Scientists of the Christian Faith -- Alphabetical Index (W)
Dr. William Wade
/ William E. Wade, FASHP, FCCP *** Not in
Gale
Pharmacy Practice Professor, Department of Clinical and
Administrative Pharmacy, University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, Athens,
Georgia. B.S., Pharmacy, University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, Athens,
Georgia, 1975; Pharm.D., University of Georgia College of Pharmacy,
Athens, Georgia, 1985.
Honors: Wade, professor and Associate department head, and
Martin, Associate professor, received
the Pharmacy Practice Award given by the American Society of Health-System
Pharmacists Research and Education Foundation, for their paper on "Cost/death
averted with venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in patients undergoing total
knee replacement or knee arthroplasty," co-authored by Jayanti Nerurkar, a
graduate student in the College.
Faculty webpage, http://www.rx.uga.edu/main/home/cet/wade_cv.html
"My primary interests have focused on pharmacoeconomic and
clinical outcomes research. Cost studies conducted have focused on deep venous
thrombosis prophylaxis in various high risk indications. Clinical outcomes
research projects have focused on both the acute care medical and outpatient
ambulatory environment. I plan to play a major role in the performance of
translational studies in the acute care hospital setting."
Curt Wagner *** Not in Gale
Physicist. Curt
Wagner, Ph.D. is Professor of Physics
(Retired), Southwest (Minnesota) State University, Marshall, MN. He holds a
B.A. summa cum laude in physics from the University of Wisconsin (Madison), an
M.S. in physics and astronomy and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics, both from the
University of Illinois (Urbana). Dr. Wagner was a recipient of a National
Science Foundation Fellowship and undertook research in the area of nonlinear
mathematical mappings and properties of various black hole solutions to
Einstein's Field Equations of General Relativity. Subsequent academic research
covered a wide range of areas including artificial intelligence, computer
modeling of chaotic systems, biophysics, acoustics, cloud physics and plasma
physics.
From http://www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/featured_speakers1.htm#Curt%20Wagner,%20Ph.D.
Testimony in On the Seventh Day: Forty Scientists
and Academics Explain Why They Believe in God, edited
by John F. Ashton, Ph.D. Master Books,
Inc., Green Forest, AR, 2002. ISBN
0-89051-376-7.
Sir Cecil Wakeley / Sir Cecil P. G. Wakeley / Cecil Pembrey Grey
Wakely, KBE, CB, LLD, FRSE, MCD, FRCS, honFRCSE FFR FRCSI FRACS LID DSc *** Not in Gale
(1892-1979). English surgeon. President of the Royal College of Surgeons. Wakeley had been
editorial secretary of the British Journal of Surgery from 1942 to 1972.
Harrell Lynn
Walker
(Born 1945). Plant pathologist, botany educator, researcher. Professor botany,
Louisiana Tech. University, Ruston, 1987; Achievements include 11 patents
related to biological control of weeds with plant pathogens, manipulation of
microorganisms for control of plant diseases. Previous positions: Director
Research sta., Mycogen Corp., Ruston, Louisiana, 1984-87; Research scientist, U.S. Dept. Agriculture,
Agricultural Research Service, Stoneville, Mississippi, 1976-84; Assistant
Director plant industry division, Alabama Dept. Agriculture, Montgomery,
1975-76; plant pathologist, Alabama Dept. Agriculture, Montgomery, 1974-75;
postdoctoral Research Assistant dept. fisheries, Auburn (Alabama) University,
1972-74; biol. Research Assistant, U.S. Army Medical Laboratory, Ft. Meade, Maryland,
1970-72. BS, Louisiana Tech.
University, 1966; MS, University Kentucky, 1969; Ph.D., University Kentucky,
1970.
Member: American Phytopathol. Society, Weed
Science Society America, Southern Weed Science Society. Southern Baptist.
Recipient Inventor's award U.S. Dept.
Commerce, Washington, 1985; grantee U.S. Dept. Agriculture, 1981-83, Louisiana
Soybean Research Board, 1992-99, Louisiana Catfish Promotion and Research
Board, 1993-98, Southern Regional Aquaculture Center, 1996-99.
Editor: Biological Control of Weeds With Plant Pathogens, 1982; Contributor
of over 40 articles to professional journals.
Marquis Who's Who, 2004.
