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Alfred Nordheim
Alfred Nordheim is a German molecular and cell biologist known for Z-DNA research and the transcription factor SRF, holding the molecular biology chair at the University of Tübingen from 1996 to 2020.
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician and philosopher who co-authored the three-volume Principia Mathematica with Bertrand Russell and later developed process philosophy, set out in Process and Reality (1929).
Alfred Norton Goldsmith
Alfred Norton Goldsmith was an American electronics engineer who co-founded the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1912, edited its Proceedings for over 40 years, and held 122 patents at RCA.
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) was an English poet, critic, and biographer, famed for "The Highwayman" and Drake, professor at Princeton, a Catholic convert from 1927, and the most commercially popular poet of his day.
Alfred Nzo District Municipality
Alfred Nzo District Municipality (DC44) is a district municipality in north-eastern Eastern Cape, South Africa, seated in eMaxesibeni, with four local municipalities, 878,635 people, and an 11,119 km² area, named after ANC leader Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo.
Alfred O. Berg
Alfred O. Berg is an American family physician and prevention researcher, professor and chair of family medicine at the University of Washington, who chaired the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Alfred O. Hero
Alfred O. Hero III is an American electrical engineer and data scientist at the University of Michigan, known for statistical signal processing and the SAGE algorithm.
Alfred Otto Carl Nier
Alfred Otto Carl Nier (1911–1994) was an American physicist at the University of Minnesota whose mass spectrometers measured isotopic abundances and enabled the first separation of uranium-235.
Alfred P. Fishman
Alfred P. Fishman was an American pulmonary physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who organized the National Registry on Primary Pulmonary Hypertension and wrote a standard textbook.
Alfred P. Hallstrom
Alfred P. Hallstrom is a University of Washington biostatistician who led the CAST and AVID cardiology trials and a 2000 study of CPR by chest compression alone.
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
Nine-story reinforced concrete federal office building in downtown Oklahoma City, opened 1977, named for judge Alfred P. Murrah; destroyed by the April 19, 1995 truck bombing that killed 168, later razed and replaced by the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
Alfred P. Wolf
Alfred P. Wolf (1923–1998) was an American nuclear and organic chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory whose group's 1976 synthesis of the FDG radiotracer made PET imaging possible.
Alfred Peet
Alfred Peet (1920–2007) was a Dutch-born American coffee roaster who founded Peet's Coffee in Berkeley, California, in 1966 and, by training the Starbucks founders, shaped American specialty coffee.
Alfred Pennyworth
Alfred Pennyworth, Batman's butler and Bruce Wayne's surrogate father, debuted in Batman #16 (1943) as Alfred Beagle. Created by Don Cameron and Bob Kane; killed by Bane in 2019; played on screen by Caine, Irons, Pertwee, Serkis, and Bannon.
Alfred Perot
Alfred Perot (1863–1925) was a French physicist and astronomer who, with Charles Fabry, invented the Fabry–Pérot interferometer and helped determine the meter in terms of the wavelength of light.
Alfred Pischinger
Alfred Pischinger (1899–1983) was an Austrian physician, histologist, and embryologist, credited as a founder of histochemistry and known for the "Grundsystem" doctrine making the extracellular matrix the organism's regulating unit.
Alfred Ploetz
Alfred Ploetz (1860–1940) was a German physician who coined the term racial hygiene in his 1895 book and founded the German eugenics movement's journal and society.
Alfred Polgar
Alfred Polgar, born Alfred Polak (1873–1955), was an Austrian critic and feuilletonist, a leading figure of Viennese coffeehouse literature whose essay "Theorie des 'Café Central'" (1926) remains widely quoted.
Alfred Powlesland
Alfred James Powlesland (1875-1941), English cricketer for Devon and Somerset Wanderers and Sidmouth CC; won gold in the only Olympic cricket match, Paris 1900, taking five wickets.
Alfred Pringsheim
Alfred Pringsheim was a German mathematician who held the chair at the University of Munich, proved foundational theorems on series convergence, and was Thomas Mann's father-in-law.
Alfred Probst
Alfred Probst (1894 to April 1958) was a Swiss rower for RC Lausanne who won gold in the coxed fours and bronze in the coxless fours at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), British social anthropologist and founder of structural functionalism, contrasting with Malinowski's functionalism; held chairs at Cape Town, Sydney, Chicago, and Oxford; wrote The Andaman Islanders.
Alfred Read
Alfred George Read (1878-1958), English City of London Police sergeant and tug-of-war athlete; won Olympic gold for Great Britain at Antwerp 1920, the sport's final Olympic tournament; his team membership was confirmed only in 2022.
Alfréd Rényi
Alfréd Rényi (1921–1970) was a Hungarian mathematician who founded the Hungarian school of probability theory, introduced Rényi entropy, and with Paul Erdős created the theory of random graphs.
Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
The HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (Rényi Alfréd Matematikai Kutatóintézet) is a Budapest mathematics research institute founded in 1950, led by Alfréd Rényi until 1970, with about 120 researchers and seven directors in 75 years.
Alfred Resch
Alfred Resch (1835–1912) was a German Lutheran pastor and biblical scholar whose Agrapha (1889) was the first exhaustive collection of sayings of Jesus transmitted outside the canonical Gospels.
Alfred Rieche
Alfred Rieche (1902–2001) was a German chemist, founding director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry in Berlin-Adlershof and namesake of the Rieche formylation, first reported in 1960.
Alfred Romer
Alfred Romer was an American vertebrate paleontologist at Harvard whose textbooks shaped the field, and who gave his name to Romer's Gap in the tetrapod fossil record.
Alfred Romualdez
Alfred Sison Romualdez is the mayor of Tacloban City, Philippines, since 2007, a nephew of Imelda Marcos. Known for his post-Typhoon Haiyan clashes with the Aquino administration and disaster-risk advocacy cited by the IPCC.
Alfred Rosenberg
Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946), Baltic German Nazi chief ideologue, author of The Myth of the Twentieth Century, Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories, head of the ERR art-looting task force, executed at Nuremberg.