Nonprofit organization founded in 1848.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Roger Adams |
Chemist |
2-Jan-1889 |
6-Jul-1971 |
Organic chemist at Illinois |
| Walter S. Adams |
Astronomer |
20-Dec-1876 |
11-May-1956 |
Long-time director of Mt Wilson Observatory |
| Ilesanmi Adesida |
Educator |
c. 1949 |
|
Dean, College of Engineering, UIUC |
| Robert Adler |
Physicist |
4-Dec-1913 |
15-Feb-2007 |
Invented wireless remote control |
| Kenneth J. Arrow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1921 |
|
Social Choice and Individual Values |
| Julius Axelrod |
Chemist |
30-May-1912 |
29-Dec-2004 |
Research of neurotransmitters |
| Harold D. Babcock |
Astronomer |
24-Jan-1882 |
8-Apr-1968 |
Solar radiation |
| Paul Baran |
Scientist |
29-Apr-1926 |
|
Early networking pioneer |
| Harry Barnes |
Diplomat |
5-Jun-1926 |
|
US Ambassador to Chile, 1985-88 |
| George Beadle |
Scientist |
22-Oct-1903 |
9-Jun-1989 |
One gene, one enzyme theory |
| Paul Berg |
Chemist |
30-Jun-1926 |
|
Pioneer in recombinant DNA |
| Robert J. Birgeneau |
Educator |
1942 |
|
Chancellor, UC Berkeley |
| George David Birkhoff |
Mathematician |
21-Mar-1884 |
12-Nov-1944 |
Modern theory of dynamical systems |
| Erich Bloch |
Business |
9-Jan-1925 |
|
Director of NSF, 1984-90 |
| Gene D. Block |
Educator |
c. 1948 |
|
Chancellor, UCLA |
| Grady Booch |
Computer Programmer |
27-Feb-1955 |
|
Unified Modeling Language |
| Kim Bottomly |
Educator |
c. 1947 |
|
President, Wellesley College |
| Kenneth E. Boulding |
Economist |
18-Jan-1910 |
18-Mar-1993 |
The Image: Knowledge of Life in Society |
| Ben Bova |
Author |
28-Nov-1932 |
|
Science fiction writer |
| H. Kent Bowen |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
Baker Foundation Professor at HBS |
| Herbert W. Boyer |
Biologist |
10-Jul-1936 |
|
Recombinant DNA, first synthetic insulin |
| John Brademas |
Politician |
2-Mar-1927 |
|
Congressman from Indiana, 1959-81 |
| Walter H. Brattain |
Physicist |
10-Feb-1902 |
13-Oct-1987 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
| Gregory Breit |
Physicist |
14-Jul-1899 |
11-Sep-1981 |
Proton-proton dispersion |
| Percy Williams Bridgman |
Physicist |
21-Apr-1882 |
20-Aug-1961 |
Investigated high pressure physics |
| Wallace R. Brode |
Chemist |
12-Jun-1900 |
10-Aug-1974 |
Absorption spectra of dyes |
| William R. Brody |
Educator |
4-Jan-1944 |
|
President, Johns Hopkins University |
| Cleanth Brooks |
Critic |
16-Oct-1906 |
10-May-1994 |
The Well Wrought Urn |
| Rodney Brooks |
Scientist |
30-Dec-1954 |
|
Robotics researcher, director of MIT CS and AI Lab |
| Dirk Brouwer |
Astronomer |
1-Sep-1902 |
31-Jan-1966 |
Celestial mechanics |
| John Seely Brown |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Director of Xerox PARC, 1990-2000 |
| Linda B. Buck |
Biologist |
29-Jan-1947 |
|
Odorant receptors and olfactory organization |
| E. Margaret Burbidge |
Astronomer |
12-Aug-1919 |
|
Synthesis of the elements in stars |
| Ernest Burgess |
Sociologist |
16-May-1886 |
27-Dec-1966 |
Introduction to the Science of Sociology |
