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Donald Lynden-Bell
Donald Lynden-Bell (1935–2018) was a British astrophysicist and first Director of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy who proposed that quasars are powered by giant black holes in galactic nuclei.
Donald M. Bers
Donald M. Bers is an American cardiac physiologist known for work on calcium signaling and CaMKII in arrhythmia, and Distinguished Professor and Chair of Pharmacology at UC Davis since 2008.
Donald M. Berwick
Donald M. Berwick, known as Donald Berwick, is an American pediatrician who co-founded the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in 1991 and led Medicare and Medicaid from 2010 to 2011.
Donald M. Blinken
Donald M. Blinken (born 1925) is an American investment banker who co-founded E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co. and served as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary 1994–1997 under Clinton; father of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and namesake of Budapest's Blinken OSA Archivum.
Donald M. Coen
Donald M. Coen is a virologist and Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School, known for work on herpesvirus replication, latency, and antiviral drug resistance.
Donald M. Crothers
Donald M. Crothers (1937–2014) was an American biochemist and biophysicist who spent his career at Yale University studying DNA bending, transcription initiation, and nucleic-acid thermodynamics.
Donald M. Engelman
Donald M. Engelman is a Yale biophysicist known for the helical hairpin hypothesis of membrane protein insertion and for pHLIP, a peptide targeting acidic tumor tissue.
Donald M. Hunten
Donald M. Hunten (1925–2010) was a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona who predicted Titan's massive nitrogen atmosphere and shaped the study of planetary atmospheres.
Donald M. Middlebrooks
Donald M. Middlebrooks, born 1946 in Orlando, Florida, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida, appointed by President Clinton in 1997.
Donald M. Smyth
Donald M. Smyth was an American materials scientist and chemist, a Lehigh University professor and National Academy of Engineering member known for work on the defect chemistry of electronic ceramics.
Donald M. Steinwachs
Donald M. Steinwachs was an American health services researcher at Johns Hopkins University, known for co-developing the ACG case-mix system and the Hospital at Home model of care.
Donald M. Topkis
Donald M. Topkis is an American operations researcher and mathematical economist known for supermodularity and monotone comparative statics; his 1998 Princeton monograph Supermodularity and Complementarity presents the field.
Donald M. Yealy
Donald M. Yealy is an American emergency physician-scientist who chairs emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, leads UPMC's health services, and edits Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Donald Maclean (spy)
Donald Maclean (1913–1983), codename HOMER, was a British Foreign Office diplomat and Cambridge Five member who spied for the USSR and defected to Moscow with Guy Burgess in May 1951.
Donald Macleod
Donald Macleod is a molecular biologist known for DNA methylation research at the MRC Mammalian Genome Unit and University of Edinburgh, whose 1985 Cell paper defined CpG islands.
Donald Malarkey
Donald Malarkey (1921-2017), Astoria, Oregon paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne; Bronze Star at Brecourt on D-Day; portrayed by Scott Grimes in Band of Brothers.
Donald McNellis
Donald McNellis is an American physician at the NIH who served as project officer for the RADIUS trial, the 1993 study of routine prenatal ultrasound.
Donald Metcalf
Donald Metcalf (1929–2014) was an Australian medical researcher at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, called the father of modern hematology for discovering colony-stimulating factors.
Donald Moffat
Donald Moffat (1930–2018) was a British-born American character actor known for playing Garry in The Thing (1982) and Lyndon B. Johnson in The Right Stuff (1983).
Donald Munro (neurosurgeon)
Donald Munro (1889–1973) was an American neurosurgeon at Boston City Hospital known as the "father of paraplegia" for founding the first US spinal cord injury unit in 1936.
Donald Murray (inventor)
Donald Murray (1865–1945) was a New Zealand-born engineer and inventor whose five-unit telegraph code became the international standard for teleprinters, and who introduced the carriage return character.
Donald Mustard
Donald Mustard is an American video game designer who co-founded Chair Entertainment, creator of Shadow Complex and Infinity Blade, and led Fortnite's creative direction at Epic Games until retiring in 2023.
Donald N. Duvick
Donald N. Duvick (1924–2006) was an American maize geneticist and plant breeder at Pioneer Hi-Bred in Iowa, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002.
Donald N. Frey
Donald N. Frey (1923–2010) was an American industrial engineer who led the Ford Mustang's development and was Bell & Howell's chief executive from 1971 to 1988.
Donald Nally
Donald Nally (born 1960) is an American conductor, founder and artistic director of the new-music chamber choir The Crossing, four-time Grammy winner for Best Choral Performance, former Northwestern Beattie Chair holder, and current Westminster Choir College visiting professor.
Donald Neilson
Donald Neilson (1936-2011), the Black Panther, English armed robber who murdered three sub-postmasters in 1974, kidnapped and killed heiress Lesley Whittle in 1975, and died in prison.
Donald Norcross
Donald Norcross (born 1958) is the Democratic U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 1st district since a 2014 special election, a former IBEW electrician and Southern New Jersey AFL-CIO president, serving on Armed Services and Education and Workforce.
Donald Norman
Donald Norman is an American cognitive scientist, author of The Design of Everyday Things, who held the first User Experience Architect job title at Apple in the 1990s.
Donald O. Castell
Donald O. Castell (1935–2021) was an American gastroenterologist, a leading figure in esophageal motility and reflux disease who pioneered impedance-pH testing and led the American Gastroenterological Association.
Donald O. Dusenberry
Donald O. "Don" Dusenberry is an American structural and forensic engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for his work on structural design load standards.