All articles starting with S

Samuel Silver

Samuel Silver (1915–1976) was an American electrical engineer and Berkeley professor known for microwave antenna theory and as first director of Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory.

Samuel Singer

Samuel Singer is a surgical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York who specializes in soft tissue sarcoma and directs the MSK Sarcoma Center.

Samuel Slater (1768-1835), English-born textile manufacturer called the father of the American Industrial Revolution, built the first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill at Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1790-1793 and created the family-labor Rhode Island System.

Samuel Smiles

Samuel Smiles (1877–1953) was a British chemist, Daniell Professor at King's College London, and eponym of the Smiles rearrangement, an intramolecular aromatic migration in organic sulfur chemistry.

Samuel Stehman Haldeman

Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1812–1880) was an American naturalist and philologist known for his monograph on American freshwater mollusks and his prize-winning work on English spelling reform.

Samuel Strober

Samuel Strober (1940–2022) was an American immunologist at Stanford University who developed radiation-based conditioning to induce immune tolerance in transplantation, freeing about 80% of matched kidney recipients from immunosuppression.

Samuel T. Darling

Samuel Taylor Darling (1872–1925) was an American pathologist, chief of the Panama Canal Zone health laboratories, discoverer of histoplasmosis, and a malaria specialist killed in a car accident near Beirut in 1925.

Samuel T. Herring

Samuel T. Herring, also known as Hemlock Ernst, is the American singer of Baltimore synth-pop band Future Islands and an underground rapper; born 1984 in Morehead City, North Carolina, famous for the 2014 Letterman performance of 'Seasons (Waiting on You)'.

Samuel T. Hess

Samuel T. Hess is an American physicist at the University of Maine who helped develop fPALM, one of three independently developed 2006 super-resolution fluorescence microscopy methods.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), English Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher; author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Kubla Khan', and 'Christabel', co-author of Lyrical Ballads, and writer of Biographia Literaria.

Sámuel Teleki

Sámuel Teleki (Teleki Sámuel, 1845–1916) was a Transylvanian Hungarian count and explorer who led the 1887–1888 expedition that discovered Lake Rudolf, today Lake Turkana, in East Africa.

Sámuel Tessedik

Sámuel Tessedik, in Hungarian Tessedik Sámuel (1742–1820), was a Hungarian Lutheran pastor and agricultural writer in Szarvas who founded one of Europe's first practical agricultural schools in 1780.

Samuel Umtiti

Samuel Umtiti, born 1993 in Yaoundé, Cameroon, is a French former centre-back; Lyon product, 134 Barcelona games, 2018 World Cup winner who scored the semi-final winner against Belgium; retired 15 September 2025 at 31 after chronic knee injuries.

Samuel von Brukenthal

Samuel von Brukenthal (1721–1803) was a Transylvanian Saxon baron who served as Governor of Transylvania from 1777 to 1787; his art collections became the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu.

Samuel Waxman

Samuel Waxman, born 1936, is an American physician-scientist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai known for pioneering differentiation therapy of cancer and founding his cancer research foundation in 1976.

Sep 19, 2026

Samuel Weinbach

Samuel Weinbach is a German technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Heidelberg AI company Aleph Alpha with Jonas Andrulis in 2019 and is designated to become Cohere's Chief Research Officer under their 2026 merger.

Samuel Weiss (Canadian neuroscientist)

Samuel Weiss is a Canadian neuroscientist at the University of Calgary known for the 1992 discovery of neural stem cells in adult mammalian brains and the 1985 co-discovery of the metabotropic glutamate receptor.

Samuel Wendell Williston

Samuel Wendell Williston (1851–1918) was an American paleontologist, entomologist, and physician, professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago and the foremost American student of flies of his time.

Samuel Wesley Stratton

Samuel Wesley Stratton (1861–1931) was an American physicist and scientific administrator, founding director of the National Bureau of Standards from 1901 to 1922 and later president of MIT.

Samuel West

Samuel Alexander Joseph West (born 1966), English actor, narrator, and theatre director, son of Timothy West and Prunella Scales; RSC Hamlet and Richard II, Sheffield Theatres artistic director 2005–2007, Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small.

Samuel Whittemore Boggs

Samuel Whittemore Boggs (1889–1954) was an American geographer, geographer of the U.S. Department of State, technical adviser at the 1930 Hague Codification Conference, and creator of the Boggs eumorphic projection.

Samuel Wiafe

Samuel Wiafe (born 2008) is an Italian footballer, forward/midfielder for Genoa in Serie A after moving from Modena for a reported €3.0m in July 2026; Italy U17 and U19 youth international.

Samuel William Johnson

Samuel William Johnson (1830–1909) was an American agricultural chemist, a Yale professor for four decades, and director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station from 1877 to 1900.

Samuel Wilson

Samuel Wilson, known as Uncle Sam Wilson, was an American meatpacker of Troy, New York, whose War of 1812 beef contracts inspired the Uncle Sam legend.

Sep 20, 2026

Samuel Z. Goldhaber

Samuel Z. Goldhaber is an American cardiologist who directs the Thrombosis Research Group at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor.

Samuel Zborowski

Samuel Zborowski (died 1584) was a Polish magnate, cavalry captain, and Cossack hetman beheaded in Kraków on King Stephen Báthory's order in a contested execution.

Samuel-De Champlain Bridge

The Samuel-De Champlain Bridge (French: pont Samuel-De Champlain) is a cable-stayed bridge opened in 2019 across the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Brossard, Quebec.

Samuele Cortese

Samuele Cortese is an Italian-born child psychiatrist and Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Southampton, known for large meta-analyses of ADHD treatment.