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François Josephe Fettig Abbé François Joseph Fettig (10 July 1824, Mothern near Wissembourg – 5 May 1906, Matzenheim) was a French entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. His collections are shared between Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (Coleoptera), Museum Colmar (Microlepidoptera and larvae, destroyed or badly damaged) and Zoological Museum,Strasbourg (Macrolepidoptera). partial list | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45464251 |
Emmanuel Martin (1827, Paris – 1897, Creil) was a French entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. Charles Oberthür, 1904 "Etudes de lépidoptérologie comparée" Impr. Oberthür in Rennes . | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45464621 |
Joseph Émile Macker Joseph Émile Macker, also Emile Macker (27 February 1828 – 3 December 1916) was a French entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. Émile Macker was a Doctor in Colmar. partial list | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45464807 |
Yoshinori Imaizumi Yoshinori Imaizumi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45466632 |
Alexandre Constant also known as Alfred Constant (14 September 1829, Autun – 13 May 1901, Golfe-Juan) was a French entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. Constant was a banker. He became a Member of the Société entomologique de France in 1854. He was principally interested in Microlepidoptera. Partial list | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45466834 |
Kate R. Rosenbloom is a member of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Consortium. She is a Tech Project Manager and Software Developer at the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), USA. The pilot stage of ENCODE, involving development of a web browser to show experimental results related to regions on the human genome sequence, was undertaken at UCSC. The university team maintain and develop the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) Genome Browser to provide the public with access to genome data from an increasing number of animals, mainly vertebrates. Data provided by the user can also be included. It permits comparisons and some interpretation of the data. An annual update of developments is published each January. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45468572 |
François Clément Lafaury (1834, Saugnac-et-Cambran −1908, Saugnac-et-Cambran) was a French entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He is honoured in the name "Choristoneura lafauryana". His collection is held by Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. Francois Clément Lafaury became a Member of the Société entomologique de France in 1858. He was principally interested in the Lepidoptera fauna of Landes including the Microlepidoptera. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45473919 |
Nanopore battery A nanopore battery is a rechargeable battery that is a composite of billions of nanoscale batteries formed within the pores of a substrate. The space inside the holes is so small that billions of pores combined equal the volume of a grain of sand. Each pore's diameter was some one eighty-thousandth the width of a human hair. In 2014 a demonstration device was made from a ceramic sheet made of anodic aluminum. It held two vanadium pentoxide nanotube electrodes separated by an electrolyte that carried the electrical charge between the two. The current collector was made of ruthenium. The individual batteries are connected in parallel. The is prelithiated at one end to form the anode, with pure at the other end to form the cathode. The battery asymmetrically cycles between 0.2 V and 1.8 V. The capacity retention of this full cell (relative to 1 C values) is 95% at 5 C and 46% at 150 C, with a 1,000-cycle life. A demonstration device was fully charged in 12 minutes and recharged thousands of times. The system uses an electrochemical regime in which ion insertion and surface charge mechanisms for energy storage become indistinguishable. It can serve as a vehicle for studying ion transport limits in dense, nanostructured, electrode arrays. List of battery types | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45477543 |
Staphylococci phage G1 is a virus of the family "Myoviridae", genus "Twortlikevirus", known to infect the bacterial species "Staphylococcus aureus". The Gp67 protein of phage G1 has been found to interact with its host's RNA polymerase though an interaction with a sigma factor. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45484439 |
Jules Culot (2 November 1861, Baccarat – 17 September 1933, Geneva ) was a French entomologist and an entomological illustrator who specialised in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. His Coleoptera collection is held by the Natural History Museum of Geneva. His Lepidoptera collection was given to his daughters. The present location is unknown. He wrote "Noctuelles et géomètres d'Europe". Volumes I-IV. Genève, Villa les Iris (1909–1913, 1917–1919) online, an illustrated revision of the Noctuidae (with 81 plates) and the Geometridae (with 70 plates) of Europe. was a friend of Charles Oberthur. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45486440 |
Pierre Chrétien (1846 – 15 June 1934, Nay, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) was a French entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He was a member of Société entomologique de France. "Trifurcula chretieni" is "named in honour of (1846–1934), who discovered nepticulid mines on "Bupleurum", including those on "Bupleurum rigidum", and the first author to describe a number of Mediterranean species that are now placed in "Trifurcula" ("Glaucolepis")." His collection is held by National Museum of Natural History in Paris. Partial list" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45493219 |
Joseph Pierre Rondou (6 June 1860, Gèdre – 1935) was a French entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. partial list Rondou, J.P., Catalogue des Lepidoptères des Pyrenées. "Ann. Soc. ent. France" 1932–1935. Concerns especially the Hautes-Pyrenees. Also bound as a book. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45493719 |
Gédéon Foulquier (1855-1941), was a French entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He wrote with Charles Oberthür "Catalogue raisonné des Lepidoptères des Bouches-du-Rhône (principalement des environs de Marseille et d'Aix)". Premier partie, Rhopalocères. Marseille : Librairie Ruat, 1899. lived in Marseille. His collection is held by Musée Pyrénéen in Lourdes. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45495782 |
Claude-François Jeunet (1844, Recologne- 19-- ), was a French entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He studied the fauna of Doubs and Franche-Comté. Claude-Francois Jeunet was a friend of Charles Oberthur. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45496331 |
Martynas Yčas was a Lithuanian-born microbiologist. He co-authored the book "Mr. Tompkins: Inside Himself with physicist George Gamow". He was a founding member of the RNA Tie Club, a discussion society of scientists who attempted to solve the question of the genetic code and with Gamow and others published early statistical analyses of proteins and DNA which disproved some early models of the genetic code. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45501034 |
List of seismic faults in Mexico List of seismic fault (and systems, zones) in Mexico From north to south Santa Maria Fault | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45512171 |
Finite Volume Community Ocean Model The (FVCOM; Formerly Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model) is a prognostic, unstructured-grid, free-surface, 3-D primitive equation coastal ocean circulation model. The model is developed primarily by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and used by researchers worldwide. Originally developed for the estuarine flooding/drying process, FVCOM has been upgraded to the spherical coordinate system for basin and global applications. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45515131 |
SDSS J0100+2802 (SDSS J010013.02+280225.8) is a hyperluminous quasar located near the border of the constellations Pisces and Andromeda. It has a redshift of 6.30, which corresponds to a distance of 12.8 billion light-years from Earth and was formed 900 million years after the Big Bang. And it appears to diverge at a velocity of 1.3782e+8 m/s. It unleashes an immense amount of power equivalent to 3 watts, which corresponds to the absolute bolometric magnitude of -31.7 which is 4.3 times the luminosity of the Sun, and 40,000 times as luminous as all of the 400 billion stars of the Milky Way galaxy combined. is about four times more luminous than SDSS J1148+5251, and seven times more luminous than ULAS J1120+0641, the most distant quasar known, although it is only less than fourth as luminous as HS 1946+7658, the most luminous quasar known. It harbors a black hole with mass of 12 billion solar masses (estimated according to MgII emission line correlations). This makes it one of the most massive black holes discovered so early in the universe, although it is only less than one fifth as massive as TON 618, the most massive black hole known. The diameter of this black hole is about 70.9 billion kilometres, seven times the diameter of Pluto's orbit. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45520491 |
