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Pharmacokinetics Clinical pharmacokinetics (arising from the clinical use of population pharmacokinetics) is the direct application to a therapeutic situation of knowledge regarding a drug's pharmacokinetics and the characteristics of a population that a patient belongs to (or can be ascribed to). An example is the rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9674107 |
Trim line A trim line, also written as trimline, is a clear line on the side of a valley formed by a glacier. The line marks the most recent highest extent of the glacier. The line may be visible due to changes in color to the rock or to changes in vegetation on either side of the line. The term "trim line" is also use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9680179 |
Jan Esper (born 1968) is the head of the dendro sciences division at the WSL (Wald Snee und Landschafft - en:Forest, Snow and Landscape) division of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). His research interests are Global Climate Change, Palaeoclimatology and Vegetation Dynamics. His research has been part of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9687705 |
Kapustinskii equation The calculates the lattice energy "U" for an ionic crystal, which is experimentally difficult to determine. It is named after Anatoli Fedorovich Kapustinskii who published the formula in 1956. The calculated lattice energy gives a good estimation; the real value differs in most cases by less than ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9688913 |
Pokeweed mitogen is a mitogen derived from "Phytolacca americana". It functions as a lectin. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9690908 |
Henry Primakoff (* February 12, 1914 in Odessa, Russian Empire; † July 25, 1983 in Philadelphia, United States) was a theoretical physicist who is famous for his discovery of the Primakoff effect. Primakoff contributed to the understanding of weak interactions, double beta decay, spin waves in ferromagnetism, and the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9715761 |
State space (physics) In physics, a state space is an abstract space in which different "positions" represent, not literal locations, but rather states of some physical system. This makes it a type of phase space. Specifically, in quantum mechanics a state space is a complex Hilbert space in which the possible instanta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9718351 |
Cunningham correction factor In fluid dynamics, the or Cunningham slip correction factor is used to account for noncontinuum effects when calculating the drag on small particles. The derivation of Stokes' law, which is used to calculate the drag force on small particles, assumes a no-slip condition which is no longer c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9721524 |
Thermal effective mass The thermal effective mass of electrons in a metal is the apparent mass due to interactions with the periodic potential of the crystal lattice, with phonons (e.g. phonon drag), and interaction with other electrons. The resulting effective mass of electrons contributes to the electronic heat capac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9749180 |
Phonon drag is an increase in the effective mass of conduction electrons or valence holes due to interactions with the crystal lattice in which the electron moves. As an electron moves past atoms in the lattice its charge distorts or polarizes the nearby lattice. This effect leads to a decrease in the electron (or hole... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9749236 |
Phonon drag Kittel, Charles (1996) Introduction to Solid State Physics, 7th Ed., John Wiley and Sons, Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9749236 |
Interaction soil–biosphere–atmosphere (model system) Interaction soil–biosphere–atmosphere (ISBA) is a land-surface parameterisation model scheme describing soil–vegetation–atmosphere interactions. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9754003 |
Land surface models (climate) Land surface models (LSMs) use quantitative methods to simulate the exchange of water and energy fluxes at the Earth surface–atmosphere interface. They are key component of climate models. Over the past two decades, they have evolved from oversimplified schemes, which described the surface... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9754030 |
Oronzio Gabriele Costa Oronzo Gabriele Costa (26 August 1787, Alessano – 7 November 1867 Naples) was an Italian zoologist. At first a physician, he taught zoology at the University of Naples. He wrote 126 papers on various subjects, principally entomology, and in 1846 served as president of the Accademia Pontaniana in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9770355 |
Jörundur Svavarsson is a professor in marine biology at the University of Iceland. His fields of research are marine invertebrates, marine biodiversity and ecotoxicology. According to Web of Science Prof. Svavarsson has published 49 papers in peer-reviewed journals, with 13 or them being cited more than 11 times. He is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9775965 |
