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Albemarle Sound

Albemarle Sound is a large, shallow brackish lagoon in northeastern North Carolina, the northern part of the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine System behind the Outer Banks barrier islands.

Alben W. Barkley (1877–1956), Kentucky congressman, Senate majority leader 1937–1947, and Truman's vice president 1949–1953, nicknamed 'The Veep'; died in 1956 after his famous 'servant in the House of the Lord' speech.

Albendazole

Albendazole, a synthetic benzimidazole anthelmintic (ALBENZA), treats worm infections in humans and livestock. Discovered 1972 by Robert J. Gyurik, human-approved 1981; binds parasite β-tubulin, blocking microtubules; key WHO deworming drug.

Alberico Catapano

Alberico L. Catapano, born 1952, is an Italian pharmacologist at the University of Milan who studies lipid metabolism and atherosclerosis, chaired the 2016 ESC/EAS dyslipidaemia guidelines, and led the LIPIGEN registry.

Alberobello

Alberobello, Puglia town inscribed by UNESCO in 1996 as The Trulli of Alberobello (trulli), known for over 1,500 mortarless corbelled limestone dwellings with conical roofs in Rione Monti and Aia Piccola.

Oct 20, 2026

Albers-Schönberg osteopetrosis

Albers-Schönberg osteopetrosis (autosomal dominant osteopetrosis type II, ADOII, marble bone disease) is a CLCN7-related sclerosing bone disorder with sandwich vertebrae, fractures in 60-80% of carriers, prevalence up to 1:20,000, first described in 1904.

Albert

Albert: primarily Lake Albert (Mwitanzige, formerly Lake Mobutu Sese Seko), a transboundary rift lake shared by Uganda (54%) and DR Congo (46%), fed by the Semliki and Victoria Nile, draining as the Albert Nile; also a South Australian lake named in 1840.

Sep 29, 2026

ALBERT (language model)

ALBERT is a transformer-based language model architecture that reduces BERT-style encoder parameters through factorized embeddings and cross-layer sharing, reported in 2019 and released as open source.

Albert A. Dorman

Albert A. Dorman (1926–2023) was an American civil engineer who founded, chaired, and served as first CEO of AECOM, and was the civil engineer of record for Disneyland.

Albert A. Koelmans

Albert A. Koelmans, known as Bart Koelmans, is a Dutch environmental chemist and full professor at Wageningen University whose research addresses microplastic and nanoplastic pollution.

Albert A. Michelson

Albert A. Michelson, also known as Albert Abraham Michelson, was a German-born American physicist at the University of Chicago who won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Albert A. Mullin

Albert A. Mullin, also known as Albert Alkins Mullin, was an American mathematician and Army colonel best known for the Euclid–Mullin prime-generating sequence, posed in 1963.

Albert Adomah

Albert Danquah Adomah, born 1987 in Lambeth, London, is a Ghanaian right winger playing for Walsall. Championship's all-time appearance record holder (525), 19 Ghana caps, 2014 World Cup squad member.

Albert Aguayo

Albert Juan Aguayo, born in Argentina in 1934, is an Argentine Canadian neurologist at McGill University whose experiments showed adult central nervous system axons can regrow.

Albert algebra

The Albert algebra, also called the exceptional Jordan algebra, is the 27-dimensional real Jordan algebra of 3×3 Hermitian matrices over the octonions, the only simple Jordan algebra that is not special.

Albert Almora

Albert Almora Jr. (Reinaldo Albert Almora Jr.), American outfielder drafted sixth overall by the Cubs in 2012 out of Mater Academy; 2016 World Series champion defense-first center fielder later with Mets and Reds.

Sep 19, 2026

Albert An

Albert An is a trading executive who has been Chief Executive Officer of Tower Research Capital, a New York quantitative proprietary trading firm, since 2019.

Albert Anastasia

Albert Anastasia (Umberto Anastasio, 1902-1957), 'Lord High Executioner' of Murder, Inc. and boss of the future Gambino crime family, controlled the Brooklyn waterfront until Vito Genovese and Carlo Gambino had him shot in a Manhattan barbershop on October 25, 1957.

Albert Andersson

Albert Andersson (Albert Per Andersson, 1902–1977), Swedish gymnast and hurdler from Tomelilla; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in Swedish-system team gymnastics, then competed in 110 m hurdles and decathlon at Amsterdam 1928.

Albert Apponyi

Albert Apponyi (1846–1933) was a Hungarian statesman and count, education minister behind the Lex Apponyi school laws and head of Hungary's delegation at the Paris Peace Conference.

Albert Arnheiter

Albert Stephan Arnheiter (1890–1945), German rower of Ludwigshafener Ruderverein; won gold in the men's coxed fours at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics with Wilker and the Fickeisen brothers; killed in action in Italy in 1945.

Albert Azaryan

Albert Azaryan (Ալբէրտ Ազարյան, 1929–2023), Armenian Soviet gymnast, "King of the Rings"; first two-time Olympic rings champion (1956, 1960), namesake of the Azaryan cross.

Albert B. Fall

Albert B. Fall (1861–1944) was a New Mexico politician who became the first US cabinet member imprisoned for a felony, convicted of bribery in the Teapot Dome scandal.

Albert B. Wolfe

Albert B. Wolfe, full name Albert Benedict Wolfe, was an American economist and sociologist at Ohio State University who served as president of the American Economic Association in 1943.

Albert Baird Hastings

Albert Baird Hastings (1895–1987) was an American physiologist and biochemist known as the "physician's chemist," a pioneer in blood acid–base balance and radioactive isotope tracers who worked at Harvard and Scripps.

Albert Bandura

Albert Bandura (1925–2021) was a Canadian-American psychologist at Stanford University who developed social learning theory, demonstrated observational learning in the Bobo doll experiments, and introduced self-efficacy.

Albert Batyrgaziyev

Albert Batyrgaziyev (Batyrgaziev, Альберт Ханбулатович Батыргазиев), Russian southpaw boxer born 1998 in Dagestan; 2020 Tokyo Olympic featherweight gold medalist, the first professional boxer to win Olympic gold; later WBA interim super featherweight champion, first beaten by James Dickens in 2025.