omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
NEPACCO. NEPACCO, or the "North Eastern Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals Co" was a pharmaceutical and chemical company founded in 1966 in Stamford, Connecticut, best known for its role in the Times Beach Hazmat Incident.

NEPACCO's main product was hexachlorophene, which it began producing after leasing a Verona, Missouri based chemical production facility from Hoffman-Taff in 1969. As a byproduct of this process, dioxin, most well known for its use in Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, was created. Although the dioxin was initially held on site, it was eventually improperly disposed of in a trench in the facility, and by a local waste handler, Russell Bliss.

Following the ban of Hexachlorophene in 1972, NEPACCO halted production on the site. By 1974, the company had liquidated all its assets, and was shut down by the Delaware Secretary of State in 1976.

Edwin Michaels and John W. Lee, the President and Vice President of NEPACCO, and Ronald Mills, shift Supervisor, were personally liable for their actions in the Times Beach dioxin case.

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Martin Kuball. Martin Kuball is the chair of the Royal Academy of Engineering in Emerging Technologies, professor in physics at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom, and director of the Centre for Device Thermography and Reliability (CDTR).

Education 
Kuball received his Diplom from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany and his PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics, Stuttgart, Germany, During his PhD he worked with Manuel Cardona. Prior to joining the University of Bristol he was Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Brown University working with Arto Nurmikko.

Career and research
Kuball is known for his research into thermal characterization and reliability of electronic materials and devices, with particular focus on wide-bandgap semiconductors, and RF and power electronic devices. He pioneered techniques such as Raman thermography, based on Raman spectroscopy, to determine temperature in devices with submicron spatial resolution and nanosecond time resolution, and numerous other techniques for the thermal and electrical characterization of materials and devices including for understanding device reliability. Raman Thermography was used by multiple companies to qualify GaN transistor technology for space applications. In 2019, he founded TherMap Solutions to commercialize techniques he developed and is presently its chief business officer.

He presently leads the £5M EPSRC Programme Grant GaN-DaME which develops GaN-on-Diamond technology for ultra high power RF devices, and the £2M EPSRC Platform grant MANGI which implements this technology for next generation internet applications.

Awards and honours
In recognition for his achievements, Kuball was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering chair in emerging technologies, was elevated to fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, of the Materials Research Society, of Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Institute of Physics. Kuball has also won numerous awards including the Otto-Hahn-Award for Young Scientists in 1995, He Bong Kim Award in 2010, Royal Society Wolfson Award, in 2015, and TechWorks Group of the Year Award in 2017

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Technical University of Kaiserslautern alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Laura Marcu. Laura Marcu is an American scientist and a professor of biomedical engineering and neurological surgery at the University of California, Davis. She is also a Fellow of numerous professional societies: the Biomedical Engineering Society, SPIE, The Optical Society and the National Academy of Inventors.

Career and research 
Professor Laura Marcu received her Diploma of Engineer in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania. She did a post-graduate specialization in Spectroscopy, Laser and Plasma Physics at the University of Bucharest, Romania. Marcu obtained her M.S and Ph.D. Diploma in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Marcu's work focuses primarily on research for development of optical techniques for tissue diagnostics. Her laboratory has developed time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy (TRFS) and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) systems for in vivo tissue interrogation, including human patients. Her laboratory has a broad expertise in clinical translation of biophotonic technologies that play an important role in addressing challenges associate with tissue diagnostics and therapies. Her group also studies the application of semiconductor quantum dots to early detection of pathologic transformations in tissues as well as the application of ultrashort electric fields to cancer therapy.

Marcu developed a catheter probe able to image arteries inside a living heart which could help cardiologists predict heart attacks more reliably.

Patents 

 Single catheter system that provides both intravascular ultrasound and fluorescence lifetime imaging
 Biochemical marker detection device
 Internal biochemical sensing device
 Method for intracellular modifications within living cells using pulsed electric fields
 Time-resolved and wavelength-resolved spectroscopy for characterizing biological materials

Awards and honors 
 Named a fellow by the National Academy of Inventors in 2017.
 Fellow of the Optical Society in 2014 for "the development and clinical translation of fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy and imaging techniques."
 Fellow of SPIE in 2012.
 Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society in 2011.
Senior Member of IEEE.

References

External links 
 Marcu on becoming interested in optics at osa.org

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American biomedical engineers
University of California, Davis faculty
Fellows of Optica (society)
21st-century American women engineers
21st-century American inventors
American women inventors
American women engineers
Fellows of the Biomedical Engineering Society
Fellows of SPIE
Women in optics
21st-century American women
University of Southern California alumni
Aram D'Abro. Aram d'Abro was an Armenian-American science popularizer and author, known for his book The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein.

