ORGANIZATION

Founded 1817.

Official Website:
http://www.nyas.org/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Maurice Allais	Economist	31-May-1911		Monopoly pricing and the Allais effect
Eleanor Baum	Educator	c. 1939		Dean of Engineering, Cooper Union
Adolf Butenandt	Chemist	24-Mar-1903	18-Jan-1995	Research in sex hormones
George Campbell, Jr.	Educator	2-Dec-1945		President of the Cooper Union
James McKeen Cattell	Psychologist	24-May-1860	20-Jan-1944	Academic freedom
Paul Davies	Physicist	22-Apr-1946		The Mind of God
Nicholas M. Donofrio	Business	7-Sep-1945		EVP at IBM
Gerald M. Edelman	Scientist	1-Jul-1929		Chemical structure of antibodies
Gertrude B. Elion	Scientist	23-Jan-1918	21-Feb-1999	Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS
Jeffrey E. Epstein	Business	20-Jan-1953		Reclusive money manager
Matthew Goldstein	Administrator	c. 1941		Chancellor of CUNY
Richard J. Goldstein	Engineer	c. 1936		Fluid mechanics
Ronald Graham	Mathematician	31-Oct-1935		Mathematician, Computer Scientist
E. Newton Harvey	Zoologist	25-Nov-1887	21-Jul-1959	Light-emitting organisms
Percy Julian	Chemist	11-Apr-1899	19-Apr-1975	Physostigmine and cortisone
Henry C. Lee	Scientist	22-Nov-1938		Prominent criminologist
Richard A. Lerner	Biologist	28-Aug-1938		President, Scripps Research Institute
Edmund S. Phelps	Economist	26-Jul-1933		Golden Rules of Economic Growth
George Rieveschl	Chemist	9-Jan-1916	27-Sep-2007	Discovered Benadryl
Paul Robeson, Jr.	Activist	2-Nov-1927		Son of Paul Robeson
Oliver Sacks	Doctor	9-Jul-1933		Awakenings
Charles A. Sanders	Business	c. 1932		CEO of Glaxo, 1989-95
John Sexton	Educator	1942		President, New York University
Lewis Thomas	Doctor	25-Nov-1913	3-Dec-1993	The Lives of a Cell
Jeffrey Wigand	Scientist	17-Dec-1942		Tobacco industry whistleblower
Frank Wilczek	Physicist	15-May-1951		Deep structure of matter

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