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Shiro Kobayashi
Shiro Kobayashi was a mechanical engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for applying computational mechanics to metal forming and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Shiroro Dam
Shiroro Dam is a 600 MW hydroelectric dam on the Kaduna River at Shiroro Gorge in Niger State, Nigeria, commissioned in 1990 and one of the country's three major hydropower stations.
Shirshanka Das
Shirshanka Das is an Indian-American engineer, founder of the DataHub open-source metadata platform at LinkedIn, and co-founder and CTO of Acryl Data, its enterprise company. UCLA Ph.D., ex-PayPal, Yahoo, and LinkedIn, with Apache Gobblin involvement.
Shirvan power station
Shirvan power station (نیروگاه سیکل ترکیبی شیروان) is a 1,434 MW gas-fired combined cycle power station in Shirvan, North Khorasan, Iran, owned by Khorasan Regional Electric Co.
Shiseido (資生堂)
Shiseido (資生堂), formally Shiseido Company, Limited, is a Japanese multinational cosmetics company founded in Tokyo's Ginza district in 1872, now operating in about 120 countries.
Shishana
The Shishana (Shishane) is a muzzle-loading flintlock gun with a miquelet mechanism that served as the Ottoman Empire's characteristic soldier's gun from the seventeenth into the nineteenth century.
Shitennō-ji
Shitennō-ji (四天王寺) is a Buddhist temple in Tennōji Ward, Osaka, founded in 593 by Prince Shōtoku as Japan's first official state temple and head temple of the Wasō school.
Shiv Nadar
Shiv Nadar (சிவ நாடார்) is an Indian industrialist and philanthropist who founded HCL in 1976 and the Shiv Nadar Foundation in 1994, repeatedly topping India's philanthropy rankings.
Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai, also known as V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai, is an American systems scientist and entrepreneur known for his disputed claim to have invented email.
Shiva laser
The Shiva laser was a 20-beam neodymium glass laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for inertial confinement fusion research, becoming the world's most powerful laser in 1977.
Shiva of Prambanan
The Shiva of Prambanan (Candi Siwa) is the central, largest temple of the ninth-century Prambanan complex in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva.
Shivaji Sircar
Shivaji Sircar was an Indian-American chemical engineer at Air Products who founded pressure-swing adsorption for gas separation and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.
Shiver my timbers
Shiver my timbers, also shiver me timbers, is a mock nautical oath invoking a ship's splintering hull, best known as a stereotypical pirate exclamation from fiction and film.
Shivkar Bapuji Talpade (शिवकर बापूजी तळपदे)
Shivkar Bapuji Talpade (शिवकर बापूजी तळपदे), 1864–1916, was a Bombay Sanskrit teacher said to have flown an unmanned aircraft called Marutsakhā in 1895, though no contemporary evidence exists.
Shiwoo Lee
Shiwoo Lee is a materials scientist and engineer at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Morgantown, West Virginia, known for solid oxide fuel cell electrodes and fiber sensing.
Shiyan
Shiyan (试验, "experiment") is the designation China applies to a series of experimental satellites, launched since 2004 to test new spacecraft technologies and instruments, often with undisclosed payloads.
Shiyan Cogen power station
Shiyan Cogen power station (京能十堰热电) is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Shiyan, Hubei, China, with three 350 MW units totaling 1,050 MW.
Shizuishan power station
Shizuishan power station (宁夏石嘴山发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Shizuishan, Ningxia, China, with six coal-fired units totaling about 2,020 MW, online from 2002 to 2006.
Shizuoka Gas
Shizuoka Gas (静岡ガス) is a Japanese city gas utility headquartered in Shizuoka City. Founded in 1910, it supplies city gas, LPG, and electricity across central Shizuoka and nearby prefectures.
Shlomo Moran
Shlomo Moran (Hebrew: שלמה מורן), born 1947, is an Israeli computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at the Technion in Haifa, known for Arthur–Merlin games and self-stabilizing protocols.
Shlomo Shamai
Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) is an Israeli information theorist, a Distinguished Professor at the Technion since 1986, known for work on the capacity of wireless channels.
Shmuel Safra
Shmuel Safra, often called Muli Safra, is a professor of computer science at Tel Aviv University known for work on probabilistically checkable proofs and Boolean function analysis.
Shmuel Winograd
Shmuel Winograd (1936–2019) was an Israeli-born mathematician and computer scientist at IBM's Watson Research Center, known for fast algorithms for the Fourier transform and convolutions.
Sho-Vel-Tum Oil Field
Sho-Vel-Tum, named for the merged Sholom Alechem, Velma, and Tussy fields, is a giant oil field in southern Oklahoma producing continuously since 1914 and ranking as Oklahoma's largest.
Shoaiba II power station
Shoaiba II power station is a 1,200 MW combined cycle plant on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast near Jeddah, owned by the Saudi Electricity Company and commissioned in 2014.
Shoaiba power plant
The Shoaiba power plant is an oil-fired power and desalination complex on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia, owned by the Saudi Electricity Company.
Shoals Technologies Group
Shoals Technologies Group is an American design-engineering company that makes the wiring, connectors, and power-distribution components carrying electricity from solar panels and batteries, founded in 1996 in Portland, Tennessee.
Shock absorber
A shock absorber, also called a damper, is a hydraulic or electromechanical suspension device that controls how quickly springs and wheels settle after a road impact.
Shock layer
A shock layer is the layer of hot, compressed gas trapped between a bow shock wave and a hypersonic vehicle's surface, above Mach 5, and governs the vehicle's heating.
Shock site
A shock site, or shock website, is a website designed to shock or disgust visitors with graphic images or videos, often delivered through bait-and-switch prank links.