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Nippur Old Babylonian tablets
The Nippur Old Babylonian tablets are cuneiform tablets excavated at Nippur in southern Iraq, dated roughly 2000 to 1600 BC, including Sumerian literature, school exercises, and legal contracts.
Nippur Sulcus
Nippur Sulcus, a 1,425-km-wide grooved-terrain region (sulcus) on Ganymede at 35.41°N, 183.35°W, named for the Sumerian city; studied via Galileo data, with grooves implying a 125–135 km icy crust above a subsurface ocean.
Nippur tablet archive
The Nippur tablet archive is a body of Ur III administrative cuneiform tablets excavated at Nippur by the University of Pennsylvania between 1889 and 1900.
Nipro
Nipro Corporation (ニプロ株式会社) is a Japanese medical technology company headquartered in Osaka, founded in 1954, whose dialyzers hold one of the largest shares of the world market.
NiPS3
NiPS3, or nickel phosphorus trisulfide, is a layered van der Waals antiferromagnetic semiconductor whose Ni spins order in a zigzag pattern below about 150 K.
NIPSCO
NIPSCO, or Northern Indiana Public Service Company, is a regulated utility headquartered in Merrillville, Indiana, serving about 900,000 gas and 500,000 electric customers across northern Indiana.
NIPSENSE study
NIPSENSE (NCT07062458) is a recruiting observational study at Candiolo Cancer Institute, Torino, led by Giada Pozzi, comparing nipple sensation preservation after conventional, endoscopic, and robotic nipple-sparing mastectomy in 90 women using Semmes-Weinstein testing.
Nipsey Hussle
Nipsey Hussle (Ermias Joseph Asghedom, 1985-2019) was a Los Angeles rapper, All Money In label founder, and community entrepreneur. Known for the $100 Crenshaw mixtape, Grammy-nominated Victory Lap, Marathon Clothing, and 2020 posthumous Grammys.
Nipsey Russell
Nipsey Russell (Julius Russell, c. 1918 or 1924-2005), American comedian and actor, "poet laureate of television," first Black regular game show panelist (Missing Links, 1964), Officer Anderson on Car 54, Tin Man in The Wiz.
Niq Mhlongo
Niq Mhlongo, born 1973 in Soweto, is a South African novelist, short story writer, and editor best known for his debut novel Dog Eat Dog (2004).
Niqāb
Niqāb (نقاب): the face veil worn by some Muslim women, covering the face except the eyes; distinct from hijab and burqa. Obligatory status is disputed among Sunni schools; banned in France, Belgium, Austria, and Denmark.
Niqmaddu II of Ugarit
Niqmaddu II, also written Niqmadu II, was king of Ugarit, a coastal kingdom in northern Syria, in the mid-14th century BC, becoming a treaty vassal of Suppiluliuma I.
Niqmaddu III of Ugarit
Niqmaddu III, also written Niqmadu III, was a king of Ugarit, a Bronze Age Syrian port kingdom on the Mediterranean coast, reigning c. 1225–1215 BC as a Hittite vassal.
Niqmepa of Alalakh
Niqmepa, King of Mukish, was a Bronze Age king of Alalakh in modern Turkey, son and successor of Idrimi, known from the Level IV archive tablets.
Niqmepa of Ugarit
Niqmepa, also known as Niqmepuh, was king of Ugarit from about 1313 to 1260 BC, placed on the throne by the Hittite king Mursili II after his brother Arhalba was removed.
Niqmi-Epuh
Niqmi-Epuh, also written Niqmepuh, was a king of Yamhad, the Amorite kingdom centered on Aleppo, ruling in the first half of the second millennium BC.
Niqqud (ניקוד)
Niqqud (ניקוד) is the Hebrew system of vowel-point diacritics, standardized in Tiberian Masoretic tradition; 11 marks in regular use, mostly omitted in modern text but used in children's books, poetry, and scripture.
Nique Clifford
Nique Clifford (Dominique Akai Clifford, born 2002) is an American NBA wing for the Sacramento Kings, drafted 24th overall in 2025 from Colorado State after a record 681-point season.
Nir Barkat
Nir Barkat (ניר ברקת) is an Israeli entrepreneur and politician who founded BRM, served as mayor of Jerusalem from 2008 to 2018, and is Minister of Economy.
Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal is a bioethicist who founded and directed Rutgers's Center for Population-Level Bioethics and led the first academic article on COVID-19 human challenge studies.
Nir Friedman
Nir Friedman is a computer scientist and biologist, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for applying probabilistic graphical models to gene regulation and chromatin.
Nir Hacohen
Nir Hacohen is an American immunologist who directs cancer immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital and is known for building single-cell maps of immune cells in tumors.
Nir Pochter
Nir Pochter is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Lightricks, the Jerusalem-based maker of Facetune, in 2013, and leads its marketing, building the ad-campaign prediction platform behind its growth.
Nir Shavit
Nir Shavit is an Israeli computer scientist, professor at MIT and Tel Aviv University, known for software transactional memory and winning the 2004 Gödel Prize.
Nir Tessler
Nir Tessler is a professor of electrical engineering at the Technion in Israel who works on organic semiconductor devices and halide perovskite solar cells, including a 1996 Nature polymer lasing paper.
Nir Yosef
Nir Yosef is an Israeli computational biologist who studies T cells with single-cell genomics and machine learning, and is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Nir Zuk
Nir Zuk (ניר צוק), born in Israel in 1971, is a cybersecurity entrepreneur who founded Palo Alto Networks in 2005 and pioneered the next-generation firewall.
NIR-II fluorescence imaging
NIR-II fluorescence imaging is an optical technique that visualizes biological structures, using contrast agents and InGaAs detectors to enable penetration with micrometre resolution in living animals.
NIR-II organic photodetectors
NIR-II organic photodetectors are light sensors built from organic semiconductors that detect 1000 to 1700 nm radiation, offering a flexible, low-cost alternative to InGaAs detectors.
Nirahua Hindustani
Nirahua Hindustani (निरहुआ हिन्दुस्तानी) is a 2014 Bhojpuri action-romance-comedy directed by Satish Jain, starring Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua and Amrapali Dubey; a marriage-of-convenience hit that spawned a four-film series.