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Alberta Infant Motor Scale
The Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) is a norm-referenced observational assessment of gross motor development in infants, used to identify motor delays and preterm risk.
Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo)
Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) is an Alberta Crown corporation, formed in 2008, that manages public pension, endowment, and government fund assets, about $198 billion in 2026.
Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission
The Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission, or APMC, is a provincial Crown corporation of Alberta created in 1974 that markets the Crown's royalty share of crude oil, natural gas, and bitumen.
Alberta Santuccio
Alberta Santuccio (born 1994, Catania) is an Italian right-handed épée fencer, Fiamme Oro. Olympic team gold Paris 2024 (30-29 over France on her sudden-death touch), team bronze Tokyo 2020, world silver Milan 2023, Youth Olympic champion 2010.
Alberta separatism
Alberta separatism, also called Western Canadian separatism, is a movement advocating Alberta's secession from Canada. Driven by Western alienation and the 1980 National Energy Program, it reached a 2026 referendum vote with roughly 26-31% public support.
Alberta Sundance power station
The Sundance power station is a TransAlta generating station on Wabamun Lake, 70 kilometers west of Edmonton, Alberta, built as a six-unit coal plant between 1970 and 1980.
Alberta Watson
Alberta Watson (Faith Susan Alberta Watson, 1955-2015), Canadian actress from Toronto; Madeline on La Femme Nikita, Erin Driscoll on 24, Spanking the Monkey, The Sweet Hereafter; died of cancer in 2015.
Alberta Williams King
Alberta Williams King (1903–1974), mother of Martin Luther King Jr., organist and choir founder at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta; shot dead there June 30, 1974 by Marcus Wayne Chenault while playing the organ.
Alberte Pullman
Alberte Pullman (1920–2011) was a French theoretical chemist who helped found quantum chemistry and quantum biology in France, defining the K-region theory of chemical carcinogenesis in her 1946 doctoral thesis.
Albertella
Albertella is an extinct corynexochid trilobite genus (Zacanthoididae) named by Walcott in 1908, type species A. helena from Montana; it defines the early Middle Cambrian Albertella Biozone of western North America.
Albertfalva
Albertfalva is a district of Budapest, Hungary, and the site of a Roman auxiliary fort and civilian settlement (vicus) between Aquincum and Campona, occupied from the 1st to 3rd centuries.
Albertha J.M. Walhout
Albertha J.M. Walhout, known professionally as Marian Walhout, is a systems biologist who chairs the Department of Systems Biology at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Albertine Highlands
The Albertine Highlands is a freshwater ecoregion, FEOW number 541, located entirely within eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and covering the watersheds of high-lying rivers that flow toward the Lualaba River in the Congo Basin.
Albertine Regel
Albertine Régel (born 10 December 1891), French race walker; gold in the 1,000 m walk at the 1924 Women's Olympiad in London, silver at the 1926 Women's World Games, and early world records at 1,000 m and 880 yards.
Alberto Abadie
Alberto Abadie is a Spanish-born economist and Professor of Economics at MIT, best known as co-creator of the synthetic control method, first published in 2003 in a study of terrorism's economic costs in the Basque Country.
Alberto Albanese
Alberto Albanese is an Italian neurologist and full professor at the Università Cattolica in Milan, known for botulinum toxin trials and work on dystonia and Parkinson's disease.
Alberto Alesina
Alberto Alesina, born in Broni, Italy, in 1957, was a Harvard political economist described as the founder of modern political economy; he died in 2020 while hiking.
Alberto Ammann
Alberto Ammann Rey (José Alberto Ammann Rey), Argentine-Spanish actor born 1978 in Córdoba, debuted in Celda 211 (2009), won a Goya for Best New Actor, and played Pacho Herrera in Netflix's Narcos.
Alberto Aquilani
Alberto Aquilani, born 1984 in Rome, Italian midfielder for Roma, Liverpool, Juventus, Milan, Fiorentina, Sassuolo; now coach of Sassuolo after Fiorentina Primavera, Pisa, Catanzaro.
Alberto Ascari
Alberto Ascari (13 July 1918 – 26 May 1955), Italian Formula 1 driver, Ferrari and Lancia. First back-to-back F1 world champion (1952, 1953), 13 wins in 32 starts, last Italian champion, killed testing at Monza.
Alberto Ascherio
Alberto Ascherio (born 1953) is an epidemiologist, professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for the 2022 discovery that Epstein-Barr virus is a leading cause of multiple sclerosis.
Alberto Balboni
Alberto Balboni is an Italian politician of Fratelli d'Italia, a senator and former president of the Senate's 1st Constitutional Affairs Committee, who became Undersecretary of State for Justice in 2026.
Alberto Balocco
Alberto Balocco (2022) was an Italian food executive, president and CEO of the family confectionery Balocco SpA of Fossano, best known for its panettoni and breakfast biscuits.
Alberto Barachini
Alberto Barachini is an Italian politician of Forza Italia who has served as an Undersecretary of State at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers since 2022.
Alberto Bardelli
Alberto Bardelli is an Italian molecular geneticist who studies how colorectal cancers evolve resistance to targeted drugs, and Scientific Director of IFOM in Milan since 2022.
Alberto Bauli
Alberto Bauli (1940–2020) was an Italian engineer who for 25 years led the Verona confectionery group Bauli, founded by his father Ruggero, acquiring Motta, Alemagna, and Bistefani.
Alberto Bemporad
Alberto Bemporad is an Italian control systems engineer and full professor at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, known for model predictive control and hybrid systems.
Alberto Bianco
Alberto Bianco is a CNRS Research Director in Strasbourg, France, known for functionalized carbon nanotubes and graphene as drug and gene carriers, and won the CNRS Silver Medal in 2019.
Alberto Blest Gana
Alberto Blest Gana (1830–1920) was a Chilean novelist and diplomat regarded as the founder of the Chilean novel, known for Martín Rivas (1862) and Durante la Reconquista (1897).
Alberto Bombassei
Alberto Bombassei, born 1940 in Vicenza, Italy, is an Italian industrialist who joined Brembo in 1961, led the braking-systems maker as chairman from 1993 to 2021, and is now Chairman Emeritus.