All articles starting with M
36,687 articles
Max William Carbon
Max William Carbon was an American nuclear engineer who founded the University of Wisconsin–Madison's nuclear engineering department and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.
Max Winkler (director)
Max Daniel Winkler (born 1983, Los Angeles), American director, screenwriter, and producer, son of Henry Winkler; directed Ceremony, Flower, Jungleland, and Ryan Murphy series including Grotesquerie and Monster: The Ed Gein Story.
Max Wise
Max Wise is an American Republican politician who represents Kentucky's 16th Senate District as Senate Majority Floor Leader, after earlier careers with the FBI and Campbellsville University.
Max Wolf
Max Wolf (1863–1932) was a German astronomer, professor at Heidelberg and director of the Königstuhl Observatory, who pioneered photographic asteroid discovery and found 228 asteroids, including the first Jupiter Trojan, 588 Achilles.
Max Woosnam
Max Woosnam (Maxwell Woosnam, 1892-1965), British all-round sportsman: Manchester City and England captain, 1920 Olympic tennis gold and silver, 1921 Wimbledon doubles champion, 147 snooker break, century at Lord's.
Max Wright
Max Wright (George Edward Maxwell Wright, 1943-2019), American actor, Tony-nominated for Ivanov, best known as Willie Tanner, the father on NBC's ALF (1986-1990); distinct from other people named Max Wright.
Max Wyss
Max Wyss is a seismologist, Caltech PhD of 1970 and Wadati Professor Emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, known for his 1981 multiple asperity model for earthquake prediction.
Max Yasgur
Max Yasgur (1919–1973), American dairy farmer who leased his 600-acre Bethel, New York farm for the 1969 Woodstock festival; faced neighbor lawsuits and boycotts, addressed 400,000 attendees, and died in Florida in 1973.
Max-flow min-cut theorem
The max-flow min-cut theorem states that the maximum flow from source to sink in a network equals the minimum cut capacity, proved by Ford and Fulkerson in 1956.
Max-log approximation detection
Max-log approximation detection is a method for computing soft bit decisions, or log-likelihood ratios, in digital receivers by replacing each sum of likelihood terms with its largest term.
Max-log-MAP algorithm
The Max-log-MAP algorithm is a reduced-complexity approximation of the MAP (BCJR) decoding algorithm that replaces a logarithmic sum with a simple maximum, used in turbo decoders for 3GPP LTE.
Max-min fairness
Max-min fairness is a resource allocation principle that maximizes the minimum share each user receives, then the next-smallest, used in networks, CPU scheduling, and welfare economics.
Max-product algorithm
The max-product algorithm, also called min-sum or max-sum, is a message-passing method that computes the most probable assignment of a distribution over a factor graph, exactly on trees.
Max-stable distribution
A max-stable distribution is a probability distribution for which the maximum of independent, identically distributed copies, after rescaling and shifting, has again the same distribution; only three families qualify.
Max's Kansas City
Max's Kansas City was a Manhattan restaurant and nightclub, opened in 1965, that hosted Andy Warhol's circle and helped launch American punk before closing in 1981.
Max/MSP
Max/MSP is a visual, object-based programming environment for music, audio, video, and interactive media, created by Miller Puckette at IRCAM and developed by Cycling '74.
MaxAB
MaxAB is an Egyptian B2B e-commerce company founded in Cairo in 2018 by Belal El-Megharbel and Mohamed Ben Halim, supplying groceries to traditional retailers through an app.
Maxacalcitol
Maxacalcitol (マキサカルシトール), or 22-oxacalcitriol, is a Japanese vitamin D3 analog, brand Oxarol, used intravenously for secondary hyperparathyroidism in dialysis and topically for psoriasis.
Maxar Technologies
Maxar Technologies was an American-Canadian space technology company formed in 2017 from MDA and DigitalGlobe, known for WorldView Earth imaging satellites and split into Vantor and Lanteris in 2025.
Maxell
Maxell (マクセル) is a Japanese battery manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo and Kyoto. Established in 1960 as a spin-off of Nitto Electric Industrial, it made Japan's first alkaline dry battery.
Maxen Hook
Maxen Hook (born 2001) is an NFL safety from New Palestine, Indiana; a four-time All-MAC selection at Toledo (2020-2024) who signed with Philadelphia as a 2025 UDFA and later joined the Seattle Seahawks practice squad.
Maxence V. Nachury
Maxence V. Nachury is a French-trained cell biologist and professor of Ophthalmology at UCSF since 2017, known for discovering the BBSome, a protein complex linked to Bardet-Biedl syndrome.
Maxentius
Maxentius (Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius, c. 283–312), Roman emperor over Italy and North Africa 306–312, son of Maximian, son-in-law of Galerius; proclaimed princeps at Rome 28 October 306, styled conservator urbis suae, builder of the Basilica of Maxentius, defeated by Constantine at the Milvian Bridge.
Maxeon Solar Technologies, Ltd.
Maxeon Solar Technologies is a Singapore-headquartered manufacturer of solar cells and panels, spun off from SunPower in 2020 and best known for its interdigitated back contact (IBC) cell technology.
Maxey Long
Maxey Long (Maxwell Washburn Long, 1878-1959), American quarter-miler for NYAC and Columbia; AAU 440y champion 1898-1900, 400 m gold medalist at Paris 1900 in 49.4, and holder of the first IAAF-acknowledged 400 m world record, 47.8.
Maxfield Parrish
Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966), born Frederick Parrish, American illustrator and painter of the Cornish Art Colony, famous for Parrish blue skies, glazing technique, Edison Mazda calendars, and the mass-reproduced print Daybreak.
Maxi Gnauck
Maxi Gnauck, East German artistic gymnast (SC Dynamo Berlin), 1980 Olympic uneven bars champion and all-around silver medalist tied with Nadia Comăneci; five world and five European titles, 2000 International Gymnastics Hall of Fame inductee, later a coach in Germany and Switzerland.
Maxi Gómez
Maxi Gómez (Maximiliano Gómez González, born 1996, Paysandú), Uruguayan forward for Nacional; formerly Defensor Sporting, Celta (30 goals in 74 games), Valencia, Trabzonspor, Cádiz; 32 Uruguay caps, 3 goals, 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
Maxi Herber
Maxi Herber (Maxi Herber-Baier, 1920–2006), German figure skater; 1936 Olympic pairs gold with Ernst Baier, four world and five European titles, first side-by-side jumps, youngest female Winter Olympic champion at 15 years 127 days.
MAXI J1820+070
MAXI J1820+070, also known as ASASSN-18ey, is a low-mass black hole X-ray binary whose bright outburst began in March 2018, becoming one of the brightest X-ray sources in the sky.