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Amos A. Avidan
Amos A. Avidan is a chemical engineer who spent 20 years at Mobil and 16 leading Bechtel's engineering and technology organization, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009.
Amos B. Smith Iii
Amos B. Smith III (1944–2025) was an American organic chemist at the University of Pennsylvania known for total syntheses of complex natural products and Anion Relay Chemistry.
Amos Bad Heart Bull Ledger
A ledger book of over 400 pictographic drawings made by Oglala Lakota artist Amos Bad Heart Bull between 1890 and 1913, recording Oglala warfare and daily life.
Amos Biwott
Amos Biwott (Amos Kipwabok Biwott), Kenyan steeplechase runner born 1947 in Nandi; won the 1968 Olympic 3000m steeplechase in 8:51.0 with his dry-feet, clear-the-water-jump technique, starting Kenya's dominance of the event.
Amos E. Joel, Jr.
Amos E. Joel, Jr. (1918–2008) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Laboratories who shaped telephone switching for four decades and held the 1972 patent for cellular call handoff.
Amos Henry Worthen
Amos Henry Worthen (1813–1888) was an American geologist and paleontologist who served as the second State Geologist of Illinois and the first Curator of the Illinois State Museum.
Amos L. Mazzant III
Amos L. Mazzant III, born 1965, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Texas since 2014 and its chief judge since 2025.
Amos Lee
Amos Lee, also known as Ryan Anthony Massaro, is an American singer-songwriter from Philadelphia who blends soul, folk, blues, and R&B, reaching number one on the Billboard 200 with 2011's Mission Bell.
Amos Maritan
Amos Maritan is a statistical physicist and professor at the University of Padua, known for applying statistical mechanics to protein folding, DNA, ecosystems, and river networks.
Amos Mosaner
Amos Mosaner (born 1995, Trento) is an Italian curler, mixed doubles Olympic champion at Beijing 2022 and world champion 2025 with Stefania Constantini, bronze at Cortina 2026, and third for Joel Retornaz's Italian men's team.
Amos Nur
Amos Nur (Amos M. Nur, 1938–2024) was an Israeli-born geophysicist at Stanford University regarded as a father of rock physics, the study of rock properties from seismic waves.
Amos Oz (עמוס עוז)
Amos Oz (עמוס עוז), born Amos Klausner, was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and professor of literature whose books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
Amos Plant
The Amos Plant, formally the John E. Amos Plant, is a 2,933-megawatt coal-fired power station in Putnam County, West Virginia, owned by Appalachian Power and operating since 1971.
Amos Robinson and Abron Scott
Amos Robinson and Abron Scott are Florida men convicted of the 1983 murder of Carlos Orellana. They were later indicted for the rapes and murders of Linda Lansen and Barbara Grams.
Amos Tanay
Amos Tanay (עמוס תנעי) is an Israeli computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot who studies epigenetics and gene regulation by combining computational models with single-cell genomics.
Amos Tutuola
Amos Tutuola (1920–1997) was a Nigerian novelist who drew his books from Yoruba folklore; The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) made him his country's first internationally recognized writer.
Amos Tversky (עמוס טברסקי)
Amos Tversky (עמוס טברסקי) was an Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist who, with Daniel Kahneman, founded the heuristics and biases program and co-developed prospect theory.
Amos Winter
Amos Winter is a mechanical engineer at MIT, the Germeshausen Professor, and principal inventor of the Leveraged Freedom Chair, an all-terrain wheelchair for developing countries, commercialized through GRIT.
Amos Yee
Amos Yee Pang Sang, born 1998, Singaporean blogger imprisoned in 2015 over a Lee Kuan Yew criticism video, granted US asylum in 2017, jailed in the US for sex offences, and deported to Singapore in 2026 for National Service default.
Amoscanate (nithiocyamine)
Amoscanate (nithiocyamine, CGP 4540), a Ciba-Geigy isothiocyanate diphenylamine antischistosomal drug, was widely used against S. japonicum in China but limited by liver damage and cardiac arrhythmias; superseded by praziquantel.
Amosite
Amosite, commonly called brown asbestos, is the asbestiform variety of the amphibole mineral grunerite, one of the most important types of asbestos, mined chiefly in South Africa until 2001 and now banned there since 2008.
Amotivational syndrome
Amotivational syndrome, a hypothesized condition of apathy and reduced goal-directed behavior attributed to chronic cannabis use, coined by McGlothlin and West in 1968; systematic reviews find cross-sectional evidence equivocal and the construct poorly defined.
Amotti (김재홍)
Amotti (아모띠; Kim Jae-hong, 김재홍, born 1992) is a South Korean CrossFit athlete and YouTuber who won Physical: 100 Season 2 (2024) and Physical: Asia with Team Korea (2025).
Amount of substance
Amount of substance, also called chemical amount, is an SI base quantity measured in moles that counts specified elementary entities such as atoms, molecules, or ions.
Amour (2012 film)
Amour (2012) is Michael Haneke's French-language drama starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, and Isabelle Huppert about an elderly Paris couple after Anne's stroke. It won the 2012 Palme d'Or and the 2013 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Amour Fou (The Sopranos)
"Amour Fou" (The Sopranos) is season 3, episode 12 of the HBO drama, aired May 13, 2001. Directed by Tim Van Patten from David Chase's story, it follows Tony Soprano's destructive affair with Gloria Trillo and Jackie Jr.'s fatal card-game robbery.
Amouranth
Amouranth (Kaitlyn Siragusa), American Twitch streamer and cosplayer known for hot tub and ASMR streams; founder of A Charmed Affair, multiple Twitch bans, disclosed OnlyFans and Kick earnings, gas stations and esports investments.
Amoxapine
Amoxapine (Asendin, Lederle) is a dibenzoxazepine antidepressant approved by FDA in 1980 (NDA 018021), now discontinued in the US; unlike other tricyclics it blocks dopamine receptors via 7-hydroxyamoxapine, causing neuroleptic-type effects.
Amoxicillin
Amoxicillin, a semisynthetic aminopenicillin (β-lactam) antibiotic developed by Beecham and US-approved in 1974, treats respiratory, ear, skin, and urinary infections and H. pylori; WHO Access-group, often paired with clavulanate as Augmentin.
Amoxicillin/clavulanic acid
Amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (Augmentin) is an oral penicillin plus beta-lactamase inhibitor combination, first launched in 1981, used for respiratory, skin, and urinary infections, and the only oral beta-lactam/beta-lactamase inhibitor combination.