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Norman Allinger
Norman Allinger (1928–2020) was an American computational chemist at the University of Georgia, senior author of the MM2, MM3, and MM4 molecular mechanics force fields for organic molecules.
Norman architecture
Norman architecture: the Romanesque style of the Normans in Normandy, England (post-1066), and Sicily; semicircular arches, massive pillars, Durham Cathedral, White Tower, Arab-Norman Palermo.
Norman B. Javitt
Norman B. Javitt is an American physician-investigator in hepatology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, known for research on hepatic bile formation and bile acid synthesis from cholesterol.
Norman Baillie-Stewart
Norman Baillie-Stewart, 1909–1966, British Army officer convicted in 1933 of spying for Germany (the Officer in the Tower case) and later a Berlin wartime broadcaster overshadowed by William Joyce, twice imprisoned, dying near Dublin.
Norman Bank
Norman Bank (died 2016) was an American nephrologist and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, described as one of the founders of nephrology as a medical specialty.
Norman Barrett
Norman Rupert Barrett (1903–1979) was an Australian-born English thoracic surgeon at St Thomas's and the Brompton hospitals in London, remembered for Barrett's esophagus, which he described in 1950.
Norman Bates
Norman Bates, fictional motel-keeper and killer created by Robert Bloch in the 1959 novel Psycho, famous from Hitchcock's 1960 film with Anthony Perkins; also the teenage protagonist of the A&E series Bates Motel (2013–2017).
Norman Bel Geddes
Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958) was an American stage and industrial designer who popularized streamlining with his book Horizons and the Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Norman Bentwich
Norman Bentwich (1883–1971) was a British barrister and legal academic who served as the first Attorney-General of Mandatory Palestine from 1920 to 1931, then held the chair of international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Norman Bethune
Norman Bethune (白求恩, Bai Qiu'en), 1890-1939, Canadian thoracic surgeon and Communist activist; pioneered mobile front-line blood transfusion in the Spanish Civil War and served Mao's 8th Route Army, dying of septicaemia in Hebei, China, a national hero.
Norman Bingley
Norman Bingley (Frederick Sparkes Norman Bingley, 1863-1940), British sailor and barrister of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club; won 1908 Olympic gold in the 7-metre class aboard Heroine, awarded on a sail-over.
Norman Borlaug
Norman Borlaug (1914–2009), American agronomist and father of the Green Revolution, bred semi-dwarf rust-resistant wheat in Mexico, raised South Asian harvests, won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, and founded the World Food Prize.
Norman Brinker
Norman Brinker (1931–2009) was an American restaurant executive who founded Steak & Ale and Bennigan's, transformed Chili's into a national brand, and is credited with creating casual dining.
Norman Brooks (environmental engineer)
Norman Herrick Brooks, born in 1928, is an American environmental engineer and hydraulics researcher at Caltech known for pollutant transport studies and wastewater outfall design.
Norman capture of Mahdia
The Norman capture of Mahdia was the bloodless seizure of the Zirid capital in Tunisia by Roger II of Sicily's fleet in June 1148, ending Zirid rule.
Norman Catherine
Norman Catherine (born 1949) is a South African painter, sculptor, and printmaker known for comical, macabre works confronting apartheid through dark humor and surrealistic imagery; his work is held by the Museum of Modern Art.
Norman Chaney
Norman "Chubby" Chaney (1914–1936), American child actor in Hal Roach's Our Gang (The Little Rascals); won a 1928 nationwide contest to replace Joe Cobb; made about 19 shorts 1929–1931, ending with Fly My Kite; died of myocarditis at 21 in Baltimore.
Norman Cleaveland
Norman Cleaveland (1901-1997), nicknamed Peabody, American rugby player who won gold with the USA at the 1924 Paris Olympics, last surviving US rugby gold medallist, and later a tin-dredging mining engineer in Malaya.
Norman Cohn
Norman Cohn (1915–2007), British historian at Sussex; author of The Pursuit of the Millennium, Warrant for Genocide, and Europe's Inner Demons; traced totalitarian and persecutory myths to medieval apocalypticism.
Norman Conquest
The Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror's takeover of England after the 1066 Battle of Hastings, completed by 1071, replacing the Anglo-Saxon elite, building castles, compiling Domesday Book, and adding thousands of French words to English.
Norman conquest of Ifriqiya
The Norman conquest of Ifriqiya (الحرب النورمانية الزيرية) was the seizure of the Zirid coastline by Norman Sicily under Roger II, ending the Zirid emirate in 1148.
Norman conquest of Sicily
The Norman conquest of Sicily (الغزو النورماندي لصقلية) was the takeover of Muslim-ruled Sicily by the Hauteville brothers Robert Guiscard and Roger, beginning in 1060 and capturing Palermo in 1072.
Norman conquest of southern Italy
Norman conquest of southern Italy: gradual 11th–12th-century takeover by Hauteville-led Normans of Byzantine, Lombard, and Muslim lands, from the 1017 arrival through Melfi 1059, Bari 1071, and Roger II's 1130 Kingdom of Sicily.
Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins (1915–1990) was an American journalist and peace advocate who edited the Saturday Review, helped broker the 1963 test ban treaty, and wrote Anatomy of an Illness.
Norman Cyril Jackson
Norman Cyril Jackson (1919-1994), RAFVR flight engineer of 106 Squadron, won the Victoria Cross climbing onto his burning Lancaster's wing over Schweinfurt on 26/27 April 1944; medal now in the Lord Ashcroft Collection.
Norman D. Newell
Norman D. Newell (1909–2005) was an American paleontologist at Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History, known for his work on mass extinctions.
Norman Davidson (molecular biologist)
Norman Davidson was an American molecular biologist and physical chemist who spent his career at Caltech, established nucleic acid renaturation, and won the 1996 National Medal of Science.
Norman Davies
Norman Davies (born 1939, Bolton) is a British-Polish historian, author of God's Playground, Europe: A History, The Isles, and Europe at War; emeritus professor at UCL-SSEES, British Academy Fellow, holder of Poland's Order of the White Eagle.
Norman F. Boyd
Norman F. Boyd, also cited as Norman Boyd, is a physician and epidemiologist at the University of Toronto known for establishing mammographic density as a breast cancer risk factor.
Norman F. Gant
Norman F. Gant, also known as Norman F. Gant Jr., is an American obstetrician-gynecologist at UT Southwestern known for the angiotensin II pressor-response test in pregnancy.