All articles starting with M

Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully

Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully (1559-1641), Huguenot statesman and chief minister of Henry IV of France; superintendent of finances from 1598, grand voyer, duc et pair 1606, maréchal de France 1634.

Sep 19, 2026

Maximilien Levesque

Maximilien Levesque is a French quantum physicist and co-founder and CEO of Aqemia, a Paris drug discovery company that uses deep physics algorithms and generative AI to design therapeutic molecules.

Maximilien Robespierre

Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758–1794), French lawyer, Jacobin leader, "the Incorruptible," and dominant member of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror; guillotined 28 July 1794.

Maximinus Thrax

Maximinus Thrax (Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus) was a Roman emperor from 235 to 238, a Thracian career soldier of peasant origin and the first of the soldier-emperors.

Sep 19, 2026

Maximl Labs

Maximl Labs is an Indian SaaS company founded in 2016 in Pune, building a Connected Worker platform for frontline operations in oil and gas, steel, and chemicals.

Maximo (robot)

Maximo is an AI-powered robot developed by AES Corporation that automates the lifting and fastening of solar panels on utility-scale solar farms, unveiled in 2024.

Sep 24, 2026

Máximo Gómez

Máximo Gómez (Máximo Gómez y Báez) was a Dominican-born soldier who served as general in chief of the Cuban independence armies in the Ten Years' War and the War of Independence.

Oct 22, 2026

Máximo Jerez

Máximo Jerez (1818–1881) was a Nicaraguan general, lawyer, and diplomat who led the Liberal party of León, helped bring William Walker to Nicaragua in 1855, then turned against him.

Máximo Kirchner

Máximo Carlos Kirchner (born 1977), Argentine politician, son of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner; founder and head of La Cámpora, national deputy, and president of the Justicialist Party of Buenos Aires Province.

Máximo Quiles

Máximo Quiles (Máximo Martínez Quiles), Spanish Moto3 rider born 2008 in Murcia; 2026 Moto3 world champion with CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team KTM, managed by the Márquez brothers' Vertical agency, moving to Moto2 in 2027.

Oct 22, 2026

Máximo Santos

Máximo Santos (Máximo Benito Santos Barboza) was a Uruguayan soldier and politician, president of Uruguay from 1882 to 1886, who died in exile in Buenos Aires in 1889.

Maximos II

Maximos II was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in exile at Nicaea, from 17 June until his death in December 1216, between Theodore II Irenikos and Manuel I Charitopoulos.

Maximos III

Maximos III (Μάξιμος Γ΄ Χριστώνυμος), known as Manuel Christonymos before 1453, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1476 until his death in office on 3 April 1482.

Maximos IV

Maximos IV, formerly the monk Manasses and Metropolitan of Serres from 1486, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from early 1491 until his deposition in early 1497.

Maximos V

Maximos V, born in Sinope of Pontus in 1897, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1946 to 1948; he was forced to abdicate under pressure from the Greek government and was succeeded by Athenagoras I.

Maximos V Hakim

Maximos V Hakim, born George Hakim, was a Melkite Greek-Catholic hierarch who served as Patriarch of Antioch from 1967 until his resignation in 2000, and died in 2001.

Oct 22, 2026

Maxims

Maxims, the Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales of François de La Rochefoucauld, is a collection of short reflections on self-love and vanity, first published in 1665 and revised until 1678.

Maxims of equity

Maxims of equity: short pithy statements (equity follows the law; clean hands; equity acts in personam) of principles running through Chancery equity, guiding principles rather than binding rules, first collected in 1728 and contested today.

Sep 19, 2026

Maxims of Ptahhotep

The Maxims of Ptahhotep, also called the Instruction of Ptahhotep, is an Egyptian wisdom text of thirty-seven maxims attributed to the aged vizier Ptahhotep, though scholars date its composition to the Twelfth Dynasty.

Maximum a posteriori detection

Maximum a posteriori (MAP) detection selects the most probable transmitted symbol for each received signal, and is the optimal soft-output MIMO detector, though exhaustive search is usually unfeasible.

Maximum a posteriori equalizer

A maximum a posteriori (MAP) equalizer is a receiver component that estimates each transmitted symbol by maximizing its posterior probability, most commonly implemented with the BCJR algorithm of 1974.

Maximum a posteriori estimation

Maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation is a Bayesian point-estimation method that picks the parameter value maximizing the posterior, equivalent to maximum likelihood with a prior added.

Maximum allowable operating pressure

Maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP) is the highest pressure at which a pipeline segment may be operated under US pipeline safety regulation, set by 49 CFR § 192.619.

Maximum break

A maximum break, also known as a maximum snooker break, is a perfect break of 147 points in snooker, made by potting all 15 reds with blacks and then clearing the colors.

Maximum cardinality matching

A maximum cardinality matching, also known as a maximum matching, is a matching of largest possible size in a graph, a classic combinatorial optimization problem solvable in polynomial time.

Maximum Carnage

Maximum Carnage is Marvel's 1993 fourteen-part Spider-Man crossover, spread across five titles from Spider-Man Unlimited #1 to #2, pitting Carnage, Shriek, Doppelganger, Demogoblin, and Carrion against Spider-Man, Venom, and allied heroes; it inspired the 1994 Acclaim beat-'em-up.