Tasman Bruce
Walker, Ph.D. *** Not in Gale
Mechanical engineer and geologist. Staff scientist, Answers in Genesis in
Brisbane, Australia.
Bachelor of Science majoring in Earth Science with first
class honours (1998), a Bachelor of Engineering with first class honours in
Mechanical Engineering and a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering. He has been
involved in the planning, design and operation of power stations for over 20
years with the electricity industry in Queensland, Australia. He has visited
many coal mines in Queensland, for geological assessments of new fuel supplies
for power stations. Tas also helped organise conferences including one of the
Simulation Society of Australia. One of his contributions has been to develop
models for various aspects of the power industry such as the coordinated
operation of the system and construction of power stations.
Tas has also set up an internet
site about geology and the Bible. A biblical framework of geology leads to
a new appreciation of the environments and processes of different geological
phases. The site describes the basis of this model and a practical application
to the Great Artesian Basin of Australia.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/bios/t_walker.asp
Tas Walker's Home Page, http://www.uq.net.au/~zztbwalk/
John Frank Walkup
(Born 1941).
Electrical engineer. Educator. Dr. John Walkup is an Emeritus Horn
Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas Tech University, where he taught
and directed the research of the Optical Systems Laboratory from 1971 to 1998.
In 1998 John and his wife Pat joined the staff of Christian Leadership
Ministries in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He received a B.A. in engineering science, B.S. in
electrical engineering from Dartmouth College, and his graduate degrees (M.S.,
Engineer, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering) from Stanford University.
From 1971 to 1998 Dr. Walkup was an electrical engineering Professor at
Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He founded the Optical Systems
Laboratory and directed its research in the areas of optical information
processing and computing, holographic data storage, optical neural networks,
and digital image processing. Texas Tech honored him with the rank of
Paul W. Horn Professor and with a number of awards for his teaching and his
research group's accomplishments.
Dr. Walkup co-authored nearly 200 refereed journal
articles, book chapters and conference papers.
Honors: Fellow of the IEEE, the Optical Society of
America (OSA), and the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE).
He served as chairman of the Education Council of the OSA, and as
chairman of the Gordon Research Conference on Optical Information Processing
and Holography (1991). He also served OSA as an Associate Editor for both
the Journal of the Optical Society of
America-A and Applied
Optics-Information Processing. During sabbaticals from Texas Tech, John was
a Visiting Scholar at the University of Arizona's Optical Sciences Center
(1982), a visiting Professor at Stanford University (1992-93), and a National
Research Council Senior Research Associate at NASA's Ames Research Center
(1992-93).
Webpage, Christian Leadership Ministries. http://www.facultylinc.com/personal/facoffice.nsf/AllStaffbyStaffID/John%20Walkup?OpenDocument
Biographical information: http://www.facultylinc.com/personal/facoffice.nsf/Bios+By+Staff+ID/John%20Walkup?OpenDocument
Ray Westbrook. "Creationist
belief revolves around truthfulness of Bible," http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/022897/creation2.htm.
From Avalanche-Journal, 1997
John Frank Walkup. "Personal
Story: From Religion to Relationship," http://www.facultylinc.com/personal/facoffice.nsf/Storys+By+Staff+ID/John%20Walkup?OpenDocument. Reprinted with permission from InterVarsity
Press. This essay appears on pgs. 80-85 (Chapter 8) of the book Professors
Who Believe: The Spiritual Journeys of Christian Faculty, edited by Paul M. Anderson. InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL, 1998. ISBN 0-8308-1599-6.
"As a college professor, I instruct students in the
principles and applications of electrical science and engineering. As a
researcher, I investigate the frontiers of optical science. The logic and
orderliness of science and engineering remind me that the God I serve is a God
of order who has created a universe which is governed by physical laws and held
together by God's power and love."
John Wallis
John Wallis (1616-1703) was a founding
member of the Royal Society (1662), one of the oldest scientific organizations
still in existence, and is considered by many the most influential British
mathematician preceding Isaac Newton.
He contributed the earliest forms, terms, and notations to nascent fields such
as calculus and analysis. Wallis was the first to attempt to
write a comprehensive history of British mathematics, striving to bring
continuity to mathematical study and research.
