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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdS%20black%20hole | In theoretical physics, an anti-de Sitter (AdS) black hole is a black hole solution of general relativity or its extensions which represents an isolated massive object, but with a negative cosmological constant. Such a solution asymptotically approaches anti-de Sitter space at spatial infinity, and is a generalization... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warped%20Passages | Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions is the debut non-fiction book by Lisa Randall, published in 2005, about particle physics in general and additional dimensions of space (cf. Kaluza–Klein theory) in particular. The book has made it to top 50 at amazon.com, making it the world'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpher%E2%80%93Bethe%E2%80%93Gamow%20paper | In physical cosmology, the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper, or αβγ paper, was created by Ralph Alpher, then a physics PhD student, his advisor George Gamow, and Hans Bethe. The work, which would become the subject of Alpher's PhD dissertation, argued that the Big Bang would create hydrogen, helium and heavier elements in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternionic%20projective%20space | In mathematics, quaternionic projective space is an extension of the ideas of real projective space and complex projective space, to the case where coordinates lie in the ring of quaternions Quaternionic projective space of dimension n is usually denoted by
and is a closed manifold of (real) dimension 4n. It is a hom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B0 | B0 may refer to:
, a net magnetisation vector in medical imaging
B0 star, a subclass of B-class stars
Pininfarina B0, an electric car
A paper size
The neutral B meson in particle physics
B-0 : a code name for the FLOW-MATIC compiler
La Compagnie, a French airline (IATA code B0)
See also
Bo (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiff%20test | The Schiff test is an early organic chemistry named reaction developed by Hugo Schiff, and is a relatively general chemical test for detection of many organic aldehydes that has also found use in the staining of biological tissues. The Schiff reagent is the reaction product of a dye formulation such as fuchsin and sodi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Shewchuk | Jonathan Richard Shewchuk is a Professor in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
He obtained his B.S. in Physics and Computing Science from Simon Fraser University in 1990, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, the latter in 1997.
He conducts research in sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplex | Triplex may refer to:
Triplex (building), a dwelling composed of three units
Triplex (espionage), code name of a British World War II espionage operation
Triplex (film), a 1991 French film
Triplex (genetics), triple-stranded DNA
Triplex (juggling), a three-ball throw
Triplex (locomotive), a type of locomotive
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation | Variation or Variations may refer to:
Science and mathematics
Variation (astronomy), any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite, particularly of the moon
Genetic variation, the difference in DNA among individuals or the differences between populations
Human genetic variation, genetic dif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Journal%20of%20Organic%20Chemistry | The Journal of Organic Chemistry, colloquially known as JOC, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal for original contributions of fundamental research in all branches of theory and practice in organic and bioorganic chemistry. It is published by the publishing arm of the American Chemical Society, with 24 issues per y... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARV | ARV may refer to:
Antiretroviral drug, any drug used to treat retroviral infections, primarily in the management of HIV/AIDS
arv, ISO 639-3 language code for the Arbore language, an East Cushitic language
Average rectified value, in mathematics and electrical engineering, the average of an absolute value
After-repa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair%20of%20pants%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a pair of pants is a surface which is homeomorphic to the three-holed sphere. The name comes from considering one of the removed disks as the waist and the two others as the cuffs of a pair of pants.
Pairs of pants are used as building blocks for compact surfaces in various theories. Two important appl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbert%20Frank%20Cox | Elbert Frank Cox (5 December 1895 – 28 November 1969) was an American mathematician. He was the first Black person in history to receive a PhD in mathematics, which he earned at Cornell University in 1925.
Early life
Cox was born in Evansville, Indiana to Johnson D. Cox, a Kentucky-born teacher active in the church,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20model | A computational model uses computer programs to simulate and study complex systems using an algorithmic or mechanistic approach and is widely used in a diverse range of fields spanning from physics, engineering, chemistry and biology to economics, psychology, cognitive science and computer science.
