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Oleg Gang

Oleg Gang is a soft matter and nanomaterials researcher known for DNA-guided assembly of nanoparticles into designed 3D crystals, leading a Brookhaven group and teaching at Columbia since 2016.

Oleg Komogortsev

Oleg Komogortsev is a computer scientist at Texas State University in San Marcos who studies eye-movement biometrics, received a PECASE award, and leads the OK Lab.

Oleg Losev

Oleg Vladimirovich Losev (1903–1942) was a self-taught Russian radio engineer who made the first detailed study of electroluminescence in crystal diodes and invented the crystadyne amplifier.

Olenya (Оленья) (air base)

Olenya, also Olenegorsk Air Base, is a Russian military air base on the Kola Peninsula near Murmansk that hosts Tu-22M3 bombers used for cruise missile strikes on Ukraine.

Olgierd Zienkiewicz

Olgierd (Olek) Cecil Zienkiewicz was a British civil engineer, a leading developer of the finite element method, and professor at Swansea University from 1961 to 1988.

Olimpíada Brasileira de Robótica

The Olimpíada Brasileira de Robótica (OBR, Brazilian Robotics Olympiad) is a free Brazilian science olympiad in robotics for students aged 6 to 19, held since 2007.

Olive AI, Inc.

Olive AI, Inc. was a healthcare automation company in Columbus, Ohio that sold AI software for hospital administrative tasks, reaching a $4 billion valuation before shutting down in 2023.

Olive Downs Coal Mine

The Olive Downs Coal Mine is an open-cut coking coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, about 40 km from Moranbah, owned by Pembroke Resources and mining since 2023.

Olive mill waste

Olive mill waste is the solid and liquid residue generated when olives are processed into olive oil, produced at large scale across the Mediterranean basin.

Oliver C. Boileau

Oliver C. Boileau was an aerospace engineer and executive who led the B-2 stealth bomber program and retired in 1995 as Grumman's president and CEO.

Oliver Dowling Kingsley Jr.

Oliver Dowling Kingsley Jr. is an American nuclear power executive and engineer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003, known for turning around the TVA and ComEd nuclear fleets.

Oliver Ellsworth Buckley

Oliver Ellsworth Buckley (1887–1959) was an American telecommunications engineer who joined Bell System research in 1914 and served as president of Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1940 to 1950.

Oliver G. Schmidt

Oliver G. Schmidt, born 1971 in Kiel, is a German physicist and nanotechnologist working on functional nanostructures, micromotors, and microrobotics, and winner of the 2018 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.

Oliver Gutfleisch

Oliver Gutfleisch is a German materials scientist, professor of Functional Materials at TU Darmstadt since 2012, known for magnetic cooling research, permanent magnets, and the recycling of rare earths.

Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate

The Oliver Hazard Perry class is a class of guided-missile frigates built for the United States Navy from 1977, totaling 51 American ships plus 20 for foreign navies.

Oliver Steinbock

Oliver Steinbock is a German chemist who grew up in Hameln and holds the Cottrell Family Professorship of Chemistry at Florida State University, known for research on pattern formation in excitable media and chemical gardens.

Olivetti

Olivetti is an Italian technology company founded at Ivrea in 1908 by Camillo Olivetti as Italy's first typewriter factory, now a TIM Group IoT company.

Olivetti Valentine

The Olivetti Valentine is a portable manual typewriter launched by Olivetti in 1969, designed by Ettore Sottsass and known for its red-orange plastic body and matching case.

Olivier Delaire

Olivier Delaire is a materials scientist and associate professor at Duke University, formerly of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, known for neutron-scattering studies of phonons in energy materials.

Olivier Faugeras

Olivier Faugeras is a French computer scientist known for computer vision and mathematical neuroscience, a Research Director Emeritus at Inria who won the 2014 Okawa Prize.

Olivier Levasseur

Olivier Levasseur, known as La Buse, was a French pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy, remembered for capturing the Portuguese treasure ship Nossa Senhora do Cabo in 1721.

Olkaria Geothermal Power Station

The Olkaria Geothermal Power Station is a complex of geothermal plants in Hell's Gate National Park, Kenya, about 120 km from Nairobi, the largest in Africa.

Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant

Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant (Olkiluoto NPP) is a three-unit nuclear power station on Olkiluoto island in Eurajoki, Finland, operated by Teollisuuden Voima, supplying about 28 percent of Finnish electricity in 2024.

Ollama

Ollama is an open-source tool that downloads and runs large language models such as Llama and DeepSeek on a local computer, serving them through a REST API.

Olle Inganäs

Olle Inganäs is a Swedish physicist and professor emeritus of biomolecular and organic electronics at Linköping University, known for research on conjugated polymers, organic solar cells, and biopolymer energy storage.

OLMo (model family)

OLMo is a family of fully open large language models from the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), first released in February 2024 with weights, training data, and code published.

Olmsted Locks and Dam

Olmsted Locks and Dam is a US Army Corps navigation complex on the Ohio River near Olmsted, Illinois, opened in 2018 at a cost of about $3 billion.

Olo (company)

Olo is an American software-as-a-service company founded by Noah Glass that provides restaurants with digital ordering, delivery dispatch, and payment processing; it was acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2025.

Olombendo Oil and Gas Field

The Olombendo oil and gas field is the East Hub development of Angola's Block 15/06, producing oil through the FPSO Armada Olombendo since February 2017.

Oltcit Club

The Oltcit Club, sold in Western Europe as the Citroën Axel, was a small front-wheel-drive hatchback produced at Craiova, Romania, from 1981, with about 200,000 built by 1993.