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Arnie Sowell
Arnie Sowell (Arnold Milton Sowell, born 1935, Pittsburgh) is an American middle-distance runner, 1955 Pan Am 800 m gold medalist, 1956 Olympic 800 m fourth-place finisher, NCAA champion, and world indoor 880y and 1000y record holder.
Arnières-sur-Iton
Arnières-sur-Iton (INSEE 27020) is a commune in the Eure, Normandy, southwest of Évreux, with 1,643 inhabitants in 2023, a Gallo-Roman theatre, a 2016 hoard of 186 sestertii, and the 15th-century church of Saint-Martin.
Arnim Henglein
Arnim Henglein (1926–2012) was a German chemist, professor of Physical Nuclear Chemistry at TU Berlin and director of radiochemistry at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut, whose work on colloidal nanoparticles and quantum dots laid foundations for nanoscience.
Arnim Zola
Arnim Zola, the Bio-Fanatic, is a Marvel Comics supervillain created by Jack Kirby, debuting in Captain America #208 (1977). A Swiss geneticist who transferred his mind into a headless robot body with a chest screen, he serves Hydra and the Red Skull and created Dimension Z.
Arnimal
Arnimal (ارنمل) was an 18th-century Kashmiri poetess from Palhalan near Srinagar, deserted by her husband, whose orally transmitted vatsun love lyrics are still sung by Kashmiri minstrels.
Arnioceras
Arnioceras (Hyatt, 1867) is an extinct evolute ammonite genus of the family Arietitidae from the Sinemurian, Early Jurassic (about 199.46–192.9 Ma), cosmopolitan across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Oceania; type species A. cuneiforme.
Arnis
Arnis, also called Eskrima or Kali, is the indigenous Filipino stick-fighting martial art declared the national martial art and sport of the Philippines by Republic Act No. 9850 in 2009, taught in schools and governed internationally by WEKAF.
Arno
Arno (Arnold Hintjens, 1949–2022) was a Belgian singer, frontman of TC Matic, known for a husky voice and lyrics mixing English, French, and Ostend dialect.
Arno Bieberstein
Arno Bieberstein (Arnold Curt Bieberstein), German swimmer for SC Hellas Magdeburg, won the 1908 Olympic 100 m backstroke gold in world-record 1:24.6, the last Olympic backstroke title won with inverted breaststroke.
Arno Borst
Arno Borst (1925–2007) was a German medievalist who taught at Erlangen and Konstanz, wrote the best-selling Lebensformen im Mittelalter, reconstructed the Carolingian calendar, and won the 1996 Balzan Prize.
Arno Breker
Arno Breker (1900–1991), German sculptor and architect, Hitler's favored monumental sculptor; Paris avant-garde years, 1936 Olympic silver, New Reich Chancellery statues, denazification as fellow traveler, postwar West German career.
Arno G. Motulsky
Arno G. Motulsky (1923–2018) was a German-born American physician-geneticist at the University of Washington, counted among the founders of medical genetics and credited with creating pharmacogenetics.
Arno Holz
Arno Holz (1863–1929) was a German lyric poet and dramatist, the leading theorist of literary Naturalism, known for the formula "Kunst = Natur − x" and the rhymeless Phantasus.
Arno Kamminga
Arno Kamminga, Dutch breaststroke swimmer (born 1995, Katwijk aan Zee), double Olympic silver medalist at Tokyo 2020 in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke; former Mark Faber trainee now based in Hong Kong under Tom Rushton through LA 2028.
Arno L. Greenleaf
Arno L. Greenleaf is an American molecular biologist, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at Duke University, known for his work on RNA polymerase II and CDK12.
Arno Penzias
Arno Allan Penzias (1933–2024) was a German-born American physicist and radio astronomer at Bell Labs who co-discovered the cosmic microwave background, earning a share of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Arno Rauschenbeutel
Arno Rauschenbeutel, born in Germany in 1971, is a German quantum optics physicist known for coupling single atoms to light guided in optical glass fibers.
Arno Schmidt
Arno Otto Schmidt (1914–1979) was a German novelist, essayist, and translator, one of postwar German literature's most idiosyncratic experimental writers, best known for the three-column monumental novel Zettel's Traum.
Arnold (lunar crater)
Arnold (lunar crater), Feature ID 387 in the USGS-IAU Gazetteer: a 93.13 km diameter impact crater on the Moon at 66.98°N, 35.83°E, an old crater with heavily worn walls.
Arnold (software)
Arnold is a Monte Carlo ray tracing renderer for 3D film, TV, and game imagery, created by Marcos Fajardo and acquired by Autodesk with Solid Angle in 2016.
Arnold Allen
Arnold "Almighty" Allen, English UFC featherweight from Ipswich, 21-4 record, 12-3 in UFC, ranked #7, ten-fight UFC win streak, never finished, southpaw decision fighter.
Arnold Balls
Arnold Kent Balls (1891–1966) was a Canadian-born American enzyme chemist who crystallized papain, located the active-site serine of chymotrypsin, and taught biochemistry at Purdue University.
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett (Enoch Arnold Bennett, 1867-1931), English novelist, playwright and journalist of the Staffordshire Potteries, author of The Old Wives' Tale, the Clayhanger trilogy and the Five Towns fiction, attacked by Virginia Woolf and later reappraised.
Arnold Berk
Arnold J. Berk is an American virologist and UCLA professor emeritus who participated in the discovery of RNA splicing and showed p53's tumor suppressor activity depends on transcriptional activation.
Arnold Böcklin
Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901), Swiss Symbolist painter of Die Toteninsel (Isle of the Dead), five versions; trained in Düsseldorf, worked in Rome and Florence; patronized by Schack and Gurlitt; revived by the Surrealists.
Arnold Brecht
Arnold Brecht (1884–1977) was a German jurist and Weimar civil servant who became a political scientist in exile at the New School in New York.
Arnold Burgen
Sir Arnold Burgen (1922–2022) was a British physiologist and pharmacologist who studied drug-receptor interactions at the acetylcholine receptor, directed the National Institute for Medical Research, and was knighted in 1976.
Arnold cat map
The Arnold cat map is a linear automorphism of the two-dimensional torus introduced by Vladimir Arnold, a standard example of deterministic chaos that stretches, folds, and mixes.
Arnold Demain
Arnold Demain (1927–2020) was an American industrial microbiologist who worked at Merck and MIT, studying antibiotic production and joining the National Academy of Sciences in 1994.
Arnold Dix
Arnold Dix is an Australian geologist, barrister, and tunnelling safety expert who led the 2023 rescue of 41 workers trapped for 17 days in India's collapsed Silkyara tunnel.