ORGANIZATION

Founded 1945, originally named the Federation of Atomic Scientists.

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

Location:
Washington, DC

Founding Date:
1945

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Peter Agre	Biologist	30-Jan-1949		Water channels of cell membranes
Sidney Altman	Chemist	7-May-1939		Proved enzyme role of RNA
Philip W. Anderson	Physicist	13-Dec-1923		Solid state physics
Kenneth J. Arrow	Economist	23-Aug-1921		Social Choice and Individual Values
David Baltimore	Biologist	7-Mar-1938		Co-Discoverer, reverse transcriptase
Baruj Benacerraf	Scientist	29-Oct-1920	2-Aug-2011	Gene control of HLA antigens
Paul Berg	Chemist	30-Jun-1926		Pioneer in recombinant DNA
Hans Bethe	Physicist	2-Jul-1906	6-Mar-2005	Atomic scientist
J. Michael Bishop	Scientist	22-Feb-1936		Genetic causes of cancer
Günter Blobel	Scientist	21-May-1936		Protein signaling in cells
Nicolaas Bloembergen	Physicist	11-Mar-1920		Nonlinear optics
Norman Borlaug	Scientist	25-Mar-1914	12-Sep-2009	Engineered disease-resistant wheat
Paul D. Boyer	Chemist	31-Jul-1918		ATP process
Owen Chamberlain	Physicist	10-Jul-1920	28-Feb-2006	Co-Discoverer of the antiproton
Leon N. Cooper	Physicist	28-Feb-1930		BCS Theory of Superconductivity
Elias James Corey	Chemist	12-Jul-1928		Retrosynthetic analysis
James W. Cronin	Physicist	29-Sep-1931		Time not necessarily reversible
Johann Deisenhofer	Chemist	30-Sep-1943		Proteins of photosynthesis
Ann Druyan	Author	13-Jun-1949		Co-wrote Cosmos with husband Carl Sagan
Renato Dulbecco	Scientist	22-Feb-1914	20-Feb-2012	Tumor viruses and host genetics
Esther Dyson	Business	14-Jul-1951		EDventure Holdings, former ICANN director
Paul R. Ehrlich	Scientist	29-May-1932		The Population Bomb
Richard Feynman	Physicist	11-May-1918	15-Feb-1988	Surely he's joking
Val Fitch	Physicist	10-Mar-1923	5-Feb-2015	Time not necessarily reversible
Jerome I. Friedman	Physicist	28-Mar-1930		Verified existence of quarks
Robert F. Furchgott	Scientist	4-Jun-1916	19-May-2009	Nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signal
Riccardo Giacconi	Astronomer	6-Oct-1931		Discovered cosmic X-ray sources
S. Malcolm Gillis	Educator	28-Dec-1940	4-Oct-2015	President of Rice University, 1993-2004
Alfred G. Gilman	Scientist	1-Jul-1941	23-Dec-2015	G-protein cell signal transmission
Donald A. Glaser	Physicist	21-Sep-1926	28-Feb-2013	Inventor of the bubble chamber
Sheldon Glashow	Physicist	5-Dec-1932		Electroweak Theory
Joseph L. Goldstein	Scientist	18-Apr-1940		Hypercholesterolemia and cell metabolism
Leland H. Hartwell	Scientist	30-Oct-1939		Regulators of cell cycle
Herbert A. Hauptman	Mathematician	14-Feb-1917	23-Oct-2011	X-ray diffraction studies
Dudley R. Herschbach	Chemist	18-Jun-1932		Crossed molecular beam experiments
William A. Higinbotham	Physicist	25-Oct-1910	10-Nov-1994	Physicist, Tennis for Two
Roald Hoffmann	Chemist	18-Jul-1937		Woodward-Hoffmann reaction
H. Robert Horvitz	Scientist	8-May-1947		Genetic regulation of organ development
David H. Hubel	Scientist	27-Feb-1926	22-Sep-2013	Neurophysiology of vision
