notableContribution
P477
predicate
Indicates that an entity has made a significant, recognized contribution to another entity, field, work, or endeavor.
Aliases (30)
- notableAchievement ×2,437
- contributesTo ×572
- contribution ×133
- hasContribution ×61
- notableImpact ×33
- hasNotableContribution ×17
- contributionTo ×16
- historicallyImportantFor ×15
- scientificContribution ×14
- breakthroughWork ×9
- keyContributor ×8
- majorContribution ×7
- notableDonation ×7
- mainContribution ×6
- notableSongwritingContribution ×6
- significantContribution ×6
- contributedToDiscoveryOf ×5
- notableLegacy ×5
- notableSuccess ×5
- notableScholarshipOn ×3
- domesticAchievement ×2
- isPioneeringWorkIn ×2
- mathematicalAchievement ×2
- strategicContribution ×2
- madeBreakthroughWith ×1
- majorContributor ×1
- notableFranchiseContributionsTo ×1
- notableGenreContribution ×1
- notableTheory ×1
- significantContributor ×1
Sample triples (showing first 500 of 3,526)
| Subject | Object |
|---|---|
| 1972 Summer Olympics | Mark Spitz won seven gold medals in swimming ("notableAchievement") → |
| 1972 Summer Olympics | Olga Korbut popularized women’s artistic gymnastics worldwide ("notableAchievement") → |
| 1976 Summer Olympics | first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics ("notableAchievement") → |
| 1995–96 NBA season | Chicago Bulls set then-NBA record for most regular-season wins ("notableAchievement") → |
| 1st Ukrainian Front | decisive contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany ("notableAchievement") → |
| 1st Ukrainian Front | encirclement and destruction of German forces in Silesia ("notableAchievement") → |
| 1st Ukrainian Front | liberation of eastern and southern Poland ("notableAchievement") → |
| 1st Ukrainian Front | liberation of large parts of Ukraine from German occupation ("notableAchievement") → |
| 1st Ukrainian Front | penetration to the Oder River in early 1945 ("notableAchievement") → |
| 4th Marine Division | supporting the capture of Iwo Jima airfields → |
| A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits | established formal correspondence between logic and relay networks ("contribution") → |
| A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits | introduced systematic method for designing switching circuits using Boolean algebra ("contribution") → |
| A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits | showed how logical propositions can be implemented with relay circuits ("contribution") → |
| A Whole New World | first Disney song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 ("notableAchievement") → |
| A fast learning algorithm for deep belief nets | demonstrated effective layer-wise unsupervised pretraining ("contribution") → |
| A fast learning algorithm for deep belief nets | made deep neural networks easier to train ("contribution") → |
| A fast learning algorithm for deep belief nets | showed that greedy learning of one layer at a time works well ("contribution") → |
| A. H. Johnson | climbing the highest peak in the contiguous United States ("notableAchievement") → |
| ACT Brumbies | first non-New Zealand team to win Super Rugby ("notableAchievement") → |
| ASACUSA experiment | constraints on CPT violation ("contributesTo") → |
| ASACUSA experiment | precision measurements of fundamental constants ("contributesTo") → |
| ASI | contributions to the International Space Station → |
| ASI | development of space instruments for planetary missions → |
| ASME B31.12 Hydrogen Piping and Pipelines | safe deployment of hydrogen energy infrastructure ("contributesTo") → |
| ASME B31.12 Hydrogen Piping and Pipelines | standardization of hydrogen piping design practices ("contributesTo") → |
| Aaran Lines | led Western New York Flash to NWSL Shield 2013 ("notableAchievement") → |
| Aaran Lines | led Western New York Flash to WPS Championship 2011 ("notableAchievement") → |
| Aaran Lines | led Western New York Flash to WPS Regular Season title 2011 ("notableAchievement") → |
| Abbasid Caliphate | development of algebra → |
| Abbasid Caliphate | development of hospitals (bimaristans) → |
| Abbasid Caliphate | development of optics → |
| Abbasid Caliphate | preservation of Greek philosophy → |
| Abelardo L. Rodríguez | promotion of industrial development in Mexico ("notableAchievement") → |
| Abelardo L. Rodríguez | stabilization of Mexican economy during the Great Depression ("notableAchievement") → |
| Abelardo L. Rodríguez | strengthening of presidential powers after the Mexican Revolution ("notableAchievement") → |
| Abelardo L. Rodríguez | support for education and infrastructure projects in Mexico ("notableAchievement") → |
| Aberdeen F.C. | multiple domestic doubles in early 1980s ("notableAchievement") → |
| Aberdeen F.C. | only Scottish club to win both Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Super Cup ("notableAchievement") → |
| Accredited Education Institutes program | advancement of simulation-based education research ("contributesTo") → |
| Accredited Education Institutes program | improvement of surgical outcomes through training ("contributesTo") → |
| Accredited Education Institutes program | standardization of surgical skills training ("contributesTo") → |
| Acorn Computers | early RISC personal computers → |
| Acorn Computers | origin of ARM instruction set → |
| Ada Yonath | determination of high-resolution ribosome structures ("notableAchievement") → |
| Ada Yonath | first to crystallize large ribosomal subunits ("notableAchievement") → |
| Adam Faith | one of the first UK artists to have consecutive number-one singles in the UK Singles Chart ("notableAchievement") → |
| Adam Faith | teen idol in late 1950s and early 1960s ("notableAchievement") → |
| Adam Silver | implementation of modernized NBA governance policies ("notableAchievement") → |
| Adam Silver | leadership during major NBA labor negotiations ("notableAchievement") → |
| Adam Silver | oversight of NBA global media and digital expansion ("notableAchievement") → |
| Adobe Flash | enabled widespread browser-based games in the 2000s ("notableImpact") → |
| Adobe Flash | popularized rich Internet applications before HTML5 ("notableImpact") → |
| Adriaan Fokker | co-formulation of an equation describing time evolution of probability distributions in phase space ("notableAchievement") → |
| Adrian Smith | designed the world’s tallest building Burj Khalifa ("notableAchievement") → |
| Adrian Smith | pioneer in energy-efficient skyscraper design ("notableAchievement") → |
| Adrienne Clarkson | first visible minority Governor General of Canada ("notableAchievement") → |
