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
A. J. Monty White *** Not in Gale
Physical Chemist.
Research Fellow at the Edward Davies Chemical Laboratories, Aberystwyth,
United Kingdom. Dr. A. J. Monty White
converted from atheism to Christianity in 1964 when he was an undergraduate
student at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. (To read Dr. White's
testimony, click
here.) He is a graduate of the University of Wales, obtaining his BSc (with
honors) in Chemistry in 1967, and his Ph.D. for his research in the field of
Gas Kinetics in 1970. Monty spent two years investigating the optical and
electrical properties of organic semi-conductors before moving to Cardiff where
he joined the administration at the University there. During this time he held
a number of senior positions including Academic Registrar and Director of the
International Office. He is also a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
http://www.christiananswers.net/creation/people/white-aj.html
Dr. A. J. Monty White.
"How I Became a Creationist," http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2/4336news6-28-2000.asp.
"Dr. Monty White." http://www.answersingenesis.org/events/bio.aspx?Speaker_ID=16
Chief Executive of Answers in Genesis (UK). He joined Answers in Genesis
after leaving the University of Wales in Cardiff where he had been a Senior
Administrator for 28 years.
"There is a God, the Bible can be trusted as God's
revealed word to humankind. God does answer prayer and does reveal himself to
men and women today. I know - I am one of them!" From 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.
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.
Anglus White / Blacklo / Blacklow / Blackloe / Vitus / Albius *** Not in Gale
(1593-1676). English natural philosopher. Catholic.
The Galileo Project, http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/white.html
White was a dedicated Aristotelian, the author of De mundo, 1642, and Institutionum peripateticarum . . . pars theorica, 1646. Scientific thought was always subordinate for him to his effort to render theology scientifically verifiable; he was the author of numerous theological works. I cannot call him a Scholastic Philosopher, however; he was much too involved with contemporary thought. White wrote quite a few theological and devotional books.
Ordained in 1617 under the name Blacklo (or Blackloe or Blacklow), White was a major figure in English Catholicism. (Note that he also wrote under all the other names listed above.) The English equivalent of a Jansenist and vigorous anti-Jesuit, White was ultimately not acceptable to Rome; the Holy Office condemned his views in 1655, 1657, and 1661. However, White, while never giving in, remained a Catholic.
Earl Lee White
(1948-2000). Research chemist. Senior
staff R & D chemist, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salem, N.C., 1985;
chemist, National Institute Environmental Health SciencesUniversity N.C.,
Chapel Hill, 1983-85; Associate scientist,
Chemical Industry Institute Toxicology, Research Triange Pk., N.C., 1977-83;
toxicologist, Mississippi Crime Laboratory, Jackson, 1972-75; toxicologist,
University Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, 1970-72. Education: MS, Jackson State University,
1975; postgraduate, University of Pittsburgh, 1975-77; Ph.D., University N.C.,
1987.
Member: American Society for Mass
Spectrometry, American Chemical Society (secretary, Treasurer 1990-91). Baptist.
Recipient NSF Fellowship, 1984.
Contributor of articles to professional
journals.
Marquis
Who's Who, 2004.
Mary Esterlyn
White
(Not the Professor at Southeastern Louisian University
Department of Biological Sciences)
(Born 1939). Chemist. Analytical chemist Bristol Myers, Hillside, N.J., 1960-67;
research scientist Lever Bros.
Co., Edgewater, N.J., 1968-75; Assistant Manager tapes and backings development
Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J., 1975. B.A. cum laude, Dillard
University, 1960; M.S. in Chemistry, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1971.
Honors: Recipient Samuel B. Ullman award
Ullman High School, Birmingham, Alabama, 1956; Philip B. Hofmann Research Scientist award Johnson & Johnson
Products Inc., 1979; recognized as Distinguished Woman in Business and
Industry, Raritan Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce, New Brunswick, 1980.
Member American Chemical Society, N.Y. Academy of Sciences, Society Cosmetic Chemists, Sigma Xi, Alpha Kappa Alpha. Baptist.
Marquis
Who's Who, 2004.
Paul White / Paul
Hamilton Hume White
(1910-1992). Royal
North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia, resident medical officer, 1935; Ryde
District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, Sydney, resident medical officer, 1936;
Church Missionary Society Hospitals, Tanganyika (now United Republic of
Tanzania), East Africa, medical superintendent, 1937-40; New South Wales
Community Hospital, Sydney, rheumatologist, 1947; professional practice as
specialist in rheumatic diseases, 1947-73. Chairman of directors, Ambassador
Press Pty. Ltd., and Piligrim Productions Ltd.
