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Lawrence Rabiner
Lawrence Rabiner, born 1943 in Brooklyn, is an American electrical engineer who developed the chirp z-transform and hidden Markov modeling of speech at Bell Labs.
Lawrence Roberts (computer scientist)
Lawrence Roberts was an American computer scientist who supervised the ARPANET, the packet-switching precursor to the Internet, and later founded the first commercial packet-switched carrier, Telenet.
Lawrence Rothfield
Lawrence I. Rothfield (1927–2022) was an American microbiologist and physician-scientist at the University of Connecticut Health Center known for defining how E. coli positions its division septum.
Lawrence S. Bartell
Lawrence S. Bartell (1923–2017) was an American physical chemist at the University of Michigan who used electron diffraction and electron holography to determine the shapes of free molecules.
Lawrence S. Bohn
Lawrence S. Bohn, known as Larry Bohn, is an American venture capitalist and managing director at General Catalyst in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for enterprise software investments including HubSpot.
Lawrence S. Friedman
Lawrence S. Friedman is an American hepatologist and gastroenterologist who chairs the Department of Medicine at Newton-Wellesley Hospital and is a professor at Harvard Medical School.
Lawrence S. Lewin
Lawrence S. Lewin (1938–2012) was an American health policy consultant who founded The Lewin Group, a Washington-based consulting firm, and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1984.
Lawrence S.B. Goldstein
Lawrence S.B. Goldstein is an American cell biologist and neuroscientist at UC San Diego known for discovering kinesin motor proteins and linking defective axonal transport to Alzheimer's disease.
Lawrence Salkoff
Lawrence Salkoff is Professor of Neuroscience and Genetics at Washington University in St. Louis, known for his 1981 Nature work genetically identifying the Drosophila Shaker potassium channel gene.
Lawrence Shankland
Lawrence Shankland (born 1995) is a Scottish striker for Rangers and Scotland; ex-Queen's Park, Aberdeen, Ayr United, Dundee United, Beerschot, Hearts; PFA and SFWA Player of the Year 2023/24; EURO 2024 and 2026 World Cup squads.
Lawrence Shapiro
Lawrence Shapiro is a structural biologist, professor of biochemistry at Columbia University, known for structural work on cadherin cell adhesion, retinal protocadherins, and the endocytic receptor LRP2.
Lawrence Shepp
Lawrence Shepp was an American mathematician and statistician who developed the Shepp–Logan filter and phantom for CT image reconstruction, spending most of his career at Bell Laboratories.
Lawrence Singleton
Lawrence Singleton, American merchant seaman and criminal, attacked Mary Vincent in 1978, served 8 years of a 14-year sentence, sparked a 1987 parole controversy, then murdered Roxanne Hayes in Tampa in 1997 and was sentenced to death in Florida in 1998.
Lawrence Sperry
Lawrence Burst Sperry was an American aviation pioneer, son of gyrocompass inventor Elmer Sperry, who demonstrated the first practical aircraft autopilot in 1914, winning a French safety competition.
Lawrence Stamper Darken
Lawrence Stamper Darken (1909–1978) was an American metallurgist who directed U.S. Steel's Edgar C. Bain Laboratory and formulated the Darken equations for diffusion in binary metallic systems.
Lawrence Steinman
Lawrence Steinman is a neurologist at Stanford University whose multiple sclerosis research produced the approved therapy natalizumab, and who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Lawrence Stroll
Lawrence Stroll (born Strulovich), Canadian billionaire fashion investor (Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors with Silas Chou), owner of the Aston Martin F1 team and executive chairman of Aston Martin Lagonda.
Lawrence Sullivan Ross
Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross (1838-1898), Texas Ranger, Confederate brigadier general of Ross's Brigade, 19th governor of Texas (1887-1891), and president of Texas A&M from 1891 until his death.
Lawrence Summers
Lawrence H. Summers, American economist; 71st US Treasury Secretary (1999-2001), World Bank Chief Economist, Harvard president, Obama NEC director; 1993 Clark Medalist; later left Harvard over Epstein ties.
Lawrence T. Goodnough
Lawrence Tim Goodnough is an American hematologist and transfusion medicine specialist, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, known for defining Patient Blood Management and reducing blood use through restrictive transfusion practice.
Lawrence T. Pileggi
Lawrence T. Pileggi, also known as Larry Pileggi, is an American electrical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University, a pioneer of circuit simulation who received the 2023 Phil Kaufman Award.
Lawrence T. Scott
Lawrence T. Scott, born 1944, is an American organic chemist and emeritus professor at Boston College who led the first rational chemical synthesis of buckminsterfullerene.
Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor, New York Giants Hall of Fame outside linebacker (1981-1993), 132.5 sacks, 1986 NFL MVP, two Super Bowls, Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 1999, redefined pass rushing.
Lawrence Technological University
Lawrence Technological University, also known as Lawrence Tech, is a private technological university in Southfield, Michigan, founded in 1932 as the Lawrence Institute of Technology in Highland Park.
Lawrence Tierney
Lawrence Tierney (1919-2002), American character actor from Brooklyn, Hollywood tough guy of noir classics Dillinger (1945), Born to Kill (1947), The Devil Thumbs a Ride; late revival as Joe Cabot in Reservoir Dogs, Seinfeld and Star Trek roles.
Lawrence v. Texas
Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), the Supreme Court's 6-3 Due Process ruling by Justice Kennedy striking down Texas Penal Code §21.06 and overruling Bowers v. Hardwick, legalizing same-sex sexual activity nationwide.
Lawrence W. Green
Lawrence W. Green is an American health education scholar and Professor Emeritus at UCSF, originator of the PRECEDE-PROCEED planning model and first Director of the federal Office of Health Promotion.
Lawrence Weiskrantz
Lawrence Weiskrantz (1926–2018) was an American-born British neuropsychologist, professor of psychology at Oxford from 1967 to 1993, who discovered blindsight and showed the amygdala's role in emotional behavior.
Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk (1903–1992), American bandleader and accordionist known as the King of "Champagne Music," hosted The Lawrence Welk Show on ABC 1955–1971 and in syndication to 1982.
Lawrence Wong
Lawrence Wong, Singapore's fourth prime minister since 15 May 2024 and Minister for Finance, is a former civil servant and Energy Market Authority chief who co-chaired the COVID-19 taskforce, led the PAP 4G team, and champions the Forward Singapore agenda.