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Aron Hall

Aron Hall is an American CDC epidemiologist and veterinarian, a PECASE recipient named by President Obama, known for norovirus research and COVID-19 surveillance, and Director of the CDC's Division of Viral Diseases.

Aron Landy

Aron Landy is a financial executive who has been CEO of Brevan Howard Asset Management since October 2019, after 16 years as its chief risk officer.

Aron Lukacher

Aron Lukacher is an American immunologist and physician-scientist who studies T cell immunity to persistent viral infection and virus-induced cancer, and was among the first PECASE recipients in 1996.

Aron Moscona

Aron Moscona (1921–2009) was a developmental biologist at the University of Chicago whose experiments showed that dissociated embryonic cells recognize their own kind and rebuild tissue-like structure.

Aron Nimzowitsch

Aron Nimzowitsch (1886–1935) was a Latvian-Danish chess player and writer, the leading hypermodern theorist, who won Carlsbad 1929 and wrote My System (1925), introducing concepts such as prophylaxis, blockade, and the Nimzo-Indian Defense.

Aron Pinczuk

Aron Pinczuk (1939–2022) was an Argentine-born American condensed matter physicist who pioneered resonant inelastic light scattering, or electronic Raman scattering, revealing excitations of the fractional quantum Hall effect.

Aron Ralston

Aron Lee Ralston is an American mountaineer known for amputating his right forearm in 2003 to escape Bluejohn Canyon, Utah, after being trapped for five days.

Aron Schwarzkopf

Aron Schwarzkopf is an Ecuadorian-American entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of the payments company Kushki, founded in 2017, which became Ecuador's first unicorn in 2022 at a $1.5 billion valuation.

Aron Szilagyi

Aron Szilagyi (Áron Szilágyi, born 1990) is a Hungarian sabre fencer, the first male fencer with three consecutive individual Olympic golds (2012, 2016, 2020), plus 2024 team silver and 2022 world title.

Aron Trainin (Арон Наумович Трайнин)

Aron Trainin, also known as Aron Naumovich Trainin, was a Soviet criminal law scholar who coined "crimes against peace" and helped negotiate the Nuremberg Charter in 1945.

Aron Walsh

Aron Walsh is a computational materials scientist who holds the Chair in Materials Design at Imperial College London, known for machine learning applied to solar cells and batteries.

Aron Wieder

Aron Wieder is an American Democratic politician, a member of the New York State Assembly from the 97th district who previously served on the East Ramapo School Board and the Rockland County Legislature.

AronChupa

AronChupa is the stage name of Swedish DJ and producer Aron Michael Ekberg (born 1991, Borås), member of Albatraoz; his 2014 single "I'm an Albatraoz", sung by sister Little Sis Nora, hit number 1 in Sweden and Denmark and has about 702 million Spotify streams.

Aronia

Aronia, known as chokeberry or chokeberries, is a genus of deciduous shrubs in the rose family native to eastern North America, grown for its dark, polyphenol-rich fruit used in juice and wine.

Aronia melanocarpa

Aronia melanocarpa (black chokeberry) is a North American Rosaceae shrub grown for astringent, polyphenol- and anthocyanin-rich berries used in juices and functional foods; human RCT meta-analyses show no significant cardiometabolic effects.

Arooj Aftab

Arooj Aftab is a Pakistani-American singer, songwriter, and composer based in Brooklyn, New York, who sets Urdu and Sufi poetry within jazz; she won the 2022 Grammy for Best Global Music Performance.

Aroon Purie

Aroon Purie (born 1944, Lahore) is the founding Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the India Today Group, a chartered accountant who launched India Today magazine in 1975 and built it into a multi-platform media group including Aaj Tak.

Aroostook County, Maine

Aroostook County, Maine, "the County": Maine's largest county by area (6,671 sq mi), created 1839 during the Aroostook War, seat Houlton, cities Caribou and Presque Isle, potato farming and declining population.

Arora (ਅਰੋੜਾ)

Arora (ਅਰੋੜਾ), also Aror or Arore, a Punjabi Hindu and Sikh mercantile caste named after Aror (Rohri, Sindh); historically in south-west Punjab and Bahawalpur, 775,734 in the 1931 census, closely tied to the Khatris.

Arotinolol

Arotinolol (アロチノロール, Almarl, S-596) is a Japanese third-generation combined alpha/beta-adrenergic blocker (Sumitomo, 1985) used for hypertension, angina, arrhythmia, and essential tremor, with beta potency about eight times its alpha blockade.

Arouna Koné

Arouna Koné, Ivorian striker born 1983 in Anyama; played for PSV, Sevilla, Levante, Wigan, Everton, Sivasspor; won Eredivisie twice and 2013 FA Cup; Ivory Coast at 2006 World Cup.

Around the Fur

Around the Fur, Deftones' second album (1997, Maverick), produced by Terry Date at Studio Litho, Seattle; features My Own Summer, Be Quiet and Drive, and the Headup tribute to Dana Wells; platinum in 2011.

Around the Horn

Around the Horn is an American sports debate show produced for ESPN. It ran for 22 years, accumulating 4,953 episodes and helping define the modern sports debate format.

Around the Sun

Around the Sun is R.E.M.'s 13th studio album, released October 5, 2004 on Warner Bros., produced by Pat McCarthy with the band. Its troubled, interrupted recording, UK number 1 but weak US sales, and poor reviews made it the band's critical low point.

Around the World (Daft Punk song)

"Around the World" is a 1997 French house song by Daft Punk from Homework, its only lyric sung 144 times, a Chic-inspired bassline, a Michel Gondry video, UK number 5 and number 1 dance charts.

Around the World (La La La La La)

"Around the World (La La La La La)" is the 2000 debut single by German-based Eurodance group ATC, which topped the German Singles Chart for six weeks.

Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)

Around the World in 80 Days (1956) is Michael Todd's Best Picture-winning Todd-AO adaptation of Jules Verne, directed by Michael Anderson, starring David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, and Robert Newton, released October 17, 1956.

Around the World in 80 Days (2004 film)

Around the World in 80 Days is a 2004 American adventure comedy directed by Frank Coraci, loosely adapted from Jules Verne's novel and starring Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan.

Around the World in 80 Days (2021 TV series)

Around the World in 80 Days (2021 TV series), also In 80 Tagen um die Welt, is an eight-part European Alliance co-production adaptation of Jules Verne's novel, starring David Tennant as Phileas Fogg, with a female journalist Fix inspired by Nellie Bly, filmed in Romania and South Africa.

Around the World in a Day

Around the World in a Day is Prince and the Revolution's seventh studio album (Paisley Park/Warner Bros., April 1985), a psychedelic follow-up to Purple Rain featuring Raspberry Beret and Pop Life, double platinum in the US.