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Seymour Martin Lipset

Seymour Martin Lipset (1922–2006) was an American sociologist and political scientist whose 1959 thesis tied democracy to economic development; his book Political Man (1960) sold over 300,000 copies.

Seymour Narrows, the narrowest part of Discovery Passage, British Columbia, is a tidal bottleneck with currents up to 16 knots. Its underwater hazard Ripple Rock, which sank over 100 ships, was destroyed in the 1958 Ripple Rock explosion.

Seymour Papert

Seymour Papert (1928–2016) was a South African-born mathematician and computer scientist who co-directed the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-created the Logo programming language for children.

Seymour Perry

Seymour Perry (died 2000) was an American physician and pioneer of health technology assessment, first director of the National Center for Health Care Technology and founder of ISTAHC.

Sep 20, 2026

Seymour Reichlin

Seymour Reichlin is an American neuroendocrinologist who led endocrinology at Rochester and Tufts, wrote landmark NEJM reviews on neuroendocrinology and somatostatin, and turned 100 in 2024.

Seymour Rosen

Seymour Rosen is an American renal pathologist and Harvard Medical School professor at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, known for showing the kidney's oxygen-poor medulla explains drug- and contrast-induced injury.

Seymour S. Cohen

Seymour S. Cohen (1917–2018) was an American biochemist who opened the biochemical study of virus-infected cells, establishing virus-induced enzymes and a chemical basis for selective antiviral drugs.

Seymour S. Kety

Seymour S. Kety, also known as S. S. Kety, was an American physician-scientist who devised the first method for measuring human cerebral blood flow and led adoption studies proving schizophrenia's genetic basis.

Seymour, Victoria

Seymour, Victoria: rural town in Mitchell Shire, about 100 km north of Melbourne on the Goulburn River; railway town since 1872, military training centre, 2021 population 6,569, flood-prone, Inland Rail site.

Oct 21, 2026

Seymouria

Seymouria (S. baylorensis, named by Broili 1904) is an extinct Early Permian seymouriamorph stem amniote from Seymour, Baylor County, Texas, about 32 inches long, lizard-like, debated as amphibian or reptile relative.

Oct 22, 2026

Seytek

Seytek (Сейтек) is the third and concluding part of the Kyrgyz epic trilogy Manas, Semetey, and Seytek, following the hero Manas's grandson; the trilogy joined UNESCO's heritage list in 2013.

Oct 22, 2026

Seytenga massacre

The Seytenga massacre was the killing of at least 86 residents of Seytenga, Burkina Faso, by Islamic State in the Sahel fighters in June 2022.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr (سید حسین نصر)

Seyyed Hossein Nasr (سید حسین نصر), born 1933 in Tehran, is an Iranian Islamic philosopher and traditionalist scholar, GWU professor, author of over fifty books including Knowledge and the Sacred, pioneer of Islamic environmentalism and scientia sacra.

Seyyid İbrâhim Efendi

Seyyid İbrâhim Efendi (1701–1783) was an Ottoman scholar from Şebinkarahisar who served as Shaykh al-Islam from September 1782 until his death in office eight months later, during the Crimea crisis.

Seyyid Mehmed Emin Efendi

Seyyid Mehmed Emin Efendi, also recorded as Sun'îzâde, was an Ottoman legal scholar who served as Shaykh al-Islam of the Ottoman Empire for about ten months in 1662.

Seyyid Mehmed Şerif Efendi

Seyyid Mehmed Şerif Efendi (died 1779) was an Ottoman scholar, grandson of Çatalcalı Ali Efendi, who served as Shaykh al-Islam from August 1773 to February 1774.

Seyyid Murtaza Efendi

Seyyid Murtaza Efendi (born 1694-95) was an Ottoman scholar who served as Shaykh al-Islam from 1750 to 1755 under Sultans Mahmud I and Osman III, remembered for piety and asceticism.

Sep 24, 2026

Seyyid Said transfers his capital to Zanzibar

Seyyid Said bin Sultan, sultan of Oman from 1806, moved his capital from Muscat to Zanzibar around 1840, making the island the center of an Arab-Indian commercial empire.

Oct 22, 2026

Sezai Karakoç

Sezai Karakoç (1933–2021) was a Turkish poet, essayist, and political activist born in Ergani, Diyarbakır, whose metaphysical poetry, Diriliş magazine, and resurrection school of thought made him a central figure in twentieth-century Turkish Islamic literature.

Oct 20, 2026

Sežana Botanical Garden at Villa Mirasasso

Sežana Botanical Garden at Villa Mirasasso (Botanični vrt Sežana ob vili Mirasasso), a Slovenian botanical garden founded 1848 by the Greek Scaramangà family of Trieste, with ~170 species, an 1890 Schönbrunn-style greenhouse, and protected cultural-monument status.