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Shijie Zhong
Shijie Zhong (钟时杰) is a Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder who works in geodynamics, using numerical models of mantle convection, plate tectonics, and glacial processes.
Shijō school
The Shijō school (四条派, Shijō-ha) is a school of Japanese painting founded in the late eighteenth century by Matsumura Goshun on Shijō street in Kyoto.
Shik Chi Edman Tsang
Shik Chi Edman Tsang, also known as Shik Chi Tsang, was a materials chemist who worked on heterogeneous catalysis and nanomaterial catalysts as Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford.
Shik Shin
Shik Shin (辛埴, born 1953) is a Japanese condensed-matter physicist at the University of Tokyo, known for high-resolution photoemission studies of superconductors and topological materials.
Shika nuclear power plant
The Shika nuclear power plant (志賀原子力発電所) is a two-reactor plant in Ishikawa, Japan, operated by Hokuriku Electric Power; both units have been offline since 2011.
Shika Wakashū
Shika Wakashū (詞花和歌集), also read Shikashū, is the sixth Japanese imperial anthology of waka poetry, compiled by Fujiwara no Akisuke under Retired Emperor Sutoku and presented in 1151.
Shikaft-e Gulgul
Shikaft-e Gulgul, also written Shikaft-i Gulgul, is a Neo-Assyrian rock relief with a 36-line cuneiform inscription, discovered in 1972 near Gulgul village in Ilam province, western Iran.
Shikaku
Shikaku (四角に切れ, shikaku ni kire), also called Cell Blocks or Rectangles, is a 1989 Nikoli logic puzzle by Yoshinao Anpuku: divide a grid into rectangles, each containing one number equal to its area.
Shikamaru Nara (奈良シカマル)
Shikamaru Nara (奈良シカマル) is a fictional character in Masashi Kishimoto's manga and anime series Naruto, a shadow-manipulating shinobi of Konohagakure's Nara clan with an IQ above 200 who becomes the Eighth Hokage.
Shikao Ikehara
Shikao Ikehara (池原止戈夫, 1904–1984) was a Japanese mathematician who proved the Wiener–Ikehara theorem in 1931 as a doctoral student of Norbert Wiener at MIT; it remains a short route to the prime number theorem.
Shikar Beh
Shikar Beh (Shikarbeh) is a 6,200 m ultra-prominent peak in Himachal Pradesh, India, near the Kulu-Lahul divide; first climbed 16 June 1955 by Stewart, Bennet, and Lees of the RAF Mountaineering Association, and namesake of the Shikar Beh Nappe.
Shikara (2020 film)
Shikara (2020), also promoted as Shikara: The Untold Story of Kashmiri Pandits, is Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Hindi romantic drama about a Kashmiri Pandit couple's 30 years of exile after the 1990 exodus; it flopped at the box office and drew divided community response.
Shikari (শিকারী) (2016 film)
Shikari (শিকারী), 2016 Bengali Bangladesh-India joint-production action drama romance, Shakib Khan and Srabanti Chatterjee, directed by Zakir Hossain and Joydeep Mukherjee; official remake of Tamil Aadhavan (2009); most commercially successful Bengali film of 2016.
Shikarpur (Kutch)
Shikarpur, known locally as Valamiyo Timbo, is an excavated Harappan coastal port and craft production center in Kutch district, Gujarat, occupied from about 2600 to 1900 BCE.
Shikarpur, Sindh
Shikarpur (Urdu: شكار پور), historic trading city and district headquarters in northern Sindh, Pakistan, founded 1617 by Bahadur Khan Daudpota; caravan-trade and banking hub on the Bolan Pass route, protected heritage since 1998.
Shikha Sharma
Shikha Sharma is an Indian banker who was managing director and CEO of ICICI Prudential Life from 2000 to 2009 and of Axis Bank from 2009 to 2018.
Shikhandi (शिखण्डी)
Shikhandi (शिखण्डी, Śikhaṇḍin) is the Mahabharata warrior, child of Drupada and rebirth of Amba, born female, transformed male by the yaksha Sthunakarna, and instrumental in Bhishma's fall at Kurukshetra.
Shikhar Dhawan (शिखर धवन)
Shikhar Dhawan (शिखर धवन), 'Gabbar' or 'Mr ICC', Indian left-handed opening batter; 34 Tests, 167 ODIs, 68 T20Is, 10,867 runs; fastest century on Test debut (85 balls); retired 24 August 2024.
Shikhar Pahariya (शिखर पहाड़िया)
Shikhar Pahariya is an Indian entrepreneur, born in 1997, who founded the Mumbai gaming startups Jeetoh and Indiawyn and is a grandson of former Maharashtra chief minister Sushilkumar Shinde.
Shikharji (शिखरजी)
Shikharji, also called Sammed Shikharji or Parasnath Hill, is a mountain in Giridih district, Jharkhand, India, where Jains believe twenty of the twenty-four tirthankaras attained nirvana.
Shiki Theatre Company
Shiki Theatre Company, also known as Gekidan Shiki, is a Yokohama-based Japanese theater company founded in 1953 that stages Western musicals and original works in its own theaters.
Shiki Yagai
Shiki Yagai (矢貝史樹) is a Japanese supramolecular chemist and professor at Chiba University, known for hydrogen-bonded dye assemblies and self-assembled polycatenanes reported in Nature in 2020.
Shikibushō
Shikibushō (式部省), the Ministry of Ceremonial, was one of the eight ministries of Japan's ancient ritsuryō state, ranking and appointing civil officials and overseeing the Daigakuryō university.
Shikimate dehydrogenase
Shikimate dehydrogenase (SDH, EC 1.1.1.25, AroE) is the NADPH-dependent enzyme of the fourth shikimate pathway step, reducing 3-dehydroshikimate to shikimate in plants and microbes; absent in mammals, it heads a five-class enzyme family and is a herbicide and antimicrobial drug target.
Shikimic acid
Shikimic acid (CAS 138-59-0), a hydroaromatic plant and microbial metabolite and precursor of oseltamivir (Tamiflu), is mainly extracted from star anise seeds or produced by fermentation in engineered E. coli and Corynebacterium glutamicum.
Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie (可愛いだけじゃない式守さん)
Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie (可愛いだけじゃない式守さん, Kawaii dake ja nai Shikimori-san) is Keigo Maki's romantic comedy manga serialized on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket from 2019 to 2023 in 20 volumes, adapted into a 2022 Doga Kobo anime about unlucky Izumi and his cool-when-needed girlfriend Shikimori.
Shikinen sengū
Shikinen sengū (式年遷宮) is the ceremony held every 20 years at Ise Jingū in Japan, rebuilding the shrine buildings on an adjacent site and transferring the deities.
Shikitei Sanba
Shikitei Sanba (式亭三馬, 1776–1822) was a Japanese gesaku author of the late Edo period, best known for the comic works Ukiyoburo and Ukiyodoko, which portray Edo commoners through their conversation.
Shikken
The shikken (執権) was the shogunal regent of Japan's Kamakura shogunate, created in 1203 and held hereditarily by the Hōjō clan, who ruled as the shogun's guardians.
Shikoku (四国)
Shikoku (四国) is the smallest of Japan's four main islands, between the Seto Inland Sea and the Pacific, comprising Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, and Kochi prefectures; known for the 88 Temple Pilgrimage and Nankai Trough earthquake hazard.