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William Poduska
William (Bill) Poduska Sr. is an American electrical engineer and serial entrepreneur who co-founded Prime Computer in 1972, founded Apollo Computer in 1979 or 1980, and later led Stellar and Stardent Computer.
William Pollack (immunologist)
William Pollack (1926–2013) was a British-born American immunologist who, at Ortho Pharmaceuticals, developed RhoGAM, the 1968 anti-Rh injection that virtually eliminated Rh disease in newborns.
William Poole
William Poole, known as Bill the Butcher, was a New York City butcher and leader of the Bowery Boys gang who was shot dead in 1855.
William Pope Duval
William Pope Duval (1784–1854), Kentucky congressman and first civil governor of Florida Territory (1822–1834) under Monroe, Adams, and Jackson; founded Tallahassee as capital, negotiated with the Seminoles, namesake of Duval County.
William Powell
William Horatio Powell (1892–1984), American film actor of over 90 films, star of the six Thin Man movies with Myrna Loy, three-time Best Actor Oscar nominee, retired 1955.
William Poynter
William Poynter (1762–1827) was an English Catholic priest who served as Vicar Apostolic of the London District from 1812 until his death and helped found St Edmund's College.
William Prager
William Prager (1903–1980) was a German-born applied mathematician best known for work in plasticity and the Drucker–Prager yield criterion, who built Brown University's Division of Applied Mathematics.
William Preucil
William Preucil (born 1958) is an American violinist, concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra 1995–2018 and first violinist of the Cleveland Quartet, fired in 2018 after a sexual misconduct investigation; distinct from his father William Preucil Sr.
William Price (physician)
William Price was a Welsh physician and Chartist whose 1884 trial established the legality of cremation in Britain; his own cremation in 1893 drew 20,000 spectators.
William Procter (candle maker)
William Procter (1801–1884) was an English-born candle maker in Cincinnati, Ohio, who co-founded Procter & Gamble with his brother-in-law, the soap maker James Gamble, in 1837.
William Q. Hayes
William Q. Hayes, born 1956, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of California since 2021.
William Quantrill
William Clarke Quantrill (1837-1865), Confederate guerrilla leader of Quantrill's Raiders, led the 1863 Lawrence Massacre in Kansas and the Baxter Springs massacre; mortally wounded in Kentucky in 1865.
William R. Beisel
William R. Beisel was an American physician-scientist in infectious diseases who spent his Army career studying how infection changes metabolism and nutrition, then taught at Johns Hopkins.
William R. Bishai
William R. Bishai, also known as William Bishai, is a physician and professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins who studies the tuberculosis bacterium and co-directs its Center for Tuberculosis Research.
William R. Bonthron
William R. (Bill) Bonthron, American middle-distance runner, Princeton miler, 1934 1500m world record holder at 3:48.8, Sullivan Award winner, never an Olympian.
William R. Brinkley
William R. Brinkley (1936–2020) was an American cell biologist known for the first detailed electron microscope images of the kinetochore, and a longtime dean at Baylor College of Medicine.
William R. Brugge
William R. Brugge is a gastroenterologist and Harvard Medical School professor who introduced endoscopic ultrasound to Massachusetts General Hospital in 1993 and led the 2004 cooperative pancreatic cyst study.
William R. Dickinson
William R. Dickinson, also known as W. R. Dickinson, was an American geologist at Stanford and the University of Arizona known for sandstone provenance analysis and Pacific geoarchaeology.
William R. Engels
William R. Engels is an American geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for identifying P elements as the cause of hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila.
William R. Felts
William R. Felts, also known as William Robert Felts Jr. (1923–2003), was an American rheumatologist and professor of medicine at George Washington University, known for widely cited 1989 estimates of arthritis prevalence and cost.
William R. Gould
William Richard Gould (1919–2006) was an American mechanical engineer and utility executive who led Southern California Edison as chairman and CEO, pioneering renewable energy policy.
William R. Hazzard
William R. Hazzard is an American geriatrician whom the American Geriatrics Society calls a founding father of geriatric medicine in the United States, and a Wake Forest professor emeritus.
William R. Heath
William R. Heath, also known as Bill Heath, is an Australian cellular immunologist and University of Melbourne professor who studies CD8 killer T cells, dendritic cells, and self-tolerance.
William R. Henderson
William R. Henderson, Jr. is an American allergist and immunologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, known for research on leukotrienes and the mechanisms of asthma.
William R. Hiatt
William R. Hiatt (1950–2020) was an American cardiologist at the University of Colorado who led the EUCLID and VOYAGER PAD trials in peripheral artery disease.
William R. Jacobs
William R. Jacobs is a mycobacteriologist and geneticist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine who pioneered tuberculosis genetics, introducing foreign DNA into mycobacteria in 1987.
William R. Jarnagin
William R. Jarnagin is an American hepatopancreatobiliary surgeon who has led the Hepatopancreatobiliary Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 2008, known for staging hilar cholangiocarcinoma.
William R. Jarvis
William R. Jarvis is an infectious diseases physician and healthcare-associated infection epidemiologist who led CDC hospital outbreak investigations from 1980 to 2003 and helped establish national infection surveillance.
William R. Jeffery
William R. Jeffery is an evolutionary developmental biologist and emeritus professor at the University of Maryland, known for his work on eye degeneration in blind cavefish and ascidian regeneration.
William R. King
William Rufus DeVane King (1786-1853), 13th U.S. vice president under Franklin Pierce, Alabama senator, minister to France; only VP sworn in on foreign soil (Havana, Cuba, March 24, 1853), died of tuberculosis 25 days later; only bachelor VP, longtime boardinghouse companion of James Buchanan.