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Thomas W. Williams
Thomas W. Williams is an EDA scientist and former IBM researcher known for co-inventing Level Sensitive Scan Design in 1977 and winning the 2018 Phil Kaufman Award.
Thomas Wagner (atmospheric scientist)
Thomas Wagner is an atmospheric scientist who leads the Satellite Remote Sensing group at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, retrieving trace gases like methane and nitrogen dioxide from satellite spectra.
Thomas Waitz
Thomas Waitz is an Austrian politician of The Greens and an organic farmer from southern Styria who has served in the European Parliament since 2017.
Thomas Walz
Thomas Walz is a structural biologist and professor at The Rockefeller University who uses cryo-electron microscopy to study membrane proteins, including the aquaporin-1 water channel.
Thomas Ward Prete
Thomas Ward Prete is an American aero-propulsion engineer who spent his career at Pratt & Whitney and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
Thomas Warner (explorer)
Sir Thomas Warner was an English captain and colonial administrator who founded the first permanent English settlement in the West Indies, on St Kitts, in 1623.
Thomas Warton
Thomas Warton (1728–1790) was an English poet, critic, and literary historian at Oxford who wrote The History of English Poetry and served as poet laureate from 1785.
Thomas Wassberg
Thomas Wassberg, Swedish cross-country skier born 1956, four Olympic golds (15 km 1980, 50 km and relay 1984, relay 1988) and three world titles; famous for beating Juha Mieto by 0.01 seconds at Lake Placid 1980.
Thomas Wayne
Thomas Wayne (Dr. Thomas Alan Wayne) is DC Comics' fictional father of Bruce Wayne, Batman, a Gotham surgeon, philanthropist and Wayne Enterprises head killed in the 1939 origin; best-known alternate version is Flashpoint's gun-carrying Batman.
Thomas Webster
Thomas Campbell Webster (1909–1981) was an American sailor of the California Yacht Club who won gold in the 8 metre class at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics aboard Angelita after serving as trials crew for runner-up Pierpont Davis.
Thomas Wessinghage
Thomas Wessinghage (born 1952, Hagen) is a West German former middle- and long-distance runner, 1982 European 5000 m champion, 1979 World Cup 1500 m winner, 22-time German champion, and former German 1500 m record holder (3:31.58), later an orthopedic surgeon and DHfPG Prorektor.
Thomas Westen
Thomas Westen, known as Thomas von Westen (1682–1727), was a Norwegian Lutheran priest and Pietist missionary who organized the mission to the Sámi, founding 37 schools, and is called the Apostle of the Sámi.
Thomas William Fraser Russell
Thomas William Fraser Russell, known as T.W. Fraser Russell (1934–2019), was a Canadian-born American chemical engineer and Allan P. Colburn Professor at the University of Delaware.
Thomas Wolf
Thomas Wolf is a French machine-learning researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Hugging Face in April 2017 and serves as its Chief Science Officer, after earlier careers in physics and as a patent attorney.
Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (1900-1938), Asheville, North Carolina novelist, author of Look Homeward, Angel (1929) and Of Time and the River (1935), edited by Maxwell Perkins; distinct from Tom Wolfe the New Journalist.
Thomas Wolff
Thomas H. Wolff (1954–2000) was an American harmonic analyst and Caltech professor who proved landmark lower bounds on Kakeya sets and won the Salem and Bôcher prizes.
Thomas Wolsey
Thomas Wolsey (c. 1474/5–1530), cardinal Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor, was Henry VIII's chief minister from 1515 to 1529; son of an Ipswich butcher, founder of Cardinal College (Christ Church), fell over the annulment and died at Leicester Abbey.
Thomas Würdinger
Thomas Würdinger, also published as Thomas Wurdinger, is a medical biologist and professor at Amsterdam UMC's Cancer Center Amsterdam, known for blood-based cancer diagnostics using tumor-educated platelets.
Thomas Wyatt (poet)
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542), English poet, courtier, and diplomat under Henry VIII; with the Earl of Surrey he introduced the sonnet into English, translating and adapting Petrarch; poems circulated in manuscript until Tottel's Miscellany (1557).
Thomas Wylde (clothier)
Thomas Wylde (died 1559) was an English clothier of Worcester who grew rich in the broadcloth trade, acquired the Commandery, and served as bailiff and Member of Parliament.
Thomas Young (scientist)
Thomas Young FRS (1773–1829) was a British physician, physicist, and Egyptologist who established the wave theory of light, Young's modulus, and trichromatic color vision, and made the first readings of Egyptian hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone.
Thomas Ypsilantis
Thomas Ypsilantis was a Greek-American experimental physicist who co-discovered the antiproton at Berkeley in 1955 and, with Jacques Séguinot, co-invented the Ring Imaging Cherenkov technique used at CERN.
Thomas Zarro Scarangello
Thomas Zarro Scarangello is an American structural engineer, chairman and CEO of Thornton Tomasetti from 2008 to 2020, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
Thomas Zentgraf
Thomas Zentgraf is a German physicist and professor of applied physics at Paderborn University, known for work on plasmonic lenses, plasmon lasers, and nonlinear metasurfaces.
Thomas Zylkin
Thomas (Tom) Zylkin is a trade economist and applied econometrician at the University of Richmond whose research quantifies the effects of trade agreements and trade policies.
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, 1762-1806), French Revolutionary general born enslaved in Saint-Domingue, father of novelist Alexandre Dumas; general from 1793, Army of the Alps, Egypt cavalry commander, imprisoned at Taranto.
Thomas-Mann-Gesellschaft
The Deutsche Thomas Mann-Gesellschaft (German Thomas Mann Society) is a literary society founded in Lübeck in 1965 to promote the study of Thomas Mann, with over 1,000 members.
Thomas–Fermi model
The Thomas–Fermi model is a semiclassical model of atomic electronic structure that treats electrons as a continuous density, proposed in 1927 and the prototype of density functional theory.
Thomasin McKenzie
Thomasin McKenzie (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), New Zealand actress born 2000 in Wellington; breakout as Tom in Leave No Trace (2018), then Elsa in Jojo Rabbit (2019), Last Night in Soho, Eileen, and Joy.
Thomasine Gyllembourg
Thomasine Gyllembourg, born Thomasine Buntzen, was a Danish writer who debuted at 53 in 1827 and wrote 24 tales and four plays anonymously as the author of En Hverdags-Historie.