Made weekly Jungle Doctor
radio broadcasts in Australia, 1942-78, some programs were aired in the United
States, South America, Philippines, and elsewhere; has made television
appearances in Australia as "Jungle Doctor."
"December 3, 1926 o Jungle Doctor Signed a Decision Card,"
http://www.gospelcom.net/chi/DAILYF/2001/12/daily-12-03-2001.shtml
Biography in Doctors
Who Followed Christ: Thirty-Two Biographies of Eminent Physicians and Their
Christian Faith, by Dan Graves. Kregel Resources, Grand Rapids, MI,
1999. ISBN 0-8254-2734-7.
Dr. John Michael
White
(Born 1938) Dr. J.
Michael White is currently Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry, University
of Texas at Austin, Professor
chemistry, Hackerman Professor chemistry, University of Texas, Austin,
1985-2000; from Assistant to Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin,
1966-1976. Memberships: American Chemical Society, American Phys. Society Awards: Distinguished Alumnus Award, Harding
University (1985) , Creativity Award, National Science Foundation (1982-85),
Outstanding Alumni Award of Alpha Chi (1986), Humboldt Senior Scientist Award
(1989), ACS Kendall Award (1990), Guiseppe Paravanno Award, Michigan Catalysis
Society (1993), Holloway Teaching Excellence Award (1998), Alpha Lambda Delta
Outstanding Faculty Member Award (1998), Career Research Excellence Award-UT
Austin (1999), Southwest Regional ACS Award 1999), The Arthur W. Adamson Award
for Distinguished Services in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry (2001).
Webpage: http://www.cm.utexas.edu/faculty/White.html
http://www.engr.utexas.edu/che/directories/faculty/white.cfm
White Research Group: http://www.cm.utexas.edu/white/aboutWhite.html
Recommends Science
and Christianity: Conflict or Coherence? by Henry F. Schaefer III. The Apollos Trust,
Watkinsville, GA, 2003. ISBN
0-9742-975-0X.
Robert Stephen
White, FGS, FRS
(Born 1952).
Professor of Geophysics, University of Cambridge. Guest
investigator Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, 1977, 1988 and 1990,
research Assistant Dept of Geodesy and Geophysics University of Cambridge,
1978, postdoctoral scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA ,1978-79;
University of Cambridge: research fell Emmanuel College 1979-82, NERC research
fell Dept of Earth Sciences 1979-81, Senior Assistant in research 1981-85,
Assistant Director of research 1985-89, fell St Edmund's College 1988-,
Professor of geophysics 1989-present, acting head Dept. of Earth Sciences, 1991
and 1993; Cecil & Ida H. Green scholar Scripps Instn of Oceanography
University of California San Diego summer 1987; awarded Stichting Fund for
Science Technology and Research Schlumberger Ltd 1994; George P. Woollard Award
Geological Society America 1997; fell American Geophysical Union, FGS (Bigsby
Medal 1991), FRS 1994.
Professor Robert White.
"Science: Friend or Foe?" http://www.cis.org.uk/articles/white_friendfoe.htm.
"Science may explain, to a better or poorer
extent, how matter behaves in the universe, but it can never explain why we
ourselves are here and are in the state in which we find ourselves. Christians
concerned to present the truth-claims of Jesus in a culture increasingly
dominated by subjective, relativistic views may actually find that science is an
ally because it emphasises objectivity and the distinction between truth and
falsehood."
Bob White's Home Page. http://bullard.esc.cam.ac.uk/~rwhite/
University of Cambridge Department of
Earth Sciences, faculty webpage: http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/new/v10/index_about_people.html
Edmund
Taylor Whittaker
(1873-1956). English mathematician.
Professor at Dublin and astronomer royal of Ireland (1906-12); Professor,
Edinburgh (1912-46); known for contributions to study of functions of complex
variables, special functions; discovered (1902) general solution to Laplace's
equation; originated (1903) confluent hypergeometric function. Author of Course of Modern Analysis (1902), Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of
Particles and Rigid Bodies (1904), History
of the Theories of Aether and Electricity (1910, rev. 1951).