| Frank Macfarlane Burnet |
Scientist |
3-Sep-1899 |
31-Aug-1985 |
Acquired immunological tolerance |
| Helen Caldicott |
Activist |
7-Aug-1938 |
|
Anti-nuclear crusader |
| George Campbell, Jr. |
Educator |
2-Dec-1945 |
|
President of the Cooper Union |
| William W. Campbell |
Astronomer |
11-Apr-1862 |
14-Jun-1938 |
Stellar Motions |
| Claude R. Canizares |
Physicist |
1945 |
|
Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics |
| Mario Capecchi |
Scientist |
6-Oct-1937 |
|
Knock-out mice |
| Anton J. Carlson |
Biologist |
29-Jan-1875 |
2-Sep-1956 |
The Machinery of the Body |
| Leonard Carmichael |
Educator |
9-Nov-1898 |
16-Sep-1973 |
Smithsonian Chief, 1953-64 |
| Richard Celeste |
Politician |
11-Nov-1937 |
|
Governor of Ohio, 1983-91 |
| Vint Cerf |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1943 |
|
Co-designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
| Owen Chamberlain |
Physicist |
10-Jul-1920 |
28-Feb-2006 |
Co-Discoverer of the antiproton |
| Noam Chomsky |
Linguist |
7-Dec-1928 |
|
Linguist, dissident intellectual |
| John Clarke |
Physicist |
10-Feb-1942 |
|
Superconducting quantum interference |
| Thomas W. Cole, Jr. |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
President of Clark Atlanta, 1989-2002 |
| Mary Sue Coleman |
Educator |
2-Oct-1943 |
|
President, University of Michigan |
| Francis Collins |
Scientist |
14-Apr-1950 |
|
Human Genome Project, science/religion pundit |
| Barry Commoner |
Biologist |
28-May-1917 |
|
Science and Survival |
| Arthur H. Compton |
Physicist |
10-Sep-1892 |
15-Mar-1962 |
Discovered the Compton Effect |
| Edward Condon |
Physicist |
2-Mar-1902 |
26-Mar-1974 |
Quantum Mechanics |
| William D. Coolidge |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1873 |
4-Feb-1975 |
Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes |
| Leon N. Cooper |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1930 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
| Elias James Corey |
Chemist |
12-Jul-1928 |
|
Retrosynthetic analysis |
| Carl Cori |
Scientist |
5-Dec-1896 |
20-Oct-1984 |
Catalytic conversion of glycogen |
| Harvey Cushing |
Doctor |
8-Apr-1869 |
7-Oct-1939 |
Cushing's Syndrome |
| Gerard Debreu |
Economist |
4-Jul-1921 |
31-Dec-2004 |
Supply and demand theorist |
| Johann Deisenhofer |
Chemist |
30-Sep-1943 |
|
Proteins of photosynthesis |
| W. Edwards Deming |
Mathematician |
14-Oct-1900 |
20-Dec-1993 |
Quality Control guru |
| Henry Draper |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1837 |
20-Nov-1882 |
Early astrophotographer |
| James J. Duderstadt |
Educator |
c. 1943 |
|
President, University of Michigan, 1988-96 |
| Gerald M. Edelman |
Scientist |
1-Jul-1929 |
|
Chemical structure of antibodies |
| Vernon Ehlers |
Politician |
6-Feb-1934 |
|
Congressman, Michigan 3rd |
| Paul R. Ehrlich |
Scientist |
29-May-1932 |
|
The Population Bomb |
| Gertrude B. Elion |
Scientist |
23-Jan-1918 |
21-Feb-1999 |
Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS |
| Thomas E. Everhart |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1932 |
