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Gram-negative bacteria by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
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Genetics company by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Transposable element by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Gallium arsenide vs silicon by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray by Charles J. Murray (1997) page 4 mentions:
Cray wanted his new machine to employ circuits made from a material called gallium arsenide. Gallium arsenide had achieved limited success, particularly in satellite communications and military electronics. But no one had succeeded with it in anything so complicated as a computer. In the computer industry, engineers had developed a saying: "Gallium arsenide is the technology of the future," they would say. "And it always will be."
University of Paris by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Their split in 1970 was a huge fuck up. If it were a single entity, the university would likely be in the top 10 university rankings, undoubtedly top 20. But as of 2020 French universities only appear instead in the top 40s or 50s.
Fluorescent tag by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Bandpass filter by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
FPGA company by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Electromagnetic induction by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Arbitrary code execution by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Executable and Linkable Format by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
For a quick and dirty introduction to the format, see: ELF Hello World Tutorial.
Plant by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Formal name: "plantae".
Matrix mechanics by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Published by Werner Heisenberg in 1925-07-25 as quantum mechanical re-interpretation of kinematic and mechanical relations by Heisenberg (1925), it offered the first general formulation of quantum mechanics.
It is apparently more closely related to the ladder operator method, which is a more algebraic than the more analytical Schrödinger equation.
It appears that this formulation makes the importance of the Poisson bracket clear, and explains why physicists are so obsessed with talking about position and momentum space. This point of view also apparently makes it clearer that quantum mechanics can be seen as a generalization of classical mechanics through the Hamiltonian.
QED and the men who made it: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga by Silvan Schweber (1994) mentions however that relativistic quantum mechanics broke that analogy, because some 2x2 matrix had a different form, TODO find that again.
Inward Bound by Abraham Pais (1988) chapter 12 "Quantum mechanics, an essay" part (c) "A chronology" has some ultra brief, but worthwhile mentions of matrix mechanics and the commutator.
End-to-end encryption by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
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Photon by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Initially light was though of as a wave because it experienced interference as shown by experiments such as:
But then, some key experiments also start suggesting that light is made up of discrete packets:and in the understanding of the 2020 Standard Model the photon is one of the elementary particles.
This duality is fully described mathematically by quantum electrodynamics, where the photon is modelled as a quantized excitation of the photon field.
EDA company by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The main ones as of 2020 are:

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