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Whittaker.html
http://www.geometry.net/scientists/whittaker_edmund.php
Robert
C. Wicklein*** Not in Gale
Technology educator (See http://www.arches.uga.edu/~wickone/program1.htm).
Graduate Coordinator, Department of
Occupational Studies, College of Education, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
September, 1997 - Present; Professor, Department of Occupational Studies,
College of Education, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. August 2002 - Present;
Associate Professor, Department of Occupational Studies, College of Education,
University of Georgia, Athens, GA. September, 1996 - August 2002; Assistant
Professor, Department of Occupational Studies, College of Education, University
of Georgia, Athens, GA. September, 1991 - August, 1996; Associate Professor,
School of Occupational Education, College of Education, Oklahoma State
University, Stillwater, OK. July, 1991 - August, 1991; Assistant Professor,
School of Occupational Education, College of Education, Oklahoma State
University, Stillwater, OK. August, 1986 - June, 1991; Graduate Assistant,
Division of Vocational Education, Technology Education Program, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. September,
1983 - June, 1986; Technology Education Teacher, John Rolfe Middle School,
Sandy Springs, Henrico County, Virginia. August, 1981 - August, 1983;
Technology Education Teacher, Schutz International School, Alexandria, Egypt
August, 1980 - June, 1981; Technology Education Teacher, Mountain Brook Junior
High School, Mountain Brook, AL. August, 1978 - June, 1980; Member - U.S. Navy,
Helicopter Mine Countermeasure Squadron 12, Home Port - Norfolk, Virginia,
Primary duty station - Haiphong, North Vietnam July, 1969 - July, 1973.
Ed.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University, 1986.
Honors: Vice President, Council on Technology
Teacher Education, 2001; Fellow, Technical Foundation of America, 2000;
Technology Teacher Educator of the Year, Council on Technology Teacher
Education, 2000; International Fellows Program, International Studies,
University of Georgia, 2000; Technology Education Division Research Symposium
Award, American Vocational Association, 1999 and 1997;
Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of
Occupational Studies, University of Georgia, 1997;
Silvius / Wolansky Outstanding Research
Publication Award, International Technology Education Association, 1996;
Distinguished Technology Educator, International Technology Education
Association, 1995; Outstanding Faculty Advisor, Technology Education Collegiate
Association, 1995; Technology Education Division Research Award, American
Vocational Association, 1992, 1993, 1994; Outstanding Young Technology
Educator, International Technology Education Association, 1992; Outstanding
Service Award, Technology Education Division of the American Vocational
Association, 1989.
Editor, Appropriate technology for sustainable living, Council on Technology
Teacher Education New York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Technology Education. Council
on Technology Teacher Education,1997-Present; Consulting Editor and
Chairperson, Editorial Review Board. The
Technology Teacher, International Technology Education Association,
1991-1997.
Member: International Technology Education
Association, Council on Technology Teacher Education, Georgia Industrial
Technology Education Association, Association for Career and Technical
Education, The Christian Faculty Forum (CFF) at the University of Georgia http://www.uga.edu/cff/
Faculty webpage, Robert Wicklein-College of
Education-Department of Occupational Studies, http://www.arches.uga.edu/~wickone/
Home page: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~wickone/home.htm
Faculty of Engineering webpage: http://www.nmi.uga.edu/archive/foe/faculty/list_info.asp?id=135
Curriculum vitae: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~wickone/Vitae.html
Personal webpage: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~wickone/per1.htm
Robert C. Wicklein. "My Personal Search for Meaning," http://www.arches.uga.edu/~wickone/program1.htm
"My search for meaning in life was fulfilled when I
asked God to direct me rather than trying to lead myself through the myriads of
false promises and philosophies that our society offers. Truth and meaning
became real for me when Jesus Christ became my personal advocate. Since
becoming a Christian, I've had my share of challenges and problems, I'm
certainly not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but God has always
helped me through life's troubles. The Bible tells us, "Do not conform any
longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your
mind." (Romans 12:2a)."
Dr.
Mark Wickstrom *** Not in Gale
Veterinarian. Toxicologist. Acting
Director, Associate Professor; Academic Advisor, Undergraduate Program,
Toxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK. Academic Degrees: B.Sc. (Biola), M.Sc.,
D.V.M. (Washington), Ph.D. (Illinois).
Member: Christian Veterinary Missions,
Canada.
