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W. Henry Weinberg
W. Henry Weinberg is an American chemical engineer at Caltech and UC Santa Barbara, known for high-throughput catalyst discovery and elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
W. Howard Keenan
W. Howard Keenan, Jr. is an American energy-sector private-equity investor who has been a Managing Member of Yorktown Partners LLC in New York since 1997.
W. Howard Lester
W. Howard Lester, born William Howard Lester, was an American entrepreneur who bought Williams-Sonoma from founder Chuck Williams in 1978 and led it for three decades.
W. Ian Lipkin
W. Ian Lipkin is an American physician-scientist who directs the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University and identified West Nile virus in 1999.
W. James Kent
W. James Kent is a research scientist at UC Santa Cruz known for building the UCSC Genome Browser and BLAT, and for assembling the first public human genome in 2000.
W. James Nelson
W. James Nelson is a cell and molecular biologist at Stanford University, an emeritus professor known for research on how cell adhesion and polarity organize animal tissues.
W. James Peacock
W. James Peacock was an Australian plant molecular biologist who led CSIRO's Division of Plant Industry for 25 years and was Australia's Chief Scientist from 2006 to 2008.
W. Jason Morgan
W. Jason Morgan (1935–2023) was an American geophysicist at Princeton University who established the kinematic framework of plate tectonics and proposed the mantle plume hypothesis.
W. Joe Lewis
W. Joe Lewis is an American entomologist whose USDA research in Tifton, Georgia showed that plants under attack emit chemical signals that recruit parasitic wasps.
W. John Lee
W. John Lee is an American petroleum engineer at Texas A&M University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993 for work on well testing.
W. Jonathan Lederer
W. Jonathan Lederer, also known as W. J. Lederer, is an American cardiac physiologist at the University of Maryland known for the 1992 discovery of calcium sparks.
W. Joost Wiersinga
Willem Joost Wiersinga, born 1976, is a Dutch internist-infectiologist who chairs infectious diseases and heads internal medicine at Amsterdam UMC, known for work on sepsis, melioidosis, and COVID-19.
W. K. Hastings
W. K. Hastings, also known as W. Keith Hastings, was a Canadian statistician at the University of Victoria who created the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm in a 1970 paper.
W. Kamau Bell
W. Kamau Bell (Walter Kamau Bell, born 1973) is an American sociopolitical stand-up comedian, TV host, and documentary director, host of Totally Biased and CNN's Emmy-winning United Shades of America, Peabody winner for We Need to Talk About Cosby.
W. Keith Campbell
W. Keith Campbell (born 1966) is an American social and personality psychologist at the University of Georgia known for research on grandiose narcissism and The Narcissism Epidemic.
W. Kenneth Davis
W. Kenneth Davis was an American chemical engineer who directed reactor development at the Atomic Energy Commission and served as Deputy Secretary of Energy from 1981 to 1983.
W. Kent Taylor
W. Kent Taylor was an American restaurateur who founded Texas Roadhouse in 1993 and led the Louisville-based steakhouse chain as chief executive until his death in 2021.
W. King Engel
William King Engel (1930–2025) was an American neurologist who pioneered muscle biopsy for neuromuscular disease, led neurology at NIH from 1963, and co-directed USC's neuromuscular program.
W. Knox Chandler
W. Knox Chandler, also known as William Knox Chandler, was an American physiologist at Yale University elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1990.
W. Lee Kraus
W. Lee Kraus is an American molecular biologist and endocrinologist who directs the Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences at UT Southwestern and studies PARPs and gene regulation.
W. Louis Sands
W. Louis Sands, also known as Willie Louis Sands, is a senior United States district judge for the Middle District of Georgia, appointed by President Clinton in 1994.
W. M. Gorman
W. M. Gorman (William Moore Gorman, known as Terence) was an Irish economic theorist, born in County Fermanagh in 1923, who established when many consumers' demands can be aggregated as one.
W. M. Keck Observatory
The W. M. Keck Observatory is an astronomical observatory atop Maunakea in Hawaii that operates the twin 10-meter Keck I and Keck II telescopes, which began science operations in 1993.
W. Mark Saltzman
W. Mark Saltzman is an American biomedical engineer and Sterling Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Yale University since 2025, known for drug delivery and biomaterials research.
W. Maxwell Cowan
W. Maxwell Cowan (1931–2002) was a South African-born neuroanatomist who showed that nerve cells die during brain development, introduced autoradiographic axon tracing, and served as chief scientific officer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
W. Michael Blumenthal
W. Michael Blumenthal, born Werner Michael Blumenthal in Germany in 1926, is a German-born American executive who led Bendix and Unisys and served as Treasury Secretary from 1977 to 1979.
W. Morgan Sheppard
W. Morgan Sheppard (William Morgan Sheppard, 1932-2019), British character actor, RSC Associate Artist for 12 years, father of Mark Sheppard; known for Blank Reg in Max Headroom, four Star Trek roles, and Old Canton Delaware in Doctor Who.
W. Nicholas Haining
W. Nicholas Haining is an Oxford-trained pediatric oncologist known for work on T cell exhaustion in cancer and as co-founder of the cell therapy company ArsenalBio.
W. O. Baker
William Oliver Baker, known as W. O. Baker, was an American physical chemist who led Bell Laboratories research from 1955 to 1980, earning the National Medal of Science.
W. O. Bentley
Walter Owen Bentley, known as W. O. Bentley, was an English engineer who founded Bentley Motors in 1919 and whose cars won Le Mans five times between 1924 and 1930.