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Minerva medal

Minerva (disambiguation)

Minerva is the Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom, but the name may also refer to:

People

Geography

Land development

  • Minerva plc, a major British development company
    • Minerva Building, a skyscraper planned for London's financial district by Minerva plc

Entertainment

Film Productions houses

Games

Manga and anime

  • Minerva, a character from the various Transformers universes
  • Minerva class battleship, a fictional class of space vessels from the anime series Gundam SEED Destiny
  • Minerva X, a female mecha character from the Mazinger Z series
  • Minerva Mink, a character from the Animaniacs series

Music

Novels

Theatres

Journals

Science and technology

Astronomy and space

  • Uranus, before its name was settled upon in 1850, was proposed to be called Minerva
  • 93 Minerva, an asteroid discovered in 1867
  • Pluto, before its name was decided shortly after its discovery in 1930, was proposed to be called Minerva
  • MINERVA mini-lander, MIcro/Nano Experimental Robot Vehicle for Asteroid, which failed to deploy upon asteroid Itokawa in 2005

Automotive

Computing and telecommunication

  • Minerva (QDOS reimplementation), a reimplementation of Sinclair QDOS
  • Minerva Networks, a company that develops video compression technology and broadcast systems
  • Project MINERVA, Mapping the INternet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive, the Library of Congress Web Archive and Preservation Project
  • Minerva, the e-learning platform of Ghent University that uses Dokeos as its course management system
  • Minerva, the electronic registration system of McGill University, Montreal
  • MINERVA, MInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation, a European Union organization concerned with the digitisation of cultural and scientific content

Medicine

  • Minerva cast, a type of orthopedic cast enclosing the patient's trunk and head

Physics

  • MINERνA, Main INjector ExpeRiment Neutrino-A, a short-baseline neutrino experiment at Fermilab

Other science and technology

  • Minerva (genus), a genus of prehistoric owls
  • Minerva Medal, an award in the field of design by the Chartered Society of Designers
  • Minerva (watch), a brand of medium-grade Swiss watches with in-house movements
  • "Minerva" brand firecracker, a staple of the Easter celebration in Greece
  • La Minerve, a giant ascension balloon envisioned by Étienne-Gaspard Robert in 1820

Ships

Sports

  • Minerva F.C., a 19th century West London soccer team

Other

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