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Lene V. Hau
Lene V. Hau, also known as Lene Vestergaard Hau, is a Danish physicist at Harvard who led experiments slowing light to 17 m/s in 1999 and stopping it in 2001.
Lene Vågslid
Lene Vågslid is a Norwegian Labour Party politician serving as Minister of Children and Families since February 2025, representing Telemark in the Storting since 2010.
Lenea Oil and Gas Field
Lenea Oil and Gas Field, also spelled Lanea, is an oil field in the Bongor Basin of southwestern Chad, discovered by CNPC in 2013 and producing light crude from fractured granite basement.
Lenercept
Lenercept (Ro 45-2081, Tenefuse) was a Roche recombinant p55 TNF receptor-IgG1 Fc fusion protein tested in rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and sepsis; development was discontinued after transient RA efficacy and a failed MS trial.
LeNet
LeNet is a family of convolutional neural networks from Yann LeCun's team at AT&T Bell Labs for reading handwritten digits, culminating in LeNet-5 in 1998.
Lenfilm
Lenfilm (Ленфильм) is a film studio in Saint Petersburg, Russia, founded in 1914, which styles itself the country's oldest and has produced over 1,500 feature films.
Lengai, Ol Doinyo
Ol Doinyo Lengai (Oldoinyo Lengai), the Maasai 'Mountain of God', is Tanzania's active East African Rift stratovolcano, the only volcano on Earth erupting natrocarbonatite lava at 495–590 °C, with eruptions continuing since April 2017.
Lengdin Corona
Lengdin Corona is a 525 km diameter corona on Venus at 2.5°N, 223°E, IAU-named in 2003 for a Chinese Earth goddess, one of Venus's quasi-circular volcano-tectonic plume features.
Lenggong UNESCO Global Geopark
Lenggong UNESCO Global Geopark, Perak, Malaysia, designated 2026 as Malaysia's third UGGp; 2,248 km² between the Titiwangsa and Bintang ranges, with Lawin Tuff, Bukit Bunuh meteorite suevite, Toba ash, and the 2012 Lenggong Valley World Heritage Site.
Lengshuijiang
Lengshuijiang (冷水江市) is a county-level city in Loudi, Hunan, China, home to the Xikuangshan antimony deposit, the world's largest; a 1969-founded mining city designated resource-exhausted in 2009.
Length
Length, also called the length dimension, is the measure of distance along a line, whose SI base unit, the meter, is defined by fixing the speed of light.
Length contraction
Length contraction, also called Lorentz contraction, is the special relativity effect by which an object moving relative to an observer is measured shorter along its direction of motion.
Length measurement
Length measurement, or distance measurement, determines the extent of an object or the separation of two points along a line, done at highest precision through laser interferometry.
Length of day variations
Length of day variations are millisecond changes in the Earth's actual rotation relative to the standard 86,400-second day, driven by tides, atmospheric winds, the liquid core, and climate change.
Length of Stay
Length of Stay (LOS) is the number of days a patient remains in a hospital between admission and discharge, widely used as a measure of hospital utilization and efficiency.
Leni Klum
Leni Klum (Leni Olumi Klum), German-American model born 2004 in New York City; daughter of Heidi Klum and Flavio Briatore, adopted by Seal. Debuted 2021 on Vogue Germany's cover, walks limitedly (Dolce & Gabbana), fronts Intimissimi, Dior Beauty, and GUESS campaigns.
Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl (Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl, 1902-2003), German dancer, actress, director, and photographer; maker of the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia (1938), funded by Goebbels's ministry, later a Nuba photographer.
Leni Robredo
Leni Robredo (Maria Leonor Gerona Robredo), Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th Vice President of the Philippines 2016-2022, 2022 presidential contender, Angat Buhay founder, and first female Mayor of Naga City since 2025.
Lenie de Nijs
Lenie de Nijs (1939–2023), Dutch swimmer of Hilversum, set six world records in freestyle, backstroke, and medley relay, won 1958 European relay gold, and missed the 1956 Olympics through the Dutch boycott.
Lenin (film)
Lenin is a 2026 Telugu rural action drama directed by Murali Kishor Abburu, starring Akhil Akkineni and Bhagyashri Borse, released 10 July 2026; a fictional village story with Mahabharata parallels, not a Vladimir Lenin biopic.
Lenin District
Lenin District (Leninsky rayon, Ленинский район) is a name shared by many post-Soviet districts, notably Lenine Raion in Crimea (renamed Yedykui Raion 2016) and Leninsky District in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia.
Lenín Moreno
Lenín Moreno Garcés, Ecuadorian president 2017–2021 and vice president under Correa 2007–2013; broke with Correa, imposed IMF-backed austerity that sparked 2019 protests, and in 2026 was sentenced to five years for bribery in the Sinohydro Coca Codo Sinclair case.
Lenin Prize
The Lenin Prize (Ленинская премия) was one of the highest state awards of the Soviet Union, given for outstanding achievements in science, technology, literature, and art from 1925 to 1991.
Lenin's Mausoleum (Мавзолей Ленина)
Lenin's Mausoleum (Мавзолей Ленина), also called Lenin's Tomb, is Aleksey Shchusev's 1930 granite pyramid on Moscow's Red Square displaying Lenin's embalmed body, re-embalmed every 18 months by VILAR.
Lenin's Testament
Lenin's Testament, also called the Letter to the Congress, is a letter dictated by Vladimir Lenin in December 1922 and January 1923 assessing Bolshevik leaders and urging Stalin's removal.
Lenine Raion
Lenine Raion (Leninskyi raion; Yedykuiskyi Raion since 2016) is a district in eastern Crimea on the Kerch Peninsula, center Lenine (Yedy-Kui), area 2,900 km², population 62,795 (2014), annexed by Russia in 2014.
Leningrad Affair
The Leningrad Affair (Ленинградское дело) was a series of fabricated political trials in 1949–1952 against Leningrad's party leadership; 23 people were shot, including Nikolai Voznesensky and Aleksei Kuznetsov.
Leningrad Codex (כתב יד לנינגרד)
The Leningrad Codex (כתב יד לנינגרד), also called Codex Leningradensis, is the oldest complete dated manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, completed in Cairo in 1008–1011.
Leningrad nuclear power plant
The Leningrad nuclear power plant (Ленинградская АЭС) is a Russian nuclear power station at Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad Oblast, supplying more than 55% of the electricity of St Petersburg and the region.
Leningrad Oblast (Ленинградская область)
Leningrad Oblast (Ленинградская область), a Russian federal subject surrounding Saint Petersburg, formed 1 August 1927; about 2.04 million people, RUB 2.4 trillion GRP, and major Baltic ports including Ust-Luga.