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Aldo Gucci
Aldo Gucci was an Italian business executive, son of founder Guccio Gucci, who built Gucci into an international luxury brand and led it for three decades.
Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), American forester and wildlife ecologist, founder of wildlife management and author of A Sand County Almanac; created the first U.S. wilderness area at Gila and formulated the land ethic.
Aldo Mignone
Aldo Mignone is an Australian actor known for playing Pierre in the SBS comedy Danger 5 and Gino Poletti in A Place to Call Home.
Aldo Montano
Aldo Montano, born 1978 in Livorno, is an Italian sabre fencer who won individual gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics and five Olympic medals overall.
Aldo Moro
Aldo Moro (1916–1978), Italian Christian Democracy leader and five-time prime minister, architect of the opening to the left and the historic compromise, kidnapped and murdered by the Red Brigades in 1978.
Aldo Nadi
Aldo Nadi (1899-1965), Italian fencer, younger brother of Nedo Nadi; won three team golds and individual sabre silver at Antwerp 1920, then a dominant professional, Hollywood coach, and author of On Fencing.
Aldo Nova
Aldo Nova (born Aldo Caporuscio, 1956) is a Canadian rock singer-guitarist from Montreal whose 1982 debut produced "Fantasy"; later a Grammy-winning songwriter for Celine Dion and Jon Bon Jovi.
Aldo Pinchera
Aldo Pinchera (1934–2012) was an Italian physician and endocrinologist who founded the Pisan school of endocrinology and built the University of Pisa into a leading thyroid research center.
Aldo Ray
Aldo Ray (Aldo Da Re, 1926-1991), American gravel-voiced actor known for tough-guy and soldier roles in The Marrying Kind, Pat and Mike, The Naked and the Dead, and The Green Berets; former Crockett, California constable discovered at his brother's audition.
Aldo Serenelli
Aldo Serenelli is a stellar astrophysicist and tenured researcher at the Institute of Space Sciences in Bellaterra, near Barcelona, known for modeling the Sun's interior and the solar abundance problem.
Aldo Steinfeld
Aldo Steinfeld, born 1960 in Montevideo, Uruguay, is a mechanical and process engineer known for solar thermochemistry, converting sunlight, water, and CO2 into fuels such as kerosene and methanol.
Aldo-keto reductase
Aldo-keto reductases (AKRs) are a superfamily of NAD(P)(H)-dependent oxidoreductase enzymes that reduce aldehydes and ketones to alcohols, found across all forms of life and involved in detoxifying drugs and carcinogens.
ALDOA
ALDOA (aldolase, fructose-bisphosphate A; ALDA, GSD12) is the human glycolysis gene on chromosome 16 encoding muscle-type aldolase A; its deficiency causes GSD XII and its overexpression marks aggressive, poor-prognosis cancers.
Aldobrandini Wedding
The Aldobrandini Wedding (Le Nozze Aldobrandini) is an ancient Roman fresco in the Vatican Museums, found on the Esquiline Hill in 1601 and painted in the Augustan age.
Aldol
Aldol, also called acetaldol, is 3-hydroxybutanal, a β-hydroxy aldehyde named by Wurtz for combining aldehyde and alcohol groups, formed from acetaldehyde and used mainly to make crotonaldehyde.
Aldol condensation
The aldol condensation is a carbonyl reaction in which an aldehyde or ketone forms a β-hydroxy carbonyl that loses water to give a conjugated enone or enal.
Aldol reaction
The aldol reaction, or aldol addition, is a carbon-carbon bond-forming reaction between aldehydes or ketones that yields β-hydroxy carbonyl products and is widely used in organic synthesis.
Aldolase B
Aldolase B (ALDOB, EC 4.1.2.13) is a liver, kidney, and small-intestine enzyme cleaving fructose 1,6-bisphosphate and fructose 1-phosphate into triose phosphates; its inherited deficiency causes hereditary fructose intolerance, treated with a fructose-free diet.
Aldon Smith
Aldon Smith (1989–2026), NFL linebacker and edge rusher, 7th overall 2011 draft pick by the 49ers; record 33.5 sacks in first two seasons, 52.5 career sacks; died at 36, brain donated for CTE study.
Aldona Cesaityte Neneniene
Aldona Česaitytė-Nenėnienė (1949–1999), Lithuanian handball player, two-time Olympic champion with the Soviet Union (Montreal 1976, Moscow 1980), Žalgiris Kaunas captain, world silver and bronze medalist.
Aldons J. Lusis
Aldons J. Lusis, known as Jake Lusis, is an American geneticist and UCLA professor since 1980 who pioneered systems genetics of atherosclerosis and metabolic disease.
Aldose 1-epimerase/Galactose mutarotase
Aldose 1-epimerase, or galactose mutarotase (GALM, EC 5.1.3.3), converts β-D-galactose to α-D-galactose in the Leloir pathway; GALM deficiency causes type IV galactosemia.
Aldose reductase
Aldose reductase, also known as aldehyde reductase, is an NADPH-dependent enzyme that converts glucose to sorbitol, the first step of the polyol pathway linked to diabetic eye, nerve, and kidney damage.
Aldosterone
Aldosterone, also called adrenoglomerulotropin, is the principal mineralocorticoid in humans, a steroid hormone made in the adrenal cortex's zona glomerulosa that regulates sodium and potassium balance and blood pressure.
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894–1963), British novelist and essayist, author of Brave New World; moved from satirical novels of ideas to mysticism, mescalin writings, and Hollywood screenwriting.
Aldoxorubicin
Aldoxorubicin (INNO-206) is an albumin-binding prodrug of doxorubicin using an acid-sensitive EMCH hydrazone linker, developed for soft-tissue sarcoma; phase 2b showed PFS benefit over doxorubicin, phase 3 did not.
Aldrich Ames
Aldrich Hazen Ames (1941-2026), CIA case officer and KGB/SVR mole, volunteered in April 1985, was paid $2.5 million, betrayed at least ten executed U.S. sources, and was sentenced to life in prison in 1994.
Aldrich Killian
Aldrich Killian is the MCU villain of Iron Man 3 (2013), played by Guy Pearce: an A.I.M. founder behind the fake Mandarin and Extremis, expanded from a minor 2005 Warren Ellis comic character.
Aldrin
Aldrin is a synthetic organochlorine insecticide of the cyclodiene group, used from the late 1940s until the 1980s against soil insects and termites, and now banned under the Stockholm Convention.
Aldrovanda vesiculosa
Aldrovanda vesiculosa, the waterwheel plant, is the sole living species of its carnivorous plant genus, a rootless aquatic snap-trap plant native from Europe to Australia, IUCN Endangered with only 50 confirmed extant sites after decline from 379 historical populations, and extinct in the wild in Japan since 1967.