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Marshall W. Nirenberg
Marshall Warren Nirenberg was an American biochemist and geneticist at the National Institutes of Health who deciphered the genetic code, sharing the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Marshall Wace LLP
Marshall Wace LLP is a London-based hedge fund founded by Paul Marshall and Ian Wace in 1997, known for its TOPS alpha capture system and Eureka fund.
Marshall Wayne
Marshall Wayne (1912-1999), American Olympic diver, won 1936 Berlin gold in 10-meter platform and silver in springboard, the only double men's diving medalist there; later an Air Force colonel and Pan Am pilot.
Marshall-Palmer drop size distribution
The Marshall-Palmer drop size distribution is an exponential model of how many raindrops of each size are present in rain, proposed at McGill University in 1948.
Marshall-Smith syndrome
Marshall-Smith syndrome (MSS, OMIM 602535, ORPHA:561), also called accelerated skeletal maturation-facial dysmorphism-failure to thrive syndrome, is an ultra-rare autosomal dominant NFIX disorder with advanced bone maturation, airway obstruction, and intellectual disability.
Marshall–Lerner condition
The Marshall–Lerner condition is an economics rule stating that a currency devaluation improves the trade balance when the sum of export and import demand elasticities exceeds one.
Marshallese language
Marshallese (Kajin M̧ajeļ), a Micronesian Oceanic Austronesian language and co-official language of the Marshall Islands with about 58,000 speakers, Ratak and Ralik dialects, distinctive consonant secondary articulations, and the 1976 MED orthography.
Marshalling (computer science)
Marshalling, also called data marshalling, is the process of transforming an object's memory representation into a format suitable for transmission across a process or network boundary.
Marshalls
Marshalls, an American off-price retailer founded in 1956 in Beverly, Massachusetts and owned by TJX since 1995, sells brand-name apparel and home goods 20–60% below department stores via opportunistic buying, with 1,000+ US and Canadian stores.
Marshals (TV series)
Marshals (Marshals: A Yellowstone Story) is a 2026 CBS procedural drama and Yellowstone sequel spinoff created by Spencer Hudnut, starring Luke Grimes as Kayce Dutton, a U.S. Marshal in Montana; renewed after one episode, season 2 premiered October 4, 2026.
Marshalsea
Marshalsea: London debtors' prison in Southwark under the Knight Marshal of the Royal Household, jurisdiction 12 miles round Whitehall; housed Ben Jonson and Dickens's father (1824), closed 1842 under the Queen's Prison Act, setting of Little Dorrit.
Marshawn Kneeland
Marshawn Kneeland (2001-2025), American NFL defensive end from Grand Rapids, Michigan; Western Michigan star drafted 56th overall by the Dallas Cowboys in 2024; died by suicide November 6, 2025; posthumous stage-one CTE diagnosis.
Marshawn Lynch
Marshawn Lynch, "Beast Mode," born 1986 in Oakland, is a former NFL running back (Bills, Seahawks, Raiders, 2007-2019) with 10,413 rushing yards, 85 TDs, five Pro Bowls, and one Super Bowl title.
Marshes and Tides between the Loire and the Vilaine Biosphere Reserve
Biosphere reserve (French: Entre Loire et Vilaine, des marais aux marées) on France's Atlantic coast between the Loire and Vilaine estuaries; UNESCO-designated 2025, France's 18th, 205,421 ha, 253,315 residents, led by PNR de Brière.
Marshland
Marshland (La isla mínima) is a 2014 Spanish thriller by Alberto Rodríguez set in 1980 in the Guadalquivir marshes, where two opposed Madrid detectives hunt a killer; it won ten Goya Awards.
Marshmallow
Marshmallow: aerated sugar confection of sugar, corn syrup, gelatin, and air; foam stabilized by gelatin melting about 35 °C. Named after Althaea officinalis root; modern form is a 19th-century French invention; shelf life about 40 weeks.
Marshmallow (film)
Marshmallow (2025) is an American horror-science fiction film, Daniel DelPurgatorio's feature debut, written by Andy Greskoviak. A 12-year-old camper finds a campfire tale of "The Doctor" is real; premiered at Panic Fest 2025, released theatrically April 11, 2025.
Marshmallow creme
Marshmallow creme, also called marshmallow fluff, is a gelatin-free whipped spread of corn syrup, sugar, egg whites, and vanilla. Fluff (Durkee-Mower, 1917) is the defining brand; Jet-Puffed creme adds cream of tartar and xanthan gum.
Marshmello
Marshmello is the stage persona of Christopher Comstock, an American EDM producer and DJ known for his masked identity, synth-heavy music, and 2019 Fortnite virtual concert.
Marshmello B2B DJ Snake
Marshmello B2B DJ Snake was a billed back-to-back performance by Marshmello and DJ Snake headlining Escape Halloween 2025 at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California.
MarShon Brooks
MarShon Brooks (born 1989), American shooting guard from Providence College, 25th pick of the 2011 NBA Draft; BIG EAST single-game 52-point record holder, NBA All-Rookie with the Nets, later a CBA star, not Dillon Brooks.
Marshon Lattimore
Marshon Lattimore, born 1996, Cleveland, is an NFL cornerback drafted 11th overall in 2017 by the Saints; 2017 Defensive Rookie of the Year, four-time Pro Bowler, traded to the Washington Commanders in November 2024.
Marsicovetere Roman villa
Marsicovetere Roman villa (Villa romana di Barricelle): a large imperial-age Roman villa at Barricelle, Marsicovetere, Basilicata, owned by the Bruttii Praesentes, family of empress Bruttia Crispina; discovered in 2006 during Eni pipeline works and occupied from the 1st century BC to the 7th century AD.
Marsilea
Marsilea (water clover, pepperwort) is a genus of about 49–65 aquatic ferns in Marsileaceae, order Salviniales, with four-leaflet clover-like leaves and hard sporocarps showing seed-like physical dormancy.
Marsilea minuta
Marsilea minuta L. (water clover, dwarf waterclover) is a small aquatic fern of Marsileaceae, native to the tropical and subtropical Old World, with four-lobed clover-like leaves, sporocarps showing physical dormancy, and uses as a potherb, medicine, and rice weed.
Marsileaceae
Marsileaceae is a family of rooted aquatic ferns, the water clovers and pillworts, comprising three genera and about 50 to 75 species in tropical and warmer temperate regions.
Marsileaceae fossil record and evolution
The Marsileaceae fossil record and evolution are known mainly from dispersed spores and a few whole-plant fossils, showing the family's extant lineages separated by the mid-Cretaceous.
Marsileaceae sporocarps
Marsileaceae sporocarps: hard bean-shaped reproductive bodies of the water-clover ferns Marsilea, Regnellidium, and Pilularia, enclosing sori with mega- and microsporangia, viable over a century, opening on wetting to release gelatinous sori.
Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), Florentine Platonist priest and translator under Medici patronage, produced the first complete Latin Plato (1484), translated Plotinus and Hermes Trismegistus, wrote the Platonic Theology defending the soul's immortality, and coined 'Platonic love.'
Marsilion (crater on Iapetus)
Marsilion, a 136 km impact crater on Saturn's moon Iapetus at 39.2N, 176.1W, named in 1982 for the Saracen king of Spain in The Song of Roland; related craters include Bramimond, Jurfaleu, and Adelroth.