astronomy

Viness Pillay

Viness Pillay is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Viness Pillay rather than just read about it. In short: Viness Pillay FAAS (1970–2020) was a South African professor of pharmacy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was the Director of the Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform (WADDP), a member of African Academy of Sciences, Academy of Translational Medicine Professionals (ATMP) and a beneficiary of the 2013 Olusegun Obasanjo Innovative Award for developing the RapiDiss Wafer Technology as an innov…

Key takeaways

Viness Pillay belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Viness Pillay to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Viness Pillay from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Viness Pillay FAAS (1970–2020) was a South African professor of pharmacy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was the Director of the Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform (WADDP), a member of African Academy of Sciences, Academy of Translational Medicine Professionals (ATMP) and a beneficiary of the 2013 Olusegun Obasanjo Innovative Award for developing the RapiDiss Wafer Technology as an innovative way to provide effective anti-retroviral (ARV) drug therapy to children afflicted with HIV/AIDS.

Education He obtained his master's degree in pharmacy from the University of Durban-Westville (South Africa) in 1996 and bagged his PhD at Temple University in 2000 as a Fulbright Scholar.

Scientific contributions He developed RapiDiss Wafer Technology as an innovative way to provide effective anti-retroviral (ARV) drug therapy to children afflicted with HIV/AIDS. He developed the world's fastest dissolving matrix for the onset of rapid drug action in the human body, a neural device for therapeutic intervention in spinal cord injury and novel wound healing technologies. He also came up with his own molecular modelling paradigms called PEiGOR Theory - Pillay's Electro-influenced Geometrical Organization-Reorganization. This theory was published in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics.

Fellowship and membership He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Science of South Africa in 2012. He was also a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences of South Africa, and The Biomaterials Network.

Awards and honours He was a beneficiary of National Research Foundation (NRF) Awards.

Death Pillay died on 24 July 2020 after a lengthy illness. He left behind a wife and a daughter.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Viness Pillay

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Viness Pillay claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Viness Pillay before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Viness Pillay ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Viness Pillay

In research: Viness Pillay appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Viness Pillay in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Viness Pillay is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1970 births, 2020 deaths, Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Viness Pillay outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Viness Pillay in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Viness Pillay matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Viness Pillay?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Viness Pillay.