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Demeter (Δημήτηρ)
Demeter (Δημήτηρ), Roman Ceres, was the Greek Olympian goddess of agriculture, grain, and bread, mother of Persephone, whose Homeric Hymn (late 7th century BC) narrates her daughter's abduction by Hades, and whose Eleusinian Mysteries promised initiates a blessed afterlife until their ban under Theodosius and Alaric's sack in 395.
Demeter Corona
Demeter Corona is a 560-km-wide corona on Venus at about 54°N, 295°E, named in 1985 for the Greek fertility goddess. Its −18.5 mGal free-air and positive Bouguer gravity anomalies make it the clearest corona not explained by plume models, favoring lithospheric peeling.
Demeter Sanctuary (Eleusis)
Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis (Ἐλευσίς), Attic sanctuary 22 km west of Athens, home of the Eleusinian Mysteries and the Telesterion; Mycenaean origins, Athenian incorporation, destroyed AD 395.
Demethanizer
A demethanizer is a cryogenic distillation column used in natural gas and LNG processing to remove methane overhead, leaving ethane and heavier hydrocarbons as NGL bottoms.
Demethylation
Demethylation is the removal of methyl groups from compounds, especially DNA demethylation of 5-methylcytosine via passive replication dilution or active TET-mediated oxidation, deamination, and base excision repair pathways.
Demetra C. Evangelou
Demetra C. Evangelou is an engineering-education researcher at Purdue University who received the 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for studying how early experiences lead children to pursue engineering.
DEMETRA study (NCT05732623)
The DEMETRA study (NCT05732623) is an international, multicenter case-control study led by San Raffaele University in Milan investigating dietary and lifestyle risk factors for colorectal cancer diagnosed before age 50.
Demetress Bell
Demetress Bell (born 1984, Summerfield, Louisiana) is a former NFL offensive tackle, 2008 seventh-round pick of the Buffalo Bills from Northwestern State, who started 35 of 40 games for Buffalo and Philadelphia (2009-2012).
Demetri Martin
Demetri Martin, American standup comedian, writer, and visual artist; Perrier Award 2003 for If I...; Daily Show youth correspondent; creator of Important Things; Netflix special Demetri Deconstructed (2024).
Demetri Psaltis
Demetri Psaltis is an optical scientist and electrical engineer known for holographic data storage, optofluidics, and optical neural networks, who taught at Caltech from 1980 before joining EPFL in Lausanne.
Demetri Terzopoulos
Demetri Terzopoulos is a computer vision and computer graphics researcher who is a Distinguished Professor at UCLA and inventor of deformable models, including the widely used active contour "snakes" technique.
Demetria McKinney
Demetria McKinney (born 1979) is an American actress and R&B singer, best known as Janine Payne on Tyler Perry's House of Payne; also Motherland: Fort Salem, The Winchesters, and the 2017 album Officially Yours.
Demetrio Aguilera Malta
Demetrio Aguilera Malta (1909–1981) was an Ecuadorian novelist, playwright, and diplomat, a member of the Grupo de Guayaquil and one of the early practitioners of magical realism in Latin American fiction.
Demetrion
Demetrion (Δημήτριον) names several ancient entities: a Demeter sanctuary and Thessalian port near Pyrasos/Nea Anchialos, a Bithynian road station near Hendek, the Athenian month Mounychion renamed for Demetrios Poliorketes, and settlements on Samothrace and Thasos.
Demetrios Bernardakis
Demetrios Bernardakis (Δημήτριος Βερναρδάκης, 1833–1907) was a Greek verse dramatist and professor of history at the University of Athens, known for seven tragedies including Fausta.
Demetrios Christodoulou
Demetrios Christodoulou, born in Athens in 1951, is a Greek mathematical physicist known for proving black-hole irreducible mass and the nonlinear stability of Minkowski spacetime.
Demetrios Kydones
Demetrios Kydones (Δημήτριος Κυδώνης) was a Byzantine statesman, scholar, and translator, chief minister to three fourteenth-century emperors and the leading Greek translator of Thomas Aquinas.
Demetrios L. Kouzoukas
Demetrios L. Kouzoukas is an American healthcare investor and former government official, a Partner at Team8 who builds digital health companies and led the Medicare program from 2017 to 2021.
Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Demetrios N. Christodoulides is an optical physicist known for discrete solitons, Airy beams, and parity-time symmetry in optics, holding an engineering chair at USC since 2022.
Demetrios Vikelas
Demetrios Vikelas (Δημήτριος Βικέλας, 1835–1908) was a Greek merchant and man of letters who was the first president of the International Olympic Committee and brought the 1896 Games to Athens.
Demetrious Johnson
Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson, American retired MMA fighter; inaugural UFC flyweight champion with a record 11 title defenses, later ONE flyweight champion; retired 2024; UFC Hall of Fame Class of 2026.
Demetrius and the Gladiators
Demetrius and the Gladiators is a 1954 American biblical epic directed by Delmer Daves and the sequel to The Robe, starring Victor Mature as Demetrius.
Demetrius Andrade
Demetrius "Boo Boo" Andrade, American southpaw boxer born 1988 in Providence, Rhode Island; 2007 amateur world champion and 2008 US Olympian; WBO junior middleweight and WBO middleweight world champion; first loss to David Benavidez, RTD 6, November 2023.
Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin
Demettrius Gallicin (Дмитрий Алексеевич Голицын) was a Russian prince born in The Hague who became a Catholic priest and missionary in Pennsylvania. He founded the settlement of Loretto and ministered there for almost 41 years.
Demetrius Flenory Jr.
Demetrius Flenory Jr., known as Lil Meech, is an American actor and rapper from Miami who plays his father, Big Meech, in the Starz crime drama BMF (2021).
Demetrius Grosse
Demetrius Grosse (born 1981, Washington, D.C.) is an American actor known for Rock in Straight Outta Compton, Emmett Yawners in Banshee, Errol in Justified, Baron Samedi in Heroes, and Eric Williams/Grim Reaper in Marvel's Wonder Man.
Demetrius I
Demetrius I was a Greco-Bactrian king of the Euthydemid dynasty who led campaigns across the Hindu Kush into northwestern India in the early second century BCE.
Demetrius I of Georgia
Demetrius I (Demetre I) was King of Georgia from 1125 to 1155/56, son of David the Builder, and composer of the hymn "Shen khar venakhi."
Demetrius I's invasion of India
Demetrius I's invasion of India was the campaign of the Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius I, who crossed the Hindu Kush around 180 BC and conquered the Punjab.
Demetrius II of Georgia
Demetrius II the Self-Sacrificer (Georgian: დემეტრე II თავდადებული) was king of Georgia from 1270 or 1271 until 1289, when the Mongol Ilkhans executed him for alleged treason.