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William Tisdale
William A. Tisdale is an American chemical engineer at MIT who studies how energy moves through nanoscale materials, and received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2016.
William Trager
William Trager (1910–2005) was an American biologist at Rockefeller University who, with James Jensen, first cultured the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum continuously in 1976.
William Trelease
William Trelease (1857–1945) was an American botanist and plant taxonomist who described about 2,500 species and directed the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis from 1889 to 1912.
William Trevor
William Trevor (William Trevor Cox, 1928–2016), Irish short-story writer and novelist living in Devon, author of The Ballroom of Romance, Fools of Fortune, and Felicia's Journey; Hawthornden and Whitbread winner, four-time Booker shortlistee, knighted 2002.
William Troost-Ekong
William Paul Troost-Ekong is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a center-back for Al-Kholood in the Saudi Pro League, captained Nigeria, and was named player of the tournament at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.
William Tubman
William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman was a Liberian politician who served as president for 27 years, from 1944 until his death in 1971, the longest tenure in Liberia's history.
William Twaits
William Twaits was a Canadian athlete from Galt, Ontario, who won football gold with Galt FC at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics and was also a noted ice hockey player.
William Tyndale
William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536) was an English biblical translator who first translated the New Testament from Greek into English and was executed for heresy in 1536.
William U. Shipley
William U. Shipley is an American radiation oncologist who led genitourinary oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital, leading national prostate cancer trials and developing bladder-preserving trimodality therapy.
William Ury
William Ury is an American negotiation theorist and anthropologist who co-authored Getting to Yes in 1981, co-founded Harvard's Program on Negotiation, and worked with Jimmy Carter.
William V, Prince of Orange
William V, Prince of Orange (Willem Batavus, 1748–1806), was the last hereditary stadholder of the Dutch Republic, from 1751 until the French invasion of 1795 ended the office and the Batavian Republic was proclaimed.
William V. McDermott
William V. McDermott was an American surgeon and liver researcher who directed Harvard's surgical programs from 1963 to 1984 and built an international reputation in hepatic coma.
William V. Tamborlane
William V. Tamborlane was an American pediatric endocrinologist at Yale School of Medicine who pioneered insulin pump therapy and led the Yale center in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial.
William Vainchenker
William Vainchenker (born 1947) is a French biologist and Inserm research director at Institut Gustave Roussy, known for identifying the JAK2 V617F mutation in myeloproliferative diseases.
William Vandiver
William Carl Vandiver, American murderer executed in Indiana's electric chair on October 16, 1985 for the 1983 murder of his father-in-law Paul Komyatti Sr.; his electrocution took 17 minutes and five jolts, a noted botched execution.
William Vargas
William Vargas (William Vargas Trujillo), Cuban weightlifter born 1970 in Caimito, Artemisa; 1996 Olympic bantamweight fifth, 2001 World bronze, 123.0 kg flyweight snatch world record (1993-1994), Pan American and CAC Games golds.
William Vermillion Houston
William Vermillion Houston was an American physicist known for work in spectroscopy and solid state physics, and second president of the Rice Institute from 1946 to 1961.
William Vickrey
William Vickrey was a Canadian-born American economist at Columbia University who shared the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences; he created the Vickrey auction and pioneered congestion pricing.
William von Eggers Doering
William von Eggers Doering (1917–2011) was an American organic chemist, Mallinckrodt Professor at Harvard, best known for the first formal synthesis of quinine with Robert B. Woodward in 1944.
William von Hippel
William von Hippel, born in 1963, is an American-born Australian social psychologist known for research on self-deception and ostracism and for the books The Social Leap and The Social Paradox.
William W. Agace
William W. Agace (born 1967) is a mucosal immunologist and professor at Lund University and the University of Copenhagen known for work on gut dendritic cells and lymphocyte trafficking.
William W. Belknap
William W. Belknap, also known as William Worth Belknap, was an American Civil War general and Grant's Secretary of War, the first Cabinet officer impeached by the House, in 1876.
William W. Busse
William W. Busse is an American allergist-immunologist and asthma researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for work on eosinophilic inflammation and rhinovirus-induced asthma exacerbations.
William W. Cargill
William Wallace Cargill (1844–1909) was an American grain merchant who founded Cargill in 1865 with a grain warehouse in Conover, Iowa, and built a network of more than 100 grain elevators.
William W. George
William W. George is a businessman and academic who was chief executive of Medtronic from 1991 to 2001 and has taught leadership at Harvard Business School since 2004.
William W. Graessley
William W. Graessley (1933–2017) was an American polymer scientist known for molecular rheology and entanglement theory, who taught at Northwestern and Princeton and won the 1979 Bingham Medal.
William W. Hall
William W. Hall is a virologist and physician-scientist, Emeritus Professor of Medical Microbiology at University College Dublin, known for work on measles persistence in SSPE and HTLV-induced leukemia.
William W. Hauswirth
William W. Hauswirth is an American molecular geneticist and professor emeritus at the University of Florida whose AAV gene therapy work underlies Luxturna, approved in 2017.
William W. L. Glenn
William W. L. Glenn (1914–2003) was an American cardiovascular surgeon at Yale University who developed the Glenn shunt, a palliative operation for complex congenital heart defects first reported in 1958.
William W. Lang
William Warner Lang (1926–2016) was an American acoustician and noise control engineer who built IBM's acoustics program, founded INCE and I-INCE, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978.