Eric R. Kandel	Scientist	7-Nov-1929		Signal transduction in the nervous system
Jerome Karle	Chemist	18-Jun-1918	6-Jun-2013	X-Ray diffraction studies
Wolfgang Ketterle	Physicist	21-Oct-1957		Bose-Einstein condensates
H. Gobind Khorana	Scientist	9-Jan-1922	9-Nov-2011	RNA's role in protein synthesis
Arthur Kornberg	Scientist	3-Mar-1918	26-Oct-2007	Synthesized DNA
Roger D. Kornberg	Scientist	24-Apr-1947		Molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription
Edwin G. Krebs	Scientist	6-Jun-1918	21-Dec-2009	Protein phosphorylation
Willis Lamb	Physicist	12-Jul-1913	15-May-2008	Detailed the hydrogen spectrum
Leon M. Lederman	Physicist	15-Jul-1922		Researcher of neutrinos
William Lipscomb	Chemist	9-Dec-1919	14-Apr-2011	Chemical bonding
Roderick MacKinnon	Biologist	19-Feb-1956		Ion channels of cell membranes
Jessica Tuchman Mathews	Government	1946		Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Mario J. Molina	Chemist	19-Mar-1943		Ozone depletion
Ferid Murad	Scientist	14-Sep-1936		Nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signal
Joseph E. Murray	Doctor	1-Apr-1919	26-Nov-2012	Kidney transplants
Marshall W. Nirenberg	Scientist	10-Apr-1927	15-Jan-2010	RNA's role in protein synthesis
Douglas D. Osheroff	Physicist	1-Aug-1945		Superfluidity of helium-3
Arno Penzias	Astronomer	26-Apr-1933		Detected primordial radiation
Martin L. Perl	Physicist	24-Jun-1927	30-Sep-2014	Discovered the tau lepton
Norman F. Ramsey	Physicist	27-Aug-1915	4-Nov-2011	Energy levels of atoms
Burton Richter	Physicist	22-Mar-1931		Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson
Richard J. Roberts	Scientist	6-Sep-1943		Eukaryotic (split) genes
Jeffrey Sachs	Economist	5-Nov-1954		The End of Poverty
Carl Sagan	Astronomer	9-Nov-1934	20-Dec-1996	Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos
Robert Schrieffer	Physicist	31-May-1931		BCS Theory of Superconductivity
Julian Schwinger	Physicist	12-Feb-1918	16-Jul-1994	Quantum electrodynamics
Phillip A. Sharp	Biologist	6-Jun-1944		Eukaryotic (split) genes
K. Barry Sharpless	Chemist	28-Apr-1941		Chiral catalysts
Robert M. Solow	Economist	23-Aug-1924		Theory of economic growth
Jack Steinberger	Physicist	25-May-1921		Researcher of neutrinos
Joseph Stiglitz	Economist	9-Feb-1943		Ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank
Leo Szilard	Physicist	11-Feb-1898	30-May-1964	Nuclear chain reaction
E. Donnall Thomas	Scientist	15-Mar-1920	20-Oct-2012	Bone marrow transplants
Charles H. Townes	Physicist	28-Jul-1915	27-Jan-2015	Invention of the maser and laser
Daniel C. Tsui	Physicist	28-Feb-1939		Fractional quantum Hall effect
Harold C. Urey	Chemist	29-Apr-1893	5-Jan-1981	Discovered Deuterium
Harold E. Varmus	Scientist	18-Dec-1939		Genetic causes of cancer
Steven Weinberg	Physicist	3-May-1933		Electroweak Theory
Eric F. Wieschaus	Scientist	8-Jun-1947		Embryonic development of fruit flies
Torsten N. Wiesel	Scientist	3-Jun-1924		Neurophysiology of vision
Frank Wilczek	Physicist	15-May-1951		Deep structure of matter

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