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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin%20Hahn | Erwin Louis Hahn (June 9, 1921 – September 20, 2016) was an American physicist, best known for his work on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). In 1950 he discovered the spin echo.
Education
He grew up in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. He received his B.S. in Physics from Juniata College and his M.S. and Doctor of Philosophy ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Karplus | Martin Karplus (; born March 15, 1930) is an Austrian and American theoretical chemist. He is the Director of the Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, a joint laboratory between the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Strasbourg, France. He is also the Theodore William Richards Professor o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Keller | Joseph Bishop Keller (July 31, 1923 – September 7, 2016) was an American mathematician who specialized in applied mathematics. He was best known for his work on the "geometrical theory of diffraction" (GTD).
Early life and education
Born in Paterson, New Jersey on July 31, 1923, Keller attended Eastside High School, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot%20Meyerowitz | Elliot Meyerowitz (born May 22, 1951) is an American biologist.
Career
Meyerowitz did his undergraduate work at Columbia University (A.B. in biology, 1973), where he worked part-time in the laboratory of Cyrus Levinthal on combined microscopic and computational methods for tracing axons and dendritic trees in the nerv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%20Stork | Gilbert Stork (December 31, 1921 – October 21, 2017) was an organic chemist. For a quarter of a century he was the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Columbia University. He is known for making significant contributions to the total synthesis of natural products, including a lifelong fascination with the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%20Telegdi | Valentine Louis Telegdi (Hungarian: Telegdi Bálint; 11 January 1922 – April 8, 2006) was a Hungarian-born American physicist. He was the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago before he moved to ETH Zürich.
After retiring from ETH he divided his time between CERN and the C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Weissmann | Charles Weissmann (born 14 October 1931) is a Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist. Weissmann is particularly known for the first cloning and expression of interferon and his contributions to the unraveling of the molecular genetics of neurogenerative prion diseases such as scrapie, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and "mad co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Westheimer | Frank Henry Westheimer NAS ForMemRS APS (January 15, 1912 – April 14, 2007) was an American chemist. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1936 to 1954, and at Harvard University from 1953 to 1983, becoming the Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry in 1960, and Professor Emeritus in 1983. The Westheimer medal was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Zare | Richard Neil Zare (born November 19, 1939, in Cleveland, Ohio) is the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science and a Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University. Throughout his career, Zare has made a considerable impact in physical chemistry and analytical chemistry, particularly through the development... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%20School%20of%20Mathematics%20and%20Navigation | Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation () was a Russian educational institution founded by Peter the Great in 1701. Situated in the Sukharev Tower, it provided Russians with technical education for the first time and much of its curriculum was devoted to producing sailors, engineers, cartographers and bombardiers ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengt%20Gustafsson%20%28astronomer%29 | Bengt Gustafsson (born 18 July 1943) is a Swedish astronomer and emeritus professor in theoretical astrophysics at Uppsala University.
He is known for his work in uniting cosmic science with culture and theology, and questioning space science from a humanistic point of view. Gustafsson received an honorary doctorate f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20inhibition | In neurobiology, lateral inhibition is the capacity of an excited neuron to reduce the activity of its neighbors. Lateral inhibition disables the spreading of action potentials from excited neurons to neighboring neurons in the lateral direction. This creates a contrast in stimulation that allows increased sensory per... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abudefduf | Abudefduf, also known as the sergeant-majors, is a genus of fish in the family Pomacentridae.
The name is from Arabic abu, "the one with"; and def, "side", and the intensive plural ending -duf. The name thus means "the one with prominent sides".