Faculty webpage, http://www.usask.ca/toxicology/Dr%20Mark%20Wickstrom.html
Melchior Wieland / Guilandinus / Villandino *** Not in Gale
(c. 1520-1589). German-born botanist, pharmacologist. Catholic.
The Galileo Project, http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/wieland.html
Connections: He had a strong friendship with Falloppio, and a strong enmity with Mattioli.He corresponded with Aldrovandi
Alf
Wight / James Alfred Wight / aka James Herriot
(1916 - 1995). Veterinary surgeon, author, James Alfred Wight wrote under the
pseudonym James Herriot. Partner and general practitioner in veterinary
medicine, Sinclair & Wight, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England, 1938-c.1992; writer, 1966-95. Military service: Royal Air
Force, 1943-45. Glasgow Veterinary
College, M.R.C.V.S., 1938. James Herriot, a vet turned best-selling author,
penned twenty books during his lifetime, selling over sixty million copies. His
gentle, humorous, heartwarming narratives of the life of a veterinarian in
England's Yorkshire Dales during the 1940s and 1950s touched a vein in readers
of the late twentieth century. The Herriot legacy included two unexpected
spin-offs: England's veterinary schools were flooded with applicants as a
result of his books, and his practice and home in Thirsk continued to be
besieged by tourists from around the world years after his death. ("James
Herriot." Authors and Artists for Young Adults. Vol. 54. Gale Group,
2004.)
Member: British Veterinary Association
(honorary member), Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (Fellow).
Awards: Best Young Adult Book citations,
American Library Association, 1974, for All Things Bright and Beautiful,
and 1975, for All Creatures Great and Small; Order of the British
Empire, 1979; D.Litt., Watt University, Scotland, 1979; honorary D.Vsc.,
Liverpool University, 1984; James Herriot Award established by Humane Society
of America.
Author, as James Herriot: If Only They Could Talk (also see
below), M. Joseph, 1970; It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (also see below), M.
Joseph, 1972; All Creatures Great and
Small (contains If Only They Could
Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet),
St. Martin's, 1972; Let Sleeping Vets Lie
(also see below), M. Joseph, 1973; Vet in
Harness (also see below), M. Joseph, 1974; All Things Bright and Beautiful (contains Let Sleeping Vets Lie and Vet
in Harness), St. Martin's, 1974; Vets
Might Fly (also see below), M. Joseph, 1976; Vet in a Spin (also see below), M. Joseph, 1977; All Things Wise and Wonderful (contains Vets Might Fly and Vet in a Spin), St. Martin's, 1977; James Herriot's Yorkshire, illustrated with photographs by Derry
Brabbs, St. Martin's, 1979; (With others) Animals
Tame and Wild, Sterling, 1979, published as Animal Stories: Tame and Wild, 1985; The Lord God Made Them All, St. Martin's, 1981; The Best of James Herriot, St. Martin's,
1983; updated and expanded edition published as The Best of James Herriot: Favourite Memories of a Country Vet,
with additional material from Reader's Digest editors, Reader's Digest
(Pleasantville, NY), 1998, et. Al.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/James%20Herriot
Website: http://jamesherriot.org/
Jonathan Margolis, Thirsk. "But it Did Happen to a Vet," http://www.jamesherriot.org/a1.php
© Time December 14, 1992
Jim
Wight / James Alexander Wight *** Not in
Gale
(Born 1943). Currently a practicing
veterinarian in Thirsk, son of James Alfred Wight / James Herriot.
Jim Wight followed in his father's footsteps
at the Glasgow Veterinary College, which by then was part of the University of
Glasgow, graduating in 1966. In 1967 he joined the practice of Sinclair and
Wight in Thirsk, working alongside his father and Donald Sinclair (aka
Siegfried Farnon) for the next twenty years, when Alf Wight retired. He is
still a member of the practice.
Author: The
Real James Herriot : A Memoir of My Father, 2001.
Remembrances: http://almavijai.sphosting.com/Literature/essays/essaysherriot.htm
Jim Wight. "On Writing II: Notes from Darrowby," http://www.etext.org/Zines/Critique/writing/wight.html
Benjamin Wiker is currently a Lecturer in
Theology and Science at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. He holds a Ph.D. in Theological Ethics from Vanderbilt University,
and serves as a Fellow at the Discovery Institute based in Seattle, Washington.