The system under s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Elizabeth%20Hospital | Mount Elizabeth Hospital, known colloquially as Mount E, is a 345-bed private hospital in Singapore operated by Parkway Health. Construction began in 1976 and the hospital officially opened on 8 December 1979. The hospital specialises in cardiology, oncology, and neuroscience, among other tertiary services. It is also ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap%20theorem | See also Gap theorem (disambiguation) for other gap theorems in mathematics.
In computational complexity theory, the Gap Theorem, also known as the Borodin–Trakhtenbrot Gap Theorem, is a major theorem about the complexity of computable functions.
It essentially states that there are arbitrarily large computable gaps ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%20Borodin | Allan Bertram Borodin (born 1941) is a Canadian-American computer scientist who is a professor at the University of Toronto.
Biography
Borodin did his undergraduate studies at Rutgers University, earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1963. After earning a master's degree at the Stevens Institute of Technology... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federa%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20das%20Sociedades%20de%20Biologia%20Experimental | The Federação das Sociedades de Biologia Experimental (Federation of Experimental Biology Societies, abbreviated FeSBE) is a Brazilian scientific association which runs a number of the mainstream specialized societies in experimental biology and medicine. It was founded in 1985 and currently has the following member so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor%20Dominich | Sándor Dominich (July 12, 1954 – August 13, 2008) was the George Pólya Professor of Computer Science, and the founding leader of the Centre for Information Retrieval, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary.
Born in Aiud, Romania, Dominich proposed the Interaction Information Retr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrophysics | Agrophysics is a branch of science bordering on agronomy and physics,
whose objects of study are the agroecosystem - the biological objects, biotope and biocoenosis affected by human activity, studied and described using the methods of physical sciences. Using the achievements of the exact sciences to solve major prob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20Mike%20Reed | George Michael ("Mike") Reed is an American computer scientist. He has contributed to theoretical computer science in general and CSP in particular.
Mike Reed has a doctorate in pure mathematics from Auburn University, United States, and a doctorate in computation from Oxford University, England. He has an interest in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel-Paul%20Sch%C3%BCtzenberger | Marcel-Paul "Marco" Schützenberger (24 October 1920 – 29 July 1996) was a French mathematician and Doctor of Medicine. He worked in the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory. In addition to his formal results in mathematics, he was "deeply involved in [a] struggle against the votaries of [ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Notes%20in%20Theoretical%20Computer%20Science | Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science is an electronic computer science journal published by Elsevier, started in 1995. Its issues include many post-proceedings for workshops, etc. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and Science Citation Index.
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical%20Computer%20Science%20%28journal%29 | Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) is a computer science journal published by Elsevier, started in 1975 and covering theoretical computer science. The journal publishes 52 issues a year. It is abstracted and indexed by Scopus and the Science Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2020 impact fac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Sannella | Donald T. Sannella FRSE is professor of computer science in the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Sannella graduated from Yale University, University of California, Berkeley and University of Edinburgh with degrees in computer science. His ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory%20for%20Foundations%20of%20Computer%20Science | The Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS) is a research institute within the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland. It was founded in 1987 and is a community of theoretical computer scientists with interests in concurrency, semantics, categories, algebra, types, logic, algor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOR | BOR may stand for:
Bill of resources
Biuro Ochrony Rządu, Polish Government Protection Bureau
Biology of Reproduction, a reproductive biology scientific journal
БОР (Russian: Беспилотный Орбитальный Ракетоплан), a series of unmanned Soviet spaceplanes; see
British other ranks
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, a former ag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20Wrestling | George Burrell Woodin (July 28, 1934 – November 30, 2002) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring names, Mr. Wrestling and Tim Woods.
