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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%20Kutzelnigg
Werner Kutzelnigg (September 10, 1933 – November 24, 2019 in Bochum) was a prominent Austrian-born theoretical chemist and professor in the Chemistry Faculty, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. Kutzelnigg was born in Vienna. His most significant contributions were in the following fields: relativistic quantum chemistry,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Radom
Leo Radom (born 13 December 1944) is a computational chemist and Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sydney. He attended North Sydney Boys High School. He has a PhD and a DSc from the University of Sydney and carried out postdoctoral research under the late Sir John Pople. Previously, he was Professor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%20Yung-Jui
Chen Yung-Jui received his BS in Physics from National Tsing Hua University in 1969 and Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania (1976). After a brief postdoctoral period at Penn, he joined the Advanced Microelectronic Laboratory at McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co. in 1977. From 1980 to 1987, Dr. Chen condu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trygve%20Helgaker
Trygve Helgaker (born August 11, 1953, in Porsgrunn, Norway) is professor of chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, Norway. He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, 2005. He has written more than 200 scientific papers, and the book, Molecular Electronic-Structure Theo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney%20J.%20Bartlett
Rodney Joseph Bartlett (born March 31, 1944 in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.) is Graduate Research Professor of Chemistry and Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. Career He received his B.Sc. degree from Millsaps College in 1966 and Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1971. Bartlett was an NDEA and IBM pre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Wright%20%28author%29
William Connor Wright Jr. (October 22, 1930 – June 4, 2016) was an American author, editor and playwright. He is best known for his non fiction writing covering a wildly divergent list of subjects: from the April in Paris Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria to genetics and behavior to true crime and grand opera. The great H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximate%20string%20matching
In computer science, approximate string matching (often colloquially referred to as fuzzy string searching) is the technique of finding strings that match a pattern approximately (rather than exactly). The problem of approximate string matching is typically divided into two sub-problems: finding approximate substring ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerino%20Mazzola
Guerino Bruno Mazzola (born 1947) is a Swiss mathematician, musicologist, and jazz pianist, as well as a writer. Education and career Mazzola obtained his PhD in mathematics at University of Zürich in 1971 under the supervision of Herbert Groß and Bartel Leendert van der Waerden. In 1980, he habilitated in Algebraic G...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian%20Thrun
Sebastian Thrun (born May 14, 1967) is a German-American entrepreneur, educator, and computer scientist. He is CEO of Kitty Hawk Corporation, and chairman and co-founder of Udacity. Before that, he was a Google VP and Fellow, a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and before that at Carnegie Mellon Uni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jantar%20Mantar
A Jantar Mantar (Hindustani pronunciation: [d͡ʒən̪t̪ər mən̪t̪ər]) is an assembly of stone-built astronomical instruments, designed to be used with the naked eye. There were five Jantar Mantars in India. All were built at the command of the Rajah Jai Singh II, who had a keen interest in mathematics, architecture and ast...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves%20Lavandier
Yves Lavandier (born 2 April 1959) is a French film writer and director. Biography Yves Lavandier was born on 2 April 1959. After receiving a degree in civil engineering, he studied film at Columbia University, New York, between 1983 and 1985. Miloš Forman, František Daniel, Stefan Sharff, Brad Dourif, Larry Engel and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Humphreys
David Russell Humphreys is an American physicist who advocates for young Earth creationism. He holds a PhD in physics and has proposed a theory for the origin of the universe which allegedly resolves the distant starlight problem that exists in young Earth creationism. Education and affiliations Humphreys graduated wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infradian%20rhythm
In chronobiology, an infradian rhythm is a rhythm with a period longer than the period of a circadian rhythm, i.e., with a frequency of less than one cycle in 24 hours. Some examples of infradian rhythms in mammals include menstruation, breeding, migration, hibernation, molting and fur or hair growth, and tidal or seas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order%20arithmetic
In mathematical logic, second-order arithmetic is a collection of axiomatic systems that formalize the natural numbers and their subsets. It is an alternative to axiomatic set theory as a foundation for much, but not all, of mathematics. A precursor to second-order arithmetic that involves third-order parameters was i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20revolution
