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Polymath of 20th-Century Mathematics
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
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John von Neumann (1903-1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, ... 2024-12-27

Elegance in Quantum Mechanics
Paul Dirac
Paul Dirac
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902-1984) was a British theoretical physicist whose profound contributio... 2024-12-27

Revolutionary Thinker in Physics
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a theoretical physicist whose work radically changed our understandi... 2024-12-27

Fraction contributes majority
James D. Watson
James D. Watson
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James Dewey Watson is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, most renowned for ... 2024-12-27

Architect of a Vast Hellenistic Empire
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
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Alexander III of Macedon (356-323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was an ancient Macedon... 2024-12-27

Architect of the Atomic Model
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
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Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962) was a Danish physicist whose pioneering work on atomic structure... 2024-12-27

Pioneer of Modern Astronomy and Physics
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian natural philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer who pl... 2024-12-27

Father of Nuclear Physics
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
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Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) was a New Zealand-born British physicist often hailed as the "father o... 2024-12-27

Master of Mathematical Analysis and Infinite Series
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
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Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist whose prolific output shaped larg... 2024-12-27

Reframing Life through Evolution
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
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Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) was an English naturalist and biologist whose theory of evolution ... 2024-12-27

Quantum Pioneer and the Great Explainer
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
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Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988) was an American theoretical physicist whose curiosity, brillian... 2024-12-27

Father of Information Theory
Claude E. Shannon
Claude E. Shannon
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Claude Elwood Shannon (1916-2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptograp... 2024-12-27

Unifier of Electricity, Magnetism, and Light
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
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James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician whose theoretical work un... 2024-12-27

Celestial body think up
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
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Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and even an a... 2023-02-12

Reject emotional slavery
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
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Marcus Aurelius was a Roman Emperor who reigned from 161 to 180 AD. Born in Rome on 26 April 121 AD,... 2023-02-12

Black moving flying dot
Bacterial origins of replication
Bacterial origins of replication
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This page serves as a reference point for bacterial origins of replication. These are points in bact... 2019-06-27

Like the rain swept away
Statistics tables
Statistics tables
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Here you'll find an assortment of statistics tables and other documents/information useful for stati... 2019-06-15

Somebody gave me death-bed
Codon Table
Codon Table
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A codon is a sequence of three nucleotides which correspond to a specific amino acid or termination ... 2019-05-02

Turn to coal and burn
Periodic Tables
Periodic Tables
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Here you'll find an assortment of periodic tables, from the standard to the more esoteric; showing e... 2019-05-02

Run thinkin' 'bout 'morrow
Chemistry Tables
Chemistry Tables
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Useful tables for chemistry in PDF format. Mass spectrometry guide Infrared spectroscopy Nuclear mag... 2019-05-02

Law check ins attempts
Bacterial culture
Bacterial culture
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For micro-organisms to be able to grow, a grow culture must satisfy all of the following requirement... 2019-04-01

Delgates to the touch
DNA sequencing
DNA sequencing
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The sequencing preparation is to be done in the following way with the company EuroFins. It is extre... 2019-03-25

Colour gender faith outlaw
Electrophoresis gel purification
Electrophoresis gel purification
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Electrophoretic gel purification is a standard electrophoretic assay to migrate DNA in a gel, howeve... 2019-03-25

The drug for you
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
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This protocol will allow you to amplify desired sequences, by use of specific primers, and a thermoc... 2019-03-25

Krank up the tanks
Petri dish smear
Petri dish smear
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Petri dish smears should follow a specific protocol. This in order to evenly spread the cells over a... 2019-03-25

White slate of texture
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke
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An unfortunate side effect of Hooke's rivalry with Newton seems to be a lack of portraits of the sci... 2019-03-25

Meal familiarises interesting sugars
DNA digestion/religation
DNA digestion/religation
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Often used for linearising plasmids or testing the presense and size of either an insert and or a re... 2019-03-25

Lift me up to awe
Carl von Linnaeus
Carl von Linnaeus
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Carl von Linnaeus (1707-1778), known in Latin as Carolus Linnaeus (and later ennobled as Carl von Li... 2019-03-25

Revolution evolution
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
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Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier was born in Paris on 26 August 1743. His family were part of the French... 2019-03-25

Extend the plant
Lysogeny broth culture
Lysogeny broth culture
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This procedure is done in order to amplify the biomass of a single bacterial clone. This could then ... 2019-03-25

Achtung maybe baby
Plasmid recombination InFusion
Plasmid recombination InFusion
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Recombination by InFusion allows for the insertion of PCR fragments or other DNA fragments into a pl... 2019-03-25

Solid gold running
Common Lab Chemicals
Common Lab Chemicals
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A list of common lab chemicals and other information, such as use concentration and other....... 2019-03-25

Let it be known
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek
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Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek was born on 24 October 1632 in Delft, in what was then known as the ... 2019-03-25

You only get one
Bacterial transformation
Bacterial transformation
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Here we look at how to transform bacteria with new plasmids. Transformation is the act of introducin... 2019-03-25

Thieves of chromosomes
Lambda red recombination
Lambda red recombination
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Lambda(referred to as λ) recombination allows for the insertion of a PCR fragment into a DNA sequenc... 2019-03-25

Flim flam the law
Electropheresis
Electropheresis
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Here you will find a detailed protocol on electropheretic gel migration. Electropheresis is the proc... 2019-03-25

Pointed mountain of time
Gregor Johann Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel
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Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884) is widely celebrated as the “father of modern genetics.” Yet during... 2019-03-25

Ice transforms disease
DNA plasmid digestion
DNA plasmid digestion
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Here we will take a plasmid, pAPT110 as an example, and cut it with the Nhe1 restriction enzyme. The... 2019-03-25

Slog the bog
Glycerol stock preparation
Glycerol stock preparation
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Glycerol stock prep allows us to store bacterial strains for the long term. In order to do this we m... 2019-03-25

Guilty, chain them up
Amino Acids and Amino Acid Codes
Amino Acids and Amino Acid Codes
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Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. There are 20 basic common amino acids that are used... 2019-03-25

Meet on the dance floor
Conjugation of bacteria
Conjugation of bacteria
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For this process we will try to get one plasmid to pass into another strain. This can be done for di... 2019-03-25

Abounding beliefs to the father
DNA extraction
DNA extraction
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For this step you will need a large biomass of cells in order to be able to extract a useful quantit... 2019-03-25

Echoing billows of smoke
Aristotle
Aristotle
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Aristotle was a student of Plato, who himself had been a pupil of the great Socrates. These three to... 2019-03-25

Rock end of the line
Subcloning bacterial colonies
Subcloning bacterial colonies
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Subcloning can be done for a variety of reasons, here are just two: testing antibiotic resistances f... 2019-03-25

Do not release them
Restriction enzymes
Restriction enzymes
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A restriction enzyme is a type of enzyme that cuts DNA at a specific sequence of nucleotides. The se... 2019-03-22

Paradis pour les égoïstes
Petri dish preperation
Petri dish preperation
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Petri dish preparation allows us to create dishes of nutrient rich gel. These gels can then be used ... 2019-03-03

Trop complex pour fumer
Mathematics sheet of formulas
Mathematics sheet of formulas
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Here you'll find a number of maths formulas useful for many different domains; from geometry to diff... 2019-02-28

Assez complex pour fumer
Mathematics symbology
Mathematics symbology
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Here you'll find a basic list of maths symbols which are widely used, and often times found in scien... 2019-02-28