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Kenneth Parnell
Kenneth Eugene Parnell (1931-2008), American child molester and kidnapper who abducted Steven Stayner in Merced, California in 1972, held him seven years as "Dennis Parnell," kidnapped Timmy White in 1980, and died in prison after a three-strikes conviction.
Kenneth Poss
Kenneth D. Poss is an American regenerative biologist known for discovering that zebrafish fully regenerate their hearts after injury, and now directs Regenerative Biology at the Morgridge Institute.
Kenneth Pye
Kenneth Pye, born 1956, is a British sedimentologist and coastal geomorphologist known for work on aeolian dust, sand dunes, and loess, and for the GRADISTAT grain-size statistics package.
Kenneth R. Chien
Kenneth R. Chien is an American cardiovascular scientist whose laboratory identified the progenitor cells that build the mammalian heart; he is now Professor Emeritus at Karolinska Institutet.
Kenneth R. French
Kenneth R. French is an American financial economist at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, best known for asset pricing models using size, value, profitability, and investment factors.
Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier
Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier is an inorganic solid-state chemist, the Morrison Professor at Northwestern University, known for his 1998 review Noncentrosymmetric Oxides and oxide fluoride synthesis.
Kenneth Ray Swartzel
Kenneth Ray Swartzel is an American food and bioprocess engineer, a distinguished professor emeritus at North Carolina State University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.
Kenneth Rexroth
Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) was an American poet, essayist, and translator central to the San Francisco Renaissance; he emceed the 1955 Six Gallery reading where Allen Ginsberg first performed "Howl."
Kenneth Ribet
Kenneth Ribet is an American number theorist at the University of California, Berkeley, whose 1986 proof made Andrew Wiles's 1995 proof of Fermat's Last Theorem possible.
Kenneth Rogoff
Kenneth Rogoff is an American economist and Harvard professor known for work on international finance, the 2009 book This Time Is Different, and chess grandmaster status.
Kenneth Rosenfield
Kenneth Rosenfield is an American interventional cardiologist who heads vascular medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for trials like BEST-CLI and for creating the pulmonary embolism response team concept.
Kenneth Ross MacKenzie
Kenneth Ross MacKenzie (1912–2002) was an American experimental physicist at UCLA who co-discovered astatine in 1940, engineered cyclotron radiofrequency systems, and created the MacKenzie bucket plasma source.
Kenneth S. Johnson
Kenneth S. Johnson is a chemical oceanographer and Senior Scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, known for nitrate and pH sensors deployed on autonomous profiling floats.
Kenneth S. Kendler
Kenneth S. Kendler, born 1950, is an American psychiatric geneticist at Virginia Commonwealth University who directs the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics and studies schizophrenia.
Kenneth S. Korach
Kenneth S. Korach is an American reproductive endocrinologist who created estrogen receptor knockout mice and reported the first well-characterized human case of estrogen resistance in 1994.
Kenneth S. Kosik
Kenneth S. Kosik is an American neuroscientist and physician at UC Santa Barbara who helped discover tau in Alzheimer's tangles and studies a large Colombian family with hereditary Alzheimer's disease.
Kenneth S. Pitzer
Kenneth S. Pitzer (1914–1997) was an American physical chemist at Berkeley whose Pitzer model for electrolyte solutions remains widely used in geochemistry and chemical engineering.
Kenneth S. Polonsky
Kenneth S. Polonsky is a South African-born physician-scientist and diabetes researcher at the University of Chicago, known for work on insulin secretion in type 2 diabetes and beta-cell failure.
Kenneth S. Schweizer
Kenneth S. Schweizer is an American materials theorist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for PRISM, his 1987 statistical mechanical theory of polymer melts.
Kenneth S. Suslick
Kenneth S. Suslick, born in 1952, is an American chemist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for sonochemistry and the colorimetric sensor array, an artificial nose.
Kenneth S. Warren
Kenneth S. Warren (1929–1996) was an American physician and immunoparasitologist who studied schistosomiasis, argued the disease was immunologic, and led the Rockefeller Foundation's program on the great neglected diseases.
Kenneth Showalter
Kenneth Showalter (1949–2026) was an American physical chemist who spent his career at West Virginia University, known for controlling chaos in the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction and realizing chimera states experimentally.
Kenneth Singleton
Kenneth J. Singleton is an American financial economist, the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford Graduate School of Business, known for asset pricing econometrics.
Kenneth Spence
Kenneth Spence (1907–1967) was an American experimental psychologist at the University of Iowa who revised Hull's drive theory by giving incentive motivation an independent role in learning.
Kenneth Stewart Cole
Kenneth Stewart Cole (1900–1984) was an American biophysicist who measured the electrical properties of nerve membranes and in whose institute the first voltage clamp was built.
Kenneth Street Jr.
Kenneth Street Jr. was an American nuclear chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, co-discoverer of californium in 1950 and a developer of ion-exchange separation chemistry.
Kenneth Stuart
Kenneth D. Stuart is an American molecular parasitologist who discovered RNA editing in trypanosomes, founded the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2026.
Kenneth T. Brown
Kenneth T. Brown was an American retinal physiologist at the University of California San Francisco whose intraretinal recording experiments first established the electrical responses of vertebrate photoreceptors.
Kenneth T. Mills
Kenneth T. Mills is an American biotechnology executive who co-founded REGENXBIO in 2009, served as its CEO for fifteen years, and became Tagworks Pharmaceuticals CEO in 2024.
Kenneth Thomson
Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, was a Canadian businessman who chaired the Thomson Corporation from 1976 to 2002, growing it into an electronic-publishing giant.