Xanthoconite is a sulfosalt mineral with the chemical formula AgAsS. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45545253 |
Xocolatlite is a sulfate mineral named for its chocolatey appearance. Discovered in the "La Bambolla" gold mine of Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico, Xocolatlite's name is derived from the Nahuatl word "xocolatl" (literally "bitter water"; a root word of "chocolate"), a drink made from cocoa, water, and chili. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45546889 |
Evert Verwey Evert Johannes Willem Verwey, also Verweij, (April 30, 1905 in Amsterdam – February 13, 1981 in Utrecht) was a Dutch chemist, who also did research in physical chemistry. Verwey studied chemistry at the University of Amsterdam and obtained his MSc () in 1929. From 1931 he worked as an assistant at the University of Groningen, where he obtained his PhD under the guidance of Hugo Rudolph Kruyt (1934, "cum laude"). In 1934 he moved to the Philips Laboratories in Eindhoven. He continued work on colloids, which was also the topic of his dissertation, and on oxides. The Verwey transition in magnetite is named after him. Some of his studies on transition metal oxides (carried out jointly with de Boer) showed that some transition-metal oxides had electrical properties that could not be explained on the basis of band theory. Between 1946 and 1967, together with physicist Hendrik Casimir and the engineer Herre Rinia, he was director of the Laboratories. He is known for DLVO theory, a theory of the interaction of charged surfaces in fluids, which has applications, for example, in the description of colloids. In 1949 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1967 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Delft University of Technology. He was also a curator at the University of Utrecht. He was married to the sociologist and politician Hilda Verwey-Jonker (1908–2004). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45547423 |
NGC 3198 NGC 3198, also known as Herschel 146 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (Lord Rosse), sometime before 1850. is located in the Leo Spur, which is part of the Virgo Supercluster, and is approximately 47 million light years away. Two supernovae have been discovered in NGC 3198. SN 1966J, a Type Ib supernova, and 1999bw, which was significantly fainter than expected when first discovered, and has been classified a Type IIn supernova. Observations made with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope detected for the first time the presence of extraplanar gas. The extraplanar gas makes up approximately 15% of the total atomic hydrogen (HI) mass of the galaxy. was one of 18 galaxies targeted by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale, which aimed to calibrate various secondary distance indicators and determine the Hubble constant to an accuracy of 10%. The type and orientation of made it suitable for these measurements. The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) of the HST was used to measure the magnitudes of 52 Cepheid variables, and the resulting distance modulus corresponded to a distance of 14.5 Mpc (47 million light years). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45553131 |
Geometric phase analysis is a digital signal processing method used with Fast Fourier transform algorithms in high-resolution transmission electron microscopy images to quantify displacement and strain fields in crystalline lattices at nanoscale resolution. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45558284 |
Cynthia Roberta McIntyre Dr. is a theoretical physicist and the current Senior Vice President at the Council on Competitiveness. She received her PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focus is condensed matter physics, and she serves on the Condensed Matter Subcommittee for the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. She was named as one of HPCWire's People to Watch in 2013 due to her contributions in high-performance computing (HPC). Notably, she contributed to the development of policies aiding the use of HPC's in the private sector for economic and competitive gains. McIntyre was formerly the Chief of Staff to the President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1999-2007. its sad no one knows her real birthday :( :( :( | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45558943 |
Alitus (crater) Alitus is an oval impact crater just north of Argyre basin in the Argyre quadrangle of Mars, located at 34.91°S and 38.14°W and is not far from Hale's northwestern irregular rim. It is 50 km in diameter and was named after Alytus, a town in Lithuania. The name was approved in 1979 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45587625 |
Babakin (Martian crater) Babakin is a crater in the northeast of Thaumasia quadrangle of Mars, located in the northeast of Aonia Terra located southwest of Bosporos Planum and further southeast of Coracis Fossae. The crater is located at 36°S latitude and 71.44°W longitude. It is 76.66 km in diameter and was named after Soviet space engineer Georgy Babakin. Its name was approved in 1985. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45587649 |
Barsukov (crater) Barsukov is an impact crater on Mars, located in the Oxia Palus quadrangle and south of Sagan crater. It was named in 2003 after Soviet geochemist and planetologist Valeri Barsukov. The crater has a flat floor with no evidence of a central peak. A narrow channel called Silinka Vallis enters the crater along the northeast rim. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45587664 |
Charlier (Martian crater) Charlier is a crater in the Mare Australe quadrangle of Mars. The crater is located at 68.56°S latitude and 168.67°W longitude. It is 106.28 km in diameter and was named after Carl Charlier, a Swedish astronomer. Its name was approved in 1973. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45587750 |
Comas Sola (crater) Comas Sola (sometimes as Comas Solá) is an impact crater on Mars, located in the Memnonia quadrangle at 19.59°S latitude and 158.51°W longitude. It measures in diameter. It was named after the Spanish Catalan astronomer Josep Comas Solá. The name was approved by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature in 1973. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45587776 |
Foros (crater) Foros is an impact crater just northeast of Argyre basin in the Argyre quadrangle of Mars, located at 33.4°S and 27.87°W. It is 24.54 km in diameter. It was named after Foros, a town in the Ukraine. The name was approved in 1979 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45587891 |
Zhao Jincai (; born December 1960) is a Chinese environmental chemist and researcher of the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In April 1994, he obtained a doctorate from Meisei University in Japan. In 2011 he was elected as an academician of CAS. He is a professor at the Institute of Chemistry, CAS; Deputy Director of Key Laboratory of Photochemistry; Deputy Director of Science Committee of Molecular Sciences Centre, CAS. His research mainly focuses on the photocatalytic degradation of toxic and persistent organic pollutants. Zhao introduced -based photocatalyst under visible light, and discovered a new way for oxygen atom transfer during photocatalytic reactions. In the early 2000s, Zhao's group reported that visible light can accelerate the degradation of organic pollutants with aqueous solutions of iron tetrasulfophthalocyanine ([Fe(PcS)]) and . They also found out FeBR (Fe complex of 2,2′-bipyridine) is efficient in eliminating organic pollutants such as rhodamine B (RhB), malachite green (MG) and N, N-dimethylaniline (DMA). They did several control experiments, in the dark or under irradiation, with or without irradiation. They proposed that when light is introduced, excitation of [Fe(PcS)] can result in electron transfer from ligand(L) to Fe, then Fe can be reduced to Fe. The Fe-L complex can react with to produce HO, leading to the degradation of pollutants. Zhao has published over 200 papers in international journals and obtained 20 Chinese invention patents | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45603245 |
Zhao Jincai Zhao won many awards: 2010 Japanese Photochemistry Association Lectureship Award for Asian and OceanianPhotochemist. 2005 The Second Grade National Prize of Natural Science of China (the first contributor). 2002 The Award of Excellent Young Scientists of Chinese Academy of Sciences- Bayer (Germany). 2002 The Fiste Grade Prize of Science and Technology in Beijing (Natural Science). 2002 The Second Grade Prize Military Science and Technique Progress Prize. 1999 Be selected into the first and second levels of "the National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talent Project". 1998 The Special Contribution Award from the State Council of China. 1997 Distinguished Young Scientists of NSFC. 1999, 2002, 2006 The Award of Excellent Advisor of Graduates of CAS. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45603245 |
NGC 107 is a spiral galaxy estimated to be about 280 million light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. It was discovered by Otto Struve in 1866 and its magnitude is 14.2. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45603356 |
