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Arnold Donald

Arnold Donald is an American business executive who was CEO of Merisant and, from 2013 to 2022, of Carnival Corporation, the first Black CEO of a major cruise company.

Arnold Droz-Farny

Arnold Droz-Farny, born Arnold Droz (1856–1912), was a Swiss mathematician and schoolteacher at Porrentruy known for the Droz-Farny line theorem, published without proof in 1899.

Arnold Engineering Development Complex

The Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) is a US Air Force ground-test complex at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee, operating wind tunnels and rocket engine test cells.

Arnold Eucken

Arnold Thomas Eucken (1884–1950) was a German physical chemist who held the Göttingen chair from 1930, measured hydrogen's low-temperature specific heat in 1912, and gave his name to the Eucken factor.

Arnold F. Holleman

Arnold F. Holleman (Arnold Frederik Holleman, 1859–1953) was a Dutch organic chemist, professor at Groningen and Amsterdam, known for the Holleman rule and textbooks in sixteen Dutch editions.

Arnold Genthe

Arnold Genthe (1869–1942) was a German-born American photographer known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown before the 1906 earthquake and his soft-focus portraits of celebrities.

Arnold Gesell

Arnold Gesell was an American psychologist and pediatrician who founded the Yale Clinic of Child Development, making infant behavior a measurable science through decades of observation.

Arnold Graffi

Arnold Graffi (1910–2006) was a German experimental oncologist who discovered the Graffi murine leukemia virus in 1954 and founded experimental cancer research in East Germany at Berlin-Buch.

Arnold H. Bouma

Arnold H. Bouma (1932–2011) was a Dutch geologist whose 1962 monograph on flysch deposits defined the five-division Bouma sequence of a turbidite bed, a foundation of deep-water sedimentology.

Arnold Hague

Arnold Hague (1840–1917) was an American geologist with the United States Geological Survey, best known for directing the survey of Yellowstone National Park and helping create the US forest-reserve system.

Arnold Harberger

Arnold Harberger is an American economist known for applied welfare economics, public finance, and cost-benefit analysis, and for the Harberger triangle, the standard diagram of deadweight loss from taxes.

Arnold J. Levine

Arnold J. Levine is an American molecular biologist who co-discovered the p53 tumor suppressor protein in 1979 and is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889–1975) was a British historian and philosopher of history whose twelve-volume A Study of History explained civilizations' rise and fall through challenge and response.

Arnold Jackson

Arnold Jackson (Arnold Nugent Strode Strode-Jackson, 1891–1972) was a British runner who won the 1912 Stockholm Olympic 1,500 m gold in 3:56.8, an Olympic record, and later became the British Army's youngest brigadier-general.

Arnold Krog

Arnold Krog was a Danish architect and painter who, as artistic director of the Royal Copenhagen porcelain factory from 1885 to 1916, created the blue underglaze painting style.

Arnold L. Gordon

Arnold L. Gordon is an American physical oceanographer at Columbia University and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory known for shipboard and moored studies of the Agulhas leakage and the Indonesian throughflow.

Arnold L. Rheingold

Arnold L. Rheingold (1940–2024) was an American inorganic chemist and X-ray crystallographer who deposited more structures to the Cambridge Structural Database than any other author.

Arnold L. Rosenberg

Arnold L. Rosenberg is an American theoretical computer scientist who worked at IBM, Duke, and UMass Amherst, known for graph-theoretic models of computation and the Aanderaa–Karp–Rosenberg conjecture.

Arnold Leese

Arnold Spencer Leese (1878-1956), also called the 'Anti-Jewish Camel-Doctor', was a British veterinary surgeon and camel expert who founded and led the small, intensely antisemitic Imperial Fascist League, fought Mosley's BUF, was interned under Regulation 18B, and ran the postwar Gothic Ripples.

Arnold M. Epstein

Arnold M. Epstein is an American physician and health policy researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for work on Medicaid policy and hospital payment reform.

Arnold M. Katz

Arnold M. Katz (1932–2016) was an American cardiologist who defined calcium's role in heart contraction, discovered phospholamban, and served as the first Chief of Cardiology at the University of Connecticut.

Arnold M. Seligman

Arnold M. Seligman (1912–1976) was an American physician and histochemist who developed methods for showing enzymes and protein sulfhydryl groups in tissue sections and applied them to cancer.

Arnold Machin

Arnold Machin (1911–1999) was an English sculptor, ceramicist, and teacher whose relief of Queen Elizabeth II appears on British decimal coinage from 1968 and definitive stamps since 1967.

Arnold Mathew

Arnold Harris Mathew (1852–1919) was a former Roman Catholic priest consecrated in 1908 as Old Catholic Regionary Bishop for Great Britain, founding a line of independent Catholic churches.

Arnold Migus

Arnold Migus, born in 1948, is a French physicist at the École Polytechnique known for femtosecond and ultraintense lasers, who directed the CNRS from 2006 to 2010.

Arnold Newman

Arnold Newman (1918–2006) was an American photographer generally acknowledged as the pioneer of the environmental portrait, made in the subject's home or workplace; his 1946 portrait of Igor Stravinsky is his most iconic image.

Arnold O. Beckman

Arnold O. Beckman (1900–2004) was an American chemist who founded Beckman Instruments in Pasadena in 1935, introducing the first commercial pH meter and the Beckman DU spectrophotometer.

Arnold of Soissons

Arnold of Soissons (Arnulf of Soissons) was a Flemish monk and bishop of Soissons who founded Oudenburg Abbey and is the patron saint of brewers.

Arnold Palmer

Arnold Palmer (1929–2016), "the King," American golfer from Latrobe, PA; 62 PGA Tour wins, seven majors (Masters 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964; U.S. Open 1960; Open 1961, 1962), no PGA Championship; golf's first TV superstar.

Arnold Palmer (drink)

The Arnold Palmer is a nonalcoholic mix of iced tea and lemonade named after golfer Arnold Palmer, originating in 1960s Palm Springs; AriZona's Lite Half & Half and a 5% ABV Spiked version are the main branded products.