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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-up | In chemistry, work-up refers to the series of manipulations required to isolate and purify the product(s) of a chemical reaction. The term is used colloquially to refer to these manipulations, which may include:
deactivating any unreacted reagents by quenching a reaction.
cooling the reaction mixture or adding an an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Messerschmitt | David G. Messerschmitt (born May 21, 1945) is an engineer and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in the UC Berkeley College of Engineering. He retired from UC Berkeley in 2005. At present he is conducting research at Berkeley, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFG | SFG may refer to:
Military
Special Forces Group (Belgium)
Special Forces Group (Japan)
Special Forces (United States Army)#Special Forces groups
Science and Technology
Sum-frequency generation in optical physics
Signal-flow graph
Superior frontal gyrus, in the human brain
Systemic functional grammar
Other
San Franci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Dunn | Arthur Tempest Blakiston Dunn (12 August 1860 in Whitby, Yorkshire – 20 February 1902 in Ludgrove near Barnet, Hertfordshire) was a noted amateur footballer who founded the English boarding school, Ludgrove, in 1892.
Education
Dunn, son of a Cambridge University mathematics professor, was educated at Eton College, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tale | In mathematics, more specifically in algebra, the adjective étale refers to several closely related concepts:
Étale morphism
Formally étale morphism
Étale cohomology
Étale topology
Étale fundamental group
Étale group scheme
Étale algebra
Other
Étale (mountain) in Savoie and Haute-Savoie, France
See also
Étal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Stanhope%2C%202nd%20Earl%20Stanhope | Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl Stanhope, FRS (15 August 1714 – 7 March 1786) was a British peer.
The son of James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, and Lucy Pitt, he succeeded to his father's titles in 1721. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society from 1735, and had a lifelong interest in mathematics. He was elected as a member to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturm%20separation%20theorem | In mathematics, in the field of ordinary differential equations, Sturm separation theorem, named after Jacques Charles François Sturm, describes the location of roots of solutions of homogeneous second order linear differential equations. Basically the theorem states that given two linear independent solutions of such... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois%20Haibt | Lois B. Mitchell Haibt (born 1934) is an American computer scientist best known for being a member of the ten-person team at IBM that developed FORTRAN, the first successful high-level programming language. She is known as an early pioneer in computer science.
Education and career
Haibt studied mathematics at Vassar C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirschberg%27s%20algorithm | In computer science, Hirschberg's algorithm, named after its inventor, Dan Hirschberg, is a dynamic programming algorithm that finds the optimal sequence alignment between two strings. Optimality is measured with the Levenshtein distance, defined to be the sum of the costs of insertions, replacements, deletions, and nu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Bowman | Joel Mark Bowman is an American physical chemist and educator. He currently serves as the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at Emory University.
Publications, awards and affiliations
Bowman is the author or co-author of more than 600 publications and is a member of the International Academy of Qu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20group | In mathematics, the classical groups are defined as the special linear groups over the reals , the complex numbers and the quaternions together with special automorphism groups of symmetric or skew-symmetric bilinear forms and Hermitian or skew-Hermitian sesquilinear forms defined on real, complex and quaternionic fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slosh%20dynamics | In fluid dynamics, slosh refers to the movement of liquid inside another object (which is, typically, also undergoing motion).
Strictly speaking, the liquid must have a free surface to constitute a slosh dynamics problem, where the dynamics of the liquid can interact with the container to alter the system dynamics sig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhancer%20trap | An enhancer trap is a method in molecular biology. The enhancer trap construct contains a transposable element and a reporter gene. The first is necessary for (random) insertion in the genome, the latter is necessary for identification of the spatial regulation by the enhancer. On top of this, the construct usually inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request%E2%80%93response | In computer science, request–response or request–reply is one of the basic methods computers use to communicate with each other in a network, in which the first computer sends a request for some data and the second responds to the request. More specifically, it is a message exchange pattern in which a requestor sends a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete%20homogeneous%20symmetric%20polynomial | In mathematics, specifically in algebraic combinatorics and commutative algebra, the complete homogeneous symmetric polynomials are a specific kind of symmetric polynomials. Every symmetric polynomial can be expressed as a polynomial expression in complete homogeneous symmetric polynomials.
