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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petzval%20lens
The Petzval objective or Petzval lens is the first photographic portrait objective lens (with a 160 mm focal length) in the history of photography. It was developed by the Hungarian mathematics professor Joseph Petzval in 1840 in Vienna, with technical advice provided by . The Voigtländer company went on to build the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan%20Bernsee
Stephan Bernsee (born 1971) is a digital signal processing applications developer from Germany. Background Bernsee is the founder of the audio software company Prosoniq and the principal developer of the sound synthesis technology used in the Hartmann Neuron series of synthesizers, the audio timescale-pitch modificat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20L.%20Hurd
Peter L. Hurd is an academic specialising in biology. He is an Associate Professor aligned to the Department of Psychology's Biocognition Unit, and the University's Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Alberta. His research primarily focuses on the study of the evolution of aggressive behaviour, including inves...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Buchanan
Mark Buchanan (born October 31, 1961, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American outreach physicist and author. He was formerly an editor with the international journal of science Nature, and the popular science magazine New Scientist. He has been a guest columnist for the New York Times, and currently writes a monthly column ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Ram%C3%B3n%20Lacadena
Juan Ramón Lacadena Calero (born 14 November 1934) is a Spanish agronomical engineer. Lacadena was born at Zaragoza. He studied in the Escuela Especial de Ingenieros Agrónomos in Madrid. He has been collaborator in CSIC, professor of Genetics in the UCM, head of the Department of Genetics in the Universidad de La Lag...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krikor%20Agopian
Krikor Agopian is a Canadian-Armenian painter. Career He studied commercial, fashion, industrial, and furniture design as a young adult while receiving his education in Canada. He was accepted to Concordia University as a candidate for a degree in electrical engineering thanks to his innovations. After a design course...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra%20Muslim%20College
Andhra Muslim College, founded in 1984, is located in Guntur City, India. It offers graduate and undergraduate courses. It is recognized by the Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur. History The city campus was established in 1984. Departments Courses: Bachelors in Arts, Science, Mathematics References External li...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20multipole%20analysis
In computational chemistry, distributed multipole analysis (DMA) is a compact and accurate way of describing the spatial distribution of electric charge within a molecule. Multipole expansion The DMA method was devised by Prof. Anthony Stone of Cambridge University to describe the charge distribution of a molecule in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20bisimulation
In theoretical computer science, probabilistic bisimulation is an extension of the concept of bisimulation for fully probabilistic transition systems first described by K.G. Larsen and A. Skou. A discrete probabilistic transition system is a triple where gives the probability of starting in the state s, performin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larson%20%28surname%29
Larson is a Scandinavian patronymic surname meaning "son of Lars". "Lars" is derived from the Roman name "Laurentius", which means "from Laurentum" or "crowned with laurel." There are various spellings. As a surname (last name), Larson may refer to: People Science and mathematics Edward Larson, American historian ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Leissa
Arthur W. Leissa is an American scientist specializing in the vibrations and dynamics of continuous systems fields. Education Arthur Leissa went to the Ohio State University as an undergraduate, earning bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering in 1954. He worked for a year in industry before returning...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koh%20Boon%20Hwee
Koh Boon Hwee, DUBC (; born 1950) is a Singaporean businessman. Education Koh was educated at Saint Andrew's School, Singapore. He went on to receive a first class honours degree in mechanical engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, and an MBA (Distinction) from the Harva...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian%20%C5%9Awi%C4%99s
Florian Święs (; born September 24, 1939) is a full professor of Biology and Earth Sciences at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. In 1992 he became the Head of the Geobiology Division at the Institute of Biology. He received his MA from UMCS in 1962, his Ph.D in 1968, and became a professor in 1992. Books Świę...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowgrounds%3A%20Survivor
Shadowgrounds: Survivor is a top-down shooter game developed by Frozenbyte as the sequel to Shadowgrounds. It features three new playable characters, a new "Survival" mode, graphics enhanced from its predecessor, and an integrated physics engine. Gameplay Like Shadowgrounds, the game is a fast-paced top-down shooter....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAMP
