ORGANIZATION

Founded 1603 by Federico Cesi, for the study of mathematics and natural sciences.

Official Website:
http://www.lincei.it/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Francis W. Aston	Chemist	1-Sep-1877	20-Nov-1945	Invented the mass spectograph
Paul J. Crutzen	Chemist	3-Dec-1933		Ozone depletion
T. S. Eliot	Poet	26-Sep-1888	4-Jan-1965	The Hollow Men
Galileo Galilei	Astronomer	15-Feb-1564	8-Jan-1642	Copernican observational astronomer
Jacques-Salomon Hadamard	Mathematician	8-Dec-1865	17-Oct-1963	Prime number theorem
John R. Hicks	Economist	8-Apr-1904	20-May-1989	Value and Capital
George W. Hill	Astronomer	3-Mar-1838	16-Apr-1914	A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn
Tullio Levi-Civita	Mathematician	29-Mar-1873	29-Dec-1941	Explored tensor calculus and PDE's
Keith Moffatt	Mathematician	12-Apr-1935		Fluid dynamics
Giulio Natta	Chemist	26-Feb-1903	2-May-1979	Ziegler-Natta catalysts
Pief Panofsky	Physicist	24-Apr-1919	24-Sep-2007	Stanford Linear Accelerator
Giambattista della Porta	Scientist	c. 1538	4-Feb-1615	Magia Naturalis
Martin Rees	Astronomer	23-Jun-1942		President of the Royal Society
Carlo Rubbia	Physicist	31-Mar-1934		Co-Discovered W and Z particles
Emilio Segrè	Physicist	1-Feb-1905	22-Apr-1989	Co-Discoverer of the antiproton
Amartya Sen	Economist	3-Nov-1933		Poverty and Famines
Waclaw Sierpinski	Mathematician	14-Mar-1882	21-Oct-1969	Sierpinski's gasket
Robert M. Solow	Economist	23-Aug-1924		Theory of economic growth
Arnold Sommerfeld	Physicist	5-Dec-1868	26-Apr-1951	Fine-structure constant
Stephen Timoshenko	Engineer	23-Dec-1878	29-May-1972	Mechanical engineering professor at Stanford
Johannes Diderik van der Waals	Physicist	23-Nov-1837	9-Mar-1923	Investigated states of matter
Robert W. Wood	Physicist	2-May-1868	11-Aug-1955	Physical Optics
Robert B. Woodward	Chemist	10-Apr-1917	8-Jul-1979	Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc.

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