In the history of chemistry, the chemical revolution, also called the first chemical revolution, was the reformulation of chemistry during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which culminated in the law of conservation of mass and the oxygen theory of combustion. During the 19th and 20th century, this transform...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule-second
The joule-second (symbol J⋅s or J s) is the unit of action and of angular momentum in the International System of Units (SI) equal to the product of an SI derived unit, the joule (J), and an SI base unit, the second (s). The joule-second is a unit of action or of angular momentum. The joule-second also appears in quant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle%20number%20operator
In quantum mechanics, for systems where the total number of particles may not be preserved, the number operator is the observable that counts the number of particles. The following is in bra–ket notation: The number operator acts on Fock space. Let be a Fock state, composed of single-particle states drawn from a bas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Adams
Roger Adams (January 2, 1889 – July 6, 1971) was an American organic chemist who developed the eponymous Adams' catalyst, and helped determine the composition of natural substances such as complex vegetable oils and plant alkaloids. He isolated and identified CBD in 1940. As head of the Chemistry department at the Univ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20S.%20Engel
Michael S. Engel, FLS, FRES (born September 24, 1971) is an American paleontologist and entomologist, notable for contributions to insect evolutionary biology and classification. In connection with his studies he has undertaken field expeditions in Central Asia, Asia Minor, the Levant, Arabia, eastern Africa, the high...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas%20tree%20%28disambiguation%29
A Christmas tree is a festive decoration. It may also refer to: Biology Metrosideros excelsa, the pohutukawa, a New Zealand plant also known as the Christmas tree Nuytsia floribunda, a West Australian plant of the genus Nuytsia, also known as the Christmas tree Spirobranchus giganteus, a small, tube-building poly...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability%20current
In quantum mechanics, the probability current (sometimes called probability flux) is a mathematical quantity describing the flow of probability. Specifically, if one thinks of probability as a heterogeneous fluid, then the probability current is the rate of flow of this fluid. It is a real vector that changes with spac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSH
DSH, Dsh or dsh may refer to: Biology Dishevelled (Dsh), a family of proteins Domestic shorthaired cat, the house cat Deutscher Schäferhund, German for German Shepherd Dog Health Deliberate self-harm, a psychological condition involving self-inflicted injuries Disproportionate share hospital, a U.S. hospital servin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salluste%20Duval
Clarent-Salluste-Hermycle Duval (February 1852 – July 1917) was a Canadian doctor of medicine, inventor, engineer, organist, musician and professor of Mathematics & Mechanics at Université Laval and at the École Polytechnique de Montréal. Duval is primarily known for his improvements to the organ. Personal life Famil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Miller
Victor Miller may refer to: Victor A. Miller (1916–1984), Attorney General of Wisconsin Victor J. Miller (1888–1955), mayor of Saint Louis Victor S. Miller (born 1947), independent co-creator of elliptic curve cryptography Victor Miller (writer) (born 1940), television and film writer Victor Miller (Jericho), char...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPL
TPL may refer to: Biology and chemistry Thromboplastin Time-Place learning Companies and organizations Tallinn French School () Terumo Penpol, a subsidiary of Terumo Corp., Japan Texas Pacific Land Trust The Trust for Public Land Toronto Public Library Touch Paper Lane, a gang located in North London, Great Bri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro%20compound
In organic chemistry, spiro compounds are compounds that have at least two molecular rings with only one common atom. The simplest spiro compounds are bicyclic (having just two rings), or have a bicyclic portion as part of the larger ring system, in either case with the two rings connected through the defining single c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Pershan
Peter S. Pershan is a prominent American physicist. Education and career Peter Pershan earned his B.S. at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1956 and his Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University in 1960 for nuclear magnetic resonance under the supervision of Nicolaas Bloembergen. After a short postdoctoral appointment...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan%20Malygin
Stepan Gavrilovich Malygin () (unknown-1 August 1764) was a Russian Arctic explorer. Malygin studied at the Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation from 1711 to 1717. After his graduation, Malygin began his career as a naval cadet and was then promoted to the rank of lieutenant four years later. He served in the B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifid
Bifid refers to something that is split or cleft into two parts. It may refer to: Bifid, a variation in the P wave, R wave, or T wave in an echocardiogram in which a wave which usually has a single peak instead has two separate peaks Bifid cipher, a type of cipher in cryptography Bifid penis Bifid nose, a split n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray%20reflectivity
X-ray reflectivity (sometimes known as X-ray specular reflectivity, X-ray reflectometry, or XRR) is a surface-sensitive analytical technique used in chemistry, physics, and materials science to characterize surfaces, thin films and multilayers. It is a form of reflectometry based on the use of X-rays and is related to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20permutation%20topics
This is a list of topics on mathematical permutations. Particular kinds of permutations Alternating permutation Circular shift Cyclic permutation Derangement Even and odd permutations—see Parity of a permutation Josephus permutation Parity of a permutation Separable permutation Stirling permutation Superpattern Tran...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20theorem
In real analysis and complex analysis, branches of mathematics, the identity theorem for analytic functions states: given functions f and g analytic on a domain D (open and connected subset of or ), if f = g on some , where has an accumulation point in D, then f = g on D. Thus an analytic function is completely det...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakurai%20Prize
The J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, is presented by the American Physical Society at its annual April Meeting, and honors outstanding achievement in particle physics theory. The prize consists of a monetary award (US$10,000), a certificate citing the contributions recognized by the award, and a tr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valuation%20of%20options
In finance, a price (premium) is paid or received for purchasing or selling options. This article discusses the calculation of this premium in general. For further detail, see: for discussion of the mathematics; Financial engineering for the implementation; as well as generally. Premium components This price can be ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak%20solution
In mathematics, a weak solution (also called a generalized solution) to an ordinary or partial differential equation is a function for which the derivatives may not all exist but which is nonetheless deemed to satisfy the equation in some precisely defined sense. There are many different definitions of weak solution, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canalisation%20%28genetics%29
Canalisation is a measure of the ability of a population to produce the same phenotype regardless of variability of its environment or genotype. It is a form of evolutionary robustness. The term was coined in 1942 by C. H. Waddington to capture the fact that "developmental reactions, as they occur in organisms submitte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Jastrow
Joseph Jastrow (January 30, 1863 – January 8, 1944) was a Polish-born American psychologist notorious for inventions in experimental psychology, design of experiments, and psychophysics. He also worked on the phenomena of optical illusions, and a number of well-known optical illusions (notably the Jastrow illusion) tha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20College%20of%20Engineering%20%28Pakistan%29
The Military College of Engineering (MCE) is an engineering college located at Risalpur in Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It was established by Pakistan Army. MCE conducts courses for officers which includes civil engineering, Transportation engineering, Structural engineering, Geotechnical engineeri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybridity
Hybridity, in its most basic sense, refers to mixture. The term originates from biology and was subsequently employed in linguistics and in racial theory in the nineteenth century. Its contemporary uses are scattered across numerous academic disciplines and is salient in popular culture. Hybridity is used in discourses...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boicho%20Kokinov
Boicho Kokinov (, 27 December 1960 – 10 May 2013) was an associate professor in cognitive science and computer science at the New Bulgarian University and the director of the Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science. He was the main organizer of the series of the Annual Summer Schools in Cognitive Scienc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20and%20East%20European%20Center%20for%20Cognitive%20Science
The Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science (also as CEEC of Cognitive Science ) at the New Bulgarian University undertakes research in fundamental and applied cognitive science. Research topics include: memory, thinking, language, learning, perception, context, applications to robotics, AI, and cognitiv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUST%20School%20of%20Electrical%20Engineering%20and%20Computer%20Science
NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (NUST-SEECS), formerly NUST Institute of Information Technology, is a constituent school in Islamabad, Pakistan. It was created on a self-financed basis in April 1999 as a constituent college of National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan (NUST). T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%20Callan
