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Walter E. Stamm
Walter E. Stamm (1945–2009) was an American infectious diseases physician-scientist at the University of Washington whose research redefined the diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections and clarified chlamydia's role in pelvic inflammatory disease.
Walter E. Stumpf
Walter E. Stumpf is a German-born physician-scientist and anatomist-endocrinologist who developed dry-mount and thaw-mount autoradiography, mapping steroid hormone and vitamin D target cells in more than fifty tissues.
Walter E. Williams
Walter E. Williams (1936–2020), American economist, John M. Olin Distinguished Professor at George Mason University, author of The State Against Blacks, syndicated columnist in about 140 newspapers; distinct from the Missouri journalist Walter Williams and novelist Walter Jon Williams.
Walter Eckhart
Walter Eckhart (1938–2022) was an American molecular biologist at the Salk Institute who co-discovered protein tyrosine phosphorylation and directed its Cancer Center from 1975 to 2008.
Walter Edwin Arnoldi
Walter Edwin Arnoldi (1917–1995) was an American mechanical engineer at United Aircraft and United Technologies, remembered for his 1951 paper introducing the Arnoldi iteration, a standard eigenvalue algorithm.
Walter Egan
Walter Eugene Egan (1881–1971), American amateur golfer, 1904 Olympic team gold medalist with the Western Golf Association; cousin and rival of Chandler Egan, 1903 Western Amateur champion.
Walter Emanuel Jones
Walter Emanuel Jones (born 1970, Detroit) is an American actor, martial artist, dancer, and singer who played Zack Taylor, the original Black Ranger, in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993–1994) and reprised the role in the 2023 Netflix special Once & Always.
Walter Eric Spear
Walter Eric Spear (1921–2008) was a German-born physicist who, with Peter LeComber, showed in 1975 that amorphous silicon could be doped, enabling LCDs and solar cells.
Walter Erwin Diewert
Walter Erwin Diewert is a Canadian economist at the University of British Columbia whose 1976 theory of superlative index numbers reshaped how statistical agencies measure inflation and GDP.
Walter Ewing
Walter Ewing (Walter Henry Ewing, 1878-1945), Canadian trap shooter from Montreal; won gold in individual trap and silver in team trap at London 1908 with 72/80 points, then retired in 1912.
Walter F. Bodmer
Walter F. Bodmer, also known as Walter Bodmer, is a British geneticist who became Oxford's first Professor of Genetics in 1970 and led the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
Walter F. Boron
Walter F. Boron is an American physiologist and Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve University, known for first demonstrating intracellular pH regulation and co-editing Medical Physiology.
Walter F. O. Marasas
Walter Friedrich Otto Marasas was a South African mycotoxicologist at the Medical Research Council who led the PROMEC program and discovered the carcinogenic fumonisin toxins in maize in 1988.
Walter F. Willcox
Walter F. Willcox (Walter Francis Willcox) was an American economist and statistician at Cornell University who led the 1900 US Census and shaped House apportionment.
Walter Faria
Walter Faria (born 1955) is a Brazilian businessman, owner of Grupo Petrópolis, brewer of Itaipava, which he bought in 1998 and built into Brazil's third-largest brewing group.
Walter Feit
Walter Feit (1930–2004) was an Austrian-born American mathematician who worked in finite group theory at Yale and proved the odd-order theorem with John Thompson in 1963.
Walter Fiers
Walter Fiers (1931–2019) was a Belgian molecular biologist at Ghent University who determined the first complete nucleotide sequence of a protein-coding gene and the first published complete genome, of bacteriophage MS2.
Walter Frederic Adeney
Walter Frederic Adeney (1849–1920) was an English Congregational minister and biblical scholar, professor of New Testament exegesis and church history at New College, London, and general editor of the Century Bible.
Walter Friedrich
Walter Friedrich was a German physicist and biophysicist who performed the first X-ray diffraction by a crystal in 1912, though Max von Laue alone won the Nobel Prize.
Walter Friedrick Otto Marasas
Walter Friedrick Otto Marasas (1941–2012) was a South African mycologist at the Medical Research Council, best known for discovering the fumonisins, carcinogenic mold toxins in maize linked to esophageal cancer.
Walter G. May
Walter G. May (1918–2015) was a Canadian-born chemical engineer known for fluidization, LNG technology, and isotope separation, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978.
Walter G. Vincenti
Walter G. Vincenti (1917–2019) was an American aeronautical engineer and historian of technology who led supersonic swept-wing research at NACA Ames before joining Stanford as a full professor without a doctorate.
Walter Gardiner
Walter Gardiner (1859–1941) was a British botanist and Cambridge Fellow of the Royal Society known for showing that protoplasm is continuous from plant cell to cell.
Walter Gautschi
Walter Gautschi, born 1927 in Basel, Switzerland, is a Swiss-American mathematician and a founder of modern numerical analysis, known for orthogonal polynomials and Gauss-type quadrature.
Walter Giger
Walter Giger (1943–2025) was a Swiss environmental chemist at Eawag and ETH Zurich whose 1984 finding that detergent surfactants degrade into toxic nonylphenols led to a 1986 Swiss detergent ban.
Walter Gilbert
Walter Gilbert, born 1932 in Boston, is an American Harvard molecular biologist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing chemical DNA sequencing.
Walter Gordon (physicist)
Walter Gordon was a German theoretical physicist who in 1926 independently formulated the relativistic wave equation called the Klein–Gordon equation and quantitatively treated the Compton effect.
Walter Gordy
Walter Gordy (1909–1985) was an American spectroscopist and chemical physicist at Duke University, a founding father of microwave spectroscopy who formulated a widely used electronegativity scale.
Walter Gotell
Walter Gotell (Walter Jacques Goettel), German-born British character actor (1924-1997) best known as KGB General Gogol in six James Bond films (1977-1987) and as Morzeny in From Russia with Love (1963).
Walter Gratzer
Walter Bruno Gratzer (1932–2021) was a British biophysical chemist at King's College London known for work on RNA conformation and the red blood cell cytoskeleton, and for writing anonymously as Nature's molecular biology correspondent.