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Hole in one
Hole in one (ace): a golf score of 1 on a hole, holing the tee shot. Odds about 12,500 to 1 for amateurs, 3,000 to 1 for tour pros; first recorded by Tom Morris at Prestwick in 1868; commonly insured as prize indemnity.
Hole in the Sky (Bergen Metal Fest)
Hole in the Sky was a metal festival in Bergen, Norway, held annually from 2000 to 2011 and founded as a memorial to drummer Erik "Grim" Brødreskift.
Hole punch
A hole punch, also known as a paper puncher, is an office tool that cuts holes in paper so sheets can be stored in a ring binder. Invented by Friedrich Soennecken in 1886.
Hole spin qubit
A hole spin qubit is a quantum bit that stores information in the spin of a hole, a missing electron, confined in a quantum dot in silicon or germanium.
Hole-drilling method
The hole-drilling method is a semi-destructive technique for measuring residual stresses near a surface: a small hole is drilled and the released strains are measured, standardized as ASTM E837.
Holectypoida
Holectypoida (ムカシタマゴウニ目) is an order of irregular sea urchins established by Duncan in 1889, placed as the stem group of Irregularia, with regular-appearing tests, Mesozoic fossil genera like Holectypus, and only a handful of living species.
Holes (film)
Holes (2003) is a Disney family adventure-drama directed by Andrew Davis, written by Louis Sachar from his Newbery-winning novel, starring Shia LaBeouf, Sigourney Weaver, and Jon Voight; it earned $67.3 million in the US.
Holes (novel)
Holes is Louis Sachar's 1998 children's novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) about Stanley Yelnats, wrongly sent to Camp Green Lake to dig daily holes; it won the 1999 Newbery Medal and 1998 National Book Award and was filmed in 2003 or 2004.
Holevo's theorem
Holevo's theorem, also called the Holevo bound, is a result in quantum information theory proved by Alexander S. Holevo in 1973 that limits how much classical information measurements can extract.
Holey Moley
Holey Moley, also known internationally as Hole in One, is an ABC extreme mini-golf competition series (2019-2022, four seasons, 43 episodes) created by Chris Culvenor, executive produced by Stephen Curry, and hosted by Rob Riggle, Joe Tessitore, and Jeannie Mai.
Holger Badstuber
Holger Badstuber (born 1989, Memmingen) is a retired German left-footed defender, Bayern Munich 2009-2017, six Bundesliga titles, 2013 Champions League, 31 Germany caps, career shortened by cruciate ligament injuries, retired 2022.
Holger Bech Nielsen
Holger Bech Nielsen, born in 1941, is a Danish theoretical physicist at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, counted among the fathers of string theory and known for the Nielsen–Olesen vortex.
Holger Behrendt
Holger Behrendt (born 1964, Schönebeck) is an East German artistic gymnast, 1988 Seoul Olympic rings champion (tied with Bilozerchev), team silver and high bar bronze medalist, later a coach in Cottbus and Berlin.
Holger Braunschweig
Holger Braunschweig is a German inorganic chemist at the University of Würzburg whose boron compounds bind and reduce dinitrogen like transition metals, work honored with the 2009 Leibniz Prize.
Holger Dau
Holger Dau (born 1958) is a biophysicist known for research on photosynthetic water oxidation; his 2023 Nature paper identified the long-postulated S4 state of photosystem II as an oxygen-radical state.
Holger Dobbek
Holger Dobbek is a structural biologist and biochemist who has been professor of Structural Biology and Biochemistry at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2009, known for his structures of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase.
Holger Drachmann
Holger Drachmann (1846–1908) was a Danish poet, playwright, novelist, and marine painter, one of the first artists of the Skagen colony, best known for "Midsommersangen" (1885).
Holger F. Bettinger
Holger F. Bettinger, born 1970 in Nördlingen, Germany, is a German organic chemist who has held the organic chemistry chair at the University of Tübingen since 2008.
Holger Frey
Holger Frey is a polymer chemist and professor of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, known for hyperbranched polyglycerols and degradable polymers.
Holger Hiller
Holger Hiller, born 1956 in Hamburg, is a German vocalist and sampler pioneer of the Neue Deutsche Welle who co-founded the band Palais Schaumburg before a solo career.
Holger J. Schünemann
Holger J. Schünemann, also known as Holger Schünemann, is a physician-scientist in clinical epidemiology known for co-leading GRADE, the worldwide system for rating medical evidence.
Holger Jannasch
Holger Windekilde Jannasch (1927–1998) was a German-born microbial ecologist and oceanographer who pioneered deep-sea microbiology at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, best known for showing how chemosynthetic bacteria sustain life at hydrothermal vents.
Holger K. Eltzschig
Holger K. Eltzschig is a German-trained anesthesiologist and physician-scientist who chairs anesthesiology at UTHealth Houston, known for NEJM reviews on hypoxia and inflammation and pharmacologic organ protection.
Holger Kreft
Holger Kreft is a German biogeographer and biodiversity scientist, full professor and head of the Department of Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography at the University of Göttingen since 2017.
Holger Müller
Holger Müller is a UC Berkeley experimental physicist, on the faculty since 2008, known for atom interferometers, the 2019 laser phase plate for electron microscopy, and biophysics.
Holger Puchta
Holger Puchta (born 1960 in Ingolstadt) is a German molecular biologist and professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology known for pioneering plant genome engineering and CRISPR/Cas chromosome restructuring.
Holger Quintero
Hólger Jamil Quintero Preciado, Ecuadorian attacking midfielder born 2009 in Esmeraldas, twin of Edwin Quintero; Independiente del Valle player signed by Arsenal, joining August 2027, Ecuador U17 international.
Holger Rune
Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune, Danish tennis player born 2003; career-high ATP No. 4 (2023); 2022 Paris Masters champion over Djokovic; 2025 Barcelona winner; ruptured Achilles in October 2025.
Holger Sondermann
Holger Sondermann is a structural biologist known for crystal structures of the Ras activator Son of Sevenless and bacterial biofilm signaling, who joined DESY and Kiel University in 2020.
Holger Stark
Holger Stark is a German structural biologist and Max Planck director in Göttingen whose group determined protein structures by cryo-EM down to 1.25 ångströms in 2020.