ORGANIZATION

Founded in 1919, 31,000 members.

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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Gregory Breit	Physicist	14-Jul-1899	11-Sep-1981	Proton-proton dispersion
Jared L. Cohon	Educator	c. 1947		President, Carnegie Mellon University
Owen K. Garriott	Astronaut	22-Nov-1930		Skylab, Spacelab astronaut
Thomas Gold	Scientist	22-May-1920	22-Jun-2004	Certain that oil is not a fossil fuel
James E. Hansen	Scientist	29-Mar-1941		Greenhouse effect and global warming
Raymond Hide	Geologist	17-May-1929		Earth's rotation
Drummond Matthews	Geologist	5-Feb-1931	20-Jul-1997	Plate tectonics
Eugene Parker	Astronomer	10-Jun-1927		Solar winds
Carl Sagan	Astronomer	9-Nov-1934	20-Dec-1996	Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos
James V. Taranik	Geologist	c. 1941		Desert Research Institute
Lonnie Thompson	Scientist	1-Jul-1948		Glaciologist
Harold C. Urey	Chemist	29-Apr-1893	5-Jan-1981	Discovered Deuterium
James Van Allen	Astronomer	7-Sep-1914	9-Aug-2006	Discovered the Van Allen Belt

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