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In quantum mechanics , the Wigner–Weyl transform or Weyl–Wigner transform (after Hermann Weyl and Eugene Wigner ) is the invertible mapping between functions in the quantum phase space formulation and Hilbert space operators in the Schrödinger picture .
Often the mapping from functions on phase space to operators is c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner–Weyl_transform |
WikiPathways [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is a community resource for contributing and maintaining content dedicated to biological pathways . Any registered WikiPathways user can contribute, and anybody can become a registered user. [ 3 ] Contributions are monitored by a group of admins, but the bulk of peer review , editorial curation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiPathways |
Wikiloc is a website , launched in 2006, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] containing GPS trails and waypoints that members have uploaded. [ 3 ] This mashup shows the routes in frames showing Google Maps (with the possibility to show the layers of World Relief Map (maps-for-free.com), OpenStreetMap , the related OpenCycleMap, USGS Ima... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiloc |
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Wikispecies is a wiki -based online project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation . Its aim is to create a comprehensive open content catalogue of all species ; the project is directed at scientists, rather than at the general public. Jimmy Wales stated that editors are not required to fax in their degrees , but that s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies |
Wikispeed is an automotive startup with a modular design car. Wikispeed competed in the Progressive Automotive X Prize competition in 2010 and won the tenth place in the mainstream class, which had a hundred other cars competing, often from big companies and universities. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The car debuted at the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikispeed |
Wikiwand , formerly stylized as WikiWand , [ 2 ] is a commercial proprietary interface developed for viewing Wikipedia articles. [ 3 ] Its interface includes a sidebar menu displaying the table of contents, a navigation bar, personalized links to other languages, new typography, access to previews of linked articles, d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiwand |
The Wildlife Conservation Research Unit ( WildCRU ) is part of the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford in England. [ 1 ] Its mission is to achieve practical solutions to conservation problems through original scientific research , training conservation scientists to conduct research, putting scientific kn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WildCRU |
Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods is a 2003 book by Sandor Katz that discusses the ancient practice of fermentation . While most of the conventional literature assumes the use of modern technology, Wild Fermentation focuses more on the practice and culture of fermenting food.
Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Fermentation |
The Wild Salmon Center (WSC) is an worldwide conservation network of scientists and advocates working to protect wild salmon , steelhead , char , trout and the ecosystems on which these species depend on. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Headquartered in Portland, Oregon , WSC works with communities, businesses, governments, and other non-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Salmon_Center |
Originally, wild numbers are the numbers supposed to belong to a fictional sequence of numbers imagined to exist in the mathematical world of the mathematical fiction The Wild Numbers authored by Philibert Schogt , a Dutch philosopher and mathematician . [ 1 ] Even though Schogt has given a definition of the wild numb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_number |
In the mathematical areas of linear algebra and representation theory , a problem is wild if it contains the problem of classifying pairs of square matrices up to simultaneous similarity . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Examples of wild problems are classifying indecomposable representations of any quiver that is neither a Dynkin q... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_problem |
Wilder's law of initial value ( German "Ausgangswertgesetz", Ausgangswert meaning baseline in modern terms) states that "the direction of response of a body function to any agent depends to a large degree on the initial level of that function", proposed by Joseph Wilder . [ 1 ] It is unclear whether it is a real effect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilder's_law_of_initial_value |
Wildfire modeling is concerned with numerical simulation of wildfires to comprehend and predict fire behavior. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Wildfire modeling aims to aid wildfire suppression, increase the safety of firefighters and the public, and minimize damage. Wildfire modeling can also aid in protecting ecosystems , watersheds , a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildfire_modeling |
A wildflower (or wild flower ) is a flower that grows in the wild, rather than being intentionally seeded or planted. The term implies that the plant is neither a hybrid nor a selected cultivar that is any different from the native plant , even if it is growing where it would not naturally be found. The term can refer ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildflower |
Wildlife refers to undomesticated animals and uncultivated plant species which can exist in their natural habitat, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans . [ 1 ] Wildlife was also synonymous to game : those birds and mammals that were hunted for sport ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife |
A wildlife corridor , also known as a habitat corridor , or green corridor, [ 1 ] is a designated area that connects wildlife populations that have been separated by human activities or structures, such as development, roads, or land clearings. These corridors enable movement of individuals between populations, which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_corridor |
Wildlife management is the management process influencing interactions among and between wildlife , its habitats and people to achieve predefined impacts. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Wildlife management can include wildlife conservation , population control , gamekeeping , wildlife contraceptive and pest control . [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_management |
Wildlife observation is the practice of noting the occurrence or abundance of animal species at a specific location and time, [ 1 ] either for research purposes or recreation. Common examples of this type of activity are bird watching and whale watching .
