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David L. Goodstein (born 1939) is a U.S. physicist and educator. Since 1988, he has served as Vice-provost of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he is also a professor of physics and applied physics, as well as (since 1995) the Frank J. Gilloon distinguished teaching and service professor. Goodstein was educated at Brooklyn College (BS, 1960) and at the University of Washington (Ph.D., 1965). He has written several books, including States of Matter (1975) and Feynman’s Lost Lecture (1996). I ...

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Hugh David Politzer (born 31 August 1949) is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David J. Gross and Frank Wilczek for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics. Politzer was born in New York City. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1966, received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1969, and his Ph.D. in 1974 from Harvard University, where his graduate advisor was Sidney Coleman. In his first published article, which appe ...

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Christof Koch (born November 13, 1956, Kansas City) is an American neuroscientist educated in North Africa and Europe. He received a PhD in nonlinear information processing from the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen, Germany in 1982. He currently holds the position of Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology, California Institute of Technology, where he has been since 1986. He is the executive officer of the Co ...

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C. canadensis C. fiber Beavers are semi-aquatic rodents native to North America and Europe. They are the only members of the family Castoridae, which contains a single genus, Castor. Genetic research has shown the European and North American beaver populations to be distinct species and that hybridization is unlikely. Beavers are best known for their natural trait of building dams in rivers and streams, and building lodges in the eventual artificial pond. They are the second large ...

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Theodore von Kármán (Szőllőskislaki Kármán Tódor) (May 11, 1881 – May 6, 1963) was an engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics during the seminal era in the 1940s and 1950s. He is personally responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization. He was born in Budapest, Hungary as Kármán Tódor, studied engineering at the city's Royal Technical University, graduating in 1902. He then joined Ludwig Prandtl at ...

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Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born November 20, 1924) is a Polish-born French mathematician and leading proponent of fractal geometry. He is Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Emeritus at Yale University and IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Benoît Mandelbrot - Early years. Born in Warsaw, Mandelbrot lived in France from the age of 12 to near the end of his college studies. He was born into a family with a strong academic tradition - his mother was a medical doctor and his unc ...

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Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is a well-known American author of science fiction. He is the winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards as well as the Interstella War Award. He lives in Southern California and has been both a NASA consultant and a physics professor. David Brin - Biographical timeline. 6 October 1950 - born in Glendale, California 1973 - received Bachelor of Science in astronomy from California Institute of Technology 1978 - received Master of Science in applie ...

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50000 Quaoar (pronounced kwaa'·waar or kwow'·ər, Tongva [ˈqʷɑoɑr]) [1] is a Trans-Neptunian object orbiting the Sun in the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. It was discovered on June 4, 2002 by astronomers Chad Trujillo and Michael Brown at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California from images acquired at the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory. This discovery was ...

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William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. His attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 60s led directly to the creation of Silicon Valley. In his later life Shockley was a professor at Stanfo ...

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David Joseph Bohm (December 20, 1917 Wilkes-Barre, PA–October 27, 1992 London, UK) was an American quantum physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of theoretical physics, philosophy and neuropsychology, and to scientists working on the Manhattan Project. David Bohm - Biography. David Bohm - Youth and college. Born at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Bohm attended Pennsylvania State College, graduating in 1939, and then heading west to work with theoretical physic ...

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Click image for description Neptune is the eighth or, occasionally, the ninth planet from the Sun due to Pluto's eccentric orbit (if Pluto counts as a planet), and the outermost gas giant in our solar system. Although the smallest of the gas giants, Neptune is more massive than Uranus: Its stronger gravitational field has compressed it to a higher density. Faint dark rings have been detected around the blue planet, but are less substantial than those of Saturn. When these ...

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Most TNOs are lumps of ice with some organic (carbon-containing) material such as tholin, detected using spectroscopy. They are of the same composition as comets and many astronomers believe them to be just comets. The distinction between comet and asteroid is not yet clear and there is a substantial uncertainty, inhabited by such objects as 2060 Chiron. It is difficult to estimate the diameter of TNOs. For objects with very well known orbital elements (namely, Pluto and Charon ...