| Adrienne Clarkson | second woman to serve as Governor General of Canada ("notableAchievement") → |
| Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee | capacity-building for World Heritage stakeholders ("contributesTo") → |
| Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee | development of conservation standards for World Heritage properties ("contributesTo") → |
| Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee | evaluation of World Heritage nomination dossiers ("contributesTo") → |
| Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee | updating of World Heritage policies and guidelines ("contributesTo") → |
| African American literature | American cultural history ("contributesTo") → |
| African American literature | critical race discourse ("contributesTo") → |
| African American literature | postcolonial theory ("contributesTo") → |
| Agulhas Current | Agulhas leakage ("contributesTo") → |
| Agulhas Current | Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ("contributesTo") → |
| Ahmed Qurei | helped negotiate the Oslo Accords ("notableAchievement") → |
| Ahmed Qurei | served as Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority ("notableAchievement") → |
| Ahmed Qurei | served as Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council ("notableAchievement") → |
| Airlangga | laid foundations for Kediri kingdom ("notableAchievement") → |
| Airlangga | reunified territories after fall of Medang ("notableAchievement") → |
| Akdeniz University | Mediterranean regional development ("contributesTo") → |
| Akdeniz University | regional development in Antalya ("contributesTo") → |
| Akira Endo | first demonstration that HMG-CoA reductase inhibition lowers cholesterol in animals ("notableAchievement") → |
| Al Pacino | One of the few performers to have won the Triple Crown of Acting ("notableAchievement") → |
| Al-Khwarizmi | construction of astronomical tables based on Indian and Greek sources ("notableAchievement") → |
| Al-Khwarizmi | introduction of Hindu-Arabic numerals to the Islamic world ("notableAchievement") → |
| Al-Khwarizmi | revision of Ptolemaic geography ("notableAchievement") → |
| Al-Khwarizmi | systematic treatment of linear and quadratic equations ("notableAchievement") → |
| Al-Kindi | development of a philosophical vocabulary in Arabic ("contribution") → |
| Al-Kindi | early formulation of frequency analysis in cryptanalysis ("contribution") → |
| Al-Kindi | systematic use of mathematics in medicine and pharmacology ("contribution") → |
| Al-Zahrawi | advances in obstetric and gynecological surgery ("majorContribution") → |
| Al-Zahrawi | description of dental extraction and replacement techniques ("majorContribution") → |
| Al-Zahrawi | development of techniques for cauterization ("majorContribution") → |
| Al-Zahrawi | early description of ligature for blood-vessel control ("majorContribution") → |
| Al-Zahrawi | early description of lithotomy for bladder stones ("majorContribution") → |
| Al-Zahrawi | standardization of surgical instruments ("majorContribution") → |
| Al-Zahrawi | use of catgut for internal sutures ("majorContribution") → |
| Ala 11 | NATO collective defense ("contributesTo") → |
| Ala 11 | Spain’s air defense ("contributesTo") → |
| Alain Simard | helped establish Montreal as a major international festival city ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alan Brooke | Principal architect of Allied strategy in World War II ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alan Emtage | created one of the earliest search tools for the Internet ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alan Menken | Known for revitalizing Disney animated musicals in the late 1980s and early 1990s ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alan Menken | One of the most awarded film composers in Academy Awards history ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alan Mulally | avoided U.S. government bailout for Ford during 2008–2009 crisis ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alan Mulally | implemented One Ford restructuring plan ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alan Mulally | led cultural and operational transformation at Ford Motor Company ("notableAchievement") → |
| Albert A. Michelson | first American Nobel laureate in Physics ("notableAchievement") → |
| Albert A. Michelson | first American to receive a Nobel Prize in the sciences ("notableAchievement") → |
| Albert J. Myer | institutionalizing weather observation within a military signal organization ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alberto Lleras Camargo | First Secretary General of the Organization of American States ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alberto Lleras Camargo | Key architect of the National Front agreement in Colombia ("notableAchievement") → |
| Aletta Jacobs | first female physician in the Netherlands ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alex Anthopoulos | constructed roster that won the 2021 World Series with the Atlanta Braves ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alex Anthopoulos | oversaw multiple division-winning teams with the Atlanta Braves ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alex Cora | won the 2018 American League pennant as manager of the Boston Red Sox ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alex Cora | won the 2018 World Series as manager of the Boston Red Sox ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alex Honnold | first free solo ascent of El Capitan ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alex Honnold | free solo of Freerider (5.13a, 900 m) ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alex Honnold | linkups of multiple Yosemite big walls in a day ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alex Honnold | speed ascents of big wall routes in Yosemite ("notableAchievement") → |
| AlexNet | demonstrated effectiveness of deep CNNs on large-scale image recognition → |
| AlexNet | popularized use of GPUs for deep learning → |
| AlexNet | showed benefits of ReLU over tanh and sigmoid in deep networks → |
