David James Thouless (; 21 September 1934 – 6 April 2019) was a British physicist. He is a winner of the Wolf Prize and the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics along with F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
In 2016, Thouless was reported to be suffering from dementia. He died on 6 April 2019 in Cambridge, at the age of 84.
Rumson, New Jersey
Rumson is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census, the borough's population was 7,122.
Geoff Emerick
Geoffrey Emerick (5 December 1945 – 2 October 2018) was an English recording studio audio engineer. He worked with the Beatles on their albums "Revolver", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "The Beatles" and "Abbey Road". Emerick won four Grammy Awards for his work. Emerick was born in London.
Emerick died on 2 October 2018 in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack, aged 72.
Rupert Neve
Rupert Neve (31 July 1926 – 12 February 2021) was a British electronics engineer and entrepreneur. He was known as a pioneering designer of professional audio recording equipment. He was born in Newton Abbot, England. In 1997 he was the third person to receive a Technical Grammy Award.
Neve was known for his work on microphone preamplifiers, equalizers, compressors and early large format mixing consoles.
Neve died on 12 February 2021 in Wimberley, Texas from pneumonia and heart failure. He was aged 94.
Matchbook Romance
Matchbook Romance is an American post hardcore band formed in 1997, signed to Epitaph Records.
Greg Winter
Sir Gregory Paul Winter (born 14 April 1951) is a British biochemist. He is best known for his work on the therapeutic use of monoclonal antibodies. He invented techniques to both humanise (1986) and, later, to fully humanise using phage display, antibodies for therapeutic uses.
Winter won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with George P. Smith and Frances Arnold.
Jerry Spinelli
Jerry Spinelli (born February 1, 1941) is an American children's novelist. He was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania. His works focused on adolescence and early adulthood. He is best known for "Maniac Magee", "Stargirl" and "Wringer".
George P. Smith
George Pieczenik Smith (born March 10, 1941) is an American chemist. He is the Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is best known for phage displays. It is when a specific protein's genetic code is artificially inserted into a bacterophage's coat protein gene.
In 2018, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Greg Winter and Frances Arnold.
Frances Arnold
Frances Hamilton Arnold (born July 25, 1956) is an American chemist and engineer. She is known for her methods of directed evolution to create useful biological systems, including enzymes, metabolic pathways, genetic regulatory circuits, and organisms.
She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology.
In 2018, Arnold was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside George P. Smith and Greg Winter.
Edgewood, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Edgewood is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is across from the city of Pittsburgh. The population was 3,118 at the 2010 census.
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Allegheny County () is a county in the southwest of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of 2016 the population was 1,225,365. The county seat is Pittsburgh.
Allegheny was Pennsylvania's first to bear a Native American name, being named after the Allegheny River.
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County is the most populous county in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of 2017, Philadelphia County had a population of 1,580,863 residents. The county is the second smallest county in Pennsylvania by land area, but the largest in population.
Philadelphia County is one of the three original counties, along with Chester and Bucks counties, created by William Penn during November 1682.
Chester County, Pennsylvania
Chester County (Chesco) is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 498,886. Its county seat is West Chester.
West Chester, Pennsylvania
West Chester, is a borough and the county seat of Chester County, Pennsylvania, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The population was 18,461 at the 2010 census.
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Bucks County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 625,249. The county seat is Doylestown.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Doylestown is a borough and the county seat of Bucks County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is located north of Philadelphia and southwest of New York City. As of the 2010 census, the borough population was 8,380.
German Unity Day
German Unity Day is the national day of Germany, celebrated on 3 October as a public holiday. It commemorates the anniversary of German reunification in 1990.
An alternative was the day the Berlin Wall came down: 9 November 1989. This was the day of the German Republic in 1918, and the defeat of Hitler's first coup in 1923.
However, 9 November was also the anniversary of the first large-scale Nazi-led pogroms against Jews in 1938 ("Kristallnacht"), so the day was thought inappropriate as a national holiday.
2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami
On 28 September 2018, a small earthquake in the Minahasa Peninsula, Indonesia, with its epicentre located in the mountainous Donggala Regency, Central Sulawesi. The quake was located away from the provincial capital Palu and was felt as far away as Samarinda on East Kalimantan and also in Tawau, Malaysia.
Many foreshocks followed, the largest of which was a magnitude 6.1 tremor that occurred earlier that day.
In the aftermath, a tsunami struck Palu, sweeping shore-lying houses and buildings on its way. The combined effects of the earthquake and tsunami led to the deaths of at least 2,256 people and injured a further 10,679. This is the deadliest earthquake in Indonesia's history.
The Theory of Everything (2014 movie)
The Theory of Everything is a 2014 British biographical romantic drama movie directed by James Marsh. It is about the life of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
The movie was based on Jane Hawking's memoir "Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen". The movie's score was composed by Jóhann Jóhannsson.
The movie stars Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney, Christian McKay, Harry Lloyd, and David Thewlis. The movie was released on 7 September 2014 at the Toronto International Film Festival and released in the United Kingdom on 1 January 2015 to strong positive reviews.
Université Grenoble-Alpes
The Université Grenoble-Alpes (UGA) is a public university in Grenoble, France. The university has six research departments. Called a mega-university, their goal is to reach the same level of excellence as MIT, Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard Universities. It is a center for scientific and technological research. PSL students, graduates, and faculty members are famous for being given many awards. The university has been started in 1339.
Sister (disambiguation)
Sister may refer to:
Mangelwurzel
The mangelwurzel (from ) is also called 'mangel wurzel', 'mangold wurzel', 'mangold', 'mangel beet', 'field beet', and 'fodder beet'. It is a cultivated root vegetable.
It is a variety of "Beta vulgaris", the same species that contains the red beet (beetroot) and sugar beet varieties. The cultivar group is called the Crassa Group. Their large white, yellow or orange-yellow swollen roots were developed in the 18th century as a fodder crop for feeding livestock.
Navajo County, Arizona