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Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888 to 1970) was an Indian physicist who won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the Raman effect, the basis of Raman spectroscopy.
Sir Charles Sherrington
Sir Charles Sherrington was an English physiologist, Waynflete Professor at Oxford, who won the 1932 Nobel Prize for discoveries about neurons and coined the term "synapse" in 1897.
Sir Creek
Sir Creek: 96-km tidal estuary in the Rann of Kutch disputed between India and Pakistan; Pakistan claims the eastern bank under the 1914 Resolution Maps, India claims mid-channel (thalweg), blocking maritime boundary delimitation in the Arabian Sea.
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (1897–1967) was a British chemist, Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry at Oxford, who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Nikolai Semenov.
Sir Didymus
Sir Didymus is the fox-like canine knight puppet in Jim Henson's 1986 film Labyrinth, guarding the Bog of Eternal Stench bridge; performed by Dave Goelz, voiced by David Shaughnessy, inspired by Terry Jones' dog.
Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet
Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet (1822–1885), Irish lawyer and Liberal MP for Mallow; solicitor general and attorney general for Ireland under Palmerston and Gladstone, master of the rolls (1870), and lord chancellor of Ireland 1883–1885.
Sir Fantasy
Sir Fantasy (Zixu, "Sir Vacuous") is a fictional envoy of Chu invented by the Western Han poet Sima Xiangru as the chief speaker of his Zixu fu.
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet was an Australian virologist and immunologist who won the 1960 Nobel Prize for acquired immunological tolerance and proposed clonal selection theory.
Sir Frederick Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861–1947) was an English biochemist at Cambridge who shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of vitamins, and became its first Professor of Biochemistry.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: late-14th-century Middle English alliterative romance by the anonymous Gawain/Pearl Poet, unique in MS Cotton Nero A.x; beheading game, Green Chapel quest, girdle test of chivalry and Christian faith.
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819–1903) was an Irish-born British mathematical physicist who held the Lucasian Professorship at Cambridge from 1849, derived the Navier–Stokes equations, and named fluorescence.
Sir Gerard Lowther, 1st Baronet
Sir Gerard Augustus Lowther, 1st Baronet (1858–1916) was a British diplomat who served as Ambassador to Turkey from 1908 to 1913, spanning the Young Turk era.
Sir Hans Krebs Lecture and Medal
Sir Hans Krebs Lecture and Medal: FEBS award instituted 1990, endowed by the Lord Rank Centre, for outstanding achievements in biochemistry and molecular biology; silver medal, plenary lecture in The FEBS Journal; distinct from Oxford's Krebs Prize Lecture and the RSC/GDCh Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship.
Sir Harold Kroto
Sir Harold Kroto, known as Harry Kroto, was a British chemist at the University of Sussex who co-discovered C60 buckminsterfullerene and shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Sir Henry Dale
Sir Henry Dale, also known as Henry Hallett Dale, was a British physiologist and pharmacologist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize for discovering chemical transmission of nerve impulses.
Sir Howard Florey
Sir Howard Florey was an Australian pathologist who, with Ernst Chain, purified penicillin for clinical use, sharing the 1945 Nobel Prize with Fleming and Chain.
Sir J. J. School of Art
Sir J. J. School of Art, now Sir J. J. School of Art, Architecture and Design, is a government art school in Mumbai founded in 1857 with a donation from Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy.
Sir James W. Black
Sir James W. Black, also known as James Black, was a Scottish pharmacologist who developed beta-blockers and cimetidine and shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Sir Jinx
Sir Jinx (Anthony Desean Wheaton), Los Angeles hip-hop producer and rapper, cousin of Dr. Dre; C.I.A. and WC and the Maad Circle member; produced Ice Cube's AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and Kool G Rap's Live and Let Die.
Sir John Adams
Sir John Adams, born John Bertram Adams (24 May 1920 – 3 March 1984), was a British accelerator engineer who, despite having no university degree, directed construction of CERN's Proton Synchrotron and Super Proton Synchrotron.
Sir John B. Gurdon
Sir John B. Gurdon, known as John Gurdon, was a British developmental biologist at Cambridge who shared the 2012 Nobel Prize for showing mature cells can be reprogrammed.
Sir John Eccles
Sir John Eccles (1903–1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for work on ionic mechanisms of excitation and inhibition in nerve cell membranes.
Sir John R. Vane
Sir John R. Vane (1927–2004) was a British pharmacologist who shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in Medicine for showing in 1971 how aspirin works and for prostaglandin discoveries.
Sir John Soane's Museum
Sir John Soane's Museum is the London house and museum of architect John Soane at Lincoln's Inn Fields, preserved by Act of Parliament as at his 1837 death.
Sir Kenneth Blaxter
Sir Kenneth Blaxter (1919–1991) was a British agricultural nutritionist, Director of the Rowett Research Institute from 1965 to 1982, whose metabolisable energy system became Britain's official feeding standard.
Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges
The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges, originally the Gateway Bridge, are twin toll bridges carrying the Gateway Motorway across the Brisbane River in Brisbane, Australia, the first opened in 1986.
Sir Mix-a-Lot
Sir Mix-a-Lot (Anthony Ray, born 1963) is a Seattle rapper whose 1992 hit "Baby Got Back" topped the Hot 100 for five weeks and won the 1993 Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance.
SIR model
The SIR model, or SIR epidemic model, is a compartmental model in mathematical epidemiology that divides a population into susceptible, infected, and recovered individuals to predict how disease spreads.
Sir Morris Sugden
Sir Morris Sugden, fully Sir Theodore Morris Sugden, was a British chemist who pioneered measurements of radicals and ions in flames, directed Shell's Thornton Research Centre, and led the Royal Society.
Sir Nevill F. Mott
Sir Nevill Francis Mott (1905–1996) was a British theoretical physicist, Cavendish Professor at Cambridge, who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics and gave his name to the Mott insulator.