There is little biographical information on Aram d'Abro. Several sources erroneously give his first name as "Abraham". A border crossing document from St. Albans, Vermont, dated September 24, 1910, gives his name as "Aram D'Abro", age 24, nationality Turkey, birthplace Paris, occupation professor of coastal engineering, marital status single. According to information from the Van Nostrand Company, Aram d'Abro was educated at Eton College, studied mathematics in Paris, and resided in New York City; he paid the costs of publication of his 2-volume work The Decline of Mechanism in Modern Physics (1939, Van Nostrand).

Abram d’Abro was Aram d'Abro's father. Abram d'Abro was an Armenian financier who settled in Trieste and was related to Muhammad Ali's Minister of Foreign Affairs Boghos Bey Yousefian. The original family name of D'Abro was Abroyan. Boghos Bey brought approximately 2,000 Armenians to Egypt.

Selected publications

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American writers of Armenian descent
Armenian science writers
American science writers
People educated at Eton College
Abdul Majid Bhurgri Institute of Language Engineering. Abdul Majid Bhurgri Institute of Language Engineering () is an autonomous body under the administrative control of the Culture, Tourism and Antiquities Department, Government of Sindh established for bringing Sindhi language at par with national and international languages in all computational process and Natural language processing.

Establishment
In recognition to services of Abdul-Majid Bhurgri, who is the founder of Sindhi computing, Government of Sindh has established the institute after his name. The institute was primarily initiated on the concept given by a language engineer and linguist Amar Fayaz Buriro in briefing to the Minister, Culture, Tourism and Antiquities, Government of Sindh, Syed Sardar Ali Shah on 21 February 2017 on celebration of International Mother Language Day in Sindhi Language Authority, Hyderabad, Sindh. After the presentation and concept given by Amar Fayaz Buriro, the minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah had announced the Institute. Then, Government of Sindh added the development scheme in the Budget of fiscal year 2017-2018.

Projects
The Institute has developed several projects aimed at advancing the Sindhi language and promoting linguistic research. Notable initiatives include the AMBILE Hamiz Ali Sindhi  Optical character recognition, which allows for the accurate digitization of Sindhi text, and the ongoing Sindhi WordNet System, a project to build a comprehensive lexical database for  Natural language processing. The institute has also created the Font, which integrates symbols from the Indus script, Khudabadi script, and modern Perso-Arabic Script Code for Information Interchange into a single resource for  researchers]. Additionally, institute has developed online converter tools that automatically transliterate between the Arabic-Perso script and Devanagari script, improving linguistic accessibility. Another key project is Bhittaipedia, a digital platform dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of the poetry of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, one of Sindh's most renowned poet..

Location
The institute is established behind Sindh Museum and Sindhi Language Authority, N-5 National Highway, Qasimabad, Hyderabad, Sindh.

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Sindhi language
Government agencies of Sindh
Natural language processing
Information technology in Pakistan
Computer science institutes in Pakistan
Information technology companies of Pakistan
Ji Guobiao. Ji Guobiao (; 1 March 1932 – 5 September 2019) was a Chinese chemical engineer and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). He was a pioneer of chemical fiber engineering technology in China.

Early life and education
Ji was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, in March 1932. He studied at Donglin Academy and Furen High School. After the liberation of Shanghai in 1949, he was accepted to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he majored in the Department of Industrial Management and Department of Textile Dyeing and Chemical Industry. In 1951, due to the adjustment of the faculty, he became a new transfer student at East China Institute of Textile Science and Technology (now Donghua University). During his university years, he joined the New Democratic Youth League.

Career
After university, he was assigned to Qingdao Printing and Dyeing Plant (). During his work, he taught himself the professional knowledge of chemical fibers. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1954. That same year, he was sent abroad to study at the expense of the government. After returning to China he became director of the Technical Room of Baoding Chemical Fiber Factory (). In the autumn of 1958, he followed chemist Hou Debang to Japan to study fertilizer and fibre production technology. In 1963, he was transferred to Nanjing Chemical Fiber Plant () as deputy chief engineer. In 1965, he helped found the Lanzhou Chemical Fiber Plant (). He was appointed deputy chief engineer after studying synthetic fiber production technology in the United Kingdom. During the Cultural Revolution, he was denounced as a "reactionary" and was brought to be persecuted. He entered politics in 1973, when he was transferred to the . In 1978, he helped found Yizheng Chemical Fiber, serving as its deputy commander and chief engineer. In 1980 he was appointed director of the Department of Chemical Fiber of the Ministry of Textile Industry. He was promoted to vice-minister in 1984. In 1994 he was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). In December 2003, Donghua University established the Institute of Modern Textiles, Ji became its first dean.

Death
He died of laryngeal cancer in Beijing, on 5 September 2019.