IAMP may refer to: Immaterial and Missing Power International Association of Mathematical Physics International Association for Military Pedagogy International Advanced Manufacturing Park, a business part in Washington, UK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield%20Extraction-Assist%20Robot
The Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot (BEAR) is a remotely controlled robot developed by Vecna Robotics for use in the extraction of wounded soldiers from the battlefield with no risk to human life. The humanoid robot uses a powerful hydraulics system to carry humans and other heavy objects over long distances and ro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogier%20Windhorst
Rogier Arnold Windhorst (born 1955) is an astronomer and a professor of physics and astronomy at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in astronomy in 1984 from the University of Leiden and did post doctorate work at Mt.Wilson and Las Campanas Observatories. He currently serves as associate chair at Arizona S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger%20of%20Mathematics
The Messenger of Mathematics is a defunct British mathematics journal. The founding editor-in-chief was William Allen Whitworth with Charles Taylor and volumes 1–58 were published between 1872 and 1929. James Whitbread Lee Glaisher was the editor-in-chief after Whitworth. In the nineteenth century, foreign contribution...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermentas
Fermentas was a biotechnology company specializing in the discovery and production of molecular biology products for life science research and diagnostics. Since 2010, Fermentas has been part of Thermo Fisher Scientific. Corporate profile In 2003, Fermentas consolidated its international business and set up a control...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20of%20Chemistry%2C%20University%20of%20Edinburgh
The School of Chemistry is a school of the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) the school was ranked sixth in the UK. History and alumni The teaching of Chemistry at Edinburgh began in 1713 when James Crawford was appointed to the 'Chair of Physik and Chymistry' (where ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite
Infinite may refer to: Mathematics Infinite set, a set that is not a finite set Infinity, an abstract concept describing something without any limit Music Infinite (group), a South Korean boy band Infinite (EP), debut EP of American musician Haywyre, released in 2012 Infinite (Eminem album), the debut album of Americ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20Resonance%20in%20Chemistry
Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the application of NMR, ESR, and NQR spectrometry in all branches of chemistry. The journal was established in 1969 and is published by John Wiley & Sons. The editors-in-chief are Roberto R. Gil (Carnegie Mellon University) and Gary...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superprocess
An -superprocess, , within mathematics probability theory is a stochastic process on that is usually constructed as a special limit of near-critical branching diffusions. Informally, it can be seen as a branching process where each particle splits and dies at infinite rates, and evolves according to a diffusion equat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20materials-testing%20resources
Materials testing is used to assess product quality, functionality, safety, reliability and toxicity of both materials and electronic devices. Some applications of materials testing include defect detection, failure analysis, material development, basic materials science research, and the verification of material prope...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20R.%20Simpson
William R. Simpson (born July 25, 1966) is an American chemist. He is a pioneer in the field of snow chemistry. He is also a current researcher at University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute and International Arctic Research Center and an associate professor in the chemistry department. He is the principal in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise%20Johnson
Dame Louise Napier Johnson, (26 September 1940 – 25 September 2012), was a British biochemist and protein crystallographer. She was David Phillips Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the University of Oxford from 1990 to 2007, and later an emeritus professor. Education Johnson attended Wimbledon High School for Girl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heun%27s%20method
In mathematics and computational science, Heun's method may refer to the improved or modified Euler's method (that is, the explicit trapezoidal rule), or a similar two-stage Runge–Kutta method. It is named after Karl Heun and is a numerical procedure for solving ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with a given initi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20P.%20Boas
Harold P. Boas (born June 26, 1954) is an American mathematician. Life Boas was born in Evanston, Illinois, United States. He is the son of two noted mathematicians, Ralph P. Boas, Jr and Mary L. Boas. Education He received his A.B. and S.M. degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1976 and his Ph.D....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airflow%20Sciences%20Corporation
