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Frederick Jelinek
Frederick Jelinek was an information theorist who pioneered statistical speech recognition and machine translation, leading IBM's speech group and then Johns Hopkins' Center for Language and Speech Processing.
Frederick Joseph Ernst
Frederick Joseph Ernst (1933–2023) was an American mathematical physicist who formulated the Ernst equation, a 1968 reduction of Einstein's equations used to derive exact black hole solutions.
Frederick K. Goodwin
Frederick K. Goodwin (1936–2020) was an American psychiatrist and psychopharmacology researcher who coauthored the standard textbook Manic-Depressive Illness, led NIMH, and championed lithium for bipolar disorder.
Frederick Kagan
Frederick W. Kagan (born 1970) is an American military historian, AEI senior fellow, and director of its Critical Threats Project. A Yale-trained historian of Russia and former West Point professor, he authored Choosing Victory (2007), the plan behind the Iraq troop surge, and later advised on Afghanistan and Ukraine.
Frederick Kaufman
Frederick Kaufman (1919–1985) was an Austrian-born American chemist at the University of Pittsburgh, a leader in gas-phase chemical kinetics whose measurements informed the US ban on CFC aerosol propellants.
Frederick Kelly
Frederick Kelly refers to several Olympians: Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881–1916), Australian-born British rower, 1908 Olympic eight gold medalist, pianist and composer; Frederick Warren "Fred" Kelly (1891–1974), American 1912 Olympic 110 m hurdles champion; and Fred Kelly, Canadian 1972 cross-country skier.
Frederick Koehler
Frederick Koehler (Fred Koehler), American actor born 1975 in Queens, New York; child star as Chip on Kate & Allie, later Andrew Schillinger on Oz and Lists in the Death Race films.
Frederick Korley
Frederick Korley, also known as Frederick Kofi Korley, is an American emergency physician-scientist at the University of Michigan known for traumatic brain injury blood biomarker research.
Frederick Krehbiel
Frederick August Krehbiel was an American inventor and businessman who founded Molex in Brookfield, Illinois, in 1938, after he and his son developed a moldable plastic.
Frederick L. Altice
Frederick L. Altice is a Yale professor of medicine and epidemiology who has directed its HIV in Prisons Program since 1991, researching HIV, hepatitis, and tuberculosis in prisoners and people who inject drugs.
Frederick L. Brancati
Frederick L. Brancati was an American physician and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins who specialized in preventing type 2 diabetes and directed its Division of General Internal Medicine until his 2013 death.
Frederick L. Ferris
Frederick L. Ferris is an American ophthalmologist who spent 35 years at the National Eye Institute leading landmark trials of diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration treatment.
Frederick L. Locke
Frederick L. Locke is an American medical oncologist who treats lymphoma and multiple myeloma at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, and led the ZUMA-1 and ZUMA-7 CAR T-cell trials.
Frederick L. Ransome
Frederick L. Ransome (1868–1935) was a British-born American economic geologist who mapped the principal mining districts of the American West for the US Geological Survey, leading its metalliferous work from 1912 to 1923.
Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) was an American landscape architect who co-designed New York's Central Park with Calvert Vaux and founded the profession of landscape architecture in the United States.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, known as "the Prof," was a British physicist who led Oxford's Clarendon Laboratory and advised Winston Churchill through most of World War II.
Frederick M. Ausubel
Frederick M. Ausubel is an American molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital known for studies of host-microbe interactions and innate immunity.
Frederick M. Burkle Jr.
Frederick M. "Skip" Burkle Jr. is an American physician and founding figure in disaster medicine who served over 17 years at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
Frederick M. Hughson
Frederick M. Hughson is a Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University who determines the structures of protein complexes that cells use to move cargo between compartments.
Frederick Marryat
Frederick Marryat (1792–1848) was a British naval officer and novelist, a pioneer of nautical fiction known for Mr Midshipman Easy and Marryat's Code of flag signals.
Frederick McEvoy
Frederick Joseph "Freddie" McEvoy (1907–1951), Australian-born bobsledder nicknamed Suicide Freddie, won 1936 Olympic four-man bronze for Great Britain and three FIBT world titles; first Australian Winter Olympic medalist.
Frederick Merriman
Frederick Merriman, full name Frederick Harris Merriman (1873–1940), was a British tug-of-war competitor and London police officer who won gold in the 1908 London Olympics with the London City Police team.
Frederick Meyrick
Frederick Meyrick (1827–1906) was an English Anglican clergyman and controversial writer who founded the Anglo-Continental Society in 1853 and served as its secretary for 45 years.
Frederick Miller
Frederick Miller (1824–1888) was a German-born American brewer who founded the Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1855 and led it until his death.
Frederick Mosteller
Frederick Mosteller (1916–2006) was an American statistician who founded Harvard's Department of Statistics, chaired three Harvard departments, and pioneered meta-analysis and the evaluation of social programs.
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
The Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research is a government-owned research center in Frederick, Maryland, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and devoted to cancer and infectious disease research.
Frederick North, Lord North
Frederick North, Lord North (Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford), British Tory Prime Minister 1770–1782, Chancellor of the Exchequer, architect of the Tea Act 1773 and the American war policy, resigned after Yorktown.
Frederick Orpen Bower
Frederick Orpen Bower (1855–1948) was a British botanist and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow, known for his study of primitive land plants.
Frederick P. Rivara
Frederick P. Rivara, born 1949, is an American pediatrician and injury-prevention researcher at the University of Washington who showed bicycle helmets reduce head injury by 85 percent.
Frederick P. Roth
Frederick P. Roth is an American computational biologist, chair of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh, known for network biology and causal gene selection.