Canadian Land Surface Scheme The (CLASS) is a land surface parametrization scheme for use in large scale climate models. It is a state-of-the-art model, using physically based equations to simulate the energy and water balances of vegetation, snow and soil. CLASS is being developed in a research project led by D. Verse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9797914 |
Mendel (Martian crater) Mendel is a crater in Terra Cimmeria, Mars. It is located at 58.8°S, 161.3°E and was named in honor of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9797919 |
ERA-40 is an ECMWF re-analysis of the global atmosphere and surface conditions for 45-years, over the period from September 1957 through August 2002 by ECMWF. Many sources of the meteorological observations were used, including radiosondes, balloons, aircraft, buoyes, satellites, scatterometers. This data was run throu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9798051 |
Tree-Puzzle TREE-PUZZLE is a computer program used to construct phylogenetic trees from sequence data by maximum likelihood analysis. Branch lengths can be calculated with and without the molecular clock hypothesis. The program's successor is IQ-TREE. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9804129 |
Ferret Data Visualization and Analysis Ferret is an interactive computer visualization and analysis environment designed to meet the needs of oceanographers and meteorologists analyzing large and complex gridded data sets. Ferret offers a Mathematica-like approach to analysis; new variables may be defined interactively... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9809926 |
DEN 1048−3956 is a brown dwarf about 13.1 light years from Earth in the southern constellation of Antlia, among the closest interstellar objects to Earth. This substellar object is very dim with an apparent magnitude of about 17, and will require a telescope with a camera to be seen. It was discovered in 2000 by Xavier... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9819646 |
Morton Allport FLS (4 December 1830 – 10 September 1878) was an English-born Australian colonial naturalist. Allport was born to Joseph and Mary Morton Allport, at West Bromwich, Staffordshire. His family moved in 1831 to Tasmania. He trained for law, his father's profession, and was admitted as a solicitor of the Supr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9828052 |
JME Molecule Editor The is a molecule editor Java applet with which users make and edit drawings of molecules and reactions (including generating substructure queries), and can display molecules within an HTML page. The editor can generate Daylight simplified molecular-input line-entry system (SMILES) or MDL Molfiles o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9831570 |
Lyman–Werner photons A Lyman-Werner photon is an ultraviolet photon with a photon energy in the range of 11.2 to 13.6 eV, corresponding to the energy range in which the Lyman and Werner absorption bands of molecular hydrogen (H) are found. A photon in this energy range, with a frequency that coincides with that of one ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9843891 |
Wet-bulb potential temperature Wet-bulb potential temperature, sometimes referred to as pseudo wet-bulb potential temperature, is the temperature that a parcel of air at any level would have if, starting at the wet-bulb temperature, it were brought at the saturated adiabatic lapse rate to the standard pressure of 1000 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9850761 |
Alexander Nesmeyanov Alexander Nikolaevich Nesmeyanov (; , Moscow – 17 January 1980, Moscow) was a prominent Soviet chemist and academician (1943) specializing in organometallic chemistry. He was born in Moscow on 9 September 1899 the son of Nikolai Vasilevich Nesmeyanov, a teacher, and his wife Lyudmila Danilovna. He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9861601 |
Alexander Nesmeyanov This reaction is widely used for the synthesis of organic derivatives of non-transition metals with their further transformation into various classes of organometallic compounds. Prof. Nesmeyanov had also developed a number of industrial chemistry processes, including production of pharmaceuticals,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9861601 |
Nikolay Belov (geochemist) Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov (; December 14, 1891 – March 6, 1982) was a Soviet crystallographer, geochemist, academician (1953), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1969). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9861756 |
Vladimir Engelgardt Vladimir Aleksandrovich Engelgardt () (December 3, 1894, in Moscow – July 10, 1984, in Moscow) was a Soviet biochemist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences (1944), academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1953), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1969). He was the founder and the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9861915 |
Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov () (August 21, 1895 in Petretsovo, Yaroslavl Oblast – November 16, 1975 in Moscow) was a Soviet geochemist, academician (1953), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1949, 1975). In 1928, he took up a position as assistant professor in the laboratory for biogeochemical problems of the Academy of S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9862095 |
Semyon Volfkovich Semyon Isaakovich Volfkovich () (October 23, 1896 – November 12, 1980) was a Soviet chemist, technologist, and academician (1946). In 1941 he was awarded the Stalin Prize and in 1976 he received the Lomonosov Gold Medal. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9862467 |
False vivipary is an abnormal condition found in many types of plants in which a plantlet is produced where the flower should appear. It is not a completely understood topic, but some say it could be caused by a hormonal mistake. The plantlet which appears can be rooted and grown like normal plants. This abnormal behav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9867900 |
Driller's depth The original depth recorded while drilling an oil or gas well is known as the driller's depth. Since there is not a single reference or measurement system for calculating the depth in sub-surface environments, two engineers talking about a single drilling might give different answers when asked to give ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9871209 |
Driller's depth Drill pipe connections (or drill pipe/collar, or collar/bit and any other connection) must have a very good sealing surface because high pressure mud will be traveling through the pipe and any pitted or galled areas could be quickly eroded out. This is usually referred to as a "wash-out", or words to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9871209 |
Driller's depth Typically three sections of pipe are joined together into a "stand" (of about 27–29 m in length) and stacked in rows of 10, with their base resting on the drill floor. Prior to running in the hole each stand is manually measured with a steel tape measure and the measurement recorded in a computer spread... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9871209 |
Driller's depth If exploration derived prognosicated depths are significantly different from the driller's depths, for example by 10−30 m, then warning bells come up – it is possible a pipe section or stand has been left off the calculations. If this is suspected, then the drill string should be measured (in tension) w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9871209 |
Driller's depth 7000 m or 25000 ft deep, the drill pipe elongation due to its own weight and temperature must be taken into account. This can be on the order of 24 m (80 ft). Wireline does not behave this way: it tends to lengthen under tension but shorten with increasing temperature. One can only assume by how much th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9871209 |
Driller's depth The determination of an accurate depth has not traditionally been a popular area of research primarily because of lack of recognition of the impact that depth measurement inaccuracy has on the value of the depth data. The impact of errors in depth is most critical when integrating data from more than on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9871209 |
Una virus is a subtype of the Mayaro virus (MAYV), one of the Semliki Forest Virus (SFV) complex of the "Togaviridae" family. According to the Baltimore classification of viruses, it is a class IV virus. It has a linear single-stranded RNA genome. The is an Arbovirus or arthropod-borne virus, transmitted primarily by a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9874573 |
Hu Gabrielse Hubert "Hu" Gabrielse (born 1926) is a Canadian retired geologist who formerly worked for the Geological Survey of Canada. He devoted much of his more than 50 years in geosciences to regional geological mapping in the northern Cordillera of British Columbia, southeast Yukon and southwest District of Macken... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9875706 |
Gammator ӀA was a gamma irradiator made by the Radiation Machinery Corporation during the U.S. Atoms for Peace project of the 1950s and 1960s. The gammator was distributed by the "Atomic Energy Commission to schools, hospitals, and private firms to promote nuclear understanding." Around 120-140 Gammators were distribut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9875903 |
Very special relativity Ignoring gravity, experimental bounds seem to suggest that special relativity with its Lorentz symmetry and Poincaré symmetry describes spacetime. Surprisingly, Cohen and Glashow have demonstrated that a small subgroup of the Lorentz group is sufficient to explain all the current bounds. The min... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9878887 |
