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Aureka Biotechnologies (寻明生科)

Aureka Biotechnologies (寻明生科) is an AI-native antibody drug discovery company founded in 2023 in Suzhou by UC Irvine professor Zhao Wei'an, with labs in China and California.

Aurel Angelescu

Aurel Angelescu (1886–1938) was a Romanian mathematician in algebra and function theory who held chairs at the Universities of Cluj and Bucharest and is remembered for the Angelescu polynomials, which generalize the Laguerre polynomials.

Aurel C. Popovici

Aurel C. Popovici, born Aurel Constantin Popovici, was a Romanian publicist and politician from the Banat who in 1906 proposed reorganizing Austria-Hungary into 15 ethnically defined federal states.

Aurel Stein

Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), Hungarian-British archaeologist, led four Central Asian expeditions (1900-01, 1906-08, 1913-16, 1930-31) and acquired the Dunhuang Library Cave manuscripts in 1907; collections now in London, Delhi, and Budapest.

Aurel Vlaicu

Aurel Vlaicu (1882–1913) was a Romanian engineer and pioneer aviator who designed, built, and flew the first airplane constructed in Romania, crashing fatally in 1913 while attempting to cross the Carpathians.

Aurel Wintner

Aurel Wintner (1903–1958) was a Hungarian-born mathematician at Johns Hopkins University who rigorously proved the convergence of Hill's lunar theory and lent his name to several theorems.

Aurele Vandendriessche

Aurele Vandendriessche (1932–2023) was a Belgian long-distance runner who won the Boston Marathon in 1963 and 1964 and took European Championships marathon silver in 1962 and 1966.

Aurelia (cnidarian)

Aurelia, the moon jellies, is a genus of scyphozoan cnidarians with polyp-to-medusa life cycles and many cryptic species (28 recognized genetically), eight rhopalia, and blooms that clog power plant intakes.

Aurelia aurita

Aurelia aurita, the moon jelly (Linnaeus, 1758), a scyphozoan jellyfish of the family Ulmaridae; most-studied gelatinous zooplankton, cryptic species complex, polyp-medusa life cycle, spring strobilation drives summer blooms.

Aurelian

Aurelian (Lucius Domitius Aurelianus, r. 270-275) was a Roman emperor of humble Danubian origin who reunited the empire by defeating Zenobia's Palmyrene Empire and the Gallic Empire, reformed the coinage, built Rome's walls, and promoted Sol Invictus.

Aurelian Walls

The Aurelian Walls (Mura Aureliane) are Rome's ancient defensive circuit, begun by Emperor Aurelian in 271 AD, completed by 279, and about 19 km long.

Aureliano Bolognesi

Aureliano Bolognesi (Artista del Ring), Italian boxer, 1930-2018, who won lightweight (60 kg) gold at Helsinki 1952, beating Aleksy Antkiewicz in the final, then boxed briefly as a professional.

Aurélie de Rus Jacquet

Aurélie de Rus Jacquet is a French-trained ethnopharmacologist and Parkinson's disease researcher who is an assistant professor at Université Laval, studying glial cells and the blood-brain barrier using stem cell models.

Aurélien Barrau

Aurélien Barrau, born 1973, is a French physicist and philosopher at Grenoble known for work on black holes and quantum-gravity cosmology, and for climate activism.

Aurelien Diesse

Aurelien Diesse (Aurélien Diesse), born 1997 in Bondy, France, is a French judoka, -100 kg, Olympic mixed-team gold medalist at Paris 2024, 2018 world team silver medalist, ESBM/AS Bondy club member.

Aurélien Pradié

Aurélien Pradié is a French politician, born in Cahors in 1986, who represents Lot's first constituency in the National Assembly and leads Les Bâtisseurs, a movement he founded after leaving Les Républicains.

Aurélien Roux

Aurélien Roux is a Swiss cell biologist and professor of biochemistry at the University of Geneva, known for his work on membrane fission by dynamin and ESCRT-III.

Aurélien Tchouaméni

Aurélien Tchouaméni (born 2000, Rouen) is a French defensive midfielder for Real Madrid, signed from Monaco for €80m in 2022; 2022 World Cup finalist, Champions League 2024 winner, 50 France caps.

Aurelio A. Teleman

Aurelio A. Teleman (born 1976) is an Italian molecular biologist who heads the Signal Transduction in Cancer and Metabolism division at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.

Aurelio De Laurentiis

Aurelio De Laurentiis (born Rome 1949) is an Italian film producer, founder of Filmauro (1975), and president of SSC Napoli since 2004, which he bought out of bankruptcy and led to scudetti in 2023 and 2025; he also owns Bari.

Aurelio Espinosa Pólit

Aurelio Espinosa Pólit (1894–1961) was an Ecuadorian Jesuit priest, poet, essayist, and translator of the classics who co-founded and led the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador.

Aurelio Mateo‐Alonso

Aurelio Mateo-Alonso is a materials chemist and Ikerbasque Research Professor who has led a group at POLYMAT in San Sebastián since 2012, known for covalent organic frameworks and graphene nanoribbons.

Aurelio Miguel

Aurelio Miguel (Aurélio Fernández Miguel), Brazilian judoka born 1964 in São Paulo; half-heavyweight -95 kg. Olympic gold Seoul 1988, first in Brazilian judo, plus bronze Atlanta 1996; three world medals; IJF Hall of Fame 2013.

Aureobasidium

Aureobasidium: genus of melanized, dimorphic yeast-like ascomycete fungi (black yeasts, Saccotheciaceae, Dothideales), type species A. pullulans; polyextremotolerant, pullulan-producing, used in biotechnology and biocontrol, occasionally opportunistic pathogens.

Aureobasidium pullulans beta-glucan

Aureobasidium pullulans beta-glucan (APβG, Polycan, Nichi Glucan): soluble β-1,3/1,6-glucan from black yeast fermentation, GRAS (GRN 309) and EU novel-food approved, studied for immunomodulation.

Aurès maquis

The Aurès maquis were FLN guerrilla bands in Algeria's Aurès Mountains that launched the Algerian War in 1954 and held out until independence in 1962.

Aureum Chaos

Aureum Chaos is a large chaotic terrain region in eastern Valles Marineris, Mars, near 334°E, 4°S, marked by eroded mesas and sulfate-, hematite-, and clay-bearing layered deposits recording ancient groundwater activity.

Aureus Capital Ltd

Aureus Capital Ltd is a Cayman Islands exempt company, incorporated in 2023, whose SEC Form D reports a fully sold $2.0 billion debt offering under Rule 506.

Auri

Auri is a folk and progressive-rock trio formed by Nightwish members Troy Donockley and Tuomas Holopainen with singer Johanna Kurkela, releasing three albums on Nuclear Blast since 2018.

Auric Goldfinger

Auric Goldfinger is Ian Fleming's gold-obsessed Bond villain from the 1959 novel Goldfinger, richest man in England and SMERSH treasurer, played by Gert Fröbe in the 1964 film; named after architect Ernő Goldfinger.