All articles starting with T

Tatyana Zakharova Nadyrova

Tatyana Zakharova-Nadyrova (Татьяна Павловна Захарова-Надырова), born 1951, Soviet basketball forward; two Olympic golds (1976, 1980), 1975 world champion, Spartak Noginsk club player.

Tatyana Zalevskaya (Татьяна Залевская) is a Transnistrian politician and sociologist, elected Chairman of the PMR Supreme Council on 3 December 2025, its first woman speaker, after five years heading the Slobozia district council and an academic post at Tiraspol State University.

Tatyana Zelentsova

Tatyana Petrovna Zelentsova (Татьяна Петровна Зеленцова), Soviet 400m hurdler born 1948 in Novorossiysk; first European champion in the event (Prague 1978, 54.89) and twice world record holder in 1978.

Tau (film)

Tau is a 2018 Netflix science fiction thriller, Federico D'Alessandro's directorial debut, starring Maika Monroe, Ed Skrein, and Gary Oldman as the voice of a captive smart-house AI; critics gave it 30% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Tau (mathematics)

Tau, also called the tau constant, is the number theory function that counts the positive divisors of a positive integer, also written d(n) or sigma-zero; tau(12) equals 6.

Tau (particle)

The tau, also called the tau lepton or tauon, is the heaviest charged lepton, an unstable elementary particle discovered in 1975 at SLAC by Martin L. Perl.

Tau (Ταυ)

Tau (Ταυ) is the nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the sound [t]. In Greek numerals it stands for 300, and its name descends from Phoenician taw.

Tau Beta Pi

Tau Beta Pi is an American honor society for engineers, founded at Lehigh University in 1885 and open to students and alumni from all engineering disciplines.

Tau Boötis

Tau Boötis (τ Boötis) is a bright F-type star about 51 light-years away in Boötes, hosting the hot Jupiter Tau Boötis b, discovered in 1996.

Tau Ceti

Tau Ceti (τ Ceti, HD 10700) is a Sun-like star in the constellation Cetus, about 11.9 light-years away. It is the closest single star similar to the Sun and hosts a massive debris disc.

Tau fluvalinate

Tau fluvalinate (Apistan, Mavrik) is a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide-miticide containing two of fluvalinate's four isomers, used against Varroa mites in beehives and crop pests; sodium-channel mode of action, EU-approved, with widespread Varroa resistance.

Tau Gamma Phi

Tau Gamma Phi (Triskelions' Grand Fraternity) is a Philippine fraternity founded at UP Diliman on October 4, 1968 by four founding fathers, with about 800,000 members, repeatedly linked to fatal hazing including the Salilig and Alcedo deaths.

tau Gem

tau Gem (Tau Geminorum) is a K2 giant star about 112 parsecs away in Gemini hosting tau Gem b, a 20.6-Jupiter-mass brown dwarf or gas giant in a 305.5-day, nearly circular 1.17 AU orbit, found by radial velocity in 2013.

Tau Herculis

Tau Herculis, also designated τ Her or HD 147394, is a B5 IV subgiant star in Hercules about 307 light-years away, a spectral standard and slowly pulsating variable.

Tau neutrino

The tau neutrino (ντ) is the third of the three known flavors of neutrino, predicted in 1975 and first directly detected at Fermilab in 2000.

Tau protein

Tau protein: microtubule-associated protein (MAPT gene, six isoforms, 352-441 aa) that stabilizes axonal microtubules; hyperphosphorylated tau forms neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer disease and other tauopathies, measured by tau PET and blood p-tau217 tests.

Tau Scorpii

Tau Scorpii (τ Sco) is a magnetic B-type star of about 15 solar masses in Scorpius, near Antares, and one of the closest massive stars.

Tau tau

Tau tau are carved wooden effigies made by the Toraja people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, representing the dead and standing on burial cliffs as guardians of the tomb.

Taub–NUT space

Taub–NUT space is an exact vacuum solution of Einstein's field equations, a generalization of Schwarzschild spacetime with an added NUT charge interpreted as a gravitomagnetic monopole.

Taubat-un-Nasuh

Taubat-un-Nasuh (توبۃ النصوح) is an Urdu reformist novel by Deputy Nazir Ahmad, widely called his masterpiece, about a Muslim household head's repentance after a near-fatal illness.

Taubaté

Taubaté is a municipality in the Vale do Paraíba, São Paulo, Brazil, between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Founded 1645, city 1842, first Brazilian minting house 1695; 310,739 people (2022 census).

Tauberian theorem

A Tauberian theorem gives conditions under which a summability method's result can be converted back into an ordinary limit, first proved by Alfred Tauber in 1897.

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Tauc plot

A Tauc plot is a graphical method in optical spectroscopy that extrapolates a transformed absorption coefficient to read an optical band gap, introduced by Jan Tauc in 1966.

TauD/TfdA-like domain

TauD/TfdA-like domain (InterPro IPR003819, Pfam PF02668): bacterial Fe(II)/2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase domain named for taurine dioxygenase TauD and herbicide-degrading TfdA, with DSBH fold and ferryl mechanism.

Tauekel Khan

Tauekel Khan (Тәуекел хан) was khan of the Kazakh Khanate from 1582 to 1598, best known for taking the Syr Darya cities and sending the first Kazakh embassy to Moscow in 1594.

Tauern Tunnel fire (1999)

The Tauern Tunnel fire was a 1999 crash and blaze in Austria's Tauern road tunnel that killed 12 people and closed the tunnel for three months.

Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV

Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV was King of Tonga from 1965 until his death in 2006, modernizing education and infrastructure while preserving the kingdom's semi-feudal constitutional order.

Taufik Hidayat

Taufik Hidayat, Indonesian badminton player born 1981 in Bandung; 2004 Athens Olympic men's singles gold medalist and 2005 world champion who beat Lin Dan; six Indonesia Open titles; now Indonesia's Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports (2024).

Taufiq Ismail

Taufiq Ismail is an Indonesian poet, columnist, and editor born in Bukittinggi in 1935, known as a leading figure of the Angkatan '66 literary generation and co-founder of Horison.