|
President of CalTech, 1987-97 |
| Martha J. Farah |
Psychologist |
c. 1955 |
|
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, UPenn |
| Richard Feynman |
Physicist |
11-May-1918 |
15-Feb-1988 |
Surely he's joking |
| Val Fitch |
Physicist |
10-Mar-1923 |
|
Time not necessarily reversible |
| Marye Anne Fox |
Educator |
9-Dec-1947 |
|
Chancellor, UC San Diego |
| James Franck |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1882 |
21-May-1964 |
Franck-Hertz experiment |
| R. Buckminster Fuller |
Architect |
12-Jul-1895 |
1-Jul-1983 |
Futurist, invented the geodesic dome |
| Owen K. Garriott |
Astronaut |
22-Nov-1930 |
|
Skylab, Spacelab astronaut |
| Alice P. Gast |
Educator |
25-May-1958 |
|
President, Lehigh University |
| Murray Gell-Mann |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1929 |
|
Weak interaction of particles |
| Michael Gershon |
Scientist |
c. 1936 |
|
Neurogastroenterologist |
| Sheldon Glashow |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1932 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
| Parris Glendening |
Politician |
11-Jun-1942 |
|
Governor of Maryland, 1995-2003 |
| Richard J. Goldstein |
Engineer |
c. 1936 |
|
Fluid mechanics |
| Mary L. Good |
Educator |
20-Jun-1931 |
|
Donaghey Professor, U. Arkansas |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Biologist |
10-Sep-1941 |
20-May-2002 |
Evolutionary biologist and paleontologist |
| Ronald Graham |
Mathematician |
31-Oct-1935 |
|
Mathematician, Computer Scientist |
| Donald P. Greenberg |
Educator |
c. 1933 |
|
Prof. of Computer Graphics, Cornell |
| Zvi Griliches |
Economist |
12-Sep-1930 |
4-Nov-1999 |
Technology, Education, and Productivity |
| Amiram Grinvald |
Scientist |
c. 1949 |
|
High-resolution optical imaging |
| David J. Gross |
Physicist |
19-Feb-1941 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
| Alan Guth |
Physicist |
27-Feb-1947 |
|
Inflationary theory |
| Asaph Hall |
Astronomer |
15-Oct-1829 |
22-Nov-1907 |
Discovered the moons of Mars |
| Edwin Hall |
Physicist |
7-Nov-1855 |
20-Nov-1938 |
Discovered the Hall Effect |
| Margaret A. Hamburg |
Government |
1955 |
|
New York City Health Commissioner, 1991-97 |
| Robert Hare |
Chemist |
17-Jan-1781 |
15-May-1858 |
Hydrostatic blow-pipe and spiritoscope |
| Clare M. Hasler |
Educator |
c. 1957 |
|
Director, Robert Mondavi Institute |
| William R. Hearst III |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
San Francisco Examiner Editor, 1984-95 |
| Susan Hockfield |
Educator |
c. 1951 |
|
President, MIT |
| Alan L. Hodgkin |
Scientist |
5-Feb-1914 |
20-Dec-1998 |
Electrical impulses in nerves |
| Robert W. Holley |
Scientist |
28-Jan-1922 |
11-Feb-1993 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| Rush Holt |
Politician |
15-Oct-1948 |
|
Congressman, New Jersey 12th |
| Leroy Hood |
Biologist |
10-Oct-1938 |
|
Systems biology and Human Genome Project |
| Grace Murray Hopper |
Computer Programmer |
9-Dec-1906 |
1-Jan-1992 |
Invented the COBOL compiler |
| Fred Hoyle |
Astronomer |