NGC 108 is a lenticular galaxy that is located at approximately 220 million light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda. It was discovered by William Herschel on September 11, 1784. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45603392 |
Jerzy Kroh (28 August 1924 – 15 February 2016) was a Polish chemist, the founder of a radiation chemistry school in Łódź, and the author or co-author of about 400 publications and several books. From 1981–1987, Kroh was rector of the Technical University of Lodz, and from 1962-1994 was in charge of the Interministerial Institute of Applied Radiation, of which he was a founder. From 1996–1998, Kroh was Vice President of Łódź, responsible for science and education. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Leeds and the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom, the University of Pavia in Italy, and the Technical University of Lodz. Kroh has many other awards as well, including the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Knight Commander of the Order of the Rebirth of Poland, and the Imperial Japanese Order of the Silver and Gold Star. He is an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh HFRS, of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and of the Scientific Society of Lodz. He died on 15 February 2016 at the age of 91. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45606155 |
Filip Neriusz Walter (31 May 1810 – 9 April 1847) was a Polish chemist and pioneer of organic chemistry. He was one of the youngest students of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where he studied history and chemistry in 1825–28. Subsequently, he studied at Berlin University, receiving a Ph.D. with his dissertation "On Combination of Oxalic Acid and Alkali". Simultaneously he served as assistant to Professor Eilhard Mitscherlich. On the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising, he went to Warsaw and joined the Polish Army. He served as adjutant to Colonel Samuel Różycki, commander of the 7th infantry regiment. In 1831, aged 21, he was named professor of chemistry at the Jagiellonian University, but was granted a leave of absence and went to Germany and France to become acquainted with applied chemistry. In France he collaborated with the famous chemists, Jean Dumas and Pierre-Joseph Pelletier. His achievements won him recognition from the French Academy. In sum, he isolated and studied 24 new chemical compounds, including toluene, biphenyl, nitrotoluene, cedrene, potassium hydroxide dihydrate, chromyl chloride, cumene, benzyl chloride, benzyl bromide, nitrotoluene, and menthene. In 1847 he was decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honour. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45615293 |
Norman Farnsworth Dr. Norman Robert Farnsworth (March 23, 1930 – September 20, 2011) was a pharmacognosist, professor, and author. He received his bachelor's in 1953 and master's in 1955 in pharmacy at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, and his Ph.D. in Pharmacognosy from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy in 1959, where he helped establish the Pharmacognosy Department, became its first chair, and taught until 1970. An army veteran of the Korean War, Farnsworth served as a Private First Class and eventually as a Corporal in the Third Infantry Division, Seventh Regimental Combat Team, nicknamed the "Fire Brigade" in Korea. He was seriously wounded in the winter of 1950. Because of his service during the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, he received the Bronze Star Medal with a “V” device, which is the U. S. military’s fourth-highest award for valor. He was also awarded four oak leaf clusters, representative of four additional awards of the Bronze Star medal, the Combat Medical Badge, and the Korean Ribbon with Four Battle Stars. He was a founding member of the American Society of Pharmacognosy in 1959. He was also the founding director of the Program for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of Illinois at Chicago. From 1970 to 1982, he was the head of the Department of Pharmacognosy and Pharmacology at the University of Illinois at Chicago | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45617387 |
Norman Farnsworth In 1974, he traveled to China with the American Herbal Pharmacology Delegation, where they studied the practice of traditional Chinese herbal medicine. Afterwards, the National Academy of Sciences published "Herbal Pharmacology in the People’s Republic of China." When computers were first coming onto the scene, Farnsworth created Natural Products Alert (NAPRALERT) in 1975. The NAPRALERT database was the first computerized collection on the research and science of natural products. Farnsworth was a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Advisory Panel on Traditional Medicine. He was also the director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Traditional Medicine Programme at UIC’s College of Pharmacy. A pioneer in the field of pharmacognosy, Dr. Farnsworth was an honorary member of the American Society of Pharmacognosy, an honorary member of the Society for Economic botany, an honorary member of the International Society of Ethnopharmacology, an honorary member of the French Pharmacognosy Society, and a member of the Japanese Society of Pharmacognosy. He also received three honorary doctorates from University of Paris V (René Descartes), Upsalla University in Sweden, and his alma mater, the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Sciences. In 2005, the American Society of Pharmacognosy awarded him their Research Achievement Award. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45617387 |
Amaechi Moshe is a Director in Platform Petroleum Limited, an Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Company wholly owned by Nigerians; operator of the Egbaoma field (formerly Asuokpu/Umutu) located in Delta state, Nigeria. is a highly skilled oil and gas specialist with over 37 years of professional experience. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Geology from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) in 1972. He holds a certificate in Geophysics, 1974 and a Master of Science degree in Geology, 1979. His successful activist role was recorded in December 2011, when the Geology guru filed a suit to challenge the non-payment of the reviewed pension arrears for Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pensioners (of which he was one). Consequently, in March 2013, the National Industrial Court in Nigeria ordered the Nigerian National Petroleum Pension Fund Limited to pay 500 million Naira to the NNPC pensioners who retired prior to 2004 as approved by the NNPC Board in 2009. Amaechi is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AMAPG), Nigeria Mining and Geoscience Society (NMGS), as well as the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE). He is also a fellow of the Geological Society of London. His many years experience revolve around the oil and gas industry. Moshe Amaechi served as Manager of Exploration FES, NAPIMS from 1993 to 1995. He also served as Head Exploration of Shell J.V. OPS, NNPC from 1990 to 1991 and Head of Geophysics, J.V. Operation of NNPC from 1986 to 1990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45629075 |
Amaechi Moshe He served 11 Years as Consultant Geophysicist in 1995. He has 24 years continuous oil and gas industry experience; 3 Years as Field Geophysicist with SSL, CGG & Geological Surveys and 21 Years with NNPC. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45629075 |
Olav Liestøl (24 February 1916 – 3 April 2002) was a Norwegian glaciologist. He was born in Kristiania as a son of folklorist and politician Knut Liestøl, but grew up in Blommenholm. He was a member of Milorg during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, and took the cand.real. degree at the University of Oslo in 1945. From 1948 to his retirement in 1986 he worked as a glaciologist at the Norwegian Polar Institute, and was described as "Norway's most recognized glaciologist". He mainly studied the geology of Svalbard, but also Antarctica and elsewhere. From 1985 he was also an adjunct professor at the University of Oslo. He resided at Blommenholm. He died in April 2002. The glacier of Liestølbreen in Torell Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard is named after him. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45639055 |
NGC 6085 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Corona Borealis. It is classified as a LINER galaxy and is a member of Abell 2162. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45649946 |
NGC 6086 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Corona Borealis. It has an apparent magnitude of 12.7. A Type-cD galaxy, it is the brightest cluster galaxy in the cluster Abell 2162. In 2010, a supermassive black hole was discovered in NGC 6086. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45649963 |
C. Kevin Boyce is a paleobotanist. He is best known for winning a MacArthur Award in 2013. Boyce's work deals with the relationship between current and past ecosystems. Prior to his employment at Stanford, Boyce was associated with the University of Chicago. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45665979 |
