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William E. Theurkauf
William E. Theurkauf is a molecular biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, known for Cell papers on piRNA-mediated genome defense against transposon invasions.
William E. Timberlake
William E. Timberlake is a molecular geneticist who, working chiefly at the University of Georgia, identified the brlA, abaA, and wetA regulatory genes controlling asexual spore development in the fungus Aspergillus nidulans.
William E. Winkler
William E. Winkler was an American statistician who spent most of his career as a Principal Researcher at the U.S. Census Bureau, advancing record linkage, string comparators, and imputation.
William Earl Buchan
William Earl Buchan (born 9 May 1935, Seattle) is an American Star class sailor, 1984 Olympic gold medalist with Steve Erickson, three-time Star world champion (1961, 1970, 1985), and father of same-Games gold medalist William Carl Buchan.
William Earle
William 'Bill' Earle (born 1941) is an Australian sprinter from Victoria who ran the 100 m and 4x100 m relay for Australia at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and won Australian inter-university hurdles titles for Melbourne.
William Easterly
William Easterly is a development economist, professor emeritus at New York University, who spent 16 years at the World Bank and wrote books including The White Man's Burden (2006).
William Edmondson
William Edmondson (c. 1874–1951) was a self-taught American sculptor from Nashville, Tennessee, known for carving limestone figures and for his 1937 solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
William Edward Addis
William Edward Addis (1844–1917) was an Edinburgh-born clergyman who converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism under Newman, became a Brompton Oratory priest, and co-authored A Catholic Dictionary.
William Edward Ayrton
William Edward Ayrton (1847–1908) was an English physicist who held what an IEEE history study calls the world's first chair of electrical engineering, in Tokyo from 1873.
William Edward Schuler
William Edward Schuler is an American computational linguist who won the 2005 PECASE for unified speech and language models and now chairs Linguistics at Ohio State University.
William Edward Story
William Edward Story (1850–1930) was an American mathematician who worked in algebra, geometry, and the theory of quantics, and headed Clark University's mathematics department from its founding in 1889 until 1921.
William Edward Wells
William Edward Wells is the name of several unrelated men, including a Florida man sentenced to death whose case reached the United States Supreme Court in 2023.
William Egginton
William Egginton is an American literary scholar at Johns Hopkins University known for books on Cervantes, Borges, and Kant, including The Rigor of Angels (2023).
William Eggleston
William Eggleston (born 1939), American photographer called the father of color photography; his 1976 MoMA show and William Eggleston's Guide legitimized color fine-art photography through saturated dye-transfer prints of the everyday South.
William Elfers
William (Bill) Elfers (1918–2005) was an American venture capital pioneer who led ARD before co-founding Greylock & Co., a leading private venture firm, in Boston in 1965.
William Elliot Griffis
William Elliot Griffis (1843–1928) was an American Congregationalist minister and author who taught science in Japan from 1870 to 1874 and wrote The Mikado's Empire.
William Ellison
William Ellison (ca. 1790–1861), born enslaved as April, was a free Black cotton-gin maker in Stateburg, South Carolina, who bought his freedom in 1816 and by 1860 owned 63 enslaved people and a 900-acre plantation, the state's largest Black slaveholder.
William Elphinstone
William Elphinstone (1431–1514) was a Scottish prelate and statesman, bishop of Aberdeen from 1483, lord high chancellor of Scotland, and founder of the University of Aberdeen in 1495.
William Empson
Sir William Empson (1906–1984), English poet and critic, author of Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930), a foundation of New Criticism and close reading; professor at Sheffield, knighted 1979.
William Ernest Castle
William Ernest Castle (1867–1962) was an American geneticist at Harvard's Bussey Institution who championed Mendelism in America, extended Mendelian heredity to mammals, and trained geneticists including Sewall Wright.
William Ernest Henley
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903), English poet, critic, and editor, author of "Invictus"; wrote it while Joseph Lister saved his leg; edited the National Observer and inspired Long John Silver.
William Errington
William Errington (1716–1768) was an English Catholic priest, chaplain to Bishop Richard Challoner, who founded Sedgley Park School near Wolverhampton in 1763, the first post-Reformation English Catholic boarding school for boys.
William Ewart (physician)
William Ewart (1848–1929) was an English physician at St George's Hospital, London, remembered for describing Ewart's sign, an area of dullness and bronchial breathing at the left lung base in pericardial effusion.
William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898), British Liberal statesman, served four terms as Prime Minister (1868–74, 1880–85, 1886, 1892–94) and four as Chancellor; champion of free trade, the 1884 franchise reform, and Irish Home Rule.
William Exshaw
William Edgar Exshaw (1866-1927), British sailor and brandy merchant of Arcachon, France; won two 1900 Paris Olympic gold medals in the 2-3 ton class aboard the yacht Ollé with Frédéric Blanchy and Jean le Vavasseur; namesake of Exshaw, Alberta.
William F Ruddiman
William F Ruddiman is a marine geologist and paleoclimatologist at the University of Virginia, best known for the early anthropogenic hypothesis that farmers altered greenhouse gases thousands of years ago.
William F. Albright
William F. Albright (1891–1971) was an American biblical archaeologist and Semiticist who held a chair at Johns Hopkins and directed the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem.
William F. Baker
William F. Baker, known as Bill Baker, is an American structural engineer at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in Chicago, best known for the buttressed core system of the Burj Khalifa.
William F. Ballhaus, Jr.
William F. Ballhaus, Jr. (born 1945) is an American aerospace engineer who helped create computational fluid dynamics at NASA Ames, serving as its fifth center director.
William F. Ballhaus, Sr.
William F. Ballhaus, Sr. (1918–2013) was an American aeronautical engineer, a Caltech PhD who rose to executive vice president at Northrop, then led Beckman Instruments from 1965 into medical instrumentation.