Richard Ernst Meyer 1919 - 2008

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Stalker ◽  
E. Nicole Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Motion ◽  
Wave Theory ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester ◽  
Aircraft Production ◽  
Supersonic Aerodynamics ◽  
Mathematical Physicist

Richard E. Meyer was a mathematical physicist who specialized in the physics of fluid motion. His research career began with his doctorate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, followed by a brief period of employment with the English Ministry of Aircraft Production. He then went to the University of Manchester, where he made his first major research contributions. In 1953 he left Manchester for the University of Sydney. By this time he was established as a theoretical supersonic aerodynamicist and he continued with this work as well as assuming the responsibilities of a research group leader. In 1957 he went to the USA and remained there for the rest of his life, essentially abandoning supersonic aerodynamics in favour of water-wave theory. His work was marked by an ability to analyse the approach to limiting conditions, or singularities, in models of physical processes. From the 1970s, he focused increasingly on developing the mathematical aspects of his work.

scholarly journals Leslie Howarth OBE. 23 May 1911 — 22 September 2001

2009 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 107-119
Author(s):  
J. T. Stuart
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Dynamics ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
California Institute Of Technology ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

Leslie Howarth was born in Lancashire and studied at Accrington Grammar School and the University of Manchester, where he graduated in mathematics. Sydney Goldstein (FRS 1937) had a great impact on him, and he migrated with Goldstein to the University of Cambridge. There he studied for the Mathematical Tripos and then for a PhD under the guidance of Goldstein, gaining the Smith's Prize in the process. The 1930s were a golden age for fluid dynamics, both theoretical and experimental, partly because of the rapid rise of aviation in both Europe and North America. Howarth rapidly developed a formidable international reputation, producing a string of theoretical and computational papers at the cutting edge of research in the study of boundary layers in aerodynamics and fluid dynamics. In 1937–38 he spent a year in the USA at the California Institute of Technology, working with Theodore von Karman (ForMemRS 1946), during which they produced a remarkable paper of lasting importance in the theory of turbulence. During World War II Howarth worked for several UK government agencies, but afterwards he moved from Cambridge to the University of Bristol, where he developed a strong research school in theoretical fluid dynamics and applied mathematics.

ETHWorld - Implementation of a Virtual Campus Infrastructure and E-Learning at ETH Zurich

2003 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Anders Hagstrom ◽  
Walter Schaufelberger
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Academic Planning ◽  
Virtual Campus ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
And Control

ETH World is a strategic initiative for establishing a new virtual campus at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. ETH World will provide services in the areas of research, teaching, learning and infrastructure for the established disciplines in technology and natural science at ETH. The initiative aims to develop the excellence of ETH Zurich, making use of the new facilities and infrastructure instruments and methods that technological development offers. It is an integral part of the university, supporting its academic planning, infrastructure and financing processes. In its first part this paper describes the background of ETH World and an international conceptual competition organized in 2000 to seek ideas for the “infostructure” of this new academic environment. Some results of the competition are presented along with other projects that have been launched as building blocks of ETH World. The second part looks in some detail at e-learning as one of the focal points of ETH World, presenting two cases studies in architecture and control engineering education.

Functional Group Oxidation and Reduction

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglass F. Taber
Keyword(s):  
Direct Conversion ◽  
University Of Mississippi ◽  
Ru Catalyst ◽  
Mo Catalyst ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Diastereoselective Reduction ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester ◽  
Mediated Reduction

Debabrata Maiti of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay found (Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 4253) that the relatively inexpensive Pd(OAc)2 effectively catalyzed the decarbonylation of an aldehyde 1 to the hydrocarbon 2. Hui Lou of Zhejiang University used (Adv. Synth. Catal. 2011, 353, 2577) a Mo catalyst to effect reduction of the ester 3 to the hydrocarbon 4, with retention of all the skeletal carbons. Jon T. Njardarson of the University of Arizona showed (Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 7844) that the allylic ether 5 could be reduced with high regioselectivity to give 6. José Barluenga and Carlos Valdés of the Universidad de Oviedo effected (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 5950) the direct conversion of a ketone 7 to the azide 8. Although no cyclic ketones were included in the examples, there is a good chance that this will be the long-sought diastereoselective reduction of a cyclohexanone to the equatorial amine. Hideo Nagashima of Kyushu University reduced (Chem. Lett. 2012, 41, 229) the acid 9 directly to the aldehyde 1 using a ruthenium catalyst with the bis silane 10. Georgii I. Nikonov of Brock University described (Adv. Synth. Catal. 2012, 354, 607) a similar Ru-mediated silane reduction of an acid chloride to the aldehyde. Professor Nagashima used (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 5363) his same Ru catalyst to reduce the ester 11 to the protected amine 12. Shmaryahu Hoz of Bar-Ilan University used (J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 4029) photostimulation to promote the SmI2-mediated reduction of a nitrile 13 to the amine 14. Bakthan Singaram of the University of California, Santa Cruz effected (J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 221) the same transformation with InCl3/NaBH4. David J. Procter of the University of Manchester described (J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 3049) what promises to be a general method for activating Sm metal to form SmI2. Mark T. Hamann of the University of Mississippi directly reduced (J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 4578) the nitro group of 15 to the alkylated amine 16. Cleanly oxidizing aromatic methyl groups to the level of the aldehyde without overoxidation has been a challenge.