Bassett Maguire (August 4, 1904 – February 6, 1991) was an American botanist, head curator of the New York Botanical Garden, and a leader of scientific expeditions to the Guyana Highlands in Brazil and Venezuela. Maguire was born in Gadsden, Alabama, on August 4, 1904. He obtained his doctorate from Cornell University in 1938. In 1931, he was appointed assistant professor of botany at Utah State University, where he started the Intermountain Herbarium and served as its principal collector and curator until 1942. He left his position in Utah when he got a job at the New York Botanical Garden in 1943. Maguire served at the New York Botanical Garden in many roles as Curator (1943-1958); Head Curator (1958-1961); Nathanial Lord Britton Distinguished Senior Curator (1961-1971); Assistant Director (1968-1969); Director of Botany (1969-1971, 1974-1975); Senior Scientist (1972-1974); and Senior Scientist Emeritus from 1975 until his death in 1991. While in Utah, Maguire started work on the "Intermountain Flora," a flora on the vascular plants of the intermountain west, but he gradually relinquished work on this project to his former students Noel Holmgren and Arthur Cronquist (and Holmgren's spouse, Patricia Holmgren), as his own interests turned increasingly to tropical America. He led several expeditions to the Guyana Highlands, bringing back thousands of samples. In 1954 he discovered the botanically rich Cerro de la Neblina ("Mountain of the Clouds"). He retired in 1978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45701246 |
Bassett Maguire In 1990, when he was 85, New York Botanical Garden published a Festschrift in his honour: "The Festschrift: A Tribute to the Man and His Deeds", edited by William R. Buck, Brian M. Boom, and Richard A. Howard (Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden Vol. 64). He died of kidney failure in Doctors Hospital on February 6, 1991. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45701246 |
Valentin Koptyug (, 9 Juny 1931, Yukhnov, Kaluga Oblast – 10 January 1997, Moscow) — was a Soviet/Russian scientist, specializing in physical and organic chemistry. was born in 1931 in Yukhnov in the family of Afanasy Koptyug, who was director of the local communication department, and Nadezhda Koptyug, who was a telegrapher. When young Koptyug was studying in school, his family had to evacuate because of Great Patriotic War. In 1949 he finished school in Samarkand and graduated from D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia in 1954 in Moscow. He was a chancellor of Novosibirsk State University for two years (1978–1980). Koptyug made a huge contribution in development of synthetic, physical and applied chemistry. Also, he founded some large scientific schools in the fields of organic chemistry and chemoinformatics. There are a monument and a street named after Koptyug in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk. Also, there are several awards and grants of his name for students and scientists. was buried at the Yuzhnoye Cemetery in Novosibirsk. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45713626 |
Limostatin (from Limos, the Greek goddess of starvation) is a peptide hormone found in Drosophila melanogaster that suppresses the production and release of Insulin. The hormone is important in adaptation to starvation conditions, and represents a mechanism by which insulin is negatively regulated. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46192330 |
Nikolay Pogrebov Nikolay Pogrebov, (; in Saint Petersburg – 10 January 1942 in Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet hydrogeologist and an engineering geologist. In 1884–1887, he studied in and was graduated from the Saint Petersburg Mining Institute. In 1897–1919 he worked as the librarian and archivist of the Saint Petersburg Geology Committee. He was a professor at Leningrad Mining Institute from 1931 to 1936. Since 1902, he studied the Baltic Oil Shale Basin. In 1916, the Geology Committee asked Pogrebov to search information about oil shale in Estonia. In April 1916, the Petrograd Main Committee for Fuels sent him to Estonia to study oil shale in the place. From July to November 1916, the geological survey of the resource was performed under his guidance. He oversaw the construction of the first experimental oil shale open-pit in Estonia. In 1916–1923, he published a series papers on this subject. In 1921, during the Tagantsev conspiracy trial he was sentenced for two years custody in the forced labour camp. He was released in 1922. In 1930 he organized the Crimea Landslide Monitoring Station. He was Chairman of the 1st all-Union Congress of Hydrogeologists in 1931 and the 1st all-Union Meeting of Landslide in 1934. In 1940, he was given the honorary title of Honored Scientist of the RSFSR. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46194503 |
Holmberg 15A is a supergiant elliptical galaxy and the central dominant galaxy of the Abell 85 galaxy cluster in the constellation Cetus, about 700 million light-years from Earth. It was discovered by Erik Holmberg. It briefly shot to fame when it was reported to have the largest core ever observed in a galaxy, spanning some 15,000 light years, however this was subsequently refuted. It has been alleged that the primary component of the galactic core is a supermassive black hole with a mass of 40 billion solar masses (), although no direct measurement has yet been acquired. Previous estimates by Lauer "et al." have jointed a mass value as high as 310 billion using the gamma ray point break radius method. Kormendy and Bender gave a value of 260 billion in a 2009 paper. Lower estimates were given by Kormendy and Ho "et al." in 2013 at 2.1 and 9.2 billion . The paper by Lopez-Cruz "et al." stated: "Therefore, we conservatively suggest that Holm 15A hosts an SMBH with M• ∼ 1 M⊙". Kormendy and Ho "et al" derived these equations using the M-sigma relation and the size of the outer bulge of the galaxy, which are indirect estimates. Rusli "et al" derived a value of 170 billion using break radius methodology. In addition, Abell 85 has its velocity dispersion of dark matter halo at ~750 km/s, which could only be explained by a black hole with a mass greater than 150 billion , although Kormendy and Ho "et al" stated that "dark matter halos are scale-free, and the SMBH-dark matter coevolution is independent from the effects of baryons" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46197689 |
Holmberg 15A This makes it one of the most massive black holes ever discovered, with it being classified as an ultramassive black hole. it was discovered by oscar chapman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46197689 |
Magadi (crater) Magadi is an impact crater in the Argyre quadrangle of Mars, located at 34.5°S and 46.1°W. It is 51 km in diameter. Its name refers to Magadi, a town in Kenya. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46205150 |
NGC 6925 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Microscopium of apparent magnitude 11.3. It is lens-shaped, as it lies almost edge on to observers on Earth. It lies 3.7 degrees west-northwest of Alpha Microscopii. SN 2011ei, a Type II supernova in NGC 6925, was discovered by Stu Parker in New Zealand in July 2011. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46216269 |
Anthony Patrick Fairall Anthony Patrick (Tony) Fairall (September 15, 1943 – November 22, 2008) was a South African astronomer most noted for his work on exploring the large-scale structure of the Universe, such as filaments and voids. He was the director of what is now the Iziko planetarium in Cape Town and was a well-known popularizer of astronomy in South Africa. Fairall was born in London and moved with his family to Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1948 and then Harare, Zimbabwe in 1953. He studied at the University of Cape Town, completing his undergraduate degree in 1966. He studied for his doctorate under Gerard de Vaucouleurs and Fritz Zwicky at the University of Texas at Austin, receiving his degree in 1970. Fairall discovered and named Fairall 9, the most luminous Seyfert 1 (active) galaxy. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46221955 |
Samir D. Mathur Samir Dayal Mathur is a theoretical physicist who specializes in string theory and black hole physics. Mathur is a professor in the Department of Physics at The Ohio State University and a member of the University's High Energy Theory Group. He was a faculty member at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1991–99 and held postdoctoral positions at Harvard University and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Mathur's research is focused on string theory, black holes, the AdS/CFT correspondence, and cosmology. He is best known for developing the Fuzzball conjecture as a resolution of the black hole information paradox. The Fuzzball conjecture asserts that the fundamental description of black holes is given by a quantum bound state of matter which has the same size as the corresponding classical black hole. This quantum bound state replaces the event horizon and singularity, and the classical black hole metric is claimed to be an approximate effective description. In 2009 Mathur published a strong version of the black hole information paradox, strengthening Stephen Hawking's original version by demonstrating that small local corrections to Hawking's semiclassical analysis cannot restore unitarity. This result was obtained by applying Strong Subadditivity of Quantum Entropy to the evaporation of Hawking radiation. This led to a renewed interest in the information paradox and the development of the 2012 black hole firewall paradox. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46258423 |
