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The study of fluctuations in dynamical systems had rather humble beginnings. With the advent of the light microscope in the late 1600s, many investigators noticed that small particles suspended in liquid were continually moving, even though no macroscopic movements of the fluid could be detected [492]. Initially, it was thought that these movements indicated that the particles were alive.
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Robert Brown (1773–1858), Scottish botanist.
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Robert Brown was not the first person to observe these movements. In his original paper, Brown cites ten investigators who had earlier observed these movements; subsequently, a scientific historian added the name J. Ingen-Housz to this list [626]. However, it is clear that Robert Brown was the first to investigate the origins of this phenomenon in a systematic manner, and consequently, he deserves to have his name attached to these particle motions [492].
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Albert Einstein (1879–1955), German-born American physicist.
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Paul Langevin (1872–1946), French physicist.
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Kiyoshi It\(\bar{\mathrm{o}}\) (1915–2008), Japanese mathematician.
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Ruslan Leont’evich Stratonovich (1930–1997), Russian physicist and engineer.
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Adriaan Daniël Fokker (1887–1972), Dutch physicist and musician.
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When the noise is multiplicative and/or the equation is nonlinear, the Ito and Stratonovich formulations are not typically equivalent.
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Osborne Reynolds (1842–1912), Anglo-Irish physicist.
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George Gabriel Stokes (1819–1903), Irish mathematician, physicist, politician, and theologian.
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Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903–1983), American physiologist.
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L.A. Scott Kelso (d. 1947), Irish-American neuroscientist.
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The noise intensity can be measured in a variety of ways, including its variance, root-mean-square value, its standard deviation, and the coefficient of variation, which is the standard deviation divided by the mean.
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Peter Swain (b. 1970), British-Canadian systems biologist.
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A 1,000-nt protein corresponds to a protein sequence containing ≈ 333 amino acids, since each amino acid is encoded in the gene by three consecutive nucleotides.
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Otto Herbert Schmitt (1913–1998), American inventor, engineer, and biophysicist.
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Frank Edward Moss (1934–2011), American physicist, pioneered applications of stochastic resonance to biology.
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