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Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), British naturalist and co-discoverer of natural selection, explored the Amazon and Malay Archipelago, described Wallace's Line, wrote The Malay Archipelago (1869), and received the Copley Medal and Order of Merit.
Alfred S. Berne
Alfred S. Berne was an American diagnostic radiologist at Syracuse Memorial Hospital and SUNY Upstate, known for his 1968 New England Journal of Medicine paper defining the congenital bronchopulmonary-foregut malformation.
Alfred S. Bloomingdale
Alfred S. Bloomingdale (1916–1982) was an American businessman, grandson of the founder of Bloomingdale's, who as an early investor and chairman built Diners Club and later advised President Reagan.
Alfred S. Evans
Alfred S. Evans (1917–1996) was an American viral epidemiologist at Yale who established the Epstein-Barr virus as the cause of infectious mononucleosis and edited Viral Infections of Humans.
Alfred Saffer
Alfred Saffer was a chemist and corporate executive who served as Chief Technical Officer and Vice Chairman of petrochemical research company Halcon International, holding oxidation chemistry patents.
Alfred Schwarzmann
Alfred Schwarzmann (Karl Alfred Markus Schwarzmann), German artistic gymnast (1912-2000) from Fürth; triple gold medalist at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (all-around, team, vault) and 1952 Helsinki horizontal bar silver medalist.
Alfred Singer
Alfred Singer is an immunologist and Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for his work on T cell development and thymic selection.
Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) was a British landscape painter, born in Paris to English parents, who spent almost his whole life in France and helped found Impressionism.
Alfred Sommer
Alfred Sommer is an American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins, dean of its public health school from 1990 to 2005, whose trials showed vitamin A supplementation cuts childhood mortality by about a third.
Alfred Spengler
Alfred Spengler, East German swimmer from Halle (club Motor Mitte Halle), set the first GDR swimming world record: 400 m individual medley, 5:18.3, 22 April 1954, Dresden, beating Maurice Lusien's mark by nine seconds.
Alfred Steele
Alfred Nu Steele (1901–1959) was an American beverage executive who left Coca-Cola to lead Pepsi-Cola as president and CEO from 1950, and was married to Joan Crawford.
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), American photographer and art dealer; founder of the Photo-Secession, editor of Camera Work, and operator of gallery 291; maker of The Steerage and the Equivalents cloud series.
Alfred Stock
Alfred Stock (1876–1946) was a German inorganic chemist who founded boron hydride chemistry, invented the high-vacuum technique, created the Stock oxidation-state nomenclature, and studied mercury poisoning.
Alfred Sturtevant
Alfred Sturtevant (1891–1970) was an American geneticist who, as a Columbia undergraduate in 1913, constructed the first genetic linkage map of a chromosome, working in Thomas Hunt Morgan's fruit fly laboratory and later at Caltech.
Alfred T. Blomquist
Alfred Theodore Blomquist (1906–1977) was an American organic chemist and Cornell University professor known for the Blomquist cyclic ketone synthesis and the first cyclooctyne–azide reaction, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1960.
Alfred Tarski
Alfred Tarski, born Alfred Tajtelbaum (1901–1983), was a Polish-American mathematician and logician at Berkeley who gave the first rigorous definitions of truth and logical consequence, and proved the Banach-Tarski paradox.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914) was an American naval officer and historian whose theory of sea power reshaped naval policy in the United States, Germany, and Japan.
Alfred the Great
Alfred the Great (Ælfred, 849–899), king of the West Saxons 871–899, defeated the Danes at Edington in 878, created the burh defenses, Danelaw treaty, and Alfredian translations; the only native-born English ruler called 'the Great'.
Alfred Tozzer
Alfred Tozzer (1877–1954) was an American anthropologist and archaeologist at Harvard who studied the Maya and Lacandon and published a definitive 1941 edition of Landa's Relación de las cosas de Yucatán.
Alfred Tysoe
Alfred Ernest Tysoe (1874-1901), English runner for Salford Harriers, won the 800m in 2:01.2 and the 5000m team race at Paris 1900; died of pleurisy aged 27.
Alfred V. Kidder
Alfred V. Kidder (1885–1963) was an American archaeologist who made archaeology in the Americas a systematic discipline, known for his Pecos Pueblo excavations and the Pecos Classification of Southwestern prehistory.
Alfred Vail
Alfred Vail (1807–1859) was an American machinist and inventor who, as Samuel Morse's partner from 1837, built the working telegraph instruments and devised the alphabetic code that became Morse code.
Alfred Vogt
Alfred Vogt (1879–1943) was a Swiss ophthalmologist who founded slit-lamp biomicroscopy, first viewing living corneal endothelial cells, and wrote the standard three-volume atlas of 1930–42.
Alfred von Decastello
Alfred von Decastello was an Austrian clinician in Karl Landsteiner's Vienna circle who, with Adriano Sturli, reported the fourth human blood group, later called AB, in 1902.
Alfred von Tirpitz
Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930), German grand admiral and State Secretary of the Imperial Naval Office 1897–1916, architect of the High Seas Fleet, the Tirpitz Plan, risk theory, and the Anglo-German naval race; resigned 1916 over unrestricted U-boat war.
Alfred von Waldersee
Alfred Graf von Waldersee (1832–1904), German field marshal, Chief of the General Staff 1888–91 after Moltke, dismissed under Wilhelm II, and commander of the allied Boxer expedition in China 1900–01.
Alfred W. Hales
Alfred W. Hales (born 1938) is an American mathematician and UCLA professor emeritus, best known for the Hales–Jewett theorem, proved with Robert Jewett in 1963.
Alfred Washington Adson
Alfred Washington Adson (1887–1951) was an American neurosurgeon who founded Mayo Clinic's first neurosurgical department, led it from 1921 to 1946, and described the Adson maneuver for thoracic outlet syndrome.
Alfred Weber
Alfred Weber (1868–1958), German economist and sociologist, brother of Max Weber; founder of industrial location theory (Über den Standort der Industrien, 1909) and of German cultural sociology; built Heidelberg's Institute for Social and Political Sciences.
Alfred Wegener
Alfred Lothar Wegener (1880–1930) was a German meteorologist, polar scientist, and geophysicist who originated the theory of continental drift, proposing the supercontinent Pangaea; it was vindicated only after his death.