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Washington Academy of Sciences
ORGANIZATION
"The Washington Academy of Sciences was incorporated in 1898 as an affiliation of eight Washington DC area scientific societies. The formation of the Academy culminated a decade of planning under the leadership of the Philosophical Society of Washington. The founders included Alexander Graham Bell and Samuel P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The purpose of the new Academy was to encourage the advancement of science and to conduct, endow, or assist investigation in any department of science."
Official Website:
http://www.washacadsci.org/ Location:
Washington, DC
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| William D. Coolidge |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1873 |
4-Feb-1975 |
Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes |
| Harvey Cushing |
Doctor |
8-Apr-1869 |
7-Oct-1939 |
Cushing's Syndrome |
| William M. Jardine |
Educator |
16-Jan-1879 |
17-Jan-1955 |
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1925-29 |
| James E. Keeler |
Astronomer |
10-Sep-1857 |
12-Aug-1900 |
Composition of Saturn's rings |
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