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Martini 3 force field
Martini 3 is a coarse-grained molecular dynamics force field for biomolecular and soft-matter simulation, released in 2021, mapping roughly four heavy atoms to single beads.
Martini–Henry
The Martini–Henry was a single-shot, lever-actuated breech-loading rifle adopted in 1871 that armed British and colonial troops for roughly two decades before the Lee-Metford.
Martinia
Martinia (M'Coy, 1844) is an extinct spiriferid brachiopod genus, type species Spirifer glaber, with a smooth, short-hinged shell, ranging from the Early Devonian to the end-Permian, distinct from Spinomartinia by pinnate pallial markings.
Martinique
Martinique, Caribbean island and French overseas territorial collectivity in the Lesser Antilles; 359,419 inhabitants (2025), department since 1946, banana and rum exports, 13% unemployment, 2024 cost-of-living protests.
Martinique crinkled retinal pigment epitheliopathy
Martinique crinkled retinal pigment epitheliopathy (MCRPE, MDPT3, patterned macular dystrophy 3) is an ultra-rare autosomal dominant retinal dystrophy from MAPKAPK3 mutations, first described in Martinique, with a dry-desert-land fundus pattern, adult onset, and PCV or CNV complications.
Martinique national football team
The Martinique national football team represents Martinique in international football as a Concacaf member, but as part of France it cannot enter the FIFA World Cup.
Martinism
Martinism is a form of Christian esotericism combining theurgy, esoteric chivalry, and inner mysticism, based on Martinez de Pasqually and Saint-Martin and organized into orders from 1891 onward.
Martins Creek power station
Martins Creek power station is a TalenEnergy-owned gas and oil-fired plant on the Delaware River in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, about 10 miles north of Easton.
Martins Head
Martins Head is a headland on King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, the eastern entrance point of Admiralty Bay, roughly charted and named by Bransfield c. 27 January 1820; also known as Cap Martin, Punta Martins, Mys Martins.
Martins Licis
Martins Licis is a Latvian-born American professional strongman, born in Riga in 1990, who won the 2019 World's Strongest Man and the 2022 Arnold Strongman Classic.
Mārtiņš Rubenis
Mārtiņš Rubenis, Latvian luger (born 1978, Rīga), 2006 Turin Olympic singles bronze, Latvia's first Winter Olympic medalist, 2014 relay bronze; later national team coach, mechanic, and sled designer at Riga Technical University. Not the hockey player Lejnieks or athlete Viesturs Mārtiņš Rubenis.
Martinsburg Formation
Martinsburg Formation, also Martinsburg Shale, a Late Ordovician gray shale and graywacke turbidite sequence in the Appalachian Valley and Ridge, named for Martinsburg, West Virginia, deposited in the Taconic foreland basin.
Martinsburg, West Virginia
Martinsburg is the county seat of Berkeley County, West Virginia, in the Eastern Panhandle. Founded 1773 by Adam Stephen, a B&O railroad hub, Civil War battleground, site of the 1877 railroad strike; population about 19,000.
Martinsville Speedway
Martinsville Speedway, the Paperclip, is a 0.526-mile paved oval in Martinsville, Virginia, founded in 1947 by H. Clay Earles; the only track hosting NASCAR Cup races every year since 1949, with grandfather clock trophies.
Martinus Beijerinck
Martinus Willem Beijerinck was a Dutch microbiologist who founded the virus concept in 1898 through tobacco mosaic experiments at Delft and developed enrichment culture, founding the Delft School of microbiology.
Martinus J.G. Veltman
Martinus J.G. Veltman (1931–2021) was a Dutch theoretical physicist who shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerardus 't Hooft for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions.
Martinus Micronius
Martinus Micronius, born Marten de Cleyne, was a Dutch Reformed pastor and theologian, born at Ghent around 1523, who served the Dutch refugee church in London.
Martinus Nijhoff
Martinus Nijhoff (1894–1953) was a Dutch modernist poet, essayist, translator, and playwright, known for Awater and Het uur U and ranked among the greatest Dutch-language poets of the twentieth century.
Martinus Theodorus van Genuchten
Martinus Theodorus ("Rien") van Genuchten, born 1945 in the Netherlands, is a Dutch soil hydrologist whose 1980 equation for unsaturated soils has gathered more than 30,000 citations.
Mărțișor
Mărțișor: red-and-white twisted-thread spring charm given on 1 March in Romania, Moldova, and the Balkans (Bulgarian martenitsa); UNESCO-inscribed 2017; worn until first blossoms, then tied to a tree.
Martok
Martok is a Klingon general and later Chancellor of the Klingon Empire in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, played by J.G. Hertzler. A commoner who earned a battlefield commission, he commanded the IKS Rotarran in the Dominion War and became chancellor after Worf killed Gowron in 2375.
Marton Csokas
Marton Csokas (Márton Csókás), born 1966 in Invercargill, New Zealand, is a Hungarian-descent actor trained at the New Zealand Drama School, known for Borias in Xena, Celeborn in The Lord of the Rings, Yorgi in xXx, and Teddy in The Equalizer.
Márton Fucsovics
Márton Fucsovics (Hungarian tennis player), 2010 Wimbledon boys' champion and former junior world No. 1; career-high ATP No. 31 (2019), three ATP titles (Geneva 2018, Bucharest 2024, Winston-Salem 2025), first Hungarian Open Era hard-court tour champion.
Márton Homonnai
Márton Homonnai (Hlavacsek; 1906–1969), Hungarian water polo defender, two Olympic golds (1932, 1936), 1928 silver, four European titles; Arrow Cross member who fled a death sentence to Argentina.
Marton Lorincz
Márton Lőrincz (Lőrincz Márton), Hungarian Greco-Roman wrestler, 1936 Berlin Olympic bantamweight (56 kg) gold medalist, 1934 European freestyle champion with MAC Budapest; emigrated to Argentina in 1948 and died in San Carlos de Bariloche in 1969.
Marton Sipos
Márton Sipos (Sipos Márton), Hungarian breaststroke swimmer (1900-1926), world record holder in the 100 m breaststroke at 1:16.2 from 1922 to 1925, three-time Hungarian champion, and 16th-place finisher in the 200 m breaststroke at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
Martre
Lac la Martre (Martin's Lake) is a 1,776 km² shallow glacial lake in the Northwest Territories at Whatì, draining via the La Martre River (14,500 km² watershed) to Great Slave Lake; its streamflow has risen more than any other gauged NWT catchment.
Martta Votila
Martta Votila (Uotila), Finnish javelin thrower; set the first recorded women's javelin mark, 30.45 m with the 800 g javelin at Urjala on 13 August 1916, a pioneer of Finnish women's javelin.
Martti Ahtisaari
Martti Ahtisaari was a Finnish diplomat and the tenth President of Finland from 1994 to 2000 who won the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize for mediating conflicts.
Martti Marttelin
Martti Marttelin (1897-1940), Finnish long-distance runner nicknamed Maratolin, won marathon bronze at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics in 2:35:02, set a 25,000 m world record in 1930, and died in the Winter War.