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Susumu Ohno

Susumu Ohno (大野 進, 1928–2000) was a Japanese-born American geneticist who spent his career at City of Hope in California, studying sex chromosomes and evolution by gene duplication.

Susumu Okubo

Susumu Okubo (1930–2015) was a Japanese-born particle theorist at the University of Rochester known for the Gell-Mann–Okubo mass formula and the OZI rule, and winner of the 2006 Wigner Medal.

Susumu Seino

Susumu Seino (清野 進, 1948–2021) was a Japanese molecular physiologist at Kobe University who defined the β-cell KATP channel and discovered Epac2, winning the 2018 Japan Academy Prize.

Susumu Shingu

Susumu Shingu (新宮 晋), born in 1937, is a Japanese sculptor based in Sanda, Hyogo, known for kinetic sculptures moved by wind and water, and for collaborations with architect Renzo Piano.

Susumu Tonegawa

Susumu Tonegawa (利根川進, 1939–2026) was a Japanese neuroscientist who won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering antibody diversity, then studied learning and memory at MIT.

Susun Construction Group

Susun Construction Group (苏商建设集团) is a private, family-owned Chinese infrastructure construction company headquartered in Shanghai, founded in 2013 by Yan Jiehe and controlled by his daughter Yan Xin.

Susunu! Denpa Shōnen (進ぬ!電波少年)

Susunu! Denpa Shōnen (進ぬ!電波少年) was a Japanese NTV reality series created by Tsuchiya Toshio, known for comedian Nasubi living naked and isolated on sweepstakes winnings for 15 months.

Susur Lee

Susur Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Toronto-based chef of Chinese-French fusion cuisine, founder of Lotus (1987), Susur (2000), and flagship Lee (2004), a Top Chef Masters finalist and Iron Chef Canada participant.

Susuwatari (眩しいススワタリ)

Susuwatari, also called Makkuro Kurosuke or Soot Sprites, are jet-black, golf-ball-sized fictional creatures created by Hayao Miyazaki, first appearing in My Neighbor Totoro in 1988.

Suswa

Suswa (Mount Suswa) is a Quaternary peralkaline trachyte-phonolite shield volcano in the Kenyan Rift, ~50 km WNW of Nairobi, with nested 8 x 12 km and 5 km calderas, Ol Doinyo Onyoke cone, geothermal activity, and no recorded historical eruption.

Susy Susanti

Susy Susanti (Lucia Francisca Susanti Haditono, Wang Lianxiang 王莲香, born 1971), Indonesian badminton legend; 1992 Barcelona Olympic women's singles gold, Indonesia's first Olympic gold, plus 1993 world title and four All England crowns.

Sutan Sjahrir

Sutan Sjahrir, also known as Soetan Sjahrir, was an Indonesian revolutionary independence leader and the first prime minister of Indonesia, serving from 1945 to 1947.

Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana

Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana (1908–1994) was an Indonesian novelist, poet, and language planner who co-founded Poedjangga Baroe in 1933 and shaped Indonesia's policy of promoting Bahasa Indonesia for nation-building.

Sutartinės

Sutartinės are a form of Lithuanian multipart folk song traditionally performed by women in north-eastern Lithuania; their deliberately dissonant style was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2010.

Sutasekhara rasa

Sutasekhara rasa (Sūtaśekhara rasa), also Sutshekhar Rasa, is a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral mercury formulation used mainly for Amlapitta (hyperacidity) and acid-peptic disorders; variants include gold-containing Suvarna, non-gold Sada, and Laghu (red ochre) forms.

Sute

Sute is a four-row mancala-style sowing game played by the Chikunda people of Malawi, documented by Sanderson (1913) and Murray (1951); counters are sown anti-clockwise into empty holes with cross-row captures, and capturing all opponent pieces wins.

Sutean and Aramean incursions under Adad-apla-iddina

The Sutean and Aramean incursions under Adad-apla-iddina were raids and rebellion that devastated Babylonia during his reign (1068–1047 BC), demolishing cities including Nippur and Sippar.

Suteans

The Suteans (Akkadian Sutû) were Semitic nomadic tribes of the Syrian desert, first recorded near Mari as raiders and later serving as mercenaries across Mesopotamia.

Sutetinib

Sutetinib (苏特替尼), an oral EGFR-TKI by Teligene/Jiangsu Maidu with Suzhong Pharmaceutical for China, targets rare EGFR mutations L861Q, G719X, S768I in NSCLC; phase III, IIb ORR 70.8%.

Sutherland

Sutherland (Cataibh) is a historic county in far northern Scotland, named from Norse Suðrland, 'southern land'. Nearly 2,500 sq mi with about 13,500 people, county town Dornoch, now within Highland council area.

Sutherland Falls

Sutherland Falls (Te Tau-tea) is a 580 m three-leap waterfall from Lake Quill to the Arthur Valley in Fiordland, New Zealand, discovered by Donald Sutherland in 1880 and visited via a side trip from the Milford Track.

Sutherland Shire

Sutherland Shire, known as "the Shire", is a 369 km2 local government area in southern Sydney, NSW, home to about 235,000 people, incorporated in 1906, site of Cook's 1770 Kurnell landing.

Sutherland Springs church shooting

Sutherland Springs church shooting: Devin Patrick Kelley killed 26 and wounded 22 at First Baptist Church, Sutherland Springs, Texas, on November 5, 2017, despite a disqualifying Air Force conviction never reported to NICS; the US later settled for $144.5 million.

Suthida (สุทิดา พัชรสุธาพิมลลักษณ)

Queen Suthida Bajrasudhabimalalakshana (สุทิดา พัชรสุธาพิมลลักษณ), Queen of Thailand, wife of King Maha Vajiralongkorn; former Thai Airways flight attendant, royal guard general, and licensed pilot, queen since May 2019.

Sutilains

Sutilains (Travase) is a mixture of Bacillus subtilis serine proteases used as a topical enzymatic debriding agent for burns and ulcers; FDA-approved 1969, discontinued 1996, not currently available in the US.

Sutjeska

FK Sutjeska Nikšić is a Montenegrin football club from Nikšić, founded in 1920 and renamed in 1945 after players died at the Battle of the Sutjeska.

Sutkagen Dor

Sutkagen Dor, also spelled Sukagendor, is a fortified Harappan settlement in the Dasht River Valley of Balochistan, Pakistan, and the westernmost known Indus Valley Civilisation site.

Sutkatyn Chasmata

Sutkatyn Chasmata is a 350-km chasma (deep elongated depression) on Venus at 64.0S, 11.0E, IAU-approved 1997, named for a Kumyk (Daghestan) forest spirit; one of 63 named Venus chasmata.

Sutlej (सतलुज)

Sutlej (सतलुज, Satluj), easternmost and longest of the five Punjab rivers, an Indus tributary rising in Tibet at 4,572 m, dammed by Bhakra, allocated to India under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, joining the Indus via the Panjnad near Mithankot.

Sutlej Yamuna link canal

The Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal is a proposed 214-km inter-state canal in northwest India to carry Haryana's share of Ravi and Beas waters from the Sutlej in Punjab.