Savilian
Professor of Geometry, Oxford (1649-1703); in Arithmetica Infinitorum (1655)
introduced the notation ( 
) for infinity and reduced
the idea of limit to arithmetic form and arrived at results from which the
binomial theorem, the differential calculus, and the integral calculus were
developed; in Mathesis Universalis
(1657) introduced negative and fractional exponents; in Treatise on Algebra
(1685) treated conoids and anticipated notion of complex number. Also studied
grammar, publishing (1652) a treatise on English grammar with an appendix on
articulating sounds. Calvinist,
Anglican.
The Galileo Project, http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/wallis.html
or http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewNewFiles/wallis.html
He was one of the so-called Invisible College in London in the 40s and then of the Oxford Circle that succeeded it. Later he was President of the Oxford Philosophical Society, 1684-8. Royal Society, 1660; President, 1680. Informal Connections: Intimate friendship with Thomas Smith, John Collins, Edmond Halley, Samuel Pepys.
Connections with Fermat, Brouncker, Frenicle, David Gregory, and Schooten. Scriba has published a very useful index of Wallis' extensive correspondence, over 800 letters excluding those on theology and university affairs. He quarreled with Hobbes, Henry Stubbe, Lewis Maydwell and Fermat.
J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson. John Wallis http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Wallis.html
http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/W/WallisJ/1.html:
Wallis was born in Ashford, Kent, and studied at Cambridge. In 1640 he was ordained in the Church of England. He moved to London 1645 and assisted the Parliamentary side by deciphering captured coded letters during the Civil War. From 1649 he was professor of geometry at Oxford, and in 1658 he was appointed keeper of the university archives. In 1660 Charles II chose him as his royal chaplain. After the revolution of 1688-89, which drove James II from the throne, Wallis was employed by William III as a decipherer. Wallis also conducted experiments in speech and attempted to teach, with some success, congenitally deaf people to speak. His method was described in his Grammatica linguae anglicanae, 1652.
W. W. Rouse Ball. "John Wallis (1616 - 1703)," From A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (4th edition, 1908), http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Wallis/RouseBall/RB_Wallis.html
http://93.1911encyclopedia.org/W/WA/WALLIS_JOHN.htm
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/John%20Wallis
Jeremy L. Walter, Ph.D., P.E.
(Born 1953) Mechanical Engineer. Dr. Walter is Head of the
Power Conversion Systems Department within the Energy Science and Power Systems
Division (ESPS) at the Applied Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State
University (ARL/PSU). The department performs advanced analyses and
develops prototype hardware for thermal power and propulsion systems,
especially for air-independent applications, such as undersea vehicles.
Department responsibilities include designing, building, and field-testing
prototypes of undersea propulsion systems. He was a 1975 recipient of the National
Science Foundation Fellowship.
From http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/bios/j_walter.asp.
He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering with highest
distinction, an M.S. in mechanical engineering, and a Ph.D. in mechanical
engineering, all from Pennsylvania State University.
http://www.christiananswers.net/creation/people/walter-j.html
Contact: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/m/jmc6/CFSF/Speakers.dir/Walter/creation.html
Testimony in In
Six Days: Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation, edited by John F. Ashton, Ph.D. Master Books, Inc., Green Forest, AR, 2001. ISBN 0-89051-341-4.
"Biblical faith is a confident and convinced trust in
the testimony of the One who is both Creator and Redeemer."
Testimony in On the Seventh Day: Forty Scientists
and Academics Explain Why They Believe in God, edited
by John F. Ashton, Ph.D. Master Books,
Inc., Green Forest, AR, 2002. ISBN
0-89051-376-7.
Ernest Walton /
Ernest T. S. Walton / Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
Ernest Walton (1903-1995) was an Irish physicist and educator best known for his work with John Cockcroft (q.v.) on the development of the first particle accelerator, which produced the first artificial transmutation
of an atomic nucleus without the use of radioactive elements in 1932. In recognition of this achievement, Walton and Cockcroft were awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics. Fellow emeritus, Trinity College, Dublin, 1974-95; Erasmus Smith's Professor natural and experimental philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin, 1947-74. Education: student, Methodist College, Belfast, Northern Ireland; MSc, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; Ph.D., Cambridge (Eng.) University; DSc (Honorary), Queen's University, Belfast; DSc (Honorary), Gustavus Adolphus College, Minn.; DSc (Honorary), University Ulster, Northern Ireland; Ph.D., Dublin City University,
Honors: Recipient Overseas Research scholar, 1927-30, SeniorResearch award, Dept. science and industrial research, 1930-34, Clerk Maxwell scholar, 1932-34, Hughes medal, Royal Society, 1938, Nobel prize for physics, 1951.
