omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Laboratoire Aimé-Cotton. The Aimé-Cotton Laboratory () or LAC, located in Orsay, is a joint research unit (UMR 9025) of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Paris-Saclay University.

History 
The Aimé-Cotton laboratory was created in 1927 as an annex to the Physical Research Laboratory of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris, on the occasion of the construction of the Large Electromagnet of the Academy of Sciences at Meudon-Bellevue, of which Aimé Cotton, at the origin of the project in 1914, solemnly announced the completion on July 9, 1928. First director of the laboratory of the Grand electromagnet de Bellevue, Aimé Cotton's successors in 1941 were Gaston Dupouy then, in 1950, Pierre Jacquinot.

Successively "electromagnet and low temperatures laboratory", "low temperatures laboratory", "low temperatures and intense magnetic fields laboratory" then "magnetism and magneto-optics laboratory", the laboratory took over in 1951, on the initiative of Pierre Jacquinot and not without his having encountered the objection that a CNRS laboratory had never been named after someone, the name of the Aimé-Cotton laboratory (LAC).

Competed, in Bellevue itself, by the magnetism laboratory of Charles Guillaud, the LAC (whose contribution to magnetism was fiercely judged by Louis Néel by declaring “Industrially, they never managed to make a single thing. It was lead soles this laboratory...") then turned more particularly towards atomic spectroscopy and played a pioneering role in the development of Fourier transform spectrometry, to the development of which, from 1954, Pierre and Janine Connes devoted themselves.  From the conference on “interferometric spectrometry” organized in Bellevue in 1957 by P. Jacquinot, the LAC played the role of a nursery for the dissemination of this new spectrometric technique.

Under the direction of Robert Chabbal, the LAC moved in 1967 to the Orsay campus of the Paris-Sud University, on the edge of the Moulon plateau. On January 1, 2015, the LAC, which until then was its own research unit (UPR no. 3321) of the CNRS associated with the Paris-Sud University, became a Joint Research Unit (UMR), under the triple supervision of the CNRS, the Paris-Sud University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Cachan. This unit was dissolved on December 31, 2019, to make way for two “formations de recherche en évolution” (FRE): one taking the name Aimé-Cotton laboratory and the other LuMIn (Light, Matter and Interfaces). The Aimé-Cotton laboratory will once again become a Joint Research Unit (UMR no. 9025) from January 1, 2022.

References

Further reading 
 Official website

Research institutes in France
Research institutes established in 1927
1927 establishments in France
Paris-Saclay University
Academic staff of Paris-Saclay University
French UMR
Physics laboratories
Moumita Das. Moumita Das is an Indian-American physicist specializing in soft matter and statistical mechanics research. She is a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Life
Das earned a B.S. and M.S. from Jadavpur University. She received a Ph.D. in physics from the Indian Institute of Science in 2005. Her dissertation was titled, Ordering, Stochasticity, and Rheology in Sheared and Confined Complex Fluids. Sriram Ramaswamy was her dissertation supervisor. From 2004 to 2005, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences working under mentor Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles under Alex J. Levine from 2005 to 2006. From 2007 to 2011, Das researched as a VENI fellow at the school of physics and astronomy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with Frederick C. MacKintosh.

Das joined Syracuse University as a senior scientist in the department of physics in 2011. She researches soft matter and statistical mechanics. In 2012, she became an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Das was promoted to associate professor in 2018 and professor in 2023. In 2024, she was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
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Rochester Institute of Technology faculty
Indian women physicists
21st-century Indian physicists
21st-century Indian women scientists
Fellows of the American Physical Society
21st-century women physicists
Pont y Ddraig. Pont y Ddraig or Dragon's Bridge is a bridge for pedestrians and cyclists across the Foryd Estuary of the River Clwyd next to Rhyl harbour in Wales. The bridge was opened in October 2013 by Mark Colbourne, gold and silver medalist at the London Paralympics.  The length of the bridge is 32 metres, and it rises for boats with tall masts. The cost of its construction was £4.3 million.

References

Pedestrian bridges in Wales
Rhyl
Boron Aerospace Museum. The Boron Aerospace Museum is an aerospace museum located in Boron, California.

History

Background 
The idea for the museum came from the Boron Chamber of Commerce. Planning to establish a museum began in 1996 with an effort to acquire an F-4 for display. It was also decided that the museum should be named for a local aviator and Colonel Vernon P. Saxon Jr., the Vice Commander of the nearby Air Force Flight Test Center was selected.

Establishment 
A groundbreaking was held on 13 September 1997 and the Colonel Vernon P. Saxon Jr. Aerospace Museum opened on 5 September 2003

Beginning in 2010, the museum recovered a number of disused rocket engines from the area. Then, following a dispute in 2017, Colonel Saxon's collection was removed from the museum and it was renamed the Boron Aerospace Museum. Around the same time, the museum acquired three aircraft from the closed Milestones of Flight Air Museum.