Curtis Gove Callan Jr. (born October 11, 1942) is an American theoretical physicist and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He has conducted research in gauge theory, string theory, instantons, black holes, strong interactions, and many other topics. He was awa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Streater
Raymond Frederick Streater (born 1936) is a British physicist, and professor emeritus of Applied Mathematics at King's College London. He is best known for co-authoring a text on quantum field theory, the 1964 PCT, Spin and Statistics and All That. Life Ray Streater was born on 21 April 1936 in Three Bridges in th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background%20field%20method
In theoretical physics, background field method is a useful procedure to calculate the effective action of a quantum field theory by expanding a quantum field around a classical "background" value B: . After this is done, the Green's functions are evaluated as a function of the background. This approach has the advant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pion%20decay%20constant
In particle physics, the pion decay constant is the square root of the coefficient in front of the kinetic term for the pion in the low-energy effective action. It is dimensionally an energy scale and it determines the strength of the chiral symmetry breaking. The values are: Beware: There are several conventions whic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%20Warburg
Emil Gabriel Warburg (; 9 March 1846 – 28 July 1931) was a German physicist who during his career was professor of physics at the Universities of Strassburg, Freiburg and Berlin. He was president of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft 1899–1905. His name is notably associated with the Warburg element of electrochem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiral%20symmetry%20breaking
In particle physics, chiral symmetry breaking generally refers to the dynamical spontaneous breaking of a chiral symmetry associated with massless fermions. This is usually associated with a gauge theory such as quantum chromodynamics, the quantum field theory of the strong interaction, and it also occurs through the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoscalar
In particle physics, isoscalar refers to the scalar transformation of a particle or field under the SU(2) group of isospin. Isoscalars are a singlet state, with total isospin 0 and the third component of isospin 0, much like a singlet state in a 2-particle addition of spin. Mesons which have all flavor quantum numbers ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isovector
In particle physics, isovector refers to the vector transformation of a particle under the SU(2) group of isospin. An isovector state is a triplet state with total isospin 1, with the third component of isospin either 1, 0, or -1, much like a triplet state in the two-particle addition of Spin. See also Isoscalar Refe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staggered%20conformation
In organic chemistry, a staggered conformation is a chemical conformation of an ethane-like moiety abcX–Ydef in which the substituents a, b, and c are at the maximum distance from d, e, and f; this requires the torsion angles to be 60°. It is the opposite of an eclipsed conformation, in which those substituents are as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard%20M.%20Sessler
Gerhard M. Sessler (born 15 February 1931 in Rosenfeld, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) is a German inventor and scientist. He is Professor emeritus at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Together with James E. West, he co-invented the foil electret ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20%26%20Justice
Science & Justice is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of forensics published by Elsevier on behalf of the Forensic Science Society and the International Society for Forensic Genetics. The journal was established in 1960 as the Journal of the Forensic Science Society and obtained its current name in 1995. One notable...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%2031-8
ISO 31-8 is the part of international standard ISO 31 that defines names and symbols for quantities and units related to physical chemistry and molecular physics. Quantities and units Notes In the tables of quantities and their units, the ISO 31-8 standard shows symbols for substances as subscripts (e.g., cB, wB, pB)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi%20Hasegawa
Takashi Hasegawa is an electrical engineer and programmer, who works at the Optoelectronic System Laboratory of Hitachi Cable, Ltd. Hasegawa graduated with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Nagoya University. As a student, he created MLVWM, or Macintosh-Like Virtual Window Manager and released the code to the pub...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munish%20Chander%20Puri
Munish Chander Puri (15 August 1939 – 28 December 2005) was Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at IIT Delhi. He was Organizing Chair, Asia Pacific Operational Research Societies (APORS). He was killed in Bangalore in the 2005 Indian Institute of Science shooting. Career Puri did his B.Sc (Hons.) mathematics in 1960, M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Eliava%20Institute
