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Alexander Frank Wells

Alexander Frank Wells (1912–1994) was a British chemist and crystallographer who wrote the classic Structural Inorganic Chemistry and pioneered the systematic description of periodic crystal nets.

Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee

Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (1747–1813), Scottish advocate, Edinburgh professor of universal history, and Court of Session judge; author of Elements of General History and Essay on the Principles of Translation; father of historian Patrick Fraser Tytler.

Alexander Friedman

Alexander Friedman (Александр Фридман), also transliterated Friedmann, was a Russian mathematician and cosmologist who in 1922 gave the first mathematical theory of the expanding universe.

Alexander Friedmann (Александр Александрович Фридман)

Alexander Friedmann (Александр Фридман), also known as Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann, was a Russian mathematician and physicist who showed in 1922 that Einstein's relativity allows an expanding universe.

Alexander Frumkin

Alexander Frumkin (Александр Наумович Фрумкин; 1895–1976) was a Soviet electrochemist called the father of modern electrochemistry, who founded the Russian school and introduced the potential of zero charge.

Alexander G. Bearn

Alexander G. Bearn, known to colleagues as Alick, was a British-born American physician and geneticist who established Wilson disease as hereditary and diagnosable, and was president of the American Society of Human Genetics in 1971.

Alexander G.G. Turpie

Alexander G.G. Turpie is a Glasgow-trained physician-scientist in thrombosis research, Professor Emeritus of Medicine at McMaster University who led trials of rivaroxaban and fondaparinux and wrote more than 700 publications.

Sep 20, 2026

Alexander Gaeta

Alexander L. Gaeta is a Columbia University physicist working in quantum and nonlinear optics, known for silicon photonics, chip-based frequency combs, temporal cloaking, and founding the journal Optica.

Oct 22, 2026

Alexander Galich

Alexander Galich (Александр Галич), born Alexander Ginzburg, was a Russian poet, playwright, and songwriter who became a leading Soviet bard before being expelled and emigrating in 1974.

Alexander Gallus

Alexander S. Gallus is an Australian physician and pathologist known for research on venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, and Emeritus Professor of Haematology at Flinders University in Adelaide.

Oct 22, 2026

Alexander Gardner

Alexander Gardner (1821–1882) was a Scottish-born American photographer known for portraits of Abraham Lincoln and his Civil War photographs, including the first images of dead soldiers at Antietam in 1862.

Alexander Geddes

Alexander Geddes (1737–1802) was a Scottish Roman Catholic priest and biblical scholar who denied the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch and undertook a new English translation of the Bible.

Alexander Gelfond

Alexander Gelfond (Александр Осипович Гельфонд; 1906–1968) was a Soviet mathematician who solved Hilbert's seventh problem in 1934, proving that α^β is transcendental for algebraic α and irrational algebraic β.

Alexander George Ogston

Alexander George Ogston, known as Sandy, was a British biochemist whose 1948 three-point attachment paper resolved the citrate paradox; he later led physical biochemistry at the Australian National University and was President of Trinity College, Oxford.

Sep 19, 2026

Alexander Gerko

Alexander Gerko (Александр Герко) is a Russian-born British mathematician and trader who founded the London algorithmic market-making firm XTX Markets in 2015 and owns about 75 percent of it.

Alexander Gilkes

Alexander Gilkes is a British entrepreneur who co-founded the online art auction house Paddle8 in 2011 and later the venture studio Squared Circles in December 2019.

Alexander Givental

Alexander Givental (Александр Борисович Гивенталь) is a Russian-born mathematician, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley since 1990, known for his proof of the mirror conjecture.

Alexander Godunov

Alexander Godunov (Александр Борисович Годунов), Soviet-born ballet dancer and actor, Bolshoi premier danseur who defected to the US in 1979, danced with American Ballet Theatre, and appeared in Witness and Die Hard.

Alexander Golitsyn

Prince Alexander Nikolaevich Golitsyn (Александр Николаевич Голицын, 1773–1844) was a Russian statesman who served as chief procurator of the Holy Synod, minister of education, and president of the Russian Bible Society.

Alexander Gorbaty-Shuisky

Alexander Borisovich Gorbaty-Shuisky (Александр Борисович Горбатый-Шуйский) was a Russian boyar and voivode who commanded the 1552 conquest of Kazan and was executed by Ivan the Terrible in 1565.

Alexander Gorchakov

Alexander Gorchakov (Александр Михайлович Горчаков) was a Russian prince, diplomat, and statesman who served as foreign minister from 1856 and state chancellor from 1867, restoring Russia's standing after the Crimean War.

Alexander Gould

Alexander Jerome Gould (born 1994) is an American actor, voice of Nemo in Finding Nemo and Shane Botwin on Weeds (2005-2012); later a Brandeis philosophy graduate.

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor and teacher of the deaf who received the first United States patent for the telephone in 1876 and founded the company that became AT&T.

Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, achieving the first intelligible speech transmission in Boston on 10 March 1876, three days after his patent, US 174,465, was issued.

Alexander Graham Bell honors and tributes

Alexander Graham Bell honors and tributes, also known as tributes to Alexander Graham Bell, cover the medals, monuments, museums, stamps, and coins honoring the telephone's inventor.

Alexander Green

Alexander A. Green is a synthetic biologist and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, known for toehold switches, RNA ribocomputing devices, and paper-based Zika virus diagnostics.

Sep 23, 2026

Alexander Griboyedov

Alexander Griboyedov (Александр Грибоедов) was a Russian playwright and diplomat, author of Woe from Wit and minister to Persia, killed by a mob in Tehran in 1829.

Alexander Grothendieck

Alexander Grothendieck (1928–2014) was a German-born, French-raised mathematician who rebuilt algebraic geometry around schemes and topoi, won the Fields Medal in 1966, and died in seclusion in the French Pyrenees.

Alexander Grutter

Alexander Grutter is a condensed matter physicist and instrument scientist at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, known for magnetic topological thin films and a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.