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Norman K. Moon
Norman K. Moon, born 1936 in Lynchburg, Virginia, is a senior U.S. district judge for the Western District of Virginia, appointed by President Clinton in 1997.
Norman Kingdom of Africa
The Norman Kingdom of Africa was a coastal dominion of the Kingdom of Sicily in Ifriqiya, held by Roger II from 1148 until the Almohad conquest of 1160.
Norman Kretchmer
Norman Kretchmer (1923–1995) was an American physician-scientist in infant nutrition and developmental biochemistry, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and UCSF, and editor in chief of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Norman Kroll
Norman Kroll (1922–2004) was an American theoretical physicist and pioneer of quantum electrodynamics who made the first correct calculation of the Lamb shift and taught at UC San Diego.
Norman L. Biggs
Norman L. Biggs (born 1941) is a British mathematician, professor at the London School of Economics, known for algebraic combinatorics and the critical group of graphs.
Norman L. Bowen
Norman L. Bowen (1887–1956) was a Canadian experimental petrologist whose 1922 reaction series showed that many igneous rocks crystallize from one parent magma; his 1928 book established physical chemistry as petrology's basis.
Norman L. Gilbreath
Norman L. Gilbreath is an American mathematician and magician who published the Gilbreath principle in card magic and Gilbreath's conjecture on primes, both in 1958.
Norman L. Letvin
Norman L. Letvin (1949–2012) was an American virologist and immunologist, a Harvard Medical School professor who discovered SIV and established the rhesus macaque model that shaped HIV vaccine testing.
Norman Langen
Norman Langen (born 1985 in Würselen-Bardenberg) is a German Schlager and pop singer who finished seventh on DSDS in 2011; his debut album Pures Gold reached number 11 in Germany.
Norman language
Norman (Normaund, Nouormand) is a langue d'oïl of Normandy and the Channel Islands, with varieties Jèrriais, Guernésiais, Sercquiais and extinct Auregnais; about 30,000 speakers, severely endangered, shaped English after 1066.
Norman Lear
Norman Lear (1922–2023), American TV writer-producer behind All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, Sanford and Son, and The Jeffersons, who brought social controversy into the 1970s sitcom and founded People for the American Way.
Norman Levinson
Norman Levinson (1912–1975) was an American mathematician at MIT, an Institute Professor known for the Coddington–Levinson text, Levinson's theorem, and proving a third of Riemann zeta zeros lie on the critical line.
Norman Lewis (writer)
Norman Lewis (1908–2003) was a British travel writer and novelist, author of A Dragon Apparent, Golden Earth, Naples '44 and The Honoured Society, and of the 1968 Sunday Times report Genocide in Brazil.
Norman Lindsay
Norman Alfred Williams Lindsay (1879–1969) was an Australian artist, cartoonist, and writer for The Bulletin, best known for his 1918 children's classic The Magic Pudding.
Norman Lloyd
Norman Lloyd, born Norman Perlmutter (1914–2021), was an American actor, director, and producer known for falling from the Statue of Liberty in Hitchcock's Saboteur and for playing Dr. Daniel Auschlander on NBC's St. Elsewhere.
Norman Lockyer
Norman Lockyer, full name Joseph Norman Lockyer, was an English astronomer who proposed helium from the solar spectrum and founded the journal Nature in 1869.
Norman Lovett
Norman Lovett, English stand-up comedian and actor known as Holly, the ship's computer in BBC2's Red Dwarf (series 1-2, 7-8, 2020); also starred in I, Lovett; deadpan alternative comedy pioneer.
Norman M. Kaplan
Norman M. Kaplan (1931–2020) was an American physician-scientist in hypertension who founded and led the hypertension program at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and wrote Kaplan's Clinical Hypertension, the field's most authoritative textbook.
Norman Maclean
Norman Maclean (1902-1990), American writer and University of Chicago English professor, author of A River Runs Through It (1976), published at 73, and posthumous Young Men and Fire on the 1949 Mann Gulch fire.
Norman Macleod
Norman Macleod (1812–1872) was a liberal Presbyterian minister of the Church of Scotland, minister of Glasgow's Barony parish, royal chaplain, moderator in 1869, and founding editor of Good Words.
Norman Macleod Ferrers
Norman Macleod Ferrers (1829–1903) was a British mathematician, Senior Wrangler at Cambridge, Master of Gonville and Caius College, and Vice-Chancellor, known for the Ferrers diagram in partition theory.
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer (1923-2007), American novelist and New Journalism pioneer, author of The Naked and the Dead, two-time Pulitzer winner for The Armies of the Night and The Executioner's Song, six-time husband, 1969 NYC mayoral candidate.
Norman Manley
Norman Washington Manley (1893–1969) was a Jamaican lawyer and politician who founded the People's National Party, served as Jamaica's first Premier, negotiated independence from Britain in 1962, and was named a National Hero in 1969.
Norman Manley International Airport
Norman Manley International Airport, formerly Palisadoes Airport, is Jamaica's second largest international airport, serving the capital Kingston from the Palisadoes peninsula; it handled 1.7 million passengers in 2023.
Norman Margolus
Norman Margolus is a physicist and computer scientist at MIT, best known for the Margolus–Levitin theorem bounding computation speed and for building cellular automata machines.
Norman Medal
The Norman Medal is an annual award of the American Society of Civil Engineers for an original paper, instituted in 1872 with an endowment by George H. Norman.
Norman Mineta
Norman Mineta (Norman Yoshio Mineta), 1931–2022, San Jose mayor, 20-year California congressman, first Asian American Cabinet secretary, and longest-serving U.S. Transportation Secretary (2001–2006) who grounded all flights on 9/11 and created the TSA.
Norman Morrison
Norman R. Morrison (1933-1965), Baltimore Quaker and Stony Run Friends Meeting executive secretary, self-immolated with kerosene below Robert McNamara's Pentagon office on November 2, 1965, protesting the Vietnam War; his daughter Emily survived unharmed.
Norman Murray
Norman Murray is a Canadian-based theoretical astrophysicist at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Toronto, known for work on disk winds, planetary migration, and star formation.
Norman Myers
Norman Myers (1934–2019) was a British conservation scientist who originated the biodiversity hotspots framework and was among the first to argue a mass extinction was underway.