Collegiate wrestling career
Woodin received a degree in agricultural engineering from Cornell University and a degree in mechanical engineering from Michigan St... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Miescher%20Laboratory%20of%20the%20Max%20Planck%20Society | The Friedrich Miescher Laboratory (FML) of the Max Planck Society is a biological research institute located on the Society's campus in Tübingen, Germany, named after Friedrich Miescher, founded in 1969 to offer highly qualified junior scientists in biology an opportunity to establish independent research groups and pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classifying%20space%20for%20U%28n%29 | In mathematics, the classifying space for the unitary group U(n) is a space BU(n) together with a universal bundle EU(n) such that any hermitian bundle on a paracompact space X is the pull-back of EU(n) by a map X → BU(n) unique up to homotopy.
This space with its universal fibration may be constructed as either
the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel%20Son | Nobel Son is a 2007 American black comedy about a dysfunctional family dealing with the kidnapping of their son for ransom following the father's winning of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The film features Alan Rickman as the prize-winning professor and Mary Steenburgen as his wife, with Bryan Greenberg as their kidnapp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSR | MSR may refer to:
Science and technology
Macrophage scavenger receptor, a receptor found in macrophages
Magnetic stripe reader, a device used to read magnetic stripe cards such as credit cards
M–sigma relation, in astrophysics
Mars sample return mission, a spaceflight mission to return rock and dust samples collec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redline%20%282006%20video%20game%29 | Redline is a video game for Mac OS X developed by Jonas Echterhoff and published by Ambrosia Software. The game's primary features are its ability to simulate actual racing physics, online play, and support for the addition of third party content via plug-ins. The combination of these features have attracted numerous p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howell%20Observatory | The Howell Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Mississippi State University's Astronomy and Physics department. It is located in Starkville, Mississippi.
Equipment
14" Schmidt-Cassegrain
8" Schmidt-Cassegrain
10" Newtonian reflector
See also
List of observatories
References
Externa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20layer | Double layer may refer to:
Double layer (biospecific), the surface where two different phases of matter are in contact
Double layer (plasma physics), a structure in a plasma and consists of two parallel layers with opposite electrical charge
Double layer (surface science), a structure that appears on the surface of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20E.%20Puthoff | Harold E. Puthoff (born June 20, 1936) is an American parapsychologist and electrical engineer. In the 2010s, he co-founded the company To the Stars with Tom DeLonge.
Biography
Puthoff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received his BA and MSc in electrical engineering from the University of Florida. In 1967, Puthoff e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Southern | Sir Edwin Mellor Southern (born 7 June 1938) is an English Lasker Award-winning molecular biologist, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He is most widely known for the invention of the Southern blot, published in 1975 and now a common laboratory proc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Warburton | Matthew Warburton (born February 7, 1978) is an American television writer.
Early life
Warburton grew up in northern Ohio and attended Strongsville High School. He has a degree in cognitive neuroscience from Harvard University.
Career
Warburton worked for 11 years as a writer and co-executive producer on the Fox ani... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNN%20extension | In mathematics, the HNN extension is an important construction of combinatorial group theory.
Introduced in a 1949 paper Embedding Theorems for Groups by Graham Higman, Bernhard Neumann, and Hanna Neumann, it embeds a given group G into another group G' , in such a way that two given isomorphic subgroups of G are conj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonicity | In chemical biology, tonicity is a measure of the effective osmotic pressure gradient; the water potential of two solutions separated by a partially-permeable cell membrane. Tonicity depends on the relative concentration of selective membrane-impermeable solutes across a cell membrane which determine the direction and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Code%20of%20Nomenclature%20of%20Prokaryotes | The International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP) formerly the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (ICNB) or Bacteriological Code (BC) governs the scientific names for Bacteria and Archaea. It denotes the rules for naming taxa of bacteria, according to their relative rank. As such it is one of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination%20factor | In molecular biology, a termination factor is a protein that mediates the termination of RNA transcription by recognizing a transcription terminator and causing the release of the newly made mRNA. This is part of the process that regulates the transcription of RNA to preserve gene expression integrity and are present i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit%20banging | In computer engineering and electrical engineering, bit banging is a "term of art" for any method of data transmission that employs software as a substitute for dedicated hardware to generate transmitted signals or process received signals. Software directly sets and samples the states of GPIOs (e.g., pins on a microco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%20L.%20Dodge | Homer Levi Dodge was the Chair of the Department of Physics, Dean of the Graduate school, and founder of the Oklahoma Research Institute, at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma and President of Norwich University.