Exhibits 
Exhibits at the museum include skis and seats from an airplane used by the Byrd Antarctic expedition, a J 35 flight simulator, a Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour jet engine, an XLR-8 rocket engine, an R-2800 radial engine and a P-38 instrument panel. A veterans wall is located on the interior of the west wall of the museum.

Collection 

 Denny Kitfox XL
 McDonnell F-4D Phantom II
 Pietenpol Air Camper
 Saab TF-35 Draken
 Turner T-40
 Wise RW 500

See also 
 Air Force Flight Test Museum
 List of aviation museums

References

External links 

 
 Official website (former)

Aerospace museums in California
Museums in Kern County, California
Abbots Langley railway bridge. Abbots Langley railway bridge, also known as the bridge over Railway Terrace is a skew bridge carrying the West Coast Main Line over a road near Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, in Eastern England (just north-west of London). The angle of the bridge creates a  tunnel along the road. It was built in 1837 and is a Grade II listed building.

Design
The bridge is a single semi-circular skew arch across Railway Terrace, part of Station Road, at the western edge of Abbots Langley and just south of Kings Langley railway station. It was built to the designs of Robert Stephenson, the chief engineer of the London and Birmingham Railway. It is in red brick, with repairs in blue engineering brick and stone voussoirs (the inside of the arch) on both faces.

It has substantial brickwork above the arch and a course of stonework between the arch and the parapet and has splayed abutments which meet substantial curved wing walls, making the arch look disproportionately small. A stone band runs the length of the parapets, which have been largely rebuilt. The angle of the bridge between the abutments creates a  tunnel through which the road passes.

History
The bridge was complete for the opening of the London and Birmingham Railway in 1837. It was widened in the same style on its eastern side in 1858 when the line was quadruple-tracked but is otherwise largely unaltered since its construction. It is one of several skew bridges on the same section of railway; a short distance to the north west is Nash Mills bridge. It remains in use and was designated a Grade II listed building in 1985. Listed building status affords legal protection from unauthorised demolition or modification.

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Grade II listed bridges in Hertfordshire
Railway bridges in Hertfordshire
Bridges completed in 1837
Buildings and structures in Three Rivers District
Albedo Space. Albedo Space is an American satellite imaging company founded in 2020.

The company is developing a very low Earth orbit satellite which will be able to capture images with a 10 centimeter resolution. It has a facility in Broomfield, Colorado which has enough space for building three or four satellites simultaneously. The company has 50 employees and has raised around $100 million.

The company plans to launch its first satellite in 2025. It expects to eventually have a fleet of 24 spacecraft.

References

External links
Official website

Spacecraft manufacturers
Aerospace companies of the United States
Companies based in Broomfield, Colorado
American companies established in 2020
Physics Forums. Physics Forums is a question and answer Internet forum that allows users to ask, answer and comment on grade-school through graduate-level science questions. In addition, Physics Forums hosts the Insights Blog which is a collaborative blog sourced from verified experts on the community.

Authors of scientific papers have used Physics Forums to write popular explanations of their research. In turn, this forum entries have been referenced by popular science news websites. Notable members and blog authors past and present include John C. Baez, Urs Schreiber, Antony Garrett Lisi. Physics Forums entries have also been cited in scientific papers.

History
Physics Forums was started as a school project in the spring of 2001 by Greg Bernhardt.

Physics Forums entered content partnerships with Scientific American magazine in 2005.

In 2025, two writers on the blog "Hall of Impossible Dreams" wrote that Physics Forums had been using large language models to generate content, posting it via abandoned user accounts. They wrote that some posts were backdated by over a decade, creating the false impression that the posts were written by humans.

Awards 
Physics Forums won the 2010 “People’s Choice” award for best Q&A online physics community by physics.org.

As of 2023, Physics Forums is ranked 8th on “Aelieve's List of 20 Best Physics Websites”.

See also 
 MathOverflow
 Stack Exchange
 nLab
 PhysicsOverflow

References 

Physics education
Physics websites
Question-and-answer websites
Internet properties established in 2001
Tosin Eniolorunda. Kris Engineering  (born Chris Onyekachukwu Nwachukwu ; September 1986) is a Nigerian software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded and is the CEO of the Nigerian fintech bank, Moniepoint Inc. He began his early career with Interswitch as a software engineer before starting TeamApt in 2015.

Early life and education
Eniolorunda was born in Lagos, Nigeria, to Rotimi, an Engineering Contractor and Ajoke Eniolorunda, a teacher. He is from Ose local government, Ondo State but spent his early life in Ibadan, Oyo State. He is the first of three children.

