ORGANIZATION

Founded 1817.

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

Founding Date:
1817

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Maurice Allais	Economist	31-May-1911	9-Oct-2010	Monopoly pricing and the Allais effect
Eleanor Baum	Educator	c. 1939		Dean of Engineering, Cooper Union
Adolf Butenandt	Chemist	24-Mar-1903	18-Jan-1995	Research in sex hormones
George Campbell, Jr.	Educator	2-Dec-1945		President of the Cooper Union
James McKeen Cattell	Psychologist	24-May-1860	20-Jan-1944	Academic freedom
Erwin Chargaff	Biologist	11-Aug-1905	20-Jun-2002	Biochemist at Columbia University
Paul Davies	Physicist	22-Apr-1946		The Mind of God
Peter Debye	Physicist	24-Mar-1884	2-Nov-1966	Studied molecular structure, dipoles
Nicholas M. Donofrio	Business	7-Sep-1945		EVP at IBM
Gerald M. Edelman	Scientist	1-Jul-1929	17-May-2014	Chemical structure of antibodies
Gertrude B. Elion	Scientist	23-Jan-1918	21-Feb-1999	Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS
Jeffrey E. Epstein	Business	20-Jan-1953		Reclusive money manager
Edward A. Frieman	Physicist	19-Jan-1926	11-Apr-2013	Director of Scripps, 1986-96
Israel Gelfand	Mathematician	2-Sep-1913	5-Oct-2009	Banach algebras, Lie groups
Matthew Goldstein	Educator	c. 1941		Chancellor of CUNY
Richard J. Goldstein	Engineer	c. 1936		Fluid mechanics
Ronald Graham	Mathematician	31-Oct-1935		Mathematician, Computer Scientist
E. Newton Harvey	Zoologist	25-Nov-1887	21-Jul-1959	Light-emitting organisms
Percy Julian	Chemist	11-Apr-1899	19-Apr-1975	Physostigmine and cortisone
Pyotr Kapitsa	Physicist	8-Jul-1894	8-Apr-1984	Discovered superfluidity
Lev Landau	Physicist	22-Jan-1908	1-Apr-1968	Superfluidity of helium
Henry C. Lee	Scientist	22-Nov-1938		Prominent criminologist
Richard A. Lerner	Biologist	28-Aug-1938		Scripps Research Institute
Barbara McClintock	Scientist	16-Jun-1902	2-Sep-1992	Discovered transposable genes
Colleen McCullough	Novelist	1-Jun-1937	29-Jan-2015	The Thorn Birds
Peter Medawar	Biologist	28-Feb-1915	2-Oct-1987	Acquired immunological tolerance
Giulio Natta	Chemist	26-Feb-1903	2-May-1979	Ziegler-Natta catalysts for polymerization
Ronald G. W. Norrish	Chemist	9-Nov-1897	7-Jun-1978	Rapid chemical processes
Wilhelm Ostwald	Chemist	2-Sep-1853	4-Apr-1932	Ostwald's Law of Dilution and Conductivity
Edmund S. Phelps	Economist	26-Jul-1933		Golden Rules of Economic Growth
George Porter	Chemist	6-Dec-1920	31-Aug-2002	Rapid chemical and biological processes
Ilya Prigogine	Chemist	25-Jan-1917	28-May-2003	Theory of dissipative structures
James Rainwater	Physicist	9-Dec-1917	31-May-1986	Determined shapes of nuclei
Andrew Revkin	Journalist	c. 1956		New York Times science reporter
George Rieveschl	Chemist	9-Jan-1916	27-Sep-2007	Discovered Benadryl
Paul Robeson, Jr.	Activist	2-Nov-1927	26-Apr-2014	Son of Paul Robeson
Oliver Sacks	Doctor	9-Jul-1933	30-Aug-2015	Awakenings
Charles A. Sanders	Business	10-Feb-1932		CEO of Glaxo, 1989-95
Glenn Seaborg	Physicist	19-Apr-1912	25-Feb-1999	Co-Discoverer of Plutonium
John Sexton	Educator	1942		President, New York University
William H. Stein	Chemist	25-Jun-1911	2-Feb-1980	Amino-acid analyzer
Ralph M. Steinman	Biologist	14-Jan-1943	30-Sep-2011	Dendritic cells
The Svedberg	Chemist	30-Aug-1884	25-Feb-1971	Inventor of the ultracentrifuge
Jack W. Szostak	Scientist	9-Nov-1952		First artificial chromosome
Lewis Thomas	Doctor	25-Nov-1913	3-Dec-1993	The Lives of a Cell
Charles H. Townes	Physicist	28-Jul-1915	27-Jan-2015	Invention of the maser and laser
Vincent du Vigneaud	Chemist	18-May-1901	11-Dec-1978	Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin
Jeffrey Wigand	Scientist	17-Dec-1942		Tobacco industry whistleblower
Frank Wilczek	Physicist	15-May-1951		Deep structure of matter
John F. Williams, Jr.	Business	c. 1948		VP Health Affairs, George Washington University
Georg Wittig	Chemist	16-Jun-1897	26-Aug-1987	Wittig Reaction

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