Selected papers

Awards
 2004 5th Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award.

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1932 births
2019 deaths
Scientists from Wuxi
Shanghai Jiao Tong University alumni
Donghua University alumni
Chinese chemical engineers
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Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Deaths from laryngeal cancer
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20th-century Chinese engineers
Chinese university and college faculty deans
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20th-century Chinese chemists
21st-century Chinese chemists
Joliet Bridge. The Joliet Bridge, in Carbon County, Montana, near Joliet, is a Pratt through truss bridge built in 1901. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

It is a multiple-span road bridge. The main span is a pin-connected steel Pratt truss, about  long, resting on concrete abutments and cylindrical piers. On the south end, there are approach spans made of wood stringers (horizontal timbers) supported by timber pile bents; these replaced an original pony truss approach span. The deck is made of wood bridge planks, covered with asphalt.

It was designed and built by William S. Hewett, a bridge builder based in Minneapolis, who was low bidder on the contract for the main bridge, at $4,500, and also for an approach span, at $750, which had to be added, perhaps because the original measurements or specifications were not adequate.

The bridge carries Main Street road over Rock Creek, south of the town.

See also
List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Montana
List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana

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External links

Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana
Pratt truss bridges
Historic American Engineering Record in Montana
National Register of Historic Places in Carbon County, Montana
Bridges completed in 1901
Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana
Levinstein Ltd. Levinstein Ltd was an important Manchester based British dye-making company founded by Ivan Levinstein (1845-1916).  In 1918 the firm became part of British Dyestuffs Corporation which in turn formed part of Imperial Chemical Industries in 1926. The firm had operations in Salford, Hulton House in Blackley, and during World War I a sequestered German-owned plant in Ellesmere Port. The firm made the successful Blackley blue or Coomassie brilliant blue, a Manchester Brown, a Manchester Yellow dye and during WWI chemicals for military purposes (including Mustard gas made by the eponymous Levinstein process).

References

External links
  Graces Guide: Levinstein

See also
Hexagon Tower

Chemical companies of the United Kingdom
Defunct manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
Imperial Chemical Industries
Dorothy Rowntree. Dorothy Rowntree, (16 January 1903 – 5 February 1988) was the first woman in the UK to qualify in naval architecture and the first woman to graduate in engineering from the University of Glasgow.

Early life 
Dorothy Rowntree was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1903. At the time of Dorothy Rowntree's matriculation at the University of Glasgow, her father, Robert Stanley Rowntree, was a surveyor to Lloyd's Register of Shipping and Dorothy is registered as living in Westbourne Gardens, in Kelvinside, an area of Glasgow.

Education 
Rowntree began studying at the University of Glasgow in the academic year 1922/23. She achieved a BSc Engineering (Naval Architecture) on 24 April 1926, the first woman graduate in engineering from the University and the first woman graduate in the UK in naval architecture.

Working life 
Rowntree worked in Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard then subsequently moved to Beirut, Lebanon, and worked from 1928 for President Professor Bayard Dodge, American University of Beirut. Whilst there, she wrote an article on her travelling experiences in the Middle East for The Woman Engineer, the journal of the Women's Engineering Society of which she was a member. Rowntree appears in the "Inspiring Women" list of the Women's Engineering Society.

Personal life 
In Beirut, Rowntree met Norman Joly and married him. The couple lived in Palestine and Israel and returned to Lebanon in 1948. They had two sons. Rowntree died in Hampshire, in England, in 1988.

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1903 births
Engineers from Glasgow
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British naval architects
Women's Engineering Society
Naval architects
20th-century British businesspeople
20th-century Scottish women engineers
20th-century Scottish engineers
20th-century British businesswomen
Maria Emelianenko. Maria Emelianenko is a Russian-American applied mathematician and materials scientist known for her work in numerical algorithms, scientific computing, grain growth, and centroidal Voronoi tessellations. She is a professor of mathematical sciences at George Mason University.

Education and career
Emelianenko earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics in 1999 and a master's degree in 2001 from Moscow State University, both summa cum laude. Her master's thesis, Numerical approach to solving Andronov–Hopf and Bogdanov–Takkens systems of differential equations, was supervised by Alexander Bratus.
She then came to Pennsylvania State University for additional graduate study.
She earned a second master's degree in 2002 with the thesis Analysis of Constrained Multidimensional Birth-Death Processes supervised by Natarajan Gautam. Gautam moved to Texas A&M University in 2005, and Emelianenko completed her Ph.D. the same year under the supervision of Qiang Du, with the dissertation Multilevel and Adaptive Methods for Some Nonlinear Optimization Problems.

After postdoctoral research at the Carnegie Mellon University Center for Nonlinear Analysis, Emelianenko joined the George Mason University mathematics faculty in 2007. She was promoted to full professor in 2017. At George Mason, she is also affiliated faculty with the Computational Materials Science Center, and directs the Math PhD Industrial Immersion Program.

Activism
Emelianenko has acted as an activist for women in mathematics, writing of differential treatment of female faculty members in mathematics departments and of prejudice against talented women deriving from a misguided belief that their success was due to tokenism. She has been an organizer of many workshops and symposia, including several aimed at women in mathematics.

References

External links
Home page

Maria Emelianenko  personal website

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Living people
Russian mathematicians
Russian women mathematicians
Russian materials scientists
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American materials scientists
Women materials scientists and engineers
Applied mathematicians
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Moscow State University alumni
Eberly College of Science alumni
George Mason University faculty
20th-century American women mathematicians
21st-century American women mathematicians
Peter Uggowitzer. Peter J. Uggowitzer (born 24 November 1950 in Klagenfurt in Austria) is an Austrian-Swiss metallurgist and materials scientist.

Academic life 
Uggowitzer studied materials science at the Montanuniversität Leoben until 1976, and earned his doctorate there in 1981 in the field of dual-phase steels. Subsequently, he transferred to ETH Zurich, where he earned his habilitation in 1993 and became a professor in 1996.

His scientific work includes Ni-free austenitic steels, which have found wide application in medicine and watch industries. He has also published significant works on the aging behavior of Al-Mg-Si alloys and on magnesium alloys.

In 2019, Uggowitzer and co-authors discovered that the phenomenon of ageing of aluminium alloys does not occur at the atomic scale. In late 2020, Uggowitzer and co-authors initiated the research field of radiation-resistant aluminium alloys for future space exploration.

Uggowitzer is married and the father of three adult children.

Awards 

 1987: Masing Memorial Prize of the German Society for Materials Science (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde)
 2014: Tammann Commemorative Medal of the German Society for Materials Science (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde)

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1950 births
Living people
Scientists from Klagenfurt
ETH Zurich alumni
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Austrian metallurgists
University of Leoben alumni
Dimethiconol. Dimethoconols are a class of silicone-based polymers similar to dimethicone in their chemical structure save that molecules of dimethiconol end with hydroxyl (-OH) groups. They are used in a wide range of cosmetic and personal care products such as suntan lotion and lipstick where it works as an emollient, a film-former, an antistatic agent and an anti-foaming agent, among other uses. Like other silicone-based liquids, it is not water soluble.

References

Siloxanes
Pere Navarro Olivella. Pere Navarro Olivella (born 25 May 1952 in Barcelona) is a Spanish civil servant and politician who serves as Director-General for Traffic since June 2018. Navarro also served at this position from 2004 to 2012.

Early years and education 
Navarro is an industrial engineer graduated in 1974 by the School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona. A year later, he obtained a diploma in Business Administration by the EAE Business School. In 1977 he entered by public contest in the Superior Corps of Labour and Social Security Inspectors. He is married and has two daughters.

Later, he was appointed delegate of the Ministry of Labour of the Regional Government of Catalonia in Girona (1979-1983) and in 1983 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Civil Governor of Barcelona until 1985, when he was appointed Civil Governor of Gerona. Navarro left the office of civil governor in 1996 and he was appointed Team Leader of the Labour and Social Security Inspectorate in the Province of Barcelona (1996-1999). Between 1999 and 2004 Navarro worked in the City Council of Barcelona, first as Director of the Transport and Circulation Service and then as Commissioner for Mobility, Transport and Circulation.

Director-General for Traffic (First term, 2004–2012) 
After the arrival to power of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero he was appointed Director-General for Traffic and he served during the two Zapatero's terms with three different Interior Ministers. He briefly served under Mariano Rajoy but he was replaced in February 2012 by María Seguí Gómez. He was one of the last senior officials appointed by Zapatero to be replaced.

His term as head of the Directorate-General for Traffic is generally accepted as positive, including among his milestones the implementation of the driving license's points system and the reduction of traffic accidents by a 65% (when Navarro assumed office the number of deaths by traffic accidents was 5.399, when he left was 1.903). In 2009 he was awarded the "Best Engineer of the Year" by the Official College of Industrial Engineers of Madrid (COIIM).

After leaving the office 
After leaving the office of Director-General, he was assigned to the Spanish Embassy in Morocco, where he served as Advisor for Labour and Social Security affairs. He left this position in 2016, and he retired from public service, taking care of his two grandchildren and practising sailing.

Director-General for Traffic (Second term, 2018–) 
In 2018, the new Minister of Home Affairs, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, appointed him as Director-General for Traffic.

References 

Living people
1952 births
Spanish politicians