The process of scientific wildlife observation includes the rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_observation |
The wildlife of Nigeria consists of the flora and fauna of this country in West Africa . Nigeria has a wide variety of habitats, ranging from mangrove swamps and tropical rainforest to savanna with scattered clumps of trees. About 290 mammal species and 940 bird species have been recorded in the country.
Nigeria is a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_Nigeria |
Photo-identification is a technique used to identify and track individuals of a wild animal study population over time. It relies on capturing photographs of distinctive characteristics such as skin or pelage patterns or scars from the animal. In cetaceans , the dorsal fin area and tail flukes are commonly used.
Photo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_photo-identification |
Wildlife radio telemetry is a tool used to track the movement and behavior of animals . This technique uses the transmission of radio signals to locate a transmitter attached to the animal of interest. It is often used to obtain location data on the animal's preferred habitat , home range , and to understand populatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_radio_telemetry |
Wildness , in its literal sense, is the quality of being wild or untamed . Beyond this, it has been defined as a quality produced in nature [ 1 ] and that which is not domesticated. [ 2 ] More recently, it has been defined as "a quality of interactive processing between organism and nature where the realities of base n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildness |
Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is a proof by British mathematician Sir Andrew Wiles of a special case of the modularity theorem for elliptic curves . Together with Ribet's theorem , it provides a proof for Fermat's Last Theorem . Both Fermat's Last Theorem and the modularity theorem were believed to be impossib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiles's_proof_of_Fermat's_Last_Theorem |
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine (abbreviated WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine ) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed interdisciplinary scientific review journal covering systems biology and medicine . It was established in 2009 and is published by John Wiley & Sons as part of its Wiley Interdisc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiley_Interdisciplinary_Reviews:_Systems_Biology_and_Medicine |
The Wilfley Table is commonly used for the concentration of heavy minerals from the laboratory up to the industrial scale. It has a traditional shaking (oscillating) table design with a riffled deck. [ 1 ] It is one of several brands of wet tables used for the separation and concentration of heavy ore minerals which in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfley_table |
In mathematics , specifically combinatorics , a Wilf–Zeilberger pair , or WZ pair , is a pair of functions that can be used to certify certain combinatorial identities . WZ pairs are named after Herbert S. Wilf and Doron Zeilberger , and are instrumental in the evaluation of many sums involving binomial coefficients , ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilf–Zeilberger_pair |
Wilhelm Karl Klemm (5 January 1896 – 24 October 1985) was an inorganic and physical chemist . [ 2 ] [ 5 ] Klemm did extensive work on intermetallic compounds , rare earth metals , transition elements and compounds involving oxygen and fluorine .
He and Heinrich Bommer were the first to isolate elemental erbium (1934) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Klemm |
Wilhelm Normann (16 January 1870, in Petershagen – 1 May 1939, in Chemnitz ) (sometimes also spelled Norman ) was a German chemist who introduced the hydrogenation of fats in 1901. This invention, protected by German patent 141,029 in 1902, had a profound influence on the production of margarine and vegetable shortenin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Normann |
The Wilhelm Ostwald Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Leipzig , located at Linnéstraße 2 in Leipzig , is the oldest physical chemistry institute in Germany. It is one of seven institutes of the Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy of the University of Leipzig. The institute was ceremo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Ostwald_Institute |
Georg Wilhelm Steinkopf (28 June 1879 – 12 March 1949) was a German chemist . Today he is mostly remembered for his work on the production of mustard gas during World War I .
