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Norman F. Ness

Norman F. Ness (1933–2023) was an American space physicist at NASA Goddard who designed the Voyager magnetometers and led the discovery of the magnetic fields of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Norman F. Ramsey

Norman F. Ramsey (1915–2011) was an American Harvard physicist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the separated oscillatory fields method behind atomic clocks.

Norman Fell (1924–1998), American character actor from Philadelphia, played landlord Stanley Roper on Three's Company and The Ropers, won a Golden Globe, and earned a 1976 Emmy nomination for Rich Man, Poor Man.

Norman Finkelstein

Norman G. Finkelstein (born 1953), American political scientist and son of Holocaust survivors, author of The Holocaust Industry and Beyond Chutzpah; known for the Dershowitz feud and 2007 DePaul tenure denial, distinct from writer Norman H. Finkelstein and the poet Norman Finkelstein.

Norman Fiore

Norman Fiore is a venture capital investor who co-founded Dawn Capital and serves as a General Partner there, known for leading early investments in Mimecast, Collibra, Quantexa, and Gelato.

Norman Foster

Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, is a British architect and leading figure of High Tech architecture who founded Foster + Partners in 1967.

Norman Fucking Rockwell!

Norman Fucking Rockwell! (NFR!) is Lana Del Rey's sixth studio album, released 30 August 2019 on Polydor/Interscope. Produced mainly with Jack Antonoff, its 14 tracks include a Sublime "Doin' Time" cover and won Pitchfork's 9.4 Best New Music.

Norman G. Levinsky

Norman G. Levinsky was an American nephrologist at Boston University School of Medicine who chaired its Department of Medicine from 1972 to 1997 and wrote on Medicare and research ethics.

Norman George Meyers

Norman George Meyers (1930–2025) was an American mathematician who spent his career at the University of Minnesota and is best known for the 1963 higher-integrability result called the Meyers estimate.

Norman Geschwind

Norman Geschwind (1926–1984) was an American neurologist and Harvard professor who founded modern behavioral neurology; his 1965 papers on disconnexion syndromes and his work on brain asymmetry shaped clinical practice for two decades.

Norman Giles

Norman Giles (1915–2006) was an American geneticist, a pioneer of radiation cytology and Neurospora genetics whose quinic acid gene cluster work laid groundwork for recombinant DNA.

Norman Greenbaum

Norman Greenbaum, American singer-songwriter born 1942 in Malden, Massachusetts, wrote and recorded "Spirit in the Sky" (1969), a No. 3 US and No. 1 UK fuzz-guitar hit; also led Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band.

Norman Gregg

Sir Norman McAlister Gregg (1892–1966) was an Australian ophthalmologist in Sydney who in 1941 first linked maternal rubella to congenital defects, leading to rubella vaccination.

Norman H. Anning

Norman H. Anning (Norman Herbert Anning, 1883–1963) was a Canadian-American mathematician who coauthored the 1945 Erdős–Anning theorem, proving that infinite planar integer-distance point sets must lie on a line.

Norman H. Bell

Norman H. Bell is an American endocrinology researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina who studied vitamin D metabolism and bone mass in Black adults.

Norman H. Edelman

Norman H. Edelman is an American pulmonologist and breathing-control researcher, professor at Stony Brook University and former dean at Robert Wood Johnson and Stony Brook medical schools.

Norman Hackerman

Norman Hackerman (1912–2007) was an American electrochemist known for corrosion science, who served as president of the University of Texas at Austin and Rice University.

Oct 20, 2026

Norman Hallows

Norman Hallows (Norman Frederick Hallows, 1886–1968), British runner and doctor; 1908 Olympic bronze in the 1,500 m and gold in the 3-mile team race; later RAMC captain and Marlborough College medical officer.

Norman Haworth

Norman Haworth, or Walter Norman Haworth, was a British organic chemist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on carbohydrates and vitamin C.

Norman Heatley

Norman George Heatley was a British biochemist at Oxford who devised the assay, extraction, and culture methods that made penicillin mass production possible in 1940–41.

Norman Horowitz

Norman Horowitz (1915–2005) was an American geneticist, professor of biology at Caltech, who worked on the one-gene, one-enzyme experiments in Neurospora and designed the Viking lander's life-detection experiment for Mars.

Norman Hunter (footballer)

Norman Hunter (1943-2020), "Bites Yer Legs", English centre-back for Leeds United 1962-1976, 726 appearances, two league titles, 1972 FA Cup, two Fairs Cups, 28 England caps, 1966 World Cup squad, first PFA Players' Player of the Year.

Norman J. Dovic̀hi

Norman J. Dovic̀hi is an American bioanalytical chemist and Emeritus Professor at Notre Dame whose capillary array electrophoresis instruments sequenced the human genome; he edits Analyst.

Norman James Petch

Norman James Petch (1917–1992) was a British metallurgist whose 1953 paper on the cleavage strength of polycrystals gave the grain-size term of the Hall–Petch relation; he held metallurgy chairs at Leeds, Newcastle, and Strathclyde.

Norman Jarosik

Norman Jarosik is an American experimental cosmologist, a Senior Research Physicist at Princeton University who led the WMAP radiometer systems and shared the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

Sep 19, 2026

Norman Jay MBE

Norman Jay MBE is a British DJ from Notting Hill, London, co-founder of the Good Times sound system and Kiss FM, and the first DJ awarded an MBE, in 2002.

Norman Jewison

Norman Jewison (1926-2024), Canadian director of In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Moonstruck; Thalberg Award winner and founder of the Canadian Film Centre.

Norman John Wildberger

Norman John Wildberger is an Australian mathematician who created rational trigonometry, replacing distance and angle with quadrance and spread, and taught for 30 years at the University of New South Wales.