if all reorderings of the series converge to the same value. In contrast, a series is conditionally convergent if it converges but different orderings do not all converge to that same value. Unconditional convergence is equivalent ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPMD
PPMD may refer to: People Kevin Nanney, an e-sports professional known by his gamer tag PPMD Computer science the compression algorithm PPMd, a variant of the Prediction by partial matching (PPM) compression technique
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-to-many
One-to-many may refer to: Fat link, a one-to-many link in hypertext Multivalued function, a one-to-many function in mathematics One-to-many (data model), a type of relationship and cardinality in systems analysis Point-to-multipoint communication, communication which has a one-to-many relationship See also Cardin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Ball%20function
The Crystal Ball function, named after the Crystal Ball Collaboration (hence the capitalized initial letters), is a probability density function commonly used to model various lossy processes in high-energy physics. It consists of a Gaussian core portion and a power-law low-end tail, below a certain threshold. The func...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Paul%20Hogan
John Paul Hogan (August 7, 1919 – February 19, 2012) was an American research chemist. Along with Robert Banks, he discovered methods of producing polypropylene and high-density polyethylene. Hogan was born in Lowes, Kentucky to Charles Franklin and Alma (Wyman) Hogan and earned B.S. degrees in both Chemistry and Phys...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20C.%20Pollard
Ernest Charles "Ernie" Pollard (April 16, 1906 – February 24, 1997) was a British professor of physics and biophysics and an author, who worked on the development of radar systems in World War II, worked on the physics of living cells, and wrote textbooks and approximately 200 papers on nuclear physics and radiation bi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vainu%20Bappu%20Observatory
The Vainu Bappu Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics. It is located at Kavalur in the Javadi Hills, near Vaniyambadi in Tirupathur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is 200 km south-west of Chennai and 175 km south-east of Bangalore. History ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champernowne
Champernowne may refer to: Arthur Champernowne (disambiguation), multiple people D. G. Champernowne (1912-2000), English economist and mathematician Champernowne constant, in mathematics Champernowne distribution, in statistics Joan Champernowne (died 1553), lady-in-waiting at the court of Henry VIII of England ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20gastronomy
Molecular gastronomy is the scientific approach of cuisine from primarily the perspective of chemistry. The composition (molecular structure), properties (mass, viscosity, etc) and transformations (chemical reactions, reactant products) of an ingredient are addressed and utilized in the preparation and appreciation of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjustment
Adjustment may refer to: Adjustment (law), with several meanings Adjustment (psychology), the process of balancing conflicting needs Adjustment of observations, in mathematics, a method of solving an overdetermined system of equations Calibration, in metrology Spinal adjustment, in chiropractic practice In statistics,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna%20Bharat
Krishna Bharat (born 7 January 1970) is an Indian research scientist at Google Inc. He was formerly a founding adviser for Grokstyle Inc. a visual search company and Laserlike Inc., an interest search engine startup based on Machine Learning. At Google, Mountain View, he led a team developing Google News, a service th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Lenski
Richard Eimer Lenski (born August 13, 1956) is an American evolutionary biologist, a Hannah Distinguished Professor of Microbial Ecology, Genetics and Evolution, and Evolution of Pathogen Virulence at Michigan State University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a MacArthur Fellow. Lenski is best...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy%20%28magazine%29
Astronomy is a monthly American magazine about astronomy. Targeting amateur astronomers, it contains columns on sky viewing, reader-submitted astrophotographs, and articles on astronomy and astrophysics for general readers. History Astronomy is a magazine about the science and hobby of astronomy. Based near Milwaukee ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel%20Dongala
Emmanuel Boundzéki Dongala (born 1941) is a Congolese chemist and novelist. He was born in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, in 1941. He was Richard B. Fisher Chair in Natural Sciences at Bard College at Simon's Rock until 2014. As a chemist, his specialty is stereochemistry and asymmetric synthesis, as well as environm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous%20category
In mathematics, an autonomous category is a monoidal category where dual objects exist. Definition A left (resp. right) autonomous category is a monoidal category where every object has a left (resp. right) dual. An autonomous category is a monoidal category where every object has both a left and a right dual. Rigid ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%20Academy%20of%20Arts%2C%20Mathematics%2C%20Engineering%20and%20Science
