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Alfred L. Kroeber
Alfred L. Kroeber (1876–1960) was an American anthropologist who founded the anthropology department at the University of California, Berkeley, and was regarded as the leading American anthropologist of his generation.
Alfred L.M. Bothwell
Alfred L.M. Bothwell is an American immunologist whose early 1980s work helped establish somatic mutation of antibody genes, and who is now a professor at the University of Arizona.
Alfred Landé
Alfred Landé (1888–1975) was a German-born American physicist who played a pivotal role in early quantum theory, best known for the Landé g-factor, the interval rule, and his prescient pre-spin interpretation of the Stern–Gerlach experiment.
Alfred Larsen
Alfred Larsen (Alfred Waldemar Garmann Larsen, 1863–1950), Norwegian wine importer and sailor; won Norway's first Olympic sailing gold in the 12m class aboard Magda IX at Stockholm 1912; KNS chairman 1909–13.
Alfred Lee Loomis
Alfred Lee Loomis (1887–1975) was an American physicist and investment banker who ran a private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, New York, headed wartime US radar research, and invented LORAN.
Alfred Leitenstorfer
Alfred Leitenstorfer is a German physicist who has been Full Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Konstanz since 2003, working in ultrafast photonics and field-resolved quantum optics.
Alfred Lennon
Alfred (Alf, Freddie) Lennon, 1912–1976, English merchant seaman and father of John Lennon of the Beatles; absent at John's 1940 birth, estranged after 1946, briefly a recording artist in 1965, reconciled at his 1976 deathbed.
Alfred Lévy
Alfred Lévy (1840–1919) was a French rabbi who served as Chief Rabbi of France from 1907 to 1919, after posts at Dijon, Lunéville, and Lyon.
Alfred Lichtenstein
Alfred Lichtenstein (1889 to 1914) was a German expressionist poet and narrator whose poem Die Dämmerung (1911) made his name; he fell in World War I in 1914.
Alfred Lin
Alfred Lin (林君叡) is an American venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital who invested in Airbnb, DoorDash, and OpenAI, and topped Forbes' 2021 Midas List of venture investors.
Alfred Loewy
Alfred Loewy (1873–1935) was a German mathematician at the University of Freiburg who worked on linear groups and differential equations, known for the Loewy decomposition.
Alfred M. Freudenthal
Alfred M. Freudenthal (1906–1977) was a Polish-born civil engineer, professor of civil engineering at Columbia University from 1949 to 1969, called the father of structural reliability.
Alfred M. Prince
Alfred M. Prince (1928–2011) was a German-born American virologist at the New York Blood Center who developed a rapid hepatitis B antigen test and led low-cost vaccine work in Asia.
Alfred Maddock
Alfred Gavin Maddock (1917–2009) was an English radiochemist who worked on the British Tube Alloys atomic energy project and became Reader in Radiation Chemistry at Cambridge.
Alfred Marshall
Alfred Marshall (1842–1924), English economist and Cambridge Professor of Political Economy 1885–1908, author of Principles of Economics (1890); co-founder of neoclassical partial equilibrium economics, teacher of Pigou and Keynes, and namesake of the Marshall Library.
Alfred Marshall Mayer
Alfred Marshall Mayer (1836–1897) was an American physicist who led the physics department at Stevens Institute of Technology and was known for acoustics and his 1878 floating-magnets experiment, a model of atomic arrangement.
Alfred Mathieu Giard
Alfred Mathieu Giard (1846–1908) was a French zoologist who defined parasitic castration, founded the marine laboratory at Wimereux, held the Sorbonne's evolution chair from 1892, and led French neo-Lamarckism.
Alfred Mendes
Alfred Hubert Mendes (1897–1991), Trinidadian novelist and short-story writer of the Beacon group; author of Pitch Lake (1934) and Black Fauns (1935), pioneer of barrack-yard fiction, WWI veteran, and grandfather of director Sam Mendes.
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925), was a British statesman who, as High Commissioner for South Africa from 1897, helped precipitate the Second Anglo-Boer War.
Alfred Mirsky
Alfred Mirsky (1900–1974) was an American biochemist who spent his career at the Rockefeller Institute, demonstrating DNA constancy and proposing histone modification as a gene-regulation mechanism.
Alfred Moessner
Alfred Moessner was a Bavarian mathematician, likely an amateur, whose 1951 conjecture, Moessner's theorem, generates k-th powers without multiplication; Oskar Perron gave the first proof shortly afterwards.
Alfred Molina
Alfred Molina (born 1953, London) is a British-American character actor known for Satipo in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2 and No Way Home, Diego Rivera in Frida, and Tony-nominated stage roles in Art, Fiddler on the Roof, and Red.
Alfred Morris (American football)
Alfred Morris, NFL running back (Redskins, Cowboys, 49ers, Cardinals, Giants), 2012 sixth-round pick from Florida Atlantic who set Washington's single-season rushing record with 1,613 yards as a rookie; career 6,173 rushing yards.
Alfred Mosher Butts
Alfred Mosher Butts (1899-1993), American architect, invented Scrabble as Lexiko/Criss-Cross Words during 1930s unemployment, deriving tile counts from New York Times letter frequencies; James Brunot commercialized it from 1948.
Alfred Nakache
Alfred Nakache (Artem Nakache, 1915-1983), French Algerian Jewish swimmer: 1936 and 1948 Olympian, 200m breaststroke world record holder (2:36.8, 1941), Auschwitz survivor whose wife and daughter were gassed.
Alfred Neuland
Alfred Karl Neuland (1895-1966), Estonian weightlifter, first Estonian Olympic champion: lightweight gold, 257.5 kg, Antwerp 1920; middleweight silver, Paris 1924; world champion 1922.
Alfred Newton
Alfred Newton (1829–1907) was an English zoologist and ornithologist, the first Professor of Zoology at Cambridge, who studied extinct birds and drove early British bird protection laws.
Alfred Newton Richards
Alfred Newton Richards (1876–1966) was an American pharmacologist and renal physiologist at the University of Pennsylvania whose experiments settled how the kidney forms urine, and who served as president of the National Academy of Sciences.
Alfred Nisonoff
Alfred Nisonoff (1923–2001) was an American immunologist at Brandeis University whose work on antibody structure and idiotypy helped define how antibodies are built and how their genes are organized.
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833–1896) was a Swedish chemist and inventor who patented dynamite in 1867, held 355 patents, and left his fortune to establish the Nobel Prizes, first awarded in 1901.