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Kenneth A. Farley
Kenneth A. Farley (born 1964) is an American isotope geochemist, W.M. Keck Professor at Caltech, known for apatite helium thermochronology and as Mars 2020 Perseverance project scientist.
Kenneth A. Freedberg
Kenneth A. Freedberg is a Massachusetts General Hospital physician and Harvard professor who directs the Medical Practice Evaluation Center and leads the CEPAC cost-effectiveness model of HIV disease.
Kenneth A. Gall
Kenneth A. Gall is an American mechanical engineer and materials scientist, a Duke University professor known for shape memory materials research and for founding medical device companies including MedShape and Restor3d.
Kenneth A. Jacobson
Kenneth A. Jacobson is a medicinal chemist and pharmacologist who leads the Molecular Recognition Section at NIDDK, NIH, studying adenosine and P2Y receptor drug targets.
Kenneth A. Johnson
Kenneth A. Johnson is an American biochemist, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, known for defining reaction pathways of molecular motors and polymerases by transient-state kinetics.
Kenneth A. Marra
Kenneth A. Marra, born 1951, is an American jurist who served as a federal district judge in the Southern District of Florida, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002.
Kenneth A. Roe
Kenneth A. Roe was board chairman of Burns and Roe Enterprises, a New Jersey architect-engineer firm for power plants, and president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Kenneth A. Smith
Kenneth Alan Smith (born 1936) is an American chemical engineer, the Edwin R. Gilliland Professor at MIT and its vice president for research from 1981 to 1991.
Kenneth A. Taylor
Kenneth A. Taylor is an American structural biologist, Professor of Biological Science at Florida State University since 1995, known for 3-D electron microscopy of muscle and myosin filaments.
Kenneth Aldape
Kenneth Aldape is a molecular neuropathologist at Mayo Clinic, previously chief of pathology at the National Cancer Institute, known for DNA methylation work in glioma and the WHO CNS5 tumor classification.
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Kenneth B. Clark (1914–2005) and Mamie Phipps Clark (1917–1983) were American psychologists whose doll tests supplied key evidence for Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
Kenneth Andrade
Kenneth Andrade is an Indian equity fund manager, founder and chief investment officer of Old Bridge Capital Management, who led IDFC Asset Management from 2005 to 2015.
Kenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger (Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer, 1927–2023), American underground experimental filmmaker and author of Hollywood Babylon; known for Fireworks, Scorpio Rising, the Magick Lantern Cycle, Crowley-inspired occultism, and influence on Scorsese, Lynch, and music video.
Kenneth Arrow
Kenneth Joseph Arrow (1921–2017), American economist and 1972 Nobel laureate with John Hicks; proved the impossibility theorem in Social Choice and Individual Values, co-proved general equilibrium existence with Debreu, and founded health economics.
Kenneth B. Bischoff
Kenneth B. Bischoff (1936–2006) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Delaware who co-founded physiological pharmacokinetics and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Kenneth B. Crozier
Kenneth B. Crozier, also known as Kenneth Crozier, is a physicist and professor of physics and electronic engineering at the University of Melbourne who researches nanophotonics, plasmonics, and optical trapping.
Kenneth B. Eisenthal
Kenneth B. Eisenthal (1933–2024) was an American physical chemist at Columbia University who pioneered second harmonic generation for studying molecules at liquid and aqueous interfaces.
Kenneth B. Marcu
Kenneth B. Marcu, also published as K.B. Marcu, is a molecular biologist known for work on the c-myc oncogene and immunoglobulin heavy-chain genes, and a Stony Brook professor emeritus.
Kenneth B. Raper
Kenneth B. Raper (Kenneth Bryan Raper, 1908-1987), American mycologist; NRRL Peoria penicillin team member, co-author of the Aspergilli and Penicillia manuals, and discoverer of Dictyostelium discoideum (1935); UW-Madison professor.
Kenneth B. Wells
Kenneth B. Wells is an American psychiatrist and health services researcher at UCLA who developed collaborative care for depression and won the 2018 Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health.
Kenneth B. Wiberg
Kenneth B. Wiberg (Kenneth Berle Wiberg, 1927–2026) was an American physical organic chemist at Yale University known for strained small-ring compounds and the Wiberg bond index.
Kenneth Bae (배준호)
Kenneth Bae (배준호), also known as Pae Jun-ho, is a Korean-born American Christian missionary and tour operator held in North Korea for 735 days, longer than any US citizen since the Korean War.
Kenneth Bainbridge
Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge (1904–1996) was an American experimental physicist and Harvard professor known for designing precision mass spectrographs and for directing the Trinity test, the first nuclear detonation, in 1945.
Kenneth Berns
Kenneth Ira Berns (1938–2024) was an American virologist who spent 45 years working out the molecular biology of adeno-associated virus, whose findings became the foundation for AAV gene therapy vectors.
Kenneth Bianchi
Kenneth Bianchi is an American serial killer who, with his cousin Angelo Buono Jr., committed the Hillside Strangler murders in Los Angeles in 1977 and 1978.
Kenneth Birnbaum
Kenneth D. Birnbaum is a plant developmental biologist at New York University known for single-cell transcriptomics of plant roots and for showing how roots regenerate stem cells.
Kenneth Bogner
Kenneth Bogner is a Republican politician from Miles City, Montana, who serves as President pro tempore of the Montana Senate and was elected in 2018.
Kenneth Braaten
Kenneth Braaten (born 1974, Mo i Rana) is a retired Norwegian nordic combined skier; 1998 Nagano Olympic team gold, 2001 Lahti world team gold, 1999 Ramsau team silver, one World Cup win.
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh (Kenneth Charles Branagh, Sir Ken Branagh), Irish actor-director born 1960 in Belfast; founder of Renaissance Theatre Company, director of Henry V, Hamlet, Thor, Belfast; knighted 2012, RADA President.
Kenneth Brinkhous
Kenneth Brinkhous (1908–2000) was an American pathologist who discovered that hemophilia results from a missing clotting factor, Factor VIII, and pioneered plasma replacement therapy for it.