24-Jun-1915 |
20-Aug-2001 |
Steady-state universe |
| Frederic Eugene Ives |
Inventor |
17-Feb-1856 |
27-May-1937 |
Halftone process |
| Shirley A. Jackson |
Physicist |
5-Aug-1946 |
|
NRC Chairman, 1995-99 |
| Mae C. Jemison |
Astronaut |
17-Oct-1956 |
|
First African-American woman in space |
| Franklyn G. Jenifer |
Educator |
26-Mar-1939 |
|
President of UT-Dallas, 1994-2003 |
| Donald Johanson |
Anthropologist |
28-Jun-1943 |
|
Discovered "Lucy" fossils |
| Michael M. E. Johns |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
Chancellor, Emory University |
| Anita K. Jones |
Educator |
c. 1942 |
|
Professor at University of Virginia |
| Dale W. Jorgenson |
Economist |
7-May-1933 |
|
Economist at Harvard |
| Percy Julian |
Chemist |
11-Apr-1899 |
19-Apr-1975 |
Physostigmine and cortisone |
| Joseph M. Juran |
Scientist |
24-Dec-1904 |
28-Feb-2008 |
The Pareto Principle |
| Paul G. Kaminski |
Military |
16-Sep-1942 |
|
CEO of Technovation, Inc. |
| James E. Keeler |
Astronomer |
10-Sep-1857 |
12-Aug-1900 |
Composition of Saturn's rings |
| John Harvey Kellogg |
Doctor |
26-Feb-1852 |
14-Dec-1943 |
Battle Creek Sanitarium |
| Donald Kennedy |
Educator |
18-Aug-1931 |
|
Editor-in-Chief of Science |
| Donald M. Kerr |
Government |
c. 1941 |
|
Deputy Director, US National Intelligence |
| Jeremy R. Knowles |
Business |
1935 |
|
Chemistry Professor, Harvard University |
| Arthur Kornberg |
Scientist |
3-Mar-1918 |
26-Oct-2007 |
Synthesized DNA |
| Irving Kristol |
Columnist |
1920 |
|
Influential neocon |
| Paul Kurtz |
Philosopher |
21-Dec-1925 |
|
The pope of unbelievers |
| Simon Kuznets |
Economist |
30-Apr-1901 |
8-Jul-1985 |
National Income and Its Composition |
| Samuel P. Langley |
Astronomer |
22-Aug-1834 |
2-Feb-1906 |
Heavier-than-air flying machine |
| Irving Langmuir |
Physicist |
31-Jan-1881 |
16-Aug-1957 |
Inventor of the high-vacuum tube |
| Richmond Lattimore |
Poet |
6-May-1906 |
26-Feb-1984 |
Translator of Iliad and Odyssey |
| Paul C. Lauterbur |
Scientist |
6-May-1929 |
27-Mar-2007 |
Magnetic resonance imaging |
| Henrietta Swan Leavitt |
Astronomer |
4-Jul-1868 |
12-Dec-1921 |
Cepheid variable |
| Joshua Lederberg |
Biologist |
23-May-1925 |
2-Feb-2008 |
Genetic properties of bacteria |
| Henry C. Lee |
Scientist |
22-Nov-1938 |
|
Prominent criminologist |
| Morris E. Leeds |
Business |
6-Mar-1869 |
8-Feb-1952 |
Leeds & Northrup Co. |
| Anthony J. Leggett |
Physicist |
26-Mar-1938 |
|
Particle physicist, explored superfluidity |
| Joseph Leidy |
Biologist |
9-Sep-1823 |
30-Apr-1891 |
Trichinosis and dinosaurs |
| Robert B. Leighton |
Astronomer |
10-Sep-1919 |
9-Mar-1997 |
Leighton dishes |
| Wassily Leontief |
Economist |
5-Aug-1906 |
5-Feb-1999 |
Structure of the American Economy |
| Arnold J. Levine |
Biologist |
1939 |
|
Cancer researcher |
| Susan L. Lindquist |
Biologist |
5-Jun-1949 |
|
Protein folding |
| Ralph Linton |
Anthropologist |
27-Feb-1893 |
25-Dec-1953 |
The Study of Man |
| Alfred Lee Loomis |
Physicist |
4-Nov-1887 |
1-Aug-1975 |
Millionaire scientist |
| Benoit Mandelbrot |
Mathematician |