Georg Wilhelm Steinkopf was born on 28 June 1879 in Staßfurt , in the Prussian Province of Saxony in the German Empire , the son of Gustav Fried... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Steinkopf |
A Wilhelmy plate is a thin plate that is used to measure equilibrium surface or interfacial tension at an air–liquid or liquid–liquid interface. In this method, the plate is oriented perpendicular to the interface, and the force exerted on it is measured. Based on the work of Ludwig Wilhelmy , this method finds wide us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmy_plate |
In mathematics , Wilkie's theorem is a result by Alex Wilkie about the theory of ordered fields with an exponential function , or equivalently about the geometric nature of exponential varieties.
In terms of model theory , Wilkie's theorem deals with the language L exp = (+, −, ·, <, 0, 1, e x ), the language of order... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkie's_theorem |
In numerical analysis , Wilkinson's polynomial is a specific polynomial which was used by James H. Wilkinson in 1963 to illustrate a difficulty when finding the root of a polynomial: the location of the roots can be very sensitive to perturbations in the coefficients of the polynomial.
The polynomial is w ( x ) = ∏ i ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkinson's_polynomial |
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( WMAP ), originally known as the Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( MAP and Explorer 80 ), was a NASA spacecraft operating from 2001 to 2010 which measured temperature differences across the sky in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the radiant heat remaining from the Big Bang .... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkinson_Microwave_Anisotropy_Probe |
In the field of microwave engineering and circuit design, the Wilkinson Power Divider is a specific class of power divider circuit that can achieve isolation between the output ports while maintaining a matched condition on all ports. The Wilkinson design can also be used as a power combiner because it is made up of p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkinson_power_divider |
In statistics , Wilks' theorem offers an asymptotic distribution of the log-likelihood ratio statistic, which can be used to produce confidence intervals for maximum-likelihood estimates or as a test statistic for performing the likelihood-ratio test .
Statistical tests (such as hypothesis testing ) generally require ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilks'_theorem |
The will to live ( German : der Wille zum Leben ) is a concept developed by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer , representing an irrational "blind incessant impulse without knowledge" that drives instinctive behaviors, causing an endless insatiable striving in human existence.
This is contrasted with the conce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_to_live |
Willem P. C. " Pim " Stemmer (12 March 1957 – 2 April 2013) [ 2 ] was a Dutch scientist and entrepreneur who invented numerous biotechnologies . He was the founder and CEO of Amunix Inc., a company that creates " pharmaceutical proteins with extended dosing frequency". [ 3 ] His other prominent inventions include DNA s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_P._C._Stemmer |
Willem Rudolfs (February 13, 1886 – February 20, 1959) was a Dutch-born biochemist in entomology and pioneer in the field of sanitary sciences .
Rudolfs was born in Wageningen , the Netherlands , and moved to the United States. In 1921, he earned his PhD at Rutgers College. [ 1 ]
From 1921 to 1925 Rudolfs was a teach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Rudolfs |
The Willgerodt rearrangement or Willgerodt reaction is an organic reaction converting an aryl alkyl ketone , alkyne , or alkene to the corresponding amide by reaction with ammonium polysulfide , named after Conrad Willgerodt . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The formation of the corresponding carboxylic acid is a side reaction... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willgerodt_rearrangement |
The Willi Hennig Society "was founded in 1980 with the expressed purpose of promoting the field of phylogenetic systematics ." [ 1 ] The society is represented by phylogenetic systematists managing and publishing in the peer-reviewed journal titled Cladistics . The society is named after Willi Hennig , a German systema... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Hennig_Society |
William A. Mitchell (October 21, 1911 – July 26, 2004) was an American food chemist who, while working for General Foods Corporation between 1941 and 1976, was the key inventor behind Pop Rocks , Tang , Cool Whip , and powdered egg whites . [ 1 ] During his career he received over 70 patents .