Definition
The complete hom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling%20bath | A cooling bath or ice bath, in laboratory chemistry practice, is a liquid mixture which is used to maintain low temperatures, typically between 13 °C and −196 °C. These low temperatures are used to collect liquids after distillation, to remove solvents using a rotary evaporator, or to perform a chemical reaction below... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Nova%20Gorica | The University of Nova Gorica, UNG (), is the fourth university in Slovenia. It is located in the towns of Nova Gorica, Gorizia (in Italy), Vipava, and Ajdovščina.
History
The University of Nova Gorica grew out of the School of Environmental Sciences founded in 1995 by the City Municipality of Nova Gorica and the Jože... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Cedar | Larry Frank Cedar (born March 6, 1955) is an American voice, film and television actor, best known as one of the players of the Children's Television Workshop mathematics show Square One TV on PBS from 1987 to 1994. He played Max, Alex the Butcher's assistant, in a series of commercials for Kroger in 1989. He is also k... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%20burner | A Crawford burner is a device used to test burn rate (chemistry) of solid propellants. It is also known as a strand burner.
A Crawford burner consists of a small pressure vessel in which a thin bar of propellant to be tested is mounted on a stand. The bar is coated with an external coating so that burning cross-sectio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Shipp%20Marvel | Carl Shipp "Speed" Marvel (September 11, 1894 – January 4, 1988) was an American chemist who specialized in polymer chemistry. He made important contributions to U.S. synthetic rubber program during World War II, and later worked at developing polybenzimidazoles, temperature-resistant polymers that are used in the aero... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Clayden | Jonathan Paul Clayden (born 6 February 1968) is a Professor of organic chemistry at the University of Bristol.
Education
In 1992 he obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge working with Dr Stuart Warren on asymmetric synthesis using phosphine oxide chemistry. He then carried out a postdoc with Prof Marc Julia ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Mason | For the American composer, see Daniel Gregory Mason.
Daniel Mason (born ca. 1976) is an American novelist and physician. He is the author of The Piano Tuner and A Far Country. He was raised in Palo Alto, California, and received a BA in biology from Harvard University, later graduating from the UCSF School of Medicin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-TEC%20Corporation | S-TEC Corporation is a United States corporation that was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Mineral Wells, Texas. It manufactures flight control systems for the General Aviation aftermarket and for a number of original equipment manufacturers. S-TEC is the leader in the general aviation autopilot market for smal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature%20domains | In the branch of mathematics called potential theory, a quadrature domain in two dimensional real Euclidean space is a domain D (an open connected set) together with
a finite subset {z1, …, zk} of D such that, for every function u harmonic and integrable over D with respect to area measure, the integral of u with resp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20White%20%28chemist%29 | John William White FAIP FRACI (25 April 1937 - 16 August 2023) was a Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Research School of Chemistry, at the Australian National University.
He was a past president of Royal Australian Chemical Institute and president of Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Enginee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20White%20%28geophysicist%29 | Robert (Bob) Stephen White (born 12 December 1952) is Professor of Geophysics in the Earth Sciences department at Cambridge University (since 1989) and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1994. He is Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.
Biography
Bob White is also a Fellow of St E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard%20Parkin | Gerard "Ged" F. R. Parkin (born February 15, 1959) is a professor of chemistry at Columbia University.
Biography
Gerard Parkin attended the English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College before working under Malcolm Green during both his undergraduate and graduate studies at Queens College of Oxford University. His wo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering%20and%20Science%20Education%20Program | The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education Program (STEM, formerly Engineering and Science Education Program or ESEP) is a science and mathematics-oriented curriculum devised for high schools in the Philippines. The STEM program is offered by specialized high schools, whether public or private, supe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20sum%20symmetric%20polynomial | In mathematics, specifically in commutative algebra, the power sum symmetric polynomials are a type of basic building block for symmetric polynomials, in the sense that every symmetric polynomial with rational coefficients can be expressed as a sum and difference of products of power sum symmetric polynomials with rati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryoji%20Noyori%20Prize | The Ryoji Noyori Prize was established by the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan in 2002 to commemorate Ryōji Noyori winning the 101st Nobel Prize in Chemistry as well as the 60th anniversary of the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry. The prize is given "to recognize and encourage outstanding contributio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaisser%E2%80%93Hillas%20function | The Gaisser–Hillas function is used in astroparticle physics. It parameterizes the longitudinal particle density in a cosmic ray air shower. The function was proposed in 1977 by Thomas K. Gaisser and Anthony Michael Hillas.
