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Niederlausitz
Niederlausitz (Dolna Łužyca, Lower Lusatia): historical region in southern Brandenburg and northern Saxony, land of the Lusitzi around Cottbus; Bohemian crown land until 1635, Saxon, Prussian from 1815, today part of Brandenburg.
Niedernberg
Niedernberg, a Bavarian municipality of about 5,000 in Kreis Miltenberg on the Main, grew from a Roman cohort fort of the Cohors I Ligurum et Hispanorum on the Wet Limes; first recorded 1095, UNESCO World Heritage since 2005.
Niek Kimmann
Niek Kimmann (born 1996, Lutten, Netherlands) is a Dutch BMX racer, Olympic gold medalist at Tokyo 2020 (39.053s) and UCI World Champion in 2015 and 2021; missed Paris 2024 with myocarditis.
Niek van Hulst
Niek van Hulst is a Dutch physicist in nanophotonics, known for optical antenna imaging and single-molecule nano-optics, and an ICREA professor at ICFO in Barcelona since 2005.
Nieky Holzken
Nieky 'The Natural' Holzken (Nicolaas Holzken, born 1983, Helmond, Netherlands) is a retired Dutch kickboxer and boxer; Glory Welterweight Champion 2015, ONE Championship veteran, boxing record 15-2 with 11 KOs.
Niel
Niel (니엘), born Ahn Daniel (안다니엘) in 1994, is a South Korean singer, main vocalist of Teen Top since 2010, solo artist since 2015, and founder of EL&D Entertainment.
Niello
Niello is a black metallic inlay of silver, copper, and lead sulfides fused into engraved silver, gold, or bronze, used since Mycenaean times for decoration.
Niels Annen
Niels Annen, born 1973 in Hamburg, is a German SPD politician and State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development since 2025.
Niels Bjerrum
Niels Bjerrum (1879–1958) was a Danish chemist, professor at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College in Copenhagen, known for the Bjerrum length, a standard scale in electrolyte science.
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist whose 1913 quantum model explained atomic structure; he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 and led Copenhagen's theoretical physics institute.
Niels Bohr Institute
The Niels Bohr Institute (Danish: Niels Bohr Institutet) is the physics institute of the University of Copenhagen, founded in 1921 under Niels Bohr and a historic center of quantum physics.
Niels Borregaard
Niels Borregaard (1951–2017) was a Danish physician-scientist and hematologist who defined the cell biology of the neutrophil granulocyte, discovering the secretory vesicle and the antimicrobial proteins NGAL and hCAP-18.
Niels Fredborg
Niels Fredborg (Niels Christian Fredborg), Danish track cyclist born 1946 in Odder; Olympic 1,000 m time trial champion 1972 with silver 1968 and bronze 1976, triple amateur world champion 1967, 1968, 1970.
Niels Galjart
Niels Jakob Galjart is a Dutch cell biologist and full professor at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, known for naming the CLASP microtubule proteins and studying CTCF.
Niels Geijsen
Niels Geijsen is a developmental biologist and professor who heads the Department of Anatomy and Embryology at Leiden University Medical Center, known for stem-cell-derived blastoids and iTOP protein delivery.
Niels Hansen (materials scientist)
Niels Erik Ottesen Hansen (1933–2021) was a Danish materials scientist at Risø National Laboratory known for work on strengthening polycrystalline metals and dislocation mechanisms of plastic flow.
Niels Henrik Abel
Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) was a Norwegian mathematician who proved the general fifth-degree equation cannot be solved by radicals, founded elliptic function theory, and died of tuberculosis at 26.
Niels K. Jerne
Niels Kaj Jerne (1911–1994) was a Danish immunologist who shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for theories on the specificity and control of the immune system.
Niels Larsen
Niels Larsen (Niels Hansen Ditlev Larsen, 1889-1969), Danish Olympic sport shooter and gunsmith; five Olympic medals 1912-1924 including 1920 team gold; co-founder of Schultz & Larsen; distinct from shooter Niels Laursen (1881-1944).
Niels Lyhne
Niels Lyhne is an 1880 Danish novel by Jens Peter Jacobsen following its title character from birth in 1828 to his death as a soldier in 1864.
Niels Mailand
Niels Mailand is a Danish molecular cell biologist who studies how ubiquitin and SUMO signaling control DNA damage responses, and who leads a genome maintenance group at the Danish Cancer Institute.
Niels Petersen
Niels Petersen: name of several Danish Olympians, chiefly gymnast Niels Knudsen Petersen (1885-1961), 1906 silver and 1912 bronze medalist; also race walker Niels Pedersen, a 1948 weightlifter, and a 1960s shooter.
Niels Ringstad
Niels Ringstad is an American neuroscientist and professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who uses C. elegans to study the development and function of neuromodulatory systems.
Niels Ryberg Finsen
Niels Ryberg Finsen was a Faroese-born Danish physician who founded modern phototherapy, treating the skin tuberculosis lupus vulgaris with concentrated light, and won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Niels Turin
Niels Turin (Niels Christian Congo Turin Nielsen, 1887-1964) was a Danish gymnast for Hermes Frederiksberg; fourth with Denmark's team at London 1908 and Olympic gold medalist in the men's team free system at Antwerp 1920.
Niels van der Zwan
Niels van der Zwan (Cornelis Pieter van der Zwan, born 1967, Scheveningen) is a Dutch rower, 196 cm and 97 kg, who won gold in the men's eight at Atlanta 1996 and rowed at three Olympics.
Niels van Gogh
Niels van Gogh is a German progressive trance and electro-house DJ and producer from Augsburg, best known for his 1998 debut single "Pulverturm", a top-20 German hit that went gold in Belgium.
Niels van Steenis
Niels Henning van Steenis (born 1969, Groningen) is a Dutch rower, Olympic gold medalist in the men's eight at Atlanta 1996 (5:42.74), the Netherlands' first title in the event, with world silver in 1994 and 1995 and the 1995 Varsity win for Euros.
Nielsen Holdings
Nielsen Holdings, known as The Nielsen Company, is an American media measurement company founded by Arthur C. Nielsen in 1923, best known for US television audience ratings.
Nielsen Media Research
Nielsen Media Research is the American television audience measurement company whose Nielsen ratings have been the principal currency for U.S. TV advertising since their introduction in 1950.