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Urpo Korhonen
Urpo Pentti Korhonen (1923–2009), Finnish cross-country skier; won 1952 Oslo Olympic gold in the 4 × 10 km relay on the third leg with Hasu, Lonkila, and Mäkelä; later forester and war novelist.
Urquhart Castle
Urquhart Castle is a ruined medieval castle on a rocky promontory on the shore of Loch Ness, near Drumnadrochit, about 14 miles southwest of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.
Urquiola
The Urquiola was a Spanish oil tanker that grounded and exploded at the entrance to La Coruña harbor, Spain, in May 1976, spilling about 100,000 tonnes of crude oil.
Urra=hubullu
Urra=hubullu, also known as Harra=hubullu, is an ancient Mesopotamian lexical series pairing Sumerian words with their Akkadian equivalents, first compiled around 1900–1600 BC and copied for over a millennium.
Urs Baltensperger
Urs Baltensperger (born 1955) is a Swiss atmospheric chemist who led the atmospheric chemistry laboratory at the Paul Scherrer Institute and studied how aerosol particles form.
URS Corporation
URS Corporation, also known as URS Corp. or United Research Services, was a San Francisco engineering firm and one of the largest in the United States until AECOM acquired it in 2014.
Urs F. Greber
Urs F. Greber is a Swiss cell biologist and virologist at the University of Zurich who studies how adenoviruses enter cells and deliver their genomes to the nucleus.
Urs Fischbacher
Urs Fischbacher, born 1959 in Zurich, is a Swiss behavioral economist who holds a chair at the University of Konstanz, directs the Thurgau Institute of Economics, and created z-Tree.
Urs Fischer (neurologist)
Urs Fischer is a Swiss neurologist, Director of Neurology at University Hospital Bern since 2024, and principal investigator of the international stroke trials SWIFT DIRECT, ELAN, SWITCH, and DISTAL.
Urs Jenal
Urs Jenal is a Swiss microbiologist and Full Professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, known for research on the bacterial second messenger cyclic di-GMP.
Urs Rutishauser
Urs Rutishauser is a developmental neurobiologist known for defining NCAM, a neural cell adhesion molecule, and its polysialic acid modification as regulators of cell–cell interactions in the nervous system.
Urs Scherrer
Urs Scherrer is a Swiss cardiologist and professor at the University Hospital of Bern known for research on hypertension, hypoxia, and high-altitude pulmonary edema, including a 2002 salmeterol prevention trial.
Urs von Gunten
Urs von Gunten, born 1959 in Baden, Switzerland, is a Swiss environmental chemist known for oxidation and disinfection research in drinking water treatment at Eawag and EPFL.
Urs Wietlisbach
Urs Wietlisbach is a Swiss billionaire investor who co-founded Partners Group in Zug in 1996 with Marcel Erni and Alfred Gantner, holding roughly a 5 percent stake.
Ursa Bogataj
Urša Bogataj (born 1995, Ljubljana) is a retired Slovenian ski jumper, SSK Ilirija, who won double gold at Beijing 2022 (individual normal hill and mixed team), the third women's Olympic champion in the discipline; not related to Jure Bogataj.
Ursa Major
Ursa Major (Latin for "the Great Bear") is the third-largest of the 88 constellations, in the northern sky. Its seven brightest stars form the Big Dipper, and the constellation never sets for most Northern Hemisphere observers.
Ursa Major Cluster
The Ursa Major Cluster is a nearby collection of dozens of gas-rich spiral galaxies in Ursa Major, about 60 million light-years away, now described as a supergroup of merging galaxy groups.
Ursa Major II Dwarf Galaxy
Ursa Major II Dwarf, also called UMa II, is an ultra-faint satellite galaxy of the Milky Way discovered in 2006 and likely being torn apart by its gravity.
Ursa Major moving group
The Ursa Major moving group, also called the Ursa Major association, is a nearby group of stars sharing a common motion, including the five central Big Dipper stars.
Ursa Minor
Ursa Minor, the Little Bear, is a circumpolar constellation of the northern sky whose Little Dipper asterism ends in Polaris, the North Star used by navigators for centuries.
Ursa Minor Dwarf
The Ursa Minor Dwarf is a faint dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, about 250,000 light-years away, made of very old stars and much dark matter.
URScript
URScript is the Python-like scripting language developed by Universal Robots for its collaborative robot arms, sent through PolyScope or directly to the controller over a TCP/IP socket.
Urshu
Urshu, also known as Urshum, was a Bronze Age city and kingdom on the middle Euphrates above Carchemish in present-day southeastern Turkey, whose exact site has never been identified.
Ursids
The Ursids are an annual meteor shower radiating from Ursa Minor, peaking around December 22 with low rates most years but known outbursts, produced by comet 8P/Tuttle.
Ursinus College
Ursinus College is a private, non-sectarian liberal arts college in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, founded in 1869 and coeducational since 1880, with about 1,500 undergraduates on a 170-acre suburban Philadelphia campus.
Urska Zolnir
Urška Žolnir Jugovar (born 1981, Žalec) is a Slovenian judoka, -63 kg half-middleweight. Olympic gold London 2012, first individual women's gold for Slovenia; bronze Athens 2004; European champion 2009.
Ursodeoxycholic acid
Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA, ursodiol), a hydrophilic bile acid first found in polar bear bile, is the first-line oral drug for primary biliary cholangitis at 13-15 mg/kg/day, also used in intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy and gallstone dissolution.
Ursolis
Ursolis (Ursolae, Ursoli, Urseola), a place in Gallia Narbonensis on the Antonine Itinerary road between Valentia and Vienne, 22 and 26 miles distant; site proposed as S. Valier or Roussillon.
Uršu/Waršuwa
Uršu (Waršuwa, Urshum) was a Hurrian-Amorite Bronze Age city-state in southern Turkey, probably on the west bank of the Euphrates north of Carchemish, known from Ebla, Gudea, and Hittite siege texts; its site remains unidentified.
Ursula (crater on Titania)
Ursula is a 135 km flat-floored impact crater on Titania, Uranus's largest moon, at −12.4°, 45.2°E, IAU-named in 1988 after a Much Ado About Nothing character, ringed by smooth plains of debated ejecta or cryovolcanic origin.