A fact from John G. Hawthorne appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 June 2018 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that hailing its "pioneering" approach, Professor John G. Hawthorne lauded the University of Chicago for ending a student sit-in "without bloodshed, beatings, or other violent acts"?
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I don't normally add descriptions when the person is linked. If you think it's better, however, I could put "As the historian Lynn Townsend White Jr. wrote..."