Putrefying bacteria are bacteria involved in putrefaction of living matter. Along with other decomposers, they play a critical role in recycling nitrogen from dead organisms. use amino acids or urea as an energy source to decompose dead organisms. In the process, they produce ammonium ions. Nitrifying bacteria then con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9880182 |
Zola (crater) Zola is a crater on Mercury. The crater was named after the French novelist and playwright Émile Zola by the IAU in 1979. Zola is located to the northeast of the Caloris basin. The crater Nervo is to the south, Brahms is to the north, and Mansur is to the east. The small crater Ailey is to the southwest. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14529301 |
Rameau (crater) Rameau is a crater on Mercury. It was named by the IAU in 1976, after French composer Jean Philippe Rameau. The scarp Discovery Rupes cuts across Rameau crater. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14529432 |
Arecibo Catena (Arecibo Vallis until March 2013) is a catena on Mercury. It is located at latitude 27.5 S, longitude 28.4 W, in the hilly and chaotic terrain antipodal to Caloris Basin. It is named after Arecibo Observatory. Arecibo Vallis is connected to Petrarch crater. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14529537 |
Goldstone Catena (Goldstone Vallis until March 2013) is a catena on Mercury located at 15.8 S, 31.7 W. It is named after Goldstone Observatory. While it superficially resembles a graben, it is a chain of overlapping secondary craters. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14535383 |
Kuiper (Mercurian crater) Kuiper is a moderate-size crater with a central peak cluster located at on Mercury. It is 62 kilometers in diameter and was named after Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper in 1976. It is one of only 2 Mercurian craters which are named not after artists, and one of very few cases when the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14535414 |
Murasaki (crater) Murasaki is a crater on Mercury located at 12 S, 31 W. It is 132 km in diameter. It was named after 10th-11th century Japanese writer Murasaki Shikibu. The name was approved by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature in 1976. To its east lies the slightly larger Hiroshige. The bright cra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14535443 |
Hiroshige (crater) Hiroshige is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976, after the Japanese artist Andō Hiroshige. Hiroshige is east of the craters Murasaki and Kuiper. Kuiper's rays overlie Hiroshige. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14535543 |
Haystack Catena (Haystack Vallis until March 2013) is a catena at 4.7° N, 46.2° W on Mercury. It superficially resembles a graben but is a chain of overlapping secondary craters. It was named after Haystack Observatory. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14536981 |
Simeiz Vallis is a valley at 13.2 S, 64.3 W on Mercury. It is named after Simeiz Observatory. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14537033 |
Segregation (materials science) In materials science, segregation is the enrichment of atoms, ions, or molecules at a microscopic region in a materials system. While the terms segregation and adsorption are essentially synonymous, in practice, segregation is often used to describe the partitioning of molecular constitu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14539370 |
Segregation (materials science) Segregation that occurs due to the processing history of the sample (but that would disappear at long times) is termed non-equilibrium segregation. Equilibrium segregation is associated with the lattice disorder at interfaces, where there are sites of energy different from those within t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14539370 |
Segregation (materials science) In contrast, the equilibrium segregated state, by definition, is the lowest energy state in a system that exhibits equilibrium segregation, and the extent of the segregation effect decreases with increasing temperature. The details of non-equilibrium segregation are not going to be discu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14539370 |
Segregation (materials science) Segregation to grain boundaries can also affect their respective migration rates, and so affects sinterability, as well as the grain boundary diffusivity (although sometimes these effects can be used advantageously). Segregation to free surfaces also has important consequences involving ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14539370 |
Segregation (materials science) 36 could completely cover the surface of the material. In an application where surface interactions are important, this result could be disastrous. While the intergranular failure problems noted above are sometimes severe, they are rarely the cause of major service failures (in structura... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14539370 |