The George Eliava Institute of Bacteriophage, Microbiology and Virology (aka Tbilisi Institute) has been active since the 1930s in the field of phage therapy, which is used to combat microbial infection (cf. antibiotic-resistant strains). History The institute was opened in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1923, and was a bacteri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20P.%20McCahill
Mark Perry McCahill (born February 7, 1956) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He has developed and popularized a number of Internet technologies since the late 1980s, including the Gopher protocol, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), and POPmail. Career Mark McCahill received a BA in chemistry at ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware%20architect
(In the automation and engineering environments, the hardware engineer or architect encompasses the electronics engineering and electrical engineering fields, with subspecialities in analog, digital, or electromechanical systems.) The hardware systems architect or hardware architect is responsible for: Interfacing wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain%20termination
In polymer chemistry, chain termination is any chemical reaction that ceases the formation of reactive intermediates in a chain propagation step in the course of a polymerization, effectively bringing it to a halt. Mechanisms of termination In polymer chemistry, there are several mechanisms by which a polymerization...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concave
Concave or concavity may refer to: Science and technology Concave lens Concave mirror Mathematics Concave function, the negative of a convex function Concave polygon, a polygon which is not convex Concave set The concavity of a function, determined by its second derivative See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Thibaut
George Frederick William Thibaut (March 20, 1848 – 1914) was a German Indologist notable for his contributions to the understanding of ancient Indian mathematics and astronomy. Life Thibaut was born in Germany, worked briefly in England, and then in 1875, was appointed Professor at the Government Sanskrit College, Va...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dai%20Zhen
Dai Zhen (, January 19, 1724 – July 1, 1777) was a Chinese philosopher of the Qing dynasty. Hailing from Xiuning, Anhui Dai was a versatile scholar who made great contributions to mathematics, geography, phonology and philosophy. His philosophical and philological critiques of Neo-Confucianism continue to be influenti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Cryonics%20Society
The American Cryonics Society (ACS), also known as the Cryonics Society of America, is a member-run, California-based, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization that supports and promotes research and education into cryonics and cryobiology. Cryonics is the low-temperature freezing (usually at ) and storage of a huma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26A
A&A may refer to: Computing, science and technology Astronomy and Astrophysics, a scientific journal Anesthesia & Analgesia, a medical journal Entertainment Several related games within the "Axis & Allies" franchise which all deal with World War II combat: Axis & Allies, a series of strategy board games Axis & ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle%20physics%20and%20representation%20theory
There is a natural connection between particle physics and representation theory, as first noted in the 1930s by Eugene Wigner. It links the properties of elementary particles to the structure of Lie groups and Lie algebras. According to this connection, the different quantum states of an elementary particle give rise ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HRP
HRP may refer to: Political parties Happiness Realization Party, a Japanese political party Haryana Republican Party, a political party in Haryana, India Human Rights Party (disambiguation) Science, technology, and medicine Horseradish peroxidase, an enzyme used as a marker HRP Rescuer, an American helicopter H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevremovac
The Jevremovac Botanical Garden () is the botanical garden of the University of Belgrade and also a surrounding urban neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. The garden is located in Belgrade's municipality of Stari Grad and is an administered by the University of Belgrade's Biology School. It has been declared a natural mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalescence%20%28physics%29
Coalescence is the process by which two or more droplets, bubbles, or particles merge during contact to form a single daughter droplet, bubble, or particle. Coalescence manifests itself from a microscopic scale in meteorology to a macroscopic scale in astrophysics. For example, it is seen in the formation of raindrops ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion%20group
In group theory, a branch of mathematics, a torsion group or a periodic group is a group in which every element has finite order. The exponent of such a group, if it exists, is the least common multiple of the orders of the elements. For example, it follows from Lagrange's theorem that every finite group is periodic ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash%20trie
In computer science, hash trie can refer to: Hash tree (persistent data structure), a trie used to map hash values to keys A space-efficient implementation of a sparse trie, in which the descendants of each node may be interleaved in memory. (The name is suggested by a similarity to a closed hash table.) A data s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent%20Hailpern
