De Laval nozzle

A de Laval nozzle is a tube which is pinched in the middle, making a carefully balanced, asymmetric hourglass shape. It is used to accelerate a compressible fluid to supersonic speeds in the axial (thrust) direction, by converting the thermal energy of the flow into kinetic energy. De Laval nozzles are widely used in some types of steam turbines and rocket engine nozzles. It also sees use in supersonic jet engines.

Florence Small

Florence Veric Hardy Small was an English painter. She was born in Nottingham, United Kingdom and died in South Hampstead in inner northwest London

335P/Gibbs

335P/Gibbs is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It will next come to perihelion in August 2022. Together with 266P/Christensen, it was proposed as the source of the 1977 "Wow! Signal

Patricia Rodney

Patricia Rodney is a public health professional and the CEO of Partners in Health, Education and Development, a public health consultancy organization the works in the United States and internationally, and the chair of the board of directors of the

266P/Christensen

266P/Christensen is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It will next come to perihelion in December 2026. It has been suggested as the source of the 1977 "Wow! Signal

Kayaba Ku-4

The Kayaba Ku-4 was a research aircraft built in Japan in 1940 to investigate the possibilities of tailless aircraft designs. It followed designer Hidemasa Kimura's successful Ku-2 and Ku-3 designs for the Imperial Japanese Army. While these previous

Sonja Wipf

Sonja Wipf is a Swiss plant ecologist who studies the consequences of climate change. She worked at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF and is head of research and monitoring at the Swiss National Parks

Margoth Escobar

Margoth Escobar is an Ecuadorian activist for environmental and indigenous rights

Noemí Gualinga

Noemí Gualinga, known as "mother of the jungle", is a community leader of and activist for the Sarayaku, a Amazonian Kichwa indigenous group from the Ecuadorian Amazon numbering roughly 1,200

Joy Marini

Joy Marini is an American executive who is currently the philanthropic director of Johnson & Johnson's international philanthropy for maternal and infant health, violence against women, and gender inequality

Snoop Conner

Jarod Devon "Snoop" Conner is an American football running back for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Ole Miss