Lux

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Lux or LUX may refer to:

As a word

Media

• Lux Prize for European Cinema, given by the European Parliament
• Lux Radio Theater, a former long-run classic radio anthology series
• Lux (album), a 1995 album by britpop band Thurman

Companies and organizations

• LUX, a UK organization established to promote and support artists' moving image work
• Lux International (see), now an independent manufacturer of high-end household appliances, former direct selling division of Electrolux
• Lux Products, an American manufacturer of thermostats, timers, and other appliances

People

Real persons (in chronological order)

• Adam Lux (1765–1793), a German revolutionary
• Gwen Creighton Lux (1908–2001), an American sculptor
• Lux Interior (1946–2009, real name Erick Lee Purkhiser), an American singer, one of the founders of the punk band The Cramps
• Thomas Lux (born 1946), an American poet who currently holds the Bourne chair in poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology
• Josef Lux (1956–1999), Czech Christian democrat, leader of Christian and Democratic Union—Czechoslovak People's Party during the 1990s
• Lucien Lux (born 1956), a Lixembourgian politician
• Germán Lux (born 1982), an Argentine association footballer

Fictional characters

• Lux Lisbon, a 14-year-old character in the 1993 novel The Virgin Suicides and the The Virgin Suicides (film), in which she is portrayed by Kirsten Dunst

Places

•  Luxembourg, a small country in Western Europe
• Communes of France in France:
  • Lux, Côte-d'Or
  • Lux, Haute-Garonne
  • Lux, Saône-et-Loire

Science and technology

• Lux (lx), the SI unit of illuminance and luminous emittance

Miscellaneous

• Lux (soap), a soap from Unilever
• Lux (video game), a computer strategy game
• Lux (water pipe), a water pipe made by RooR glass
• Lux, the in-residence choir of the Episcopal Church at the Princeton University Chapel
• Latin: Fiat lux (“Let there be light”), a phrase from the third verse of the book of Genesis

As an acronym

Codes

LUX is:

• the country code for  Luxembourg in many standards:
  • the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code
  • the FIFA country codes
  • the IOC country code
  • the NATO country code
  • the ITU letter code
  • the UNDP country code
  • the GOST 7.67 Latin 3-letter code
• the IATA airport code of Luxembourg-Findel International Airport, the main airport of Luxembourg
• the NYSE ticker of Luxottica Group, an international eyewear company

Science and technology

• Conway's LUX method for magic squares, an algorithm for creating magic squares of order 4n + 2, where n is a positive natural number
• Large Underground Xenon Detector, a detector of dark matter particles being built by the Brown Particle Astrophysics Group, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Miscellaneous

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