Volume combustion synthesis (VCS) is method of chemical synthesis in which the reactants are heated uniformly in a controlled manner until a reaction ignites throughout the volume of the reaction chamber. The VCS mode is typically used for weakly exothermic reactions that require preheating prior to ignition. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46268782 |
Ottumwa (crater) Ottumwa is an impact crater on Mars, located in the Lunae Palus quadrangle, on the west margin of Chryse Planitia and just east of Nilokeras Fossa. It was named in 1976 after Ottumwa, a town in Iowa, United States. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46270698 |
Zilair (crater) Zilair is an impact crater in the Argyre quadrangle of Mars, located at 31.81°S and 32.94°W. It is 46.91 km in diameter and was named after Zilair, a town in Russia. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46271000 |
Zongo (crater) Zongo is an impact crater in the Argyre quadrangle of Mars, located at 33.8°S and 41.7°W. It is 46.83 km in diameter and was named after Zongo, a town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46271003 |
PVSRIPO PVSRIPO, or PVS-RIPO, is the name of a modified polio virus that has recently shown promise for treating cancer. It is the focus of clinical trials being conducted at Duke University. PVS-RIPO consists of a genetically modified nonpathogenic version of the oral poliovirus Sabin type 1. The internal ribosome entry site (IRES) on the poliovirus was replaced with the IRES from human rhinovirus type 2 (HRV2), to avoid neurovirulence. Once administered, the virus enters and begins replicating within cells that express CD155/Necl5, which is an onco-fetal cell adhesion molecule that is common across solid tumors. A website at Duke University describes many of properties of PVSRIPO, and historical background about using viruses to oppose cancer. According to that website, The potential value of was the focus of a 2015 story on "Newsmax", and a 2015 story on "60 Minutes". In May 2016 the US FDA granted it Breakthrough therapy designation for Glioblastoma. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46275516 |
Ureaplasma canigenitalium is a species of "Ureaplasma", a genus of bacteria belonging to the family Mycoplasmataceae. It has been isolated from dogs. It possesses the sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: D78648. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46292471 |
Ureaplasma cati is a species of "Ureaplasma", a genus of bacteria belonging to the family Mycoplasmataceae. It has been isolated from cats. Its sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: D78649. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46292536 |
Ureaplasma felinum is a species of "Ureaplasma", a genus of bacteria belonging to the family Mycoplasmataceae. It has been isolated from cats. It possesses the sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: D78651. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46292603 |
Ureaplasma gallorale is a species of "Ureaplasma", a genus of bacteria belonging to the family Mycoplasmataceae. It has been isolated from chickens and barnyard fowl. It possesses the sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: U62937. It a commensal species with its host organism but has the ability to colonize and create infection. In the presence of virulence factors (H2O2, antigen protiens, etc.) is when these species start to over colonize . They have relatively small genomes, utilizing their host organisms natural processes to further their growth and survival. Nutrient required by the "Ureaplasma" species to continue metabolism are taken directly from the host. They proliferate in environments with a pH of 6.0-6.5 and a temperature of 35-37° C. These characteristics are common to most biological environments which is why "Ureaplasma" species regularly cause infection. These infections can be found in the genital and respiratory tracks of avian species (chickens and turkey). "Ureaplasma gallorale" infections cannot always be managed by the host due to the mechanisms the bacteria have adapted. A host will release immune signals of IgA molecules to the bacterial cells to signify infection but the "Ureaplasmas" can secrete an enzyme known as IgAse that destroys IgA, rendering the signal inactive and leaving the host susceptible to health concerns | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46295506 |
Ureaplasma gallorale These infections, known as the condition Ureaplasmosis, have further ramifications for the barnyard fowl such as low egg production, weight loss, reduced feed conversion efficiency and even death. These health issues are a serious concern in maintaining adequate production for the agricultural industry. All species of "Ureaplasma" appear as gram-negative bacteria that utilize the hydrolysis or urea to produce energy for growth. Products of urea hydrolysis include carbon dioxide and ammonia. This reaction is coordinated by the enzyme urease, which "Ureaplasma" species potently secrete. Unlike most microorganisms, species of "Ureaplasma" lack a cell wall. "Ureaplasma gallorale" is further characterized as appearing only in avian species. In an experimental study, they found the 16s rDNA sequence for "Ureaplasma galllorale" was not able to be amplified by the same PCR primers used to amplify mammalian "Ureaplasma" species, suggesting a genetic differentiation in these sequences. The genome size is indictive of the organisms complete reliance on the compounds produced from the host. The "Ureaplasma gallorale" species, along with the other "Ureaplasma" species, are missing key biological pathways due to their small genomes but survive through absorption of the compounds found in their microenvironment. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46295506 |
Ureaplasma diversum is a species of "Ureaplasma", a genus of bacteria belonging to the family Mycoplasmataceae. It possesses the sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: D78650. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46295776 |
Ureaplasma loridis is a species of "Ureaplasma", a genus of bacteria belonging to the family Mycoplasmataceae. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46296420 |
Lentisphaera araneosa Lentisphera araneosa is a marine bacteria strain in the bacterial phylum Lentisphaerae. They are able to produce viscous transparent exopolymers and grow attached to each other by the polymer in a three-dimensional configuration. They are part of the natural surface bacterial population in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. They are less than 1% of the total bacterial community. This species is gram negative, non-motile, non-pigmented, aerobic, chemoheterotrophic, and facultatively oligotrophic sphere-shaped. Its genome has been sequenced. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46298131 |
Gareth V. Williams Gareth Vaughan Williams (born 1965, in Windlesham, England) is an English-American astronomer, who served as the associate director of the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center (MPC) until his retirement in February 2020. He joined the MPC in January 1990, and as such is the longest-serving staff member presently there. He is an IAU member and is the MPC representative on various IAU committees and working groups, including the "Working Group on Planetary System Nomenclature" and is secretary of the "Working Group on Small Body Nomenclature." Gareth got his undergraduate degree in astronomy at University College London, and his PhD in 2013 from the Open University. He is known for recovering the lost asteroids 878 Mildred in 1991 and 719 Albert in 2000. He also identified the earliest known observation of a Jupiter trojan, when he linked A904 RD, an object seen on only a single night by E. E. Barnard, with . Barnard's observations, which he initially believed belonged to Saturn IX (Phoebe), were sufficient to show that the object was distant, but he did not follow it up. The first Jupiter Trojan to be recognized as such, 588 Achilles, was discovered in 1906. On 11 February 2020, the Minor Planet Center announced that Gareth Williams is retiring as its associate director. Minor planet 3202 Graff, a Hilda asteroid discovered by Max Wolf at Heidelberg in 1908, was named in his honor on 10 April 1990 (). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46299102 |
Model for Prediction Across Scales The (MPAS) is a coupled Earth system modeling package that integrates atmospheric, oceanographic and cryospheric modeling on a variety of scales from the planetary to regional and mesoscale/microscale. It includes climate and weather modeling and simulations that were first used by researchers in 2013. The atmospheric components (MPAS-A) were led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)'s Earth System Laboratory (NESL) and the oceanographic components (MPAS-O) by the Climate, Ocean, and Sea Ice Modeling Group (COSIM) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). It has been used for real-time weather as well as seasonal forecasting of convection, tornadoes and tropical cyclones, among other uses. Its atmospheric modeling aspects are intended to use and complement rather than replace the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF-ARW/NMM), the Global Forecast System (GFS) and the Community Earth System Model (CESM). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46310297 |