| Alexander Cushing | secured International Olympic Committee selection of Squaw Valley for the 1960 Winter Olympics ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexander Cushing | transformed Squaw Valley from a remote area into an international ski destination ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven | helped secure the signing and defense of the National Covenant ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven | negotiated with the English Parliament during the Civil War ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven | organized and trained the Scottish Covenanter army ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexander Lyman Holley | secured American rights to the Bessemer steel process ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexander Lyman Holley | standardized Bessemer plant design in the United States ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexander Matthew Busby | rebuilt Manchester United after the Munich air disaster ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexander Matthew Busby | won FA Cups with Manchester United ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexander Matthew Busby | won multiple English league titles with Manchester United ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexander Matthew Busby | won the European Cup with Manchester United in 1968 ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexander Vandegrift | Commanded the first major American offensive in the Pacific Theater at Guadalcanal ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexander Vandegrift | First Marine Corps officer to receive the Medal of Honor in World War II for ground combat ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexandra Patricia Morgan | FIFA Women's World Cup champion with the United States ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexandra Patricia Morgan | Olympic gold medal in women's football for the United States ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexandra Patricia Morgan | recognized as one of the most prominent forwards in women's football ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexandros Papagos | headed Greece’s post–World War II reconstruction government ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexandros Papagos | led government forces to victory in the Greek Civil War ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexis Carrel | contributed to the foundations of modern transplant surgery ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alexis Carrel | developed methods to join blood vessels end-to-end ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alfred Bauer | helping to establish the Berlin International Film Festival as a leading international film festival ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alfred Clebsch | co-founded the journal Mathematische Annalen ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alfred Newman | received dozens of Academy Award nominations for film scores ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alfred Newman | won nine Academy Awards for film music ("notableAchievement") → |
| Ali Stroker | first wheelchair-using performer to appear on Broadway ("notableAchievement") → |
| Ali Stroker | first wheelchair-using performer to win a Tony Award ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alice Walker | First African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alicia Boole Stott | classified certain semiregular 4-polytopes ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alicia Boole Stott | gave three-dimensional models of four-dimensional regular polytopes ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alicia Boole Stott | introduced methods for visualizing 4D polytopes via their 3D sections ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alicia Boole Stott | introduced the term polytope for higher-dimensional analogues of polyhedra ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alicia Boole Stott | visualization methods for 4D polytopes via 3D sections ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alicia Keys | Songs in A Minor sold millions of copies worldwide ("notableAchievement") → |
| Alicia Keys | won multiple Grammy Awards ("notableAchievement") → |
| Allan Ramsay | established a leading bookselling and publishing business in Edinburgh ("notableAchievement") → |
| Allan Ramsay | founded one of the first circulating libraries in Britain ("notableAchievement") → |
| Allan Ramsay | helped revive Scots vernacular literature in the 18th century ("notableAchievement") → |
| Allen Blue | co-creating LinkedIn’s core product vision ("notableAchievement") → |
| Allen Blue | leading LinkedIn’s early product organization ("notableAchievement") → |
| Allie Reynolds | pitched two no-hitters in 1951 ("notableAchievement") → |
| AlphaGo | defeated European Go champion Fan Hui 5–0 in October 2015 ("notableAchievement") → |
| AlphaGo | defeated Ke Jie 3–0 in May 2017 ("notableAchievement") → |
| AlphaGo | defeated world champion Lee Sedol 4–1 in March 2016 ("notableAchievement") → |
| AlphaGo | demonstrated the power of deep reinforcement learning in complex board games ("notableImpact") → |
| AlphaGo | first computer program to defeat a professional Go player on a full-sized 19x19 board without handicaps ("notableAchievement") → |
| Amelia Boynton Robinson | one of the first African American women to run for Congress in Alabama ("notableAchievement") → |
| Amelia Earhart | first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean ("notableAchievement") → |
| Amelia Earhart | first woman to fly solo nonstop across the United States ("notableAchievement") → |
| Amelia Earhart | promoted opportunities for women in aviation ("notableAchievement") → |
| Amelia Earhart | set multiple aviation speed and distance records ("notableAchievement") → |
| American Museum of Natural History (original buildings) | historic architectural character of the American Museum of Natural History ("contributesTo") → |
| Aminé | Caroline ("breakthroughWork") → |
| Amnon Yariv | contributions to optical communications theory → |
| Amnon Yariv | contributions to photonic integrated circuits → |
| Amnon Yariv | development of integrated optics as a field → |
| Amnon Yariv | theoretical description of semiconductor lasers → |
| An Account of Some Cases of the Production of Colours | advanced understanding of the physical origin of colour ("contribution") → |
| An Account of Some Cases of the Production of Colours | helped establish the principle of interference in optics ("contribution") → |
| An Account of Some Cases of the Production of Colours | provided key experimental support for the wave theory of light ("contribution") → |
| Anders Hejlsberg | co-designed TypeScript ("notableAchievement") → |
| Anders Hejlsberg | created Turbo Pascal compiler ("notableAchievement") → |
| Anders Hejlsberg | led design of C# ("notableAchievement") → |
