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Aric Nesbitt
Aric Nesbitt is an American Republican politician and Minority Leader of the Michigan Senate, elected in 2022 to represent Van Buren, Allegan, and Kent counties.
Arica
Arica is a Pacific port city in northernmost Chile, capital of the Arica y Parinacota Region near Peru and Bolivia. Founded in the 1540s, it was a colonial silver outlet for Potosí, became Chilean by the 1929 Treaty of Lima, and guards the world's oldest artificial mummies of the Chinchorro culture.
Ariconium
Ariconium: Romano-British small town and major iron-smelting centre at Weston under Penyard, Herefordshire, on Iter XIII of the Antonine Itinerary; Iron Age origins, Forest of Dean ore, occupied to the late 4th century, now a scheduled monument.
Arid land
Arid land: terrain with an aridity index (precipitation/potential evapotranspiration) of 0.05–0.20, part of the UNCCD drylands (AI 0.05–0.65). Covers roughly 10% of land, low-fertility Aridisols, rangeland use, and the setting of desertification.
ARID1A
ARID1A (BAF250a, SMARCF1), gene at 1p36.11 encoding the DNA-binding SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling subunit; most frequently mutated SWI/SNF gene in cancer (~6% overall, up to 40-67% in ovarian clear cell carcinoma), a context-dependent tumor suppressor with ARID1B synthetic lethality.
ARID1B
ARID1B (AT-rich interaction domain-containing protein 1B) encodes a SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling subunit; haploinsufficiency causes ARID1B-related disorder, from intellectual disability to Coffin-Siris syndrome.
Aridity index
The aridity index (AI) is a climatic measure, the ratio of average annual precipitation to potential evapotranspiration; low values mean dry conditions, and the UNEP uses it to define drylands.
Arie Belldegrun
Arie Belldegrun (אריה בלדגרון) is a physician and biotechnology entrepreneur who founded Kite Pharma, sold it to Gilead Sciences for $11.9 billion in 2017, and co-founded Allogene Therapeutics.
Arie Hendrik Boerdijk
Arie Hendrik Boerdijk was a scientist who earned a Ph.D. at Delft in 1951 and described the tetrahedral helical packing now called the Boerdijk–Coxeter helix.
Arie J. Zuckerman
Arie J. Zuckerman is a medical microbiologist and virologist known for his hepatitis B virus research, and is Emeritus Professor of Medical Microbiology at University College London.
Arie Jan Haagen-Smit
Arie Jan Haagen-Smit was a Dutch-born chemist at Caltech who identified the photochemical origin of Los Angeles smog and became the first chairman of the California Air Resources Board.
Arie Luyendyk
Arie Luyendyk, Dutch Indy car driver (born 1953, Rosmalen), the Flying Dutchman; two-time Indianapolis 500 winner (1990, 1997), 1996 qualifying record 236.986 mph, later IndyCar race steward.
Arie Luyendyk Jr.
Arie Luyendyk Jr. (born 1981, 's-Hertogenbosch) is a Dutch retired racing driver, son of two-time Indy 500 winner Arie Luyendyk; one 2006 Indy 500 start, record 66 Indy Lights starts, and The Bachelor 2018 lead.
Arie P. Otte
Arie P. Otte is a Dutch biochemist and geneticist at the University of Amsterdam known for work on neural induction in Xenopus and Polycomb chromatin research.
Arie Smit
Arie Smit, born Adrianus Wilhelmus Smit, was a Dutch-born Indonesian painter (1916–2016) known for bright pointillist paintings of Bali and for founding the Young Artists movement near Ubud.
Arie van Vliet
Arie Gerrit van Vliet (De Professor), Dutch track sprinter (1916-2001) from Woerden: 1936 Berlin Olympic gold in the 1,000 m time trial and sprint silver after the Merkens foul, plus four world sprint titles (1936, 1938, 1948, 1953).
Arie W. Kruglanski
Arie W. Kruglanski, born in Poland in 1939, is a social psychologist at the University of Maryland known for the need for cognitive closure and theories of terrorism.
Arieh Warshel
Arieh Warshel is an Israeli-born computational chemist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern California, who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for multiscale models.
Ariel (angel)
Ariel (Hebrew: lion of God, disputed) is a biblical word for a man, Jerusalem, and an altar hearth, not a biblical angel; the angelic Ariel arises in Gnostic, Kabbalistic, Shem ha-Mephorash, and occult traditions, often confused with Uriel.
Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
Ariel is the mermaid princess heroine of Disney's 1989 The Little Mermaid, voiced by Jodi Benson, daughter of King Triton, who trades her voice to Ursula for legs; also the Halle Bailey 2023 live-action and Disney Junior versions.
Ariel (The Tempest)
Ariel is the airy spirit in Shakespeare's The Tempest, servant to Prospero, freed from Sycorax's pine, granted liberty in Act 5; distinct from Caliban and from the ESA Ariel exoplanet mission.
Ariel (TV series)
Disney Jr.'s Ariel is a 2024 Disney Junior animated musical preschool series inspired by The Little Mermaid, set in a Caribbean-inspired Atlantica, starring Mykal-Michelle Harris, with Ursula recast as Ariel's aunt rather than a villain.
Ariel Atkins
Ariel Atkins, born 1996 in Dallas, Texas, is an American WNBA guard who won the 2019 title with the Washington Mystics and a Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medal.
Ariel Atom
The Ariel Atom is a lightweight, high-performance two-seater sports car from Ariel Motor Company of Somerset, England, whose exposed steel tube chassis serves as the bodywork.
Ariel Camacho
Ariel Camacho (José Ariel Camacho Barraza, 1992–2015), Sinaloan requinto singer and founder of Los Plebes del Rancho; his album El Karma and guitar-tuba trio sound made him the godfather of corridos tumbados.
Ariel Castro kidnappings
Ariel Castro kidnappings: 2002-2004 abductions of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus in Cleveland; decade-long captivity at 2207 Seymour Avenue; Castro's 937-count guilty plea, life plus 1,000 years, and 2013 prison suicide.
Ariel D. Anbar
Ariel D. Anbar is an isotope geochemist and biogeochemist at Arizona State University known for tracing the oxygenation of Earth's ancient oceans and for the bio-inorganic bridge hypothesis.
Ariel Donoghue
Ariel Donoghue (born 2010) is an Australian actress known as Emma in Wolf Like Me, Young Abby in Blueback, and Riley in M. Night Shyamalan's Trap (2024); Silver Logie nominee.
Ariel Ekblaw
Ariel Ekblaw is an MIT-trained aerospace engineer and founding CEO of the Aurelia Institute, known for TESSERAE, self-assembling tiles tested on the International Space Station.
Ariel Flores
Ariel Flores (Ariel Mauricio Flores Gómez), Mexican skeet shooter born 1977 in Ciudad Victoria; 27th in skeet at Beijing 2008, 2007 Pan American Games bronze, 2008 ISSF World Cup Kerrville winner. Distinct from the Bolivian footballer of the same name.