Segregation (materials science) The total free energy due to the solute atoms is then: where E and e are energies of the solute atom in the lattice and in the grain boundary, respectively and the kln term represents the configurational entropy of the arrangement of the solute atoms in the bulk and grain boundary. McLea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14539370 |
Segregation (materials science) This method gives values correct to within a factor of two (as compared with experimental data for grain boundary segregation), but a greater accuracy is obtained using the method of Seah and Hondros, described in the following section. Using truncated BET theory (the gas adsorption theo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14539370 |
Segregation (materials science) However, as formula_23 becomes more negative, the segregation shows progressively sharper rises as the temperature falls until eventually the rise in segregation is discontinuous at a certain temperature, as shown in the following figure. Guttman, in 1975, extended the Fowler theory to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14539370 |
Segregation (materials science) The surface segregation enrichment ratio increases when the solute atom size is larger than the matrix atom size and when the melting point of the solute is lower than that of the matrix. A chemisorbed gaseous species on the surface can also have an effect on the surface composition of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14539370 |
Segregation (materials science) The ratio of the solute concentration in the grain boundary to that in the adjacent atomic layer of the bulk is given by an enrichment ratio, formula_44. Most models assume formula_44 to be a constant, but in practice this is only true for dilute systems with low segregation levels. In t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14539370 |
Segregation (materials science) Therefore, macrosegregation in metal castings cannot be remedied or removed using heat treatment. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14539370 |
Suites à Buffon Les is a French 19th-century scientific publication. Les "Suites à Buffon" carries the complete title "formant avec les œuvres de cet auteur un cours complet d'histoire naturelle embrassant les trois règnes de la nature, confié aux plus célèbres naturalistes et habiles écrivains" (Sequels to Buffon Cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14540333 |
Maximilien Chaudoir Maximilien Chaudoir, or Maximilien, baron de Chaudoir, (12 September 1816, Ivnitsa, near Zhitomir – 6 May 1881, Amélie-les-Bains) was a Russian entomologist. He was a specialist in Coleoptera and in particular the Carabidae. His Cicindelidae are conserved by the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14541256 |
Maximilien Chaudoir Unfortunately for him, Eschscholtz died a few weeks before he joined the university, and Chaudoir began to work on his collections at the museum. He was encouraged by Count Gustave de Mannerheim and in 1834 he travelled around Germany and met Louis Chevrolat in Hamburg. He became a member of the Ent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14541256 |
Jan Zawidzki Jan Wiktor Tomasz Zawidzki (December 20, 1866 in Włóki, Masovian Voivodeship – September 14, 1928 in Warsaw) was a Polish physical chemist and historian of chemistry. He researched mainly chemical kinetics, thermochemistry and autocatalysis. Zawidzki was a professor of the Akademia Rolnicza in Dublany (190... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14562720 |
Tilted updraft A tilted updraft (also known as a tilted storm) is a thunderstorm which is not vertically erect. This happens as a result of unidirectional wind shear, or a change in wind speed with height. In such an environment, the top of the updraft is pushed further downstream than the lower parts as a result of st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14564162 |
Umbravirus The genus includes plant viruses assigned to the family "Tombusviridae". The genus has nine recognized species: "Carrot mottle mimic virus", "Carrot mottle virus", the type species, "Ethiopian tobacco bushy top virus", "Groundnut rosette virus", "Lettuce speckles mottle virus", "Opium poppy mosaic virus", "P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14565682 |
Water sky is a phenomenon that is closely related to ice blink. It forms in regions with large areas of ice and low-lying clouds and so is limited mostly to the extreme northern and southern sections of earth, in Antarctica and in the Arctic. When light hits the blue oceans or seas, some of it bounces back and enables ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14566980 |
Rare-cutter enzyme A rare-cutter enzyme is a restriction enzyme with a recognition sequence which occurs only rarely in a genome. An example is NotI, which cuts after the first GC of a 5'-GCGGCCGC-3' sequence; restriction enzymes with seven and eight base pair recognition sequences are often also called rare-cutter enz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14570400 |