The number of particles as a function of traversed atmospheric depth is expressed as
where ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilpotent%20orbit | In mathematics, nilpotent orbits are generalizations of nilpotent matrices that play an important role
in representation theory of real and complex semisimple Lie groups and semisimple Lie algebras.
Definition
An element X of a semisimple Lie algebra g is called nilpotent if its adjoint endomorphism
ad X: g → g, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular%20Lie%20algebra | In mathematics, a modular Lie algebra is a Lie algebra over a field of positive characteristic.
The theory of modular Lie algebras is significantly different from the theory of real and complex Lie algebras. This difference can be traced to the properties of Frobenius automorphism and to the failure of the exponential... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho%20Chi%20Minh%20City%20University%20of%20Agriculture%20and%20Forestry | Nong Lam University Ho Chi Minh City Viet Nam () or Nong Lam University () is a comprehensive university in Thủ Đức, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The university offers 46 majors, such as: Agronomy, Agricultural Engineering, Forestry, Animal Sciences Fisheries, Food Technology, Environmental Science, Foreign Languages, Bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal%20prime | In mathematics, the term minimal prime may refer to
Minimal prime ideal, in commutative algebra
Minimal prime (recreational mathematics), the minimal prime number satisfying some property |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Hook%20Richens | Richard Hook Richens (1919–1984) was a botanist and an early researcher in Computational Linguistics.
Botany
R. H. Richens was the Director of the Commonwealth Bureau of Plant Breeding and Genetics (part of the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux) at Cambridge University, and became best known for his studies of elm (U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20P.%20Winfree | William Paul Winfree (born 9 March 1951) is an American experimental physicist who is known for his contributions to the field of nondestructive evaluation.
Winfree received his B.A. in 1973 from George Mason University, where he graduated magna cum laude and was awarded the department citation as the outstanding unde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangin%27-A-Round | Hangin'-A-Round was the name of the robotics contest at the 2006-2007 FIRST Vex Challenge (FVC). The contest involved building a robot from a kit that could attain a higher score than the opposition by placing the softballs into the colored goals, possessing the “atlas ball”, and by being parked on the platform or hang... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Kozerski | Bruce Kozerski (born April 2, 1962) is a former American football center who played twelve seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals in the National Football League (NFL). He graduated from James M. Coughlin High School in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA with a maj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Chu | "Anne Chu was born in 1959 in New York City. Her parents came from China, and her father was a mathematics professor at Columbia University. When she was in middle school, her family moved to Westchester County, north of the city. She graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts) in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20R.%20Hough | Richard Ralston Hough (; 1917 – July 9, 1992) was a Bell Labs engineer and AT&T executive.
Biography
Hough was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and attended Trenton High School. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1939 and a graduate degree in 1940 in electrical engineering from Princeton University. While at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%E2%80%93Luecke%20theorem | In mathematics, the Gordon–Luecke theorem on knot complements states that if the complements of two tame knots are homeomorphic, then the knots are equivalent. In particular, any homeomorphism between knot complements must take a meridian to a meridian.
The theorem is usually stated as "knots are determined by their... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius%20aromaticity | In organic chemistry, Möbius aromaticity is a special type of aromaticity believed to exist in a number of organic molecules. In terms of molecular orbital theory these compounds have in common a monocyclic array of molecular orbitals in which there is an odd number of out-of-phase overlaps, the opposite pattern compar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20applications%20of%20nanotechnology | As the world's energy demand continues to grow, the development of more efficient and sustainable technologies for generating and storing energy is becoming increasingly important. According to Dr. Wade Adams from Rice University, energy will be the most pressing problem facing humanity in the next 50 years and nanotec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diederich%20Hinrichsen | Diederich Hinrichsen (born 17 February 1939) is a German mathematician who, together with Hans W. Knobloch, established the field of dynamical systems theory and control theory in Germany.