General biology
The approximately 20 species of Abudefduf may be divid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMO | SMO or Smo may refer to:
War
Special military operation, the Russian government's name for the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
Biology
Smoothened, a gene that encodes a protein of the same name
Spermine oxidase, an enzyme
Styrene monooxygenase, an enzyme
Computing and technology
Sequential minimal optimization, an al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session%20hijacking | In computer science, session hijacking, sometimes also known as cookie hijacking, is the exploitation of a valid computer session—sometimes also called a session key—to gain unauthorized access to information or services in a computer system. In particular, it is used to refer to the theft of a magic cookie used to aut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohn%E2%80%93Sham%20equations | The Kohn-Sham equations are a set of mathematical equations used in quantum mechanics to simplify the complex problem of understanding how electrons behave in atoms and molecules. They introduce fictitious non-interacting electrons and use them to find the most stable arrangement of electrons, which helps scientists un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Furtivis%20Literarum%20Notis | De Furtivis Literarum Notis (On the Secret Symbols of Letters) is a 1563 book on cryptography written by Giambattista della Porta.
The book includes three sets of cypher discs for coding and decoding messages and a substitution cipher improving on the work of Al-Qalqashandi.
References
1563 books
Cryptography books
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Gunning | Harry Emmet Gunning, (December 16, 1916 – November 24, 2002) was a Canadian scientist and administrator.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree, a Master of Arts degree, and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1942 from the University of Toronto.
In 1957, he was appointed Professor and Chairman... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido%20Beck | Guido Beck (29 August 1903 in Liberec – 21 October 1988 in Rio de Janeiro) was an Argentinian physicist of German Bohemian origin.
Biography
Beck studied physics in Vienna and received his doctorate in 1925, under Hans Thirring. He worked in Leipzig in 1928 as an assistant to Werner Heisenberg. A combination of the tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa%20Epsilon | Kappa Epsilon () is an American professional women's pharmacy fraternity founded in Iowa in 1921. Today, KE has 43 collegiate chapters and ten alumni chapters. Over 20,000 women and men have been initiated into ΚΕ since its founding.
History
Kappa Epsilon was established on May 13, 1921, in the Hall of Pharmacy and C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20effect | The polar effect or electronic effect in chemistry is the effect exerted by a substituent on modifying electrostatic forces operating on a nearby reaction center. The main contributors to the polar effect are the inductive effect, mesomeric effect and the through-space electronic field effect.
An electron-withdrawing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-function | In mathematics, S-function may refer to:
sigmoid function
Schur polynomials
A function in the Laplace transformed 's-domain'
In computer science,
It may be member of a series of graph parameters, see
In physics, it may refer to:
action functional
In MATLAB, it may refer to:
A type of dynamically linked subrouti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Winlock | Joseph Winlock (February 6, 1826 – June 11, 1875) was an American astronomer and mathematician.
Biography
He was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, the grandson of General Joseph Winlock (1758–1831). After graduating from Shelby College in Kentucky in 1845, he was appointed professor of mathematics and astronomy at that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixie%20%28renderer%29 | Pixie is a free (open source), photorealistic raytracing renderer for generating photorealistic images, developed by Okan Arikan in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas At Austin. It is RenderMan-compliant (meaning it reads conformant RIB, and supports full SL shading language shaders) and is b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20topology%20%28object%29 | In mathematics, the geometric topology is a topology one can put on the set H of hyperbolic 3-manifolds of finite volume.
