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W. David Goodyear
W. David Goodyear is an American consulting structural engineer specializing in long-span bridges, engineer of record for the Hoover Dam bypass bridge and chief bridge engineer at T.Y. Lin International.
W. David Kingery
W. David Kingery (1926–2000) was an American materials scientist at MIT and Arizona who founded physical ceramics, wrote Introduction to Ceramics, and won the 1999 Kyoto Prize.
W. Dean Harman
W. Dean Harman is an organometallic chemist at the University of Virginia known for metal-based dearomatization of aromatic rings and precision deuteration of drug building blocks.
W. Dean Rupp
W. Dean Rupp is a molecular biologist who did landmark work on DNA repair in E. coli at Yale, and is now Professor Emeritus of Therapeutic Radiology.
W. Deming Lewis
W. Deming Lewis, born Willard Deming Lewis (1915–1989), was an American physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories who became the tenth president of Lehigh University, 1964–1982.
W. Douglas Weaver
W. Douglas Weaver is an American cardiologist known for the Seattle MITI heart attack treatment trials, the 1996 angioplasty comparison, and serving as American College of Cardiology president from 2008.
W. Duncan Rannie
W. Duncan Rannie (William Duncan Rannie, 1914–1988) was an engineer in jet propulsion, heat transfer, and turbomachinery at Caltech and its Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the second Robert H. Goddard Professor of Jet Propulsion.
W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), American sociologist, historian, and civil-rights activist; author of The Souls of Black Folk and double consciousness, NAACP and Crisis founder-editor, later Pan-Africanist who moved to Ghana in 1961.
W. E. Davis
W. E. Davis, also known as W. Eugene Davis, is an American jurist on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1983, appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
W. E. H. Stanner
William Edward Hanley Stanner, known as W. E. H. Stanner (1905–1981), was an Australian anthropologist who coined the phrase "the Great Australian silence" about Australia's forgetting of Aboriginal people.
W. E. Hick
W. E. Hick, also known as William Edmund Hick, was a British psychologist at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge who formulated Hick's law in 1952.
W. Earl Brown
W. Earl Brown (William Earl Brown, born 1963) is an American character actor known as Dan Dority on Deadwood, Warren in There's Something About Mary, the voice of Bill in The Last of Us, and Wes Fox on Sheriff Country.
W. Edwards Deming
W. Edwards Deming (1900–1993) was an American statistician and management theorist whose statistical quality control teaching transformed Japanese industry after World War II and later reshaped American management.
W. Eugene Mayberry
W. Eugene Mayberry was an American endocrinologist who led the Mayo Clinic as CEO from 1976 to 1987 and chaired the Presidential Commission on the HIV Epidemic.
W. Eugene Smith
W. Eugene Smith (1918–1978), American photojournalist from Wichita, Kansas; LIFE photo essays Country Doctor, Spanish Village, Pittsburgh, and Minamata; wounded at Okinawa 1945; Guggenheims 1956, 1957, 1968.
W. F. Hermans
W. F. Hermans (Willem Frederik Hermans, 1921–1995) was a Dutch writer and physical geographer, one of the "de Grote Drie" of postwar Dutch literature with Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve.
W. Ford Doolittle
W. Ford Doolittle is a Canadian evolutionary molecular biologist at Dalhousie University known for arguing that lateral gene transfer makes life's history a web, not a tree.
W. French Anderson
W. French Anderson, born William French Anderson in 1936, is an American physician called the Father of Gene Therapy for leading the first approved human gene therapy in 1990.
W. G. Bagnall
W. G. Bagnall was a British locomotive manufacturer based in Stafford, founded by William Gordon Bagnall in 1875 and best known for small steam locomotives for industrial and narrow-gauge railways.
W. G. Grace
W. G. Grace (William Gilbert Grace, 1848–1915), English amateur cricketer and doctor who dominated the sport across 44 seasons from 1865 to 1908, pioneered modern batting technique, and became Victorian Britain's first sporting celebrity.
W. G. Sebald
W. G. Sebald (Winfried Georg Sebald, 1944–2001), German writer and UEA professor in Norwich, author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, and Austerlitz; hybrid photo-text prose on memory, exile, and the Holocaust, written in German.
W. G. Unruh
W. G. Unruh, also known as William George Unruh, is a Canadian physicist at the University of British Columbia who predicted the Unruh effect in 1976.
W. Gary Ernst
W. Gary Ernst, full name Wallace Gary Ernst, is an American metamorphic petrologist and Stanford emeritus professor, a pioneer in documenting high-pressure and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism in ancient subduction zones.
W. Gene Corley
W. Gene Corley (1935–2013) was an American structural engineer who led the investigations of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 2001 World Trade Center collapses.
W. Gerald Austen
W. Gerald Austen was an American cardiac surgeon, chief of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1969 to 1997, known for helping develop the heart-lung machine and intra-aortic balloon pump.
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden (1907–1973), English-born poet and librettist of the Auden Generation, emigrated to America, won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Anxiety, and pioneered modern diction in English verse.
W. H. Gaskell
W. H. Gaskell, born Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1847–1914), was a British physiologist at Cambridge who proved the heart beats independently of nerves and mapped the autonomic nervous system.
W. Hardy Hendren
W. Hardy Hendren, also known as W.H. Hendren, was an American pediatric surgeon and urologist who founded pediatric surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and pioneered "undiversion," reconstructing children's urinary tracts.
W. Harmon Ray
W. Harmon Ray, born Willis Harmon Ray in 1940, is an American chemical engineer who built the field of polymer reaction engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
W. Heath Robinson
William Heath Robinson (1872-1944), English illustrator and cartoonist famed for absurdly elaborate contraption drawings; his surname entered the English language by 1912 and named a Bletchley Park codebreaking machine.