http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1951/walton-bio.html
http://www.ulsterhistory.co.uk/walton.htm
http://mujweb.cz/Kultura/zidove/1951/ernest-walton.htm
http://www.nobel-winners.com/Physics/ernest_thomas_sinton_walton.html
http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/History/ETSWalton/life.php
Keith H. Wanser *** Not in Gale
Dr Keith Wanser, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. is Professor of Physics
at California State University, Fullerton. His research interests lie in
fibre-optic sensing techniques, experimental and theoretical condensed matter
physics, and basic theories of matter.
B.A. California State
University, Fullerton, M.A. University
of California, Irvine, Ph.D. University
of California, Irvine.
Webpage: http://chaos.fullerton.edu/Wanser.html
Curriculum vitae: http://chaos.fullerton.edu/Wanser-cv2003.pdf
Carl
Wieland and Jonathan
Sarfati talk to physicist Keith Wanser. "God and the electron," http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/4153.asp. First published in: Creation Ex
Nihilo 21(4):38-41,September-November 1999. "I recommitted my life to Jesus Christ in 1976. Since then, I
have studied a great deal of scientific evidence, and I am convinced there is
far more evidence for a recent, six-day creation and a global Flood than there
is for an old earth and evolution."
http://www.icr.org/creationscientists/physicalscientists.html
Keith H. Wanser, Ph.D. Physics. http://www.icr.org/creationscientists/wanser.html
Testimony in In
Six Days: Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation, edited by John F. Ashton, Ph.D. Master Books, Inc., Green Forest, AR, 2001. ISBN 0-89051-341-4.
Seth Ward
(1617-1689). English bishop and astronomer.
Savilian
Professor of Astronomy, Oxford (1649-60); bishop of Exeter
(1662-67), of Salisbury (1667); propounded alternative to Kepler's area law of
planetary motion (1653); engaged in philosophical controversy with Thomas
Hobbes.
The Galileo Project, http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/ward.html
http://75.1911encyclopedia.org/W/WA/WARD_SETH.htm
http://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/Clergy/Oliver/42.html
Guylyn R. Warren
(Born August 16, 1941).
Molecular geneticist. Research Associate, 1970-72;
Assistant Professor chemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, 1974-76, Adjunct
Associate Professor, 1979. NIH grantee, 1980-83, 84-87, 87-90. Education: B.S.,
Montana State University, 1963, Ph.D. in Genetics, 1967. NIH postdoctoral fellow Palo Alto Medical
Research Foundation California, 1968-70,
Member AAAS, Environmenal Mutagen Society, Columbia Sheepbreeders
Association (Board directors 1980-present, President 1984-86), Sigma Xi. Presbyterian.
Contributor of articles to professional journals.
Marquis Who's Who, 2004.
David C. Watts, Ph.D., FRSC, FInstP, FADM*** Not in Gale
Dental biomaterials scientist.
Professor of Dental Biomaterials Science and Head, Unit of Biomaterials
Science, Associate Dean for Graduate and Postgraduate Studies,Unit of
Biomaterials Science, University of Manchester, England. Research Professor in
Biomaterials and Biomechanics: Oregon. Health Sciences University, Portland,
OR, USA. B.Sc. (Honors), Chemistry and Physics, Ph.D. in Polymer Science,
School of Dentistry, University of Manchester, England. David Watts is an Elder
at Sale Evangelical Church in south Manchester and University Reader in
Biomaterials Science at The University of Manchester Dental School.
Editor-in-Chief: Dental
Materials.
Faculty webpage, University of Manchester Dental School, http://www.den.man.ac.uk/cag/Staff%20Pages/David%20Watts.htm
Professor Watts is the 2003 winner of the IADR
Distinguished Scientist [Wilmer Souder] Award for research in dental
biomaterials. www.iadr.org/awards/souder.html
Contact page, http://www.ttdentistry.com/NavContent/about/Members/PersonalInfo/MemberPage.asp?MembID=6
David Watts. "Materials,
the Millennium and the Mind of God (Editorial)," "Dental Materials", 16(1),
January 2000, iii-iv. http://www.jodkowski.pl/ke/DWatts001.html. Reprinted from the January 2000 issue
[16(1)] of the international research journal Dental Materials, published
by Elsevier Science, Oxford.
