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Norman Sutin
Norman Sutin (1928–2022) was a chemist who spent his career at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for the theory and measurement of electron-transfer reactions and for early work on artificial photosynthesis.
Norman Swan
Norman Swan (Norman Swirsky, born 1953, Glasgow) is a Scottish-born Australian physician-broadcaster who created ABC Radio National's Health Report, exposed the McBride research fraud, and co-hosted Coronacast during COVID-19.
Norman Talal
Norman Talal (1934–2015) was an American physician-scientist and immunologist known for showing that Sjögren's syndrome lymphomas are monoclonal B-cell neoplasms and for a lupus DNA-binding test.
Norman Tebbit
Norman Tebbit, Baron Tebbit (1931–2025), British Conservative politician, Thatcher cabinet minister as employment secretary, trade secretary, and party chairman, known for the 1982 Employment Act, the Brighton bombing, 'on yer bike', and the cricket test.
Norman Thomas
Norman Mattoon Thomas (1884–1968) was an American Presbyterian minister, pacifist, and democratic socialist who ran six consecutive presidential campaigns for the Socialist Party from 1928 to 1948.
Norman V. Loayza
Norman V. Loayza is a Peruvian economist who directs the Policy Indicators Group at the World Bank, led the World Development Report 2014, and researches the informal sector.
Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Vincent Peale was an American pastor of Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan for 52 years, whose 1952 book The Power of Positive Thinking made him famous.
Norman Whiteside
Norman Whiteside, Northern Irish footballer (born 1965, Belfast), Manchester United and Everton forward; youngest-ever World Cup player at 17 years 41 days (1982), scorer of the 1985 FA Cup final winner against Everton; retired injured at 26.
Norman Whitfield
Norman Jesse Whitfield was an American songwriter and Motown record producer who, with Barrett Strong, wrote "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," "War," and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone."
Norman Wisdom
Sir Norman Wisdom (1915–2010), English slapstick comedian, actor, and singer; creator of the Gump/Norman Pitkin little-man character; star of 19 Rank films including Trouble in Store; Chaplin's favourite clown and Albania's only permitted Western film star.
Norman Wolmark
Norman Wolmark is an American surgical oncologist who succeeded Bernard Fisher as NSABP chairman in 1994 and leads NRG Oncology, designing landmark breast and colorectal cancer trials.
Norman Yao
Norman Yao is an American condensed matter physicist and Harvard professor known for theoretical work on non-equilibrium quantum matter, most famously discrete time crystals, recognized by the 2022 New Horizons in Physics Prize.
Norman Zamcheck
Norman Zamcheck was an American gastroenterologist and cancer researcher at Boston City Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for his work on the CEA tumor marker.
Norman's Cay
Norman's Cay is a small Exuma island in The Bahamas, 42 miles southeast of Nassau, that served as Carlos Lehder's Medellín Cartel cocaine transit base from 1978 to about 1982 before a 1982 Bahamian crackdown; it is now a private resort island with a famous plane-wreck dive site.
Normanby Island
Normanby Island, southernmost of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea; about 900–1,000 km², rises to 1,158 m in the Prevost Range, named by Captain John Moresby in 1873, and hosts the Normanby Dome metamorphic core complex.
Normand Voyer
Normand Voyer is a Canadian chemist and full professor at Université Laval in Quebec City, known for artificial ion channels, antimicrobial peptides, and northern natural products.
Normandie-Maine UNESCO Global Geopark
Normandie-Maine UNESCO Global Geopark, designated 2024 in northwestern France, is a 265,000-hectare rural territory managed by the Regional Nature Park, recording 600 million years of geology including the Cadomian and Hercynian chains and the Paris Basin.
Normandy
Normandy (Normandie), region of northern France recreated in 2016 from Basse- and Haute-Normandie; five départements, 640 km coast, historic duchy founded by Rollo in 911, lost to France in 1204, D-Day 1944, Bayeux Tapestry.
Normandy (administrative region)
Normandy (Normandie) is a French administrative region created 1 January 2016 by merging Basse-Normandie and Haute-Normandie, capital Rouen, five departments, about 3.35 million inhabitants, industry-heavy economy.
Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, at Colleville-sur-Mer above Omaha Beach, is the ABMC cemetery holding 9,389 American World War II dead, dedicated July 18, 1956 on the site of the first American cemetery established in Europe in WWII.
Normandy Bridge
The Normandy Bridge (Pont de Normandie) is a cable-stayed road bridge across the Seine estuary between Le Havre and Honfleur, France, opened in 1995 with a record 856 m main span.
Normandy landings
The Normandy landings (D-Day, Operation Neptune, 6 June 1944) were the Allied amphibious and airborne assault on five Normandy beaches opening Operation Overlord; 156,000 troops landed on the first day against the Atlantic Wall.
Normandy Refinery
The Normandy Refinery is a crude oil refinery at Gonfreville-l'Orcher near Le Havre, France, owned by TotalEnergies and opened in 1933. It is the largest refinery in France.
Normani
Normani (Normani Kordei Hamilton, born 1996, Atlanta) is an American R&B/pop singer and dancer, ex-Fifth Harmony member; solo hits "Love Lies," "Dancing with a Stranger," "Wild Side," and 2024 debut album DOPAMINE on RCA.
Normans
The Normans (Nortmanni, Northmen) were Scandinavian-descended settlers of Normandy, founded by the 911 Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte with Rollo, who conquered England in 1066 under William the Conqueror and Sicily under Roger II.
Normative economics
Normative economics is the part of economics that makes assertions about how the economy ought to be, as opposed to positive economics, which describes how it works.
Normative ethics
Normative ethics, also called moral theory, is the branch of philosophy asking what to do and how to be. Its three main approaches are consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics, with contractualism, care ethics, and hybrid theories alongside.
Normative reconstruction
Normative reconstruction is a critical-theory method, developed by Axel Honneth in Freedom's Right, that reconstructs the norms implicit in a social practice and evaluates the practice against them.
Normed algebra
A normed algebra is an associative algebra equipped with a submultiplicative norm, meaning |ab| ≤ |a|·|b|; when the norm is complete it is called a Banach algebra.
Normed vector space
A normed vector space, or normed linear space, is a vector space over the real or complex numbers equipped with a norm assigning each vector a nonnegative length.