Protos means "first," derived from the ancient Greek . Protos may also refer to: * Protos (monastic office), a monastic office at the Eastern Orthodox monastic state of Mount Athos * Protos (constructor), a former racing car constructor *

Protos of Nonnendamm Protos of Nonnendamm was a German car manufacturing company founded in 1898 in Berlin by engineers Alfred Sternberg and Oscar Heymann. Sternberg initially manufactured a series of small motors, 2.5 hp single-cylinder air-cooled, and others ...

, a defunct German motor vehicle manufacturer * PROTOS (train), a German train *

Protos (album) ''πρῶτος'' (''Protos'') is the twenty-seventh album by the Norwegian electronic dance music producer Aleksander Vinter Aleksander Vinter is a Norwegian musician. He has released a vast amount of work under numerous aliases but is be ...

, the 2014 eleventh album by Norwegian electronic dance music producer Aleksander "Savant" Vinter * PROTOS, a project by

OUSPG The Oulu University Secure Programming Group (OUSPG) is a research group at the University of Oulu that studies, evaluates and develops methods of implementing and testing application and system software in order to prevent, discover and eliminate i ...

* Protos, a marketing name for Strontium ranelate * Protos, one of the winemakers in the

Ribera del Duero Ribera del Duero is a Spanish Denominación de Origen Protegida (DOP) located in the country's northern plateau and is one of eleven 'quality wine' regions within the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is also one of several recogni ...

region * Protos, a name given to the

bishop of Rome A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...

in the

declaration of Ravenna The Declaration of Ravenna is a Roman Catholic–Eastern Orthodox document issued on 13 October 2007, re-asserting that the bishop of Rome is indeed the first ( el, link=no, πρώτος, translit=''protos'') among the patriarchs, although fu ...

* Protos, a model helicopter developed by MSH *

Ioannis Protos Ioannis Protos is a Paralympian Track and field, athlete from Greece competing mainly in category T13 sprint events. He competed in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. There he finished sixth in the men's 100 metres – T13 event and ...

, a Greek athlete *

Protos o Hlios Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis ( el, Μιχαήλ "Μίκης" Θεοδωράκης ; 29 July 1925 – 2 September 2021) was a Greek composer and lyricist credited with over 1,000 works. He scored for the films ''Zorba the Greek'' (1964), '' Z'' ...

, a song by Mikis Theodorakis * Protos – PROgram for TOp Simulations,

Monte Carlo Monte Carlo (; ; french: Monte-Carlo , or colloquially ''Monte-Carl'' ; lij, Munte Carlu ; ) is officially an administrative area of the Principality of Monaco, specifically the ward of Monte Carlo/Spélugues, where the Monte Carlo Casino is ...

generator for

Top quark The top quark, sometimes also referred to as the truth quark, (symbol: t) is the most massive of all observed elementary particles. It derives its mass from its coupling to the Higgs Boson. This coupling y_ is very close to unity; in the Standard ...

s and new heavy particles

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