He was born in Raymond, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Mitchell |
The William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology is presented annually by the Cancer Research Institute , to scientists [ 1 ] who have made outstanding achievements in the fields of basic and tumor immunology and whose work has deepened our understanding of the immune system's respons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Coley_Award |
William Christopher Zeise (15 October 1789 – 12 November 1847) was a Danish organic chemist . He is best known for synthesising one of the first organometallic compounds , named Zeise's salt in his honour. He also performed pioneering studies in organosulfur chemistry , discovering the xanthates in 1823.
William Chris... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Christopher_Zeise |
William E. Bentley is the Robert E. Fischell Distinguished Professor of Engineering, founding Director of the Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices, and currently the Director of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland . He was previousl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Bentley |
William Esco Moerner , also known as W. E. Moerner , (born June 24, 1953) is an American physical chemist and chemical physicist with current work in the biophysics and imaging of single molecules. He is credited with achieving the first optical detection and spectroscopy of a single molecule in condensed phases , alon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Moerner |
University of Wisconsin , B.A. 1923 and MS 1924
William Everett Warner (August 22, 1897 – July 12, 1971) was an American academic, organization founder, and one of the "great leaders" and pioneers of the industrial arts education profession, now known as technology education . He was the founder of Epsilon Pi Tau hono... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Warner |
William Edward Augustin Aikin (6 February 1807 – 31 May 1888), known professionally as William E. A. Aikin , was an American analytical chemist and natural scientist . He was chair of the chemistry department at the University of Maryland from 1837 to 1883. While most of his work focused on chemistry, he held accomp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edward_Augustin_Aikin |
The William F. Meggers Award has been awarded annually since 1970 by the Optical Society (originally called the Optical Society of America) for outstanding contributions to spectroscopy. [ 1 ] It was established to honor William Frederick Meggers and his contributions to the fields of spectroscopy and metrology .
For ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Meggers_Award_in_Spectroscopy |
William Michael Gelbart (born June 12, 1946) is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles , and a member of the California NanoSystems Institute and the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Harvard University in 1967, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gelbart |
William H. Peirce (died 1944) was an American civil engineer and metallurgist , who pioneered copper production in the early 20th century. Among his achievements was the Peirce-Smith converter [ fr ] , invented with Elias Anton Cappelen Smith .
He joined the Baltimore Copper Smelting & Rolling Company in 1890, becomin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Peirce |
William Hampson (1854–1926) was the first person to patent a process for liquifying air.
William Hampson was born on 14 March 1854, the second son of William Hampson of Puddington, Cheshire, England. [ 1 ] He was educated at Liverpool College , Manchester Grammar School and Trinity College, Oxford , where he matricula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hampson |
William Joseph Pietro (born 1956) is an American/Canadian research scientist working in quantum chemistry , molecular electronics , and molecular machines .
Pietro was born in Jersey City, New Jersey . His education includes a B.S. in chemistry from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute of New York, a Ph.D. in chemistry ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Pietro |
William Johnson McDonald (December 21, 1844 – February 8, 1926, though some sources give his date of death as February 6
) was a Paris, Texas banker who left $850,000 (the bulk of his fortune) to the University of Texas System to endow an astronomical observatory. [ 2 ]
The bequest was unexpected, and his will was con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Johnson_McDonald |
William Kingdon Clifford (4 May 1845 – 3 March 1879) was a British mathematician and philosopher . Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann , he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra , a special case of the Clifford algebra named in his honour. The operations of geometric algebra have the effect of mirroring... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kingdon_Clifford |
William A. Klemperer (October 6, 1927 – November 5, 2017) was an American chemist , chemical physicist and molecular spectroscopist . Klemperer is most widely known for introducing molecular beam methods into chemical physics research, greatly increasing the understanding of nonbonding interactions between atoms and m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Klemperer |
William Klyne (March 23, 1913, in Enfield, Middlesex – November 13, 1977) was an organic chemist known for his work in steroids and stereochemistry — a field in which he was a "pioneer", [ 1 ] and in which Ernest Eliel and Norman Allinger described him as "one of the world's experts". [ 2 ]
In 1946, he gained a PhD fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Klyne |
Major General William Luther Sibert (October 12, 1860 – October 16, 1935) was a senior United States Army officer who commanded the 1st Division on the Western Front during World War I .