20-Nov-1924 |
|
Fractal mathematician |
| Sally Mason |
Educator |
c. 1950 |
|
President, University of Iowa |
| Walter E. Massey |
Business |
5-Apr-1938 |
|
Morehouse College president, physicist |
| Jessica Tuchman Mathews |
Government |
1946 |
|
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury |
Military |
14-Jan-1806 |
1-Feb-1873 |
Father of modern oceanography |
| William D. McElroy |
Biologist |
22-Jan-1917 |
17-Feb-1999 |
Bioluminescence |
| Ian McEwan |
Novelist |
21-Jun-1948 |
|
Amsterdam |
| Victor A. McKusick |
Scientist |
21-Oct-1921 |
22-Jul-2008 |
Father of medical genetics |
| Margaret Mead |
Anthropologist |
16-Dec-1901 |
15-Nov-1978 |
Coming of Age in Samoa |
| Peter Medawar |
Zoologist |
28-Feb-1915 |
2-Oct-1987 |
Acquired immunological tolerance |
| Carolyn Meinel |
Author |
c. 1946 |
|
Walking scr1pt k1dd13 factory |
| Richard A. Meserve |
Attorney |
20-Nov-1944 |
|
President of the Carnegie Institution |
| Albert A. Michelson |
Physicist |
19-Dec-1852 |
9-May-1931 |
Calculated the speed of light |
| Stanley Miller |
Chemist |
7-Mar-1930 |
20-May-2007 |
Miller-Urey Experiment |
| Maria Mitchell |
Astronomer |
1-Aug-1818 |
28-Jun-1889 |
First American female astronomer |
| Ernest J. Moniz |
Educator |
c. 1944 |
|
Professor of Physics, MIT |
| Charlotte E. Moore |
Astronomer |
24-Sep-1898 |
3-Mar-1990 |
Technetium in the Sun |
| Lewis Henry Morgan |
Anthropologist |
21-Nov-1818 |
17-Dec-1881 |
Ancient Society |
| C. D. Mote, Jr. |
Educator |
c. 1937 |
|
President, University of Maryland |
| Robert S. Mulliken |
Chemist |
7-Jun-1896 |
31-Oct-1986 |
Studied molecular structure |
| Story Musgrave |
Astronaut |
19-Aug-1935 |
|
Spent 1281 hours in space |
| Arun Netravali |
Business |
26-May-1946 |
|
Chief Scientist at Lucent, 2002-03 |
| Ernest Fox Nichols |
Physicist |
1-Jun-1869 |
29-Apr-1924 |
Infrared radiation |
| Robert Noyce |
Inventor |
12-Dec-1927 |
3-Jun-1990 |
Co-Inventor, integrated circuit |
| Ryoji Noyori |
Chemist |
3-Sep-1938 |
|
Chiral catalysts |
| Gilbert S. Omenn |
Business |
30-Aug-1941 |
|
Professor, University of Michigan |
| David W. Oxtoby |
Educator |
1951 |
|
President, Pomona College |
| Wolfgang Pauli |
Physicist |
25-Apr-1900 |
15-Dec-1958 |
Pauli Exclusion Principle |
| Benjamin Peirce |
Mathematician |
4-Apr-1809 |
10-Jun-1880 |
Idempotent and nilpotent |
| Russell W. Peterson |
Politician |
3-Oct-1916 |
|
Governor of Delaware, 1969-73 |
| Cecil B. Pickett |
Biologist |
c. 1949 |
|
President of R&D, Biogen Idec |
| Gregory Pincus |
Scientist |
9-Apr-1903 |
22-Aug-1967 |
Inventor of oral contraceptives |
| Kenneth S. Pitzer |
Chemist |
6-Jan-1914 |
26-Dec-1997 |
President of Rice University, 1961-68 |
| Jerry Pournelle |
Author |
7-Aug-1933 |
|
Sci-Fi collaborator with Larry Niven |
| John Wesley Powell |
Geologist |
24-Mar-1834 |
23-Sep-1902 |
Exploration of the Colorado River |
| Richard Powers |
Novelist |
18-Jun-1957 |
|
The Gold Bug Variations |
| Franklyn G. Prendergast |
Doctor |
7-Mar-1945 |
|
Mayo Clinic |
| James Rainwater |
Physicist |
9-Dec-1917 |