Free radicals in the European periphery: ‘translating’ organic chemistry from Zurich to Barcelona in the early twentieth century

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
AGUSTÍ NIETO-GALAN
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
European Periphery ◽  
Free Radical Chemistry ◽  
The University ◽  
Scientific Standards

In 1915, after acquiring first-hand knowledge of the new free radical chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Antonio García Banús (1888–1955) became professor of organic chemistry at the University of Barcelona and created his own research group, which was to last from 1915 until 1936. He was a gifted teacher and a prolific writer who attempted to introduce international scientific standards into his local environment. This paper analyses the bridges that Banús built between the experimental culture of organic chemistry at the ETH and the University of Barcelona. It presents a case study which aims to provide new historical data for the general analysis of groups who conducted their work in the European periphery.

scholarly journals Valentine Louis Telegdi. 11 January 1922 — 8 April 2006

2009 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 291-304
Author(s):  
Laurie M. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Wolfgang Pauli ◽  
Electromagnetic Interactions ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
Experimental Physicist ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Valentine Telegdi was an outstandingly original experimental physicist who contributed greatly to our understanding of the weak and electromagnetic interactions of elementary particles. Outspoken and colourful in expression, Telegdi (usually called ‘Val’) had the reputation of being a ‘conscience of physics’, known for his incisive and sometimes acerbic wit. In this respect he was reminiscent of Wolfgang Pauli, one of his teachers, whom he greatly admired. However, Val could be warm and caring to friends, professional associates and students. After receiving his doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich in 1950, he began his academic career at the University of Chicago in 1951, and his reputation grew rapidly. In 1968 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In 1972 the University of Chicago appointed him as the first Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor of Physics.

scholarly journals Meet the APSA Council and Officers

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (01) ◽  
pp. 151-154
Keyword(s):  
Harvard University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
New Members ◽  
Reed College ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

As noted in the October issue ofPS, G. Bingham Powell, Jr., the Marie E .and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, became APSA's 108th president on September 4, 2011, at the close of the APSA Annual Meeting. Eight new members of the APSA council were elected fall 2011. The new members are Paul Gronke, Reed College; Ange-Marie Hancock, University of Southern California; David A. Lake, University of California, San Diego; Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley; Kenneth J. Meier, Texas A&M University; Kathleen Thelen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stephen M. Walt, Harvard University; and Angelia R. Wilson, University of Manchester.

scholarly journals An Industry of R&D

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (10) ◽  
pp. 44-47
Author(s):  
Harry Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Systems ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
University Of Munich ◽  
World Class ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
The Tropics

This article discusses how Singapore is amassing a brain trust to compensate for resources that nature didn’t provide to it. CREATE or “Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise” is one of the most ambitious projects of Singapore’s National Research Foundation. CREATE seeks to unite Singapore’s universities with world-class research institutions to study issues ranging from urban planning to medical treatment. The organization has partnerships with 10 foreign universities, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Technical University of Munich, Cambridge University, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. There are five research groups in CREATE’s partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The research areas are infectious diseases, environmental sensing and modeling, biosystems and micromechanics, urban mobility, and low-energy electronic systems. The University of California, Berkeley, has two research programs with CREATE. One aims to improve the efficiency of buildings in the tropics, and the other is working on raising the electrical output of photovoltaic devices.

Teaching Creative Engineering: Education in Japan and the USA

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teruaki Ito ◽  
Alexander H. Slocum
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Aided Design ◽  
The University

This paper describes two approaches to teaching engaging creative engineering design classes. Both of these classes have evolved over many years using feedback from annual class reviews. One is the computer-aided design class, CAD-EX, at the University of Tokushima (UT) in Japan, and the other is the introductory design and manufacturing class, 2.007, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA. Comparing these two classes conducted in two difference countries, this paper discusses how we created learning environments that engage students in a variety of design-related activities.

Construction of Single Stereocenters

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tristan H. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Asymmetric Hydrogenation ◽  
Bifunctional Catalyst ◽  
Allyl Ether ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Iridium Catalysis ◽  
Enantioselective Epoxidation ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
University Of Manchester