The Georgia Academy of Arts, Mathematics, Engineering and Sciences, (formerly known as GAMES), is a dual-enrollment early college entrance program created in 1997 and facilitated by the University System of Georgia in the United States. Typically, juniors in high school who meet the base requirements of GPA and SAT/ACT...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensional%20context
In any of several fields of study that treat the use of signs — for example, in linguistics, logic, mathematics, semantics, semiotics, and philosophy of language — an extensional context (or transparent context) is a syntactic environment in which a sub-sentential expression e can be replaced by an expression with the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Journal%20of%20Mathematics
The Pacific Journal of Mathematics is a mathematics research journal supported by several universities and research institutes, and currently published on their behalf by Mathematical Sciences Publishers, a non-profit academic publishing organisation, and the University of California, Berkeley. It was founded in 1951 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Wood%20%28engineer%29
Alan Wood FREng (born March 20, 1947), was brought up in Sheffield, where he was educated at King Edward VII School. In 1965 he won an open scholarship to Manchester University and graduated in 1968 with a first class honours degree in mechanical engineering. He began his career as an engineering management trainee w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak%20Russman
Isaak Borisovich Russman (; 7 March 1938 – 11 July 2005) was a Russian mathematician and economist. He studied and worked at Voronezh State University. Isaak Borisovich Russman was born on March 7, 1938, in Voronezh. Although his childhood dream was studying astronomy, in 1955 he entered Voronezh State University wher...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Theissen
Mario Theissen (born 17 August 1952 in Monschau, Germany) is the former BMW Motorsport Director and was team principal of BMW Sauber, the company's Formula One team from 2005 until 2009, when BMW sold the team back to Peter Sauber. Career After graduating from RWTH Aachen University with a diplom in mechanical engine...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-agent%20planning
In computer science multi-agent planning involves coordinating the resources and activities of multiple agents. NASA says, "multiagent planning is concerned with planning by (and for) multiple agents. It can involve agents planning for a common goal, an agent coordinating the plans (plan merging) or planning of others...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Stanburrough%20Cook
Albert Stanburrough Cook (March 6, 1853September 1, 1927) was an American philologist, literary critic, and scholar of Old English. He has been called "the single most powerful American Anglo-Saxonist of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." Life Cook was born in Montville, New Jersey. He began working as a mathema...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Chew
Geoffrey Foucar Chew (; June 5, 1924 – April 12, 2019) was an American theoretical physicist. He is known for his bootstrap theory of strong interactions. Life Chew worked as a professor of physics at the UC Berkeley since 1957 and was an emeritus since 1991. Chew held a PhD in theoretical particle physics (1944–1946)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endo-exo%20isomerism
In organic chemistry, endo–exo isomerism is a special type of stereoisomerism found in organic compounds with a substituent on a bridged ring system. The prefix endo is reserved for the isomer with the substituent located closest, or "syn", to the longest bridge. The prefix exo is reserved for the isomer with the subst...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%20Matiyasevich
Yuri Vladimirovich Matiyasevich, (; born 2 March 1947 in Leningrad) is a Russian mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for his negative solution of Hilbert's tenth problem (Matiyasevich's theorem), which was presented in his doctoral thesis at LOMI (the Leningrad Department of the Steklov Institute of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20Institute%20of%20Canada
The Chemical Institute of Canada is a Canadian professional umbrella organization for researchers and professionals in the field of chemistry. It was founded in 1921 as the Canadian Institute of Chemistry until it merged with other groups in 1945 under its current name. The organisation comprises three groups: the Cana...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Actor%20model
In computer science, the Actor model, first published in 1973, is a mathematical model of concurrent computation. Event orderings versus global state A fundamental challenge in defining the Actor model is that it did not provide for global states so that a computational step could not be defined as going from one glob...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Ackman
Robert George Ackman, (September 27, 1927 – July 16, 2013) was a Canadian chemist and professor. He was best known for his pioneering work on marine oils and Omega-3 fatty acid. Born in Dorchester, New Brunswick, his education included a B.A. degree in organic chemistry from the University of Toronto received in 1950...