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W. Wesley Peterson
W. Wesley Peterson was a professor at the University of Hawaii who developed the first algebraic decoding procedure for binary BCH codes and wrote Error-Correcting Codes (1961).
W. Zacheus Cande
W. Zacheus Cande, also published as W. Z. Cande, is a cell and molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for in vitro spindle physiology and maize meiosis research.
W.A. Curtin
William A. Curtin is a materials scientist and Brown University professor known for multiscale modeling of structural metals, including work explaining why magnesium is strong but brittle.
W.A. Hofmeyr
W.A. Hofmeyr, known as Willie Hofmeyr, was a South African newspaperman and National Party organizer who co-founded and chaired De Nasionale Pers, today's Naspers, in 1915.
W.A.S.P. (band)
W.A.S.P. is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1982, led by sole constant member Blackie Lawless. Known for shock rock, the PMRC Filthy Fifteen single Animal, gold albums W.A.S.P. and The Last Command, and the rock opera The Crimson Idol.
W.D. Gaster
W.D. Gaster (W.D. ガスター) is a hidden Undertale character, the Royal Scientist before Alphys who built the CORE and was shattered across time and space, known through fun value events, Wingdings text, and Deltarune allusions.
W.E.
W.E. (2011) is Madonna's second feature film, co-written with Alek Keshishian, a dual-narrative romantic drama about Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII and a 1998 New Yorker obsessed with them; it premiered at Venice, grossed $582.1K, and won a Golden Globe for its song "Masterpiece".
W.E. Stehbens
William E. Stehbens was a New Zealand pathologist, Chair of Pathology at the Wellington Clinical School, and founding director of the Malaghan Institute who challenged the lipid hypothesis of atherosclerosis.
W.H. Irwin McLean
W.H. Irwin McLean, born 1963, is a human geneticist at the University of Dundee known for identifying the filaggrin gene as the major predisposing factor for atopic dermatitis.
W.H. Wilson Tang
W.H. Wilson Tang is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at the Cleveland Clinic known for human studies linking gut microbiota metabolites, especially TMAO, to cardiovascular disease.
W.H.J. Summerskill
W.H.J. Summerskill, born William Hedley John Summerskill, was a British-born hepatologist who directed the Mayo Clinic gastroenterology unit from 1959 until his death in 1977.
W.i.S.H.
W.i.S.H. ("World Inka Stage Hai") is an Indian I-pop girl group formed in 2024 by producer Mikey McCleary with Sony Music India: Ri, Sim, Zo, and Suchi, debuting with "Lazeez" as India's first girl group in 22 years since Viva.
W.I.T.C.H.
W.I.T.C.H. is an Italian Disney comic magazine (2001–2012, 139 issues) created by Elisabetta Gnone with Barbucci and Canepa, following five girls, Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, and Hay Lin, in euromanga style.
W.I.T.C.H. (TV series)
W.I.T.C.H. is an animated series adapted from an Italian Disney comic magazine. It ran for two seasons, following five teenage Guardians defending their world from Prince Phobos.
W.P.M.H. Heemels
W.P.M.H. (Maurice) Heemels is a Dutch control scientist, full professor and Vice-Dean at Eindhoven University of Technology, known for research on hybrid and event-triggered control systems.
W.R. Lieb
W.R. Lieb, William R. Lieb, was a biophysicist at Imperial College London whose decades of research showed that general anesthetics act directly on proteins rather than membrane lipids.
W.S. Winston Ho
W.S. Winston Ho is a Taiwanese-American chemical engineer and National Academy of Engineering member at Ohio State known for polymer membranes that capture carbon dioxide from flue gas.
W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings
W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings is a 1975 American comedy film starring Burt Reynolds as W.W. Bright, a crook robbing gas stations in the 1950s South.
W[1]
W[1] is a complexity class in parameterized complexity theory, the first level of presumed parameterized intractability above FPT, introduced by Rod Downey and Michael Fellows, with k-Clique complete for it.
W[2]
W[2] is a complexity class in parameterized complexity theory, the second level of the W-hierarchy above W[1], defined by weighted CNF-satisfiability; its complete problems include Dominating Set and Set Cover.
w/ Bob & David
w/ Bob & David: 2015 Netflix sketch comedy by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, reuniting the Mr. Show team; four half-hour episodes plus a making-of special, Metascore 76.
W&T Offshore
W&T Offshore, Inc. is a Houston, Texas-based independent producer of oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas, operating almost entirely offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.
W′ and Z′ bosons
W′ and Z′ bosons are hypothetical heavy partners of the Standard Model W and Z bosons, predicted in many extensions and searched for at the LHC.
W12 engine
The W12 engine is a 12-cylinder engine developed by Volkswagen Group. It used a 72-degree VR6 block design to power the Audi A8 and Bentley models until April 2024.
W1A (TV series)
W1A is a BBC Two mockumentary sitcom (2014–2020, 14 episodes plus a Zoom special) by John Morton, satirizing BBC management through Hugh Bonneville's Head of Values Ian Fletcher, with Jessica Hynes and narrator David Tennant.
W3 IRS 5
W3 IRS 5 is a bright infrared source and massive protocluster in the W3 star-forming region of the Perseus arm, about 2.0 kiloparsecs away, hosting several high-mass protostars.
W3(OH)
W3(OH) is an ultra-compact H ii region and star-forming site in the W3 molecular cloud in the Perseus arm, about 2.2 kiloparsecs from the Sun, best known as a rich maser source.
W3C PROV
W3C PROV is a 2013 family of W3C Recommendations for exchanging provenance information, built on PROV-DM's Entity/Activity/Agent model with serializations PROV-O (OWL2 ontology), PROV-N, and PROV-XML.
W54
The W54 was the smallest and lightest nuclear fission warhead ever deployed by the United States, weighing about 51 pounds with yields from 10 tons to 1 kiloton.
W76
The W76 is an American thermonuclear warhead for submarine-launched ballistic missiles, designed by Los Alamos and fielded since 1978 in three versions: W76-0, W76-1, and low-yield W76-2.