Life and work
Diederich Hinrichsen was born in 1939, and studied mathematics, physics, literature, philosophy, and economics from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mathematics%20of%20Magic%3A%20The%20Enchanter%20Stories%20of%20L.%20Sprague%20de%20Camp%20and%20Fletcher%20Pratt | The Mathematics of Magic: The Enchanter Stories of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt is an omnibus collection of seven fantasy stories by American science fiction and fantasy authors L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, gathering material previously published in three volumes as The Incomplete Enchanter (1941), ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef%20Gos%C5%82awski%20%28architect%29 | Józef Gosławski, also known as Iosif Vikentievich Goslavsky (; 1865 – 30 January 1904) was a Polish architect mainly active in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Life and contributions
Józef Gosławski was born near Warsaw in Congress Poland to a noble Polish family. In 1891, he graduated from the Institute of Civil Engineering in Sai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20C.%20Browne | John C. Browne (born July 29, 1942) is an American physicist.
Biography
He was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania as the fifth child of Charles I. and Mary Agnes (Titzer) Browne. He received a B.S. in physics from Drexel University (1965). He received a Ph.D. in physics from Duke University (1969). His thesis was titled... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism | Superdeterminism describes the set of local hidden-variable theories consistent with the results of experiments derived from Bell's theorem which include a local correlation between the measurement settings and the state being measured. Superdeterministic theories are not interpretations of quantum mechanics, but deep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerr%20Grant | Professor Sir Kerr Grant (1878-1967) was an Australian physicist and a significant figure in higher education administration in South Australia in the first half of the twentieth century.
Kerr Grant was born in the then rural town of Bacchus Marsh, near Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria in 1878. He studie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20S.%20Bali | Gurmukh Singh Bali (27 July 1954 – 30 October 2021) was a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Nagrota Bagwan, Himachal Pradesh, India. He was born on 27 July 1954 at Kangra. He had a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering. He got married on 20 June 1977. He was the Transport, Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20desktop | In computer science, the semantic desktop is a collective term for ideas related to changing a computer's user interface and data handling capabilities so that data are more easily shared between different applications or tasks and so that data that once could not be automatically processed by a computer could be. It a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Zhitkov | Boris Stepanovich Zhitkov (; – 19 October 1938) was a writer from the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union, mainly known as the author of children's books and the novel Viktor Vavich about the 1905 Russian Revolution.
Biography
Zhitkov was born in Novgorod; his father worked as a mathematics teacher and his mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favorskii%20reaction | The Favorskii reaction is an organic chemistry reaction between an alkyne and a carbonyl group, under basic conditions. The reaction was discovered in the early 1900s by the Russian chemist Alexei Yevgrafovich Favorskii.
When the carbonyl is an aldehyde (R"=H), a rearrangement can occur to generate enone, although the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Cox | Harold Cox (1859 – 1 May 1936) was a Liberal MP for Preston from 1906 to 1910.
Early life
The son of Homersham Cox, a County Court judge, Cox was educated at Tonbridge School in Kent and was scholar and later fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge where he took a Mathematics degree in 1882. He later lectured on Political... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystalline%20cohomology | In mathematics, crystalline cohomology is a Weil cohomology theory for schemes X over a base field k. Its values Hn(X/W) are modules over the ring W of Witt vectors over k. It was introduced by and developed by .