Sibert was born in Gadsden, Alabama , on October 12, 1860. [ 1 ] After attending the University of Alabama from 1879 to 1880, he ent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_L._Sibert |
William Morgan Jackson (born September 24, 1936) is a Distinguished Research and Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Davis and pioneer in the field of astrochemistry . His work considers cometary astrochemistry and the development of laser photochemistry to understand planetary atmospheres. He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Jackson_(chemist) |
William Merriam Burton (November 17, 1865 – December 29, 1954) was an American chemist who developed a widely used thermal cracking process for crude oil . [ 1 ]
Burton was born in Cleveland , Ohio . In 1886, he received a Bachelor of Science degree at Western Reserve University . He earned a PhD at Johns Hopkins Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Merriam_Burton |
William E. Moffitt (9 November 1925 – 19 December 1958 [ 1 ] ) was a British quantum chemist . He died after a heart attack following a squash match. [ 2 ] He had been thought to be one of Britain's most gifted academics. [ 3 ]
Moffitt was born in Berlin , Germany to British parents; his father was working in Berlin o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Moffitt |
William N. Porter (March 15, 1886 – February 5, 1973) was a United States Army officer who led the Army's Chemical Warfare Service during the second World War. [ 1 ]
Porter was born in Lima, Ohio on March 15, 1886. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He attended the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, graduating in 1909. [ 1 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_N._Porter |
William Nicholas Guy Hitchon (22 October 1957 – 23 July 2023), commonly known as Nick Hitchon , was a nuclear fusion scientist and professor at the University of Wisconsin . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Hitchon was born in Skipton , West Riding of Yorkshire (now North Yorkshire ), the eldest of three sons to Iona (née Hall) and Guy Hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Nicholas_Hitchon |
William Otto Frohring (July 1, 1893 – September 13, 1959) was an American biochemical researcher, inventor and business executive. [ 2 ] He was a co-developer of "simulated milk adapted" (SMA), the first infant formula to be distributed in the United States and one of the most widely consumed infant formulas in the wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Otto_Frohring |
William Paul Byers (born 1943) is a Canadian mathematician and philosopher; professor emeritus in mathematics and statistics at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec , Canada.
He completed a BSc ('64), and an MSc ('65) from McGill University , and obtained his PhD ('69) from the University of California, Berkeley .... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Byers |
Sir William Ramsay KCB FRS FRSE ( / ˈ r æ m z i / ; 2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" along with his collaborator, John William Stru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ramsay |
William Snow Burnside (20 December 1839 – 11 March 1920) was an Irish mathematician whose entire career was spent at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). He is chiefly remembered for the book The Theory of Equations: With an Introduction to the Theory of Binary Algebraic Forms (1881) [ 1 ] and his long tenure as Erasmus Smith... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Burnside |
Sir William Schooling KBE FRAS FSS (16 December 1860 – 18 February 1936) was a British expert on insurance and statistics . He was named a CBE in the 1918 Birthday Honours and a KBE in 1920 for his work with the War Savings Committee . [ 1 ]
Schooling was the editor of Bourne's Directory , a listing of British insuran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Schooling |
William Sharp is a biotechnologist and entrepreneur, who holds a PhD in plant cell biology from Rutgers University . He is well known for his application of science into business, creating both start up companies and extensive technology transfer experience across the Americas and Asia in a broad sector of business ven... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharp_(scientist) |
William Simms (7 December 1793 – 21 June 1860) was a British scientific instrument maker.
He was born in Birmingham, the second of nine children of William Simms (1763-1828), a toy maker. Soon after William Simm's birth the family moved to London so that William Simms Sr. could help his ailing father, James Simms, who... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Simms_(instrument_maker) |
William Webster (1855–1910) was an English chemical engineer credited with developments in gas detection, sewage treatment and medical use of x-rays . A gifted artist and musician, Webster also helped found the Blackheath Concert Halls and the adjacent Conservatoire in Blackheath in south-east London during the 1890s.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Webster_(chemical_engineer) |
William Whewell ( / ˈ h juː əl / HEW -əl ; 24 May 1794 – 6 March 1866) was an English polymath . He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge . In his time as a student there, he achieved distinction in both poetry and mathematics .