| Anders Hejlsberg | led design of Delphi ("notableAchievement") → |
| Andrea Palladio | major influence on Western architecture for centuries ("notableAchievement") → |
| Andrea Palladio | systematized classical orders in domestic architecture ("notableAchievement") → |
| Andrei Tupolev | led development of key Soviet strategic bombers during the Cold War ("notableAchievement") → |
| Andrei Tupolev | oversaw design of early Soviet jet airliners ("notableAchievement") → |
| Andrei Tupolev | pioneered all-metal aircraft construction in the Soviet Union ("notableAchievement") → |
| Andrew Cunningham | Pioneering use of carrier-based air power at Taranto ("notableAchievement") → |
| Andrew Cunningham | Securing Allied naval supremacy in the Mediterranean during World War II ("notableAchievement") → |
| Andrew McCollum | helping launch Facebook while at Harvard University ("notableAchievement") → |
| Andrew Tridgell | design of rsync delta-transfer algorithm ("hasContribution") → |
| Andrew Tridgell | reverse engineering of SMB protocol ("hasContribution") → |
| Andrew Wiles | proof of the modularity theorem for semistable elliptic curves ("notableAchievement") → |
| André Citroën | early use of all-steel car bodies in France ("notableAchievement") → |
| André Citroën | first large-scale mass production of cars in Europe ("notableAchievement") → |
| André Citroën | large-scale illuminated advertising on the Eiffel Tower ("notableAchievement") → |
| André Citroën | pioneering front-wheel-drive mass-produced car ("notableAchievement") → |
| André-Marie Ampère | established relationship between electricity and magnetism ("notableAchievement") → |
| André-Marie Ampère | formulated mathematical theory of electrodynamic forces between currents ("notableAchievement") → |
| Andy Jassy | scaling AWS into a leading cloud computing platform ("notableAchievement") → |
| Andy Jassy | succeeding Jeff Bezos as CEO of Amazon ("notableAchievement") → |
| Andy Reid | multiple 10-win seasons with both the Eagles and Chiefs ("notableAchievement") → |
| Andy Reid | one of the winningest head coaches in NFL history by total wins ("notableAchievement") → |
| Aneurin Bevan | established a comprehensive National Health Service free at the point of use ("notableAchievement") → |
| Aneurin Bevan | principal architect of the United Kingdom’s postwar welfare state ("notableAchievement") → |
| Ang Lee | first non-white director to win the Academy Award for Best Director ("notableAchievement") → |
| Angela Hunte | co-writing the hit single Empire State of Mind ("notableAchievement") → |
| Angela Hunte | co-writing the sequel Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down ("notableAchievement") → |
| Angela James | among the first women inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame ("notableAchievement") → |
| Angela James | multiple world championship titles with Team Canada ("notableAchievement") → |
| Angelina Jolie | Gia ("breakthroughWork") → |
| Angella Reid | first woman to serve as White House Chief Usher ("notableAchievement") → |
| Angola Current | Angola–Benguela Front ("contributesTo") → |
| Anna Eleanor Roosevelt | helped draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ("notableAchievement") → |
| Anne Wojcicki | pioneering direct-to-consumer genetic testing ("notableAchievement") → |
| Annex 11 Notification and Response | protection of aquatic ecosystems in the Great Lakes ("contributesTo") → |
| Annex 11 Notification and Response | protection of human health in the Great Lakes region ("contributesTo") → |
| Annex 12 Chemicals of Emerging Concern | binational coordination on chemical risk management ("contributesTo") → |
| Annex 12 Chemicals of Emerging Concern | implementation of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement ("contributesTo") → |
| Annex 3 Chemicals of Mutual Concern | implementation of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement ("contributesTo") → |
| Annex 3 Chemicals of Mutual Concern | protection of drinking water sources in the Great Lakes region ("contributesTo") → |
| Annex 3 Chemicals of Mutual Concern | protection of fish and wildlife in the Great Lakes ("contributesTo") → |
| Annex 5 Discharges from Vessels | protection of drinking water sources in the Great Lakes Basin ("contributesTo") → |
| Annex 5 Discharges from Vessels | protection of fish and wildlife in the Great Lakes ("contributesTo") → |
| Annex 5 Discharges from Vessels | reduction of toxic substances in Great Lakes waters ("contributesTo") → |
| Antarctic Circumpolar Current | isolation of Antarctica ("contributesTo") → |
| Antarctic Circumpolar Current | isolation of Antarctica from warmer subtropical waters ("contributesTo") → |
| Antarctic Circumpolar Current | maintenance of Antarctic ice sheet ("contributesTo") → |
| Antarctic Circumpolar Current | maintenance of Antarctic ice sheet by thermal isolation ("contributesTo") → |
| Anthony Parker | EuroLeague Final Four MVP ("notableAchievement") → |
| Anthony Parker | EuroLeague MVP ("notableAchievement") → |
| Anthony Parker | EuroLeague champion ("notableAchievement") → |
| Anthropology and the Abnormal | cross-cultural psychiatry ("contributesTo") → |
| Anthropology and the Abnormal | medical anthropology ("contributesTo") → |
| Anthropology and the Abnormal | psychological anthropology ("contributesTo") → |
| Anthropology and the Abnormal | theory of cultural relativism ("contributesTo") → |
| Antilles Current | Florida Current ("contributesTo") → |
| Antilles Current | Gulf Stream system ("contributesTo") → |
| Antonio Davis | NBA All-Star selection with the Toronto Raptors ("notableAchievement") → |
| António Costa | Formed a left-wing governing agreement known as the "geringonça" in 2015 ("notableAchievement") → |
| Appendix II | conservation of wild fauna and flora through sustainable use ("contributesTo") → |
| Apure River | Orinoco River discharge ("contributesTo") → |
| Arago | contributed to early studies of electromagnetism ("notableAchievement") → |
| Arago | helped establish the wave theory of light in France ("notableAchievement") → |
| Arago | promoted public understanding of science in the 19th century ("notableAchievement") → |
| Arash Ferdowsi | helped build one of the earliest mainstream consumer cloud storage services ("notableAchievement") → |
| Archytas | reputedly never defeated in battle as general of Tarentum ("notableAchievement") → |
| Ardito Desio | first ascent of K2 via Italian expedition ("notableAchievement") → |
| Aretha Franklin | first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ("notableAchievement") → |
