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Anatel
Anatel (Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações) is Brazil's federal telecommunications regulatory agency, created by law in 1997 and headquartered in Brasília with offices in every state capital.
Anath Shalev
Anath Shalev, MD, is an endocrinologist and diabetes researcher who directs the UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center and led the 2018 verapamil trial in type 1 diabetes.
Anathapindika
Anathapindika (अनाथपिण्डिक), whose personal name was Sudatta, was a wealthy merchant-banker of Savatthi remembered for buying Prince Jeta's grove and building the Jetavana monastery, a principal residence of the Buddha.
Anathem
Anathem is Neal Stephenson's 2008 philosophical science fiction novel (William Morrow; Locus Award winner) set on Arbre, following the avout scholar Fraa Erasmas of the concent Saunt Edhar through a once-a-decade opening and a quantum-cosmological crisis.
Anathema
Anathema (Greek Ανάθεμα, plural Anathemata) began as a Greek word for a votive offering and became the church's gravest condemnation of heretics, used by councils from Nicaea in 325 to Trent.
Anathema (band)
Anathema were a Liverpool band formed in 1990, one of the Peaceville Three pioneers of death/doom metal with Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride, who transformed into atmospheric progressive rock before their 2020 indefinite hiatus.
Anatidae
Anatidae, the waterfowl family of ducks, geese, and swans in order Anseriformes, has about 150 species worldwide except Antarctica; herbivorous, precocial chicks, debated phylogeny, 38 IUCN-listed taxa.
Anatol C. Kreitzer
Anatol C. Kreitzer is an American neuroscientist known for work on basal ganglia circuits and optogenetics in Parkinson's disease models, formerly a professor at UCSF and the Gladstone Institutes.
Anatol Roshko
Anatol Roshko (1923–2017) was a Canadian-born fluid dynamicist and Theodore von Kármán Professor at Caltech, known for discovering large coherent structures in turbulent shear flows.
Anatole Abragam
Anatole Abragam (1914–2011) was a French physicist, a giant of magnetic resonance, who held the Collège de France chair in nuclear magnetism from 1960 to 1985.
Anatole Bolin
Anatole Bolin (Jakob Pehr Anatole Dedekind Bolin, nicknamed Tolly), Swedish middle-distance runner for IFK Stockholm; set the 1,000 m world record of 2:29.1 in 1918 and competed in the 400 m and 800 m at Antwerpen 1920.
Anatole Chauffard
Anatole Chauffard (1855–1932) was a French internist and professor of clinical medicine at the Faculté de médecine de Paris, known for work on hemolytic jaundice and the eponyms Minkowski-Chauffard disease and Troisier-Hanot-Chauffard syndrome.
Anatole France
Anatole France (Jacques-Anatole-François Thibault, 1844–1924), French novelist, poet, and critic; Académie française 1896, Nobel Prize in Literature 1921, Dreyfusard, first president of the French PEN Club.
Anatoli Boukreev (Анатолий Николаевич Букреев)
Anatoli Boukreev (Анатолий Николаевич Букреев), 1958-1997, Kazakh-Soviet mountaineer who climbed ten 8,000-meter peaks without oxygen, guided Scott Fischer's 1996 Everest expedition, rescued three climbers in the storm, and died in an Annapurna avalanche.
Anatoli Bugorski (Анатолий Петрович Бугорский)
Anatoli Bugorski (Анатолий Петрович Бугорский), Russian IHEP Protvino physicist who survived the 1978 U-70 synchrotron proton beam passing through his head at ~76 GeV, an estimated 200,000–300,000 rads local dose, with left facial paralysis and deafness but intact intellect.
Anatoli Fedorovich Kapustinskii
Anatoli Fedorovich Kapustinskii (Анатолий Фёдорович Капустинский; 1906–1960) was a Soviet physical chemist whose 1933 equation estimates the lattice energy of ionic crystals from ionic radii and charges alone, without crystal-structure data.
Anatoli Vitushkin
Anatoli Vitushkin, also known as Anatoli Georgievich Vitushkin (Анатолий Витушкин), was a Soviet and Russian mathematician at the Steklov Institute in Moscow known for analytic capacity and Vitushkin's conjecture.
Anatolia
Anatolia (Turkish Anadolu), also called Asia Minor, is the peninsula forming the Asian portion of Turkey between the Black, Aegean, and Mediterranean seas; Greek anatole means sunrise, and the name was adopted under the Byzantines.
Anatolian beyliks
Anatolian beyliks: Turkish principalities (beyliks/begliks) such as Karaman, Germiyan, Aydın, Menteshe, Sarukhan, and Qarasi that emerged in Anatolia after the Seljuks' 1243 defeat at Köse Dağ, and were absorbed by the Ottomans by the fifteenth century.
Anatolian Geophysical
Anatolian Geophysical is a seismic-services company founded in October 2000 by geophysicist Öz Yilmaz, who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
Anatolian hieroglyphs
Anatolian hieroglyphs, also called Luwian hieroglyphs or Hieroglyphic Luwian, are a mixed logo-syllabic script used mainly for the Luwian language from about 1420 to 700 BC.
Anatolian languages
The Anatolian languages are an extinct branch of the Indo-European family, spoken in ancient Anatolia and northern Syria and including Hittite, Luwian, Lycian, and Lydian; Hittite is the earliest attested Indo-European language.
Anatolian rock
Anatolian rock, also called Anadolu pop, is a Turkish music movement of the 1960s and 1970s fusing Anatolian folk music with Western rock, led by Erkin Koray and Barış Manço.
Anatolie Nosatii
Anatolie Nosatii, also known as Anatolie Nosatîi, born 1972, is a Moldovan politician and retired military officer serving as Minister of Defense since 2021, appointed under the Action and Solidarity Party.
Anatolius
Anatolius, who died in 458, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 449 to 458, presiding at Chalcedon in 451 and securing Constantinople's rank after Rome.
Anatoliy Skorokhod
Anatoliy Volodymyrovych Skorokhod (Анатолій Володимирович Скороход) was a Ukrainian probabilist, born in 1930, whose name is attached to the Skorokhod space, representation theorem, embedding problem, and integral.
Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (Анатолій Олександрович Тимощук)
Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (Анатолій Тимощук), born 1979 in Lutsk, Ukrainian defensive midfielder; 144-cap Ukraine record holder, UEFA Cup with Zenit 2008, Champions League with Bayern 2013; later Zenit assistant coach and sanctioned by UAF.
Anatoliy Yegorov
Anatoliy Yegorov (born 6 May 1933), Soviet race walker; 1954 European 10 km walk silver medallist; set world records in the 50 km walk (4:07:29, 1955), 30,000 m walk (2:17:16.8, 1959), and two-hour walk (26,429 m, 1959).
Anatoly Akimov
Anatoly Ivanovich Akimov (Анатолий Иванович Акимов, 1947–2002), Soviet water polo player of CSK VMF Moscow, won gold with the USSR at the 1972 Munich Olympics, plus 1970 European gold and 1973 world silver; elder brother of 1980 champion Vladimir Akimov.
Anatoly Alexandrov (Анатолий Петрович Александров) (physicist)
Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov (Анатолий Петрович Александров, 1903–1994), Soviet physicist, Kurchatov Institute director and USSR Academy of Sciences president 1975–1986, scientific leader of the Soviet nuclear submarine fleet and RBMK reactor program.