All articles starting with F

Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton

Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton of Hallam Moors (1914–1997), was a British physical chemist who built Leeds's chemistry department and chaired the 1968 Dainton Report.

Frederick Daniel Chattaway

Frederick Daniel Chattaway (1860–1944) was an English organic chemist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1907, known for nitrogen-halogen chemistry and a laboratory spatula bearing his name.

Frederick Donald Coggan

Frederick Donald Coggan was the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury, serving from 1974 to 1980, and a biblical scholar who chaired the New English Bible translation.

Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was an American abolitionist, orator, and publisher who escaped from slavery in Maryland in 1838 and became a leading spokesman for abolition.

Frederick Dryer

Frederick L. Dryer is an American combustion engineer, emeritus professor at Princeton and research professor at the University of South Carolina, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.

Frederick E. Dewey

Frederick E. Dewey is a cardiologist and human geneticist who trained at Stanford and led translational genetics at the Regeneron Genetics Center, studying rare gene variants as drug targets.

Frederick Eugene Wright

Frederick Eugene Wright (1877–1953) was an American petrologist at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, known for quantitative petrographic microscopy and optical studies of the Moon.

Frederick F. Lange

Frederick F. Lange (1939–2010) was an American ceramic scientist and engineer at UC Santa Barbara, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992 for contributions to ceramic processing.

Frederick F. Ling

Frederick F. Ling, also known as Frederick Fongsun Ling, was a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer and tribologist who wrote Surface Mechanics and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.

Frederick Fleet

Frederick Fleet, also known as Fred Fleet, was a British lookout aboard the Titanic who sighted the iceberg on 14 April 1912 and survived in Lifeboat 6.

Frederick Forchheimer

Frederick Forchheimer (1853–1913) was a Cincinnati physician who became a founder of American pediatrics, described Forchheimer spots in German measles in 1898, and edited the four-volume Therapeusis of Internal Diseases.

Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth (1938-2025), British thriller writer of The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, and The Dogs of War; former RAF pilot, Reuters and BBC journalist, and unpaid MI6 courier; over 75 million books sold.

Frederick G. Donnan

Frederick G. Donnan, also known as Frederick George Donnan, was a British physical chemist whose 1911 Donnan equilibrium theory describes ion distribution across semipermeable membranes.

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Frederick G. Hayden

Frederick G. Hayden is an American clinical virologist and emeritus professor at the University of Virginia who helped develop seven approved influenza antiviral drugs and co-edits Clinical Virology.

Frederick G. Jaicks

Frederick G. Jaicks (died 1998) was an American steelmaking engineer who spent his career at Inland Steel, rising from 1940 trainee to president in 1966 and later chairman and chief executive.

Frederick G. Pohland

Frederick G. Pohland, also known as Frederick George Pohland, was an American environmental engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993 for advancing anaerobic treatment.

Frederick G. Zak

Frederick G. Zak, born Friedrich Zak, was an Austrian-born American pathologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, known for tumor pathology and the paraganglionic chemoreceptor system.

Frederick Gardner Cottrell

Frederick Gardner Cottrell (1877–1948) was an American physical chemist and UC Berkeley professor who invented the electrostatic precipitator and founded the nonprofit Research Corporation in 1912.

Frederick Gehring

Frederick Gehring (1925–2012) was an American mathematician at the University of Michigan who pioneered quasiconformal mappings in dimensions three and higher and proved the Gehring Lemma in 1973.

Frederick George Keyes

Frederick George Keyes (1885–1976) was an American physical chemist at MIT whose work on thermodynamics and the properties of steam set standards used across power engineering.

Frederick George Novy

Frederick George Novy (1864–1957) was an American bacteriologist and physiological chemist at the University of Michigan, a pioneer of laboratory teaching in bacteriology and discoverer of Clostridium novyi.

Frederick Go

Frederick D. Go, Filipino business executive and Finance Secretary of the Philippines from November 17, 2025; former Robinsons Land CEO, SAPIEA under Marcos Jr., Monetary Board member, nephew of John Gokongwei Jr.

Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist at Cambridge who shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Christiaan Eijkman for the discovery of vitamins.

Frederick Griffith

Frederick Griffith (died 1941) was a British bacteriologist at the Ministry of Health's London laboratory who in 1928 reported bacterial transformation, the heritable change whose agent, identified as DNA in 1944, began molecular genetics.

Frederick Grinnell

Frederick Grinnell (born 1945) is an American cell biologist, the Robert McLemore Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for fibronectin research and wound contraction studies.

Frederick Gugenheim Gregory

Frederick Gugenheim Gregory, born Fritz Gugenheim, was a British plant physiologist who spent his career at Imperial College London and introduced "net assimilation rate" in 1926.

Frederick H. Bormann

Frederick H. Bormann, also published as F. Herbert Bormann, was an American forest ecologist at Yale who co-founded the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study and co-discovered North American acid rain.

Frederick H. Dill

Frederick H. "Rick" Dill is an American electrical engineer and IBM researcher known for founding the scientific modeling of photolithography, the Dill Parameters, and video RAM.

Frederick H. Todd

Frederick H. Todd (1903–1992) was a British naval architect who led hydrodynamics labs in Britain and America and created the Series 60 ship hull experiments, still a standard data set.