All articles starting with S

Shlomo P. Neuman

Shlomo P. Neuman, also known as Shlomo Peter Neuman, is a hydrogeologist and Regents Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992.

Shlomo Shamai

Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) is an Israeli information theorist, a Distinguished Professor at the Technion since 1986, known for work on the capacity of wireless channels.

Shlomo Shinnar is an American child neurologist and epilepsy researcher, Professor Emeritus at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for leading the FEBSTAT study of prolonged febrile seizures in children.

Shlomo Sternberg

Shlomo Sternberg (1936–2024) was an American mathematician at Harvard University known for work in differential and symplectic geometry, Lie theory, and applications of geometry to mechanics and physics.

Shmita (שמיטה)

Shmita (שמיטה), also spelled shemittah or shemitah, is the sabbatical year of Jewish law, when fields in the Land of Israel rest and private debts are canceled.

Shmoo

Shmoo (plural shmoon), fictional gourd-shaped creature created by Al Capp, introduced in Li'l Abner on August 31, 1948; provides all human needs, sparked the 1948–1952 Shmoo Craze, and became an economics allegory.

Oct 21, 2026

SHMT1

SHMT1 (serine hydroxymethyltransferase 1, EC 2.1.2.1) is the human 17p11.2 gene encoding cytosolic, PLP-dependent serine-glycine interconversion in folate one-carbon metabolism, with nuclear thymidylate synthesis, RNA-binding, and L474F variant roles, distinct from mitochondrial SHMT2.

Oct 21, 2026

SHMT2

SHMT2, also called mSHMT, is a human gene on chromosome 12 encoding the mitochondrial enzyme serine hydroxymethyltransferase, which converts serine to glycine and is strongly elevated in most cancers.

Shmuel Agmon

Shmuel Agmon (1922–2025) was an Israeli mathematician at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, best known for the Agmon–Douglis–Nirenberg regularity theory and Agmon's method for eigenfunction decay.

Shmuel Eisenstadt

Shmuel Eisenstadt (Hebrew: שמואל אייזנשטדט, 1923–2010) was an Israeli sociologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for the ideas of Axial Age civilizations and multiple modernities.

Shmuel Elitzur

Shmuel Elitzur is an Israeli physicist and full professor at the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for the 1975 result called Elitzur's theorem.

Sep 20, 2026

Shmuel Muallem

Shmuel Muallem is an Israeli-born physiologist who studies calcium signaling and bicarbonate transport in epithelial cells, and has led a research section at the NIH since 2010.

Oct 22, 2026

Shmuel Niger

Shmuel Niger (שמואל ניגער), pen name of Shmuel Charney, was a Yiddish literary critic and historian from Dukora, Belorussia, who became the most influential Yiddish critic of his decade.

Shmuel Penchas

Shmuel Penchas is a Jerusalem physician who ran the Hadassah Medical Organization for eighteen years and argued that health care reform may be logically impossible.

Shmuel Safra

Shmuel Safra, often called Muli Safra, is a professor of computer science at Tel Aviv University known for work on probabilistically checkable proofs and Boolean function analysis.

Shmuel Schneersohn (Maharash)

Shmuel Schneersohn (1834–1882), known in Chabad tradition as the Rebbe Maharash, led the Chabad-Lubavitch movement from 1866 to 1882, organizing communal defense against Russian pogroms and teaching lechatchilah ariber, "In the first place, go over!"

Shmuel Shimon Oren

Shmuel Shimon Oren is an operations researcher and engineer, a professor at UC Berkeley and National Academy of Engineering member known for designing restructured electricity markets.

Shmuel Winograd

Shmuel Winograd (1936–2019) was an Israeli-born mathematician and computer scientist at IBM's Watson Research Center, known for fast algorithms for the Fourier transform and convolutions.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (שמואל יוסף עגנון)

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (S.Y. Agnon, born Czaczkes) was an Israeli Hebrew novelist from Buczacz, Galicia; first Israeli Nobel laureate (Literature 1966, shared with Nelly Sachs), only Hebrew writer on the list, two-time Israel Prize winner.

Shmuley Boteach

Shmuley Boteach, also known as Rabbi Shmuley, is an American Orthodox rabbi and bestselling author of Kosher Sex who hosted the TLC show Shalom in the Home.

Shnayer Leiman

Shnayer Leiman (שניאור זלמן ליימן), also published as Sid Leiman, is a rabbi and Jewish studies scholar, professor emeritus of Jewish history and literature at Brooklyn College.

Shneior Lifson

Shneior Lifson (שניאור ליפסון) was an Israeli chemical physicist at the Weizmann Institute who founded the modern theory of molecular force fields and mentored two 2013 Nobel laureates.

Shneur Zalman of Liadi

Shneur Zalman of Liadi, known in Chabad tradition as the Alter Rebbe, was the founder and first rebbe of Chabad Hasidism and the author of the Tanya, dying in 1813 while fleeing Napoleon's invasion of Russia.

Sep 24, 2026

Shō Hashi

Shō Hashi (尚巴志, 1372–1439) was a Ryukyuan ruler who overthrew the kings of Chūzan, Hokuzan, and Nanzan on Okinawa and founded the unified Ryukyu Kingdom in 1429, ruling from Shuri Castle.

Sho Kosugi (ショー・コスギ)

Sho Kosugi (ショー・コスギ, born 1948, Tokyo) is a Japanese martial artist and actor, All Japan Karate Champion, who starred in the 1980s Cannon ninja trilogy and became the first million-dollar Japanese Hollywood star, returning as Lord Ozunu in Ninja Assassin (2009).

Sho Madjozi

Sho Madjozi (Maya Christinah Xichavo Wegerif, born 1992) is a South African rapper from Limpopo rapping in Xitsonga, Swahili and English; known for "Huku", "John Cena", Limpopo Champions League, SAMAs and a BET Award.

Sep 24, 2026

Shō Nei

Shō Nei (尚寧) was the seventh king of the Ryukyu Kingdom's Second Shō dynasty, reigning 1589 to 1620. His reign was defined by Satsuma's 1609 invasion and his forced journey to Kagoshima and Edo.

Sep 24, 2026

Shō Shin

Shō Shin (尚真) was the third king of the Second Shō dynasty of the Ryukyu Kingdom, reigning from 1477 to 1527 and centralizing rule from Shuri Castle.

Oct 15, 2026

Sho-Vel-Tum Oil Field

Sho-Vel-Tum, named for the merged Sholom Alechem, Velma, and Tussy fields, is a giant oil field in southern Oklahoma producing continuously since 1914 and ranking as Oklahoma's largest.