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Frederick P. Siegal
Frederick P. Siegal (F. P. Siegal) is an American clinical immunologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, known for describing some of the first AIDS cases in 1981.
Frederick P. Stamp, Jr.
Frederick P. Stamp, Jr., also known as Frederick Pfarr Stamp, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in the Northern District of West Virginia since 1990.
Frederick Pabst
Frederick Pabst (1836–1904) was a German-born American brewer who joined the Phillip Best brewery by marriage and built it into the largest in the United States.
Frederick Parker Gay
Frederick Parker Gay (1874–1939) was an American bacteriologist and immunologist who held Columbia's bacteriology chair from 1923 and defined immunology as a distinct scientific discipline in 1911.
Frederick Parkes Weber
Frederick Parkes Weber (1863–1962) was an English physician and dermatologist who spent fifty years at the German Hospital in Dalston, London, and lent his name to Sturge-Weber disease and Parkes Weber syndrome.
Frederick R. Appelbaum
Frederick R. Appelbaum is an American medical oncologist and executive vice president of Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle, known for pioneering stem cell transplantation for leukemia since 1978.
Frederick R. Blattner
Frederick R. Blattner is a geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who led the sequencing of the first complete Escherichia coli genome, published in 1997.
Frederick R. Chang
Frederick R. Chang is an American computer security expert and former Director of Research at the National Security Agency, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.
Frederick R. Cross
Frederick R. Cross is a cell biologist at The Rockefeller University in New York who studies how cyclins and CDKs drive the cell cycle in budding yeast.
Frederick R. Koch
Frederick Robinson Koch (1933, Wichita) was the eldest Koch brother, an art collector and philanthropist who skipped Koch Industries, settled for $330-400 million in 1983, and built manuscript and Victorian painting collections now partly at Yale's Beinecke Library.
Frederick R. Maxfield
Frederick R. Maxfield is a biochemist and the Vladimir and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine since 1995, known for work on endocytosis and intracellular cholesterol transport.
Frederick Raal
Frederick J. Raal is a South African endocrinologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, known for first-author trials of evolocumab, inclisiran, and evinacumab in familial hypercholesterolaemia.
Frederick Redlich
Frederick Redlich, known as Fritz, was an Austrian-born American psychiatrist who chaired Yale's psychiatry department and served as dean of its medical school from 1967 to 1972.
Frederick Reines
Frederick Reines was an American physicist who, with Clyde Cowan, made the first detection of the neutrino in 1956, winning a share of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832–1914), 'Bobs', British field marshal; Victoria Cross winner in the Indian Mutiny, victor of Kandahar 1880, commander in the Boer War, and last Commander-in-Chief of the British Army.
Frederick Rossini
Frederick Rossini (1899–1990) was an American chemical thermodynamicist best known for directing the American Petroleum Institute's hydrocarbon research projects and compiling the reference tables that became design data for the oil industry.
Frederick Rueckheim
Frederick Rueckheim was a German-born American confectioner who settled in Chicago and founded the popcorn business that created Cracker Jack, introduced at the 1893 World's Fair.
Frederick S. Billig
Frederick S. Billig was an American aerospace engineer at Johns Hopkins APL who pioneered scramjet propulsion and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.
Frederick S. Hulse
Frederick S. Hulse (1906–1990) was an American anthropologist, a Harvard-trained pioneer of anthropological genetics who wrote The Human Species and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.
Frederick S. Jaffe
Frederick S. Jaffe (1925–1978) was an American family planning researcher who served as vice president of Planned Parenthood and first president of the Guttmacher Institute.
Frederick S. Kaplan
Frederick S. Kaplan is an American physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, codiscovered its causative gene in 2006, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2009.
Frederick Sanger
Frederick Sanger (1918–2013) was a British biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, in 1958 for determining insulin's structure and in 1980 for DNA sequencing.
Frederick Seaman
Frederick Stephen Seaman (1906-2000), Indian field hockey player born in Allahabad; won gold with British India at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, the first of India's six consecutive hockey titles.
Frederick Seitz
Frederick Seitz (1911–2008) was an American solid-state physicist who helped found the quantum theory of solids, led the National Academy of Sciences, and later organized the 1998 Oregon Petition against the Kyoto Protocol.
Frederick Soddy
Frederick Soddy was a British radiochemist who won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on radioactive substances and isotopes, a term he coined in 1913.
Frederick Sommer
Frederick Sommer (1905–1999) was an American photographer born in Italy who worked in Prescott, Arizona, known for desert landscapes, still lifes, and cameraless cellophane images.
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby
Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby (Lord Stanley of Preston), 1841-1908, British Conservative politician, Canada's sixth governor general 1888-1893, and donor of the 1892 silver bowl that became the Stanley Cup.
Frederick Stapleton
Frederick Stapleton (1877–1939), English swimmer and water polo player; won gold in men's water polo for Great Britain's Osborne Swimming Club at the 1900 Paris Olympics and also swam the 200 m freestyle and obstacle race.
Frederick Stohlman
Frederick Stohlman was an American hematologist, professor of medicine at Tufts University, whose laboratory did much of the mid-century work establishing erythropoietin's role in red-cell production.
Frederick Sumner Brackett
Frederick Sumner Brackett (1896–1988) was an American physicist who discovered the infrared hydrogen lines called the Brackett series in 1922 and later developed spectroscopic methods at the National Institutes of Health.