David Watts. "Creation in the New Testament: Overview and Implications," http://www.personal.u-net.com/~sec/C&NT01_.htm
Fraser Norman
Watts
(Born 1946).
Clinical psychologist. Fraser
Watts is a former President of the British Psychological Society, who worked at
the Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge. He is now
Starbridge Lecturer in Theology and Natural Science, in the Faculty of
Divinity, University of Cambridge; and also a Fellow of Queens' College, and
Chaplain of St Edward's Church, Cambridge. His interests are in religious,
philosophical and psychological aspects of genetics.
Author: (with D.H. Bennett) Theory and Practice of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 1983; (with M.G.
Williams) Psychology of Religious Knowing,
1988; (with others) Cognitive Psychology
and Emotional Disorders, 1988; editor: New
Developments in Clinical Psychology, 1985; (with G. Parry) Skills and Methods in Mental Health Research,
1988, Cognition and Emotion,
Brighton, England, 1987.
Faculty webpage, Center for Medical Genetics and Policy,
University of Cambridge, http://www.cmgp.org.uk/research/people/watts_f.html
Vivienne Watts, BSc, MA Mich, GradDipTeach BCAE, Ph.D. QUT, RN, AMusA,
ATCL, LTCL. *** Not in Gale
Behavior management.
Educator. Dr Vivienne Watts is a
Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Creative Arts at Central
Queensland University, Australia. She
teaches in the areas of behaviour management, classroom communication and
student welfare. Her principal research interests are related to child
protection, children's personal safety, school bullying and other forms of
school violence and she is the author of several books on these subjects. BS in
Health Science and MA in Religion from Andrews University, USA; Ph.D.
Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Faculty webpage, Office of Research, Central Queensland
University, Australia, http://research.cqu.edu.au/expertise/profile.php?facid=3&schoolid=&staffid=174
Vivienne Watts. Author:
"Responding to School Violence: An Annotated Bibliography of Teachers'
Resources," Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs," http://www.cqu.edu.au/education/assistschool.html. © COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA, 1999.
Testimony in On the Seventh Day: Forty Scientists
and Academics Explain Why They Believe in God, edited
by John F. Ashton, Ph.D. Master Books,
Inc., Green Forest, AR, 2002. ISBN
0-89051-376-7.
Anthony John
Weber
(Born 1953). Geophysicist, geologist. Certified geological scientist. Area geophysicist South
Louisiana district Atlantic Richfield Co., Lafayette, 1975-81; Senior
explorationist Gulf Coast div. Delta Drilling Co., Lafayette, 1981-85;
consultant, Lafayette, 1983; Senior explorationist Gt. Southern Oil and Gas
Co., Lafayette, 1985-87; Senior professional geophysicist Amerada Hess Corp.,
1987; ptnr. LAFDEL Partnership, Penta Explorers, Comanche Flyers, Inc. BS in
Geophysical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1975; MS in Geology,
University of S.W. Louisiana, 1979.
Member S.W. Louisiana Geophysics Society
(past President), Lafayette Geological Society, Society Exploration
Geophysicists, American Association Petroleum Geologists, American Institute
Professional Geologists, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Baptist. Club: City of Lafayette.
Contributor of articles to professional journals.
Marquis
Who's Who, 2004.
Georg Wolfgang Wedel *** Not in Gale
(1645-1721). German physician, iatrochemist, pharmacologist, alchemist. Lutheran.
The Galileo Project, http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/wedel.html
Wedel was one of the leading iatrochemists of his time, working under the influence of Sylvius. His medical publications leaned heavily in the pharmacological direction. He was convinced of the possibility of the transmutation of metals, and he published on alchemy. Wedel was an extremely productive author.
He practiced medicine early in his career, and presumably later, albeit to a much higher strata of clientele.
His medical lectures dealt with pharmaceutical chemistry, and his publications leaned heavily toward pharmaceutical questions.
Member: Berlin Academy, 1716; Academia Leopoldina, 1672. Wedel's extensive correspondence is catalogued by Spanke.