Airflow Sciences Corporation (ASC) is an engineering consulting company based in Livonia, Michigan, USA that specializes in the design and optimization of equipment and processes involving flow, heat transfer, combustion, and mass transfer. Engineering techniques include Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling, ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Mitchell%20Nuttall
John Mitchell Nuttall (21 July 1890 – 28 January 1958) was an English physicist, born in Todmorden. He is best remembered for his work with the physicist Hans Geiger, which resulted in the Geiger–Nuttall law of radioactive decay. Nuttall graduated from the University of Manchester in 1911 and was appointed Assistant L...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20cryptosystem
In cryptography, a hybrid cryptosystem is one which combines the convenience of a public-key cryptosystem with the efficiency of a symmetric-key cryptosystem. Public-key cryptosystems are convenient in that they do not require the sender and receiver to share a common secret in order to communicate securely. However, t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Anderson%20%28physicist%29
Scott Anderson (June 26, 1913 – October 1, 2006) was the founder of Anderson Physics Laboratory in Urbana, Illinois (the predecessor of APL Engineered Materials), a leading provider of metal halides and amalgams to the lighting industry. He received 11 U.S. patents. He received his B.S. from Illinois Wesleyan Univers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Jacobsen%20%28chemist%29
Eric N. Jacobsen (born February 22, 1960, in New York City, New York) is the Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry and former chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University. He is a prominent figure in the field of organic chemistry and is best known for the development of the Jacobsen ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Wright%20%28civil%20engineer%29
Benjamin Wright (October 10, 1770 – August 24, 1842) was an American civil engineer who was chief engineer of the Erie Canal and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. In 1969, the American Society of Civil Engineers declared him the "Father of American Civil Engineering". Early life Wright was born in Wethersfield, Connectic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Kreisel
Georg Kreisel FRS (September 15, 1923 – March 1, 2015) was an Austrian-born mathematical logician who studied and worked in the United Kingdom and America. Biography Kreisel was born in Graz and came from a Jewish background; his family sent him to the United Kingdom before the Anschluss in 1938. He studied mathematic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20Organometallic%20Chemistry
Applied Organometallic Chemistry is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1987 by John Wiley & Sons. The editor-in-chief is Cornelis J. Elsevier (University of Amsterdam). Contents The journal includes: reviews full papers communications working methods papers crystallographic reports It a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Molecular%20Recognition
The Journal of Molecular Recognition is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original research papers and reviews describing molecular recognition phenomena in biology. The current editor-in-chief is Marc H. V. van Regenmortel (École supérieure de biotechnologie Strasbourg). It was established in 1988 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytochemical%20Analysis
Phytochemical Analysis is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1991 and published by John Wiley & Sons. It covers research on the utilization of analytical methodology in Plant Chemistry. The current editor-in-chief is Prof Satyajit Sarker (Liverpool John Moores University) and Managing Editor i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Spence%20%28Canadian%20politician%29
George Spence, (October 25, 1880 – March 4, 1975) was a Canadian provincial and federal politician. Born in Birsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland, the son of Thomas Spence and Elizabeth Hunter, he studied electrical engineering at the Leith Academy Technical College and emigrated to Canada in 1900 to pan for gold in the Y...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose%20transform
In theoretical physics, the Penrose transform, introduced by , is a complex analogue of the Radon transform that relates massless fields on spacetime, or more precisely the space of solutions to massless field equations to sheaf cohomology groups on complex projective space. The projective space in question is the twi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Physical%20Organic%20Chemistry
The Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal, published since 1988 by John Wiley & Sons. It covers research in physical organic chemistry in its broadest sense and is available both online and in print. The current editor-in-chief is Rik Tykwinski (University of Alberta). Hig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvature%20of%20a%20measure
In mathematics, the curvature of a measure defined on the Euclidean plane R2 is a quantification of how much the measure's "distribution of mass" is "curved". It is related to notions of curvature in geometry. In the form presented below, the concept was introduced in 1995 by the mathematician Mark S. Melnikov; accordi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Experimental%20and%20Theoretical%20Physics
The Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics (JETP) [ (ЖЭТФ), or Zhurnal Éksperimental'noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki (ZhÉTF)] is a peer-reviewed Russian bilingual scientific journal covering all areas of experimental and theoretical physics. For example, coverage includes solid-state physics, elementary particles,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panofsky%20%28disambiguation%29
Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968) was a German art historian who worked in the U.S. Panofsky may also refer to: Panofsky Prize, awarded in the field of particle physics People with the surname Aaron Panofsky, American sociologist Dora Panofsky (1885-1965), German-American art historian Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, German-A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tejal%20A.%20Desai
Tejal Ashwin Desai (born June 3, 1972) is Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering at Brown University. Prior to joining Brown, she was the Deborah Cowan Endowed Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at University of California, San Francisco, Director of the Health Innovations via Engineer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%27s%20continued%20fraction
In complex analysis, Gauss's continued fraction is a particular class of continued fractions derived from hypergeometric functions. It was one of the first analytic continued fractions known to mathematics, and it can be used to represent several important elementary functions, as well as some of the more complicated t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Lefkowitz
Robert Joseph Lefkowitz (born April 15, 1943) is an American physician (internist and cardiologist) and biochemist. He is best known for his groundbreaking discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family G protein-coupled receptors, for which he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Bri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striped%20nerite
The striped nerite, scientific name Theodoxus transversalis, is a species of small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites. Distribution The distribution of this species is Danubian. Fehér et al. (2012) revealed in their conservation genetics study, that ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Kragujevac%20Gymnasium
The First Grammar School of Kragujevac () is a high school located in Kragujevac, Serbia. Founded in 1833, the school is the oldest Serbian high school south of the Sava - Danube line. Studying profiles The school comprises three educational tracks: Scientific (chemistry, math, physics, biology) Social Studies and L...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s%20conjecture
The mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) made several different conjectures which are all called Euler's conjecture: Euler's sum of powers conjecture Euler's conjecture (Waring's problem) Euler's Graeco-Latin square conjecture Mathematics disambiguation pages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-selectride
L-selectride is a chemical compound with the chemical formula . It is a colorless liquid. It is an organoborane. It is used in organic chemistry as a reducing agent, for example in the reduction of a ketone, as part of Overman's synthesis of strychnine. Under certain conditions, L-selectride can selectively reduce eno...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baum%E2%80%93Connes%20conjecture
In mathematics, specifically in operator K-theory, the Baum–Connes conjecture suggests a link between the K-theory of the reduced C*-algebra of a group and the K-homology of the classifying space of proper actions of that group. The conjecture sets up a correspondence between different areas of mathematics, with the K...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%20Feng
Milton Feng co-created the first transistor laser, working with Nick Holonyak in 2004. The paper discussing their work was voted in 2006 as one of the five most important papers published by the American Institute of Physics since its founding 75 years ago. In addition to the invention of transistor laser, he is also w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Possingham
Hugh Phillip Possingham, FAA (born 21 July 1962), is the former Queensland Chief Scientist and is best known for his work in conservation biology, applied ecology, and basic ecological theory including population ecology. He is also a professor of mathematics, Professor of Zoology and an ARC Laureate Fellow in the Depa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy%20Letters
Astronomy Letters (Russian: Pis’ma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal) is a Russian peer-reviewed scientific journal. The journal covers research on all aspects of astronomy and astrophysics, including high energy astrophysics, cosmology, space astronomy, theoretical astrophysics, radio astronomy, extra galactic astronomy, ste...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud%20Doria%20Haviland
Maud Doria Brindley née Haviland (10 February 1889 – 3 April 1941) was an English ornithologist, entomologist, explorer, lecturer, photographer and writer. She conducted studies on bugs and also examined bird biology while at Cambridge and on her travels in Siberia, central Europe, and South America. Early life Havi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Laws%20of%20Physics
