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Shiyu Zhang
Shiyu Zhang is a chemistry professor at The Ohio State University known for a 2016 Nature Chemistry paper on nitric oxide binding and a lithium–NOx battery.
Shizenshugi
Shizenshugi (自然主義, "naturalism") is the Japanese literary movement of the late Meiji period, roughly 1906 to 1910, that adapted Émile Zola's naturalism into confessional writing about the author's own life.
Shizhou City Site
施州城址 (Shizhou City Site), Enshi, Hubei: Song-to-Qing walled-city site with old city wall, Liuzhou city ruins, 1270 Watermelon Stele, and Tongtian Cave inscriptions; sixth-batch national key cultural relics protection unit, 2006, number I-162.
Shizuishan
Shizuishan (石嘴山) is a prefecture-level city in northern Ningxia, China, founded in 1960 as the region's first state coal industrial base, known for anthracite, now transforming industrially, with Dawukou, Huinong districts and Pingluo County.
Shizuishan power station
Shizuishan power station (宁夏石嘴山发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Shizuishan, Ningxia, China, with six coal-fired units totaling about 2,020 MW, online from 2002 to 2006.
Shizuka Arakawa
Shizuka Arakawa (荒川静香, born 1981), Japanese figure skater, 2006 Turin Olympic ladies' singles gold medalist, first Asian woman to win the event, 2004 World champion, later professional show skater and Friends on Ice producer.
Shizuo Akira
Shizuo Akira (審良静男, born 1953) is a Japanese immunologist at The University of Osaka who used knockout mice to define what each Toll-like receptor recognizes, discovering TLR9 and TLR7.
Shizuo Kakutani
Shizuo Kakutani (1911–2004) was a Japanese mathematician who spent most of his career at Yale and is best known for the Kakutani fixed-point theorem, a key tool in game theory and economics.
Shizuoka
Shizuoka (静岡市) is the capital of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, a government-designated city since 2005 with three wards (Aoi, Suruga, Shimizu), about 667,500 residents, on Suruga Bay an hour from Tokyo by Shinkansen.
Shizuoka Financial Group
Shizuoka Financial Group is a Japanese bank holding company in Shizuoka City, formed in 2022 as the parent of Shizuoka Bank, with a planned integration of the Bank of Nagoya in 2028.
Shizuoka Gas
Shizuoka Gas (静岡ガス) is a Japanese city gas utility headquartered in Shizuoka City. Founded in 1910, it supplies city gas, LPG, and electricity across central Shizuoka and nearby prefectures.
Shizuoka Prefecture
Shizuoka Prefecture (静岡県), a Pacific-coast prefecture of central Honshu formed in 1876, covering former Suruga, Tōtōmi, and Izu provinces; 10th in population and GDP, 3rd in manufacturing shipments, home to Mount Fuji and Japan's deepest bay.
Shizutani School
Shizutani School (Shizutani Gakkō) is a school for commoners founded in 1670 at Bizen, Okayama, by Ikeda Mitsumasa, often called Japan's first public school for common people.
Shkhara
Shkhara (შხარა), Georgia's highest peak on the Caucasus watershed, surveyed at 5,193.2 m in 2010 though 5,068–5,203 m are also quoted; first climbed 1888, third-highest in Europe after Elbrus and Dykh-Tau.
Shkodër
Shkodër (Shkodra, historically Scutari) is a city and municipality in northwestern Albania on Lake Shkodër, with about 214,897 residents, four major natural-tourism landscapes, and a €100 million Gateway to the Alps infrastructure program.
Shkodër Lake Biosphere Reserve
The Shkodër Lake Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO biosphere reserve around Lake Shkodër in Albania, designated in 2026 and home to over 280 bird species, including the Dalmatian pelican.
Shkodran Mustafi
Shkodran Mustafi, German-Albanian centre back born 1992 in Bad Hersfeld; 2014 World Cup and 2017 Confederations Cup winner with Germany, 20 caps; played for Everton, Sampdoria, Valencia, Arsenal, Schalke, Levante; now DFB youth coach.
Shlisselburg (Шлиссельбург)
Shlisselburg (Шлиссельбург), formerly Oreshek and Nöteborg, is a town in Leningrad Oblast at the Neva's source from Lake Ladoga, founded 1323, site of the Treaty of Nöteborg, Peter the Great's 1702 reconquest, a tsarist political prison, and a WWII fortress defense.
Shlohmo
Shlohmo is the stage name of Henry Laufer, a Los Angeles electronic musician and producer who co-founded Wedidit Records and released albums including Dark Red (2015).
Shloka
Shloka (śloka, श्लोक; also called anuṣṭubh) is the standard verse form of classical Sanskrit poetry, a stanza of four eight-syllable lines predominant in the epics Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa.
Shlomo Amar
Shlomo Moshe Amar is an Israeli Sephardi rabbi who served as Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 2003 to 2013, then as chief rabbi of Jerusalem.
Shlomo Dovrat
Shlomo Dovrat (שלמה דוברת) is an Israeli venture capitalist who co-founded the Viola Group and Viola Ventures after founding two Nasdaq-listed software companies, Oshap and Tecnomatix.
Shlomo Goren (שלמה גורן)
Shlomo Goren (שלמה גורן) was an Israeli rabbi, the first Chief Rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces from 1948 and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1972 to 1983.
Shlomo Halberstam I
Shlomo Halberstam I (1847–1905) was a Galician Hasidic rebbe, grandson of Ḥayim Halberstam of Sanz, who settled in Bobowa in 1892 and founded the Bobov dynasty, establishing the first Hasidic yeshiva.
Shlomo Halberstam II
Shlomo Halberstam (שלמה בן בנציון) was the Bobov Hasidic rebbe from 1941 until his death in 2000 who rebuilt the community in America, founding schools for thousands of students.
Shlomo Havlin
Shlomo Havlin, born in Jerusalem in 1942, is an Israeli physicist at Bar-Ilan University known for work on complex and interdependent networks and the 2018 Israel Prize.
Shlomo Kramer
Shlomo Kramer (שלמה קרמר) is an Israeli cybersecurity entrepreneur, called the Godfather of Israeli cybersecurity, who co-founded Check Point, Imperva, and Cato Networks and leads Cato as CEO.
Shlomo Magdassi
Shlomo Magdassi (שלמה מגדסי) is an Israeli chemist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for conductive nanoparticle inks for printed electronics and 3D printing.
Shlomo Melmed
Shlomo Melmed is a South African-born endocrinologist who served as dean of the medical faculty at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and studies pituitary tumors and acromegaly.
Shlomo Moran
Shlomo Moran (Hebrew: שלמה מורן), born 1947, is an Israeli computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at the Technion in Haifa, known for Arthur–Merlin games and self-stabilizing protocols.