| Arizona Diamondbacks | fastest expansion team to win a World Series ("notableAchievement") → |
| Arm1 detector | cosmic-ray physics ("contributesTo") → |
| Arm1 detector | tuning hadronic interaction models ("contributesTo") → |
| Arm1 detector | understanding extensive air showers ("contributesTo") → |
| Armand Peugeot | oversaw production of some of the first Peugeot motor vehicles ("notableAchievement") → |
| Arnold O. Beckman | commercialization of reliable electronic pH meters ("notableAchievement") → |
| Arnold O. Beckman | pioneering industrial-scale scientific instrumentation business ("notableAchievement") → |
| Arthur Blank | helped grow The Home Depot into a leading home improvement retailer in the United States ("notableAchievement") → |
| Arthur E. Kennelly | early theoretical work on radio wave propagation ("notableAchievement") → |
| Arthur E. Kennelly | pioneering analysis of alternating current circuits ("notableAchievement") → |
| Artis Gilmore | member of ABA All-Time Team ("notableAchievement") → |
| Artis Gilmore | one of the most efficient field-goal shooters in professional basketball history ("notableAchievement") → |
| Arvo Ylppö | helped make Finland one of the countries with the lowest infant mortality rates in the world ("notableAchievement") → |
| Asa Griggs Candler | expanded Coca-Cola sales across the United States ("notableAchievement") → |
| Asa Griggs Candler | implemented aggressive advertising for Coca-Cola ("notableAchievement") → |
| Astronomia nova | introduced area law for planetary motion ("contribution") → |
| Astronomia nova | provided strong support for the Copernican heliocentric system ("contribution") → |
| Astronomia nova | replaced circular orbits with elliptical orbits for planets ("contribution") → |
| Atari deep Q-network | demonstrated deep learning can learn control policies directly from high-dimensional sensory input → |
| Atari deep Q-network | introduced target networks for stabilizing deep Q-learning → |
| Atari deep Q-network | popularized experience replay in deep reinforcement learning → |
| Atlantic Ocean | Age of Exploration ("historicallyImportantFor") → |
| Atlantic Ocean | European colonization of the Americas ("historicallyImportantFor") → |
| Atlantic Ocean | transatlantic slave trade ("historicallyImportantFor") → |
| Atlas-Centaur | enabled early U.S. interplanetary exploration → |
| August Wilson | wrote a cycle of ten plays chronicling African American life in each decade of the 20th century ("notableAchievement") → |
| Austin Rivers | ACC Rookie of the Year ("notableAchievement") → |
| Ava DuVernay | first Black woman to direct a film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture ("notableAchievement") → |
| Ava DuVernay | first Black woman to win the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival ("notableAchievement") → |
| Azores Current | eastward transport of warm water in the North Atlantic ("contributesTo") → |
| Babson Beavers | NCAA Division III men’s basketball national championship in 2017 ("notableAchievement") → |
| Babson Beavers | multiple NEWMAC conference championships in various sports ("notableAchievement") → |
| Babyface | recognized as a key architect of contemporary R&B sound ("notableAchievement") → |
| Babyface | wrote or produced dozens of U.S. R&B and pop hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s ("notableAchievement") → |
| Balaji Baji Rao | peak territorial extent of the Maratha Empire before 1761 ("notableImpact") → |
| Balaji Vishwanath | negotiated treaties that expanded Maratha influence in western India ("notableAchievement") → |
| Balaji Vishwanath | secured release and recognition of Shahu I as Chhatrapati ("notableAchievement") → |
| Banesto | Giro d’Italia general classification wins with Miguel Indurain ("notableAchievement") → |
| Banesto | Tour de France general classification wins with Miguel Indurain ("notableAchievement") → |
| Banesto | Vuelta a España general classification wins ("notableAchievement") → |
| Banesto | multiple Grand Tour overall victories ("notableAchievement") → |
| Barack Obama | Nobel Peace Prize laureate ("notableAchievement") → |
| Barack Obama | first African American president of the United States ("notableAchievement") → |
| Barbara Liskov | one of the first women to receive the Turing Award ("notableAchievement") GENERATED → |
| Barbara McClintock | first woman to receive an unshared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ("notableAchievement") → |
| Barbra Streisand | One of the best-selling recording artists of all time ("notableAchievement") → |
| Barbra Streisand | One of the few entertainers to achieve EGOT status ("notableAchievement") → |
| Barney Ross | three-division world boxing champion ("notableAchievement") → |
| Barney Ross | world light welterweight champion ("notableAchievement") → |
| Barney Ross | world lightweight champion ("notableAchievement") → |
| Barney Ross | world welterweight champion ("notableAchievement") → |
| Barry Diller | early investment in internet and digital media businesses ("notableAchievement") → |
| Barry Diller | pioneering broadcast television network expansion at Fox ("notableAchievement") → |
| Barry McGuire | Reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with Eve of Destruction in 1965 ("notableAchievement") → |
| Barry Melrose | coached Los Angeles Kings to 1993 Stanley Cup Final ("notableAchievement") → |
| Barry Melrose | won Calder Cup with Adirondack Red Wings ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bateson, 1885 | formal classification of Chordata as a phylum ("hasContribution") → |
| Baylor Bears | 2021 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship ("notableAchievement") → |
| Baylor Bears | multiple Big 12 Conference championships in various sports ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bell Telephone Laboratories | major contributor to the development of modern digital communications ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bell Telephone Laboratories | major contributor to the theoretical foundations of information theory ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bell Telephone Laboratories | site of the invention of the transistor in 1947 ("notableAchievement") → |
| Ben Zobrist | World Series Most Valuable Player ("notableAchievement") → |
| Ben Zobrist | hit go-ahead RBI double in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series ("notableAchievement") → |
| Ben Zobrist | key contributor to the Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series championship ("notableAchievement") → |