He has also taught at Marquette University,
St. Mary's University (MN), and Thomas Aquinas College (CA). He is the author
of Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists (InterVarsity Press), which
traces modern materialism, especially Darwinism, to its origins in the ancient
Greek hedonist philosopher Epicurus. He is also the author of The Mystery of
the Periodic Table (Bethlehem Books), a book aimed at a juvenile audience,
describing the interesting history of the discovery of the Periodic Table of
Elements in chemistry. His writings have appeared in Crisis Magazine, Catholic
World Report, New Oxford Review, First Things, and other
national publications, and he is a regular columnist for the National Catholic
Register.
From http://www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/featured_speakers1.htm#Benjamin%20Wiker,%20PhD.
Benjamin Wiker. "Darwin and the Descent of Morality," http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0111/opinion/wiker.html
Copyright © 2001
First Things 117 (November 2001): 10-13.
InterVarsity Press editor Gary Deddo. "Darwin
as Epicurean: An Interview with Benjamin Wiker,"
http://www.touchstonemag.com/docs/issues/15.8docs/15-8pg43.html.
Discussing Moral Darwinism: How We Became
Hedonists.
Benjamin D. Wiker. "Alien Ideas: Christianity and the Search
for Extraterrestrial Life,"
http://www.crisismagazine.com/november2002/feature7.htm.
http://www.gospelcom.net/ivpress/title/ata/wiker.pdf. Wiker says, "My desire is to produce theological books that are ecumenical
and global, anchored in history and Christian tradition."
Arthur
E. Wilder-Smith
(1915-1995). Imperial Chemical Industries,
Billingham, England, technical Assistant on senior staff, 1940-45; University
of London, British Empire Cancer Campaign, London, England, Countess of
Lisburne Memorial Fellow in Cancer Research, 1945-49; Geistlich Soehne Ltd.
(pharmaceuticals firm), Lucerne, Switzerland, chief of research, 1951-55;
University of Geneva, Ecole de Medecine, Geneva, Switzerland, privat docent,
1956-64; University of Illinois, Medical Center, Chicago, Professor of
pharmacology and member of College of Nursing faculty.
Webpage: http://www.wildersmith.org/
http://www.wildersmith.org/biography.htm
http://www.wildersmith.org/library.htm
"Scientists Censored for Publicly Exposing
Flaws in Evolution," available on request; write to jphold@earthlink.net
Jay
L. Wile / Jay Lambert Wile
(Born 1963). Nuclear chemist.
Educator. Owner 1998 - Present,
Apologia Educational Ministries.
Published eight courses in junior high school and high school science
which are used by homechoolers in all 50 states and 10 other countries. This
curriculum has been named the best junior high and high school science
curriculum in the United States by the readers of Practical Homeschooling
Magazine. From 1995 - 1998, Dr. Wile
was the Senior Programmer/Analyst for Pathologists Associated, Indiana's
premier medical laboratory (with the premier PC IS staff). He is dedicated to
the concept of home schooling and is trying to help make ways to keep as many
students in home school for as long as possible.
Previous: Assistant Professor of
Chemistry, Ball State University, Muncie, 1992-1995; Instructor of Science,
Indiana Academy of Science, Muncie, IN, 1990-1992; Assistant Professor
chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1989-1990; Graduate Research
Assistant, University Rochester, 1985-1989. Consultant to Homeschoolers 1992 -
Present. Education: BS in chemistry,
University of Rochester (N.Y.), 1985; Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry, University of
Rochester (N.Y.), 1989.
Member: American Chemical Society,
American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Contributor of articles to professional
journals.
http://www.christiananswers.net/creation/people/wile-j.html
Curriculum vitae: http://www.icr.org/creationscientists/wile.html
Webpage: http://www.creationbiology.com/jaywile.html
"The Bible Indicates That Humans and
Dinosaurs Lived Together. Is there any evidence for this? YES! Ancient Drawings
Contain Incredibly Accurate Pictures of Dinosaurs,"
http://www.bible.ca/tracks/dino-art-wall-etchings-blanding-utah.jpg. This petroglyph (Natural Bridges National
Monument) has been attributed to the work of the ancient Anasazi Indians who
lived in this area from approximately 400 A.D. to 1300 A.D. Stones found in the Nazca desert plains by
Dr. Javier Cabrera Darquea, a research professor at Ica National University,
have drawings that look just like dinosaurs.
http://www.creationists.org/livedinos03.html
Above from http://www.highschoolscience.com/conf/creat_ev.pdf
Dr. Wile on home schooling: http://www.svha.net/HomeschoolNews/DrJay.htm
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.
