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Ulnar-mammary syndrome
Ulnar-mammary syndrome (Pallister ulnar-mammary syndrome, Schinzel syndrome, UMS): rare autosomal dominant TBX3 (12q24.21) disorder with ulnar limb defects, mammary/apocrine hypoplasia, genital anomalies, delayed puberty; ~128 reported cases.
Uloboridae
Uloboridae, the hackled orb weavers or feather-legged spiders, is a spider family (Thorell, 1869; 20 genera, 284 species) unique in lacking venom glands, subduing prey by prolonged silk wrapping and digestive fluids.
Ulotaront
Ulotaront (SEP-363856) is an experimental antipsychotic acting at TAAR1 and 5-HT1A receptors without D2 blockade, developed for schizophrenia; its Phase 3 trials failed in 2023.
Ulozhenie of 1607
The Ulozhenie of 1607 (Уложение 1607 года) was a Russian statute issued by Tsar Vasily Shuisky in 1607 that bound peasants to the land and set a 15-year limit on recovering fugitives.
Ulozhenie on servitude of 1597 (forbidden years and fugitive statute)
The Ulozhenie on servitude of 1597 (Уложение 1597 года о беглых) was a Russian decree setting a five-year limit on suing for the return of fugitive peasants.
Ulozhennaya Komissiya of 1754
The Ulozhennaya Komissiya of 1754, also known as the Ulozhennaya komissiya of 1754–1766, was a Russian commission created under Empress Elizaveta Petrovna to draft a new law code.
Ulpan
Ulpan (Ұлпан) is a 1974 historical novel by the Kazakh writer Gabit Musrepov, portraying a wise Kazakh woman who comes to lead her people in the 19th century.
Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa
Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa (Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augusta Dacica Sarmizegetusa), Roman colonia founded 108-110 by governor Decimus Terentius Scaurianus; capital of Roman Dacia in the Hateg Basin, Hunedoara County, Romania, about 40 km from the Dacian capital Sarmizegetusa Regia, with forum, amphitheater, and ius Italicum.
Ulpian
Ulpian (Domitius Ulpianus), Tyrian Roman jurist of the early 3rd century, chief adviser and praetorian prefect of Alexander Severus, murdered by the guard; over 40 percent of Justinian's Digest comes from his writings.
Ulpiano Vergara
Ulpiano Vergara, known as El Mechi Blanco, is a Panamanian accordionist, composer, and bandleader of música típica who has recorded more than 600 songs since 1970.
Ulric Neisser
Ulric Neisser was a German-born American cognitive psychologist, known as the father of cognitive psychology for his 1967 book Cognitive Psychology, which gave shape to and named the field.
Ulrich Baensch
Ulrich Baensch was a German natural scientist who founded the aquarium-products company Tetra in Hanover in 1951 and developed TetraMin, the world's first industrially produced flake fish food.
Ulrich Brose
Ulrich Brose is a German ecologist who works on food-web theory and allometric scaling, leading the Theory in Biodiversity Science group at iDiv and serving as a professor at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
Ulrich Dempwolff
Ulrich Dempwolff (born 1945 in Saalfeld) is a German mathematician who worked on finite groups, finite geometries, and combinatorics, and was professor at Kaiserslautern from 1976 to 2010.
Ulrich Eder
Ulrich Eder is a German chemist who worked at Schering in Berlin and in 1971 co-reported the proline-catalyzed asymmetric cyclisation to the Wieland–Miescher ketone, later named a precursor of organocatalysis in the 2021 Nobel Prize background.
Ulrich Finsterwalder
Ulrich Finsterwalder (1897–1988) was a German structural engineer who spent his career at Dyckerhoff & Widmann in Munich and pioneered the Dywidag prestressing system and free cantilever bridge erection.
Ulrich Gehring
Ulrich Gehring (1935–2019) was a molecular biologist at UCSF and Heidelberg University known for genetic analysis of steroid hormone receptor defects and work on hsp70 molecular chaperones.
Ulrich H. Koszinowski
Ulrich H. Koszinowski is a German virologist and immunologist known for work on how cytomegaloviruses block MHC antigen presentation and for the first infectious herpesvirus BAC clone.
Ulrich H. von Andrian
Ulrich H. von Andrian is a German-trained immunologist who is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Immunopathology at Harvard Medical School, known for intravital microscopy and T cell migration.
Ulrich Heinz
Ulrich Heinz is an emeritus professor of physics at Ohio State University known for his theory work on quark-gluon plasma and relativistic viscous hydrodynamics in heavy-ion collisions.
Ulrich Hübscher
Ulrich Hübscher is a Swiss molecular biologist and biochemist at the University of Zurich known for his work on eukaryotic DNA polymerases and DNA repair.
Ulrich II of Rosenberg
Ulrich II of Rosenberg (Oldřich II. z Rožmberka, 1403–1462) was a Bohemian nobleman who led the Catholic nobility through the Hussite Wars and served as regent of Bohemia from 1438 to 1448.
Ulrich K. Laemmli
Ulrich K. Laemmli (U.K. Laemmli), born in Schaffhausen in 1940, is a Swiss molecular biologist who developed the standard SDS-PAGE protein method in 1970 and later studied chromosome scaffold structure at the University of Geneva.
Ulrich Karnatz
Ulrich Karnatz (born 1952, Rostock) is an East German rower, double Olympic gold medalist in the men's coxed eight at Montréal 1976 and Moskva 1980, and four-time world champion; later a frigate captain and Warnemünde fish-shop CEO.
Ulrich Keyser
Ulrich F. Keyser is a physicist and Professor of Applied Physics at the University of Cambridge, known for combining DNA nanotechnology with solid-state nanopore sensing for disease detection.
Ulrich Klaes
Ulrich Klaes (born 1946, Essen) is a German former field hockey player, Rot-Weiss Köln right winger who won Olympic gold with West Germany at the 1972 Munich Games, beating Pakistan 1-0 in the final, and earned nine caps.
Ulrich Kons
Ulrich Kons (born 1955, Greifswald) is a German rower who won Olympic gold in the men's eights for East Germany at Moscow 1980, plus world titles in the 1977 eights and 1982 coxed four.
Ulrich Lange (German CSU politician)
Ulrich Lange is a German CSU politician who has represented Donau-Ries in the Bundestag since 2009 and has been a Transport Ministry state secretary since 2025.
Ulrich Laufs
Ulrich Laufs is a German cardiologist who became Professor of Cardiology at Leipzig University in 2017, known for work showing statins raise endothelial nitric oxide synthase.
Ulrich Müller
Ulrich Müller is a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor known for identifying the molecular machinery that cochlear hair cells use to convert sound into electrical signals.