Olin may refer to:
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OLIN, American landscape architecture firm
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Olin Business School
The Olin Business School is one of seven academic schools at Washington University in St. Louis. Founded in 1917, the business school was renamed for entrepreneur John M. Olin in 1988. The school offers BSBA, Master of Business Administration (M ...
at Washington University in St. Louis
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Olin College
Olin College of Engineering, officially Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, is a private college focused on engineering and located in Needham, Massachusetts. Olin College is noted in the engineering community for its relatively recent fou ...
, an undergraduate engineering college in Massachusetts
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Olin Corporation
Olin Corporation is an American manufacturer of ammunition, chlorine, and sodium hydroxide. The company traces its roots to two companies, both founded in 1892: Franklin W. Olin's Equitable Powder Company and the Mathieson Alkali Works. Olin che ...
, a chemical corporation with a history of producing chemicals and ammunition
* Olin Edirne, the former name of Turkish basketball team
Eskişehir Basket
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F. W. Olin Foundation
The Franklin W. Olin Foundation, founded as the Olin Foundation in 1938 by Franklin W. Olin, was an independent grantmaking foundation from its founding in 1938 until it spent down its corpus and closed down in 2005.
History
Olin used the fo ...
, a foundation endowed by Franklin W. Olin
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John M. Olin Foundation
The John M. Olin Foundation was a conservative American grant-making foundation established in 1953 by John M. Olin, president of the Olin Industries chemical and munitions manufacturing businesses. Unlike most other foundations, it was charg ...
, a foundation endowed by John M. Olin
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Preston and Olin Institute The Preston and Olin Institute was a Methodist academy for boys in Blacksburg, Virginia which operated from 1851 to 1872. They chose the name Preston for Colonel William Ballard Preston, of nearby Smithfield Plantation, a well-known Montgomery Cou ...
, a defunct Methodist boys' school now a part of
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also has educational facilities in six re ...
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Olin, Iowa
Olin is a city in Jones County, Iowa, United States. The population was 651 at the time of the 2020 census. It is part of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Olin is named for D. A. Olin, general superintendent of the Chicago ...
, a small city in the United States
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Olin, North Carolina
Olin is an unincorporated community located in Olin Township, Iredell County, North Carolina, United States. The community is north of Statesville. The Olin post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mai ...
, an unincorporated community in the United States
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Olin, Poland
Olin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wronki, within Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.
The village has a population of 11.
References
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Olin's Covered Bridge, the only bridge in Ashtabula county, Ohio named for a family
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Olin Observatory, an astronomical observatory in New London, Connecticut
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Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute, a Jewish overnight summer camp in Wisconsin
Fictional characters
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Olin, a character on the TV series ''General Hospital''
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Gerald Olin, character in the 2007 film ''1408'' portrayed by
Samuel L. Jackson
Other uses
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Nahui Ollin'', also spelled Ōlīn, a concept in Aztec mythology potentially related to
Tōnatiuh
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''Olin'' (spider), a spider genus in the family Trochanteriidae
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Olin Palladium Award, an award given by the
Electrochemical Society
The Electrochemical Society is a learned society (professional association) based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of electrochemistry and Solid State Science, solid-state science and related technology. The Socie ...
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Olin Raschig process The Olin Raschig process is a chemical process for the production of hydrazine. The main steps in this process, patented by German chemist Friedrich Raschig in 1906 and one of three reactions named after him, are the formation of monochloramine fro ...
, an industrial process for manufacturing hydrazine
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