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Kenneth G. Wilson
Kenneth G. Wilson (Kenneth Geddes Wilson) was an American theoretical physicist who won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of critical phenomena and phase transitions.
Kenneth George Budden
Kenneth George Budden (1915–2005) was a British theoretical physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society, a leading contributor to magnetoionic theory at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory.
Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932), Scottish-born British writer and Bank of England Secretary, author of The Wind in the Willows (1908), Pagan Papers, The Golden Age, Dream Days, and The Reluctant Dragon.
Kenneth Greisen
Kenneth Greisen (1918–2007) was an American experimental cosmic-ray physicist at Cornell University who predicted the GZK cutoff in 1966 and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.
Kenneth H. Cooper
Kenneth H. Cooper (born March 4, 1931) is the American physician who coined "aerobics", wrote the 1968 bestseller Aerobics, created the 12-minute fitness test and Aerobics Point System, and founded the Cooper Institute and Cooper Center Longitudinal Study in Dallas.
Kenneth H. Fischbeck
Kenneth H. Fischbeck is an American neurologist and neurogeneticist who identified the gene mutation causing Kennedy's disease and served as chief of the Neurogenetics Branch at NINDS.
Kenneth H. Gabbay
Kenneth H. Gabbay is a physician-scientist in diabetes research at Baylor College of Medicine, known for work on glycosylated hemoglobin, the sorbitol pathway, and aldose reductase.
Kenneth H. Keller
Kenneth H. Keller is an American chemical engineer known for biomedical transport research and for serving as president of the University of Minnesota from 1985 to 1988.
Kenneth H. Mayer
Kenneth H. Mayer is an American infectious-disease physician, Harvard professor, and HIV prevention researcher who has led research at Fenway Health in Boston since 1980.
Kenneth H. Nealson
Kenneth H. Nealson is an environmental microbiologist and geobiologist known for discovering quorum sensing and extracellular electron transfer, and for his astrobiology work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and USC.
Kenneth H. Wolfe
Kenneth H. Wolfe is an Irish geneticist and Professor of Genomic Evolution at University College Dublin, best known for discovering an ancient whole-genome duplication in baker's yeast.
Kenneth Halliwell
Kenneth Halliwell (1926-1967), English actor, writer, and collage artist, partner of playwright Joe Orton; defaced Islington library books with him, imprisoned six months, killed Orton in 1967.
Kenneth Hsu
Kenneth Hsu, full name Kenneth Jinghwa Hsü (许靖华), born 1929, is a Chinese-Swiss geologist at ETH Zurich whose deep-sea drilling showed the Mediterranean dried up in the late Miocene.
Kenneth Hunt
Kenneth Hunt (Kenneth Reginald Gunnery Hunt, 1884-1949), English amateur footballer and Anglican clergyman; won the 1908 FA Cup with Wolverhampton Wanderers and Olympic football gold with Great Britain in 1908 and 1920.
Kenneth J. Gonzales
Kenneth J. Gonzales, also known as Kenneth John Gonzales, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in New Mexico since 2013, appointed by Barack Obama.
Kenneth J. Kemphues
Kenneth J. Kemphues (born 1950) is an American developmental biologist and geneticist, professor emeritus at Cornell University, best known for discovering the par genes and PAR proteins.
Kenneth J. Leveno
Kenneth J. Leveno (1941–2020) was an American obstetrician and maternal-fetal medicine researcher at UT Southwestern, Chief of Obstetrics at Parkland Hospital for over 20 years.
Kenneth J. Marians
Kenneth J. Marians is an American molecular biologist who holds the William E. Snee Chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, known for work on replication fork restart and DNA topology.
Kenneth J. Mukamal
Kenneth J. Mukamal is an American physician and Harvard professor who practices general medicine at BIDMC, known for cohort studies of alcohol drinking patterns, dementia risk, and blood-pressure treatment.
Kenneth J. Rothman
Kenneth J. Rothman is an American epidemiologist, professor at Boston University and Distinguished Fellow Emeritus at RTI International, known for the textbook Modern Epidemiology and for founding the journal Epidemiology in 1990.
Kenneth J. Rothschild
Kenneth J. Rothschild is an American biophysicist and Emeritus Professor of Physics at Boston University, known for FTIR difference spectroscopy of rhodopsins and for founding AmberGen.
Kenneth J. Ryan
Kenneth J. Ryan is a physician-scientist known for 1980s research in reproductive endocrinology and obstetric epidemiology, proposing that insulin and luteinizing hormone jointly regulate ovarian androgen production.
Kenneth J. Schafer
Kenneth J. Schafer is a theoretical atomic, molecular, and optical physicist at Louisiana State University known for foundational work in strong-field physics, high-harmonic generation, and attosecond pulses.
Kenneth J. Shea
Kenneth J. Shea is an American synthetic organic, polymer, and materials chemist at UC Irvine, best known for plastic antibodies, synthetic nanoparticles that bind proteins with antibody-like affinity.
Kenneth K. Kídd
Kenneth K. Kidd is an American human geneticist at Yale University known for human population genetics, forensic DNA typing, and building ALFRED, the ALlele FREquency Database.
Kenneth K. Lee
Kenneth K. Lee, also known as Kenneth Kiyul Lee, is an American jurist serving as a federal appeals judge on the Ninth Circuit since 2019, appointed by President Trump.
Kenneth K. Wu
Kenneth K. Wu (伍焜玉), nicknamed "Mr. Platelet" in Taiwan, is a physician-scientist known for platelet activation research and for leading Taiwan's National Health Research Institutes from 2006 to 2012.
Kenneth Kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda (KK), 1924-2021, Zambian teacher and nationalist who founded UNIP, led Zambia to independence in 1964, ruled as first president for 27 years under one-party Humanism, supported liberation movements, and lost the 1991 election to Frederick Chiluba.
Kenneth Kaushansky
Kenneth Kaushansky is an American hematologist known for discovering thrombopoietin, the hormone regulating platelet production, and for serving as Editor-in-Chief of Blood and Dean of Stony Brook University's medical school.
Kenneth Keegstra
Kenneth Keegstra, born 1945, is an American plant molecular biologist at Michigan State University known for defining how proteins are imported into chloroplasts and for plant cell wall biosynthesis.