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Shell model (ionic crystals)
The shell model is a model of ionic crystals introduced by Dick and Overhauser in 1958 that represents each ion as a core and shell joined by a spring.
Shell money
Shell money: sea shells or shell beads (cowries, Dentalium tusk shells, wampum, Olivella and clam disk beads) used as currency in Asia, Africa, and precolonial North America, valued by length, count, or labor.
Shell Oil Company
Shell Oil Company is the American subsidiary of Shell plc, established in 1912, now operating as Shell USA with roughly 12,000 fuel stations and major Gulf of Mexico production.
Shell plc
Shell plc, also known as Royal Dutch Shell, is a British oil and gas and petrochemical company headquartered in London, employing around 85,000 people in over 70 countries.
Shell Scotford Quest carbon capture project
The Quest carbon capture and storage project at Shell's Scotford Upgrader near Edmonton, Alberta, captures CO2 from hydrogen production and injects it into a deep saline aquifer, operating since 2015.
Shell shock
Shell shock was the First World War term, coined by Charles Myers in The Lancet in 1915, for combat-related nervous and mental disorders, later called battle fatigue and now understood as PTSD.
Shell Shockers
Shell Shockers (shellshock.io) is a free browser-based multiplayer first-person shooter by Blue Wizard Digital, released September 2017, where players control armed eggs; up to 16 players, built on Babylon.js and WebGL, over 200 million lifetime players.
Shell theorem
The shell theorem, proved by Isaac Newton and published in the 1687 Principia, states that a spherically symmetric body attracts external objects as if its mass were concentrated at its center.
Shell theory
Shell theory is the branch of structural mechanics describing the deformation, stress, vibration, and stability of thin curved solid bodies such as domes and pressure vessels.
Shell V-Power
Shell V-Power, or V-Power, is Shell's brand of premium performance fuels, a high-octane gasoline and diesel first sold in Singapore in 2000 and used in Scuderia Ferrari's Formula 1 race fuel.
Shell-Mex
Shell-Mex is best known through Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, a British joint venture of Shell and BP that marketed their products in the UK from 1932 to 1976.
Shellac
Shellac is a natural resin secreted by the lac insect of India and Thailand, refined into flakes used as a wood finish, food glaze, and pharmaceutical coating.
Shellac (band)
Shellac, or Shellac of North America, was a Chicago noise rock and math rock trio (Steve Albini, Bob Weston, Todd Trainer) formed in 1992, releasing six Touch and Go albums; its final LP To All Trains (2024) appeared ten days after Albini's death.
Shellal
Shellal is a locality on the east bank of the Nile near Aswan, at the First Cataract, used from the 5th millennium BCE to the 7th century CE.
Shellback (record producer)
Shellback (Karl Johan Schuster, born 1985, Karlshamn, Sweden) is a Swedish songwriter and record producer, ex-vocalist of metal band Blinded Colony, Max Martin's Maratone collaborator on hits for Pink, Justin Timberlake, and Taylor Swift, with 4 Grammy wins.
Shelley (Mercurian crater)
Shelley is a 164-km-wide impact crater on Mercury at 47.8S, 127.8W in quadrangle H-12, adopted by the IAU in 1979 and named after English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).
Shelley Andrews
Shelley Andrews (Michelle Andrews, born 1971) is an Australian field hockey striker who won Olympic gold with the Hockeyroos at Atlanta 1996, world titles in 1994, and 74 international goals.
Shelley Berger
Shelley L. Berger is an American molecular biologist studying chromatin and epigenetics, the Daniel S. Och University Professor at Penn and a National Academy of Sciences member.
Shelley Berkley
Shelley Berkley is an American Democratic politician and the Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, sworn in on December 4, 2024, after serving as the U.S. Representative for Nevada's 1st congressional district from 1999 to 2013.
Shelley Berman
Shelley Berman (1925–2017), Chicago-born comedian and actor of the Compass Players/Second City lineage, pioneered seated telephone-monologue stand-up; his Inside Shelley Berman was the first gold-record comedy album and first non-musical Grammy winner, and he played Nat David on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Shelley Conn
Shelley Conn is an English actress of Anglo-Indian heritage, born in 1976, known for Lady Mary Sharma in Bridgerton and roles in Gen V and Good Omens 2.
Shelley D. Minteer
Shelley Minteer is an American bioelectrochemist known for enzymatic biofuel cells and wiring nitrogenase to electrodes to make ammonia; she is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Missouri S&T.
Shelley Day
Shelley Day is an American software producer and business executive who co-founded Humongous Entertainment in Woodinville, Washington in 1992, conceived Putt-Putt, and led the studio until 2001.
Shelley Duvall
Shelley Duvall (Shelley Alexis Duvall), American actress and producer (1949–2024), Robert Altman's muse in Brewster McCloud, Nashville, and 3 Women (Cannes Best Actress), Wendy in The Shining, Olive Oyl in Popeye, and creator of Faerie Tale Theatre.
Shelley E. Taylor
Shelley E. Taylor, also known as Shelley Taylor, is an American social psychologist at UCLA known for the tend-and-befriend stress model and research on positive illusions.
Shelley Fabares
Shelley Fabares (Michele Ann Marie Fabares, 1944–2026), American actress and singer; Mary Stone on The Donna Reed Show, number-one 1962 hit "Johnny Angel," three Elvis Presley films, Francine Webster on One Day at a Time, Emmy-nominated as Christine Armstrong on Coach, wife of Mike Farrell.
Shelley Frommeyer
Shelley Funke Frommeyer is an American politician and certified financial planner from Alexandria, Kentucky, who has represented the 24th district in the Kentucky Senate as a Republican since 2023.
Shelley Hack
Shelley Hack (Shelley Marie Hack, born 1947) is an American model, actress and producer, the Revlon Charlie perfume girl who played Tiffany Welles in Charlie's Angels season four (1979–80) before leading Cutter to Houston and Jack and Mike.
Shelley Hennig
Shelley Catherine Hennig (born 1987) is an American actress, Miss Teen USA 2004 winner from Louisiana, known for Days of Our Lives, The Secret Circle, Teen Wolf's Malia Tate, Unfriended, and Obliterated.
Shelley K. Lavender
Shelley K. Lavender is a retired American aerospace executive who was president of Boeing Military Aircraft and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.