All articles starting with N

Nergal

Nergal (also Nerigal, Meslamtaea, Erra) is the Mesopotamian god of death, plague, war, and Lord of the Underworld, ruling jointly with Ereškigal; main cult center Kutha, attested from Early Dynastic god-lists to Neo-Assyrian cult.

Nergal-ereš (governor of Rasappa)

Nergal-ereš, also read Pālil-ereš, was governor of the Assyrian province of Raṣappa for at least 29 years from 803 BC, taking the eponym office twice under Adad-nērārī III.

Nergal-ila'i

Nergal-ila'i, also Nergal-ilaya, was an Assyrian commander-in-chief (turtanu) and eponym of the year 808 BC under King Adad-nerari III, known from the Assyrian Eponym List and credited with one royal-type inscription.

Nergal-sharezer (rab-mag)

Nergal-sharezer, a Babylonian officer with the title rab-mag, took part in Nebuchadnezzar II's conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC and appears in the Book of Jeremiah.

Nergal-ushezib

Nergal-ushezib, also written Nergal-ušēzib, was king of Babylon in 693 BC, placed on the throne by the Elamite king Hallušu-Inšušinak and taken prisoner by Assyria after a reign of one year and six months.

Nergis Mavalvala

Nergis Mavalvala is a Pakistani-American astrophysicist at MIT, born in Karachi, who worked on LIGO's first direct detection of gravitational waves and serves as Dean of the MIT School of Science.

Oct 22, 2026

Nergisi

Nergisi (نركسي; full name Mehmed Nergisi, c. 1580–1635) was a Bosnian-born Ottoman scholar and court chronicler, the most famous master of ornate Ottoman prose, known for the entirely prose Hamse-i Nergisî.

Oct 10, 2026

Neri Corsini

Neri Corsini (1624–1678) was an Italian cardinal from a Florentine family, nuncio to France, bishop of Arezzo, and a leading architect of Innocent XI's election.

Sep 21, 2026

Neri Merhav

Neri Merhav (נרי מרחב) is an Israeli information theorist and Technion professor known for universal prediction, mismatched decoding, and links between information theory and statistical physics.

Neri Oxman (נרי אוקסמן)

Neri Oxman (נרי אוקסמן), American-Israeli designer and former MIT professor, coined "material ecology," founded the Mediated Matter Group and OXMAN, and faced 2024 plagiarism allegations.

Neriah (singer)

NERIAH (Neriah Shae Fisher), Los Angeles alt-pop singer-songwriter of heartbreak pop; EPs This Is How the World Made Me and How Do I Get Clean? (2022), debut album Cause of Death (2023), EP Reason To Hate You (2025); distinct from other artists named Neriah or Nariah.

Neridronic acid

Neridronic acid (neridronate, Nerixia), a third-generation aminohexane bisphosphonate (C6H17NO7P2), given IV or IM; licensed in Italy for osteogenesis imperfecta, Paget's disease, and CRPS-I.

Neriglissar

Neriglissar, also known as Nergal-shar-usur or Nergalsharezer, was the fourth king of the Neo-Babylonian dynasty, reigning from 559 to 556 BC after seizing the throne by killing Amēl-Marduk.

Nerik

Nerik was a major Hittite cult city in northern Anatolia dedicated to its storm god, probably located at Oymaağaç Höyük near Vezirköprü in Samsun Province.

Nerik restoration under Hattusili III

The Nerik restoration under Hattusili III was the Hittite recovery of the sacred city of Nerik from Kaška tribes in the later 13th century BC, recorded in edict CTH 90.

Nerikare

Nerikare was a king of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty during the late Middle Kingdom, known today only through an entry in the Turin King-list, with no surviving monuments.

Nerine

Nerine (Guernsey lily) is a genus of about 25 accepted species of autumn-flowering bulbous Amaryllidaceae endemic to southern Africa, cultivated as ornamentals and a source of 53 Amaryllidaceae alkaloids including lycorine.

Nerinea

Nerinea (Nerinea Defrance/Deshayes, 1820s) is an extinct genus of high-spired marine gastropod snails of the family Nerineidae, superfamily Nerineoidea, defined by internal whorl folds and abundant in Jurassic-Cretaceous Tethyan carbonates.

Nerinetide

Nerinetide (NA-1, Tat-NR2B9c), a 20-amino-acid PSD-95 inhibitor neuroprotectant peptide for acute ischemic stroke; neutral in phase 3 ESCAPE-NA1, degraded by alteplase-generated plasmin, with benefit signals in alteplase-free subgroups.

Oct 20, 2026

Neringa Regio

Neringa Regio is a 1,100-km-wide regio (large surface region) on Venus at 65°S, 288°E, IAU-named in 1997 after the Lithuanian seacoast giantess, mapped in quadrangle v60.

Oct 10, 2026

Neriosangh

Neriosangh (नेरियोसंघ), also Neryosangh Dhaval, was a Parsi priest and mobad who translated Zoroastrian texts from Pahlavi into Sanskrit around the twelfth or thirteenth century.

Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon

Nerissa (1919–1986) and Katherine (1926–2014) Bowes-Lyon, first cousins of Queen Elizabeth II, were placed in Royal Earlswood Hospital in 1941 and falsely listed as dead in Burke's Peerage from 1963 until the 1987 revelation.

Neritidae

Neritidae (nerites), family of ~300 gastropod snail species in Neritimorpha, superfamily Neritoidea; two subfamilies Neritinae and Neritininae; tropical to subtropical marine, brackish, and freshwater habitats; amphidromous larvae; Triassic-era lineage origins.

Neritimorpha

Neritimorpha (Neritopsina) is an infraclass of gastropod snails including nerites, with about 2,000 living species in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats, Triassic origin, egg-shaped larval shells, and a diagnostic opercular nucleus.

Neritina

Neritina (Lamarck, 1816) is a genus of neritid gastropod snails, type species Neritina pulligera, living in freshwater, brackish, and estuarine tropical habitats with amphidromous larvae; many former species now placed in Clithon, Neripteron, Vittina, and Vitta.

Nerium

Nerium (oleander, rose-bay) is a monotypic Apocynaceae genus whose single species, Nerium oleander L., is a toxic evergreen Mediterranean-to-Myanmar ornamental shrub containing cardiac glycosides, mainly oleandrin.

Nerkin Jrapi

Nerkin Jrapi (Armenian: Ներքին Ջրափի; also rendered Nerkin Dzhrapi) was a village in Armenia's Shirak Province, near the Turkish border, flooded by the Akhurian Reservoir.

Nerkonda Paarvai (நெர்கொண்ட பார்வை)

Nerkonda Paarvai (நேர்கொண்ட பார்வை), also spelled Nerkonda Parvai, is a 2019 Tamil courtroom drama directed by H. Vinoth, a remake of Hindi film Pink, starring Ajith Kumar as lawyer Bharath Subramaniam; released 8 August 2019, produced by Boney Kapoor, grossing ₹126.70 crore.