Crystalline cohomology is partly inspired by the p-adic proof in of part of the Weil conjectures and i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Higgins%20%28chemist%29 | William Higgins (1763 – June 1825), an Irish chemist, was one of the early proponents of atomic theory. Known mainly for his speculative ideas on chemical combination, William Higgins is popular for the insights his life offers into the emergence of chemistry as a career during the British Industrial Revolution. Despi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilenberg%E2%80%93Zilber%20theorem | In mathematics, specifically in algebraic topology, the Eilenberg–Zilber theorem is an important result in establishing the link between the homology groups of a product space and those of the spaces and . The theorem first appeared in a 1953 paper in the American Journal of Mathematics by Samuel Eilenberg and Joseph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton%20reaction | The Barton reaction, also known as the Barton nitrite ester reaction, is a photochemical reaction that involves the photolysis of an alkyl nitrite to form a δ-nitroso alcohol.
Discovered in 1960, the reaction is named for its discoverer, Nobel laureate Sir Derek Barton. Barton's Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1969 was aw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20field%20splitting | Zero field splitting (ZFS) describes various interactions of the energy levels of a molecule or ion resulting from the presence of more than one unpaired electron. In quantum mechanics, an energy level is called degenerate if it corresponds to two or more different measurable states of a quantum system. In the presence... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudisch%20reaction | In organic chemistry, the Baudisch reaction is a process for the synthesis of nitrosophenols using metal ions. Although the products are of limited value, the reaction is of historical interest as an example of metal-promoted functionalization of aromatic substrates.
History and Mechanism
As described originally by Os... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilenberg%E2%80%93Moore%20spectral%20sequence | In mathematics, in the field of algebraic topology, the Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence addresses the calculation of the homology groups of a pullback over a fibration. The spectral sequence formulates the calculation from knowledge of the homology of the remaining spaces. Samuel Eilenberg and John C. Moore's origina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilane | In organic chemistry, bilane is a compound with the formula or . It is a tetrapyrrole, a class of compounds with four independent pyrrole rings. Specifically, the molecule can be described as four pyrrole molecules connected in an open chain by three methylene bridges at carbons adjacent to the nitrogens, replacing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrative%20bioinformatics | Integrative bioinformatics is a discipline of bioinformatics that focuses on problems of data integration for the life sciences.
With the rise of high-throughput (HTP) technologies in the life sciences, particularly in molecular biology, the amount of collected data has grown in an exponential fashion. Furthermore, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt%20reaction | In organic chemistry, the Schmidt reaction is an organic reaction in which an azide reacts with a carbonyl derivative, usually an aldehyde, ketone, or carboxylic acid, under acidic conditions to give an amine or amide, with expulsion of nitrogen. It is named after Karl Friedrich Schmidt (1887–1971), who first reported ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Weiss%20%28mathematician%29 | Alan Weiss (born December 5, 1955) is an American mathematician, a pioneer in the usage of large deviations theory in performance evaluation and related areas.
Weiss received his B.Sc. in mathematics and physics from Case Western Reserve University taking courses from Lajos Takács and being advised by Arthur J. Lohw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime%20algebra | In mathematical physics, spacetime algebra (STA) is a name for the Clifford algebra Cl1,3(R), or equivalently the geometric algebra . According to David Hestenes, spacetime algebra can be particularly closely associated with the geometry of special relativity and relativistic spacetime.
It is a vector space that allow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20E.%20Fox | George Edward Fox (born December 17, 1945) is an astrobiologist, a Professor Emeritus and researcher at the University of Houston. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Hough | Sir James Hough (born 6 August 1945) is a British physicist and an international leader in the search for gravitational waves.
Career and research
Hough has held the following professional positions:
Professor of experimental physics at the University of Glasgow.
Director of the Institute of Gravitational Research... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfonylurea%20receptor | In molecular biology, the sulfonylurea receptors (SUR) are membrane proteins which are the molecular targets of the sulfonylurea class of antidiabetic drugs whose mechanism of action is to promote insulin release from pancreatic beta cells. More specifically, SUR proteins are subunits of the inward-rectifier potassium... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20L.%20Day%20Prize%20and%20Lectureship | The Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "to a scientist making new contributions to the physics of the Earth whose four to six lectures would prove a solid, timely, and useful addition to the knowledge and literature in the field." The prize was established by the phy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adding%20a%20Dimension | Adding a Dimension is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the third of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1964.
