Longitude is an imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole and is used to describe the location of a place on Earth east or west of the zero or prime meridian. In 1884, the International Meridian Conference adopted the Greenwich Meridian as the universal prime meridian or zero point of longitude.
Anna Krylov. Anna Krylov is the Gabilan Distinguished Professor in Science and Engineering and a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California (USC) working in the area of theoretical and computational quantum chemistry. Born in Donetsk, Ukraine (May 6, 1967), Krylov received her M.Sc.
Nina Vsevolod Fedoroff (born 1942) is an American professor known for her research in life sciences and biotechnology, especially transposable elements or jumping genes and plant stress response.arly days [edit]. Fedoroff, whose father was an immigrant to the USA and her mother a first generation immigrant, was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Her first language was Russian.