| Ben Zobrist | key contributor to the Kansas City Royals 2015 World Series championship ("notableAchievement") → |
| Benny Blanco | produced multiple Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles ("notableAchievement") → |
| Benny Blanco | recognized as one of the most successful pop producers of the 2010s ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bentley | 24 Hours of Le Mans victory in 2003 ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bentley | multiple 24 Hours of Le Mans victories in the 1920s ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bernard Freyberg | one of the most highly decorated New Zealand soldiers ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bernard M. Gordon | helping establish programs that promote engineering leadership ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bernard M. Gordon | supporting institutions that train engineers ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bert Bell | expanded NFL national popularity through television policies ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bert Bell | instituted the NFL Draft ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bert Bell | strengthened NFL competitive balance policies ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bert Bos | helped establish CSS as a core web standard ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bert Bos | long-term stewardship of CSS at W3C ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bessie Smith | best-selling blues singer of the 1920s ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bessie Smith | pioneer of recorded blues ("notableAchievement") → |
| Betty Cuthbert | won Olympic gold medal in 400 metres ("notableAchievement") → |
| Betty Cuthbert | won Olympic gold medals in 100 metres ("notableAchievement") → |
| Betty Cuthbert | won Olympic gold medals in 200 metres ("notableAchievement") → |
| Betty Cuthbert | won four Olympic gold medals ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Bidwill | oversaw construction era leading to State Farm Stadium for the Cardinals ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Bowerman | revolutionized modern athletic shoe design ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Bradley | All-American college basketball player at Princeton University ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Bradley | led Princeton to the 1965 NCAA Final Four ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Bradley | three-time All-American at Princeton ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Butler | developed innovative water cinematography techniques for Jaws ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Carrigan | winning multiple World Series titles as manager of the Boston Red Sox ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Cartwright | starting center on three consecutive NBA championship teams ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Conti | composed music for multiple films in the Rocky series ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Conti | composed music for several popular American television series ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Conti | composed the theme "Gonna Fly Now" for the film Rocky ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Klem | umpired a record number of Major League Baseball games for his era ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Klem | umpired in multiple World Series ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Parcells | led multiple franchises to the playoffs ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Parcells | turned losing teams into playoff contenders ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Pence | helping establish Telluride as a premier international film festival ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Pence | promoting international and independent cinema in the United States ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Rasmussen | expanded national visibility of sports through cable TV ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bill Rasmussen | helped pioneer 24-hour cable sports television ("notableAchievement") → |
| Billie Joe Armstrong | inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Green Day ("notableAchievement") → |
| Billy Donovan | led Florida Gators to four NCAA Final Four appearances ("notableAchievement") → |
| Billy Donovan | named NBA Coach of the Year finalist with Oklahoma City Thunder ("notableAchievement") → |
| Billy Donovan | named SEC Coach of the Year multiple times ("notableAchievement") → |
| Billy Donovan | won NCAA Division I men's basketball championship in 2006 as head coach of Florida Gators ("notableAchievement") → |
| Billy Donovan | won NCAA Division I men's basketball championship in 2007 as head coach of Florida Gators ("notableAchievement") → |
| Billy Joel | inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ("notableAchievement") → |
| Billy Joel | multiple Grammy Award winner ("notableAchievement") → |
| Billy Joel | one of the best-selling music artists of all time ("notableAchievement") → |
| Billy Smith | backstopped the New York Islanders to four consecutive Stanley Cup championships ("notableAchievement") → |
| Billy Williams | held National League record for consecutive games played at time of retirement ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bing Crosby | one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bing Crosby | pioneered relaxed, conversational singing style in popular music ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bo Schembechler | never had a losing season as a head coach at Michigan ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bob Bradley | first American to manage a Premier League club ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bob Bradley | led United States men’s national team at 2010 FIFA World Cup ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bob Bradley | reached 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup final with United States ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bob Bradley | won CONCACAF Gold Cup with United States in 2007 ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bob Bradley | won MLS Cup with Chicago Fire in 1998 ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bob Bradley | won Supporters’ Shield with Los Angeles FC in 2019 ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bob Bradley | won Supporters’ Shield with Los Angeles FC in 2022 ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bob Bradley | won U.S. Open Cup with Chicago Fire in 1998 ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bob Bradley | won U.S. Open Cup with Chicago Fire in 2000 ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bob Dylan | redefined the boundaries of popular songwriting with poetic lyrics ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bob Gibson | record-setting low earned run average in 1968 season ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bob King | establishing the New Mexico Lobos as a national contender in college basketball ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bob Mathias | one of the youngest Olympic champions in track and field history ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bob Miner | commercialization of relational database technology → |
