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Poul Anderson
Poul Anderson (Poul William Anderson, 1926–2001), American science fiction and fantasy author, seven-time Hugo and three-time Nebula winner, SFWA Grand Master, author of Tau Zero, Brain Wave, the Technic History, and the Time Patrol series.
Poul Astrup
Poul Astrup (1915–2000) was a Danish clinical chemist, professor at the University of Copenhagen, and head of Rigshospitalet's central laboratory, known for blood-gas analysis and base excess.
Poul Erik Høyer Larsen
Poul Erik Høyer Larsen (Poul-Erik Høyer), Danish badminton player born 1965; 1996 Atlanta Olympic men's singles gold, first European winner; All England 1995-1996; BWF President 2013-2025.
Poul H. Sorensen
Poul H. Sorensen is a Danish-born physician-scientist and pathologist at the University of British Columbia whose lab discovered cancer gene fusions, including NTRK fusions, in childhood cancers.
Poul Hartmann
Poul Richard Hartmann (1878–1969), Danish rower and bookbinder from Nykøbing Falster; won gold in coxed fours inriggers at Stockholm 1912, beating Sweden by 12 seconds; long-serving club board member.
Poul Heegaard
Poul Heegaard (1871–1948) was a Danish mathematician whose 1898 Copenhagen thesis introduced the Heegaard splitting of 3-manifolds and whose counterexample to Poincaré duality reshaped algebraic topology.
Poul Nissen
Poul Nissen, born 1967 in Denmark, is a structural biologist and professor at Aarhus University known for the first atomic structure of the sodium–potassium pump and the 2017 Novo Nordisk Prize.
Poul Olesen
Poul Olesen, born 1939, is a Danish theoretical physicist, emeritus at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, known for the Nielsen-Olesen vortex and the KNO scaling law.
Poul Richard Høj Jensen
Poul Richard Høj Jensen, Danish sailor born 1944, double Olympic gold medalist in Soling (Montreal 1976, Moscow 1980) with Bandolowski and Hansen; 8 world and 9 European keelboat titles; Petticrows Dragon yard owner.
Poul Sørensen
Poul Sørensen names several Danish public figures, including cyclist Poul Bergenhammer Sørensen (1906–1951), a 1928 Olympic road racer, a Conservative minister and party leader (1904–1969), a journalist-poet (1906–1973), and an Olympic handball goalkeeper.
Poulaphouca Reservoir
Poulaphouca Reservoir, locally called the Blessington Lakes, is an artificial lake in Counties Wicklow and Kildare, Ireland, created by damming the River Liffey in 1940.
Poulnabrone dolmen
Poulnabrone dolmen (Poll na Brón) is a Neolithic portal tomb in the Burren, County Clare, Ireland, built around 3800 BC; the oldest dated megalithic monument in Ireland, excavated by Ann Lynch, containing 33 burials over 600 years.
Poultice
Poultice (cataplasm): a soft, moist mass of herbs, clay, bread, or similar material applied to the skin for soothing, drainage, or wound care; distinguished from a compress, still studied in trials, and not a substitute for medical treatment of infected wounds.
Poultry
Poultry: domesticated birds raised for meat and eggs, including chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guineafowl, quail, pheasants, pigeons, and ostriches; covers species shares, husbandry, H5N1 outbreaks, welfare rules, and economics.
Poultry farming
Poultry farming: raising domesticated birds, mainly chickens, for meat and eggs. Ranges from family scavenging flocks (80% of stocks in low-income countries) to industrial systems with genetically selected broilers needing about 1.7 kg feed per kg meat.
Poultry farming in Bangladesh
Poultry farming in Bangladesh is the national industry of raising chickens and ducks for meat and eggs, employing around six million people directly and indirectly.
Poultry farming in Kenya
Poultry farming in Kenya is dominated by smallholders keeping indigenous chickens, which make up most of a flock of over 70 million birds and supply about half of eggs.
Poultry farming in the United States
Poultry farming in the United States is the large-scale commercial production of broiler chickens, eggs, and turkeys, organized around vertically integrated companies; sales reached $76.5 billion in 2022.
Poultry feed
Poultry feed: formulated diets of cereal grains, plant proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and additives for chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese; the largest cost in broiler production and the key to feed conversion efficiency.
Poultry housing and equipment
Poultry housing is the enclosure and equipment that keep poultry within their thermal comfort zone, supplying fresh air, dry litter, and feed and water to every bird.
Poultry litter
Poultry litter is the used bedding, such as wood shavings or straw, mixed with poultry manure, feathers, and spilled feed, valued as fertilizer and burned in UK biomass power stations for electricity.
Poultry Products
Poultry products are foods manufactured from poultry, including raw carcasses, cuts, nuggets, patties, and canned items. Regulated by USDA's Poultry Products Inspection Act (1957) and graded A, B, C; US sector sales $81.7 billion in 2025.
Poultry protein
Poultry protein: protein from chickens and other domesticated birds, used as processed animal protein (PAP) in livestock feed and, under FDA GRAS Notice GRN 168, as an extracted protein ingredient in poultry products.
Poultry red mite control
Poultry red mite control is the set of monitoring, premises-treatment, and on-bird measures against Dermanyssus gallinae, a nocturnal mite costing European egg farms an estimated €360 million yearly.
Pounamu
Pounamu, also called greenstone or New Zealand jade, is the treasured nephrite and bowenite stone found only in New Zealand's South Island. Prized by Māori for tools, weapons and adornment, traded nationwide, and owned in its natural state by Ngāi Tahu under the 1997 vesting act.
Pounamu Pounamu
Pounamu Pounamu is a 1972 collection of short stories by Witi Ihimaera, recognized as the first book-length work of fiction by a Māori author and continuously in print for over 50 years.
Pound (currency)
The pound is a unit of currency used in about 12 countries and territories, named for the Latin libra pondo, a pound weight of silver.
Pound (force)
The pound-force (lbf) is a unit of force in U.S. customary and foot–pound–second systems, defined as the weight of one pound of mass at standard gravity, exactly 4.4482216152605 newtons.
Pound (mass)
The pound (symbol lb) is a unit of mass equal to exactly 0.45359237 kilogram, fixed by international agreement in 1959 and still common in the United States.
Pound cake
Pound cake, also called quatre-quarts, is a dense butter cake named for its original one pound each of flour, butter, sugar, and eggs, first documented in 1747 England and traditionally leavened only by beaten egg.