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Parent topics
- Education [r]: Learning and teaching activities for the purpose of knowledge or skill acquisition, or the development of values or virtues. May also involve imparting culture or group socialization. [e]
- Engineering [r]: The profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences gained by study, experience and practice is applied with judgment to develop ways to economically use the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind. [e]
- Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge about the physical world derived from the activities of observation and experimentation. [e]
- California [r]: A state of the United States located on the west coast of the North American continent. [e]
Subtopics
- Richard Feynman [r]: (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) An American physicist known for his scientific acumen, humor, and charismatic charm; drummer and painter of scandalous paintings; member of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, then Professor of Theoretical Physics at California Institute of Technology; Nobel Prize winner in Physics, 1965; staff, Manhattan Project [e]
- Gordon Moore [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Donald Knuth [r]: An acclaimed computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University. [e]
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory [r]: Operated under contract by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration facility concerned with the design and operation of deep space missions beyond Earth orbit [e]
