Thursday, December 17, 2009

Acronym in geometry: SCCO for small cubi-cuboctahedron

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SCCO stands for small cubi-cuboctahedron (also non-hyphenated: small cubicuboctahedron). The SCCO is one of the 43 polyhedra collectively ...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

The name dinosaur from the Greek words deinos (terrible) and sauros (lizard)

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The name dinosaur (“ terrible lizard ”) was coined in the years after 1841 by the English biologist and palaeontologist Sir Richard Owen (1...
Thursday, November 26, 2009

Crime versus subculture: cracker versus hacker

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A cracker is a person who gains oneself and/or other people illegal access to computers, most likely to perform some malicious activity. Of...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Metonic cycle named after fifth-century B.C. astronomer Meton of Athens

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The Greek astronomer Meton of Athens developed an effective system to adjust lunar calendars to the solar year [1]: Meton supposedly observ...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Acronym in biochemistry: CALB for Candida antarctica lipase B

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CALB stands for the enzyme lipase B specificly isolated from the yeast-like fungus Candida antarctica . CALB exhibits hydrolytic, ester s...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Physical state of matter and class of particles named after Satyendranath Bose

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Satyendranath Bose (also spelled Satyendra Nath Bose ) was an Indian Physicist, born in 1894 in Calcutta (West Bengal, India) and later te...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Ludolph's number or Ludolphine number: pi

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For some time the transcendental number pi ( π ) was known in Germany as Ludolph's number or Ludolphine number . This name derived fr...