Due to its structure, monocrystalline silicon is anisotropic, which gives it different structural and electrical properties in different plane directions.
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe | Anisotropy | anisotropy |
shared the 2010 Shaw Prize in astronomy with Charles L. Bennett and Lyman A. Page,Jr. for their work on WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe).
David Todd Wilkinson (1935-2002), cosmologist at Princeton University, after whom the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe is named
(The steel deck-plate-and-ribs system may be idealized for analytical purposes as an orthogonal-anisotropic plate, hence the abbreviated designation “orthotropic.”)
Currently Professor in the University of Oklahoma's Department of Physics and Astronomy, she has published over 90 refereed papers, most recently specializing on probing the dark energy in the Universe, with particular attention to the use of supernovae and galaxy redshift surveys as cosmological probes, studies of the cosmic microwave background anisotropy, and the measurement of cosmological parameters.