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William Shockley - Solid-state transistor. In the mid 1940's, Shockley's group, consisting of Bardeen and Brattain, sought a solid-state alternative to fragile glass vacuum tube amplifiers. Shockley insisted on working alone, leaving his two researchers by themselves, occasionally dropping by to direct their work. December of 1947 was Bell Labs' "Miracle Month", when Bardeen and Brattain succeeded in creating a point-contact transistor -- without Shockley. Even so, Shockley thought he should have the patent, sinc ...

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Theodosius Dobzhansky - Early life. Dobzhansky was born in Nemirov, Ukraine then part of Imperial Russia. An only child, his father Grigory Dobzhansky was a mathematics teacher, and his mother was Sophia Voinarsky. In 1910 the family moved to Kiev. At high school, Dobzhansky collected butterflies and decided to become a biologist. In 1915 he met Victor Luchnik who convinced him to specialise on beetles instead. Dobzhansky attended the University of Kiev between 1917 and 1921, where he then taught until 1924. He then moved to Leningrad (St. Petersburg) to study under Yuri Filipchenko, where a Dr ...

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By 1960 Richard Feynman was already a legend in his own time; at age 42 his research and discoveries in physics had resolved a number of troubling inconsistencies in several fundamental theories. In particular, it was his work in quantum electrodynamics which would lead to the award in 1965 of the Nobel Prize in physics. At the same time that Feynman was at the pinnacle of his fame, the faculty of the California Institute of Technology was concerned about the quality of the introductory courses being offered to the undergraduate students. It ...

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The San Francisco Bay area had long been a major site of US Navy work, and the site of their large research airfield at Moffett Field. A number of technology firms had set up shop in the area around Moffett to serve the Navy. When the Navy moved most of its west-coast operations to San Diego, NASA took over portions of Moffett for aeronautics research. Many of the original companies stayed, while new ones moved in. The immed ...

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Other plastics emerged in the prewar period, though some would not come into widespread use until after the war. By 1936, American, British, and German companies were producing polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), better known as "acrylic". Although acrylics are now well known for their use in paints and synthetic fibers, such as "fake furs", in their bulk form they are actually very hard and more transparent than glass, and are sold as glass replacements under trade names such as "Plexiglas" and "Lucite". Plexiglas was used to build aircraft canopies during ...

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Plastic, Plastic - Natural polymers, Plastic - Cellulose-based plastics: celluloid and rayon, Plastic - Bakelite phenolic, Plastic - Polystyrene and PVC, Plastic - Nylon, Plastic - Synthetic rubber, Plastic - Plastics explosion: acrylic polyethylene etc., Plastic - The environment, Plastic - Biodegradable Plastics, Plastic - Price and the future, Plastic - Common plastics and their typical uses, Plastic - Special purpose plastics

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List of colleges and universities in California - Two-year institutions. California Culinary Academy, San Francisco Deep Springs College, Deep Springs Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Irvine Los Angeles San Diego San Francisco Marymount College, Rancho Palos Verdes List of colleges and universities in California - Four-year institutions. Academy of Art University, San Fr ...

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List of colleges and universities starting with C - Cab-Cai. Cabot College of Applied Arts, Technology and Continuing Education Cairo American College List of colleges and universities starting with C - Cal. California C-California P California Coast University California College for Health Sciences California Institute of Technology California Institute of the Arts California ...

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List of mottos - Medical. Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland: In somno securitas (In sleep there is safety) Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland: omnes ab omnibus discamus" - literally "let us learn all things from everybody Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists: Corpus curare spiritumque (To care for the body and its breath of life) Canadian Association of General Surgeons: Sapientia Manaque Apta (Wisdom and a Skillful Hand)See also:

List of mottos, List of mottos - Organisations, List of mottos - Medical, List of mottos - Orders, List of mottos - Livery companies, List of mottos - Municipalities, List of mottos - British Counties, List of mottos - Educational institutions

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List of University of Washington people - Nobel Laureates. Linda B. Buck - Physiology and Medicine, 2004 Hans G. Dehmelt - Nobel Prize in Physics, 1989 George Hitchings - Physiology and Medicine, 1988 Martin Rodbell - Physiology and Medicine, 1994 George Stigler - Physiology and Medicine, 1982 List of University of Washington people - Rhodes Scholars. Frank Aller, 1968 Michael Anderson, 1985 Elizabeth Ange ...

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