All articles starting with F

Frédéric Berger

Frédéric Berger, also written Frederic Berger, is a French plant scientist at the Gregor Mendel Institute in Vienna, known for work on the histone variant H2A.W and epigenetic inheritance through pollen.

Sep 27, 2026

Frederic Block

Frederic Block, born in 1934, is an American senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York, appointed by President Clinton in 1994.

Frédéric Bourdin

Frédéric Bourdin (Le Caméléon), French serial impostor born 1974, posed as missing Texas teen Nicholas Barclay in 1997 at age 23, served six years in US prison, and repeated impersonations in France.

Frédéric Bremer

Frédéric Bremer (1892–1982) was a Belgian physiologist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles whose 1935 cerveau isolé and encéphale isolé cat preparations opened the experimental study of sleep.

Frederic Brenton Fitch

Frederic Brenton Fitch (1908–1987) was an American logician and Yale philosopher whose Fitch-style natural deduction appears in most elementary logic textbooks, and whose 1963 theorem became the knowability paradox.

Oct 22, 2026

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (1923–2014) was an Ivorian artist who invented a writing system for the Bété language and recorded his people's oral traditions in thousands of small drawings.

Frederic C. Bartter

Frederic C. Bartter (1914–1983) was a Filipino-born American endocrinologist who described the salt-losing disorder Bartter syndrome and long led the hypertension endocrine branch at the NIH.

Frederic C. E. Oder

Frederic C. E. "Fritz" Oder (1919–2006) was an American aerospace engineer and retired Air Force colonel who directed the Air Force program that created America's first satellite reconnaissance systems.

Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric Chopin (Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin), Polish composer and pianist (1810–1849), wrote almost exclusively for piano: mazurkas, polonaises, nocturnes, études, preludes, ballades, and two concertos. Born near Warsaw, he settled in Paris in 1831 and never returned to Poland.

Frederic Court

Frederic Court is a London-based venture capitalist who founded Felix Capital in 2015, backing Farfetch, Deliveroo, and Moonbug and appearing on the Forbes Midas List Europe.

Frederic D. Bushman

Frederic D. Bushman is an American molecular biologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for mapping where HIV integrates into the human genome and for microbiome research.

Frederic Edwin Church

Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), leading Hudson River School landscape painter trained by Thomas Cole; creator of Niagara, The Heart of the Andes, and Olana. Distinct from the later painter F. Edwin Church (1876–1975).

Frédéric Ferrière

Frédéric-Auguste Ferrière (1848–1924) was a Swiss physician and Red Cross vice-president who founded the civilian section of the International Prisoners-of-War Agency in Geneva during World War I.

Frederic Forrest

Frederic Forrest (1936-2023), American character actor from Waxahachie, Texas; Oscar-nominated for The Rose (1979) and known as Chef in Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, and Lonesome Dove.

Frederic Geissmann

Frédéric Geissmann is a French immunologist and Professor of Immunology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 2015, known for showing tissue macrophages arise from yolk-sac progenitors.

Oct 22, 2026

Frederic Goudy

Frederic Goudy (1865–1947) was an American type designer and printer who created more than 100 typefaces, including Goudy Old Style, and ran the Village Press.

Frédéric H.‐T. Allain

Frédéric H.-T. Allain is a Swiss structural biologist and full professor at ETH Zurich who uses NMR spectroscopy to determine how proteins recognize RNA in splicing and RNA editing.

Frederic Holloway

Frederic Holloway (1914–1990) was an American chemical engineer and Exxon executive who worked on fluid catalytic cracking and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1965.

Frédéric J. Baud

Frédéric J. Baud (F. Baud) is a French clinical toxicologist and intensive care professor whose NEJM papers established antidotes and treatments for severe drug poisoning.

Frederic J. de Sauvage

Frederic J. de Sauvage is a Belgian molecular oncologist who co-cloned thrombopoietin in 1994, advanced Hedgehog pathway cancer research at Genentech, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Frédéric Jaouen

Frédéric Jaouen is a French CNRS research director in electrocatalysis at the Charles Gerhardt Institute, University of Montpellier, known for iron–nitrogen–carbon catalysts that replace platinum in fuel cells.

Frédéric Joliot-Curie

Frédéric Joliot-Curie, born Jean Frédéric Joliot, was a French physicist who shared the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife Irène for discovering artificial radioactivity.

Frédéric Kanouté

Frédéric Kanouté, Malian striker born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon in 1977; Sevilla record foreign scorer (135 goals, 287 games), two UEFA Cups, 2007 African Footballer of the Year, 39 caps and 23 goals for Mali.

Frédéric Kaplan

Frédéric Kaplan is a French digital humanities researcher, professor at EPFL in Lausanne, best known for the Venice Time Machine and as president of the Time Machine Organization.

Frédéric Laquai

Frédéric Laquai is a German-born physicist who studies light-to-charge conversion in solar cell materials using ultrafast laser spectroscopy, and has been a professor at LMU Munich since 2024.

Oct 22, 2026

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton of Stretton (1830–1896), was a British painter and sculptor who led the Royal Academy from 1878 and painted Flaming June (1895).

Frederic Lewy

Frederic Lewy, born Fritz Heinrich Jakob Lewy (1885–1950), was a German-American neurologist who in 1912 described the brain-cell inclusions in Parkinson's disease that other researchers named Lewy bodies after him.

Frederic M. Richards

Frederic M. Richards (1925–2009) was an American structural biologist and biophysicist at Yale, known for the 1958 RNase S reconstitution experiment and the solvent-accessible surface area concept.

Frédéric Martinon

Frédéric Martinon is a French immunology researcher whose 1993 paper was the first use of in vitro-transcribed mRNA as a vaccine, tested against influenza in mice.