Ludwig Ganglbauer (1 October 1856, Vienna- 5 June 1912, Rekawinkel, near Kaltenbach Lower Austria), was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera (i.e. beetles). Ganglbauer became interested in insects during early childhood. Educated at the Schottengymnasium in Vienna, he later obtained a teaching certifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14571086 |
Valerie Hall (1946-2016) was a Professor in Palaeoecology at Queen's University Belfast until her retirement in 2010, after which she remained a Professor Emerita. She gained a 2:2 in botany at Queen's University Belfast in 1968 and a PhD in Palaeoecology in 1989. She has produced a number of publications of which the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14573316 |
Adparticle An adparticle is an atom, molecule, or cluster of atoms or molecules that lies on a crystal surface. The term is used in surface chemistry. The word is a contraction of "adsorbed particle". An adparticle that is a single atom may be referred to as an "adatom". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14573864 |
Christian Overgaard Nielsen (January 16, 1918 – January 26, 1999) was a Danish zoologist and ecologist. Overgaard Nielsen was a soil ecologist, specializing in soil nematodes and Enchytraeidae. He investigated the role of the soil microfauna in the decomposition of plant litter and recycling of nutrients in ecosystems.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14574550 |
Hokusai quadrangle The (H-5) is one of fifteen quadrangles on the planet Mercury. It runs from 360 to 270° longitude and 20 to 70° latitude. Named after the Hokusai crater, it was mapped in detail for the first time after "MESSENGER" entered orbit around Mercury in 2011. It had not been mapped prior to that point becau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14582630 |
Raditladi quadrangle The (H-4) is one of fifteen quadrangles on Mercury. It runs from 270 to 180° longitude and 20 to 70° latitude. Named after the Raditladi Basin, it was mapped in detail for the first time after "MESSENGER" entered orbit around Mercury in 2011. It had not been mapped prior to that point because it wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14582668 |
Locule A locule (plural locules) or loculus (plural loculi) (meaning "little place" in Latin) is a small cavity or compartment within an organ or part of an organism (animal, plant, or fungus). In angiosperms (flowering plants), the term "locule" usually refers to a chamber within an ovary (gynoecium or carpel) of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14587477 |
C.G. Johannes Petersen Carl Georg Johannes Petersen (24 October 1860 – 11 May 1928) was a Danish marine biologist, especially fisheries biologist. He was the first to describe communities of benthic marine invertebrates and is often considered a founder of modern fisheries research. Especially he was the first to use t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14591746 |
Eminescu quadrangle The (H-9) is one of fifteen quadrangles on Mercury. It runs from 216 to 288° longitude and from -25 to 25° latitude. Named after the Eminescu crater, it was mapped in detail for the first time after "MESSENGER" entered orbit around Mercury in 2011. It had not been mapped prior to that point because ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14595728 |
Derain quadrangle The (H-10) is one of fifteen quadrangles on Mercury. It runs from 288 to 360° longitude and from -25 to 25° latitude. Named after the Derain crater, it was mapped in detail for the first time after "MESSENGER" entered orbit around Mercury in 2011. It had not been mapped prior to that point because it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14595743 |
Debussy quadrangle The (H-14) is one of fifteen quadrangles on Mercury. It runs from 270 to 360° longitude and from -20 to -70° latitude. Named after the Debussy crater, it was mapped in detail for the first time after "MESSENGER" entered orbit around Mercury in 2011. It had not been mapped prior to that point because ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14595828 |
Alain Haché (born 14 December 1970, in Tracadie, New Brunswick) is an experimental physicist, a professor at the University of Moncton, Canada. From 2003 to 2013 he held the Canada Research Chair in Photonics. He is also the author of "The Physics of Hockey" and "Slap Shot Science", two popular science books on ice hoc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14597914 |
Neruda quadrangle The (H-13) is one of fifteen quadrangles on Mercury. It runs from 180 to 270° longitude and -20 to -70° latitude. Named after the Neruda crater, it was mapped in detail for the first time after "MESSENGER" entered orbit around Mercury in 2011. It had not been mapped prior to that point because it was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14598685 |