Marine Isotope Stage 13 or MIS 13 is a Marine isotope stage in the geologic temperature record, in Britain covering the Cromerian interglacial period between ~524,000 and 474,000 years ago. It is split into three substages, MIS 13a MIS 13b, and MIS 13c. Some records indicate that MIS 13a was an unstable warm peak with a cold split in the middle at MIS 13.12 - separating warm MIS 13.11 and 13.13. This interglacial follows the relatively warm glacial period associated with Marine Isotope Stage 14, and is followed by the relatively cold glacial period associated with MIS 12. Britain High Lodge, Suffolk Waverley Wood, Warwickshire Happisburgh 1, Norfolk Boxgrove, West Sussex Early domination of birch, pine, and spruce. Mixed-oak forests follow (predominantly Alder, Oak, Hornbeam, and Hazel). Mammals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46321926 |
Microscopium Supercluster The is a supercluster located in the constellation Microscopium. First noticed in the early 1990s, it has received little study. It is composed of Abell clusters 3695 and 3696, while the relations of Abell clusters 3693 and 3705 in the same field are unclear. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46328461 |
Community Earth System Model The (CESM) is a fully coupled numerical simulation of the Earth system consisting of atmospheric, ocean, ice, land surface, carbon cycle, and other components. CESM includes a climate model providing state-of-art simulations of the Earth's past, present, and future. It is the successor of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM), specifically version 4 (CCSMv4), which provided the initial atmospheric component for CESM. Strong ensemble forecasting capabilities, CESM-LE (CESM-Large Ensemble), were developed at the onset to control for error and biases across different model runs (realizations). Simulations from the Earth's surface through the thermosphere are generated utilizing the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM). CESM1 was released in 2010 with primary development by the Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and significant funding by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DoE). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46348222 |
Julia Vorholt Julia A. Vorholt (born September 15, 1969) is a full professor of microbiology at ETH Zurich and an elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. She earned her PhD in 1997 under professor Rudolf K. Thauer at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, for which she was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal, and is a German national residing in Switzerland. Current projects of the Vorholt lab at ETH Zurich include: In addition, work from her lab was significant in refuting previous claims by NASA scientists that the arsenic-tolerant bacteria GFAJ-1 could utilize arsenic instead of phosphorus in DNA and other essential biomolecules. As of 2013 she had 90 publications, and as of 2015 her work has been cited approximately 4100 times. She is a member of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46367661 |
Catalent Catalent, Inc. (Pharma Solutions) is a multinational corporation headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey. It is a global provider of advanced delivery technologies, development, drugs manufacturing, biologics, gene therapies and consumer health products. It has over 85 years of experience serving the industry, and employs more than 12,000 people, including approximately 2,400 scientists and technicians around the world. In fiscal year 2019 it generated over $2.5 billion in annual revenue. was formed in April 2007 when affiliates of the Blackstone Group L.P. acquired the core of the Pharmaceutical Technologies and Services (PTS) segment of Cardinal Health, Inc. Cardinal Health created PTS through a series of acquisitions starting with R.P. Scherer Corporation in 1998. In 2014, became a public company and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (). In 1996, Cardinal Health acquired PCI (Headquarters: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). PCI (Packaging Coordinators Inc.) is a pharmaceutical contract packing service for commercial and clinical packaging. In 1998, Cardinal Health acquired R.P. Scherer Corporation (Headquarters: Troy, Michigan). Robert Pauli Scherer founded the R.P. Scherer Corporation to commercialize his innovation of softgel encapsulation using the rotary die production process. The following year, in 1999, Cardinal Health acquired Automatic Liquid Packaging, Inc. (Headquarters: Woodstock, Ill.), whose Blow-Fill-Seal Technology allowed Cardinal to enter the sterile product market | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46373339 |
Catalent In 2002, Cardinal Health acquired Magellan Laboratories Inc., a company that specialized in product development expertise. In 2003, Cardinal Health acquired Gala Biotech (Headquarters: Madison, Wisconsin). In the same year, Cardinal Health also acquired Intercare Group PLC, broadening its global capabilities in Europe. In the years between 2004-2006, Cardinal Health further expanded its reach in biotechnology and pharmaceutical markets through multiple other acquisitions. In 2007, the Pharmaceutical Technologies and Services segment of Cardinal Health was purchased by Blackstone Group and re-branded as "Pharma Solutions". In 2012, acquired Aptuit, a clinical supply company. As part of the deal, gained three sites in the United States, two sites in the United Kingdom and one in Singapore. also acquired all remaining shares for the R.P Scherer site in Eberbach, Germany. In 2013, Pharmaceutical Solutions continued the global expansion of its Softgel capabilities through a joint venture with Zhejiang Jaing Yuan Tang Biotechnology Co., a China-based company, and Relthy Laboratories in Brazil. announced its initial public offering on July 30, 2014. After raising more than $870 million, became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The company priced its 42.5 million shares of common stock at $20.50 apiece, with a market capitalization of $2.4 billion. The shares began trading on the NYSE on July 31, 2014, under the ticker symbol CTLT, and the offering closed on August 1, 2014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46373339 |
Catalent In November 2014, announced it had acquired Micron Technologies, a provider of particle size engineering technologies. The acquisition allowed to expand its portfolio of drug delivery technologies. In 2016, licensed the anti-body drug conjugate (ADC) to Triphase Accelerator to help with oncology development, and bought Pharmatek Laboratories to add spray drying to their manufacturing capabilities. In October 2016, received the CPhI Pharma Award for Excellence in Pharma: Contract Services and Outsourcing. joined a partnership with Pfizer in July 2017 to produce ibuprofen using their softgel capabilities. In September 2017, agreed to acquire Cook Pharmica for $950 million, allowing to expand their biologic manufacturing. In July 2018, extended their work with Juniper Pharmaceuticals with a $133M deal. Alessandro Maselli was appointed as President and Chief Operating Officer in 2019, a newly created position within Catalent. Additionally, Ricardo Pravda, Catalent's chief human resources officer, became the first Latino to serve on the company's executive leadership team. In March, 2019, invested more than $27 million to commercialize Zydis Ultra. The investment includes new Zydis lines; changes to one of their facilities in Swindon, UK; and a custom suite for commercial equipment. Later in 2019, partnered with GB Sciences to develop a cannabinoid-derived medicine for Parkinson's disease utilizing the Zydis delivery method. Cycle Pharmaceuticals also partnered with in 2019 to utilize their Zydis technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46373339 |
Catalent In April 2019, agreed to acquire Paragon Bioservices Inc. for $1.2 billion to expand its gene-therapy manufacturing capabilities. The deal was completed in May 2019 and included an agreement with Sarepta Therapeutics, a gene therapy manufacturer. As of October 2019, Paragon's employee numbers have almost doubled since the April acquisition. In May 2019, it was announced by Confirmit that had won the Judges' Choice Award for Voice of the Customer in the Achievement in Customer Excellence category. In June 2019, acquired Bristol-Myers' European launch pad to expand its global CDMO and announced its OneBio Suite for biologic drugs at the BIO International Convention. The same month, entered a partnership with Iveric Bio to manufacture gene therapy products. In November 2019, Catalent's CEO John Chiminski was awarded CPhI Pharma's "Lifetime Achievement" award. In January 2020, Karen Flynn was appointed as President of Biologics and CCO; Mike Riley as North America Region President; and Manja Boerman as Europe Region President. In January 2020, purchased a manufacturing facility located in Anagni, Italy, from Bristol-Myers Squibb. The site will be used to manufacture and package biologic and oral solid dose products for multiple companies. In February 2020, agreed to acquire MaSTherCell, a Belgian gene and cell therapy manufacturer, for $315 million. The acquisition allows to expand into cell therapy development. In March 2020, the U.S | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46373339 |