Wilhelm IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel *** Not in Gale
(1532-1592). German botanist, astronomer, instrument-maker. Lutheran.
The Galileo Project, http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/wilhelm.html
To facilitate his new star catalogue, Wilhelm had Buergi make him a number of instruments: an azimuthal quadrant, a sextant, clocks, and mechanical computing devices. In addition, Wilhelm was himself capable of designing instruments. On the design of Apian's system of rotating cardboard disks, Wilhelm constructed a system of gear-driven metal plates, which contributed to the design of the great Wilhelmsuhr. He also discussed design and made suggestions to Baldewein (and presumably Buergi) when constructing instruments.
Wilhelm supported a number of scientists. He gave stipends to the botanists Joachim Camerarius (1534-98) and Carolus Clusius (1526-1609). For a short time (1558-60) the astronomer Andreas Schoener stayed at Kassel. Wilhelm used the Marburg instrument maker Eberhardt Baldewein (1525- 1592). He brought two major figures to his court at Kassel, the instrument maker and mathematician Joost Buergi (1552-1632), and the astronomer Christoph Rothmann (c.1550-c.1605). Wilhelm gave instruments to the Elector August of Saxony and the Emperor Rudolf II.
Connections: Wilhelm had a wide correspondence dealing particularly with botanical, but also with astronomical matters. His most notable astronomical correspondent was his good friend Tycho Brahe.
John
Wilkins
(1614-1672). English prelate and
scientist. Warden of Wadham College, Oxford (1648); m. (1656) Robina, sister of
Oliver Cromwell; master of Trinity College (1659); one of the founders of the
Royal Society (1662); bishopof Chester (1668). Author of The Discovery of a
World in the Moone (1638), A Discourse Tending to Prove That 'Tis
Probable Our Earth Is One of The Planets (1640), On the Principles and
Duties of Natural Religion (1678), etc.
The Galileo Project, http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/wilkins.html
"Bishop John Wilkins," http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/wilkins/wilkins.html:
John Wilkins chaired the founding meeting of the Royal Society and was its first secretary. He was the only person to have been head of a college in both Cambridge and Oxford. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge but was deposed at the Restoration in 1660: he had married Oliver Cromwell's sister, and this did not endear him to returning royalty. He had previously been Warden of Wadham College, Oxford.
He is of interest to cryptographers because he wrote a book called `Mercury, or the Secret and Swift Messenger', which is described in David Kahn's history `The Codebreakers' as `the first book in English on cryptography'. It is much more than that: it is a treatise on the state of the art in seventeenth century telegraphy.
"Bishop John Wilkins. An Essay Toward a Real Character and a Philosophical Language," http://reliant.teknowledge.com/Wilkins/
The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight. http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/W/Wilkins.html
http://www.spiritandsky.com/philosophy/philosophers/w/wilkins-john/
http://89.1911encyclopedia.org/W/WI/WILKINS_JOHN.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/wilkins_john.shtml
J.J.
O'Connor and E.F. Robertson. "John Wilkins," http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Wilkins.html
or
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Wilkins.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/wilkins/wilkins.html
David
Wilkinson *** Not in Gale
(Not cosmologist David Todd Wilkinson of
Princeton University, 1935-2002. The Wilkinson Microwave
Anisotropy Probe was named after him.)
Astrophysicist, Methodist chaplain. Fellow in Christian Apologetics and
Associate Director of the Centre for Christian Communication at St Johns
College in the University of Durham, England. Dr. Wilkinson received
his Ph.D. in Theoretical Astrophysics (the study of star formation, the
chemical evolution of galaxies and terrestrial mass extinctions) from the
University of Durham in 1987 and his MA in Theology from the University of
Cambridge in 1989.
He was awarded the Chalmers Prize for
Theoretical Physics and the Reidel Research Prize. Much of his work was
in collaboration with Sir Arnold Wolfendale, the Astronomer Royal. He is
a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
He then pursued ministerial training at
Wesley House, Cambridge, serving in a variety of appointments, most recently in
a growing church in Liverpool and as Methodist chaplain at Liverpool
University. His current work at the University of Durham involves the
relationship of the Christian faith to contemporary culture, from science to
pop culture.