The Laws of Physics (Science & Discovery) () is a book by Milton A. Rothman, published in 1963. It describes some fundamental laws of physics in language that is both easy and pleasant to read. References Popular physics books 1963 non-fiction books
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stott%20Parker
Douglass Stott Parker (December 31, 1952 – October 4, 2022) was a professor of computer science at UCLA from 1979 to his retirement in 2016, specializing in Data Mining, Bioinformatics, Database Management, Scientific Data Management and Modeling. Parker was an investigator in the UCLA Center for Computational Biology...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl%20integral
In mathematics, the Weyl integral (named after Hermann Weyl) is an operator defined, as an example of fractional calculus, on functions f on the unit circle having integral 0 and a Fourier series. In other words there is a Fourier series for f of the form with a0 = 0. Then the Weyl integral operator of order s is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20DeGrado
William (Bill) DeGrado (born 1955) is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, where he is the Toby Herfindal Presidential Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. As an early pioneer of protein design, he coined the term de novo protein design. He i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry%20Is%20What%20We%20Are
Chemistry Is What We Are is the debut album by the English rock band Simian. It was released on 9 July 2001 on Source Records in the UK and on 18 September 2001 on Astralwerks (with two bonus tracks) in the US. Track listing "Drop and Roll" – 6:25 "The Wisp" – 4:15 "Doba" – 5:14 "You Set Off My Brain" – 4:21 "How Coul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Olney
Louis Atwell Olney (1875, Providence, Rhode Island, United States – 1949) was a pioneering textile chemist and educator. He was the founder and first president of the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists which in 1944 established the Olney Medal, in his honor, to recognize outstanding achievements in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Isaac%20Weissman
Dr Samuel Isaac Weissman (June 25, 1912 – June 12, 2007) was an American chemist and professor best known for his work on the application of electron spin resonance (ESR) to chemistry. Weissman was born in South Bend, Indiana in 1912. He completed a chemistry degree at the University of Chicago in 1933 and his doctora...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemical%20equivalent
In chemistry, the electrochemical equivalent (Eq or Z) of a chemical element is the mass of that element (in grams) transported by a specific quantity of electricity, usually expressed in grams per coulomb of electric charge. The electrochemical equivalent of an element is measured with a voltameter. Definition The e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20E.%20Kyburg%20Jr.
Henry E. Kyburg Jr. (1928–2007) was Gideon Burbank Professor of Moral Philosophy and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester, New York, and Pace Eminent Scholar at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, Florida. His first faculty posts were at Rockefeller Institute, University of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20complex
In mathematics, specifically Homological algebra, a double complex is a generalization of a chain complex where instead of having a -grading, the objects in the bicomplex have a -grading. The most general definition of a double complex, or a bicomplex, is given with objects in an additive category . A bicomplex is a se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septoria%20secalis
Septoria secalis also known as Septoria Leaf Blotch is a fungal plant pathogen infecting rye. Morphology & Biology Septoria secalis is a common disease that mainly attacks rye leaves. Small spots appear between leaf veins, elongate, then turn yellow-brown and become pale. The disease appears most often on seedling le...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puccinia%20recondita
Puccinia recondita is a fungus species and plant pathogen belonging to the order of Pucciniales and family Pucciniaceae. Distribution This fungal species occurs worldwide. Biology It is a heteroecious fungus, macrocyclic, and has five distinct life-stages of development: teliospores, basidiospores, and urediniospores...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose%20acetate%20isobutyrate
Sucrose acetoisobutyrate (SAIB) is an emulsifier and has E number E444. In the United States, SAIB is categorized as generally recognized as safe (GRAS) as a food additive in cocktail mixers, beer, malt beverages, or wine coolers and is a potential replacement for brominated vegetable oil. Chemistry SAIB can be prep...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin%20recognition
Kin recognition, also called kin detection, is an organism's ability to distinguish between close genetic kin and non-kin. In evolutionary biology and psychology, such an ability is presumed to have evolved for inbreeding avoidance, though animals do not typically avoid inbreeding. An additional adaptive function some...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron%20W.%20Wentz
Myron W. Wentz is the founder, chairman and former CEO of USANA Health Sciences, a Utah-based multi-level marketing company that produces nutritional products and dietary supplements. Education Wentz holds a BSc degree in biology from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, an MSc degree in microbiology from th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC-10