Use
Convergence in this topology is a crucial ingredient of hyperbolic Dehn surgery, a fundamental tool in the theory of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
Definition
The following is a definition due to Tro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBML | The Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) is a representation format, based on XML, for communicating and storing computational models of biological processes. It is a free and open standard with widespread software support and a community of users and developers. SBML can represent many different classes of biologica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuntz%20algebra | In mathematics, the Cuntz algebra , named after Joachim Cuntz, is the universal C*-algebra generated by isometries of an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space satisfying certain relations. These algebras were introduced as the first concrete examples of a separable infinite simple C*-algebra, meaning as a Hilbert space,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas%20kinetics | Gas kinetics is a science in the branch of fluid dynamics, concerned with the study of motion of gases and its effects on physical systems. Based on the principles of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, gas dynamics arises from the studies of gas flows in transonic and supersonic flights. To distinguish itself from o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20W.%20K.%20Rothemund | Paul Wilhelm Karl Rothemund is a research professor at the Computation and Neural Systems department at Caltech. He has become known in the fields of DNA nanotechnology and synthetic biology for his pioneering work with DNA origami. He shared both categories of the 2006 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology with Erik Winfre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplicity%20of%20infection | In microbiology, the multiplicity of infection or MOI is the ratio of agents (e.g. phage or more generally virus, bacteria) to infection targets (e.g. cell). For example, when referring to a group of cells inoculated with virus particles, the MOI is the ratio of the number of virus particles to the number of target cel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-limiting | Self-limiting may refer to:
Self-limiting (biology), an organism or colony of organisms which limits its own growth
Governor (device), used to control the speed of mechanical equipment to prevent it from operating at unsafe speeds
Electronic speed limiter, a system set by a manufacturer or by a driver to limit the ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ross%20%28chemist%29 | John Ross (October 2, 1926 – February 18, 2017) was a scientist in physical chemistry and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.
Unraveling the mechanisms of complex chemical reactions, Ross opened new avenues in physical chemistry through the development of groundbreaking methods... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20B.%20Streater | Stephen Bernard Streater (born 1965) is a British technology entrepreneur.
Career
Streater was born in Boston Lying-In Hospital, Massachusetts, United States. He achieved a degree in mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge and then began a PhD on artificial pattern recognition in the physics department at King's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange%20interaction | In chemistry and physics, the exchange interaction or exchange splitting (with an exchange energy and exchange term) is a quantum mechanical effect that only occurs between identical particles. Despite sometimes being called an exchange force in an analogy to classical force, it is not a true force as it lacks a force ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal%20type%20system | In computer science, a type system is nominal (also called nominative or name-based) if compatibility and equivalence of data types is determined by explicit declarations and/or the name of the types. Nominal systems are used to determine if types are equivalent, as well as if a type is a subtype of another. Nominal ty... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan%20Prize%20%28disambiguation%29 | The Morgan Prize in Mathematics may refer to:
Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student awarded jointly by the American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association of America and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
De Morgan Medal awarded by the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broca%27s%20Brain | Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science is a 1979 book by the astrophysicist Carl Sagan. Its chapters were originally articles published between 1974 and 1979 in various magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Physics Today, Playboy, and Scientific American. In the introduction, Sagan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calogero%20conjecture | The Calogero conjecture is a minority interpretation of quantum mechanics. It is a quantization explanation involving quantum mechanics, originally stipulated in 1997 and further republished in 2004 by Francesco Calogero that suggests the classical stochastic background field to which Edward Nelson attributes quantum ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvington%20High%20School%20%28New%20York%29 | Irvington High School (IHS) is a public high school in Irvington, New York, United States. It is part of the Irvington Union Free School District in Westchester County.
Academics
In 2021, Irvington High School's graduation rate was 98%. Of the school body, 96% are proficient in reading, and 95% are proficient in mathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleofuge | In chemistry, a nucleofuge () is a leaving group which retains the lone pair of electrons from its previous bond with another species. For example, in the SN2 mechanism, a nucleophile attacks an organic compound containing the nucleofuge (the bromo group) which simultaneously breaks the bond with the nucleofuge.
After... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrofuge | In chemistry, an electrofuge is a leaving group which does not retain the lone pair of electrons from its previous bond with another species (in contrast to a nucleofuge, which does). It can result from the heterolytic breaking of covalent bonds.
After this reaction an electrofuge may possess either a positive or a neu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus%20Biemann | Klaus Biemann (November 2, 1926 – June 2, 2016) was an Austrian-American professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work centered on structural analysis in organic and biochemistry. He has been called the "father of organic mass spectrometry" but was particularly noted for his role in adva... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Primack | Joel R. Primack (born July 14, 1945) is a professor of physics and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is a member of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics.