31-May-1986 |
Determined shapes of nuclei |
| Norman F. Ramsey |
Physicist |
27-Aug-1915 |
|
Energy levels of atoms |
| Don Michael Randel |
Educator |
9-Dec-1940 |
|
President, University of Chicago, 2000-06 |
| Frederick Reines |
Physicist |
16-Mar-1918 |
26-Aug-1998 |
Co-Discover of the Neutrino |
| Judith Reisman |
Author |
1935 |
|
Hates Kinsey |
| Donald B. Rice |
Business |
4-Jun-1939 |
|
Secretary of the USAF, 1989-93 |
| Theodore W. Richards |
Chemist |
31-Jan-1868 |
2-Apr-1928 |
Proved existence of isotopes |
| Robert C. Richardson |
Physicist |
26-Jun-1937 |
|
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
| Burton Richter |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1931 |
|
Co-Discoverer of J/psi particle |
| Oscar Riddle |
Biologist |
27-Sep-1877 |
29-Nov-1968 |
Prolactin |
| George Rieveschl |
Chemist |
9-Jan-1916 |
27-Sep-2007 |
Discovered Benadryl |
| Ron Rivest |
Computer Programmer |
1947 |
|
The R in RSA |
| Vera Rubin |
Astronomer |
23-Jul-1928 |
|
Structure of galaxies |
| Henry Norris Russell |
Astronomer |
25-Oct-1877 |
18-Feb-1957 |
Giant stars and dwarfs |
| Carl Sagan |
Astronomer |
9-Nov-1934 |
20-Dec-1996 |
Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos |
| Jonas Salk |
Scientist |
28-Oct-1914 |
23-Jun-1995 |
Discoverer of the polio vaccine |
| Frank Schlesinger |
Astronomer |
11-May-1871 |
10-Jul-1943 |
Stellar parallaxes |
| Jack Schmitt |
Astronaut |
3-Jul-1935 |
|
12th Man on the Moon |
| Julian Schwinger |
Physicist |
12-Feb-1918 |
16-Jul-1994 |
Quantum electrodynamics |
| Glenn Seaborg |
Physicist |
19-Apr-1912 |
25-Feb-1999 |
Co-Discoverer of Plutonium |
| Harlow Shapley |
Astronomer |
2-Nov-1885 |
20-Oct-1972 |
Organizer of Heaven |
| Phillip A. Sharp |
Biologist |
6-Jun-1944 |
|
Eukaryotic (split) genes |
| K. Barry Sharpless |
Chemist |
28-Apr-1941 |
|
Chiral catalysts |
| Robert N. Shelton |
Educator |
1948 |
|
President, University of Arizona |
| Martin Shubik |
Economist |
24-Mar-1926 |
|
Economist |
| David J. Skorton |
Educator |
22-Nov-1949 |
|
President, Cornell University |
| V. M. Slipher |
Astronomer |
11-Nov-1875 |
8-Nov-1969 |
Interstellar dust |
| Theobald Smith |
Scientist |
31-Jul-1859 |
10-Dec-1934 |
Infectious and parasitic diseases |
| Oliver Smithies |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1925 |
|
Knock-out mice |
| Robert M. Solow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1924 |
|
Theory of economic growth |
| Gene Spafford |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1957 |
|
Spaf |
| Elmer Sperry |
Inventor |
12-Oct-1860 |
10-Jun-1930 |
Gyroscopic compass |
| Robert J. Spitzer |
Educator |
16-May-1952 |
|
President of Gonzaga University |
| Frank J. Sprague |
Inventor |
25-Jul-1857 |
25-Oct-1934 |
Streetcars and express elevators |
| Robert G. Sproul |
Administrator |
22-May-1891 |
10-Sep-1975 |
President, University of California, 1930-58 |
| Chauncey Starr |
Physicist |
14-Apr-1912 |
17-Apr-2007 |
Electric Power Research Institute |
| William H. Stein |
Chemist |
25-Jun-1911 |
2-Feb-1980 |
Studied ribonuclease |