Karl Weierstrass
Karl Wilhelm Theodor Weierstrass
(1815-1887) was considered one of the greatest mathematical analysts of 19th
century Europe. He is well known as a cofounder of the theory of analytic
functions and their representation as power series. Weierstrass made crucial
contributions to the arithematization of analysis and to the theory of real
numbers. He showed the importance of uniform convergence, furthered the
understanding of elliptic functions, and made contributions to the field of
differential equations. Weierstrass' reputation for high standards of proof and
definition is reflected in the modern development of calculus and analysis.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Weierstrass.html
or
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Weierstrass.html
http://www.shu.edu/projects/reals/history/weierstr.html
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Karl%20Weierstrass
http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/Weierstrass.html
Bettie Louise
Wells
(Born 1957). Computer scientist at Procter & Gamble Co.,
Cin., 1976-77; acct. Morgan State University, Baltimore, 1977-79, St. Regis
Paper Co., Houston, 1978-79; law clk. Shell Oil Co., Houston, 1979-82;
Associate Ross & Taylor, Houston, 1982-83; Assistant atty. General, Austin,
Texas, 1983. BS magna cum laude, Morgan State University, 1979; JD, University
Houston, 1982. Bar: Texas 1982.
Member ABA, National Bar Association,
Houston Bar Association, Alpha Kappa Mu. Baptist.
Marquis
Who's Who, 2004.
Timothy Wells, BSc, Ph.D.*** Not in Gale
Neuroscience scholar. Lecturer in
Neuroscience, University of Cardiff.
Faculty webpage, Cardiff School of Biosciences, http://www.cf.ac.uk/biosi/research/neuroscience/staff/wells.html
Contact: http://www.expertise.cardiff.ac.uk/staffnew.asp?details=518
Gottfried Wendelin / Vendelinus *** Not in Gale
(1580-1667). Belgian astronomer and cartographer. Catholic priest in Brussels, ordained in
1619.
The Galileo Project, http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/wendelin.html:
Wendelin determined the latitude of Marseille and interested himself in the determination of longitudes made by Peiresc; he calculated the length of the Mediterranean independently from Peiresc's data.
Connections: corresponded with Mersenne, Gassendi, and Constantijn Huygens.
http://users.pandora.be/lode.stevens/vendelinus/volks.html (in Dutch)
http://www.europlanetarium.be/wetenschappen/vendelinus.php (in Dutch)
Johann-Jakob Wepfer *** Not in Gale
(1620-1695). Swiss physician, anatomist, pharmacologist.
The Galileo Project, http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/wepfer.html
What Fischer calls his masterwork, his study of the poison in hemlock (1679), was pharmacological in nature. Because of this work, Fischer calls Wepfer the father of experimental toxicology and pharmacology. The content of the work stretches far beyond hemlock to consider all sorts of poisonous plants. And elsewhere he carried out similar experiments on mineral poisons, in which he warned against the use of such things as arsenic, antimony, and mercury as medicines.
Membership: Academia Leopoldina, 1685. He published in the Miscellanea curiosa of the Leopoldina. Wepfer carried on a very extensive correspondence with the leading medical scientists from the Germanic area of his day.
Thomas Wharton *** Not in Gale
(1614-1673). English anatomist, physiologist.
The Galileo Project, http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/wharton_tho.html
Wharton was the author of Adenographia, 1656, the first thorough and comprehensive account of all the glands in the body, with research into their functions. He discovered the duct of the submaxillary salivary gland and the jelly of the umbilical cord, both of which are named for him. He gave the first adequate account of the thyroid gland, which he named.
Member: Royal College of Physicians, 1650; Censor 6 times, 1658- 73. Gulstonian Lecturer, 1654. Informal Connections: Professional relationship with John French, Thomas Frapham, Francis Glisson, George Ent, Francis Prujean, Edward Emily and others.
http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2046.html. Associated eponyms: Wharton's duct, The duct of the submandibular salivary gland opening into the mouth at side of the frenum linguae; Wharton's jelly, A gelatinous intercellular substance which is the primitive mucoid connective tissue of the umbilical cord.
http://www.wharton.freeservers.com/thomas.html
Emma Rochelle
Wheeler
(1882-1957).