In 1919 Dodge became chairman of the Physics Department at the University of Oklahoma, and in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20physicist | A medical physicist is a health professional with specialist education and training in the concepts and techniques of applying physics in medicine and competent to practice independently in one or more of the subfields (specialties) of medical physics. A medical physicist plays a fundamental role in applying physics to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charpy%20impact%20test | In materials science, the Charpy impact test, also known as the Charpy V-notch test, is a standardized high strain rate test which determines the amount of energy absorbed by a material during fracture. Absorbed energy is a measure of the material's notch toughness. It is widely used in industry, since it is easy to pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%20H.%20Kenyon | Dean H. Kenyon (born c. 1939) is Professor Emeritus of Biology at San Francisco State University, a young Earth creationist, and one of the instigators of the intelligent design movement. He is the author of Biochemical Predestination.
He became a creationist around 1976, and gave testimony defending creation science ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosius%20of%20Bithynia | Theodosius of Bithynia (; 2nd–1st century BC) was a Hellenistic astronomer and mathematician from Bithynia who wrote the Spherics, a treatise about spherical geometry, as well as several other books on mathematics and astronomy, of which two survive, On Habitations and On Days and Nights.
Life
Little is known about Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20theory%20landscape | In string theory, the string theory landscape (or landscape of vacua) is the collection of possible false vacua, together comprising a collective "landscape" of choices of parameters governing compactifications.
The term "landscape" comes from the notion of a fitness landscape in evolutionary biology. It was first ap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keldysh | Keldysh (Russian: ) may refer to:
Science
Keldysh formalism, for studying non-equilibrium quantum systems
Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, a 1980 Russian scientific research vessel renowned for its visits to the wreck of the RMS Titanic
Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, a Russian research institute
Keldysh (crat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZED-2 | ZED-2 (Zero Energy Deuterium) is a zero-power nuclear research reactor built at the Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario, Canada. It is the successor to the ZEEP reactor. Designed by AECL for CANDU reactor support, the unit saw first criticality on 7 September 1960. The reactor is still operating at Chalk River where it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20information%20theory | Algorithmic information theory (AIT) is a branch of theoretical computer science that concerns itself with the relationship between computation and information of computably generated objects (as opposed to stochastically generated), such as strings or any other data structure. In other words, it is shown within algori... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20Dudley | James Randolph Dudley (September 27, 1909 – February 12, 1999) was an American sportscaster, best known as the play-by-play voice of Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians for nearly two decades.
Biography
A native of Alexandria, Virginia, Dudley majored in chemistry at the University of Virginia. He turned to broa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Wadler | Philip Lee Wadler (born April 8, 1956) is a UK-based American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming language design and type theory. He is the chair of theoretical computer science at the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. He ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20J.%20Glauber | Roy Jay Glauber (September 1, 1925 – December 26, 2018) was an American theoretical physicist. He was the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Born in New York City, he was awarded one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics "for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor%20W.%20H%C3%A4nsch | Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (; born 30 October 1941) is a German physicist. He received one-third of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique", sharing the prize with John L. Hall and Roy J. Glauber.
Hänsch i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic%20flow | In mathematics and transportation engineering, traffic flow is the study of interactions between travellers (including pedestrians, cyclists, drivers, and their vehicles) and infrastructure (including highways, signage, and traffic control devices), with the aim of understanding and developing an optimal transport netw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20L.%20Hall | John Lewis "Jan" Hall (born August 21, 1934) is an American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics. He shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch and Roy Glauber for his work in precision spectroscopy.
Biography
Born in Denver, Colorado, Hall holds three degrees from Carnegie Institute of Techno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDE | BDE may refer to:
Chemistry
Bond-dissociation energy, the dissociation energy of a chemical bond
Brominated diaryl (or diphenyl) ethers, see Polybrominated diphenyl ethers
Technology
BitLocker Drive Encryption, a full disk encryption feature included with Microsoft Windows
Borland Database Engine, a database en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Land-Robot%20Trial | The European Land-Robot Trial (ELROB) is a European event which demonstrates the abilities of modern robots.
The ELROB is not a competition, like the US DARPA Grand Challenge, but a pure demonstration of what European robotics is able to achieve today. The scenarios are designed to simulate real world missions, be it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PackBot | PackBot is a series of military robots by Endeavor Robotics (previously by iRobot), an international robotics company founded in 2016, created from iRobot, that previously produced military robots since 1990. More than 2000 were used in Iraq and Afghanistan. They were also used to aid searching through the debris of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle%20experiment | The Belle experiment was a particle physics experiment conducted by the Belle Collaboration, an international collaboration of more than 400 physicists and engineers, at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation (KEK) in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. The experiment ran from 1999 to 2010.
The Belle detect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Smith%20%28ontologist%29 | Barry Smith (born 4 June 1952) is an academic working in the fields of ontology and biomedical informatics. Smith is the author of more than 700 scientific publications, including 15 authored or edited books, and he is one of the most widely cited living philosophers.
Education and career
From 1970 to 1973 Smith studi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St-connectivity | In computer science, st-connectivity or STCON is a decision problem asking, for vertices s and t in a directed graph, if t is reachable from s.
Formally, the decision problem is given by
.
Complexity
On a sequential computer, st-connectivity can easily be solved in linear time by either depth-first search or breadth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20H.%20Grubbs | Robert Howard Grubbs ForMemRS (February 27, 1942 – December 19, 2021) was an American chemist and the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He was a co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on olefin metathesis.
Grubb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20C.%20Nicolaou | Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou (; born July 5, 1946) is a Cypriot-American chemist known for his research in the area of natural products total synthesis. He is currently Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Chemistry at Rice University, having previously held academic positions at The Scripps Research Institute/UC San Die... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separable%20state | In quantum mechanics, separable states are multipartite quantum states that can be written as a convex combination of product states. Product states are multipartite quantum states that can be written as a tensor product of states in each space. The physical intuition behind these definitions is that product states hav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAE%20buffer | TAE buffer is a buffer solution containing a mixture of Tris base, acetic acid and EDTA.
In molecular biology, it is used in agarose electrophoresis typically for the separation of nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA. It is made up of Tris-acetate buffer, usually at pH 8.3, and EDTA, which sequesters divalent cations.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser%20Stoddart | Sir James Fraser Stoddart (born 24 May 1942) is a British-American chemist who is Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry and head of the Stoddart Mechanostereochemistry Group in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University in the United States. He works in the area of supramolecular chemistry and nanotechn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insilicos | Insilicos is a life science software company founded in 2002 by Erik Nilsson, Brian Pratt and Bryan Prazen. Insilicos develops scientific computing software to provide software for disease diagnoses.
Technology
Insilicos' key technologies includes pattern recognition techniques to interpret proteomics mass spectrome... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nastic%20movements | In biology, nastic movements are non-directional responses to stimuli (e.g. temperature, humidity, light irradiance), and are usually associated with plants. The movement can be due to changes in turgor (internal pressure within plant cells). Decrease in turgor pressure causes shrinkage, while increase in turgor pressu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20R.%20Schrock | Richard Royce Schrock (born January 4, 1945) is an American chemist and Nobel laureate recognized for his contributions to the olefin metathesis reaction used in organic chemistry.
Education
Born in Berne, Indiana, Schrock went to Mission Bay High School in San Diego, California. He holds a B.A. (1967) from the Univer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves%20Chauvin | Yves Chauvin (; 10 October 1930 – 27 January 2015) was a French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate. He was honorary research director at the Institut français du pétrole and a member of the French Academy of Science. He was known for his work for deciphering the process of olefin metathesis for which he was awarded the 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%27s%20theorem%20%28group%20theory%29 | In mathematics, specifically group theory, Cauchy's theorem states that if is a finite group and is a prime number dividing the order of (the number of elements in ), then contains an element of order . That is, there is in such that is the smallest positive integer with = , where is the identity element of . ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusa%20McDuff | Dusa McDuff FRS CorrFRSE (born 18 October 1945) is an English mathematician who works on symplectic geometry. She was the first recipient of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics, was a Noether Lecturer, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society. She is currently the Helen Lyttle Kimmel '42 Professor of Mathematics at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochoic%20wave | Isochoic wave is a term used in ultrasound. Substances of a different medium are called isochoic if waves travel through them at the same speed.
Isochoic in ultrasound means that two structures have the same echogenicity in 2D mode (B-mode).
References
Basic Principles of Ultrasound Physics and Artifacts Made Easy
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora%20%28microbiology%29 | In microbiology, collective bacteria and other microorganisms in a host are historically known as flora. Although microflora is commonly used, the term microbiota is becoming more common as microflora is a misnomer. Flora pertains to the Kingdom Plantae. Microbiota includes Archaea, Bacteria, Fungi and Protists. Microb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium%20Bridge%20%28Podgorica%29 | The Millennium Bridge () is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the Morača river in Podgorica, Montenegro.
History
The bridge was designed by Marjan Pipenbaher from the Slovenian company Ponting Bridges and Mladen Ulićević, a professor at Faculty of Civil Engineering in Podgorica. It was built by the Slovenian company Pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus%20%28genetics%29 | In genetics, a locus (: loci) is a specific, fixed position on a chromosome where a particular gene or genetic marker is located. Each chromosome carries many genes, with each gene occupying a different position or locus; in humans, the total number of protein-coding genes in a complete haploid set of 23 chromosomes is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanopin%20film | Nanopin film is an experimental material in nanotechnology developed in 2005 with unusual superhydrophobic properties . A droplet of water makes contact with the surface of this film and forms an almost perfect sphere with a contact angle of 178°. This happens because it is covered with nanoscale, topped-off pins or co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy%20Medal | The Davy Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of London "for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry". Named after Humphry Davy, the medal is awarded with a monetary gift, initially of £1000 (currently £2000). Receiving the Davy Medal has been identified as a potential precursor to being... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Lunge | Georg Lunge (15 September 1839 – 3 January 1923) was a German chemist born in Breslau. He studied at Heidelberg (under Robert Bunsen) and Breslau, graduating at the latter university in 1859, to work with Ferdinand Cohn. Turning his attention to technical chemistry, he became chemist at several works both in Germany an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC-MAC | In cryptography, a cipher block chaining message authentication code (CBC-MAC) is a technique for constructing a message authentication code (MAC) from a block cipher. The message is encrypted with some block cipher algorithm in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode to create a chain of blocks such that each block depends ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrock | Schrock or Schröck is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Richard R. Schrock (born 1945), American professor at MIT and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2005
Schrock carbene, a chemical group named after the above
Ed Schrock (born 1941), American politician from Virginia
Ed Schrock (Nebraska p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holomorph%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, especially in the area of algebra known as group theory, the holomorph of a group is a group that simultaneously contains (copies of) the group and its automorphism group. The holomorph provides interesting examples of groups, and allows one to treat group elements and group automorphisms in a uniform ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmoo%20%28disambiguation%29 | Shmoo is a cartoon character created by Al Capp in the strip Li'l Abner.
