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Albert Defant
Albert Defant (1884–1974) was an Austrian meteorologist and oceanographer counted among the founders of modern physical oceanography, directing the analysis of the German Meteor Atlantic expedition.
Albert Deisseroth
Albert B. Deisseroth (1941–2025) was an American hematology and oncology physician-scientist who mapped the human globin genes and developed gene-therapy approaches to leukemia, holding professorships at UCSF, MD Anderson, and Yale.
Albert DeSalvo
Albert Henry DeSalvo (1931–1973), American rapist who confessed to being the Boston Strangler, killer of 13 women (1962–1964); convicted only of Green Man rapes, recanted, and confirmed by 2013 DNA for Mary Sullivan's murder.
Albert Diaz (judge)
Albert Diaz (born 1960) is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit since 2010, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Albert Dorfman
Albert Dorfman (1916–1982) was an American biochemist and physician at the University of Chicago who established the biochemical cause of Hurler syndrome and enabled prenatal diagnosis of genetic diseases.
Albert E. Dahĺberg
Albert E. Dahĺberg, also known as A.E. Dahlberg, was an American molecular biologist and Brown University professor known for his 1989 Cell review on ribosomal RNA in protein synthesis.
Albert E. J. Engel
Albert E. J. Engel, full name Albert Edward John Engel (1916–1995), was an American petrologist at UC San Diego and Scripps elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1970.
Albert E. Renold
Albert E. Renold (1923–1988) was a Swiss physician and diabetes researcher known for work on insulin secretion and action, professor of medicine at Geneva after a career at Harvard.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for the theories of relativity and E = mc²; he won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for the photoelectric effect.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine is a private medical and biomedical research school in the Bronx, New York, opened in 1955 by Yeshiva University and now part of Montefiore Einstein; it became tuition-free in 2024 via Ruth Gottesman's $1 billion gift.
Albert Einstein in popular culture
Albert Einstein in popular culture covers the physicist's image, name, and quotations in advertising, cartoons, opera, film, and language, beginning with the 1919 eclipse fame that made him a symbol of genius.
Albert Elijah Dunning
Albert Elijah Dunning (1844–1923) was an American Congregationalist minister, Sunday-school organizer, and editor who led the Congregationalist, the denomination's Boston weekly, from 1889 to 1911.
Albert Ellis
Albert Ellis (1913–2007), American psychologist and founder of rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), the first cognitive behavior therapy. Developed the ABC model, founded the Albert Ellis Institute in 1959, ranked second most influential psychotherapist in a 1982 poll.
Albert Ernest Kitson
Albert Ernest Kitson (1868–1937) was a British geologist who directed the Gold Coast Geological Survey and discovered coal in Nigeria and diamonds in the Gold Coast.
Albert Eschenmoser
Albert Eschenmoser (1925–2023) was a Swiss organic chemist, professor at ETH Zurich and later Scripps Research, known for the total synthesis of vitamin B12 and reactions named for him.
Albert F. LoBuglio
Albert F. LoBuglio (1938–2026) was an American physician-scientist and medical oncologist known for tumor immunology and monoclonal antibody research, and for directing the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center from 1983 to 2004.
Albert F. Myers
Albert F. Myers (1946–2016) was an American aerospace engineer who led flight controls and flight test for the B-2 stealth bomber and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.
Albert F. Shields
Albert F. Shields (1908–1974) was an American engineer whose single 1936 doctoral thesis at Berlin remains the basis of the standard criterion for sediment motion in flowing water.
Albert Ferrer
Albert Ferrer Llopis, nicknamed Chapi, born 1970 in Barcelona, Spanish right-back; Barcelona 1990-98 Dream Team defender, 1992 European Cup and Olympic gold winner, Chelsea 1998-2003, later a coach.
Albert Fert
Albert Fert is a French condensed matter physicist who co-discovered giant magnetoresistance in 1988 and shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics, work regarded as the birth of spintronics.
Albert Finney
Albert Finney (9 May 1936 – 7 February 2019) was an English actor from Salford, star of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Tom Jones, and Murder on the Orient Express, with five Oscar nominations, Emmy/Golden Globe/BAFTA wins for The Gathering Storm, and declined honors.
Albert Fish
Albert Fish (Hamilton Howard Fish, 1870–1936), American serial killer, cannibal, and child murderer active in New York 1924–1928; convicted of Grace Budd's murder via a traced 1934 letter; executed at Sing Sing.
Albert Francis Blakeslee
Albert Francis Blakeslee (1874–1954) was an American botanist and geneticist who founded the study of mating types in fungi and made jimsonweed a model organism for chromosome research.
Albert Freeman Africanus King
Albert Freeman Africanus King was an English-born American physician in Washington, D.C., who argued in 1882 that mosquitoes transmit malaria, years before Ronald Ross proved it.
Albert Frey-Wyssling
Albert Frey-Wyssling (1900–1988) was a Swiss botanist who pioneered submicroscopic morphology, inferring plant cell fine structure before the electron microscope, and was professor of general botany at ETH Zurich from 1938 to 1970.
Albert G. Lee
Sir Albert George Lee (1879–1967) was a British telecommunications engineer who led the GPO Radio Section, developed the Rugby wireless station, and became Post Office Engineer-in-Chief.
Albert G. Mumma
Albert G. Mumma was a United States Navy rear admiral and naval engineer who headed the Bureau of Ships from 1955 to 1959, the early years of nuclear-ship building.
Albert Gagnebin
Albert Gagnebin (1909–1999) was an American metallurgist at the International Nickel Company who co-discovered ductile cast iron, patented in 1949, and became its president in 1967.
Albert Gallatin
Albert Gallatin (1761–1849), Swiss-born Genevan statesman, longest-serving US Treasury Secretary (1801–1814) under Jefferson and Madison; financed the Louisiana Purchase, negotiated the Treaty of Ghent, founded NYU and American ethnology.
Albert George Mulley Jr.
Albert George Mulley Jr. is an American physician-investigator in health policy and shared decision-making, professor at The Dartmouth Institute and member of the National Academy of Medicine.