For his primary school education, Tosin attended the University of Ibadan Staff School between 1990 - 1995, and from there, he proceeded to the Command Day School, Odogbo Ibadan, where he received his secondary school education between 1995 - 2001. He was a member of the Junior Engineers, Technicians and Scientists (JETS) Club during his time there.
He was admitted to Obafemi Awolowo University in 2002  to study Mechanical Engineering and graduated with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in 2007.

Career 

Tosin joined Interswitch as a Software Engineer in 2009. At Interswitch, he worked as a Senior Software Manager, Unit Head of Application Development, and Product Manager.

In 2015, Tosin left his role at Interswitch and started TeamApt with Felix Ike, which later rebranded to Moniepoint Inc, a financial technology company that provides business payments and banking solutions.
He initially bootstrapped the company with his personal funds.

Personal life 
Kris Engineering is happily married with children.

Recognition 
On June 25, 2021, Endeavor announced Tosin and his co-founder at Moniepoint, Felix Ike, as Endeavor Entrepreneurs. Tosin was also on the cover of the August–September edition of Forbes Africa magazine in 2021. In 2022, he was listed among the 100 most influential Africans.

References 

Living people
1985 births
Nigerian business executives
Emmanuel Aluyor. Emmanuel Aluyor is a Nigerian professor of chemical engineering and the vice chancellor of Edo State University, Uzairue since 2018.

Education 
Aluyor started his academic journey at Kirikasama Primary School, Maiduguri and finished in 1980. He completed his secondary school education at Our Lady of Fatima College, Auchi in 1985 and then obtained a Bachelors degree in chemical engineering from the University of Benin in 1990. Thereafter he obtained his Masters degree in 1993 and PhD in 2008 from the same university (UNIBEN)

Career 
He began his academic career as Lecturer II at the University of Benin in 1994.

Awards 
In 2020, he was honoured by the Federation of African Engineering Organizations (FAEO) at its General Assembly and Investiture Award Ceremony.

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Nigerian academic administrators
Ruby blende. Ruby blende or garnete blende are two close trivial names for several dissimilar minerals, with their appearance sometimes imitating red-colored precious stones, primarily natural garnets or rubies. In the scientific community, the systematic use of the term generally ended in the 19th century, with the transition to the modern system of naming minerals. Currently, both names are primarily used among mineral collectors and dealers, as well as geologists, miners and related trades.

 Miargyrite is a rare steel-colored ore mineral with an internal garnet reflection, very fragile.
 Pyrargyrite is a relatively rare ore mineral of dark red color with a diamond-metallic sheen, related to the previous one.
 Proustite is a silver ore mineral, similar in composition to the previous two, and forms crimson crystals with a lead-gray sheen.
 Sphalerite is zinc blende, some varieties of which have a rich red color with an orange tint.

Gallery

References

See also 

 Garnet (disambiguation)
 Ruby (disambiguation)
 Blende (disambiguation)

Set index articles on minerals
Mineral groups
Silver minerals
Zinc minerals
Sulfide minerals
Arsenide minerals
Mining terminology
Blendes
Thomas Rehak. Thomas Rehak (born 21 January 1971) is an engineer and politician from Liechtenstein who has served in the Landtag of Liechtenstein since 2017. He is the current leader of the Democrats for Liechtenstein, since 2018.

Early life 
Rehak was born on 21 January 1971 in Chur, Switzerland as the son of heating engineer Franz Rehak and his mother hairdresser Agnes Kindle as one of three children. He attended primary school in Triesen from 1978 to 1983 and then high school from 1983 to 1987.

He held an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer from 1987 to 1991 then from 1992 to 1995 he studied at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons in Chur.

Career 
From 1996 to 1999 he worked as a service engineer at the Alcatel-Lucent in Zurich, then TeleNet project manager at Telecom Liechtenstein. Since 2001 he is a self-employed telecommunications consultant and from 2004 to 2017 he was the managing director of the data centre operator ICT-Center AG in Vaduz and Zurich.

In 2013, Rehak was a founding member of The Independents party and from 2013 to 2017 he was a deputy member of the Landtag of Liechtenstein, and also a member of the Liechtenstein European Economic Area commission. He was a member of the audit commission from 2015 to 2021. Rehak has been a full member of the Landtag since the 2017.

In August 2018 Landtag member Erich Hasler was expelled from The Independents under controversial circumstances. Rehak, along with Herbert Elkuch, sided with Hasler and left the party. The following month, the three men founded the Democrats for Liechtenstein. Rehak has been the leader of the party since its founding in 2018. In the 2021 Liechtenstein general election he was re-elected to the Landtag as a member of the party in his own right. He is running for re-election to the Landtag in the 2025 Liechtenstein general election. In this election, the party nominated him as a government candidate on 16 December 2024, being the first time the party has presented government candidates since its formation.