Haifeng Du at the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 6810) the borane-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of imine 1 to 2 using the diene 3 as a chiral ligand for boron. A single-enzyme cascade for the reductive transam­ination of acetophenone 4 with amine 5 to produce enantiopure sec-phenethylamine 6 was developed (Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 161) by Per Berglund at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. A group at Boehringer Ingelheim in Ridgefield, Connecticut, led by Jonathan T. Reeves, disclosed (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 5565) a procedure for the addition of DMF anion to N-sulfinyl imine 7 to furnish tert-leucine amide 8 with high diastereoselectivity. The tertiary carbinamine 10 was synthesized (Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 34) via the carbolithiation/rearrangement of vinyl­urea 9 as reported by Jonathan Clayden at the University of Manchester. Gregory C. Fu at Caltech reported (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 2525) that the chiral phosphine 12 catalyzed the enantioselective addition of trifluoroacetamide to allene 11 to produce γ-amino ester 13 in enantioenriched form. Adeline Vallribera at the Autonomous University of Barcelona found (Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 1448) that a euro­pium pybox complex effected the highly enantioselective α-amination of β-ketoester 14 to generate 15 on the way to the Parkinson’s disease co-drug L-carbidopa. Hisashi Yamamoto at the University of Chicago and Chubu University reported (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 3411) that a halfnium(IV) complex of the bishydroxamic acid 17 catalyzed the enantioselective epoxidation of the tertiary homoallylic alcohol 16 to 18. The rearrangement of the allylic carbonate 19 to produce allyl ether 21 with high ee under iridium catalysis in the presence of ligand 20 was disclosed (Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 512) by Hyunsoo Han at the University of Texas, San Antonio. The asymmetric vinylogous aldol reaction of 3-methyl-2-cyclohexen-1-one 22 and α-keto ester 23 to furnish tertiary carbinol 25 using the bifunctional catalyst 24 was developed (Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 220) by Paolo Melchiorre at ICREA and ICIQ in Spain.

scholarly journals Mieczysław Wolfke - a pioneer of holography

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Petelczyc
Keyword(s):  
Swiss Federal Institute ◽  
Thought Process ◽  
Holographic Method ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
World Scientific Publishing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Liquid States ◽  
University Of Zurich ◽  
The University

Receiving the Nobel Prize in 1971 for the invention and development of the holographic method, Dennis Gabor mentioned Mieczysław Wolfke as the person who proposed this method as early as 1920 (which he did not know, independently making the same discovery). This article describes the history of Wolfke's pioneering work and tries to recreate the thought process that led to it - starting with the task of supplementing and verifying the diffraction grating theory proposed by Ernst Abbe, which he carried out as part of his doctorate at the University of Wrocław and habilitation at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.. Full Text: PDF ReferencesW. Łaniecki, Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, 21, 545-553 (1976). DirectLink W. Keesom, "Solidification of Helium", Nature 118, 81 (1926). CrossRef W. Keesom, M. Wolfke, "Two liquid states of helium", Konink. Akad. Wetensch. Amsterdam, Proc, 31(190b), 90-94 (1928).W. Keesom, Helium (Elsevier, Amsterdam 1942).E. Abbe, Die Lehre von der Bildentstehung im Mikroskop (F. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1910). CrossRef R. Torge, Postępy Fizyki, 53, 201-210 (2002). CrossRef A.Kiejna, Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, 48, 7 (2003). DirectLink M. Wolfke, "Über die Abbildung eines Gitters bei künstlicher Begrenzung", Ann Phys. 339, 277 (1911). CrossRef M. Wolfke, Prace matematyczno-fizyczne, 22, 135 (1911). DirectLink M. Wolfke, "Über die Abbildung eines Gitters bei asymmetrischer Abblendung", Ann Phys. 342, 96 (1912). CrossRef M. Wolfke, "Über die Abbildung eines durchlässigen Gitters", Ann Phys. 342, 797 (1912). CrossRef M. Wolfke, "Zur Abbildung eines durchlässigen Gitters", Ann Phys. 343, 385 (1912). CrossRef K. Petelczyc, E. Kędzierska, Mieczysław Wolfke. Gdyby mi dali choć pół miliona… (OWPW, Warszawa 2018). DirectLink L.A. Aslanov, G.V. Fetisov, J.A.K. Howard, "Crystallographic Instrumentation", Oxford (1998). CrossRef M. Wolfke, Wiadomości matematyczne 17, 1 (1913). DirectLink M. Wolfke, "Allgemeine Abbildungstheorie selbstleuchtender und nicht selbstleuchtender Objekte", Ann Phys. 344, 569 (1912). CrossRef M. Wolfke, "Über die Abbildung eines Gitters außerhalb der Einstellebene", Ann Phys. 345, 194 (1913). CrossRef M. Wolfke, Verhandlungen der DPG, 15, 1123 (1913).M. Wolfke, Verhandlungen der DPG, 15, 1215 (1913).M. Wolfke, Verhandlungen der DPG, 16, 4 (1914).M. Wolfke, "Fragen zur Pathologie des menschlichen Oedems", Physikalische Zeitschrift, 22, 375 (1921). CrossRef Akta osobowe - Wolfke Mieczysław, Archiwum Akt Nowych sygn. 2/14/0/6/6638, WarszawaM. Wolfke, Physikalische Zeitschrift, 21, 495 (1920). DirectLink S. Lundqvist, Nobel Lectures, Physics 1971-1980 (World Scientific Publishing Co. Singapore 1992) CrossRef

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