| Bob Miner | contributed to making Oracle a leading database vendor ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bob Miner | helped build one of the first commercially successful SQL databases ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bob Miner | scalable multi-user database systems → |
| Bob Paisley | first manager to win three European Cups with the same club ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bob Paisley | one of the most successful managers in European football history ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bobby Brown | helped popularize new jack swing in late 1980s ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bobby Kotick | expanded Activision Blizzard’s portfolio of major gaming IPs ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bobby Kotick | grew Activision Blizzard into one of the world’s largest video game companies ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bobby McFerrin | first a cappella song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Don't Worry, Be Happy" ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bobby Shmurda | Hot N***a ("breakthroughWork") → |
| Boca Juniors | one of the most successful clubs in Argentine football ("notableAchievement") → |
| Boca Juniors | one of the most successful clubs in South American football ("notableAchievement") → |
| Book II (Principles of Political Economy) | Mill’s theory of political economy ("contributesTo") → |
| Book II: Fundamental Theorems | foundations of Keynesian probability theory ("contributesTo") → |
| Book II: Fundamental Theorems | philosophy of probability ("contributesTo") → |
| Book III: Induction and Analogy | Keynes’s account of partial ordering of probabilities ("contributesTo") → |
| Book III: Induction and Analogy | Keynes’s concept of weight of evidence ("contributesTo") → |
| Book III: Induction and Analogy | Keynes’s critique of frequency interpretations of probability ("contributesTo") → |
| Book III: Induction and Analogy | logical theory of probability ("contributesTo") → |
| Book IV: Of Operations Subsidiary to Induction | methodology of science ("contributesTo") → |
| Book IV: Of Operations Subsidiary to Induction | theory of induction ("contributesTo") → |
| Boris Shakhlin | multiple Olympic champion in artistic gymnastics ("notableAchievement") → |
| Boris Shakhlin | one of the dominant male gymnasts of the late 1950s and early 1960s ("notableAchievement") → |
| Boris Shaposhnikov | contribution to prewar Soviet mobilization plans ("notableAchievement") → |
| Boris Shaposhnikov | influence on early Great Patriotic War strategic planning ("notableAchievement") → |
| Boris Shaposhnikov | systematization of Red Army staff work ("notableAchievement") → |
| Born to Run | Clarence Clemons ("keyContributor") → |
| Born to Run | Garry Tallent ("keyContributor") → |
| Born to Run | Max Weinberg ("keyContributor") → |
| Born to Run | Roy Bittan ("keyContributor") → |
| Bou Regreg River | maritime trade ("historicallyImportantFor") → |
| Bou Regreg River | regional commerce ("historicallyImportantFor") → |
| Bowers Ridge | complex seafloor topography of the Bering Sea ("contributesTo") → |
| Brad Stevens | Youngest head coach to reach two NCAA Division I national championship games ("notableAchievement") → |
| Brad Treliving | served as general manager for multiple NHL franchises ("notableAchievement") → |
| Braden Holtby | starting goaltender for Washington Capitals’ 2018 Stanley Cup run ("notableAchievement") → |
| Braden Holtby | tied NHL single-season wins record with 48 wins in 2015–16 ("notableAchievement") → |
| Brandy Rayana Norwood | known as the Vocal Bible in R&B music community ("notableAchievement") → |
| Brandy Rayana Norwood | sold over 40 million records worldwide ("notableAchievement") → |
| Brasidas | capturing Amphipolis ("notableAchievement") → |
| Brasidas | encouraging revolts of Athenian allies ("notableAchievement") → |
| Brazil Current | heat budget of the South Atlantic ("contributesTo") → |
| Brazil Current | large-scale ocean circulation in the South Atlantic ("contributesTo") → |
| Breanna Stewart | widely regarded as one of the best forwards in women’s basketball ("notableAchievement") → |
| Brett Hull | one of the most prolific goal scorers in NHL history ("notableAchievement") → |
| Brian Daboll | led New York Giants to playoffs in first season as head coach ("notableAchievement") → |
| Brian Wilson | pioneered sophisticated studio production techniques in pop music ("notableAchievement") → |
| Brian Wilson | widely regarded as the creative force behind The Beach Boys’ classic 1960s recordings ("notableAchievement") → |
| Britain and Decolonisation: The Retreat from Empire in the Post-War World | debates on the timing and nature of British decolonisation ("contributesTo") → |
| Britain and Decolonisation: The Retreat from Empire in the Post-War World | understanding of how the British Empire ended ("contributesTo") → |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory | development of medical imaging techniques using PET ("notableAchievement") → |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory | discovery of CP violation in neutral kaon decay ("notableAchievement") → |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory | experimental confirmation of parity violation in weak interactions ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bruce Arena | led United States to 2002 FIFA World Cup quarterfinals ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bruce Arena | most MLS Cup titles as a head coach ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bruce Arena | won multiple NCAA championships with University of Virginia men's soccer team ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bruno Siciliano | advancement of theoretical and applied robotics ("contribution") → |