Aristoxenus (crater) Aristoxenus is an impact crater at latitude 82 degrees north, longitude 11 degrees west on Mercury. It is 65 kilometers in diameter and was named after Aristoxenus. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14610181 |
Grigory Bey-Bienko Grigory Yakovlevich Bey-Bienko (; 7 February 1903, in Bilopillia, Russian Empire (now Sumy Oblast, Ukraine) – 3 November 1971) was a Russian entomologist who specialized in Orthoptera. He graduated from the Omsk Institute of Agriculture, worked in the USSR Institute for Plants Protection (Vsesoyuznij... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14615306 |
Boethius (Mercurian crater) Boethius is a crater on Mercury, named after Boethius, the Roman philosopher. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14617046 |
Schubert (Mercurian crater) Schubert is a crater on Mercury. It was named after Franz Schubert, a famous Austrian composer, by the IAU in 1976. Schubert has been filled in by smooth plains material. Nearby craters include Wergeland to the north, Nampeyo to the northeast, and Bramante to the southwest. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14617148 |
Soredium Soredia are common reproductive structures of lichens. Lichens reproduce asexually by employing simple fragmentation and production of soredia and isidia. Soredia are powdery propagules composed of fungal hyphae wrapped around cyanobacteria or green algae. These can be either scattered diffusely across the sur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14617718 |
Africanus Horton (crater) Africanus Horton is a crater on Mercury. It was named by the IAU in 1976, after Africanus Horton, a Creole African nationalist writer and an esteemed medical surgeon in the British Army from Freetown, Sierra Leone. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14618597 |
Gula Mons is a volcano in western Eistla Regio on Venus; it is high and located at approximately 22 degrees north latitude, 359 degrees east longitude. Its main feature is a NE-SW-oriented rift-like fracture set connecting two summit calderas. There is also a structure which links the northern caldera and ridge system ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14621107 |
Sif Mons is a shield volcano in Eistla Regio on Venus. It has a diameter of and a height of . It is named after the Norse goddess Sif. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14621183 |
Cunitz (crater) Cunitz is a crater on Venus at latitude 14.5, longitude 350.9 in western Eistla Regio. It is 48.6 km in diameter and was named for a 17th-century Silesian astronomer Maria Cunitz. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14621259 |
Ushas Mons is a 2-kilometer-high (1.25 mile) volcano in the southern hemisphere of Venus at 25 degrees south latitude, 323 degrees east longitude. Its name is derived from vedic goddess of dawn Ushas The volcano is marked by numerous bright lava flows and a set of north-south trending fractures, many of which appear to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14621456 |
Dickinson (crater) Dickinson crater is located at 74.6 degrees north latitude and 177.2 east longitude, in the northeastern Atalanta Region of Venus. It is in diameter. The crater is complex, characterized by a partial central ring and a floor flooded by radar-dark and radar-bright materials. Hummocky, rough-textured e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14621544 |
Grimke (crater) Grimke is a crater on Venus at latitude 17.2, longitude 215.3. It is 34.8 km in diameter and is named after Sarah Grimké. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14623681 |
Wheatley (crater) Wheatley is a crater on Venus at latitude 16.6, longitude 268 in Asteria Regio. It is 74.8 km in diameter and was named after Phillis Wheatley, the first black writer of note in America (1753-1784). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14623802 |
Mona Lisa (crater) Mona Lisa is a crater on Venus at latitude 25.6, longitude 25.1. It is 79.4 km in diameter and was named after Lisa Giacondo, Leonardo da Vinci's model for the painting "Mona Lisa". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14623843 |
Balch (crater) Balch is a crater on Venus at latitude 29.9, longitude 282.9 in Devana Chasma, Central Beta Regio. It is 40 km in diameter and named after Emily Balch, though it was originally designated Somerville crater. This crater is one of the few examples of tectonically modified craters seen on Venus. Approximate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14623922 |
Tor Ørvig (1916–1994) was a Norwegian-born Swedish paleontologist who explored the histology of early vertebrates. He was professor at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He described a possible post-Cretaceous coelacanth fossil from the Paleocene epoc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14627006 |
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