The breadth of Whewell's endeavours is his most remarkable feature. In a time of increa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whewell |
William M. Williams (25 February 1927 – 28 January 2011) was a Welsh-born metallurgical engineer and Birks professor of metallurgy at McGill University .
Williams was born in Tonypandy , Wales , the son of a coal miner. [ 1 ] In 1944, he won a scholarship to study at the University of Bristol , where he earned a bache... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Williams_(metallurgist) |
William Joseph Wiswesser (December 3, 1914 – December 17, 1989) was an American chemist best known as the creator of the Wiswesser line notation (WLN), which was an innovative way to represent chemical structures in a linear string of characters suitable for computer manipulation. He is also known for the Wiswesser rul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wiswesser |
In combustion , Williams diagram refers to a classification diagram of different turbulent combustion regimes in a plane, having turbulent Reynolds number R e l {\displaystyle Re_{l}} as the x-axis and turbulent Damköhler number D a l {\displaystyle Da_{l}} as the y-axis. [ 1 ] The diagram is named after Forman A. Will... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_diagram |
In combustion , the Williams spray equation , also known as the Williams–Boltzmann equation , describes the statistical evolution of sprays contained in another fluid, analogous to the Boltzmann equation for the molecules, named after Forman A. Williams , who derived the equation in 1958. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The sprays are as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_spray_equation |
The Williamson ether synthesis is an organic reaction , forming an ether from an organohalide and a deprotonated alcohol ( alkoxide ). This reaction was developed by Alexander Williamson in 1850. [ 2 ] Typically it involves the reaction of an alkoxide ion with a primary alkyl halide via an S N 2 reaction . This reacti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamson_ether_synthesis |
The Williams– Landel – Ferry Equation (or WLF Equation ) is an empirical equation associated with time–temperature superposition . [ 1 ]
The WLF equation has the form
where log ( a T ) {\displaystyle \log(a_{T})} is the decadic logarithm of the WLF shift factor, [ 2 ] T is the temperature, T r is a reference temper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams–Landel–Ferry_equation |
Willis Whitfield (December 6, 1919 – November 12, 2012 [ 1 ] [ 2 ] ) was an American physicist and inventor of the modern cleanroom , a room with a low level of pollutants used in manufacturing or scientific research . His invention earned him the nickname, "Mr. Clean," from Time Magazine . [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
Whitfield was b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Whitfield |
In differential geometry , the Willmore conjecture is a lower bound on the Willmore energy of a torus . It is named after the English mathematician Tom Willmore , who conjectured it in 1965. [ 2 ] A proof by Fernando Codá Marques and André Neves was announced in 2012 and published in 2014. [ 1 ] [ 3 ]
Let v : M → R 3 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willmore_conjecture |
The Willow processor is a 105- qubit superconducting quantum computing processor developed by Google Quantum AI and manufactured in Santa Barbara, California . [ 1 ]
On December 9, 2024, Google Quantum AI announced Willow in a Nature paper [ 2 ] and company blogpost, [ 1 ] and claiming two accomplishments: First, that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_processor |
The willpower paradox is the idea that people may do things better by focusing less directly on doing them, implying that the direct exertion of volition may not always be the most powerful way to accomplish a goal.
