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Theodore Rockwell

Theodore Rockwell, known as Ted Rockwell, was an American nuclear engineer who served as technical director of Admiral Rickover's Naval Reactors program, co-founded MPR Associates, and edited the Reactor Shielding Design Manual.

Theodore Rodman

Theodore Rodman (1928–2016) was an American pulmonary physician and professor of medicine at Temple University whose research on respiratory failure and open-heart surgery appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) was an American poet and professor whose central subject was his childhood in his father's Michigan greenhouse; "The Waking" is his best-known poem.

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26th U.S. president (1901–1909), Rough Rider, Square Deal reformer, conservation president who protected about 230 million acres, and 1906 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Theodore Roosevelt III

Theodore Roosevelt III (1914–2001) was a grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt who was a partner in the Philadelphia brokerage Montgomery, Scott, served as Pennsylvania's Secretary of Commerce, and donated land for a North Carolina state park.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (Theodore Roosevelt III, 1887-1944), eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt, was an Army brigadier general and Medal of Honor recipient who landed in the first wave on Utah Beach on D-Day and served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Puerto Rico, and Governor General of the Philippines.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Theodore Roosevelt National Park, formerly Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park, protects 70,448 acres of North Dakota badlands in three units along the Little Missouri River, including Roosevelt's Elkhorn Ranch.

Theodore Roosevelt Sr.

Theodore Roosevelt Sr. (1831–1878) was a New York merchant and philanthropist who helped found the American Museum of Natural History and was the father of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Theodore S. Jardetzky

Theodore S. Jardetzky, born 1960, is a structural biologist, professor, and department chair at Stanford known for crystal structures of HLA-DR1, the IgE receptor, and viral entry proteins.

Theodore S. Lawrence

Theodore S. Lawrence is an American radiation oncologist and physician-scientist, the Isadore Lampe Professor at the University of Michigan, known for developing chemoradiation and radiosensitizers for gastrointestinal tumors.

Theodore Strong

Theodore Strong (1790–1869) was an American mathematician and professor at Hamilton College and Rutgers, considered in his lifetime second only to Nathaniel Bowditch among American mathematicians.

Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon (Edward Hamilton Waldo, 1918–1985), American science fiction writer of the Golden Age; author of More Than Human, "Slow Sculpture" (Hugo and Nebula), and Star Trek's "Amok Time."

Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria

Theodore Svetoslav (Тодор Светослав) was tsar of Bulgaria from 1300 to 1321, a son of George I Terter who ended Tatar overlordship and defeated Byzantium in war.

Theodore T. Puck

Theodore T. Puck (1916–2005) was an American geneticist who essentially created somatic cell genetics, devised single-cell cloning of mammalian cells, and established the CHO cell line.

Theodore the Studite

Theodore the Studite (759–826) was a Byzantine monk, theologian, and abbot of the Studium monastery in Constantinople, exiled three times and honored as a saint.

Theodore Tiron

Theodore Tiron, also known as Theodore of Amasea, is a Christian soldier-martyr of Amasea in Pontus who burned a temple of Cybele and died in the flames around 306.

Theodore V. Galambos

Theodore V. Galambos, known as Ted Galambos, is an American structural engineer at the University of Minnesota known for developing load and resistance factor design.

Theodore Van Duzer

Theodore Van Duzer, known as Ted Van Duzer, was an American electrical engineer and UC Berkeley professor who spent five decades building superconductive electronics and co-founded Conductus.

Theodore Van Kirk

Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk (1921–2014) was the navigator of the B-29 Enola Gay on the 6 August 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing mission and its last surviving crew member, a veteran of 58 combat missions.

Theodore von Kármán

Theodore von Kármán, born Kármán Tódor, was a Hungarian-American engineer and physicist who co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and gave his name to the Kármán line, the 100-kilometer boundary of space.

Theodore W. Kurtz

Theodore W. Kurtz is a physician-scientist and Professor of Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on salt-dependent hypertension and rat genetics.

Theodore W. Palmer

Theodore W. Palmer (Theodore Windle Palmer, 1935–2026) was an American mathematician at the University of Oregon who proved the Vidav-Palmer theorem and wrote a two-volume Cambridge monograph on Banach algebras.

Theodore W. Richards

Theodore W. Richards was an American chemist at Harvard who won the 1914 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for exact atomic weight determinations, the first American chemistry laureate.

Theodore W. Schultz

Theodore W. Schultz was an American economist at the University of Chicago who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for work on economic development and agriculture.

Theodore Wilbur Anderson

Theodore Wilbur Anderson (1918–2016) was an American mathematical statistician and econometrician who taught at Columbia and Stanford, known for the Anderson–Darling test and the textbook An Introduction to Multivariate Statistical Analysis.

Theodore Wilson

Theodore (Teddy) Wilson, born Theodore Rosevelt Wilson (1943–1991), American character actor of 1970s sitcoms: Earl Chambers on That's My Mama, Sweet Daddy Williams on Good Times, Phil Wheeler on The Sanford Arms; died of a stroke at 47.

Theodore Y. Wu

Theodore Yao-Tsu Wu (吳耀祖, 1924–2023) was a Chinese-born fluid dynamicist who spent over 40 years as a Caltech professor, known for free-streamline theory, nonlinear water waves, and the hydrodynamics of fish swimming and bird flight.

Theodoret

Theodoret of Cyrrhus (c. 393–c. 458/466) was a Syrian theologian-bishop of Cyrrhus near Antioch, the leading Antiochene opponent of Cyril of Alexandria in the Nestorian controversy.

Theodoric the Great

Theodoric the Great (c. 454–526), also Theoderic, Amal king of the Ostrogoths, ruled Italy 493–526 from Ravenna after killing Odoacer, governing as the Eastern emperor's deputy under Roman law.

Theodoros Diligiannis

Theodoros Diligiannis (Θεόδωρος Δηλιγιάννης, 1824–1905) was a Greek lawyer and politician who served five times as Prime Minister of Greece between 1885 and 1905 and led the National Party.