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William T. G. Morton
William T. G. Morton (1819–1868), American dentist who publicly demonstrated ether surgical anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital on 16 October 1846, patented it as Letheon, and spent his life in a priority dispute with Wells, Jackson, and Long.
William T. Garrard
William T. Garrard is an American molecular biologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center known for research on immunoglobulin gene chromatin and nuclear matrix attachment regions.
William T. Greenough
William T. Greenough (1944–2013) was an American neuroscientist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who showed that experience physically changes the brain by forming new synapses.
William T. Lawrence
William T. Lawrence, born 1947 in Indianapolis, is a retired American federal judge on the Southern District of Indiana, appointed by George W. Bush in 2008 and assuming senior status in 2018.
William T. Newsome
William T. Newsome, also cited as W. T. Newsome, is an American neuroscientist at Stanford whose monkey experiments linked single cortical neurons to perceptual decisions and helped found the BRAIN Initiative.
William T. Pecora
William T. Pecora was an American geologist who directed the United States Geological Survey from 1965 to 1971 and set in motion the Landsat satellite program.
William T. Pu
William T. Pu is a cardiologist and developmental biologist who directs cardiovascular research at Boston Children's Hospital and studies heart development, Barth syndrome, and single-cell genomics.
William T. Shearer
William T. Shearer (1937–2018) was an American pediatric immunologist at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, known for his care of the "Bubble Boy" and pediatric HIV/AIDS trials.
William T. Trotter
William T. Trotter (William Tom Trotter) is an American combinatorialist, Georgia Tech professor emeritus, and Erdős number 1 mathematician known for the Szemerédi–Trotter theorem and poset dimension theory.
William Talman (actor)
William Talman (1915–1968), American actor, played DA Hamilton Burger on Perry Mason (1957–1966) and the killer in The Hitch-Hiker (1953); he made the first Hollywood actor anti-smoking PSA before dying of lung cancer.
William Tanui
William Tanui (William Kiptarus Tanui, born 1964, Kemeloi, Kenya), Kenyan middle-distance runner; 1992 Barcelona Olympic 800m champion (1:43.66), 1990 African champion, 1997 World Indoor 1500m bronze medallist.
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman, also known as William T. Sherman, was a Union general of the American Civil War, best known for the 1864 March to the Sea.
William Tell
William Tell (Wilhelm Tell, Guillaume Tell) is the legendary Swiss crossbowman of the 1307 apple-shot story, first recorded around 1470, fixed by Tschudi, and made famous by Schiller's 1804 play and Rossini's 1829 opera; historians treat him as fictional.
William Tell (musician)
William Tell (William John Tell, born 1980) is an American musician and entertainment lawyer; former rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist of Something Corporate (2001–2004), solo album You Can Hold Me Down (2007), later USC Gould JD 2014 and husband of Lauren Conrad.
William Tell Overture
William Tell Overture is a concert overture by Gioachino Rossini, written for his final opera, Guillaume Tell. Its famous galloping finale became the theme for The Lone Ranger.
William Temple
William Temple (1881–1944) was an Anglican bishop and theologian who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1942 until his death in 1944, and influenced the emerging ecumenical movement.
William Temple Franklin
William Temple Franklin (c. 1760–1823), Benjamin Franklin's illegitimate grandson, private secretary during the French mission and Secretary to the American Commission at the 1783 Treaty of Paris, later editor of Franklin's autobiography and papers.
William the Conqueror
William the Conqueror (William I, 1027/8–1087), Duke of Normandy from 1035 and King of England after Hastings, 14 October 1066; ruled both realms, built 80+ castles, ordered Domesday Book 1086, divided lands among sons Robert, Rufus, Henry.
William the Lion
William the Lion (William I of Scotland) was King of Scots from 1165 to 1214, captured by the English in 1174 and forced into the Treaty of Falaise.
William the Silent
William the Silent, also William of Orange (Willem van Oranje), Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau (1533–1584), stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht, led the Dutch Revolt against Philip II of Spain and was assassinated at Delft in 1584.
William Thomas Blanford
William Thomas Blanford (1832–1905) was a British geologist who spent 27 years on the Geological Survey of India and identified the glacial Talchir boulder beds.
William Thomas Councilman
William Thomas Councilman (1854–1933) was an American pathologist, Shattuck professor at Harvard Medical School, best remembered for the Councilman bodies he described in yellow fever.
William Thomas Holmes
William Thomas Holmes, known as Bill Holmes, is an American structural engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 for seismic safety work.
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824–1907) was a Belfast-born physicist who held Glasgow's Chair of Natural Philosophy for 53 years and founded the kelvin temperature scale.
William Thoresson
William Thoresson (Karl Tore William Thoresson, 1932–2026), Swedish artistic gymnast; won floor exercise gold at Helsinki 1952, Sweden's only individual Olympic gymnastics gold, plus Melbourne 1956 silver and four Games.
William Thornton Mustard
William Thornton Mustard (1914–1987) was a Canadian surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto who devised the atrial switch operation for transposition of the great arteries.
William Thornton Read
William Thornton Read, known as Thornton Read, was an American physicist who co-discovered the Frank-Read mechanism, a source of dislocations in crystals, with Sir Charles Frank in 1950.
William Thurston
William Paul Thurston, known as Bill Thurston, was an American topologist who won the 1982 Fields Medal and proposed the geometrization conjecture about three-dimensional spaces.
William Tilghman
William Tilghman (1756–1827), Maryland-born Federalist jurist and chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court 1806–1827; briefly an Adams 'midnight judge' on the Third Circuit, later APS president.
William Timmons
William R. Timmons IV is an American Republican politician who has represented South Carolina's 4th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2019, after serving in the state senate.