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Stanley Deser
Stanley Deser (1931–2023) was an American theoretical physicist and longtime Brandeis University professor, known for the ADM formalism in general relativity, co-inventing supergravity in 1976, and work on massive gravity.
Stanley Donald Stookey
S. Donald Stookey (1915–2014) was an American materials scientist at Corning Glass Works who invented glass-ceramics, the crystallized glass behind CorningWare cookware, and the photochromic glass used in eyeglass lenses.
Stanley Donen
Stanley Donen (April 13, 1924 – February 21, 2019), American film director and choreographer of the MGM golden age, co-directed On the Town and Singin' in the Rain with Gene Kelly, directed Seven Brides, Funny Face, Charade, and Two for the Road, and received an honorary 1998 Academy Award.
Stanley Donwood
Stanley Donwood (Dan Rickwood, born 1968) is the English artist and writer behind nearly all Radiohead album artwork since The Bends (1995), working alongside Thom Yorke, his Exeter University collaborator, plus Glastonbury Festival art since 2002, two Grammys, Macfarlane book covers, and the 2025 Ashmolean retrospective.
Stanley Druckenmiller
Stanley Druckenmiller is an American macro trader who founded Duquesne Capital in 1981. He is known for his 30% average annual returns and the 1992 pound bet.
Stanley Dwight Beck
Stanley Dwight Beck (1919–1997) was an American insect physiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for work on insect photoperiodism, artificial diets, and corn pest resistance.
Stanley E. Bradley
Stanley E. Bradley (1913–1999) was an American renal physiologist and physician-scientist at Columbia University, known for work on the renal and hepatic circulations and the nephrotic syndrome.
Stanley E. Whitcomb
Stanley E. Whitcomb is a physicist who served as Chief Scientist of the LIGO Laboratory at Caltech and retired in 2015, one day after LIGO's first gravitational-wave detection.
Stanley Electric
Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. (スタンレー電気) is a Japanese manufacturer of automotive lighting and optical electronic components, founded in 1920 in Tokyo and known for producing the world's first mass-produced LED headlamps in 2009.
Stanley Fahn
Stanley Fahn is an American neurologist and emeritus professor at Columbia University, widely described as a founder of movement disorders, who led the ELLDOPA trial and founded the Movement Disorder Society.
Stanley Falkow
Stanley Falkow (1934–2018) was an American microbiologist and Stanford professor known as the father of molecular microbial pathogenesis, honored with the 2008 Lasker Award and the National Medal of Science.
Stanley Fields (molecular biologist)
Stanley Fields is an American molecular biologist and geneticist, Professor Emeritus of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, known for the yeast two-hybrid method and deep mutational scanning.
Stanley Fischer
Stanley Fischer (1943–2025) was a Zambian-born economist who held top posts at the IMF, Bank of Israel, and Federal Reserve, and whose 1977 staggered-contracts paper founded New Keynesian economics.
Stanley G Nathenson
Stanley G Nathenson is an immunologist and cell biologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine whose work on H-2 transplantation antigens established the basis of transplant rejection.
Stanley G. Mason
Stanley George Mason (1914–1987) was a Canadian colloid scientist and physical chemist at McGill University who pioneered microrheology, the study of how individual particles move in flowing suspensions.
Stanley Garton
Stanley Garton (Arthur Stanley Garton, 1889-1948), British rower; won gold in the men's eights for Leander Club at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, won three Boat Races with Oxford 1909-11, three Henley Grand Challenge Cups, and coached the Oxford eight.
Stanley George Stephens
Stanley George Stephens (1911–1986) was an English-born plant geneticist who studied the genetics and evolution of cotton, working in Trinidad and at North Carolina State University.
Stanley Gerald Thompson
Stanley Gerald Thompson (1912–1976) was an American nuclear chemist who co-discovered five transuranium elements at Berkeley and conceived the Bismuth Phosphate Process that separated plutonium at Hanford during World War II.
Stanley Golder
Stanley Golder was a Chicago private equity pioneer who in 1980 co-founded Golder Thoma & Co., the buyout firm known today as GTCR, and retired in 1993.
Stanley H. Horowitz
Stanley H. Horowitz (1925–2022) was an American electrical engineer who spent his career at American Electric Power in power system protection and coauthored the standard textbook Power System Relaying.
Stanley Hiller
Stanley Hiller Jr. was an American helicopter designer who at 18 built and flew the XH-44, the first successful coaxial-rotor helicopter in the United States, and founded Hiller Aircraft.
Stanley Ho (何鸿燊)
Stanley Ho Hung-sun (何鸿燊, 1921 to 2020), Hong Kong-born tycoon known as Macau's Casino King, who held Macau's gambling monopoly from the early 1960s through STDM, opened the Hotel Lisboa, and founded SJM and Shun Tak Holdings.
Stanley Hoffmann
Stanley Hoffmann (1928–2015) was a French-American political scientist who spent 58 years on the Harvard faculty and became the leading American interpreter of French politics.
Stanley Holloway
Stanley Holloway was an English actor and comedian who performed in musical revues and monologues. He is best known for playing Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady.
Stanley I. Sandler
Stanley I. Sandler is an American chemical engineering thermodynamicist who spent his career at the University of Delaware and is known for research on phase equilibria and a widely used thermodynamics textbook.
Stanley Island
Stanley Island (Antarctica): an island off Heros Peninsula on the Foyn Coast, western Cabinet Inlet, Antarctic Peninsula; 3.2 km long, 520 m high, at 66°31′54″S 63°40′24″W, distinct from Stanley Islands in Australia, Canada, and Chile.
Stanley J. Brodsky
Stanley J. Brodsky is an American theoretical physicist, emeritus professor at SLAC and Stanford University, known for the constituent counting rules, rigorous perturbative QCD, and light-front holography, and winner of the 2015 Pomeranchuk Prize.
Stanley J. Cristol
Stanley J. Cristol (1916–2008) was an American physical organic chemist at the University of Colorado Boulder, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972, known for elimination reaction mechanisms and DDT chemistry.
Stanley J. Korsmeyer
Stanley J. Korsmeyer (1950–2005) was an American physician-scientist who showed that BCL2 causes cancer by blocking cell death rather than driving growth, founding the molecular study of apoptosis in cancer.
Stanley J. Opella
Stanley J. Opella is a chemist at the University of California, San Diego, known for developing solid-state NMR methods that determine membrane protein structures in lipid bilayers.