theoretical+explanation
101Abrikosov, Alexey A. — ▪ Russian physicist in full Alexey Alexeevich Abrikosov born June 25, 1928, Moscow, U.S.S.R. [now Russia] Russian physicist, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2003 for his pioneering contribution to the theory of superconductivity.… …
102Ewald, Paul Peter — ▪ German physicist born Jan. 23, 1888, Berlin, Ger. died Aug. 22, 1985, Ithaca, N.Y., U.S. German physicist and crystallographer whose theory of X ray interference by crystals was the first detailed, rigorous theoretical explanation of the… …
103Ginzburg, Vitaly Lazarevich — ▪ Russian physicist born October 4 [September 21, Old Style], 1916, Moscow, Russia Russian physicist and astrophysicist, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2003 for his pioneering work on superconductivity. He shared the award with Alexey… …
104Laughlin, Robert B. — ▪ American physicist born Nov. 1, 1950, Visalia, Calif., U.S. American physicist who, with Daniel C. Tsui (Tsui, Daniel C.) and Horst Störmer (Störmer, Horst L.), received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1998 for the discovery that electrons …
105Epiklesis — • The name of a prayer that occurs in all Eastern liturgies (and originally in Western liturgies also) after the words of Institution, in which the celebrant prays that God may send down His Holy Spirit to change this bread and wine into the Body …
106Wien effect — The Wien effect is the experimentally observed increase in ionic mobility or conductivity of electrolytes at very high gradient of electrical potential.[1] A theoretical explanation has been proposed by Lars Onsager.[2] A related phenomenon is… …
107Ibn Khaldun `Abd al-Rahman — (1332 1406) One of the most brilliant social thinkers ever produced in the Maghrib and also undoubtedly one of the most famous figures from the Marinid period. His theories about society and political development have been of great value to… …
108science and art — Science is the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena both man made and natural. Scientific activities involve a large amount of study and methodology as when using the… …
109EVIL EYE — (Heb. עַיִן הָרָע, ayin ha ra; lit., the eye of the evil ; Aram. עֵינָא בִּישָׁא, eina bisha), a widespread belief that some persons may produce malevolent effects on others by looking at them, based on the supposed power of some eyes to bewitch… …
110Hellenistic biological sciences — R.J.Kankinson The five centuries that separate Aristotle’s death in 322 BC from Galen’s ascendancy in Rome in the latter part of the second century AD were fertile ones for the biological sciences, in particular medicine. Nor is the period solely …