He has written a number of books
concerning science and the Christian faith including God, Time and Stephen Hawking (Monarch, 2001), Thinking Clearly About God and Science (Monarch, 2000) and Alone in the Universe: The X-NewFiles,
Aliens and God (IVP, 1997).
http://www.stalbans.anglican.org/wilkinsonbiog.htm.
David Wilkinson. Bishops' Day Conference,
September 4th 2002; "Only Connect - Communicating the Christian
Faith in the 21st Century: 'The Absence of God or a Surer Path to
God?' (An article published in 'Borderlands' magazine earlier this year.),"
http://www.stalbans.anglican.org/wilkinsonpres.htm
Astrophysicist and Methodist
Minister. http://www.onreligion.com/article.php?story=20030830084343779
David Wilkinson. "Cosmology and Creation," http://catalystresources.org/issues/271wilkinson.html
Robert
Willan *** Not in Gale
(1757-1812). English physician, father of
modern English dermatology. Quaker.
http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1015.html
http://www.blueplaqueproject.org/plaque_detail.php?ID=771
Jeff
Williams / Jeffrey Nels Williams *** Not
in Gale
(Born 1958). Astronaut. In May 2000, he served as a mission specialist and the
flight engineer on STS-101. In completing his first space flight, Williams
logged over 236 hours in space, including 6 hours and 44 minutes of EVA. Since
STS-101, he has served in the EVA Branch of the Astronaut Office, as the
Co-Chair of the Space Shuttle Cockpit Council, and on temporary assignment at
NASA Headquarters in support of legislative affairs. Williams is currently
training to command a future long-duration expedition to the International
Space Station.
Graduated from Winter High School, Winter,
Wisconsin, in 1976; received a bachelor of science degree in applied science
and engineering from the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) in 1980, a master of
science degree in aeronautical engineering and the degree of aeronautical
engineer from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, both in 1987, and a master of
arts degree in National security and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War
College in 1996.
Williams received his commission as a
second lieutenant from the U.S. Military Academy in May 1980 and was designated
an Army aviator in September 1981. He then completed a three-year assignment in
Germany where he served as an Aeroscout Platoon Leader and Operations Officer
in the 3rd Armored Division's aviation battalion. Following his
return to the United States, Williams completed a graduate program in
aeronautical engineering, and was subsequently selected for an Army assignment
at the Johnson Space Center, where he served for over 4 years. In 1992,
Williams was selected for the Naval Test Pilot School. After graduation in June
1993, he served as an experimental test pilot and Flight Test Division Chief in
the Army's Airworthiness Qualification Test Directorate at Edwards Air Force
Base, California. In 1995, he was selected for attendance at the Naval War
College command and staff course as an Army exchange officer. Williams has
logged over 2,500 hours in more than 50 different aircraft.
Williams was selected for an Army
assignment at Johnson Space Center in 1987. Until his transfer in 1992, he
served as a Shuttle launch and landing operations engineer, a pilot in the
Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory, and chief of the Operations
Development Office, Flight Crew Operations Directorate. Selected by NASA in May
1996, Williams again reported to Johnson Space Center in August 1996. After
completing two years of training and evaluation, he performed technical duties
in the Spacecraft Systems Branch and later the Space Station Operations Branch.
Member: Association of the U.S. Army,
Society of Experimental Test Pilots, American Helicopter Society, Army Aviation
Association of America, USMA Association of Graduates, Order of Daedalians,
Officer Christian Fellowship.
Honors: Graduated first in U.S. Naval Test
Pilot School class 103; 1988 Admiral William Adger Moffett Award for Excellence
in Aeronautical Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School; 1985 Daedalian
Foundation Fellowship Award for Graduate Study in Aeronautics. Awarded Defense
Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, 2 Meritorious Service Medals, the Army
Commendation Medal, NASA Space Flight Medal, NASA Exceptional Service Medal,
and various other service awards. Master Army Aviator and Parachutist badges.
From JEFFREY N. WILLIAMS (COLONEL, USA), NASA
ASTRONAUT, http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/williamsj.html
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Jeffrey%20Williams
COL Jeffrey N. Williams, U.S. Army, NASA
Astronaut, http://www.armyspace.army.mil/cmdgrp/Bio_Detail.asp?BIOID=24
http://www.astronautix.com/astros/wilffrey.htm
STS 101 Mission Specialist: Jeff Williams,
http://www.space.com/peopleinterviews/sts101_williams_bio.html
Jacob Adelayo
Ayelanimi Williams
(Born August 1, 1938).
