Topic: Chicago

Life

Yang's father, Yang Ko-chuen (also known as Yang Wu-chih), was a professor of mathematics at Tsinghua University, near Peking. While still young, Yang read the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and adopted "Franklin" as his first name. He took his Ph.D. in nuclear ...

Pathogen Protection

The United States provides one of the safest food supplies in the world. H7, Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes, Clostridium botulinum, Staphylococcus aureus and others?manage to make their way into our food. Antimicrobials, such as organic acids, bacteriocins, antimycotics and essential oils, can eliminate ...

Megalopolis

Assorted References influence of population explosion (in urbanization) . Evidence of this phenomenon has appeared on the east coast of the United States, where there may eventually be a single urban.... Nothing elsewhere, however, rivals in size and complexity the aptly named ...

Lloyd Quarterman

Quarterman, Lloyd (1918-1982) was an African American nuclear chemist who was a member of the Manhattan Project team during World War II (1939-1945). From 1943 to 1946, Quarterman worked in the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory, which had been established in 1942 ...

Planetarium

During this time, one of the first planetariums, known as the Gottorp Globe, with a portable painting of the starry sky, was made in what now is Germany. The first of these was installed in the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany, in ...

Hale, George Ellery

Hale, George Ellery (18681938), a United States astronomer. He was a pioneer in the field of astrophysics, which uses the techniques of physics to study the physical qualities of the sun and other stars, and was especially noted for his studies of ...

Janet Rowley

Rowley, Janet (1925-) is an American geneticist, a scientist who investigates the structure, function, and transmission of genes. Janet Rowley worked as a research assistant at the University of Chicago from 1949 to 1950. The family then moved to Maryland, where from ...
Recently, I have followed both the petrochemical and biofuel evolving debate in the Chicago region. By the estimates of my petroleum colleagues and other sources we will have crude oil until 2040, but the quality will decrease (larger amounts of sulfur). If ...
Cultural and physical anthropology are two main divisions of at least 11 branches of anthropology (the scientific study of humanity and of human culture; an outgrowth of biology and social science). For example, a physical anthropologist (such as Louis Leakey) would search ...
For the span of existence of all multicellular organisms on this planet, disease has most often been the path to the grave. For humans however disease became a fact of life for old, young, and healthy that would grow in scale as ...