AMC-10 may refer to: AMC-10 (satellite), a communications satellite that belonged to SES Americom USS Longspur (AMc-10), the USS Longspur was a coastal minesweeper that belonged to the United States Navy AMC 10, the American Mathematics Competitions for students in grades 10 and below
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altairnano
Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. is an American company specializing in the development and manufacturing of energy storage systems for efficient power and energy management. Altair Nantechnologies designs advanced lithium-ion energy systems and batteries. Battery technology Altairnano's best-known product are their lithi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20McClellan
James McClellan may refer to: James H. McClellan, professor of signal processing James E. McClellan (1926–2016), American veterinarian and politician
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20%28category%20theory%29
In category theory, a branch of mathematics, the center (or Drinfeld center, after Soviet-American mathematician Vladimir Drinfeld) is a variant of the notion of the center of a monoid, group, or ring to a category. Definition The center of a monoidal category , denoted , is the category whose objects are pairs (A,u)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth%20Kalko
Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko (10 April 1962 – 26 September 2011 in Berlin) was a German tropical scientist and ecologist working at the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Ulm. Life Elisabeth Kalko grew up in the Heilbron area and studied biology up from 1981 at University of Tübingen, Germany and graduate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace%20R.%20Byers
Horace Robert Byers (March 12, 1906 – May 22, 1998) was an American meteorologist who pioneered in aviation meteorology, synoptic weather analysis (weather forecasting), severe convective storms, cloud physics, and weather modification. Byers is most well known for his work as director of U.S. Weather Bureau's Thunders...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegel%27s%20lemma
In mathematics, specifically in transcendental number theory and Diophantine approximation, Siegel's lemma refers to bounds on the solutions of linear equations obtained by the construction of auxiliary functions. The existence of these polynomials was proven by Axel Thue; Thue's proof used Dirichlet's box principle. C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Physics%3A%20Condensed%20Matter
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1989 and published by IOP Publishing. The journal covers all areas of condensed matter physics including soft matter and nanostructures. The editor-in-chief is Gianfranco Pacchioni (University of Milano-Bicocca). The journ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Hardin
Paul Hardin may refer to: Paul Hardin Jr. (1903–1996), American Methodist bishop Paul Hardin (chronobiologist) (born 1960), American scientist in the field of chronobiology Paul Hardin III (1931–2017), American academic administrator See also Paul Harding (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Dudley
Richard Dudley may refer to: Richard Dudley (1518–1593), miner Richard M. Dudley (1938–2020), professor of mathematics Richard Houston Dudley (1836–1914), American politician, Confederate soldier and businessman Dick Dudley (1915–2000), American radio and television announcer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Facts%20of%20Life%20%28Darlington%20book%29
The Facts of Life is a book published in 1953 by C. D. Darlington of the subject of race, heredity and evolution. Darlington was a major contributor to the field of genetics around the time of the modern synthesis. References 1953 non-fiction books Biology books Modern synthesis (20th century)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthelot%27s%20reagent
Berthelot's reagent is an alkaline solution of phenol and hypochlorite, used in analytical chemistry. It is named after its inventor, Marcellin Berthelot. Ammonia reacts with Berthelot's reagent to form a blue product which is used in a colorimetric method for determining ammonia. The reagent can also be used for dete...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixl
Pixl may refer to: Pixl, a character in Super Paper Mario PixL, an American cable television network PiXL, a vision correction procedure PIXL, acronym for Planetary Instrument for X-Ray Lithochemistry, an instrument on the Perseverance Mars rover See also Pixel (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geobios
Geobios is an academic journal published bimonthly by the publishing house Elsevier. Geobios is an international journal of paleontology, focusing on the areas of palaeobiology, palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography, stratigraphy and biogeochemistry. Geobios is indexed and abstracted in: Science Citation Index, ISI, Bulle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit%20Singhal
Amitabh Kumar "Amit" Singhal (born September 1968) is a former senior vice president at Google Inc., having been a Google Fellow and the head of Google's Search team for 15 years. Biography Born in Jhansi, a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, Singhal received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in computer scien...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary%20function
