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Samuel Cohen (biophysical chemist)
Samuel I. A. Cohen is a Cambridge-trained biophysical chemist who established how toxic amyloid-β oligomers arise during aggregation in Alzheimer's disease, and who co-founded Wren Therapeutics and Ride Therapeutics.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912), Anglo-African British composer, student of Stanford, famed for Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, Pan-African Conference delegate, three US tours, died at 37.
Samuel Collins (cryogenic engineer)
Samuel Cornette Collins (1898–1984) was an American cryogenic engineer at MIT, known as the father of practical helium liquefiers; his 1946 Collins Helium Cryostat spread helium research worldwide.
Samuel Colt
Samuel Colt (1814–1862) was an American inventor and industrialist from Hartford, Connecticut, who patented the revolving-cylinder revolver in 1836 and built the world's largest private armament factory.
Samuel D. Stranks
Samuel D. Stranks is a physicist and Professor of Energy Materials and Optoelectronics at the University of Cambridge, known for his 2013 perovskite solar cell work.
Samuel D. Wright
Samuel D. Wright is an immunologist who worked at Rockefeller University and later Merck Research Laboratories, known for identifying the CR3 receptor and the LPS–CD14 endotoxin recognition pathway.
Samuel Daniel
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) was an English poet and historian of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, known for the sonnet sequence Delia and the unfinished epic The Civil Wars.
Samuel de Champlain
Samuel de Champlain (c. 1567/1570-1635), French soldier, cartographer, and navigator, founded Quebec on 3 July 1608, the first permanent French settlement in America, allied with the Wendat and Algonquins, mapped the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes, and is called the Father of New France.
Samuel De Champlain Bridge
The Samuel De Champlain Bridge is a 3.4-kilometer cable-stayed bridge carrying Highway 15 across the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Brossard, opened in 2019.
Samuel Deléglise
Samuel Deléglise is a French experimental physicist, first author of the 2008 Nature paper reconstructing and filming the decoherence of Schrödinger cat states of light in a microwave cavity.
Samuel Doe
Samuel Kanyon Doe (1951-1990), Liberian Master Sergeant and president, seized power in the April 12, 1980 coup that ended Americo-Liberian rule, headed the People's Redemption Council, was inaugurated in 1986, and was killed by INPFL rebels in 1990.
Samuel E. Lux
Samuel E. Lux IV is an American physician-scientist in pediatric hematology at Harvard Medical School, known for three decades of work on the red blood cell membrane skeleton and hereditary spherocytosis.
Samuel E. Wright
Samuel E. Wright was an American actor and voice performer who died in 2021. He is known for voicing Sebastian in The Little Mermaid and Mufasa in The Lion King.
Samuel Eccleston
Samuel Eccleston was an American Catholic prelate who served as the fifth Archbishop of Baltimore from 1834 until his death, presiding over five Provincial Councils of Baltimore.
Samuel Eilenberg
Samuel Eilenberg (1913–1998) was a Polish-born American mathematician at Columbia University who co-founded category theory, established homological algebra, and won the 1986 Wolf Prize in Mathematics.
Samuel Eliot Morison
Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976) was an American Harvard historian and rear admiral who wrote the 15-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II.
Samuel Epstein (geochemist)
Samuel Epstein (1919–2001) was a Polish-born Canadian-American geochemist who spent his career at Caltech and pioneered stable isotope studies of Earth, the Moon, and meteorites.
Samuel Esson Jonah
Samuel Esson Jonah is a Ghanaian mining engineer who led Ashanti Goldfields and AngloGold Ashanti, and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
Samuel Eto'o
Samuel Eto'o Fils, born 1981 in Nkon, Cameroon, is a retired striker and Fecafoot president; record four-time African Footballer of the Year, three Champions Leagues, AFCON record scorer with 18 goals.
Samuel F. Bakhoum
Samuel F. Bakhoum is a cancer biologist and radiation oncologist who showed chromosomal instability drives metastasis, led a Memorial Sloan Kettering laboratory, and co-founded Volastra Therapeutics.
Samuel F. Biery, Jr.
Samuel F. Biery, Jr., also known as Samuel Frederick Biery, Jr., is a United States district judge in Texas, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1994.
Samuel Fiorini
Samuel Fiorini is a mathematician and professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles who works in combinatorial optimization; his 2012 work solved Yannakakis's problem on extended formulations for the traveling salesman polytope.
Samuel Fosso
Samuel Fosso (born 1962, Kumba, Cameroon) is a Franco-Cameroonian photographer known for theatrical self-portraits exploring Pan-African identity, power, and representation; he won the 2023 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.
Samuel Francis Du Pont
Samuel Francis Du Pont was a United States Navy rear admiral from Delaware's du Pont family, best known for leading the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in the Civil War.
Samuel Franklin Emmons
Samuel Franklin Emmons (1841–1911) was an American economic geologist and founding USGS geologist whose 1886 study of Colorado's Leadville mining district became a model for describing ore deposits.
Samuel Frederick Edwards
Samuel Frederick Edwards (1928–2015) was a Welsh theoretical physicist who held the Cavendish Chair at Cambridge and advanced polymer physics and spin glass theory.
Samuel French (company)
Samuel French is an Anglo-American play publisher and licensing house, founded in New York City in 1846 and acquired by Concord Music in December 2018.
Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller (Sam Fuller, 1911 or 1912-1997), American writer-director-producer of gritty B movies such as The Steel Helmet, Shock Corridor, The Big Red One, and White Dog; tabloid crime reporter turned infantryman, auteur admired by the French New Wave.
Samuel Gershman
Samuel J. Gershman is a cognitive scientist and Professor of Psychology and Brain Science at Harvard University, known for computational models of reinforcement learning, dopamine, and memory.
Samuel Gibbs
Sir Samuel Gibbs (1770-1815) was an English British Army major-general who served in Corsica, Ostend, the West Indies, Cape of Good Hope, Travancore, and Java, then died of wounds leading a column at the Battle of New Orleans on 8 January 1815.