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Seydou Doumbia
Seydou Doumbia (born 1987, Yamoussoukro) is an Ivorian striker who starred for Young Boys and CSKA Moscow, won AFCON 2015, and later played for Roma, Basel, Sporting, Girona, and Sion.
Seydou Keita
Seydou Keita, also written Seydou Keïta, is a Malian former midfielder who won three La Liga titles and two Champions Leagues with Barcelona from 2008 to 2012.
Seydoux family
Seydoux family, French Protestant dynasty of Swiss origin from Vaulruz; textile industrialists at Le Cateau-Cambrésis from 1824, later Schlumberger, Pathé, Gaumont, and French diplomacy.
Seyfert (lunar crater)
Seyfert is an IAU-approved lunar impact crater, Feature ID 5446, about 102.63 km across, centered at 29.26°N, 114.34°E on the Moon's farside in quadrangle LAC-47.
Seyfert galaxy
A Seyfert galaxy is a galaxy with a low-luminosity active galactic nucleus, named for Carl Seyfert, who identified the class in 1943; the host galaxy remains visible.
Seyferth–Gilbert homologation
Seyferth–Gilbert homologation, also called the Seyferth–Gilbert reaction, converts aldehydes or ketones into alkynes with one more carbon using the Seyferth reagent; its Ohira–Bestmann variant is widely used.
Şeyh Bedreddin
Şeyh Bedreddin (شيخ بدر الدين), born near Edirne around 1358, was an Ottoman legal scholar and Sufi shaykh who served as kazasker and led the 1416 uprising.
Şeyh Hamdullah
Şeyh Hamdullah (شيخ حمد الله) was an Ottoman calligrapher from Amasya, considered the founder of the Ottoman school of calligraphy; invited to Istanbul by Bayezid II, he developed a new style in the classical scripts.
Şeyhülislam
Şeyhülislam (شیخ الاسلام), or shaykh al-Islam, was the chief mufti of the Ottoman state, issuing fetvas and overseeing judges and medreses until its abolition in 1922.
Şeyhülislâm Ârif Hikmet Bey
Şeyhülislâm Ârif Hikmet Bey (1786–1859) was an Ottoman scholar, poet, and jurist who served as şeyhülislam, the empire's chief mufti, under Sultan Abdülmecid from 1846 to 1854.
Şeyhülislam Yahya
Şeyhülislam Yahya (Zekeriyyâzâde Yahyâ Efendi, 1552 or 1561 to 1644) was an Ottoman scholar and Divan poet, şeyhülislam for over 18 years and a master of the gazel form.
Seyi (specialized labor service)
Seyi (色役) was a Tang dynasty category of specialized labor service, from attendants and artisans to musicians, that became a target of Kaiyuan-era fiscal audits.
Seyi Vibez
Seyi Vibez, born Balogun Afolabi Oluwaloseyi in 2000, is a Nigerian street-pop singer whose 2022 album Billion Dollar Baby and hit "Chance (Na Ham)" brought mainstream fame.
Seymore Butts
Seymore Butts, pseudonym of Adam Whitney Glasser (born 1964, Bronx), American gonzo adult film producer-director; made over 180 videos, faced a 2001 obscenity case, and starred in Showtime's Family Business (2003–2006).
Seymour B. Cohn
Seymour B. Cohn (1920–2015) was an American microwave engineer known for stripline theory and microwave filter design, who worked at Sperry and Stanford Research Institute and won the IEEE Lamme Medal.
Seymour Baron
Seymour Baron was an American engineer in electric power and energy systems, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980 and honored for water-desalting expertise.
Seymour Benzer
Seymour Benzer was an American scientist who pioneered the molecular study of the gene in bacteriophage and founded neurogenetics through genetic analysis of fruit fly behavior.
Seymour Cassel
Seymour Cassel (1935–2019), American character actor and Oscar nominee for Chet in John Cassavetes' Faces (1968); collaborator on seven Cassavetes films and later Wes Anderson's Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums.
Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast (born 1931, the Bronx, New York) is an American graphic designer, illustrator, and author who co-founded Push Pin Studios in 1954 and received the AIGA Medal in 1985.
Seymour Cray
Seymour Cray, fully Seymour Roger Cray, was an American electrical engineer who designed the world's fastest computers for four decades and is called the father of the supercomputer.
Seymour Durst
Seymour B. Durst (1913–1995) was a Manhattan real-estate developer who led the Durst Organization from 1974 and built the National Debt Clock near Times Square in 1989.
Seymour Fleming
Seymour Dorothy Fleming, Lady Worsley (1757–1818), British heiress whose 1782 criminal conversation trial with Sir Richard Worsley and Captain Bissett, ending in one-shilling damages, became a landmark sex scandal.
Seymour Grufferman
Seymour Grufferman is an American physician-epidemiologist known for research on Hodgkin's disease, including a 1977 study finding a sevenfold risk in siblings of young-adult cases.
Seymour Hersh
Seymour Myron Hersh (born 1937, Chicago), American investigative journalist; won the 1970 Pulitzer for exposing the 1968 My Lai massacre, later covered CIA spying, Abu Ghraib, and disputed Nord Stream and bin Laden reports.
Seymour J. Klebanoff
Seymour J. Klebanoff (1927–2016) was an American immunologist and physician at the University of Washington who discovered the myeloperoxidase antimicrobial system used by neutrophils to kill bacteria.
Seymour Jonathan Singer
Seymour Jonathan Singer, often published as S. Jonathan Singer, was an American biochemist at UC San Diego best known for the fluid mosaic model of cell membranes, proposed in 1972.
Seymour Kaufman
Seymour Kaufman (1924–2009) was an American biochemist and neurochemist at the National Institute of Mental Health who identified tetrahydrobiopterin as the cofactor for aromatic amino acid hydroxylation.
Seymour Lieberman
Seymour Lieberman (1916–2012) was an American steroid biochemist and endocrinologist who spent over 60 years at Columbia University studying steroid hormone metabolism, pioneering the field.
Seymour M. Antelman
Seymour M. Antelman, known as Sy Antelman, was an American neuroscientist and psychopharmacologist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, known for Time-Dependent Sensitization and a stress-induced overeating model.
Seymour M. Bogdonoff
Seymour Moses Bogdonoff (1921–2005) was an American aeronautical engineer at Princeton University who pioneered hypersonic aerodynamics and led the Princeton Gas Dynamics Laboratory for 36 years.