PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Kenneth J. Arrow	Economist	23-Aug-1921		Social Choice and Individual Values
Gary S. Becker	Economist	2-Dec-1930	3-May-2014	Human Capital
P. George Benson	Educator	3-Jun-1946		President, College of Charleston
John S. Billings	Administrator	12-Apr-1838	11-Mar-1913	New York Public Library
David H. Blackwell	Mathematician	24-Apr-1919	8-Jul-2010	Bayesian statistics
Albert H. Bowker	Educator	8-Sep-1919	20-Jan-2008	Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1971-80
George E. P. Box	Mathematician	18-Oct-1919	28-Mar-2013	Statistician at University of Wisconsin
Claude S. Brinegar	Business	16-Dec-1926	13-Mar-2009	US Secretary of Transportation, 1973-75
Ernest Burgess	Sociologist	16-May-1886	27-Dec-1966	Introduction to the Science of Sociology
Joseph S. Davis	Economist	5-Nov-1885	1975	Council of Economic Advisers, 1955-58
W. Edwards Deming	Mathematician	14-Oct-1900	20-Dec-1993	Quality Control guru
Persi Diaconis	Mathematician	31-Jan-1945		Science of random numbers
Franklin M. Fisher	Economist	13-Dec-1934		Economist at MIT
Irving Fisher	Economist	27-Feb-1867	29-Apr-1947	The Theory of Interest
Milton Friedman	Economist	31-Jul-1912	16-Nov-2006	1976 Nobel Prize for Economics
Matthew Goldstein	Educator	c. 1941		Chancellor of CUNY
James J. Heckman	Economist	19-Apr-1944		Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior
Donald P. Jacobs	Economist	22-Jun-1927		Dean of the Kellogg School, 1975-2001
Dale W. Jorgenson	Economist	7-May-1933		Economist at Harvard
Simon Kuznets	Economist	30-Apr-1901	8-Jul-1985	National Income and Its Composition
John William Mauchly	Physicist	30-Aug-1907	8-Jan-1980	ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers
Raymond Pearl	Biologist	3-Jun-1879	17-Nov-1940	Biogerontology
Edward Tufte	Author	14-Mar-1942		The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Francis A. Walker	Economist	2-Jul-1840	5-Jan-1897	The Wages Question
Carroll D. Wright	Sociologist	25-Jul-1840	20-Feb-1909	The Industrial Evolution of the United States

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