Contents
Part I: Mathematics
T-Formation (Au... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Beilinson | Alexander A. Beilinson (born 1957) is the David and Mary Winton Green University professor at the University of Chicago and works on mathematics. His research has spanned representation theory, algebraic geometry and mathematical physics. In 1999, Beilinson was awarded the Ostrowski Prize with Helmut Hofer.
In 2017... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Shapiro | James Shapiro may refer to:
Jim Shapiro (attorney), American attorney
Jim Shapiro (drummer) (born 1965), American rock musician
James Shapiro (physician), British-born Canadian doctor who developed the Edmonton protocol
James A. Shapiro (born 1943), American professor of biochemistry and molecular biology
James S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Yee | Nick Yee is an American researcher who studies self-representation and social interaction in virtual environments.
Biography
Yee earned his bachelor's degree in psychology from Haverford College (with a concentration in computer science) and received his Ph.D. in communication from Stanford University in 2007. He was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20algebra%20%28disambiguation%29 | In mathematics, a geometric algebra is a specific algebraic structure. The term is also used as a blanket term for the theory of geometric algebras.
Geometric algebra may also refer to:
Algebraic geometry
Algebraic geometry and analytic geometry
Analytic geometry
%C3%89l%C3%A9ments de g%C3%A9om%C3%A9trie alg%C3%A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince%20White | Gregory Stuart Lee White (born 31 March 1960) better known as Vince White, is a British guitarist, best known as one of the guitarists recruited by The Clash to replace Mick Jones after he was fired from the band in 1983.
Biography
Vince White was born in Marylebone, London, England, on 31 March 1960.
White graduated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edyth%20May%20Sliffe%20Award | The Edyth May Sliffe Award is given annually to (roughly) 20 teachers in the United States by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). The awards are funded by a bequest from a retired high school mathematics teacher named Edyth May Sliffe, of Emeryville, California. Her purpose was to award high school teachers ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise%20Manahan-Vaughan | Denise Manahan-Vaughan is an Irish neuroscientist and neurophysiologist. She is head of the Department of Neurophysiology, dean of studies and director of the International Graduate School of Neuroscience and co-founder of the Research Department of Neuroscience (founded in 2008) of the Ruhr University Bochum. Her res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CM-field | In mathematics, a CM-field is a particular type of number field, so named for a close connection to the theory of complex multiplication. Another name used is J-field.
The abbreviation "CM" was introduced by .
Formal definition
A number field K is a CM-field if it is a quadratic extension K/F where the base field F ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia-Chiao%20Lin | Chia-Chiao Lin (; 7 July 1916 – 13 January 2013) was a Chinese-born American applied mathematician and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Lin made major contributions to the theory of hydrodynamic stability, turbulent flow, mathematics, and astrophysics.
Biography
Lin was born in Beijin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali%20S.%20Banerjee | Kali S. Banerjee (September 17, 1914 – April 9, 2002) was a math and statistics expert, and a professor of statistics at the University of Delaware.
He was born in Dhaka, (now in Bangladesh) in 1914. He earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and his master's and doctoral degrees in statistics from the University... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumford%20conjecture | There are several conjectures in mathematics by David Mumford.
Mumford's conjecture about reductive groups, now called Haboush's theorem.
The Mumford conjecture on the cohomology of the stable mapping class group, proved by Ib Madsen and Michael Weiss.
The Manin-Mumford conjecture about Jacobians of curves, proved b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrin%20beta%202 | In molecular biology, CD18 (Integrin beta chain-2) is an integrin beta chain protein that is encoded by the ITGB2 gene in humans. Upon binding with one of a number of alpha chains, CD18 is capable of forming multiple heterodimers, which play significant roles in cellular adhesion and cell surface signaling, as well as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilengitide | Cilengitide (EMD 121974) is a molecule designed and synthesized at the Technical University Munich in collaboration with Merck KGaA in Darmstadt. It is based on the cyclic peptide cyclo(-RGDfV-), which is selective for αv integrins, which are important in angiogenesis (forming new blood vessels), and other aspects of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorosulfonate | Fluorosulfonate, in organic chemistry, is a functional group that has the chemical formula F-SO2-R, and typically is a very good leaving group. In organic chemistry, fluorosulfonate is different than fluorosulfate. In fluorosulfonates, sulfur atom is directly bonded to a non-oxygen atom such as carbon. In inorganic che... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Murphy%20%28writer%29 | Margaret Murphy (born 14 April 1959) is a British crime writer.