Shmoo or Schmoo may refer to:
Shmoos, nickname of the Cosmic Ray Detection Units of CHICOS (California High School Cosmic Ray Observatory)
Shmoo plot, an electrical engineering graphical display of the response of a component or system
Shmoo ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holomorph | Holomorph may refer to:
Mathematics
Holomorph (mathematics), a group which simultaneously contains (copies of) a group and its automorphism group
Holomorphic functions, the central object of study of complex analysis
Biology
Teleomorph, anamorph and holomorph, applying to portions of the life cycles of fungi in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exist | Exist may refer to:
Existence
eXist, an open source database management system built on XML
Existential quantification, in logic and mathematics (symbolized by ∃, read "exists")
Energetic X-ray Survey Telescope, a proposed hard X-ray imaging all-sky deep survey mission
Exist (album), a studio album by Exo
Exist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthieu%20Ricard | Matthieu Ricard (; , born 15 February 1946) is a Nepalese French writer, photographer, translator and Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.
Matthieu Ricard grew up among the personalities and ideas of French intellectual circles. He received a PhD degree in molecular genetics from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemolysis%20%28microbiology%29 | Hemolysis (from Greek αιμόλυση, meaning 'blood breakdown') is the breakdown of red blood cells. The ability of bacterial colonies to induce hemolysis when grown on blood agar is used to classify certain microorganisms. This is particularly useful in classifying streptococcal species. A substance that causes hemolysis i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain | Strain may refer to:
Science and technology
Strain (biology), variants of plants, viruses or bacteria; or an inbred animal used for experimental purposes
Strain (chemistry), a chemical stress of a molecule
Strain (injury), an injury to a muscle (tear in tendon) in which the muscle fibers tear as a result of over-st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace%20Electronic%20Security%20Act | The Cyberspace Electronic Security Act of 1999 (CESA) is a bill proposed by the Clinton administration during the 106th United States Congress that enables the government to harvest keys used in encryption. The Cyberspace Electronic Security Act gives law enforcement the ability to gain access to encryption keys and cr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atoms%20in%20molecules | In quantum chemistry, the quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM), sometimes referred to as atoms in molecules (AIM), is a model of molecular and condensed matter electronic systems (such as crystals) in which the principal objects of molecular structure - atoms and bonds - are natural expressions of a system's ob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20cryptography | Below is a timeline of notable events related to cryptography.
B.C.
36th century The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing and the Egyptians develop hieroglyphic writing.
16th century The Phoenicians develop an alphabet
600-500 Hebrew scholars make use of simple monoalphabetic substitution ciphers (such as the Atbash... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan%20Mills | Harlan D. Mills (May 14, 1919 – January 8, 1996) was Professor of Computer Science at the Florida Institute of Technology and founder of Software Engineering Technology, Inc. of Vero Beach, Florida (since acquired by Q-Labs). Mills' contributions to software engineering have had a profound and enduring effect on educat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20structure | In differential geometry, a spin structure on an orientable Riemannian manifold allows one to define associated spinor bundles, giving rise to the notion of a spinor in differential geometry.
Spin structures have wide applications to mathematical physics, in particular to quantum field theory where they are an essent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo%20Quisumbing | Eduardo Quisumbíng y Argüelles (Filipino: Eduardo Argüelles Quisumbing; November 11, 1895, Santa Cruz, Laguna – August 23, 1986, Quezon City) was a Filipino biologist, a leading authority of plants in the Philippines.
Education
He earned his BSA in Biology at the University of the Philippines Los Baños in 1918, his M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20planar%20molecular%20geometry | The square planar molecular geometry in chemistry describes the stereochemistry (spatial arrangement of atoms) that is adopted by certain chemical compounds. As the name suggests, molecules of this geometry have their atoms positioned at the corners.
Examples
Numerous compounds adopt this geometry, examples being espe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollcage%20%28video%20game%29 | Rollcage is a racing video game developed by Attention to Detail and published by Psygnosis for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation. A sequel, Rollcage Stage II, was released in 2000 for PlayStation and Windows.
Development
Rollcage was developed by Attention to Detail, and published by Psygnosis. The game's selling poi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Petzold | Charles Petzold (born February 2, 1953) is an American programmer and technical author on Microsoft Windows applications. He is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and was named one of Microsoft's seven Windows Pioneers.
Biography
He graduated with a Master of Science in Mathematics from Stevens Institute of T... |
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