Primack received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1966 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1970. His fields of study a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duhamel%27s%20principle | In mathematics, and more specifically in partial differential equations, Duhamel's principle is a general method for obtaining solutions to inhomogeneous linear evolution equations like the heat equation, wave equation, and vibrating plate equation. It is named after Jean-Marie Duhamel who first applied the principle t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPE | MPE may refer to:
Malignant pleural effusion
Markov perfect equilibrium, in game theory
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, a German research institute
Maximum permissible exposure, the highest power of a light source that is considered safe
Mean Percentage Error, in statistics
Media Processing Eng... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Alembert%27s%20formula | In mathematics, and specifically partial differential equations, d´Alembert's formula is the general solution to the one-dimensional wave equation:
for
It is named after the mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert, who derived it in 1747 as a solution to the problem of a vibrating string.
Details
The characteristics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDAG | PDAG may refer to:
Propositional directed acyclic graph, a data structure in computer science
Mixed graph or partially directed acyclic graph |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSW | PSW may refer to:
PSW Science, the oldest scientific society in Washington, D.C.
Personal Support Worker, Canada
PlayStation World, a UK magazine
Program status word, a control register in IBM mainframe computers
Baillie–PSW primality test in mathematics
Part Submission Warrant in production part approval proces... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Krieger | Andreas Krieger (born 20 July 1965 in East Berlin) is a German former shot putter who competed on the women's East German athletics team at SC Dynamo Berlin as Heidi Krieger.
He was systematically and unknowingly doped with anabolic steroids for years by East German officials, which caused body chemistry issues. Being... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactome | Reactome is a free online database of biological pathways. There are several Reactomes that concentrate on specific organisms, the largest of these is focused on human biology, the following description concentrates on the human Reactome. It is authored by biologists, in collaboration with Reactome editorial staff. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%20conjecture | In mathematics, the Smith conjecture states that if f is a diffeomorphism of the 3-sphere of finite order, then the fixed point set of f cannot be a nontrivial knot.
showed that a non-trivial orientation-preserving diffeomorphism of finite order with fixed points must have a fixed point set equal to a circle, and a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia%20Makhubu | Lydia Phindile Makhubu (1 July 1937 - July 2021) was a Swazi chemist and former professor of chemistry, dean and vice-chancellor of the University of Swaziland (now the University of Eswatini).
Life
She was born at the Usuthu Mission in Swaziland. Her parents were teachers, but her father also worked as an orderly in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracule | An intracule is a quantum mechanical mathematical function for the two electron density which depends not upon the absolute values of position or momentum but rather upon their relative values. Its use is leading to new methods in physics and computational chemistry to investigate the electronic structure of molecules ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated%20Math | Accelerated Math is a daily, progress-monitoring software tool that monitors and manages mathematics skills practice, from preschool math through calculus. It is primarily used by primary and secondary schools, and it is published by Renaissance Learning, Inc. Currently, there are five versions: a desktop version and a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%20Priem | Curtis R. Priem is an American electrical engineer.
He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1982. He designed the first graphics processor for the PC, the IBM Professional Graphics Adapter.
From 1986 to 1993, he was a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, wher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HashClash | HashClash was a volunteer computing project running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform to find collisions in the MD5 hash algorithm. It was based at Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and Marc Stevens initiated the p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triphenylmethyl%20radical | The triphenylmethyl radical (often shorted to trityl radical) is an organic compound with the formula (C6H5)3C. It is a persistent radical. It was the first radical ever to be described in organic chemistry. Because of its accessibility, the trityl radical has been heavily exploited.
Preparation and properties
It ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C2-Bis%28diphenylphosphino%29ethane | 1,2-Bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane (dppe) is an organophosphorus compound with the formula (PhPCH) (Ph = phenyl). It is a commonly used bidentate ligand in coordination chemistry. It is a white solid that is soluble in organic solvents.
Preparation
The preparation of dppe is by the alkylation of NaPPh:
P(CH) + 2 Na → Na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Hermann%20Hupfeld | Gustav Theodor Hans Hermann Hupfeld (November 28, 1905 – November 11, 1942 in Mecklenburg, Germany) was a German physicist known for his work on the scattering of gamma rays.
Early career
Hans-Hermann Hupfeld was born on his parents' farm in Klein-Varchow, Mecklenburg, Germany. He obtained a degree in physics and work... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam%20Gillick | Liam Gillick (born 1964, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire) is a British artist who lives and works in New York City. Gillick deploys multiple forms to make visible the aesthetics of the constructed world and examine the ideological control systems that have emerged along with globalization and neoliberalism. He utilizes mate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Kirshner | Robert P. Kirshner (born August 15, 1949) is an American astronomer, Chief Program Officer for Science for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Clownes Research Professor of Science at Harvard University. Kirshner has worked in several areas of astronomy including the physics of supernovae, supernova remnants... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20model%20%28cryptography%29 | In cryptography the standard model is the model of computation in which the adversary is only limited by the amount of time and computational power available. Other names used are bare model and plain model.
Cryptographic schemes are usually based on complexity assumptions, which state that some problems, such as fact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20pot | The Roman pot is the name of a technique (and of the relevant device) used in accelerator physics. Named after its implementation by the CERN-Rome collaboration in the early 1970s, it is an important tool to measure the total cross section of two particle beams in a collider. They are called pots because the detectors ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Gessert | George Gessert is one of the best-known artists in the contemporary art movement known as bio-art a/k/a BioArt. Gessert began his career as a painter and printmaker, and began breeding plants as an art form in the late 1970s. Beginning in the 1980s, Gessert's work focused on the overlap between art and genetics, and he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20quantization | A first quantization of a physical system is a possibly semiclassical treatment of quantum mechanics, in which particles or physical objects are treated using quantum wave functions but the surrounding environment (for example a potential well or a bulk electromagnetic field or gravitational field) is treated classical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load%20profile | In electrical engineering, a load profile is a graph of the variation in the electrical load versus time. A load profile will vary according to customer type (typical examples include residential, commercial and industrial), temperature and holiday seasons. Power producers use this information to plan how much electr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic%20mean | In mathematics, the logarithmic mean is a function of two non-negative numbers which is equal to their difference divided by the logarithm of their quotient.
This calculation is applicable in engineering problems involving heat and mass transfer.
Definition
The logarithmic mean is defined as:
for the positive numbe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bregman%20divergence | In mathematics, specifically statistics and information geometry, a Bregman divergence or Bregman distance is a measure of difference between two points, defined in terms of a strictly convex function; they form an important class of divergences. When the points are interpreted as probability distributions – notably as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Matrix | O-Matrix is a matrix programming language for mathematics, engineering, science, and financial analysis, marketed by Harmonic Software. The language is designed for use in high-performance computing.
O-Matrix provides an integrated development environment and a matrix-based scripting language. The environment inclu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside%E2%80%93outside%20algorithm | For parsing algorithms in computer science, the inside–outside algorithm is a way of re-estimating production probabilities in a probabilistic context-free grammar. It was introduced by James K. Baker in 1979 as a generalization of the forward–backward algorithm for parameter estimation on hidden Markov models to stoch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton%27s%20pendulums | First demonstrated by Prof Edwin Henry Barton FRS FRSE (1858–1925), Professor of Physics at University College, Nottingham, who had a particular interest in the movement and behavior of spherical bodies, the Barton's pendulums experiment demonstrates the physical phenomenon of resonance and the response of pendulums to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi%20%28disambiguation%29 | Al-Khwarizmi or Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (c. 780 – c. 850) was a Persian scholar who produced works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography.
Al-Khwarizmi may also refer to:
People
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi, 10th-century encyclopedist who wrote Mafātīḥ al-ʿulūm ("Key to the Sciences")
Abū Bakr Muḥammad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive%20value%20%28population%20genetics%29 | Reproductive value is a concept in demography and population genetics that represents the discounted number of future female children that will be born to a female of a specific age. Ronald Fisher first defined reproductive value in his 1930 book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection where he proposed that future o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton%20Ballou | Clinton Edward Ballou (June 18, 1923 – March 8, 2021) was an American academic who was a professor of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focused on the metabolism of carbohydrates and the structures of microbial cell walls. He joined the United States National Academy of Sciences in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkan%20Blout | Elkan Rogers Blout (July 2, 1919 – December 20, 2006) was a biochemist at Polaroid Corporation, Boston Children's Hospital, and the Edward S. Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry, emeritus at Harvard University.
Blout received his BA in chemistry in 1939 from Princeton University, and his Ph.D. in 1942 from Colu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniele%20Barbaro | Daniele Matteo Alvise Barbaro (also Barbarus) (8 February 1514 – 13 April 1570) was an Italian cleric and diplomat. He was also an architect, writer on architecture, and translator of, and commentator on, Vitruvius.
Barbaro's fame is chiefly due to his vast output in the arts, letters, and mathematics. A cultured hum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Euclidean%20crystallographic%20group | In mathematics, a non-Euclidean crystallographic group, NEC group or N.E.C. group is a discrete group of isometries of the hyperbolic plane. These symmetry groups correspond to the wallpaper groups in euclidean geometry. A NEC group which contains only orientation-preserving elements is called a Fuchsian group, and any... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirapril | Spirapril, sold under the brand name Renormax among others, is an ACE inhibitor antihypertensive drug used to treat hypertension. It belongs to dicarboxy group of ACE inhibitors.
It was patented in 1980 and approved for medical use in 1995.
Chemistry
Like many ACE inhibitors, this prodrug is converted to the active m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20type | In mathematics, especially in set theory, two ordered sets and are said to have the same order type if they are order isomorphic, that is, if there exists a bijection (each element pairs with exactly one in the other set) such that both and its inverse are monotonic (preserving orders of elements).
In the special ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona%20theorem | In mathematics, the corona theorem is a result about the spectrum of the bounded holomorphic functions on the open unit disc, conjectured by and proved by .
The commutative Banach algebra and Hardy space H∞ consists of the bounded holomorphic functions on the open unit disc D. Its spectrum S (the closed maximal ide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenie%20Clark | Eugenie Clark (May 4, 1922 – February 25, 2015), popularly known as The Shark Lady, was an American ichthyologist known for both her research on shark behavior and her study of fish in the order Tetraodontiformes. Clark was a pioneer in the field of scuba diving for research purposes. In addition to being regarded as a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20manifold | __notoc__
In mathematics, an algebraic manifold is an algebraic variety which is also a manifold. As such, algebraic manifolds are a generalisation of the concept of smooth curves and surfaces defined by polynomials. An example is the sphere, which can be defined as the zero set of the polynomial and hence is an algeb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adduct | In chemistry, an adduct (; alternatively, a contraction of "addition product") is a product of a direct addition of two or more distinct molecules, resulting in a single reaction product containing all atoms of all components. The resultant is considered a distinct molecular species. Examples include the addition of so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski%20plane | In mathematics, a Minkowski plane (named after Hermann Minkowski) is one of the Benz planes (the others being Möbius plane and Laguerre plane).
Classical real Minkowski plane
Applying the pseudo-euclidean distance on two points (instead of the euclidean distance) we get the geometry of hyperbolas, because a pseudo-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHYLIP | PHYLogeny Inference Package (PHYLIP) is a free computational phylogenetics package of programs for inferring evolutionary trees (phylogenies). It consists of 65 portable programs, i.e., the source code is written in the programming language C. As of version 3.696, it is licensed as open-source software; versions 3.695 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer%20matrix | In mathematics, an integer matrix is a matrix whose entries are all integers. Examples include binary matrices, the zero matrix, the matrix of ones, the identity matrix, and the adjacency matrices used in graph theory, amongst many others. Integer matrices find frequent application in combinatorics.
