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Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan (born 1949) is an American screenwriter and director, co-writer of The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi, and writer-director of The Big Chill, Silverado, The Accidental Tourist, Grand Canyon, and The Force Awakens.
Lawrence Kazak
Lawrence Kazak is a Canadian researcher at McGill University's Goodman Cancer Institute who studies how fat cells generate heat, known for identifying a creatine-driven heat-producing pathway in thermogenic fat.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Lawrence Kohlberg (1927–1987), American psychologist at Yale, Chicago, and Harvard, creator of the six-stage, three-level theory of moral development, the Heinz dilemma method, and the target of Gilligan's and cross-cultural critiques.
Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development
Kohlberg's stages of moral development: Lawrence Kohlberg's six-stage, three-level theory (preconventional, conventional, postconventional) of moral reasoning growth, built on Piaget, measured via the Heinz dilemma and MJI, and contested by Gilligan's care ethics.
Lawrence Kutner (House)
Lawrence Kutner is a fictional diagnostic fellow on House, M.D., played by Kal Penn; born Lawrence Choudhary, hired in season 4, he dies by suicide in season 5's "Simple Explanation" after Penn joined the Obama White House.
Lawrence L. Kazmerski
Lawrence L. Kazmerski is an electrical engineer who became the first photovoltaics staff member at SERI, NREL's predecessor, in 1977 and led its solar cell measurement work.
Lawrence L. Piersol
Lawrence L. Piersol, born 1940 in Vermillion, South Dakota, is a senior US district judge for the District of South Dakota, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993.
Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig (born 1961), Harvard Law School professor, cyberlaw scholar behind "code is law," Creative Commons founding board member, and campaign finance reform activist who founded Equal Citizens and briefly ran for president in 2016.
Lawrence Levine
Lawrence Levine (1924–2009) was an American biochemist and educator at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, best known for showing that anti-inflammatory corticosteroids inhibit prostaglandin production.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a US Department of Energy national laboratory in Livermore, California, founded in 1952 to advance nuclear weapons science and technology.
Lawrence M. Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist who taught at Yale, Case Western Reserve, and Arizona State, predicted dark energy in 1995, and wrote A Universe from Nothing.
Lawrence M. Lichtenstein
Lawrence M. Lichtenstein (1934–2022) was an American immunologist and allergist at Johns Hopkins University whose 1978 trial made venom immunotherapy the standard of care for insect-sting allergy.
Lawrence M. Wein
Lawrence M. Wein is an American operations research scientist, the Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor Emeritus at Stanford, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009, known for biodefense and health-care models.
Lawrence M. Weiss
Lawrence M. Weiss, also published as Lawrence Weiss, is an American hematopathologist and Chairman of Pathology Emeritus at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California.
Lawrence O. Brockway
Lawrence O. Brockway (Lawrence Olin Brockway, 1907–1979) was an American physical chemist who established gas-phase electron diffraction for determining molecular structures, first as a doctoral student of Linus Pauling at Caltech.
Lawrence O. Gostin
Lawrence O. Gostin, born 1949, is an American legal scholar at Georgetown University who founded the O'Neill Institute and shaped health law through major epidemics.
Lawrence O'Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell (Lawrence Francis O'Donnell Jr., born 1951, Boston) is an American MSNBC/MS NOW anchor hosting The Last Word since 2010; former Moynihan aide, Senate Finance Committee chief of staff, and Emmy-winning West Wing writer-producer.
Lawrence Oates
Lawrence Edward Grace Oates (Titus), 1880–1912, British Army captain of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons and pony master on Scott's Terra Nova Expedition, who died walking into a blizzard on the return from the South Pole.
Lawrence of Arabia (film)
Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean's 1962 British epic starring Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence, based on Seven Pillars of Wisdom; shot in Super Panavision 70, it won seven Oscars including Best Picture and was restored in 1988 and 2012.
Lawrence Okolie
Lawrence Okolie, nicknamed The Sauce, is a British boxer born 1992 in Hackney. WBO cruiserweight champion 2021-2023, WBC bridgerweight champion 2024, now a heavyweight contender and former 2016 Olympian.
Lawrence Oyor
Lawrence Oyor is a Nigerian gospel music minister and worship leader from Ibadan, known for spontaneous chants and the 2025 hit "Favour", briefly the most streamed Nigerian song on Spotify.
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (born 1957, Kamloops, British Columbia) is a Canadian painter of Cowichan Coast Salish and Okanagan descent known for large-scale paintings addressing Indigenous sovereignty and environmental destruction.
Lawrence Pentland
Lawrence Henry Pentland (1879-1923), Canadian lacrosse player and attorney from Manitoba; won Olympic gold in men's lacrosse at the 1904 St. Louis Games with the Winnipeg Shamrocks, who beat St. Louis AAA 8-2.
Lawrence Phillips
Lawrence Phillips, full name Lawrence Lamond Phillips, was an American football running back who starred at Nebraska and was drafted sixth overall by the St. Louis Rams in 1996.
Lawrence Que
Lawrence Que, Jr. is an American bioinorganic chemist at the University of Minnesota known for work on nonheme iron oxygen activation and bio-inspired oxidation catalysis.
Lawrence R. Glosten
Lawrence R. Glosten (1918–2010) was an American naval architect who founded The Glosten Associates in Seattle and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.
Lawrence R. Hafstad
Lawrence R. Hafstad (1904–1993) was an American nuclear physicist who helped demonstrate uranium fission in 1939, proved the radar proximity fuze feasible, and led the Atomic Energy Commission's reactor program.
Lawrence R. Klein
Lawrence R. Klein, also known as Lawrence Klein, was an American econometrician at the University of Pennsylvania and winner of the 1980 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Lawrence R. Schiller
Lawrence R. Schiller is an American gastroenterologist in Dallas known for research on intestinal transport, chronic diarrhea, and motility, and was ACG president in 2011–2012.
Lawrence R. Sita
Lawrence R. Sita is an American inorganic and materials chemist, a professor at the University of Maryland since 2002 known for nitrogen fixation catalysis and living polymerization of polyolefins.