Biography
Margaret Murphy was born and brought up in Liverpool, Lancashire where she gained a degree in Environmental Biology at the University of Liverpool and later an MA with Distinction in Writing at Liverpool JMU, a course on which she lectured for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20A.%20Rosenblith | Walter A. Rosenblith (September 21, 1913 – May 1, 2002) was a biophysicist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was elected to all three National Academies (National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine).
From 1943 to 1947 Rosenblith... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Omohundro | Stephen Malvern Omohundro (born 1959) is an American computer scientist whose areas of research include Hamiltonian physics, dynamical systems, programming languages, machine learning, machine vision, and the social implications of artificial intelligence. His current work uses rational economics to develop safe and be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20formula | In mathematics, Green formula may refer to:
Green's theorem in integral calculus
Green's identities in vector calculus
Green's function in differential equations
the Green formula for the Green measure in stochastic analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Nuzzo | Ralph G. Nuzzo, born February 23, 1954, in Paterson, New Jersey, is an American chemist and professor. Nuzzo is a researcher in the chemistry of materials, including processes that occur at surfaces and interfaces. His work has led to new techniques for fabricating and manipulating materials at the nano scale level, in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s%20Mart%C3%ADnez%20Trueba | Andrés Martínez Trueba (11 February 1884 – 19 December 1959) was the President of Uruguay from 1951 to 1955.
Background
Martínez Trueba was born in Montevideo and grew up in the Peñarol area, graduating from university with a degree in pharmaceutical chemistry.
Earlier career
He pursued a career as an army officer,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Alan%20Fox | Richard Alan Fox (born July 1943 in Perth, Australia) was an Australian medical physicist. He was the son of Alan Fox, a businessman, and Rosalind née Morris.
Biography
While initially educated at Aquinas College. He was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship and studied physics at the University of Western Australia. In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Strothotte | Thomas Strothotte is a German-Canadian computer scientist and university administrator living in Germany.
Strothotte was born in 1959 in Regina, Canada, and raised in Vancouver. His first degrees were taken at Simon Fraser University (a B.Sc. in Physics (1980) and an M.Sc. in Computer Science (1981)). His further grad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20biochemistry | The history of biochemistry can be said to have started with the ancient Greeks who were interested in the composition and processes of life, although biochemistry as a specific scientific discipline has its beginning around the early 19th century. Some argued that the beginning of biochemistry may have been the disco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew%20Nnaji | Bartholomew Nnaji is a Nigerian engineer, innovator and one of the inventors of the E-Design concept.
Biography
He was born in Enugu State, Nigeria and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics at St John's University, New York USA. He then proceeded to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural%20and%20Forest%20Meteorology | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on the relationships between meteorology and the fields of plant, animal, and soil sciences, ecology, and biogeochemistry. The editor-in-chief is Claudia Wagner-Riddle (University of Guelph).
According to the Journal Citation R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio%20Verd%C3%BA | Sergio Verdú (born Barcelona, Spain, August 15, 1958) is a former professor of electrical engineering and specialist in information theory. Until September 22, 2018, he was the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he taught and conducted research on information theory in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Robert%20McAlpine | Sir Robert McAlpine Limited is a family-owned building and civil engineering company based in Hemel Hempstead, England. It carries out engineering and construction in the infrastructure, heritage, commercial, arena and stadium, healthcare, education and nuclear sectors.
History
Robert McAlpine was born in 1847 in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machu%20Picchu%20Base | The Machu Picchu Scientific Base is a Peruvian polar scientific research facility in Antarctica, established to conduct Antarctic research on geology, climatology and biology. More specifically, its purpose is to study the continent's geological past, potential sea resources, wind strengths, air pollution, and the anim... |
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