Brent Hailpern is a computer scientist retired from IBM Research. His research work focused on programming languages, software engineering, and concurrency. Education Dr. Hailpern received his B.S. degree, summa cum laude, in Mathematics from the University of Denver (Denver, Colorado) in 1976, and his M.S. and Ph.D....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20Research%20Laboratory
The Physical Research Laboratory ( PRL; Hindi: भौतिक अनुसंधान प्रयोगशाला, IAST: Bhoutik Anusandhan Prayogashala) is a National Research Institute for space and allied sciences, supported mainly by Department of Space, Government of India. This research laboratory has ongoing research programmes in astronomy and astroph...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linking%20immunoprecipitation
Cross-linking and immunoprecipitation (CLIP, or CLIP-seq) is a method used in molecular biology that combines UV crosslinking with immunoprecipitation in order to identify RNA binding sites of proteins on a transcriptome-wide scale, thereby increasing our understanding of post-transcriptional regulatory networks. CLIP ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s%20theorem
Wigner's theorem, proved by Eugene Wigner in 1931, is a cornerstone of the mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics. The theorem specifies how physical symmetries such as rotations, translations, and CPT are represented on the Hilbert space of states. The physical states in a quantum theory are represented by un...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socle
Socle may refer to: Socle (mathematics), an algebraic object generated by minimal subobjects or by an eigenspace of an automorphism Socle (architecture), a plinth that supports a pedestal, statue, or column
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socle%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, the term socle has several related meanings. Socle of a group In the context of group theory, the socle of a group G, denoted soc(G), is the subgroup generated by the minimal normal subgroups of G. It can happen that a group has no minimal non-trivial normal subgroup (that is, every non-trivial normal ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsallis%20entropy
In physics, the Tsallis entropy is a generalization of the standard Boltzmann–Gibbs entropy. Overview The concept was introduced in 1988 by Constantino Tsallis as a basis for generalizing the standard statistical mechanics and is identical in form to Havrda–Charvát structural α-entropy, introduced in 1967 within infor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghassan%20Andoni
Ghassan Andoni () (born 1956) is a native of Beit Sahour in the Bethlehem area. He is a professor of physics at Bir Zeit University, and a Palestinian Christian leader who advocates nonviolent resistance in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Andoni is co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), founder ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namihei%20Odaira
was a Japanese entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Hitachi. Life Odaira was born on January 15, 1874, in Ienaka, Shimotsuga, Tochigi Prefecture (present-day Tsugamachi Kassenba, Tochigi), the second son of Odaira Sōhachi and Chiyo. In 1900, he graduated from the electrical engineering department of Tokyo Imp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YNE
YNE, or similar, may refer to: -yne, a suffix used in organic chemistry for names of alkynes Lang'e language, a Loloish language of Yunnan, China Norway House Airport, Norway House, Manitoba, Canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baire%20function
In mathematics, Baire functions are functions obtained from continuous functions by transfinite iteration of the operation of forming pointwise limits of sequences of functions. They were introduced by René-Louis Baire in 1899. A Baire set is a set whose characteristic function is a Baire function. Classification of B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20Neil%20Davis
Thomas Neil Davis (February 1, 1932 – December 10, 2016) was a professor of geophysics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the author of several books. Born in Greeley, Colorado, Davis received his B.S in geophysics from University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1955, an M.S. in geophysics from California Institute of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBP
KBP can mean: Kabye language, ISO 639-3 code Knowledge-based_processor, used for processing packets in computer networks Kilo-base pair (kb or kbp), a unit of measurement of DNA or RNA length used in genetics Boryspil International Airport, its IATA airport code KBP Instrument Design Bureau, a weapons manufacture...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Sussman
Joel L. Sussman (born September 24, 1943) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for his studies on acetylcholinesterase, a key protein involved in transmission of nerve signals. He is the Morton and Gladys Pickman Professor of Structural Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot and its director of th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojka%20Pavilion
Sojka Pavilion is a 4,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. It was built in 2003 and is home to the Bucknell University Bison basketball teams, replacing nearby Davis Gym. It is named for Dr. Gary Allan Sojka, a former president of the university who remained at the university as a professor of biol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner%27s%20disease
