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Solomon A. Berson

Solomon A. Berson (1918–1972) was an American physician and endocrinology researcher who co-developed radioimmunoassay for measuring minute quantities of hormones in blood, then chaired medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Oct 21, 2026

Solomon Archipelago

Solomon Archipelago: marine ecoregion (MEOW, Eastern Coral Triangle province) spanning a 1,500 km arc from Bougainville to San Cristobal, with 516 coral species, Ontong Java atolls, Marovo Lagoon, and East Rennell World Heritage site.

Solomon b. Hasdai

Solomon b. Hasdai (שלמה בן חסדאי) was an 8th-century exilarch of Babylonian Jewry, in office from 733 to about 759 and known for appointing geonim of Sura.

Solomon Burke

Solomon Burke (James Solomon McDonald, 1940–2010), American soul and gospel singer, the 'King of Rock 'n' Soul'. Atlantic star of 'Cry to Me' and 'Everybody Needs Somebody to Love'; preacher, mortician, 2001 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, 2003 Grammy winner.

Solomon Feferman

Solomon Feferman (1928–2016) was an American mathematician at Stanford University who shaped proof theory through predicative mathematics and led the editing of Kurt Gödel's five-volume Collected Works.

Sep 29, 2026

Solomon four-group design

The Solomon four-group design is an experimental design introduced by Richard L. Solomon in 1949 that combines pretest-posttest and posttest-only control groups to detect pretest sensitization.

Solomon Grundy (character)

Solomon Grundy (Cyrus Gold) is a DC Comics undead swamp zombie supervillain, created by Alfred Bester and Paul Reinman, first appearing in All-American Comics #61 (October 1944) as a Golden Age Green Lantern (Alan Scott) enemy, later a Batman and Superman foe who resurrects in Slaughter Swamp with changing personality and strength.

Sep 20, 2026

Solomon H. Snyder

Solomon H. Snyder, born 1938 in Washington, D.C., is an American neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins known for the 1973 demonstration of opiate receptors in nervous tissue.

Solomon Hirschell

Solomon Hirschell, also Hirschel or Herschell, was the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the Great Synagogue, London, from 1802 to 1842, the first recognized chief rabbi of Britain.

Solomon Hsiang

Solomon Hsiang is an American climate economist and professor at Stanford who measures the economic and social damages caused by climate change using panel-data econometrics.

Sep 19, 2026

Solomon Hykes

Solomon Hykes is a French engineer and entrepreneur who founded Dotcloud in Paris in 2008, created the Docker open-source container project, and led Docker, Inc. as CEO and then CTO.

Solomon I of Imereti

Solomon I of Imereti (სოლომონ I; 1734–1784) was a king of the Kingdom of Imereti in western Georgia who fought Ottoman dominance and banned the slave trade in captives.

Solomon ibn Gabirol (שלמה בן יהודה אבן גבירול)

Solomon ibn Gabirol (שלמה בן יהודה אבן גבירול; Avicebron), 11th-century Andalusian Jewish poet and Neoplatonist philosopher, author of Fons Vitae and Keter Malkhut, known for Universal Hylomorphism and Divine Will.

Solomon II of Imereti

Solomon II of Imereti, born David, was the last king of Imereti in western Georgia, reigning from 1789 until Russia annexed the kingdom in 1810.

Solomon in Islam (سليمان بن داود)

Solomon in Islam (Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd) is a prophet and king of Israel, son of David, granted command over the wind, the jinn, and bird speech.

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands, a Pacific island state of nearly 1,000 islands (28,400 km²) with capital Honiara, independent since 7 July 1978; ~800,000 Melanesian people, 63 languages, mining-led economy, and close Australian security ties.

Solomon Islands campaign

The Solomon Islands campaign was a series of Allied operations in the Solomon Islands during World War II, beginning with the Guadalcanal landings in August 1942.

Solomon Islands dollar

The Solomon Islands dollar (SBD) is the currency of Solomon Islands, issued solely by the Central Bank of Solomon Islands and first issued in late 1977.

Solomon Islands oral literature

Solomon Islands oral literature is the body of stories, songs, genealogies, and spells passed down by word of mouth, serving as vital evidence in land ownership disputes.

Solomon Islands S-League

Solomon Islands S-League (SIFF Super League, formerly Telekom S-League): the semi-professional top-division football league of the Solomon Islands, founded 2011, based in Honiara; Central Coast FC are reigning champions and the winner qualifies for the OFC Champions League.

Solomon J. Buchsbaum

Solomon J. Buchsbaum was an American plasma physicist who rose to senior vice president at Bell Laboratories and chaired the White House Science Council from 1982 to 1989.

Solomon kaDinuzulu

Solomon kaDinuzulu (Nkayishana Maphumzana Solomon Zulu, also known as Phumuzuzulu kaDinuzulu) was king of the Zulu nation from 1913 to 1933 and founded the first Inkatha movement in the 1920s.

Solomon Kane

Solomon Kane is a fictional Puritan adventurer created by Robert E. Howard, debuting in "Red Shadows" (Weird Tales, August 1928); a God-driven avenger with sword, pistols, and a ju-ju staff, adapted in comics and a 2010 film.

Solomon Kane (film)

Solomon Kane (2009) is a dark fantasy film by Michael J. Bassett based on Robert E. Howard's Puritan avenger, starring James Purefoy. A $40 million France-UK-Czech co-production that earned $19.6 million overseas and reached the US only on video in 2012.

Solomon Kullback

Solomon Kullback (1907–1994) was an American mathematician and cryptanalyst who helped break Japan's Red and Purple cipher machines and later gave his name to the Kullback–Leibler divergence, standard in statistics and machine learning.

Solomon Lefschetz

Solomon Lefschetz (1884–1972) was a Moscow-born, Paris-raised American mathematician who founded algebraic topology, proved the Lefschetz fixed-point theorem, and as Princeton professor and Annals of Mathematics editor built a famous mathematics center.