All articles starting with N

Norbert Novenyi

Norbert Növényi (Nottny), born 1957 in Budapest, is a Hungarian wrestler who won Greco-Roman 90 kg gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, later a kick-box world champion, MMA titleholder, and actor.

Norbert "Magic" Növényi Jr. (Ifj. Növényi Norbert, born 1999) is a Hungarian middleweight MMA fighter based in London (London Shootfighters), son of 1980 Olympic wrestling champion Norbert Növényi; pro record 11-1, Bellator and Hexagone MMA veteran.

Norbert O. Reich

Norbert O. Reich, also known as Norbert Reich, is an American biochemist and Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara known for work on DNA methyltransferases and light-controlled nanoparticle drug delivery.

Oct 10, 2026

Norbert of Xanten

Norbert of Xanten (c. 1080–1134) was a German itinerant preacher who founded the Premonstratensian order at Prémontré in 1121 and ended his life as archbishop of Magdeburg.

Norbert Pardi

Norbert Pardi is a Hungarian biochemist and mRNA vaccine researcher, Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the nucleoside-modified mRNA lipid nanoparticle vaccine platform.

Norbert Perrimon

Norbert Perrimon, born in France in 1958, is a French-born American geneticist and HHMI investigator at Harvard Medical School known for Drosophila signaling research and genome-wide screening tools.

Norbert Rozsa

Norbert Rozsa (Rózsa Norbert, born 1972, Dombóvár) is a Hungarian breaststroke swimmer, 1996 Olympic 200m breaststroke champion, double 1992 Olympic silver medalist, three-time world champion, and former 100m breaststroke world record holder.

Norbert Schmitz

Norbert Schmitz is a German hematologist who led the Kiel clinic and Hamburg's Asklepios St. Georg, running landmark trials on transplantation for relapsed Hodgkin's disease and lymphoma.

Norbert Stefan

Norbert Stefan is a German physician-scientist in clinical and experimental diabetology, a professor at University Hospital Tübingen since 2011 known for work on fatty liver disease and metabolically healthy obesity.

Sep 27, 2026

Norbert Totschnig

Norbert Totschnig, born 1974 in Lienz, Tyrol, is an Austrian People's Party politician who led the Austrian Farmers' Association and has been Federal Minister for Agriculture since 2022.

Norbert Wiener

Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) was an American mathematician at MIT who founded cybernetics, the study of control and communication in animals and machines, and whose wartime work produced the Wiener filter.

Oct 22, 2026

Norbert Zongo

Norbert Zongo (1949–1998) was a Burkinabè investigative journalist and novelist who edited the weekly L'Indépendant and was President Blaise Compaoré's most outspoken press critic before his unsolved assassination in December 1998.

Oct 10, 2026

Norberto Bobbio

Norberto Bobbio (1909–2004) was an Italian philosopher, jurist, and political scientist who taught in Turin, founded Italian analytical legal positivism, and served as a senator for life from 1984.

Norberto Oberburger

Norberto Oberburger, Italian weightlifter born 1960 in Merano, won 1984 Los Angeles Olympic gold in the 110 kg class (390 kg total), Italy's first weightlifting medal in 60 years; four-time Olympian, 1985 world bronze.

Norbinaltorphimine

Norbinaltorphimine (nor-BNI) is a bivalent kappa opioid receptor antagonist, synthesized in 1987 from two naltrexone units, whose exceptionally long-lasting blockade of kappa signaling works through JNK1 activation.

Norbit

Norbit (2007) is an American comedy directed by Brian Robbins, starring Eddie Murphy in three roles (Norbit, Rasputia, Mr. Wong) with Thandie Newton. Made for $60 million, it grossed $159 million but scored 9% on Rotten Tomatoes and won Murphy three Razzies.

Norbornadiene

Norbornadiene, or bicyclo[2.2.1]hepta-2,5-diene, is a strained bicyclic hydrocarbon first synthesized in 1950, used to make the insecticide Aldrin and studied since the 1970s for storing solar energy as chemical bonds.

Norbornane

Norbornane, also known as norcamphane, is bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane, a saturated bridged bicyclic hydrocarbon with formula C₇H₁₂ and a rigid, canoe-like shape, parent of the family including norbornene and norbornadiene.

Norbornene

Norbornene (bicyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-ene), also called norbornylene or 2-norbornene, is a bridged bicyclic olefin, C₇H₁₀, produced from cyclopentadiene and ethylene as a monomer for elastomers and optical plastics.

Norby Walters

Norby Walters, American music booking agent who with Lloyd Bloom ran World Sports & Entertainment, secretly signing college football players; convicted of racketeering and mail fraud in 1989, reversed on appeal in 1990.

NORC at the University of Chicago

NORC at the University of Chicago, formerly the National Opinion Research Center, is an independent survey research organization founded in 1941 and affiliated with the university since 1947.

NORCCAP trial

NORCCAP (Norwegian Colorectal Cancer Prevention) trial: Norwegian population-registry RCT, 1999-2001, testing once-only flexible sigmoidoscopy with or without FIT in 100,210 people aged 50-64; no incidence reduction at 7 years, mortality benefit emerging after about 9.5 years.

Norcia

Norcia (ancient Nursia), a town at 604 m in Umbria's Valnerina, province of Perugia, birthplace of Saints Benedict and Scholastica (born 480); heavily damaged by the 2016 earthquakes, with its Basilica of San Benedetto rebuilt and reopened in 2025.

Nord (French department)

Nord (French department, Insee code 59), in Hauts-de-France with chef-lieu Lille; France's most populated department, 2,615,635 inhabitants in 2023 at 455.5/km², 5,751 km², 6 arrondissements, 647 communes, bordering Belgium.

Nord 4.1201 to 4.1272

The Nord 4.1201 to 4.1272 were 72 French 2-8-2 tank locomotives designed by Marc de Caso and built from 1932 to 1935, hauling Paris suburban trains until 1970.

Nord Pool

Nord Pool is a European power exchange headquartered at Lysaker, Norway, that operates day-ahead and intraday wholesale electricity markets in 15 countries, describing itself as the world's first power exchange and majority owned by Euronext.

Nord Rupes

Nord Rupes is a 140-km escarpment (rupes) on Mars at the edge of the North Polar Cap near 86°N, 233°E, a roughly 500-m ice-cap margin slope, IAU-named May 26, 2023 from the Italian word for north.

Nord Stream

Nord Stream, also known as the North European Gas Pipeline, is a pair of undersea gas pipelines from Russia to Germany, destroyed by sabotage in 2022.

Nord Stream 2

Nord Stream 2 is a Gazprom-led Baltic Sea gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, completed in September 2021 but never placed into service, then damaged in 2022 explosions.