Wagner's disease is a familial disease of the eye that can cause reduced visual acuity. Wagner's disease was originally described in 1938. This disorder was frequently confused with Stickler syndrome, but lacks the systemic features and high incidence of retinal detachments. Inheritance is autosomal dominant. Genetics...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Indiana%20College%20Mathematics%20Competition
The Indiana College Mathematics Competition, originally The Friendly Mathematics Competition, is held each year by the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America. History "The Friendly Mathematics Competition" was founded at Wabash College in 1965 by Professor Paul T. Mielke. Today it is known as "The ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Shigo
Alex L. Shigo (May 8, 1930 – October 6, 2006) was a biologist, plant pathologist with the United States Forest Service whose studies of tree decay resulted in many improvements to standard arboricultural practices. He travelled and lectured widely to promote understanding of tree biology among arborists and foresters....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-unit%20recording
In neuroscience, single-unit recordings (also, single-neuron recordings) provide a method of measuring the electro-physiological responses of a single neuron using a microelectrode system. When a neuron generates an action potential, the signal propagates down the neuron as a current which flows in and out of the cel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Stoneham
Thomas William Charles Stoneham is a British philosopher. He has published on a range of topics in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical logic, and the philosophy of George Berkeley. Currently, Stoneham is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York (since August 2008) and Head of the Department of Philosophy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak%20Pomeranchuk
Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk ( (Polish spelling: Isaak Jakowliewicz Pomieranczuk); 20 May 1913, Warsaw, Russian Empire – 14 December 1966, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet physicist of Polish origin in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons. His career in physics spent mostly studying the particle physics (including ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASEP
ASEP may mean: Asep, a male given name from Sundanese American Society of Exercise Physiologists Asymmetric simple exclusion process, in statistical physics Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines, Inc Supreme Council for Personnel Selection (Anótat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shou-Wu%20Zhang
Shou-Wu Zhang (; born October 9, 1962) is a Chinese-American mathematician known for his work in number theory and arithmetic geometry. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. Biography Early life Shou-Wu Zhang was born in Hexian, Ma'anshan, Anhui, China on October 9, 1962. Zhang grew up i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taubes
Taubes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Clifford Taubes (born 1954), professor of mathematics at Harvard Taubes's Gromov invariant, mathematical concept named after Clifford Taubes Jacob Taubes (1923-1987), religion sociologist, philosopher and studied Judaism Gary Taubes, science journalist ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20State%20University%20Agricultural%20Technical%20Institute
The Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute (Ohio State ATI) is a satellite campus of Ohio State University in Wooster, Ohio. It grants associate degrees from the university's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. The institute practices open admissions. The curriculum includes gener...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20Agricultural%20Research%20and%20Development%20Center
Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) is the research institution of the Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. The center is home to research projects ranging from plant and animal sciences to human ecology and medicine, and includes branches across the st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream%20%28Quiet%20Sun%20album%29
Mainstream is the only album of the UK band Quiet Sun. The band had originally split up in 1972. Phil Manzanera joined Roxy Music, Bill MacCormick joined Matching Mole, Charles Hayward joined This Heat and Dave Jarrett became a mathematics teacher. In 1975, Manzanera booked a studio for 26 days to record his first so...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan%20Harris%20Walker
Evan Harris Walker (1935 – August 17, 2006), was an American physicist and parapsychologist. Biography Walker was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland in 1964. He received over a dozen patents and published more than a hundred papers in scientific journals. Wal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysorbate%2080
Polysorbate 80 is a nonionic surfactant and emulsifier often used in pharmaceuticals, foods, and cosmetics. This synthetic compound is a viscous, water-soluble yellow liquid. Chemistry Polysorbate 80 is derived from polyethoxylated sorbitan and oleic acid. The hydrophilic groups in this compound are polyethers also kn...