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William Hallock Park
William Hallock Park (1863–1939) was an American bacteriologist who directed the New York City Health Department laboratory and made New York the first city outside Europe to produce diphtheria antitoxin.
William Halse Rivers Rivers
William Halse Rivers Rivers (1864–1922) was an English physician and anthropologist who founded Britain's first psychology laboratory and treated shell shock in the First World War.
William Halsey Jr.
William Frederick "Bull" Halsey Jr. (1882–1959), U.S. fleet admiral, led early Pacific carrier raids, the South Pacific Solomons campaign, and Third Fleet at Leyte Gulf, where his decoy pursuit and the Typhoon Cobra losses drew lasting criticism.
William Hammond Wright
William Hammond Wright was an American astronomer at Lick Observatory who studied stars and nebulae by spectroscopy, photographed planets in color, and won the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal in 1938.
William Hampson
William Hampson (1854–1926) was a British inventor who patented a machine for liquefying air in May 1895, two weeks before Carl von Linde; the process is the Hampson–Linde cycle.
William Hanage
William P. Hanage is a British-born epidemiologist and bacterial population geneticist, a Harvard professor known for research on bacterial evolution, pneumococcal vaccines, and antibiotic resistance.
William Hanna
William Denby Hanna (1910-2001), American animator and producer, co-created Tom and Jerry at MGM with Joseph Barbera, winning seven Oscars, then co-founded Hanna-Barbera Productions, pioneer of limited television animation with The Flintstones.
William Hanson (author)
William Hanson, British etiquette coach born in Bristol, director of The English Manner, author of five books including Just Good Manners, and co-host of Help I Sexted My Boss with Jordan North since 2018.
William Happer
William Happer, born 1939, is an American atomic and optical physicist, Princeton professor emeritus, known for spin-exchange optical pumping and for his public skepticism of mainstream climate science.
William Hartnell
William Hartnell (1908–1975), English actor, the original First Doctor in Doctor Who (1963–1966, 1973), also a prolific British film star known for Brighton Rock and The Army Game.
William Harvey
William Harvey (1578–1657), English physician and anatomist, demonstrated the circulation of the blood in De Motu Cordis (Frankfurt, 1628) using ligature experiments, venous valves, and a quantitative flow argument, overturning Galenic physiology.
William Harvey Carney
William Harvey Carney (1840-1908), born enslaved in Norfolk, Virginia, was a sergeant in Company C, 54th Massachusetts Infantry, and the first Black American to earn the Medal of Honor, for saving his regiment's flag at Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863; the medal was presented in 1900.
William Haseltine
William Haseltine, born 1944, is an American biophysicist and biotechnology entrepreneur who founded Human Genome Sciences and led it as chairman and CEO from 1993 to 2004.
William Hawkins
William Hawkins (died 1613) was an English sea captain and East India Company envoy to Mughal emperor Jahangir, living at the imperial court at Agra from 1609 to 1611.
William Hawthorne
Sir William Rede Hawthorne (1913–2011) was an English aeronautical engineer who solved the combustion problems of Whittle's jet engine, was professor of applied thermodynamics at Cambridge, and Master of Churchill College.
William Hay Taliaferro
William Hay Taliaferro was an American immunologist and parasitologist at the University of Chicago, best known for identifying ablastin, which stops reproduction of trypanosome parasites.
William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt (1778–1830), English Romantic essayist, literary critic, and radical journalist; author of Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, Table Talk, and The Spirit of the Age; son of a Unitarian minister and admirer of Napoleon.
William Healey Dall
William Healey Dall (1845–1927) was an American naturalist and malacologist who explored Alaska, worked for the US Geological Survey, and described 3,959 mollusk species and subspecies over fifty years.
William Heard (structural engineer)
William Heard is an American research structural engineer at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi, known for high-strength, high-ductility concrete and high-velocity impact research.
William Heinesen
William Heinesen (1900–1991) was a Faroese writer who composed his entire oeuvre in Danish; he won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1965 for Det gode håb.
William Heirens
William George Heirens, the "Lipstick Killer," confessed at 17 in 1946 to three Chicago murders, pleaded guilty, got three consecutive life terms, recanted, earned Illinois' first prisoner BA degree, and died in prison in 2012 after 65 years.
William Henry Battle
William Henry Battle (1855–1936) was a British surgeon at St Thomas's and the Royal Free Hospital in London, remembered for Battle's sign, mastoid bruising indicating a skull-base fracture.
William Henry Bennett
William Henry Bennett (1855–1920) was an English Congregationalist minister and Old Testament scholar who taught Old Testament exegesis at Hackney College and New College, London.
William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg
William Henry Bragg and his son William Lawrence Bragg shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics for determining crystal structures by X-ray diffraction, formulating Bragg's law.
William Henry Brewer
William Henry Brewer (1828–1910) was an American chemist, geologist, and botanist, first assistant to Josiah Whitney on the California Geological Survey and later professor of agriculture at Yale.
William Henry Chandler (horticulturist)
William Henry Chandler (1878–1970) was an American horticulturist and pomology professor at Cornell and the University of California who wrote the standard textbooks Fruit Growing and Deciduous Orchards.
William Henry Draper III
William Henry Draper III was an American venture capitalist who helped establish venture capital in Silicon Valley, founded Sutter Hill Ventures, and led the Export-Import Bank and UN Development Programme.
William Henry Draper Jr.
William Henry Draper Jr. (1894–1974), American general, Dillon Read banker, occupation economics chief in Germany, first Under Secretary of the Army, and U.S. representative to the NATO Council; father of William H. Draper III.
William Henry Fox Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) was a British scientist, mathematician, and politician who invented the calotype, patented in 1841, whose negative-positive process underpinned photography until the digital era.
William Henry Furness
William Henry Furness (1802–1896) was an American Unitarian minister, pastor of Philadelphia's First Unitarian Church for fifty years, and one of the city's most ardent abolitionists before the Civil War.