List of Famous people with last name Colgate

Stirling Colgate

First Name Stirling

Last Name Colgate

Born on November 14, 1925

Died on December 1, 2013 (aged 88)

Born in United States of America, New York

Stirling Auchincloss Colgate was an American physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a professor emeritus of physics, past president at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology from 1965 to 1974, and an heir to the Colgate toothpaste family fortune. He was America's premier diagnostician of thermonuclear weapons during the early years at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. While much of his involvement with physics is still highly classified, he made many contributions in the open literature including physics education and astrophysics.

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William Colgate

First Name William

Last Name Colgate

Born on January 25, 1783

Died on March 25, 1857 (aged 74)

Born in United Kingdom, England

William Colgate was an English-American soap industrialist who founded in 1806 what became the Colgate-Palmolive company.

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