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Albert Betz
Albert Betz (1885–1968) was a German physicist and aerodynamicist who directed the Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt in Göttingen from 1937 to 1945 and gave his name to the Betz limit.
Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), German-American landscape painter of the Hudson River and Rocky Mountain schools, trained in Düsseldorf, painted monumental Yosemite and Rocky Mountain vistas after western survey trips from 1859, and set a $7.32M auction record in 2008.
Albert Birney
Albert Birney, Baltimore-based American independent filmmaker of The Beast Pageant, Sylvio, Strawberry Mansion, and OBEX; co-director with Kentucker Audley; known for lo-fi handmade fantasy effects and Sundance premieres.
Albert Blithe
Albert Blithe (1923–1967), Philadelphia-born US Army master sergeant of Easy Company, 506th PIR, wounded at Carentan in June 1944; wrongly declared dead in 1948 by Band of Brothers, he actually served in Korea and died on active duty in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Albert Bourla
Albert Bourla, Greek-born veterinarian and Pfizer Chairman and CEO since January 2019, led development of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (EUA December 11, 2020), the Seagen and Metsera acquisitions, and the Accord for a Healthier World.
Albert Brewer
Albert Preston Brewer, Alabama governor 1968–1971, Democrat, succeeded Lurleen Wallace, only Alabama governor to serve as speaker, lieutenant governor, and governor in succession; led 1969 education reform.
Albert Bridge
Albert Bridge is a Grade II listed road bridge over the Thames in London linking Chelsea and Battersea, opened in 1873 and combining suspension and cable-stayed design.
Albert Bridge Capital
Albert Bridge Capital was a London-based investment firm founded by Drew Dickson in 2015 to run Alpha Europe, a concentrated European equity strategy, and dissolved in 2024.
Albert Brooks
Albert Brooks (born 1947, Beverly Hills) is an American comedian, actor, writer-director, and author; born Albert Einstein to comedian Harry Einstein, he directed Real Life, Lost in America, and Defending Your Life, earned an Oscar nomination for Broadcast News, and voiced Marlin in Finding Nemo.
Albert Bryan Jr.
Albert Bryan Jr., born 1968, on St. Thomas, is an American Democrat and the ninth elected Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, in office since 2019.
Albert C. Lo
Albert C. Lo is an American neurologist and rehabilitation neuroscientist who won the 2003 Presidential Early Career Award and led the VA ROBOTICS stroke therapy trial.
Albert Calmette
Albert Calmette was a French physician and bacteriologist who founded the first overseas Pasteur Institute in Saigon and, with Camille Guérin, developed the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis.
Albert Camus
Albert Camus (1913–1960), French-Algerian novelist, essayist and 1957 Nobel laureate; author of The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel; exponent of the Absurd and Revolt who rejected the existentialist label and broke with Sartre.
Albert Canal
The Albert Canal is a 129 km canal in Belgium connecting the Port of Antwerp with Liège, opened in 1939 and named after King Albert I.
Albert CanCook
Albert CanCook (@albert_cancook), real name Albert Niazhvinski (Альберт Няжвінскі), is a Belarusian-American cooking YouTuber, born 1988 in Minsk, known for silent sub-minute Shorts, Big Mac 'Burgar' remixes, cartoon-food recreations, and the 2024 cookbook Albert Can Cook.
Albert Carnesale
Albert Carnesale, born 1936, is an American nuclear engineer and policy scholar who was UCLA's eighth chancellor, 1997 to 2006, after 23 years at Harvard.
Albert Chao
Albert Chao is an American petrochemicals executive who co-founded Westlake Corporation in 1985 with his father, T.T. Chao, and brother James, and was CEO from 2004 to 2024.
Albert Charles Schaeffer
Albert Charles Schaeffer (1907–1957) was a mathematician who worked in geometric function theory and conformal mapping, co-authoring the 1950 monograph Coefficient Regions for Schlicht Functions with Donald Spencer.
Albert Charles Seward
Albert Charles Seward (1863–1941) was a British botanist and geologist, Cambridge Professor of Botany and Master of Downing College, and the leading figure in palaeobotany for almost four decades.
Albert Charles Smith
Albert Charles Smith (1906–1999) was an American botanist and plant taxonomist who studied the flowering plants of South America and Fiji and wrote the five-volume Flora Vitiensis Nova.
Albert Claude
Albert Claude was a Belgian cell biologist who founded modern biochemical cell fractionation and helped introduce the electron microscope into biology, sharing the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Albert Coady Wedemeyer
Albert Coady Wedemeyer (July 9, 1897 – 1989), American four-star general from Omaha, Nebraska, author of the 1941 Victory Plan, commander of US forces in China and chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek from October 1944, and Truman's 1947 fact-finding envoy to China and Korea.
Albert Cohen (novelist)
Albert Cohen (1895-1981), Corfu-born Swiss French-language novelist and League of Nations civil servant; author of the Solal cycle (Solal, Mangeclous, Belle du Seigneur, Les Valeureux); Belle du Seigneur won the 1968 Grand Prix du Roman.
Albert Collins
Albert Collins (1932-1993), the "Iceman" and "Master of the Telecaster," was a Texas blues guitarist known for open F minor tuning, fingerstyle Telecaster playing, a long-cord stage act, and the Grammy-winning album Showdown!.
Albert Coons
Albert Coons (1912–1978) was an American pathologist and immunologist at Harvard Medical School who developed the fluorescent antibody technique for making antibodies visible under the microscope.
Albert Crewe
Albert Crewe (1927–2009) was a British-born American physicist at the University of Chicago who invented the scanning transmission electron microscope and in 1970 took the first images of isolated atoms.
Albert D. Wheelon
Albert D. "Bud" Wheelon (1929–2013) was an American physicist who founded the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology in 1963, oversaw spy satellite programs, and later led Hughes Aircraft.
Albert de la Chapelle
Albert de la Chapelle (1933–2020) was a Finnish medical geneticist who became Finland's first professor of medical genetics and helped identify the genes causing Lynch syndrome.
Albert de Mun
Albert de Mun was a French aristocrat and parliamentarian who co-founded the Catholic workers' circles in 1871, developed social Catholicism, and served as a deputy from 1876 to 1914.
Albert Deborgies
Albert Deborgies (Albert Paul Deborgies, 1902-1984), French water polo player from Tourcoing; won gold with France at the 1924 Paris Olympics, playing all four matches including the 3-0 final win over Belgium, and took 1927 European silver.