All articles starting with S
44,216 articles
Seiberg–Witten invariants
Seiberg–Witten invariants are diffeomorphism invariants of smooth closed four-manifolds, introduced in 1994 by Nathan Seiberg and Edward Witten, who derived the defining equations from supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory.
Seiberg–Witten theory
Seiberg–Witten theory is the exact non-perturbative solution of four-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory with gauge group SU(2), obtained by Nathan Seiberg and Edward Witten in 1994.
Seibuen Yuenchi
Seibuen Yuenchi (西武園ゆうえんち) is a Seibu Group amusement park in Tokorozawa, Saitama, opened in 1950 and reopened May 19, 2021 as a 1960s Showa-retro park with Godzilla The Ride.
Seiche
A seiche, also called a seiche wave, is a standing wave oscillating in a lake, bay, or harbor after wind or pressure changes displace the water.
Seichi junrei (聖地巡礼)
Seichi junrei (聖地巡礼), or anime pilgrimage, is Japanese fan travel to real locations of anime, manga, and other media works; begun in the 1990s, popularized after Please Teacher! (2002), and now a government-backed contents tourism pillar.
Seicho Matsumoto
Seicho Matsumoto (松本清張) was a Japanese novelist, real name Kiyoharu, whose mystery fiction centered on criminal motive and society, founding the social school of detective fiction.
Seid Memić Vajta
Seid Memić Vajta (Сеид Мемић Вајта), born 1950 in Travnik, is a Bosnian singer, frontman of Teška industrija and Yugoslavia's Eurovision entrant in 1981 with "Lejla".
Seidler Equity Partners
Seidler Equity Partners is a family-owned middle-market private equity firm founded in 1992, headquartered in Marina del Rey, Los Angeles, with an office in Sydney.
Seiðr
Seiðr (anglicized seid) is the Old Norse term for a complex of magic practices, mainly divination and trance work by völva seeresses, attested in sagas and Eddic poetry; male practitioners risked the charge of ergi, unmanliness.
Seiemon Inaba
Seiemon Inaba, also romanized Seiuemon Inaba, was a Japanese engineer and industrialist who founded FANUC, maker of numerical controls and factory robots, and led Japan's first NC device in 1956.
Seigneur
Seigneur, French for lord, from Latin senior; the holder of a seigneurie exercising sovereignty over land and people in medieval and Ancien Régime France, both suzerain and vassal, abolished with seigneurial rights in 1789.
Seigneurial system of New France
Seigneurial system of New France (régime seigneurial): semi-feudal land tenure established in the 1620s under Richelieu, with seigneurs, censitaire tenants, strip lots along the St. Lawrence; abolished in Lower Canada in 1854.
Seigniorage
Seigniorage is the net revenue a monetary authority earns from issuing money, the difference between face value and production cost, typically below 0.5% of GDP.
Seigo Izumo
Seigo Izumo is a physician-scientist in cardiac molecular biology who studied heart-muscle growth signaling as a Harvard professor and later led cardiovascular research at Novartis and Gilead.
Seigō Nakano (中野正剛)
Seigō Nakano was a Japanese journalist and politician who served eight terms in the House of Representatives. He founded the ultranationalist Tōhōkai and died in 1943.
Seigo Shima
Seigo Shima (嶋 盛吾) is a biochemist and research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany, where he has worked since 1995.
Seigo Tarucha
Seigo Tarucha (樽茶 清悟) is a Japanese physicist at RIKEN known for silicon spin qubits and quantum information research, after twenty years at NTT and the University of Tokyo.
Seiichiro Sasaki
Seiichiro Sasaki (佐々木精一郎), born 1945 in Saga, Japan, is a Japanese long-distance runner whose 2:11:17 at the 1967 Fukuoka Marathon was then the second-fastest ever, and who ran the 1968 Olympic marathon.
Seiichiro Yamashita (山下誠一郎)
Seiichiro Yamashita (山下誠一郎, born 1992) is a Japanese voice actor with Osawa Office, known as Cid Kagenou/Shadow in The Eminence in Shadow, Naruse Sho in orange, Yagen Toushiro in Touken Ranbu, and Ace Trappola in Disney Twisted-Wonderland.
Seiji Ogawa
Seiji Ogawa (小川誠二), born 1934 in Tokyo, is a Japanese biophysicist who discovered the BOLD contrast mechanism at Bell Laboratories in 1990, the basis of functional MRI.
Seiji Oko
Seiji Oko (大古誠司), born 1948 in Kawasaki, Japan, is a Hall of Fame volleyball ace spiker who won 1972 Olympic gold and 1968 silver with Japan and later coached the 1992 Olympic team.
Seiji Ozawa (小澤征爾)
Seiji Ozawa (小澤征爾, 1935–2024), Japanese conductor; Boston Symphony Orchestra music director 1973–2002, its longest tenure, then Vienna State Opera 2002–2010; founded Saito Kinen Orchestra and Matsumoto Festival.
Seiji Shinkai
Seiji Shinkai (新海 征治, born 1944) is a Japanese supramolecular chemist, Professor Emeritus of Kyushu University, known for sugar sensing with boronic acids and photoresponsive crown ethers.
Seiji Takayama
Seiji Takayama (高山 誠司) is a Japanese plant molecular biologist, formerly professor at NAIST and the University of Tokyo, known for defining the molecular mechanism of self-incompatibility in Brassicaceae.
Seikan Tunnel (青函トンネル)
The Seikan Tunnel (青函トンネル) is a 53.85 km railway tunnel crossing the Tsugaru Strait to connect Japan's islands of Honshu and Hokkaido, opened in March 1988.
Seikanron debate
The Seikanron debate (征韓論) was the October 1873 split in Japan's Meiji government over whether to invade Korea; after the emperor ruled for postponement, Saigō Takamori and other councilors resigned.
Seikilos epitaph
Seikilos epitaph (Epitaph of Seikilos, Song of Seikilos): Greek song with musical notation on a marble stele from Tralleis, Turkey, held in Copenhagen; widely cited as the oldest complete surviving musical composition, dated 1st-2nd century CE.
Seiko (セイコー)
Seiko (セイコー) is a Japanese watch brand introduced in 1924 by the company Kintaro Hattori founded in 1881, which launched the world's first quartz wristwatch, the Astron, in 1969.
Seiko Astron
Seiko Astron names two landmark Seiko watches: the 1969 Quartz Astron 35SQ, the world's first quartz wristwatch, and the 2012 GPS solar Astron, the first mass-produced GPS-synchronized watch.
Seiko Hashimoto (橋本聖子)
Seiko Hashimoto (橋本聖子), born 1964, Japanese politician and seven-time Olympian in speed skating and track cycling; 1992 Albertville 1,500 m bronze, House of Councillors member since 1995, and Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee president.