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William F. Benedict
William F. Benedict is a cancer researcher who established the retinoblastoma gene as a recessive human cancer gene and developed interferon-alpha gene therapy for bladder cancer.
William F. Brace
William F. Brace (William Francis Brace, 1925–2012) was an American experimental geophysicist at MIT who showed how lab measurements on rock samples explain faulting and earthquakes.
William F. Buckley Jr.
William F. Buckley Jr. (1925–2008) was an American writer, editor, and TV host who founded National Review in 1955 and hosted Firing Line for 33 years.
William F. Carl
William F. Carl was an American restaurateur who co-founded the Golden Corral family steakhouse chain with James H. Maynard, opening the first restaurant in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
William F. Crowley
William F. Crowley is an American reproductive endocrinologist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital whose work on GnRH established treatments for infertility and precocious puberty.
William F. DeGrado
William F. DeGrado, born 1955, is an American biochemist who pioneered de novo protein design at DuPont and is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco.
William F. Fearon
William F. Fearon is an American interventional cardiologist who is Chief of Interventional Cardiology at Stanford and led the FAME trials of FFR-guided stenting.
William F. Galvin
William Francis Galvin is an American politician serving as Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts since 1995, the longest-serving state elections administrator in the United States.
William F. Giauque
William F. Giauque was a Canadian-born American physical chemist at Berkeley who won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work at extremely low temperatures.
William F. Harrington
William F. Harrington (1920–1992) was an American physical biochemist at Johns Hopkins University who developed modern concepts of the structure and function of myosin and collagen.
William F. Heil
William F. Heil was an American minister and bishop of the United Evangelical Church, resident in Highland Park, Illinois, by 1907, who dissented from the 1922 reunion.
William F. Jung
William Frederic Jung, born in 1958, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida since 2018, appointed by President Donald Trump.
William F. Kuntz II
William F. Kuntz II is an American jurist, a United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York appointed by President Barack Obama in 2011.
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance is an American-born tropical conservation ecologist at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia, known for research on habitat fragmentation, logging, and roads in tropical forests.
William F. Marcuson III
William F. Marcuson III is an American geotechnical engineer who led the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Geotechnical Laboratory in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996.
William F. Marzluff
William F. Marzluff is a molecular biologist at UNC-Chapel Hill known for working out how animal cells make and destroy the messenger RNA for histones.
William F. Miller
William F. Miller (1925–2017) was an American computer scientist, a founding faculty member of Stanford's Computer Science Department, Stanford provost from 1971 to 1978, and president of SRI International.
William F. Nielsen
William F. Nielsen, or William Fremming Nielsen, is an American jurist on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, appointed in 1991.
William F. Powers
William F. Powers is an American control theorist and automotive researcher who was vice president-Research at Ford from 1996 to 2000, after NASA and University of Michigan work.
William F. Quinn
William Francis Quinn (1919–2006), Republican lawyer, was Hawaii's last appointed territorial governor (1957) and first elected state governor (1959–1962), losing the 1962 race to John A. Burns.
William F. Schreiber
William F. Schreiber (1925–2009) was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor who worked on image processing for television, facsimile, and printing, and founded ECRM.
William F. Sharpe
William F. Sharpe, born 1934 in Boston, is an American economist at Stanford who won the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics as an originator of the Capital Asset Pricing Model.
William F. Swiger
William F. Swiger is an American civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering, foundations, and construction, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978 in the civil engineering section.
William F. Tinney
William F. Tinney, full name William Frank Tinney, was an American electrical engineer at the Bonneville Power Administration who pioneered sparse-matrix methods for computing power networks, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
William Farel
William Farel, also known as Guillaume Farel, was a French Reformer, born in 1489, who pioneered the Reformation in French-speaking Switzerland and Geneva and recruited John Calvin.
William Faulkner
William Faulkner (1897–1962), American novelist of Oxford, Mississippi, Nobel laureate in Literature 1949, creator of Yoknapatawpha County and stream-of-consciousness works such as The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!.
William Feller
William Feller (1906–1970) was a Croatian-born American mathematician and Princeton professor, a leading figure in probability theory known for his two-volume textbook and boundary theory.
William Ferrel
William Ferrel (1817–1891) was an American meteorologist who first formulated the equations of motion relative to the rotating Earth, founding geophysical fluid dynamics; the Ferrel cell is named for him.
William Fichtner
William Fichtner, American character actor born 1956 in East Meadow, New York, raised in Cheektowaga; known for Heat, Armageddon, Go, Crash, The Dark Knight, Prison Break, and directing debut Cold Brook.
William Fiddian Moulton
William Fiddian Moulton (1835–1898) was a Wesleyan Methodist minister and biblical scholar, first headmaster of the Leys School in Cambridge and the youngest member of the 1870 New Testament Revision committee.