In mathematics, auxiliary functions are an important construction in transcendental number theory. They are functions that appear in most proofs in this area of mathematics and that have specific, desirable properties, such as taking the value zero for many arguments, or having a zero of high order at some point. Def...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian%20Photonics%20Network
Victorian Photonics Network was a photonics industry organisation for the photonics cluster in Victoria, Australia. It was established on 23 October 2002 as an initiative of the State Government of Victoria. The organisation participated in developing a new VCE physics study design. The chairman is Peter Gerrand, pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20McCrea
Phil McCrea (1948-2016) was president of the National Association of Biology Teachers. He was a biology instructor who also published scholarly works, won the Illinois Outstanding Biology Teacher Award, and appeared on Oprah as an expert on household sanitation. Employment Phil McCrea was a biology teacher at New Trie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGA
BGA may refer to: Organizations Battle Ground Academy, a private school in Franklin, Tennessee, US Behavior Genetics Association Boldklubberne Glostrup Albertslund, a Danish football club British Gear Association British Gliding Association British Go Association British Geophysical Association British-German ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellcome%20Genome%20Campus
The Wellcome Genome Campus is a scientific research campus built in the grounds of Hinxton Hall, Hinxton in Cambridgeshire, England. Campus The Campus is home to some institutes and organisations in genomics and computational biology. The Campus is part of the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation that exists...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listeriolysin%20O
Listeriolysin O (LLO) is a hemolysin produced by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, the pathogen responsible for causing listeriosis. The toxin may be considered a virulence factor, since it is crucial for the virulence of L. monocytogenes. Biochemistry Listeriolysin O is a non-enzymatic, cytolytic, thiol-activated...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20C.%20Wang
James C. Wang (; born November 18, 1936) is Chinese-born American biochemist and biologist. He is a Harvard University Professor of biochemistry and molecular biology. Wang was the first discoverer of topoisomerases. He was elected as an academician of the Taiwan Academia Sinica in 1982 and a member of the United State...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menger%20curvature
In mathematics, the Menger curvature of a triple of points in n-dimensional Euclidean space Rn is the reciprocal of the radius of the circle that passes through the three points. It is named after the Austrian-American mathematician Karl Menger. Definition Let x, y and z be three points in Rn; for simplicity, assume ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO%20Scientific%20Collaboration
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) is a scientific collaboration of international physics institutes and research groups dedicated to the search for gravitational waves. History The LSC was established in 1997, under the leadership of Barry Barish. Its mission is to ensure equal scientific opportunity for individ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revista%20de%20Biologia
Revista de Biologia is a biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in biology, especially mediterranean and tropical ecology. It is published by the Botanical Garden of the University of Lisbon and was established in 1956. Until 1974, the journal was published jointly by the Botanical Gardens of Rio d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloch%27s%20theorem%20%28complex%20variables%29
In complex analysis, a branch of mathematics, Bloch's theorem describes the behaviour of holomorphic functions defined on the unit disk. It gives a lower bound on the size of a disk in which an inverse to a holomorphic function exists. It is named after André Bloch. Statement Let f be a holomorphic function in the uni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Kinsella
Thomas Douglas Kinsella, CM (15 February 1932 – 15 June 2004) was a Canadian medical doctor and expert on medical ethics and founder of Canada's National Council on Ethics in Human Research. Career Kinsella is particularly noted for his research on ethical, legal and medical issues surrounding assisted suicide, euthan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boles%C5%82aw%20Szyma%C5%84ski
Bolesław Karol Szymański (born 22 April 1950 in Pasłęk) is the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Founding Head of the Center for Network Science and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is known for multiple contributions to computer science, inc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20ellipsoid
In mathematics, the John ellipsoid or Löwner-John ellipsoid E(K) associated to a convex body K in n-dimensional Euclidean space Rn can refer to the n-dimensional ellipsoid of maximal volume contained within K or the ellipsoid of minimal volume that contains K. Often, the minimal volume ellipsoid is called the Löwner ...