Nigerian geneticist,
plant breeder. Senior science master
Anglican Grammar School, Igbara-Oke, Nigeria, 1962-63; Demonstrator dept.
botany University Ife (Nigeria), 1963; Research officer Cocoa Research
Institute Nigeria, Ibadan, 1963-68, Senior research officer, 1969-72, principal
research officer, 1972-76, Assistant chief research officer, 1976, Chief
research officer, 1977-78, Assistant Director prodn. and substas., 1978-85;
Assistant Director coffee research program, tech. consultant on coffee
Standards Orgn. Nigeria, 1985. Chairman of the Board of Governors, Ibadan
Grammar School, 1977-80. Education: Student Kings College, Lagos, Nigeria,
1951-57, University College Ibadan, 1958-62; B.Sc. with honors, University
London, 1962; M.Sc.Hort., University of California, Davis, 1966, Ph.D. in
Genetics, 1972.
Member: Science Association of Nigeria, W. African Science
Association, Agricultural Society Nigeria, N.Y. Academy of Sciences, Genetics
Society Nigeria (President 1977-78), Sigma Xi. Baptist. Club: Gambari Recreational (Onigambari, Ibadan).
Contributor of articles and reviews to science journals.
Marquis Who's Who, 2004.
Leah Ann Williams
(Born July 20, 1932). Biologist, researcher, educator. Institute zoology Pennsylvania State
University, 1958-59; instructor West Virginia University, Morgantown, 1959-68,
Assistant Professor biology, 1968-74, Associate Professor, 1974-, chairperson
department of biology, 1986-91.
Education: B.A., W.Virginia University, 1954, M.S., 1958, Ph.D., 1970.
USPHS predoctoral fellow, 1967-68; NSF science faculty development
grantee, 1977-78; National Eye Institute grantee, 1983-85.
Member AAAS, Society Developmental Biology, American Association
Zoologists, Sigma Xi, Kappa Delta. Presbyterian.
Lodge: Order Eastern Star.
Contributor of articles to professional journals.
Marquis Who's Who, 2004.
Norman Dale Williams
(1924-2000). Geneticist, researcher. School leader, USDA Agricultural School Service, Fargo, N.D.,
1972; School geneticist, USDA Agricultural
School Service, Fargo, N.D., 1956-72; School Associate, Argonne National Laboratory,
Lemont, Illinois, 1956; Associate trainee, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont,
Illinois, 1954-56. Adjunct Professor
N.D. State University, Fargo, 1961.
Education: BS, University of Nebraska, 1951; MS, University of Nebraska,
1954; Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 1956.
Member:
Fellow AAAS, American Society Agronomy, Crop Science Society America; American
Genetics Association, Genetics Society America, Council for Agricultural Science
and Technology, Masons, Sigma Xi (President, President-elect North Dakota
chapter 1976-78). With U.S. Army,
1945-47. Presbyterian.
Contributor
of articles to professional journals.
Marquis Who's Who, 2004.
Linda
Marie Willis
(Born 1950). College admistrator. Circulation Manager, Scientist Institute, St. Louis, 1974-77; supervisor academics St.
Louis Job Corps, 1980-83, Manager academics, 1983-84; faculty coordinator
Watterson College, 1984. B.S. in Education, University Of Missouri, 1972.
Certified Teacher, Missouri.
Member: Neighborhood Watch Association,
Berkeley, Missouri; Contributor of City of Atlanta Children's Fund, 1981.
Honors: Recipient commendation St. Louis
Job Corps, 1983; Certified of recognition Mayor Maynard Jackson, Atlanta, 1981;
named Staff Member of Month, St. Louis Job Corps, 1982.
Member National Association Female
Executives. Baptist.
Marquis
Who's Who, 2004.
Thomas
Willis *** Not in Gale
(1621-1675). English anatomist and physician. Professor at Oxford (1660-75); a
founder of the Royal Society (1662); first to describe myasthenia gravis (1671)
and puerperal fever; distinguished diabetes mellitus from other forms of
diabetes; discovered system of connecting arteries at base of brain known as
circle of Willis; published Cerebri anatomi (1664) on the brain and
nervous system. He coined the terms thalamus opticus, nucleus
lentiformis, and corpus striatum.
The Galileo Project, http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/willis
