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N-Trifluoromethylthiosaccharin
N-Trifluoromethylthiosaccharin is an electrophilic trifluoromethylthiolating reagent developed at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry and reported in 2014 by Chunfa Xu, Bingqing Ma, and Qilong Shen.
N-Triples
N-Triples is a line-based plain-text serialization for Resource Description Framework (RDF) data, with each line holding one triple, standardized as a W3C Recommendation in 2014.
N-type silicon solar cell
An n-type silicon solar cell is a solar cell doped with phosphorus so electrons carry the current, free of the boron-oxygen degradation that affects p-type cells.
N-version programming
N-version programming is a software fault-tolerance method proposed by Algirdas Avizienis in which independently developed versions run in parallel on the same inputs, with majority voting selecting the result.
N-Vinylpyrrolidone
N-Vinylpyrrolidone (1-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone) is a colorless liquid lactam monomer made from 2-pyrrolidone and acetylene by the Reppe process, polymerized to polyvinylpyrrolidone, used in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and UV-curable inks.
N,N-Diisopropylethylamine
N,N-Diisopropylethylamine, also called Hünig's base or DIPEA, is a sterically hindered, non-nucleophilic tertiary amine named for Siegfried Hünig and widely used in peptide couplings and other organic syntheses.
N,N'-Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide
N,N'-Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC, C13H22N2) is a carbodiimide coupling reagent that joins carboxylic acids with amines or alcohols to form amide and ester bonds, introduced for peptide synthesis in 1955.
N,N'-Methylenebisacrylamide
N,N'-Methylenebisacrylamide (Bis, BIS, MBA, MBAA; CAS 110-26-9) is a bifunctional acrylamide whose two vinyl groups crosslink polyacrylamide chains, forming gels for electrophoresis and hydrogels.
N. Anand
N. Anand, in full Narayanasamy Anand and known as "Bussy" Anand, is an Indian politician, a Tamil Nadu minister, and general secretary of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam.
N. Biren Singh
Nongthombam Biren Singh, born 1961, is an Indian politician, former BSF footballer and journalist who was Manipur's first BJP Chief Minister (2017–2025), resigning in February 2025 amid the Meitei-Kuki ethnic violence and a Supreme Court audio-tape controversy.
N. Bruce Hannay
N. Bruce Hannay, born Norman Bruce Hannay, was an American physical chemist at Bell Telephone Laboratories whose research on silicon contributed to the silicon transistor program.
N. C. Wyeth
N. C. Wyeth (Newell Convers Wyeth, 1882–1945) was an American illustrator and painter, famed for Scribner's Illustrated Classics such as Treasure Island and father of Andrew Wyeth.
N. Chaluvaraya Swamy
N. Chaluvaraya Swamy, born 1960, is an Indian National Congress politician serving as a minister in the Government of Karnataka, holding the irrigation portfolio.
N. Chandrababu Naidu (నారా చంద్రబాబు నాయుడు)
N. Chandrababu Naidu, full name Nara Chandrababu Naidu (నారా చంద్రబాబు నాయుడు), is an Indian politician, Telugu Desam Party president, and Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh since 2024.
N. D. Gupta
N. D. Gupta, also known as Narain Dass Gupta, is an Indian politician of the Aam Aadmi Party and a member of the Rajya Sabha representing Delhi.
N. D. Tiwari (नारायण दत्त तिवारी)
Narayan Datt Tiwari (1925–2018) was an Indian National Congress politician who served as chief minister of both Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and as a Union minister.
N. Edward Tolbert
N. Edward Tolbert, known as Ed Tolbert, was an American plant biochemist who discovered the glycolate pathway and identified peroxisomes in plant leaves, establishing their role in photorespiration.
N. G. Chandavarkar
N. G. Chandavarkar (नारायण गणेश चंदावरकर) was a Bombay High Court judge and founding member of the Indian National Congress who led the Prarthana Samaj.
N. Gabriel Lemcoff
N. Gabriel Lemcoff, born in Buenos Aires in 1969, is an Israeli organic chemist and dean at Ben-Gurion University known for sulfur-chelated ruthenium metathesis catalysts activated by heat or light.
N. Gregory Mankiw
N. Gregory Mankiw, born 1958, is an American macroeconomist at Harvard University, a central figure in New Keynesian economics and author of the widely used Principles of Economics.
N. Jeremy Kasdin
N. Jeremy Kasdin is a Princeton aerospace engineer, emeritus Eugene Higgins Professor, known for shaped-pupil coronagraphs for exoplanet imaging and as Adjutant Scientist on NASA's Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument.
N. Justin Marshall
N. Justin Marshall, or Justin Marshall, is an Australian visual ecologist at the Queensland Brain Institute who discovered the mantis shrimp's exceptionally complex color vision system.
N. K. Jemisin
N. K. Jemisin (Nora K. Jemisin), American speculative-fiction author based in Brooklyn, New York; first writer to win three consecutive Hugo Awards for Best Novel with the Broken Earth trilogy (2015-2017), also a Nebula, Locus, and MacArthur Fellowship winner.
N. K. Premachandran
N. K. Premachandran is an Indian politician of the Revolutionary Socialist Party, born in 1960, who has represented Kollam, Kerala, in the Lok Sabha continuously since 2014.
N. Lingusamy
N. Lingusamy (born 1967, Tamil Nadu) is a Tamil film director, screenwriter, and producer behind Run, Sandakozhi, Paiyaa, and Anjaan, head of Thirupathi Brothers, later hit by cheque-bounce convictions and a Rs 700 crore Mahabharata project.
N. Marie Wilson
N. Marie Wilson (என். மரியா வில்சன்) is the TVK MLA for Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar, elected 2026, and Tamil Nadu's Minister for Finance, Pensions, Planning & Development since 21 May 2026 under CM Vijay.
N. Md. Farooq
N. Md. Farooq (Nasyam Mohammed Farooq) is an Indian Telugu Desam Party politician, a fourth-time minister in Andhra Pradesh holding the Law and Justice and Minority Welfare portfolios.
N. Mohanan
N. Mohanan (എൻ. മോഹനൻ) was an Indian writer of Malayalam short fiction and novels from Kerala, best known for the novel Innalathe Mazha, which won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1998.
N. N. Pillai
N. N. Pillai, born Narayana Pillai (1918–1995), was a Malayalam playwright and actor whose satirical plays toured Kerala through his troupe Viswa Kerala Kala Samithi; he later acted in Godfather.
N. P. Mohammed
N. P. Mohammed (1928 or 1929 – 2003) was a Malayalam novelist and short story writer who portrayed Kerala's Mappila Muslims, chaired the Kerala Sahitya Akademi, and won its national award for Daivathinte Kannu.