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Shunichi Fukuzumi
Shunichi Fukuzumi (福住 俊一) is a Japanese chemist known for bioinspired artificial photosynthesis and electron-transfer chemistry, and a Professor Emeritus of Osaka University since 2015.
Shunichi Takeda
Shunichi Takeda (武田 俊一) is a Japanese molecular biologist, professor at Kyoto University since 1998, known for establishing the chicken DT40 line to study DNA repair and homologous recombination.
Shunji Hardware Store
Shunji Hardware Store (顺记) was a Shanghai trading house founded in 1862 by Ye Chengzhong, the first Chinese-owned firm in the city dealing in imported hardware.
Shunkan
Shunkan (俊寛) was a Japanese Shingon priest of the late Heian period who joined the failed Shishigatani Conspiracy of 1177 and was exiled to Kikaiga-shima, left behind when a pardon freed his two fellow exiles.
Shunning
Shunning is deliberate, sustained social withdrawal used as discipline by communities such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Amish, and Exclusive Brethren; a formalized form of ostracism with documented pain, need threat, and long-term psychological harm.
Shunroku Hata (畑俊六)
Shunroku Hata (畑俊六, 1879–1962), Japanese field marshal and artillerist; War Minister 1939–40, commander of the China Expeditionary Army 1941–44 during Operation Ichigō; sentenced to life imprisonment at the Tokyo trial, paroled 1954.
Shunsuke Chiba
Shunsuke Chiba (千葉俊介, born 1978) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, known for radical chemistry and photoredox catalysis.
Shunsuke Ishii
Shunsuke Ishii (石井 俊輔) is a Japanese molecular biologist and Chief Scientist at RIKEN Tsukuba since 1989, known for showing that stress effects can be inherited through chromatin changes.
Shunsuke Managi
Shunsuke Managi (馬奈木 俊介) is a Japanese environmental economist at Kyushu University known for developing the Inclusive Wealth Index, a sustainability measure that goes beyond GDP.
Shunsuke Nakamura (中村俊輔)
Shunsuke Nakamura (中村俊輔), born 1978 in Yokohama, Japanese left-footed playmaker; Celtic star 2005-2009 winning three titles, 98 Japan caps, record J1 free-kick scorer, later Japan national team coach.
Shunt (electrical)
A shunt, also called an ammeter shunt, is a low-value precision resistor that lets a circuit's full current be measured from the small voltage drop across it.
Shunt reactor
A shunt reactor is an inductive device connected in parallel with high-voltage transmission lines to absorb capacitive reactive power, preventing excessive voltages on lightly loaded lines and cables.
Shunt resistor
A shunt resistor is a low-value precision resistor placed in series with a circuit so its small voltage drop gives a measurement of the current flowing through it.
Shuntaro Tanikawa
Shuntaro Tanikawa (谷川俊太郎), 1931–2024, was a Japanese poet and lyricist who debuted in 1952 with Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude and became one of Japan's most widely read modern poets.
Shunting (rail)
Shunting, called switching in North America, is the movement of rail vehicles within a yard to attach, detach, or rearrange them, done at scale in classification yards.
Shunting locomotive
A shunting locomotive, called a switcher or yard goat in American English, is a railway traction unit that moves wagons and carriages over short distances in yards, stations, and depots.
Shunuhra-Ammu
Šunuḫru-ammu, also written Shunuhru-Ammu, was a ruler of the kingdom of Hana on the middle Euphrates, attested by dated tablets from Terqa and placed around 1650 BC.
Shunyi Prefecture
Shunyi Prefecture (顺义军) was a military prefecture of the Liao dynasty, headed by a military commissioner and staffed under the Jin dynasty with a vice-commissioner and a judge.
Shunyu Yao (姚顺雨)
Shunyu Yao (姚顺雨) is a Chinese computer scientist trained at Tsinghua and Princeton who created ReAct and Tree of Thoughts and became Tencent's Chief AI Scientist in 2025.
Shunzei's Daughter
Shunzei's Daughter (俊成女), also called Shunzei Kyō no Musume, was a leading Japanese poet of the early Kamakura period who served the retired emperor Go-Toba.
Shunzhi Emperor
Shunzhi Emperor (順治帝), personal name Fulin (1638–1661), third Qing emperor and first to rule from Beijing; child successor of Hong Taiji under regent Dorgon, personal ruler from 1651, died 1661 succeeded by Kangxi.
Shunzong abdication
The Shunzong abdication (永贞内禅) was the removal of the ill Emperor Shunzong of Tang China in 805, in favor of his son the future Emperor Xianzong.
Shunzong Shilu
The Shunzong Shilu (顺宗实录) is the veritable record of Emperor Shunzong of Tang, compiled by Han Yu in five juan and covering the Yongzhen year of 805.
Shuo Fu
Shuo Fu (說郛) is a Chinese collectanea of excerpts from classical and medieval works, compiled by the late Yuan scholar Tao Zongyi and preserving many lost texts.
Shuo Li
Shuo Li is a medical image analysis and AI researcher at Case Western Reserve University who directs the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics.
Shuo Lin
Shuo Lin (林硕) is a developmental biologist and geneticist who has been a professor at UCLA since 2003, known for making retroviral vectors usable in zebrafish and for zebrafish genome-editing methods.
Shuo Wang
Shuo Wang is a Chinese-born American entrepreneur who cofounded Deel, the global payroll and HR company, in 2019 and serves as its chief revenue officer.
Shuo Yue Quanzhuan
Shuo Yue Quanzhuan (说岳全传), also known as Jingzhong Yue Zhuan, is a Qing dynasty novel by Qian Cai telling the life of Song general Yue Fei.
Shuofang Army
The Shuofang Army (朔方军) was a Tang dynasty frontier commissionership, created under Emperor Xuanzong in 721 to defend against the Later Turks and shield Chang'an.
Shuofang Commandery Ancient City Sites
朔方郡故城, Shuofang Commandery ancient city sites, Han dynasty ruins in Bayannur and Dengkou, Inner Mongolia; sixth-batch national heritage site (2006, Ⅰ-35) covering 22.5 million m², including Linrong, Sanfeng, Yuhun, Woye, and Linhe city sites.