All articles A–Z
519,064 articles
Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz
Alfonso de Borbón y Dampierre, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (1936–1989), grandson of Alfonso XIII, Franco-era diplomat and Olympic Committee chief, and Legitimist claimant to the French throne from 1975 until his death in a skiing accident at Vail.
Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (1907–1938)
Alfonso de Borbón y Battenberg, Prince of Asturias and Count of Covadonga, eldest son of Alfonso XIII, hemophiliac heir who renounced succession in 1933 and died in Miami in 1938.
Alfonzo McKinnie
Alfonzo McKinnie (born 1992) is an American basketball forward from Chicago, undrafted out of Wisconsin-Green Bay, who played 182 NBA games for Toronto, Golden State, Cleveland, the Lakers, and Chicago, reaching the 2019 Finals with the Warriors.
Alford plea
Alford plea (US law): a guilty plea, from North Carolina v. Alford (1970), in which the defendant maintains innocence while accepting conviction; requires voluntary, intelligent entry and a strong factual basis, and is forbidden in a few states.
Alforjas
Alforjas is an extinct North American camelid genus named by Harrison in 1979, with type species Alforjas taylori from the Hemphillian of Kansas; a browsing, hypsodont-toothed Miocene-Pliocene llama relative.
Alfosbuvir
Alfosbuvir (奥磷布韦, trade name Shennuodi) is a Chinese Class-1 NS5B nucleotide inhibitor for chronic HCV genotypes 1, 2, 3, 6, approved by NMPA in May 2023 for use with daclatasvir, achieving 98.2% SVR12 in phase 3.
Alfr (crater on Callisto)
Alfr is a 96-kilometer-wide impact crater on Callisto, Jupiter's outer Galilean moon, named by the IAU in 1979 after a Norse mythological dwarf and centered near 9.9° south latitude.
Alfre Woodard
Alfre Woodard, American actress born 1952 in Tulsa, four-time Emmy winner (Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Miss Evers' Boys, The Practice), Oscar nominee for Cross Creek, Golden Globe winner, co-founder of Artists for a New South Africa.
ALFRED (reactor)
ALFRED, the Advanced Lead-cooled Fast Reactor European Demonstrator, is a planned 300 MWth lead-cooled fast reactor to be built at the RATEN ICN site in Mioveni, Romania.
Alfred A. Antson
Alfred A. Antson, known as Fred Antson, is a structural biologist and Professor in Chemistry at the University of York who studies protein–nucleic acid interactions.
Alfred A. H. Keil
Alfred A. H. Keil (1913–2002) was a German-born naval architect and ocean engineer who led MIT's Department of Ocean Engineering and served as Dean of its School of Engineering.
Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (Alfred A. Knopf Publishers), New York literary trade publisher founded 1915 by Alfred and Blanche Knopf; borzoi colophon, translation program, Random House since 1960, now Penguin Random House.
Alfred A. Yee
Alfred A. Yee (1925–2017) was an American structural engineer from Honolulu who pioneered precast, prestressed concrete construction and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler (1870–1937) was an Austrian psychiatrist, founder of Individual Psychology, who broke with Freud in 1911; known for inferiority feelings, striving for superiority, social interest, and style of life.
Alfred Aeppli
Alfred Aeppli (1928–2008) was a Swiss differential geometer who taught 37 years at the University of Minnesota and is known for Aeppli cohomology, an active research tool on non-Kähler complex manifolds.
Alfred Aho
Alfred Aho is a Canadian-born computer scientist at Columbia University known for the Aho-Corasick algorithm, the AWK programming language, influential compiler textbooks, and the 2020 Turing Award.
Alfred Andersch
Alfred Andersch (1914–1980) was a German writer, editor, and radio journalist who co-founded the writers' association Gruppe 47 and became known for novels including Sansibar oder der letzte Grund.
Alfred Aufdenblatten
Alfred Aufdenblatten (1897–1975), Swiss soldier and Zermatt ski guide; won gold in military ski patrol at the 1924 Chamonix Winter Olympics with Vaucher and the Julen brothers; also DNF in the 50 km cross-country race.
Alfred Barnard Basset
Alfred Barnard Basset (1854–1930) was an English mathematician who left law practice for research, and is remembered for the Basset force and the Basset–Boussinesq–Oseen equation governing a sphere's motion in a viscous fluid.
Alfred Berger
Alfred Berger (1894-1966), Austrian pair skater with Helene Engelmann; 1924 Chamonix Olympic pairs champion, two-time world champion (1922 Davos, 1924 Manchester), three-time Austrian champion, also Austrian champion in rowing and bobsledding.
Alfred Bertholet
Alfred Bertholet (1868–1951) was a Swiss Protestant theologian and Old Testament scholar who taught at Basel, Tübingen, Göttingen, and Berlin and helped found the phenomenology of religion.
Alfred Binet
Alfred Binet (1857–1911), French psychologist, creator with Théodore Simon of the 1905 Binet–Simon Scale, the first practical intelligence test; mental age concept; Terman's 1916 Stanford–Binet introduced the IQ.
Alfred Blalock
Alfred Blalock (1899–1964) was an American surgeon, chief of surgery at Johns Hopkins from 1941, who showed surgical shock stems from blood-volume loss and performed the first operation for tetralogy of Fallot.
Alfred Blue
Alfred Blue (Alfred Calvin Blue III), born 1991, former NFL running back from LSU; Houston Texans 2014-18, 6th-round pick, 2,407 career rushing yards, 8 TDs; later Jaguars signee cut in 2019.
Alfred Blumstein
Alfred Blumstein (1930–2026) was an American operations researcher at Carnegie Mellon University who pioneered quantitative criminology, modeling criminal careers and incarceration, and won the 2007 Stockholm Prize.
Alfred Bourgeois
Alfred Bourgeois, Louisiana truck driver executed December 11, 2020 at Terre Haute for the 2002 torture-murder of his two-year-old daughter at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station; his Atkins intellectual-disability claim, based on IQ scores of 70 and 75, was denied.
Alfred Bowerman
Alfred James Bowerman (1873–1947), English amateur cricketer; gold medalist in men's cricket at Paris 1900 with Devon and Somerset Wanderers, top scorer with 59; played two first-class matches for Somerset (1900, 1905).
Alfred C. Redfield
Alfred C. Redfield (1890–1983), American physiologist and oceanographer, Harvard professor and WHOI founding scientist; namesake of the Redfield ratio 106C:16N:1P linking plankton and seawater chemistry.
Alfred Caldecott
Alfred Caldecott (1850–1936) was an Anglican clergyman and philosopher of religion, professor of philosophy at King's College London from 1891 to 1917 and brother of illustrator Randolph Caldecott.
Alfred Cardew Dixon
Alfred Cardew Dixon (1865–1936) was an English mathematician, Senior Wrangler at Cambridge in 1886, remembered for Dixon's identity, the Dixon elliptic functions, and early work on Fredholm integral equations.