Catalent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Nurtec ODT, a migraine treatment drug developed by Biohaven and manufactured by Catalent. The drug utilizes Catalent’s Zydis oral disintegrating technology. In April 2020, entered a partnership with Johnson & Johnson to lead and increase the manufacturing capacity for Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine candidate. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46373339 |
Karlheinz Senghas (7 April 1928 – 4 February 2004) was a German botanist and orchidologist. He was a curator, scientific director, and academic director of the University of Heidelberg's Botanical Garden from 1960 until his retirement in 1993. He was also president of the Deutsche Orchideen-Gesellschaft in the 1970s and was the co-publisher and editor of several volumes of "Die Orchideen", a continuation of the publication begun by Rudolf Schlechter. He described his first orchid species, "Aerangis buchlohii" in 1962. Over the years, he contributed more than 300 publications on orchids and established 17 new orchid genera and 388 species. Several genera and species are named in his honor, including the orchid genera "Senghasia" and "Senghasiella" and the species "Coryanthes senghasiana". He died on 4 February 2004. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46394070 |
Virgate (botany) Virgate (from the Latin "", "rod-like") is an adjective in botanical and mycological jargon. In botanical jargon, virgate most often refers to plants with wand-shaped erect branches or stems. For smaller plants or structures, the diminutive virgulate is used. The term occurs commonly in the biological names of plants, such as "Vaccinium virgatum" or "Chloris virgata". In mycological jargon, virgate and virgulate are used to describe mushroom caps (pilei) with pronounced radiating stripes or ribs, as in "Tricholoma virgatum". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46414120 |
Celltrion is a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Incheon, South Korea. Healthcare conducts worldwide marketing, sales, and distribution of biological medicines developed by Celltrion. Celltrion's founder, Jung Jin Seo, is the second-richest person in South Korea. In 1999, Nexol, Inc. (now Healthcare Co., Ltd.) was founded as a global business management consulting firm. In 2002, Celltrion, Inc. was founded as a biopharmaceutical company. In 2008, Nexol and established a global distribution agreement. In 2009, distribution channels were established in America, Oceania, Europe (Hospira) and Nexol, Inc. renamed as Healthcare Co., Ltd. In 2010, distribution channels were established in Japan (Nippon Kayaku), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Eastern Europe, and the Middle East (Egis). In 2013, distribution channels were added in Europe (Mundipharma, Biogaran, and Kern). The company's products are manufactured at mammalian cell culture facilities designed and built to comply with the United States FDA’s cGMP, and the European Medicines Agency’s GMP standards. Remsima (infliximab) is a biosimilar monoclonal antibody against tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for treatment of: In 2012 Remsima was approved by the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS), previously known as Korea Food and Drug Administration and in 2013 it became the world's first biosimilar monoclonal antibody (mAb) approved by the EMA | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46416037 |
Celltrion Herzuma is a biosimilar trastuzumab approved by the MFDS for treatment of early and advanced (metastatic) HER2+ breast cancer as well as advanced (metastatic) stomach cancer. Herzuma is a HER2+ breast cancer therapy designed to treat aggressive HER positive metastatic and adjuvant breast cancer, as well as HER2 positive adenocarcinoma of the stomach that has spread (metastatic or advanced gastric cancer). Truxima (previously known as CT-P10) is the first biosimilar of the reference monoclonal antibody rituximab that targets CD20 molecule primarily found on the surface of B-cells. Its target indications are rheumatoid arthritis, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.<ref name="ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013"></ref> It was approved by the EMA in February 2017. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46416037 |
Feminist biology is an approach to biology that is concerned with the influence of gender values, the removal of gender bias, and the understanding of the overall role of social values in biological research and practices. Feminist Biology, was founded by, among others, Dr. Ruth Bleier of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (who authored the 1984 work “Science and Gender: A Critique of Biology and Its Theories on Women” and inspired the university’s endowed fellowship for feminist biology), it aims to enhance biology by incorporating feminist critique in matters varying from the mechanisms of cell biology and sex selection to the assessment of the meaning of words such as “gender” and “sex.” Overall, the field is broadly defined and pertains itself to philosophies behind both biological and feminist practice. These considerations make feminist biology debatable and conflictive with itself, particularly when concerning matters of biological determinism, whereby descriptive sex terms of male and female are intrinsically confining, or extreme post-modernism, whereby the body is viewed more as a social construct. Despite opinions ranging from determinist to postmodernist, however, biologists, feminists, and feminist biologists of varying labels alike have made claims to the utility of applying feminist ideology to biological practice and procedure. Donna J | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46439815 |
Feminist biology Haraway, a biologist and primatologist hailing from the University of California, put forth male bias criticisms in 1989 concerning the study of human evolution and culture via primatology by denoting a prominent lack of focus in female primates. Haraway contributed to a large discovery of behaviors in primate groups regarding mate selection, and female-female interactions derived from observing female primates, citing feminist influences as she studied the female primates in their own merit. Similarly, feminist cell biologists of The Biology and Gender Study Group have criticized androcentrism in the study of behavior between sexes and “come to look at feminist critique as [they] would any experimental control.” They cite a general trend of “active” biological description associated with the sperm gamete and “passive” description to the ovum, comparing such description to an archetypal hero facing many challenges before it finding its static, female home. The group criticized the diction employed by biological readings and textbooks, stating that the more active and risk-associated traits of the ovum (such as its own survival from the whittling of 2 million oocytes) are dismissed for the sake of a patterned narrative | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46439815 |
Feminist biology Anne Fausto-Sterling, a professor of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University, assesses the complexity of defining sex through a dichotomous lens in a variety of her works such as Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality as well as in an article piece she wrote titled “The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough.” She addresses the existence of intersex individuals and the lack of acknowledgment of their state of being in the context of a dichotomously defined world of sexes – even, if not especially, by medical professionals and surgeons who understand intersex anatomy to a point to where they can surgically alter it to one of the sexes. She states: “Ironically, a more sophisticated knowledge of the complexity of sexual systems has led to the repression of such intricacy.” Fausto-Sterling continues by advocating the reevaluation of what is considered urgent medical intervention in light of the influence she believes social stigma has had on standard medical procedure – which in turn could help open up the possible directions that science could take. The motivations of advocating feminist biology are diverse. One of the most common motivations is to challenge the gender biases originated from science, by discerning a more objective, scientific truth from culturally influenced practices. Many individuals argue the emergence and development of modern science involved the domination of a female world and the exclusion of women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46439815 |
