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Alfred Fowler
Alfred Fowler (1868–1940) was a British astrophysicist and spectroscopist who spent his career at Imperial College London, identifying the chemistry of cool stars and sunspots.
Alfred Fried
Alfred Hermann Fried was an Austrian pacifist and journalist who founded the German Peace Society in 1892 and shared the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize with Tobias Asser.
Alfred G. Gilman
Alfred G. Gilman was an American pharmacologist and biochemist who discovered G-proteins, shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and chaired pharmacology at UT Southwestern in Dallas.
Alfred G. Knudson
Alfred G. Knudson (1922–2016) was an American medical geneticist at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia who proposed the two-hit hypothesis of cancer in 1971, predicting tumor suppressor genes.
Alfred G. Redfield
Alfred G. Redfield (1929–2019) was an American biophysicist who founded the standard theory of NMR relaxation and applied magnetic resonance to biological molecules at IBM and Brandeis University.
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (1850–1921) was a Swedish geologist and palaeobotanist who led expeditions to Spitsbergen and Greenland and built the Swedish Museum of Natural History's palaeobotanical collections.
Alfred Gantner
Alfred Gantner, also known as Fredy Gantner, is a Swiss private-markets executive who co-founded Partners Group in 1996 and led it as chief executive until 2005.
Alfred George Fischer
Alfred George Fischer (1920–2017) was a German-born American geologist and paleontologist who recognized Milankovitch orbital cycles in sedimentary rocks and taught at Princeton and USC.
Alfred George Greenhill
Alfred George Greenhill (1847–1927) was a British mathematician, professor at the Artillery College, Woolwich, who worked on elliptic functions and derived the Greenhill twist rule for stabilizing rifled projectiles.
Alfred Gierer
Alfred Gierer, born 1929 in Berlin, is a German biophysicist who co-authored the 1972 Gierer–Meinhardt model of biological pattern formation and directed research at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen.
Alfred Giles (explorer)
Alfred Giles (1846–1931) was an English-born Australian explorer and pastoralist, second-in-command of John Ross's 1870 Overland Telegraph Line expedition and first manager of Springvale Station near Katherine.
Alfred Gilman, Sr.
Alfred Gilman, Sr. was an American pharmacologist who co-authored The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics and conducted the first clinical trial of cancer chemotherapy in 1942.
Alfred Goldsborough Mayor
Alfred Goldsborough Mayor, born Alfred Goldsborough Mayer, was an American marine zoologist who classified jellyfish and coral reefs and founded the Tortugas Laboratory, the first tropical marine laboratory in the Western Hemisphere.
Alfred Goldscheider
Alfred Goldscheider (1858–1935) was a German neurologist who showed in 1884 that temperature sense is confined to distinct skin spots and built an influential summation theory of pain.
Alfred Gordon Gaydon
Alfred Gordon Gaydon (1911–2004) was a British experimental spectroscopist who measured flame and shock-wave temperatures by the spectrum-line reversal method and was elected F.R.S. in 1953.
Alfred Gough
Alfred Gough (Al Gough, Alfred Fabian Gough III, born 1967) is an American screenwriter and producer who with Miles Millar co-created Smallville and Netflix's Wednesday, and co-wrote Shanghai Noon and Spider-Man 2.
Alfred Griffin III
Alfred Griffin III is an American orthodontist and medical-device entrepreneur who co-founded LightForce Orthodontics in 2015, maker of customized 3D-printed braces, and remains its chairman and chief product officer.
Alfred Grill
Alfred Grill is an IBM Fellow Emeritus and materials scientist at IBM's Watson Research Center, known for the industry-standard SiCOH low-k interconnect dielectric and diamond-like carbon coatings.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was an American railroad heir and sportsman who led his Vanderbilt family branch from 1899 and died in 1915 when the Lusitania sank off Ireland.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr. was an American racehorse owner, breeder, and track executive who managed Sagamore Farm, bred the Hall of Famer Native Dancer, and served as president of Pimlico and Belmont Park.
Alfred H. Love
Alfred H. Love (1830–1913) was a Philadelphia Quaker pacifist and wool merchant who founded the Universal Peace Union in 1866 and served as its president for 47 years.
Alfred H. Pope
Alfred H. G. Pope (Alf Pope), British race walker, set four world records in one London race on 31 August 1932: 5 miles 35:47.2, 10,000m 44:42.4, 7 miles 50:28.8, one hour 13,308 m. Not the discus thrower A. R. Pope.
Alfred H. Schinkel
Alfred H. Schinkel is a Dutch pharmacologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam whose knockout-mouse work defined how P-glycoprotein and BCRP control drug distribution.
Alfréd Haar
Alfréd Haar (1885–1933) was a Hungarian mathematician who proved the existence of the Haar measure on locally compact groups and introduced the Haar wavelet in 1910.
Alfred Harker
Alfred Harker (1859–1939) was an English geologist who mapped the Tertiary igneous complexes of Skye for the Geological Survey of Scotland and introduced Harker diagrams.
Alfred Harrison Joy
Alfred Harrison Joy (1882–1973) was an American stellar astronomer and spectroscopist at Mount Wilson Observatory, known for spectroscopic parallaxes, Cepheid radial velocities, and the T Tauri classification of young variable stars.
Alfred Heinrichs
Alfred Heinrichs is a German techno and tech-house DJ and producer from East Berlin, active since the 1990s, who founded the Berlin labels Supdub Records and IAM MELODIC TECHNO.
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), the "Master of Suspense," was a British-born director of fifty thrillers from The Lodger (1927) to Family Plot (1976), whose Hollywood debut Rebecca won Best Picture and whose Vertigo ranked second in an international critics' poll.
Alfred Hitchcock filmography
Alfred Hitchcock filmography: the 53 feature films Alfred Hitchcock directed, from The Pleasure Garden (1925) to Family Plot (1976), plus nine surviving silent-era films, Blackmail (Britain's first talking picture), and his television episodes.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Presents is the American anthology suspense series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock, airing on CBS and NBC 1955–1965 (later The Alfred Hitchcock Hour), known for twist endings, Gounod's Funeral March of a Marionette theme, and Hitchcock's droll introductions.