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Zengyi Shao
Zengyi Shao is a synthetic biologist and metabolic engineer at Iowa State University who received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Zengzi
Zengzi (曾子), given name Shen (参), was a Confucian philosopher and disciple of Confucius whose school made filial piety the root of morality, bridging Confucius and Mencius.
Zenia Stampe
Zenia Stampe, born in 1979 in Roskilde, is a Danish politician of Radikale Venstre, a Folketing member since 2011, and Minister for Culture since 2026.
Zenica
Zenica, city in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, seat of Zenica-Doboj Canton, in the Bosna River valley 70 km north of Sarajevo; first mentioned 1436, a steel and coal center whose 130-year-old steelworks shut down in 2026.
ZeniMax Media
ZeniMax Media, also ZeniMax Media Inc., is a Rockville, Maryland video game holding company founded in 1999 by Christopher Weaver and Robert A. Altman, owning Bethesda Softworks, id Software, and ZeniMax Online Studios; Microsoft acquired it in 2021 for $7.5 billion announced ($8.1 billion total).
Zenit (rocket family)
Zenit (Зенит) was a Soviet and Ukrainian family of liquid-fueled launch vehicles developed by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, first flown in 1985 and retired in 2017.
Zenit (Зеніт) (rocket family)
Zenit (Зеніт) is a family of liquid-fueled launch vehicles developed by the Yuzhnoe Design Bureau in Dnipro, Ukraine, first flown in 1985 as part of the Soviet Energia program.
Zenit-3SL
Zenit-3SL, also known as the Zenit-3SL rocket, was a three-stage launch vehicle that Sea Launch flew from an ocean platform on the equator from 1999 to 2014.
Zenith
The zenith is the point on the celestial sphere directly above a given observer, the direction opposite the nadir; a star there has an altitude of 90 degrees.
Zenith Bank
Zenith Bank is a Nigerian commercial bank founded by Jim Ovia in 1990, listed on the Nigerian and London stock exchanges and among Nigeria's largest banks.
Zenith Electronics
Zenith Electronics, historically Zenith Radio Corporation, is an American electronics company founded in Chicago in 1918, known for the wireless TV remote and now LG's U.S. research subsidiary.
Zenithal hourly rate
The zenithal hourly rate (ZHR) is the standard measure of a meteor shower's activity, the number of meteors one observer would see per hour with the radiant at the zenith under ideal dark skies.
Zenji Hiroi
Zenji Hiroi (廣井善二) is a Japanese condensed matter physicist and professor at the University of Tokyo's Institute for Solid State Physics, known for discovering pyrochlore oxide superconductors.
Zenji Nishiyama (西山善次)
Zenji Nishiyama (西山善次, 1901–1991) was a Japanese metallurgist at Osaka University, a leader in martensitic transformation research and the namesake of the Nishiyama orientation relationship.
Zenker Brothers
Zenker Brothers is a Munich-based techno duo of brothers Dario and Marco Zenker, founders of the Ilian Tape label, formed in 2008 and known for back-to-back DJ sets.
Zenker's diverticulum
Zenker's diverticulum, also called a pharyngeal or pharyngoesophageal diverticulum, is an outpouching at the junction of the pharynx and esophagus that causes difficulty swallowing and regurgitation of food in elderly men.
Zenkō-ji Amida Triad
The Zenkō-ji Amida Triad, also called Zenkō-ji Nyorai, is a secret Buddha at Zenkō-ji temple in Nagano, Japan, showing Amida flanked by Kannon and Seishi within a single halo.
Zenkō-ji faith
Zenkō-ji faith (善光寺信仰) is the Japanese Buddhist devotion centered on Zenkō-ji temple in Nagano City and its hidden Amida triad, venerated as a living Buddha that saves anyone regardless of sect.
Zenkunen War
The Zenkunen War (前九年の役) was a war in northern Honshu from 1051 to 1062 in which Minamoto no Yoriyoshi destroyed the Abe clan of Mutsu Province.
ZenLeads Inc.
ZenLeads Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated software company doing business as Apollo (Apollo.io), a lead generation and sales communication platform for business customers, based in Walnut, California.
ZenML
ZenML is an open-source MLOps framework for production ML and LLM pipelines: Python steps compose into DAG pipelines, artifacts are versioned, and infrastructure is abstracted behind configurable stacks.
Zenner
Zenner is a German manufacturer of water, heat, and gas meters headquartered in Saarbrücken, founded in 1903 and now a leading provider of LoRaWAN-based IoT infrastructure for utilities.
Zeno (emperor)
Zeno (Tarasicodissa of Rousamblada, c. 425/430 to 9 April 491) was Eastern Roman emperor 474–475 and 476–491; he survived Basiliscus's usurpation and the revolt of Illus, issued the Henotikon of 482, and sent Theodoric to Italy in 488.
Zeno Colo
Zeno Colò (Zeno Colo), Italian alpine skier (1920-1993) from Abetone; 1950 Aspen world champion in downhill and giant slalom, 1952 Oslo Olympic downhill gold, Italy's first alpine skiing Olympic gold, flying-kilometer record holder, disqualified for professionalism in 1954.
Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Citium (Zenon of Kition, Ζήνων ὁ Κιτιεύς), ca. 334/333–262/261 BC, Phoenician-descended merchant from Cyprus who, after a shipwreck, founded the Stoic school in Athens' Stoa Poikile, origin of the name Stoicism.
Zeno of Elea (Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεάτης)
Zeno of Elea (Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεάτης, c. 490–425 BC), Parmenides' pupil in the Eleatic School, Greek philosopher famous for forty paradoxes of plurality and motion (Dichotomy, Achilles, Arrow, Stadium); his book is lost, known via Plato, Aristotle, Simplicius.
Zeno's Conscience
Zeno's Conscience (La coscienza di Zeno) is a 1923 novel by Italo Svevo, a classic of Italian literature told as the memoirs of an inept Trieste businessman.
Zeno's paradoxes
Zeno's paradoxes, from Zeno of Elea (Ζήνων), fifth-century BC Eleatic arguments against motion and plurality: Dichotomy, Achilles and the Tortoise, Arrow, Stadium; resolved via Aristotle, then calculus, the Standard Solution, and infinitesimals.
Zenobe Energy
Zenobē, filing name Zenobe Energy, is a British battery infrastructure company founded in 2017 that owns grid-scale batteries on the GB transmission network and electrifies bus fleets.
Zenobia
Zenobia (Bat-Zabbai, c. 240 – after 274 CE) was queen of Palmyra who, as regent for Vaballathus, ruled a breakaway Near Eastern empire reaching Egypt, was defeated and captured by Aurelian in 272, and lives on in twin Greco-Latin and Arab (al-Zabbāʾ) traditions.