Feminist biology Reductionism, for instance, is a view that all matters in the universe are arranged hierarchically, and that causation only occurs at the lower levels of this hierarchy. A tight link exists between reductive mechanistic science and biological determinism, contributing to the argument that biological causes are the only causes, or the most important cause, of 'feminine' behavior. This link is due to the reductive assumption that causation acts in an upward direction from lower levels of organization to higher levels of organization. Many feminist biologists focus on dispelling such stigmatic prejudices that influential figures have accepted as scientifically true. There is an ongoing debate on whether a feminist critique should be incorporated in the sciences, especially biology. Some argue that feminist biology is a form of politicization of science, calling to question the legitimacy of feminist biology altogether. On another level, there is debate even within the feminist community on how to deal with biological sex differences. Some account on the importance of accepting biological sex differences to reach gender equality, while others contend that sex differences are overly emphasized in society, contributing to gender stereotypes. Individuals such as Carla Fehr offer constructive criticism for the future of feminist philosophy in the field of biology; she proposes feminist biologists to consider novel questions pertaining to subjects such as the research of genomics in relation to gender. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46439815 |
W. John McDonald (born September 29, 1936) is a Canadian physicist and academic administrator. He served as acting president of the University of Alberta from 1994 to 1995. He was educated at the University of Saskatchewan (BSc 1959, MSc 1961) and University of Ottawa (PhD 1964). A physicist, he specializes in sub-atomic physics and particle detection techniques. He joined the University of Alberta's Department of Physics in 1962 as a professor. From 1982 to 1992, he was the Dean of Science, and from 1991 to 1994, he was Vice President (Academic) of the University. He was made professor emeritus in 2002. He married Wendy Macleod in 1961 and has three children. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46440256 |
NGC 4658 is a galaxy located in the constellation of Virgo. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1786. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46449867 |
Nylon TMDT (also known as Nylon 6-3-T) is a type of transparent nylon, useful where transparency and chemical resistance are required in the same application. This polymer was launched by Dynamit Nobel in 1968 under the name Trogamid T. In 1988, the business was acquired by Hüls which later became Evonik. TMD is derived from isophorone, a trimer of acetone. The polymerization is unusual for a nylon polymer. In the first step TMD is reacted with dimethyl terephthalate and methanol is removed to form an amide. In a second step polycondensation is done to make nylon TMDT. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46454463 |
Dose from radioactive seeds The calculation of radiation dose from radioactive seeds is crucial in the planning and administration of brachytherapy treatments. Most modern calculation are done using the formalism published by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. For the geometry in figure 1, this formalism uses five parameters. The equation which links these parameters is, formula_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46455038 |
Cumulonimbus capillatus A (Latin "Capillatus", "hair") is a cumulonimbus cloud with dense cirrus clouds which makes the cloud's top appear to contain hair-like structures. It is an intermediate stage between cumulonimbus calvus and cumulonimbus incus. A Cumulonimbus Capillatus is a mature and powerful cumulonimbus cloud and can produce multiple severe weather. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46460587 |
Himalayan Alpine Dynamics Research Initiative The (HIMADRI) involves a set of pristine sites set aside and monitored to observe the migration of plant species due to climate change. "Established in 2013, the program has taken care of gap in Indian Himalaya monitoring. The idea to monitor alpine plant communities was first discussed in 1996 during a workshop in Kathmandu. Scientists began running experiments in alpine habitats to determine what a good sample method might be. In 2001, GLORIA-Europe was launched. This initial project, with 18 sites in 13 different European nations, was a way to test out the idea before going worldwide. Since the spring of 2004, GLORIA has been expanding into other regions of the world. However, Indian Himalaya remained a gap which is being filled through HIMADRI network. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46463278 |
Abell 2162 is a galaxy cluster in the Abell catalogue located in the constellation Corona Borealis. It is a member of the Hercules Superclusters, the redshifts of the member galaxies of which lie between 0.0304 and 0.0414. The cluster hosts a massive Type-cD galaxy called NGC 6086. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46477850 |
Wee-Lek Chew (born 1932) is a Singaporean-born botanist. Chew was born in Singapore in 1932. He did his B.S. in botany at the University of Malaya under Richard Eric Holttum, and following his graduation in 1956 he began working at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. A year later he went to the United Kingdom on a Singapore government fellowship to pursue a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, where his advisor was E. J. H. Corner. He completed his studies in 1960, and returned to the Singapore Botanic Gardens that year. He became the director and "ex officio" chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Singapore Botanic Gardens in 1969 following the retirement of H. M. Burkill. He resigned the following year and moved to Australia to work at the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, and was succeeded as director by A. G. Alphonso. He was named a fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1974. In 1975 he resigned from his post at the National Herbarium of New South Wales to take up a position with the International Union for Conservation of Nature in Morges, Switzerland. He revised the Australian species in the genus "Ficus" in 1989 for the "Flora of Australia". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46497138 |
João Penedones João Miguel Augusto Penedones Fernandes is a Portuguese theoretical physicist who has done significant work in the area of quantum field theory. He is currently a tenure track professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. One of his most important contributions is a conjecture about the conditions upon which a conformal field theory has a gravity dual , later proven by A. Liam Fitzpatrick and Jared Kaplan. Correlation functions of local operators living on the boundary of AdS are the natural analogues of scattering amplitudes. This connection is made more manifest once the correlation function is expressed in terms of Mellin amplitudes as suggested by Penedones. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46513648 |
Heinrich Michael Neustetter (14 June 1874 , Vienna- 13 February 1958 Offenhausen ) was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He was an insect specimen dealer. His collection is held by Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. Africa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46517097 |
Relaxor ferroelectric Relaxor ferroelectrics are ferroelectric materials that exhibit high electrostriction. , although they have been studied for over fifty years, the mechanism for this effect is still not completely understood, and is the subject of continuing research. Examples of relaxor ferroelectrics include: Relaxor Ferroelectric materials find application in high efficiency energy storage and conversion as they have high dielectric constants, orders-of-magnitude higher than those of conventional ferroelectric materials. Like conventional ferroelectrics, Relaxor Ferroelectrics show permanent dipole moment in domains. However, these domains are on the nano-length scale, unlike conventional ferroelectrics domains that are generally on the micro-length scale, and take less energy to align. Consequently, Relaxor Ferrolelectrics have very high specific capacitance and have thus generated interest in the fields of energy storage. Furthermore, due to their slim hysteresis curve with high saturated polarization and low remnant polarization, Relaxor ferroelectrics have high discharge energy density and high discharge rates. BT-BZNT Multilayer Energy Storage Ceramic Capacitors (MLESCC) were experimentally determined to have very high efficiency(>80%) and stable thermal properties over a wide temperature range. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46517855 |
Jean-Pierre Wolf is a French and Swiss physicist and biophotonics expert and a Professor at the Applied Physics Department (GAP) of the University of Geneva. He is working with Jérôme Kasparian on laser beams to control the weather. The technique is similar to cloud seeding, and could potentially influence the triggering and guiding of lightning. In 2018, he is one of the two winners of the ZEISS Research Award for his research on high intensity lasers and their applications to atmospheric sciences. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46520529 |
Gustaaf Hulstaert (1900–1990) was a Belgian entomologist mainly interested in Lepidoptera. From 1925 was a missionary in the Belgian Congo. Before that year he had studied insects from the Dutch Indies (including Dutch New Guinea) sent to him by other missionaries. His collection is held by Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden. Mbandaka | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46520615 |
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