Physician. A woman of diverse interests, Emma Rochelle
Wheeler was a trailblazing physician, hospital and nursing school founder, and
an initiator of an unparalleled, prepaid hospitalization plan. Wheeler practiced
medicine for almost fifty years and was well known for her assistance to young
African Americans in their academic and business undertakings. An organizer of
a chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, she was among the early most
notable and distinguished African American women leaders in Chattanooga,
Tennessee. Wheeler was the founder and operator of Walden Hospital. Dedicated
on July 30, 1915, Walden was the first and only African American-owned and
operated medical facility in Chattanooga. In 1949 the Chattanooga branch
of the NAACP voted her "Negro Mother of the Year."
Linda T. Wynn. EMMA ROCHELLE WHEELER (1882-1957) http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/wheel.htm
Emma Rochelle Wheeler (1882-1957), Physician. http://www.mtsu.edu/~library/wtn/bio/wheeler.html
The African American Registry, http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/2173/Emma_Wheeler_was_an_early_caregiver
William Whewell
(1794-1866). English philosopher and
mathematician. Professor, Cambridge (1828-55), master of Trinity College (1841-66),
vice chancellor of university (1843, 1856); instituted tripos of moral science
and of natural science (1848); known for studies in natural sciences and of
philosophy of Kant. Author of Astronomy and General Physics (1833), History
of the Inductive Sciences (1837), Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences
(1840), History of Scientific Ideas (1858), Novum Organon Renovatum
(1858), and On the Philosophy of Discovery (1860).
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whewell/
or
http://www.seop.leeds.ac.uk/archives/win2003/entries/whewell/
http://www.sacklunch.net/biography/W/WilliamWhewell.html
http://rjohara.net/darwin/palaetiology.html
Dr.
Rita Kirk Whillock
(Born 1953). Communications educator. Dr. Rita Kirk Whillock is a Professor & Chair of
the Division of Corporate Communications & Public Affairs at Southern
Methodist University. In 2003, Whillock was selected as a member of the SMU
Distinguished Faculty. Certified Secondary Teacher,
Arkansas Teacher, dept. Chairman Rogers (Arkansas) H.S., 1977-79;
Communications Professor Kearney State College (Nebr.), 1979-80; Assistant to
Dean, Professor Communications Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches,
Texas, 1980-84; Assistant Professor Communications University of Alabama,
Huntsville, 1986-90; Associate Professor Communications Southern Methodist
University, 1990, Associate Director Center Communications, 1996. She is
a Meadow's Distinguished Teaching Professor and received the prestigious "M"
Award for teaching from the SMU student body. Education: BSE,
University of Arkansas, 1975, M of Communications, 1977; Ph.D., University of Missouri,
1986.
Honors:
Recipient Outstanding Book award Choice, 1991, Gustauus Meyers award for
Research on human rights in North America, 1996, Madison award for free speech
scholarship, 1997.
Member: American Communications
Association (Board of Directors, past President), National Communications
Association, Texas Speech Communications Association, Southern Speech
Communications Association (member editorial Board), Pi Kappa Delta (sponsor,
coach 1980-84). Baptist.
Author: Political Empiricism: Communication Strategies in State and Regional
Elections, 1990, (with David Slayden) Hate
Speech, 1996; Contributor of articles to professional journals including
Presidential Studies Quarterly, American Behavioral Scientist, Political
Communications. She serves on the Editorial Boards of Southern
Communication Journal and the American Communication Journal.
Dr. Rita Kirk Whillock faculty webpage. http://faculty.smu.edu/whillock/
Marquis
Who's Who, 2004.
William Whiston
(1667-1752). English theologian,
astronomer, navigator and mathematician. Succeeded Newton as Lucasian Professor
of mathematics, Cambridge (1703); expelled (1710) from university on account of
his Arian views, later promulgated in Primitive Christianity Revived
(1711-12); known for his translation of Josephus (1737). Whiston became a Baptist in 1747.
The Galileo Project, http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/whiston.html
J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson. "William Whiston," http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Whiston.html
The Whiston Society: http://www-whiston.clare.cam.ac.uk/whiston.php
http://coldrain.net/lucas/whiston.html
http://61.1911encyclopedia.org/W/WH/WHISTON_WILLIAM.htm
"Whiston | William | 1667-1752 | divine and natural philosopher," http://www.nahste.ac.uk/pers/w/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P1115/
Project Gutenberg Titles by William Whiston: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/author?name=Whiston%2C%20William
An
Extract Out of Josephus's Discourse to the Greeks Concerning Hades
The
Wars of the Jews, or The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem