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Albert L. Lehninger
Albert L. Lehninger (1917–1986) was an American biochemist at Johns Hopkins who established mitochondria as the site of cellular energy reactions and wrote the influential textbook Biochemistry.
Albert L. Rubin
Albert L. Rubin is an American physician-scientist in nephrology and kidney transplantation at Cornell University Medical College who founded The Rogosin Institute and performed the metropolitan area's first hemodialysis and kidney transplant.
Albert L. Sheffer
Albert L. Sheffer was an American allergist and immunologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School who shaped national and international asthma guidelines.
Albert L. Siu
Albert L. Siu is an American geriatrician and health services researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a former chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force.
Albert L. Waldo
Albert L. Waldo (1936–2023) was an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist who coined "transient entrainment," researched atrial fibrillation, and held a Case Western Reserve professorship.
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is an annual prize for a fundamental discovery opening a new area of biomedical science, first awarded in 1946.
Albert Lee
Albert Lee, born 1943 in Leominster, England, is a British country-rock and rockabilly guitarist known for the Everly Brothers, Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, Heads Hands & Feet's "Country Boy", two Grammy wins, and his Ernie Ball Music Man signature guitar.
Albert Leo Schlageter
Albert Leo Schlageter (1894–1923), German Freikorps fighter and saboteur executed by the French in 1923 during the Ruhr occupation, then propagated as a Nazi martyr and 'first soldier of the Third Reich'.
Albert Leslie Babb
Albert Leslie Babb, known as Les Babb, was a Canadian-born American chemical and nuclear engineer at the University of Washington who developed the first practical home kidney dialysis machine.
Albert Levitt
Albert Levitt (1887–1968), American lawyer, law professor, and judge of the U.S. District Court of the Virgin Islands; ruled women could vote there in 1936 and brought Ex parte Levitt, the 1937 standing case against Justice Hugo Black's appointment.
Albert Libchaber
Albert Libchaber is an experimental physicist at The Rockefeller University known for the first experimental observation of the route to chaos in a fluid and for artificial-cell research.
Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser
Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855–1916) was a German dermatologist in Breslau who discovered the gonorrhea bacterium in 1879 and became a landmark figure in research ethics.
Albert Luthuli
Albert Luthuli, commonly spelled Lutuli, was a South African teacher and chieftain who led the ANC from 1952 until 1967 and won the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize.
Albert Lutuli
Albert John Lutuli was a Zulu chief and teacher who led the African National Congress from 1952 and won the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent resistance in South Africa.
Albert M. Clogston
Albert M. Clogston, also known as Albert McCavor Clogston, was an American solid-state physicist at Bell Labs known for the Clogston limit on superconductor critical fields.
Albert M. Maguire
Albert M. Maguire is an ophthalmologist and retinal surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who led the gene therapy trials for inherited blindness.
Albert Marcel Germain Rene Portevin
Albert Marcel Germain Rene Portevin (1880–1962) was a French metallurgist, professor at the École centrale in Paris, pioneer of chromium stainless steels, and codiscoverer of the Portevin–Le Chatelier effect.
Albert McCavour Clogston
Albert McCavour Clogston (1917–2013) was an American solid-state physicist who spent most of his career at Bell Labs and set the Clogston limit on superconductor critical fields in 1962.
Albert Memorial
Albert Memorial, Kensington Gardens, London: Gothic Revival monument by George Gilbert Scott, commissioned by Queen Victoria after Prince Albert died of typhoid in 1861; 54 m tall, opened 1872, restored in the 1990s. Distinct from the Manchester Albert Memorial.
Albert Meyers
Albert Meyers (1932–2007) was an American synthetic organic chemist at Colorado State University and a National Academy of Sciences member who pioneered chiral oxazoline asymmetric synthesis.
Albert Meyong Ze
Albert Meyong Zé (born 1980, Yaoundé), Cameroonian striker; 2000 Olympic gold, 2006 Portuguese top scorer with Belenenses (17 goals), 2011 Europa League finalist with Braga; later coached Vitória Setúbal.
Albert Michelsen
Albert "Whitey" Michelsen (1893-1964), American marathon runner from Connecticut, set a 2:29:01.8 world best at Port Chester in 1925, first man under 2:30, and finished 9th (1928) and 7th (1932) in Olympic marathons.
Albert Michotte
Albert Michotte (1881–1965) was a Belgian experimental psychologist at the Catholic University of Louvain whose launching-effect experiments showed that causality is directly perceived rather than inferred.
Albert Mokeyev
Albert Mokeyev (Альберт Андреевич Мокеев, 1936–1969), Soviet modern pentathlete; 1964 Tokyo Olympic team gold and individual bronze, world team silvers 1963 and 1965, 1965 Soviet champion.
Albert Moses
Albert Moses (1937-2017), Sri Lankan actor in Britain; played Ranjeet Singh in Mind Your Language and Sadruddin in Octopussy; also in The Spy Who Loved Me, An American Werewolf in London, East Is East.
Albert Muchnik
Albert Abramovich Muchnik (1934–2019) was a Russian mathematical logician at the Institute of Applied Mathematics in Moscow who solved Post's problem in 1956, independently of Richard Friedberg, and introduced Muchnik reducibility on mass problems.
Albert Namatjira
Albert Namatjira, born Elea, was a Western Arrernte Aboriginal artist from Central Australia. He is famous for his Western-style watercolor landscapes and founded the Hermannsburg School of painting.
Albert Narath
Albert Narath was an American physical chemist who joined Sandia National Laboratories in 1959 and served as its president and director from 1989 to 1995, the first president chosen from the laboratory's own ranks.
Albert Niemann (pediatrician)
Albert Niemann (1880–1921) was a German pediatrician in Berlin whose 1914 case report of an infant with a swollen abdomen and rapid neurodegeneration became the first description of Niemann–Pick disease.
Albert Nijenhuis
Albert Nijenhuis (1926–2015) was a Dutch-American mathematician whose name is attached to the Nijenhuis tensor, the Frölicher–Nijenhuis and Nijenhuis–Richardson brackets, and Nijenhuis operators in differential geometry.