People Index

  • Robert Van de Graaff

    Robert Jemison Van de Graaff (1901-1967) was an Alabama-born physicist who developed an electrostatic generator, named for him, that accelerated subatomic particles for use in nuclear physics research.

  • Howell Hubert Vines

    Howell Vines (1899-1981) is best characterized as a local-color author who drew his inspiration from...

  • Joseph F. Volker

    Joseph F. Volker (1913-1989) was a dentist, noted scientist, educator, and college administrator in his...

  • James Voss

    Alabamian James Shelton "Jim" Voss (1949- ) flew on five Space Shuttle missions,...

  • Mary Elizabeth Vroman

    Mary Elizabeth Vroman (1924?-1967) was a young Alabama schoolteacher when she published her first story,...