| Otto Stern |
Physicist |
17-Feb-1888 |
17-Aug-1969 |
Molecular beam experiment |
| Walter W. Stewart |
Economist |
1885 |
Mar-1958 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1953-55 |
| Kathryn D. Sullivan |
Astronaut |
3-Oct-1951 |
|
Columbus Center for Science and Industry |
| Louis Wade Sullivan |
Government |
3-Nov-1933 |
|
US Secretary of HHS, 1989-93 |
| Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. |
Scientist |
19-Nov-1915 |
9-Mar-1974 |
Hormones mechanisms (cyclic AMP) |
| David Suzuki |
Naturalist |
24-Mar-1936 |
|
Television nature host |
| Ambrose Swasey |
Business |
19-Dec-1846 |
15-Jun-1937 |
Warner and Swasey Company and Observatory |
| James V. Taranik |
Geologist |
c. 1941 |
|
Desert Research Institute |
| Edward Teller |
Physicist |
15-Jan-1908 |
9-Sep-2003 |
Father of the H Bomb |
| Chang-Lin Tien |
Educator |
24-Jul-1935 |
29-Oct-2002 |
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1990-97 |
| Stephen Timoshenko |
Engineer |
23-Dec-1878 |
29-May-1972 |
Mechanical engineering professor at Stanford |
| Alvin Toffler |
Author |
4-Oct-1928 |
|
Future Shock |
| Daniel C. Tsui |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1939 |
|
Fractional quantum Hall effect |
| Murray Turoff |
Scientist |
13-Feb-1936 |
|
Computer conferencing and instant messaging |
| Harold C. Urey |
Chemist |
29-Apr-1893 |
5-Jan-1981 |
Discovered Deuterium |
| Larry N. Vanderhoef |
Educator |
20-Mar-1941 |
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Chancellor, UC Davis |
| Charles Vest |
Educator |
9-Sep-1941 |
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President of MIT, 1990-2004 |
| George Wald |
Biologist |
18-Nov-1906 |
12-Apr-1997 |
Physiology of the retina |
| Margaret Floy Washburn |
Psychologist |
25-Jul-1871 |
29-Oct-1939 |
First female American psychologist |
| William H. Welch |
Scientist |
8-Apr-1850 |
30-Apr-1934 |
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
| George M. Whitesides |
Chemist |
3-Aug-1939 |
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Harvard chemist, highest H-Index |
| Eugene Wigner |
Physicist |
17-Nov-1902 |
1-Jan-1995 |
Law of conservation of parity |
| Frank Wilczek |
Physicist |
15-May-1951 |
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Deep structure of matter |
| R. Sanders Williams |
Educator |
1948 |
|
Dean of Duke's Medical School |
| James Wolfensohn |
Business |
1-Dec-1933 |
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World Bank president, 1995-2005 |
| Carroll D. Wright |
Sociologist |
25-Jul-1840 |
20-Feb-1909 |
The Industrial Evolution of the United States |
| Mark S. Wrighton |
Educator |
1949 |
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Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Joe B. Wyatt |
Administrator |
c. 1935 |
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Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, 1982-2000 |
| Herbert S. Zim |
Author |
12-Jul-1909 |
5-Dec-1994 |
Golden Guides |
| Hans Zinsser |
Scientist |
17-Nov-1878 |
4-Sep-1940 |
Typhus vaccine |
