Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

ORGANIZATION

"The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution, was established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr., then President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation."

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

Location:
New York City

Founding Date:
1934

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Alan S. Blinder Economist 14-Oct-1945 Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve

Stephen L. Brown Business c. 1938 President of John Hancock, 1987-2000

John Clarke Physicist 10-Feb-1942 Superconducting quantum interference

Karl T. Compton Physicist 15-Sep-1887 22-Jun-1954 Bikini Island atomic tests

Ralph E. Gomory Business c. 1938 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

David J. Gross Physicist 19-Feb-1941 Deep structure of matter

Sanford J. Grossman Business 21-Jul-1953 CEO of Quantitative Financial Strategies

Freeman A. Hrabowski Educator 13-Aug-1950 President, University of Maryland Baltimore

Paul L. Joskow Economist c. 1946 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Charles R. LaMantia Business c. 1940 CEO of Arthur D. Little, 1988-99

Eric Maskin Economist 12-Dec-1950 Mechanism design theory

Sandra O. Moose Business c. 1941 Ex-VP, Boston Consulting Group

Roger B. Myerson Economist 29-Mar-1951 Mechanism design theory

Kenneth S. Rogoff Economist 22-Mar-1953 Harvard economist

Richard E. Salomon Business c. 1942 Chairman of Mecox Ventures

Wallace Sargent Astronomer 15-Feb-1935 Astrophysicist at CalTech

Harold T. Shapiro Educator 8-Jun-1935 President of Princeton, 1988-2000

Alfred P. Sloan Business 23-May-1875 17-Feb-1966 Chairman of GM, 1937-56

Robert M. Solow Economist 23-Aug-1924 Theory of economic growth

A. Michael Spence Economist 7-Nov-1943 Asymmetric markets

Timothy Swager Chemist 1-Jul-1961 Chemist at MIT

Dennis Weatherstone Business 29-Nov-1930 13-Jun-2008 CEO of JP Morgan, 1990-94

Frank Wilczek Physicist 15-May-1951 Deep structure of matter

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