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Albert Ghiorso

Albert Ghiorso (1915–2010) was an American nuclear scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who co-discovered 12 chemical elements and invented the instruments that made the discoveries possible.

Albert Gladstone

Sir Albert Charles Gladstone (1886-1967), grandson of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, was a British rower who won 1908 Olympic eights gold with Leander Club and later directed the Bank of England.

Albert Gobat

Albert Gobat, fully Charles Albert Gobat (1843–1914), was a Swiss lawyer and parliamentarian who shared the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize with Élie Ducommun for building the Inter-Parliamentary Union's permanent secretariat in Bern.

Albert Gore Sr.

Albert Gore Sr. (1907–1998), Tennessee Democrat, served 32 years in Congress (House 1939–1953, Senate 1953–1971), championed the Interstate Highway System, TVA, and Medicare, refused to sign the Southern Manifesto, opposed the Vietnam War, and lost his 1970 reelection to Bill Brock; father of Vice President Al Gore Jr.

Albert Göring

Albert Günther Göring, younger brother of Hermann Göring, was a German businessman who saved hundreds of Jews and dissidents using his family name, survived a 1944 death warrant, and died penniless in 1966.

Albert Günther

Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (1830-1914), German-born British zoologist and ichthyologist; Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum 1875-1895, author of the eight-volume Catalogue of Fishes and founder of the Zoological Record.

Albert Gutterson

Albert Lovejoy Gutterson (1887-1965), Vermont engineer and University of Vermont athlete, won the 1912 Stockholm Olympic long jump gold at 7.60 m, an Olympic record until 1928, half an inch short of the world record.

Albert H. Taylor

Albert H. Taylor, born Albert Hoyt Taylor, was an American electrical engineer who co-discovered radar in 1922 and led the Naval Research Laboratory's Radio Division from 1923 to 1945.

Albert Hadley Cantril Jr.

Albert Hadley Cantril Jr., known as Hadley Cantril (1906–1969), was an American social psychologist who pioneered public-opinion research and created the Cantril Ladder, still used in the Gallup World Poll and World Happiness Report.

Albert Hall (actor)

Albert Hall (Albert P. Hall, born November 10, 1937, Brighton, Alabama) is an American character actor known for Chief Phillips in Apocalypse Now, Baines in Malcolm X, and Judge Seymore Walsh on Ally McBeal and The Practice; distinct from other actors named Albert Hall.

Albert Hammond

Albert Hammond (born 1944, London, Gibraltarian) is a singer-songwriter behind 'It Never Rains in Southern California' and hits for others including 'The Air That I Breathe', 'When I Need You' and 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now'; OBE 2000, Songwriters Hall of Fame 2008, 2024 album Body of Work.

Albert Hammond Jr.

Albert Hammond Jr. is an American guitarist of the Strokes and a solo artist; albums include Yours to Keep (2006), AHJ (2013), Francis Trouble (2018), and Melodies on Hiatus (2023).

Albert Hauck

Albert Hauck (1845–1918) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian who edited the Realencyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche and wrote the Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands.

Albert Haynesworth

Albert Haynesworth (born 1981) is an American former NFL defensive tackle, a two-time All-Pro with the Tennessee Titans, known for a 2006 stomping suspension, a $100 million Washington contract, and a 2021 kidney transplant.

Sep 20, 2026

Albert Heck

Albert J. R. Heck (born 1964) is a Dutch analytical chemist and professor at Utrecht University known for pioneering native mass spectrometry of intact protein assemblies.

Oct 20, 2026

Albert Hedderich

Albert Hedderich (born 1957, Mainz) is a retired West German rower of RV Ingelheim 1920 who won quadruple sculls gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the 1983 World Championships, beating East Germany for the first time.

Albert Heijn

Albert Heijn, founded 1887 in Oostzaan, is the Netherlands' largest supermarket chain and Ahold Delhaize flagship, with 1,288 Dutch-Flemish stores, a 38.2% market share, and formats from AH to go to online delivery.

Albert Heim

Albert Heim (1849–1937) was a Swiss geologist and professor at ETH Zürich whose studies of the Swiss Alps advanced knowledge of mountain building and glacial effects on topography.

Albert Helgerud

Albert Helgerud (1876–1954), Norwegian rifle shooter and gunsmith, competed at the 1906–1920 Olympics, winning double free rifle gold at London 1908 plus four silvers and a bronze; distinct from physiologist Jan Helgerud.

Oct 22, 2026

Albert Helman

Albert Helman was the pen name of Lodewijk Lichtveld (1903–1996), a Surinamese-Dutch writer, composer, and politician considered the first important author from the former Dutch West.

Albert Henry Freiberg

Albert Henry Freiberg (1868–1940) was an American orthopedic surgeon and first head of orthopedic surgery at the University of Cincinnati, known for describing Freiberg's infraction in 1914.

Albert Henry Wratislaw

Albert Henry Wratislaw (1822–1892) was an English clergyman, schoolmaster, and Slavonic scholar of Czech descent who introduced Czech literature and Hussite history to English readers.

Oct 22, 2026

Albert Hertzog

Albert Hertzog, in full Johannes Albertus Munnik Hertzog (1899–1982), was a South African Afrikaner nationalist cabinet minister who blocked television's introduction and founded the far-right Herstigte Nasionale Party in 1969.

Albert Heyman

Albert Heyman (1916–2012) was an American neurologist at Duke University, chief of its Division of Neurology, known for stroke epidemiology and for standardizing Alzheimer's disease diagnosis as principal investigator of CERAD.

Albert Hill

Albert George Hill (1889–1969), British middle-distance runner, won the 800 m and 1,500 m golds at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics plus 3,000 m team silver; oldest Olympic 800 m champion.

Albert Hofman (Dutch epidemiologist)

Albert Hofman is a Dutch clinical epidemiologist who chaired epidemiology at Erasmus MC from 1988 to 2016, then at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Albert Hofmann

Albert Hofmann (1906–2008) was a Swiss chemist at the pharmaceutical company Sandoz who synthesized LSD in 1938, discovered its hallucinogenic effects in 1943, and named psilocybin.

Albert Hull

Albert Wallace Hull (1880–1966) was an American physicist at the General Electric Research Laboratory who invented the dynatron, named the magnetron, and developed the Debye-Scherrer-Hull X-ray method.

Albert Hustin

Albert Hustin (1882–1967) was a Belgian physician and surgeon who on 27 March 1914 performed the first human transfusion of blood kept liquid with sodium citrate, making stored blood and blood banks possible.