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Nick Wechsler (actor)
Nick Wechsler (born Samuel Nicholas Wechsler, 1978, Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American actor known for Kyle Valenti on Roswell (1999-2002), Jack Porter on Revenge (2011-2015), and The Boys, High Potential, and The Hunting Party.
Nick Winter
Nick Winter, an Australian triple jumper, won gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics, tying the world record and becoming the nation's first field gold medallist.
Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman, also known as Nicholas Woodman, is an American entrepreneur who founded GoPro in the early 2000s and has served as its chief executive since 2004.
Nick Yarris
Nick Yarris (Nicholas James Yarris, born 1961) is an American death row exoneree convicted in 1982 of the 1981 rape-murder of Linda Mae Craig in Pennsylvania, exonerated by DNA in 2003 after 21 years, subject of The Fear of 13.
Nick Young (basketball)
Nick Young, nicknamed Swaggy P, is an American former NBA shooting guard (born 1985, Los Angeles) who played 12 seasons for six teams after USC, was drafted 16th overall in 2007 by Washington, and won the 2018 NBA title with Golden State.
Nick Zano
Nick Zano (Nicholas Zano, born 1978) is an American actor known for Vince on What I Like About You, Dr. Nate Heywood/Citizen Steel on DC's Legends of Tomorrow, and Chad McKnight in Netflix's Obliterated (2023).
Nick Zedd
Nick Zedd (1958–2022), American underground filmmaker from Baltimore who founded the Cinema of Transgression in 1980s New York, wrote its 1985 manifesto, made They Eat Scum, Police State, and Whoregasm, and moved to Mexico City in 2011.
Nick Zentner
Nick Zentner is an American geologist who has taught at Central Washington University since 1992 and hosts the Emmy-winning PBS series Nick on the Rocks.
Nick.com
Nick.com is the official website of the children's television network Nickelodeon, owned by Paramount and designated for children under 13. Launched in the mid-1990s, it hosts games, videos, and interactive features.
Nick's Film – Lightning Over Water
Nick's Film – Lightning Over Water (also Nick's Movie) is a 1980 documentary by Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray about Ray's final months dying of cancer, shot on 35mm and video, premiered at Cannes 1980, restored in 4K in 2023.
Nickeil Alexander-Walker
Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Canadian NBA guard for the Atlanta Hawks, born 1998 in Toronto; drafted 17th in 2019, played for New Orleans, Utah, Minnesota; 2026 NBA Most Improved Player, cousin of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
Nickel
Nickel is a silvery-white, ferromagnetic transition metal, element 28 in the periodic table, valued for corrosion resistance and central to stainless steel, superalloys, and lithium-ion battery cathodes.
Nickel (United States coin)
The nickel is the United States five-cent coin, an alloy of 75 percent copper and 25 percent nickel produced by the United States Mint for circulation since 1866.
Nickel allergy
Nickel allergy, or nickel allergic contact dermatitis, is a delayed immune reaction to nickel in jewelry, fasteners, and electronics, affecting about 11.4% of people in Europe, North America, and China; diagnosed by patch testing and managed by avoidance.
Nickel and cobalt metabolism
Nickel and cobalt metabolism is the set of systems by which cells acquire Ni²⁺ and Co²⁺, route them to metal-dependent enzymes, and remove them in excess.
Nickel Ashmeade
Nickel Ashmeade, Jamaican sprinter (born 1990, Ocho Rios), 2016 Olympic 4x100 m relay champion and 2013/2015 world relay gold medalist; PBs 9.90 (100 m) and 19.85 (200 m), 4x200 m world record 1:18.63.
Nickel Asia Corp.
Nickel Asia Corp. is a Philippine mining company, incorporated in 2008 and listed in 2010, producing lateritic nickel ore from six mines across the Philippines.
Nickel cobalt oxide
Nickel cobalt oxide (NiCo₂O₄), also called nickel cobaltite, is a mixed-valence inverse-spinel p-type semiconductor that conducts far better than NiO or Co₃O₄ and is widely studied for oxygen evolution electrocatalysis and supercapacitors.
Nickel compounds
Nickel compounds are chemical substances in which nickel bonds to nonmetallic elements or organic ligands, from simple salts like nickel sulfate to nickel carbonyl, and serve in electroplating, batteries, catalysis, and pigments.
Nickel Creek
Nickel Creek is an American progressive acoustic trio formed in San Diego in 1989, with Chris Thile, Sara Watkins, and Sean Watkins; Grammy-winning albums This Side and Celebrants, hiatus 2007-2014.
Nickel diiodide
Nickel diiodide (NiI2) is a layered van der Waals transition-metal dihalide that orders antiferromagnetically below about 75 K and becomes multiferroic below about 60 K.
Nickel ferrite
Nickel ferrite (NiFe₂O₄) is a ferrimagnetic inverse spinel ceramic compound with high permeability, low magnetic losses, and high electrical resistivity, used in soft magnets, microwave absorption, catalysis, and energy storage.
Nickel foam
Nickel foam is an open-cell porous metal of interconnected nickel struts with 85–98% porosity, used as an electrode substrate in batteries and alkaline water electrolyzers.
Nickel hydride migratory hydrofunctionalization
Nickel hydride migratory hydrofunctionalization is a nickel-catalyzed reaction in which a nickel hydride walks along an alkene chain to install functional groups at distant C-H sites.
Nickel matte
Nickel matte is an intermediate product of nickel extraction, a mixture of nickel sulfides produced by smelting and refined into Class 1 nickel metal or nickel sulfate.
Nickel nitrate
Nickel nitrate, Ni(NO₃)₂, is the nickel(2+) salt of nitric acid, best known as its emerald green hexahydrate and used as a strong oxidizer in nickel plating.
Nickel oxide hole transport layer
A nickel oxide hole transport layer (NiOx HTL) is a transparent, chemically stable inorganic film used as the hole-selective contact on the illuminated side of inverted perovskite solar cells.
Nickel oxyhydroxide
Nickel oxyhydroxide (NiOOH) is a nickel compound formed when nickel hydroxide is oxidized, best known as the active material in nickel battery electrodes and water-splitting catalysts.
Nickel phosphide
Nickel phosphide is the family of crystalline nickel–phosphorus compounds, six stable phases below 800 °C, used as low-cost, noble-metal-free electrocatalysts for hydrogen production and water splitting.
Nickel photoredox catalysis
Nickel photoredox catalysis, also called metallaphotoredox or Ni/photoredox dual catalysis, pairs a nickel cross-coupling catalyst with a photoredox catalyst, using visible light to form bonds like sp³–sp³ couplings that neither catalyst achieves alone.