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William "Chief" Carlson
William "Chief" Carlson (Eseen Amakan, 1959-2003), Blackfeet Nation soldier, Delta Force operator from about 1995, and CIA paramilitary contractor killed in a Taliban ambush near Shkin, Paktika Province, Afghanistan, on October 25, 2003, while tracking terrorists.
William (Will) Dunbar
William (Will) Dunbar is an American venture capitalist who co-founded Washington, DC's Core Capital Partners in 1999 and serves as a managing director focused on early-stage enterprise software.
William A. Arnold
William A. Arnold (1904–2001) was an American plant physiologist and physicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who co-discovered the photosynthetic unit in 1932 and discovered delayed light emission in plants.
William A. Bardeen
William A. Bardeen (1941–2025) was an American theoretical physicist who spent his career at Fermilab and was known for foundational work on the chiral anomaly and the Adler–Bardeen theorem.
William A. Berggren
William A. Berggren is an American micropaleontologist and biostratigrapher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution whose time scales set the standard for dating the last 66 million years.
William A. Blakley
William Arvis Blakley (1898–1976) was a conservative Democratic Texas businessman and lawyer, twice interim U.S. senator (1957 filling Price Daniel's vacancy; 1961 filling LBJ's), defeated by Ralph Yarborough in 1958 and by John Tower in the 1961 special election runoff.
William A. Blanc
William A. Blanc was an American pathologist at Columbia University and Penn State who defined the amniotic infection syndrome and studied fetal, placental, and newborn infection.
William A. Brock
William A. (Buz) Brock is an American mathematical economist, Vilas Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for economic dynamics and chaos theory in econometrics.
William A. Chittenden
William A. Chittenden (1927–2018) was an American power-plant engineer who spent his career at Sargent & Lundy in Chicago, retiring as its chief executive officer in 1991.
William A. Clevenger
William Albert Clevenger (1919–2009) was an American geotechnical engineer who consulted on about 500 dam projects worldwide, coauthored the 1963 textbook Earth and Earth-Rock Dams, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.
William A. Coppel
William A. Coppel, full name William Andrew Coppel, was a mathematician who worked on ordinary differential equations, stability theory, and dichotomies at the Australian National University.
William A. Denny
William A. Denny, known as Bill Denny, is a New Zealand medicinal chemist who led the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre and designed anticancer drugs including hypoxia-activated prodrugs.
William A. Eaton
William A. Eaton is an American biophysical chemist and NIH Distinguished Investigator in Bethesda, Maryland, known for sickle hemoglobin polymerization, hemoglobin allostery, and single-molecule protein folding studies.
William A. Egan
William A. Egan (1914–1984), Alaska Democratic politician and its first state governor (1959–1966, 1970–1974), president of the Alaska Constitutional Convention, narrowly losing the 1974 race to Jay Hammond.
William A. Fletcher
William A. Fletcher, born 1945, is a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, appointed by President Clinton in 1998 after teaching law at Berkeley.
William A. Fowler
William Alfred Fowler (1911 to 1995) was an American nuclear astrophysicist at Caltech who won half of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on how stars form chemical elements.
William A. Gahl
William A. Gahl is an American physician-scientist at NIH who defined the cellular defect in cystinosis, brought cysteamine therapy to FDA approval, and founded the Undiagnosed Diseases Program in 2008.
William A. Goddard
William A. Goddard III, born 1937 in El Centro, California, is an American theoretical chemist at Caltech who developed the generalized valence bond method and the ReaxFF reactive force field.
William A. Gray
William A. Gray is an American interventional cardiologist, System Chief of Cardiovascular Diseases at Main Line Health and Co-Director of the Lankenau Heart Institute since 2016.
William A. Gross
William A. Gross (1924–2011) was an American mechanical engineer known for air bearings research at IBM and Ampex, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996.
William A. Hagins
William A. Hagins (1928–2012) was an American biophysicist at the National Institutes of Health who discovered the dark current in retinal rods, the framework for understanding vision's molecular cascade.
William A. Harris
William A. Harris, born 1950, is a developmental neurobiologist and emeritus Professor of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge, known for his work on how the vertebrate retina is built.
William A. J. Golomski
William A. J. Golomski (1924–2002) was an American quality engineer and consultant who founded W.A. Golomski and Associates and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996.
William A. Knaus
William A. Knaus is an American physician and outcomes researcher who developed the APACHE severity-of-illness scoring systems and was founding chair of public health sciences at the University of Virginia.
William A. Kuperman
William A. Kuperman (1943–2024) was an American ocean acoustician, emeritus professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.
William A. Mitchell
William A. Mitchell (1911–2004) was an American food chemist who spent 35 years at General Foods and held more than 70 patents, including Cool Whip, Tang, and Pop Rocks.
William A. Müller
William A. Muller is a pathologist and professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine known for defining the molecules and mechanisms of diapedesis, how white blood cells cross blood vessel walls.
William A. Noyes
William A. Noyes was an American analytical and organic chemist, head of chemistry at the University of Illinois from 1907 to 1926 and editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
William A. Peck
William A. Peck was an American physician-scientist and bone biologist at Washington University School of Medicine who developed the first method for directly studying bone cells.
William A. Petri
William A. Petri is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at the University of Virginia, a Wade Hampton Frost Professor known for research on amebiasis, Shigella, and enteric infections.