All articles starting with D

Donald A. Gurnett

Donald A. Gurnett (1940–2022) was an American space plasma physicist at the University of Iowa, a founder of space plasma wave physics whose Voyager 1 instrument confirmed the spacecraft crossed the heliopause in 2012.

Donald A. Henderson

Donald A. Henderson (1928–2016) was an American physician who directed the WHO smallpox eradication program from 1966 to 1977, then served as dean at Johns Hopkins.

Donald A. Redelmeier

Donald A. Redelmeier is a Canadian physician-scientist in internal medicine and medical decision science at Sunnybrook and the University of Toronto, known for the 1997 cell-phone driving study.

Donald A. Thomas

Donald A. Thomas, born Donald Alan Thomas in 1955, is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut who flew four Space Shuttle missions between 1994 and 1997.

Donald A. Tomalia

Donald A. Tomalia, born 1938 in Owosso, Michigan, is an American physical-organic chemist who invented PAMAM dendrimers at Dow in 1979, named them Starburst dendrimers, and founded Dendritech.

Donald A. Wollheim

Donald A. Wollheim (1914–1990), also publishing as David Grinnell, was an American science fiction editor, author, and fan: Ace Books SF editor, unauthorized 1965 Lord of the Rings paperback publisher, and founder of DAW Books.

Donald A.B. Lindberg

Donald A.B. Lindberg (1933–2019) was an American physician and pathologist who led the U.S. National Library of Medicine for over 30 years, launching PubMed and MedlinePlus.

Donald Armstrong

Donald Armstrong (1931–2018) was an American infectious-disease physician and hospital epidemiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a national authority on infections in people with cancer and AIDS.

Donald Aronow

Donald Joel Aronow (1927-1987), American boatbuilder and offshore powerboat racing champion; founded Formula, Donzi, Magnum, Cigarette, and USA Racing on Miami's Thunderboat Row; murdered 1987, Ben Kramer convicted of hiring the killer.

Donald B. Calne

Donald B. Calne is a British-born Canadian neurologist at the University of British Columbia who pioneered drug treatment for Parkinson's disease and helped define the D1 and D2 dopamine receptors.

Donald B. Johnson

Donald B. Johnson was a computer scientist at Pennsylvania State University known for a 1975 algorithm enumerating all elementary circuits of a directed graph and a 1977 shortest-paths algorithm.

Donald B. Kohn

Donald B. Kohn is an American physician-scientist at UCLA who develops blood stem cell gene therapies for immune disorders, including the first FDA-approved therapy for LAD-I.

Donald B. Louria

Donald B. Louria is an American physician known for work in medical mycology, alcohol and immune defenses, and lead poisoning, based from Bellevue Hospital to Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Donald B. Owen

Donald B. Owen (Donald Bruce Owen, 1922–1991) was an American statistician and Distinguished Professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, known for Owen's T function and statistical tables.

Donald B. Rubin

Donald B. Rubin, also known as D. B. Rubin, is an American statistician, namesake of the Rubin Causal Model and Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Harvard University.

Donald Barr

Donald Barr was an American educator who served as headmaster of the Dalton School from 1964 to 1974 and wrote the science fiction novel Space Relations.

Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme (1931-1989), American postmodern short story writer and novelist, author of Snow White, The Dead Father, and Sixty Stories; a New Yorker regular whose collage-style fiction won the 1972 National Book Award.

Donald Bitzer

Donald Bitzer (1934–2024) was an American electrical engineer known as the father of PLATO, an early time-shared computer-based education system, and co-inventor of the flat-panel plasma display.

Donald Brashear

Donald Brashear, born 1972 in Bedford, Indiana, is a former NHL enforcer and left wing who played 1,025 games for Montreal, Vancouver, Philadelphia, Washington, and the New York Rangers.

Donald Bren

Donald Bren is an American real estate developer who, as sole owner of the privately held Irvine Company, is ranked the wealthiest real estate developer in the United States.

Donald Broadbent

Donald Broadbent (1926–1993) was a British experimental psychologist who pioneered the information-processing approach to attention, best known for his filter theory and the 1958 book Perception and Communication.

Donald Bruce Montgomery

Donald Bruce Montgomery, known as D. Bruce Montgomery, was an American electromagnet and fusion engineer at MIT who co-invented the cable-in-conduit conductor, now standard in fusion devices including ITER.

Donald Burkholder

Donald Burkholder (1927–2013) was an American mathematician at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who, apart from Joseph Doob, did the most of any probabilist of his generation to build the theory of martingales.

Donald Byrd

Donald Byrd (1932–2013), American hard bop jazz trumpeter and educator from Detroit; Black Byrd (1973) was Blue Note's best-selling album; founded the Blackbyrds; NEA Jazz Master 2000.

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Donald C Cook nuclear power plant

The Donald C. Cook nuclear power plant is a two-unit station on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan near Bridgman, Michigan, producing about 2,360 MWe.

Donald C. Fraser

Donald C. Fraser, born 1941, is an American engineer who led Apollo flight-control design at MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory and later founded the Boston University Photonics Center.

Donald C. Harrison

Donald C. Harrison is an American cardiologist who was the physician for the first adult heart transplant in the United States and president of the American Heart Association.

Donald C. Malins

Donald C. Malins is a biochemist known for linking toxic chemicals in Puget Sound sediments to cancer in fish, and for reading structural changes in DNA by infrared spectroscopy.