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Miroslav Tichý
Miroslav Tichý (1926–2011) was a Czech photographer and painter from Kyjov, Moravia, known for photographs of the town's women made with homemade cameras built from shoeboxes, tin cans, and Plexiglas lenses.
Miroslav Varga
Miroslav Varga is a Czech sport shooter, born 1960 in Žatec, who won the 50 m rifle prone gold at the 1988 Seoul Olympics with a record 703.9.
Miroslav Volf
Miroslav Volf is a Croatian systematic theologian who has taught at Yale Divinity School since 1998 and wrote Exclusion and Embrace, winner of the Grawemeyer Award.
Mirosław Kuba Brożek
Mirosław Kuba Brożek, Polish cinematographer and director, works in Polish crime cinema and Telugu film. Best known for Pushpa: The Rise (2021), for which he won the Filmfare Award for Best Cinematography, and Pushpa: The Rule (2024), directed by Sukumar.
Mirosław Rybaczewski
Mirosław Rybaczewski ("Ryba"), Polish volleyball player born 1952 in Warsaw; 167 caps, 1974 World Champion and 1976 Montreal Olympic gold medalist with AZS Olsztyn, later player-coach in France.
MiroSurge
MiroSurge is a modular robotic telesurgery system for minimally invasive surgery developed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Germany, first shown in 2010 and used only for research.
Mirpur Khas
Mirpur Khas (میرپور خاص) is a city in Sindh, Pakistan, and the capital of Mirpur Khas District. It was the seat of the Talpur Mirs until 1843.
Mirpur Khas District
Mirpur Khas District (میرپورخاص), Sindh, Pakistan: 2,925 sq km, seven tehsils, 1,681,386 people (2023 census). Founded as a Talpur capital in 1806; home of the Sindhri mango and the Kahu-Jo-Darro Buddhist stupa. Distinct from Mirpur District, Azad Kashmir.
Mirra Alfassa
Mirra Alfassa, known to her followers as the Mother, was a Paris-born spiritual teacher who led the Sri Aurobindo Ashram for nearly fifty years and founded Auroville in 1968.
Mirra Andreeva (Мирра Александровна Андреева)
Mirra Andreeva (Мирра Александровна Андреева, born 2007, Krasnoyarsk) is a Russian tennis player, 2026 Roland Garros champion, two-time WTA 1000 winner (Dubai, Indian Wells 2025), Olympic doubles silver medalist, and world No. 3.
Mirra Andreeva career statistics
Mirra Andreeva (b. April 29, 2007, Krasnoyarsk), Russian tennis player; 2026 French Open champion, six WTA singles titles, career-high No. 3, Olympic 2024 doubles silver with Diana Shnaider.
Mirror
A mirror, also called a glass mirror, is a smooth reflective surface forming images, from household glass backed with a thin silver film to telescope optics.
Mirror (group)
MIRROR, a 12-member Hong Kong Cantopop boy group formed via ViuTV's King Maker show, debuted 3 November 2018 with "In a Second"; dominates local charts and commercials, and faced a 2022 Coliseum screen accident.
Mirror (Зеркало) (film)
Mirror (Зеркало, Zerkalo) is Andrei Tarkovsky's 1975 Mosfilm autobiographical drama, a non-linear collage of childhood memories, newsreel, and his father Arseny's poems, initially rejected in the USSR and later ranked among the greatest films.
Mirror circuits benchmarking
Mirror circuits benchmarking is a family of quantum computer performance tests, developed at Sandia National Laboratories, that predicts how likely a quantum processor is to run a program without errors.
Mirror for princes
A mirror for princes is a genre of pre-modern literature offering rulers advice on power and governance, especially in the medieval Islamic world from the eighth century onward.
Mirror Fusion Test Facility
The Mirror Fusion Test Facility (MFTF-B) was a large tandem-mirror fusion experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, completed in 1986 at a cost of $372 million and mothballed without ever running a plasma.
Mirror galvanometer
The mirror galvanometer is a highly sensitive instrument in which a light mirror on a tiny magnet reflects a spot of light to read small currents.
Mirror image
A mirror image, also called a mirror reflection, is the virtual image of an object formed by reflection in a mirror, appearing as far behind it as the object is in front.
Mirror instability
The mirror instability is a low-frequency, non-propagating plasma instability in high-beta magnetized plasmas, driven by temperature anisotropy and producing magnetic holes and peaks common in planetary and cometary magnetosheaths.
Mirror map (string theory)
In string theory and mirror symmetry, a mirror map is the change of variables identifying the parameter spaces of mirror Calabi–Yau geometries, built from Picard–Fuchs period solutions.
Mirror Master
Mirror Master is a DC Comics Flash villain using mirror-based tech for illusions, trapping, and a mirror dimension. Held by Sam Scudder (The Flash #105, 1959) and Scottish mercenary Evan McCulloch (Animal Man #8, 1989); member of the Rogues.
Mirror matter
Mirror matter is a hypothetical form of matter whose particles mirror the known Standard Model particles but interact with ordinary matter almost exclusively through gravity.
Mirror Maze on Petřín Hill
Mirror Maze on Petřín Hill (Zrcadlové bludiště na Petříně), a Prague mirror labyrinth and 1648 battle diorama in an 1891 Czech Tourists Club pavilion, opened as a maze in 1893 with 35 regular and 14 distorting mirrors.
Mirror Mirror (film)
Mirror Mirror is a 2012 American fantasy comedy film directed by Tarsem Singh, retelling the Snow White tale with Lily Collins as Snow White and Julia Roberts as the Queen.
Mirror neuron
Mirror neurons, discovered by Rizzolatti's Parma group in macaque area F5, fire both when an animal performs and observes an action; their proposed role in action understanding is heavily contested.
Mirror nuclei
Mirror nuclei are pairs of atomic nuclei with the same mass number in which proton and neutron numbers are exchanged, such as tritium and helium-3 or carbon-13 and nitrogen-13.
MIRROR study
MIRROR (Mirikizumab Real World Protocol; MIrikizumab in UC - a Real-woRld prOspective multicenteR Registry, NCT06696014) is an observational patient registry sponsored by the University of North Carolina with Eli Lilly, following about 100 adults with ulcerative colitis starting mirikizumab in routine care, with one-year online bowel-habit surveys at nine US and Canadian sites.
Mirror symmetry (string theory)
Mirror symmetry is a string theory duality relating pairs of Calabi–Yau manifolds, where type IIA on one is equivalent to type IIB on the other; it arose in the late 1980s.
Mirror test
Mirror test (mark test, MSR test): behavioral procedure from Gordon Gallup Jr.'s 1970 chimpanzee experiments assessing visual self-recognition via a mirror-only mark; passed by great apes and human toddlers, contested elsewhere.