Examples
and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress%20granule | In cellular biology, stress granules are biomolecular condensates in the cytosol composed of proteins and RNAs that assemble into 0.1–2 μm membraneless organelles when the cell is under stress. The mRNA molecules found in stress granules are stalled translation pre-initiation complexes associated with 40S ribosomal sub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker%20Faire | Maker Faire is a convention of do it yourself (DIY) enthusiasts established by Make magazine in 2006. Participants come from a wide variety of interests, such as robotics, 3D printing, computers, arts and crafts, and hacker culture.
History
In 2005, Dale Dougherty founded Make: magazine as a quarterly publication wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame%20%28linear%20algebra%29 | In linear algebra, a frame of an inner product space is a generalization of a basis of a vector space to sets that may be linearly dependent. In the terminology of signal processing, a frame provides a redundant, stable way of representing a signal. Frames are used in error detection and correction and the design and a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Heath | Thomas Heath may refer to:
Thomas Heath (classicist) (1861–1940), British civil servant, and historian of ancient Greek mathematics
Thomas Heath (cricketer) (1806–1872), cricketer
Thomas Kurton Heath (1853–1938), vaudeville actor
Tommy Heath (born 1947), musician
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger%20%28particle%20physics%29 | In particle physics, a trigger is a system that uses criteria to rapidly decide which events in a particle detector to keep when only a small fraction of the total can be recorded. Trigger systems are necessary due to real-world limitations in computing power, data storage capacity and rates. Since experiments are typi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downwards%20zigzag%20arrow | The symbol ↯ () is a Unicode character. It may refer to:
a contradiction (the relationship between incompatible propositions) in mathematical logic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%20Brady | Roscoe Owen Brady (October 11, 1923 – 13 June 2016) was an American biochemist.
He attended the Pennsylvania State University and obtained his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School in 1947. He interned at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. From 1948 to 1952 he was a post-doctoral fellow in the departmen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20O.%20Brown | Patrick O'Reilly Brown (born 1954) is an American scientist and businessman who is the founder of Impossible Foods Inc. and professor emeritus in the department of biochemistry at Stanford University. Brown is co-founder of the Public Library of Science, inventor of the DNA microarray, and a former investigator at Howa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Buchanan%20%28biologist%29 | John Machlin Buchanan (September 29, 1917 – June 25, 2007) was an American professor of biochemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He arrived at MIT in 1953 and retired in 1988 after a distinguished career in which he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Aca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Flaherty | Paul Andrew Flaherty (March 14, 1964 – March 16, 2006) was an American computer scientist. He was a renowned specialist in Internet protocols and the inventor of the AltaVista search engine.
Biography
Flaherty was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and mathematic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Carbon | John A. Carbon is a professor emeritus of molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Biography
He earned his B.S. degree in chemistry in 1952 at the University of Illinois, and his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry in 1955 from Northwestern University. He did basic research developing ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Espenak | Fred Espenak is a retired emeritus American astrophysicist. He worked at the Goddard Space Flight Center. He is best known for his work on eclipse predictions.
He became interested in astronomy when he was 7–8 years old, and had his first telescope when he was around 9–10 years old. Espenak earned a bachelor's degree ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20Agro%20Dijon | The Institut Agro Dijon is a French grande école located in Dijon, France. The institute specialises in agriculture, food science and environmental science.
History
The school traces its back to the 1960s. In 2009, the National Higher Institute of Agronomic, Food and Environmental Sciences (AgroSup Dijon) was created... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent%20architecture | Agent architecture in computer science is a blueprint for software agents and intelligent control systems, depicting the arrangement of components. The architectures implemented by intelligent agents are referred to as cognitive architectures. The term agent is a conceptual idea, but not defined precisely. It consists ... |
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