Research suggests that intrapersonal communication (talking to oneself) and maintaining a questioning m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willpower_paradox |
Wilma K. Olson (born c. 1945 ) is the Mary I. Bunting professor at the Rutgers Center for Quantitative Biology (CQB) (formerly known as BioMaPS institute for Quantitative Biology) [ 1 ] at Rutgers University . Olson has her own research group [ 2 ] on the New Brunswick campus. Although she is a polymer chemist by train... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma_Olson |
2017. Award of Merit Association for Information Science and Technology;
Thomas D. Wilson is a researcher in information science and has been contributing to the field since 1961, when he received his Fellowship from the British Library Association . His research has focused on information management and information s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson's_model_of_information_behavior |
In algebra and number theory , Wilson's theorem states that a natural number n > 1 is a prime number if and only if the product of all the positive integers less than n is one less than a multiple of n . That is (using the notations of modular arithmetic ), the factorial ( n − 1 ) ! = 1 × 2 × 3 × ⋯ × ( n − 1 ) {\displ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson's_theorem |
In quantum field theory , Wilson loops are gauge invariant operators arising from the parallel transport of gauge variables around closed loops . They encode all gauge information of the theory, allowing for the construction of loop representations which fully describe gauge theories in terms of these loops. In pure ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_loop |
The Wilson ratio of a metal is the dimensionless ratio of the zero- temperature magnetic susceptibility to the coefficient of the linear temperature term in the electronic specific heat . The relative value of the Wilson ratio, compared to the Wilson ratio for the non-interacting Fermi gas , can provide insight into th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_ratio |
WinCustomize is a website that provides content for users to customize Microsoft Windows . The site hosts thousands of skins , themes , icons , wallpapers , and other graphical content to modify the Windows graphical user interface . There is some premium or paid content, however, the vast majority of the content is f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinCustomize |
winPenPack (often shortened to wPP) is an open-source software application suite for Windows. It is a collection of open source applications that have been modified to be executed directly from a USB flash drive (or any other removable storage device) without prior installation. WinPenPack programs are distributed as f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinPenPack |
WinShock is computer exploit that exploits a vulnerability in the Windows secure channel (SChannel) module and allows for remote code execution. [ 1 ] The exploit was discovered in May 2014 by IBM , who also helped patch the exploit. [ 2 ] The exploit was present and undetected in Windows software for 19 years, affecti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinShock |
WinWAP was a web browser for Windows CE mobile devices. It was developed by the Finnish company Winwap Technologies. [ 1 ] WinWAP was first released in 1999. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinWAP |
Wind engineering is a subset of mechanical engineering , structural engineering , meteorology , and applied physics that analyzes the effects of wind in the natural and the built environment and studies the possible damage, inconvenience or benefits which may result from wind. In the field of engineering it includes st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_engineering |
Wind setup , also known as wind effect or storm effect , refers to the rise in water level in seas, lakes, or other large bodies of water caused by winds pushing the water in a specific direction. As the wind moves across the water’s surface, it applies shear stress to the water, generating a wind-driven current. When ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_setup |
In physical oceanography and fluid dynamics , the wind stress is the shear stress exerted by the wind on the surface of large bodies of water – such as oceans , seas , estuaries and lakes . When wind is blowing over a water surface, the wind applies a wind force on the water surface. The wind stress is the component of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_stress |
A wind tunnel is "an apparatus for producing a controlled stream of air for conducting aerodynamic experiments". [ 1 ] The experiment is conducted in the test section of the wind tunnel and a complete tunnel configuration includes air ducting to and from the test section and a device for keeping the air in motion, such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_tunnel |
Windage is a term used in aerodynamics, firearms ballistics, and automobiles that mainly relates to the effects of air (e.g., wind) on an object of interest. The term is also used for the similar effects of liquids, such as oil.
Windage is a force created on an object by friction when there is relative movement betwee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windage |
A winding engine is a stationary engine used to control a cable , for example to power a mining hoist at a pit head . Electric hoist controllers have replaced proper winding engines in modern mining , but use electric motors that are also traditionally referred to as winding engines .
Early winding engines were hand, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winding_engine |
A winding machine or winder is a machine for wrapping string, twine, cord, thread, yarn, rope, wire, ribbon, tape, etc. onto a spool, bobbin , reel, etc. [ 1 ]
Winders are used heavily in textile manufacturing , especially in preparation to weaving where the yarn is wound onto a bobbin and then used in a shuttle . Bal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winding_machine |
In Win32 application programming, WindowProc (or window procedure ), also known as WndProc is a user-defined callback function that processes messages sent to a window. This function is specified when an application registers its window class and can be named anything (not necessarily WindowProc ).
The window procedur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WindowProc |
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