| Bruno Siciliano | development of educational material in robotics ("contribution") → |
| Bruno Siciliano | leadership in European robotics projects ("contribution") → |
| Bryan Glazer | helping oversee Manchester United commercial growth ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bryan Glazer | helping oversee Tampa Bay Buccaneers operations ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bryant Gumbel | first African-American co-host of Today ("notableAchievement") → |
| Buck Showalter | led multiple teams to playoff appearances ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bud Tribble | helping ship the first Macintosh in 1984 ("notableAchievement") → |
| Bud Tribble | leading software technology strategy at Apple in the 2000s ("notableAchievement") → |
| Buddy Buie | co-wrote multiple Top 10 hits for Classics IV ("notableAchievement") → |
| Buddy Buie | primary songwriter and producer for Atlanta Rhythm Section ("notableAchievement") → |
| Buddy Guy | major influence on modern electric blues ("notableAchievement") → |
| Buddy Guy | major influence on rock guitarists ("notableAchievement") → |
| Burna Boy | first Nigerian artist to headline a stadium concert in the United Kingdom ("notableAchievement") → |
| Burna Boy | one of the leading figures of contemporary Afrobeats ("notableAchievement") → |
| Burna Boy | performed at major international festivals such as Coachella ("notableAchievement") → |
| Burt Rutan | led design team that won the Ansari X Prize with SpaceShipOne ("notableAchievement") → |
| Burt Rutan | pioneered extensive use of composite materials in light aircraft ("notableAchievement") → |
| Buzz Aldrin | One of the first two humans to walk on the Moon ("notableAchievement") → |
| Byron Nelson | won 11 consecutive PGA Tour tournaments in 1945 ("notableAchievement") → |
| Byron Nelson | won 18 PGA Tour tournaments in the 1945 season ("notableAchievement") → |
| Béla IV of Hungary | encouragement of urbanization and foundation of new towns ("notableAchievement") → |
| Béla IV of Hungary | large-scale construction of stone castles and fortifications ("notableAchievement") → |
| Béla IV of Hungary | reorganization of royal administration after 1241–1242 Mongol invasion ("notableAchievement") → |
| Béla IV of Hungary | resettlement of devastated regions with foreign colonists ("notableAchievement") → |
| C. Vivian Stringer | amassed over 1,000 career coaching wins ("notableAchievement") → |
| C. Vivian Stringer | built nationally prominent women's basketball programs at multiple universities ("notableAchievement") → |
| C. Vivian Stringer | first coach to lead three different women's programs to the NCAA Final Four ("notableAchievement") → |
| C. Vivian Stringer | led Cheyney State to the first NCAA women’s basketball championship game in 1982 ("notableAchievement") → |
| C. Vivian Stringer | one of the winningest coaches in NCAA women's basketball history ("notableAchievement") → |
| C. Vivian Stringer | pioneered opportunities for Black women in college basketball coaching ("notableAchievement") → |
| CDF detector | constraints on physics beyond the Standard Model ("scientificContribution") → |
| CDF detector | precision measurements of electroweak parameters ("scientificContribution") → |
| CDF detector | top quark ("contributedToDiscoveryOf") → |
| CERN accelerator complex | production of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions in the LHC ("notableAchievement") → |
| CERN accelerator complex | support for discovery of Higgs boson ("notableAchievement") → |
| CSKA Moscow | multiple EuroLeague basketball titles ("notableAchievement") → |
| CSKA Moscow | multiple Russian basketball championships ("notableAchievement") → |
| CSKA Moscow | multiple Russian football championships ("notableAchievement") → |
| CSKA Moscow | multiple Soviet basketball championships ("notableAchievement") → |
| CSKA Moscow | multiple Soviet football championships ("notableAchievement") → |
| CacheCam | geological science objectives of Mars 2020 ("contributesTo") → |
| CacheCam | planetary protection documentation for samples ("contributesTo") → |
| Caitlyn Jenner | set world record in decathlon at 1976 Olympics ("notableAchievement") → |
| Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. | pioneering figure in West Coast hip hop ("notableAchievement") → |
| Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. | pioneering figure in gangsta rap ("notableAchievement") → |
| Camarhynchus | evidence for Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection ("contributesTo") → |
| Cameron Michael Neely | scored 50 goals in 44 games in 1993–94 NHL season (unofficial 50-in-50) ("notableAchievement") → |
| Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope | deep imaging of distant galaxies ("scientificContribution") → |
| Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope | exoplanet research ("scientificContribution") → |
| Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope | stellar magnetic field measurements ("scientificContribution") → |
| Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope | studies of dark matter through weak lensing ("scientificContribution") → |
| Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope | surveys of Kuiper belt objects ("scientificContribution") → |
| Canadian Railway Troops | enhancing mobility of Allied forces on the Western Front → |
| Canadian-American Hockey League | early development of American Hockey League ("notableFranchiseContributionsTo") → |
| Candice Wiggins | leader of Stanford Cardinal women's basketball team ("notableAchievement") → |
| Candice Wiggins | prolific scorer at Stanford University ("notableAchievement") → |
| Canton | foreign trade with China ("historicallyImportantFor") → |
| Canton | maritime trade ("historicallyImportantFor") → |
| Cappie Pondexter | recognized as one of the premier guards of her WNBA era ("notableAchievement") → |
| Cardiff City F.C. | only non-English team to win the FA Cup ("notableAchievement") → |
| Caribbean Canadians | Canadian arts ("contributesTo") → |
| Caribbean Canadians | Canadian culture ("contributesTo") → |
| Caribbean Canadians | Canadian politics ("contributesTo") → |
| Caribbean Canadians | Canadian sports ("contributesTo") → |
| Carl Bernstein | helped uncover abuses of power in the Nixon administration ("notableAchievement") → |
| Carl Cheffers | selected as referee for multiple Super Bowls ("notableAchievement") → |