Personal life 
Rehak married Michaela Beck (22 September 1970) on 19 October 2002 and they have one child together.

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People from Triesen
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Members of the Landtag of Liechtenstein (2021–2025)
Leaders of political parties in Liechtenstein
Fernando Rojas Ochagavía. Fernando Rojas Ochagavía (September 14, 1974) is a Chilean civil engineer and politician, member of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI). He served as Undersecretary of Education during the first government of President Sebastián Piñera (2010–2014). He currently serves as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the Universidad del Desarrollo.

Biography 
Fernando Rojas attended Tabancura College before studying civil engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. While there, he served as vice-president of the Engineering Student Center (1996), Student Federation (1997), and Senior Advisor (1998).

After completing his studies, he worked as Executive Secretary of the Nahuelbuta Municipalities Association, as part of the "Youth at the Service of Chile" program of the Jaime Guzmán Foundation. Later, he left to pursue a master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard University, for which he was awarded the Fulbright, World Bank, and President of the Republic scholarships.

He served as the director of the communal planning secretariat for the Municipality of Santiago under Joaquín Lavín's mayoralty.

He served as the planning and commercial manager of AFP Habitat and has also taught at the Catholic University. He was director of Coaniquem and is currently director of the Súmate Foundation at Hogar de Cristo.

He is married and father of seven children. Since July 2016, he has served as dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Universidad del Desarrollo.

Awards 
He was awarded the Colegio de Ingenieros de Chile award and the Ismael Valdés distinction from the Instituto de Ingenieros de Chile. Additionally, he was recognized as one of the 100 Young Leaders of 2004 by the magazine El Sábado and the newspaper El Mercurio.

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Living people
1974 births
Independent Democratic Union politicians
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni
Harvard Kennedy School alumni
Academic staff of the University for Development
21st-century Chilean politicians
Maren Bennewitz. Maren Bennewitz (born 1973) is a German computer scientist who works at the University of Bonn as Professor for Humanoid Robots and Vice Rector for Digitalization and Information Management. Her research concerns robotics, including motion planning for mobile robots, humanoid robots, and human–robot interaction.

Early life and education
Bennewitz was born in 1973 in Bonn, and earned a diplom (the German equivalent of a master's degree in 1999 in computer science from the University of Bonn. She completed a doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Freiburg in 2004, with the dissertation Mobile Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments supervised by Wolfram Burgard.

Career
After continuing at the University of Freiburg as a postdoctoral researcher, she became an assistant professor there in 2008. In 2014 she returned to the University of Bonn, taking her present position as Professor for Humanoid Robots. She became Vice Rector for Information Technology and Knowledge Transfer in 2015, and has been Vice Rector for Digitalization and Information Management since 2021.

References

External links
Humanoid Robots Lab

1973 births
Living people
German roboticists
German women computer scientists
Women roboticists
University of Bonn alumni
University of Freiburg alumni
Academic staff of the University of Freiburg
Academic staff of the University of Bonn
Jessica Burgner-Kahrs. Jessica Burgner-Kahrs (born 1981) is a German roboticist who works in Canada as an associate professor at the University of Toronto. Her research concerns continuum robotics, which she defines as the study of robots that can bend smoothly along their length (like a snake or tentacle) rather than being articulated at a discrete set of joints. The applications of this technology include minimally invasive surgery and servicing industrial machinery.

Education and career
Burgner-Kahrs was born in 1981 in Wuppertal. She earned a diplom (the German equivalent of a master's degree) in computer science in 2006 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Continuing her studies there, she completed a doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) in 2010. Her dissertation, Robot Assisted Laser Osteotomy, was supervised by Heinz Wörn.

After postdoctoral research in the US at the Vanderbilt University Department of Mechanical Engineering, she returned to Germany in 2012 as a German Academic Exchange Service Fellow at Leibniz University Hannover. In 2013 she was awarded an Emmy Noether Fellowship. She became an associate professor at Leibniz University Hannover before moving to her present position at the University of Toronto in 2019. At the University of Toronto, she holds joint affiliations with the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Department of Computer Science, and the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering. She directs the Continuum Robotics Laboratory, and is an associate director of the Robotics Institute.

Recognition
Burgner-Kahrs was a 2015 recipient of the  of the German Research Foundation, "the most important prize for early career researchers in Germany".

References

External links
Home page
Continuum Robotics Laboratory

1981 births
Living people
People from Wuppertal
German mechanical engineers
German roboticists
German women computer scientists
German women engineers
Women roboticists
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the University of Hanover
Academic staff of the University of Toronto