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Andrew I. Schafer

Andrew I. Schafer is an American hematologist-oncologist known for research on thrombosis and platelet function, the widely cited 2004 NEJM review "Thrombocytosis," and leadership of hematology departments at Baylor, Penn, and Weill Cornell.

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Andrew II of Hungary

Andrew II of Hungary (II. András; c. 1177–1235) was king of Hungary and Croatia from 1205 to 1235, known for the Fifth Crusade and the Golden Bull of 1222.

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Andrew III of Hungary

Andrew III of Hungary, also called Andrew the Venetian, was king of Hungary from 1290 until his death in 1301, the last ruler of the Árpád dynasty.

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Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)

Andrew Comyn "Sandy" Irvine (1902-1924), English mountaineer and Oxford engineer who vanished with George Mallory on Everest, 8 June 1924; redesigned the expedition's oxygen apparatus; partial remains found 2024.

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Andrew J. Connolly

Andrew J. Connolly is a cosmologist and professor of astronomy at the University of Washington, Director of its eScience Institute, and Simulation Scientist for the Rubin Observatory's LSST.

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Andrew J. Dannenberg

Andrew J. Dannenberg is an American physician-scientist at Weill Cornell Medicine who established COX-2 as a target for cancer prevention; in 2023 the Office of Research Integrity found misconduct.

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Andrew J. Elliot

Andrew J. Elliot, also published as Andrew Elliot, is a social-personality psychologist and professor at the University of Rochester known for the hierarchical model of achievement motivation and research on how the color red affects performance.

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Andrew J. Flavell

Andrew J. Flavell is Professor and Chair in Plant Genomics at the University of Dundee, known for retrotransposon research, the RBIP marker method, and a 2007 transposable element classification.

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Andrew J. Griffith

Andrew Griffin, also known as Andrew J. Griffith, is an American otolaryngologist and geneticist who discovered the TMC genes underlying inner-ear hearing and received a 2002 Presidential Early Career Award.

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Andrew J. K. Phillips

Andrew J. K. Phillips is an Australian sleep and circadian rhythms researcher at Flinders University, known for the Phillips-Robinson sleep-wake model and the Sleep Regularity Index.

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Andrew J. King

Andrew J. King, born in 1959, is a British neuroscientist and Professor of Neurophysiology at Oxford known for discovering the brain's spatial map of sound.

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Andrew J. Lees

Andrew J. Lees (Andrew Lees) is a British neurologist at University College London who has spent his career on Parkinson's disease and atypical parkinsonian disorders.

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Andrew J. Lovinger

Andrew J. Lovinger is a polymer physicist known for demonstrating ferroelectric behavior in poly(vinylidene fluoride) and for structural work on organic transistors on flexible plastic substrates.

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Andrew J. Macpherson

Andrew J. Macpherson, also published as Andrew Macpherson, is a Scottish-born mucosal immunologist and gastroenterologist known for work on intestinal secretory IgA, and Professor of Medicine at the University of Bern.

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Andrew J. Majda

Andrew J. Majda (1949–2021) was an American applied mathematician at NYU's Courant Institute, known for work on shock waves, vortex dynamics, absorbing boundary conditions, and climate modeling.

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Andrew J. McMichael

Andrew J. McMichael, knighted in 2008, is a British immunologist at Oxford who showed how cytotoxic T cells recognize virus-infected cells and how HIV escapes them.

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Andrew J. Millar

Andrew J. Millar is a circadian systems biologist and Professor of Systems Biology at the University of Edinburgh, known for the first mathematical models of the plant circadian clock.

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Andrew J. Millis

Andrew J. Millis is an American theoretical condensed matter physicist, professor at Columbia University and co-director of the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Quantum Physics.

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Andrew J. Oswald

Andrew J. Oswald is a British economist, Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the University of Warwick, best known as a pioneer of the economics of happiness.

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Andrew J. Prendergast

Andrew J. Prendergast is a pediatric infection researcher and Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at Queen Mary University of London who studies HIV and child malnutrition.

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Andrew J. Roger

Andrew J. Roger is a molecular evolution researcher at Dalhousie University in Halifax, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada known for work on eukaryotic origins and mitochondria.

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Andrew J. Tatem

Andrew J. Tatem is a professor of spatial demography and epidemiology at the University of Southampton who founded WorldPop, producing open population maps used by governments and UN agencies.

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Andrew J. Weaver

Andrew J. Weaver, also known as Andrew Weaver, is a Canadian climate scientist and oceanographer at the University of Victoria, a lead author on four IPCC assessments.

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Andrew J.M. Boulton

Andrew J.M. Boulton is a British diabetologist, Professor of Medicine at the University of Manchester, known for research on diabetic neuropathy and diabetic foot disease.

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Andrew J.S. Coats

Andrew J.S. Coats, also known as Andrew Coats, is an Australian-born cardiologist and heart-failure researcher, now Scientific Director and CEO of the Heart Research Institute in Sydney.

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Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), seventh U.S. president 1829–1837, "Old Hickory," Battle of New Orleans hero, Democratic Party founder, Indian Removal Act and Bank War president.

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Andrew Jackson (British geophysicist)

Andrew Jackson is a British geomagnetist and Professor of Earth and Planetary Magnetism at ETH Zürich, awarded the 2022 Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal in Geophysics.

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Andrew Jackson Jr.

Andrew Jackson Jr. (1808/1809-1865), adopted son of President Andrew Jackson and Rachel Jackson, biological son of Severn Donelson; managed the Hermitage, co-owned the Halcyon plantation, married Sarah Yorke, and lost his Mississippi lands in an 1861 sheriff's sale.

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Andrew Jarecki

Andrew Jarecki, American documentary filmmaker and Moviefone co-founder; known for Capturing the Friedmans (2003), The Jinx (2015), and The Alabama Solution (2025).

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Andrew Jayich

Andrew Jayich is an experimental physicist at UC Santa Barbara who uses trapped radium ions and molecules to test fundamental symmetries and build optical clocks.