US Government agency to promote science policy, founded 1950.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Roger Adams |
Chemist |
2-Jan-1889 |
6-Jul-1971 |
Organic chemist at Illinois |
| Philip W. Anderson |
Physicist |
13-Dec-1923 |
|
Solid state physics |
| Daniel I. Arnon |
Biologist |
14-Nov-1910 |
20-Dec-1994 |
Photophosphorylation |
| Bill Bass |
Scientist |
30-Aug-1928 |
|
Human decomposition |
| Steven C. Beering |
Educator |
20-Aug-1932 |
|
President of Purdue, 1983-2000 |
| Paul Berg |
Chemist |
30-Jun-1926 |
|
Pioneer in recombinant DNA |
| Ben Bernanke |
Economist |
13-Dec-1953 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman, 2006-14 |
| Frederick M. Bernthal |
Administrator |
10-Jan-1943 |
|
President, Universities Research Association |
| Elizabeth H. Blackburn |
Scientist |
26-Nov-1948 |
|
Co-Discoverer of telomerase |
| Erich Bloch |
Business |
9-Jan-1925 |
|
Director of NSF, 1984-90 |
| Fred Brooks |
Computer Programmer |
19-Apr-1931 |
|
Father of the IBM System 360 |
| Mary Brown Bullock |
Historian |
1944 |
|
President of Agnes Scott College, 1995-2006 |
| Vannevar Bush |
Scientist |
11-Mar-1890 |
30-Jun-1974 |
Pre-internet visionary |
| Steven Chu |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1948 |
|
US Secretary of Energy, 2009-13 |
| James B. Conant |
Educator |
26-Mar-1893 |
11-Feb-1978 |
President of Harvard, 1933-53 |
| Leon N. Cooper |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1930 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
| Gerty Cori |
Scientist |
15-Aug-1896 |
26-Oct-1957 |
Catalytic conversion of glycogen |
| James W. Cronin |
Physicist |
29-Sep-1931 |
|
Time not necessarily reversible |
| Robert F. Curl, Jr. |
Chemist |
23-Aug-1933 |
|
Co-Discovered fullerines |
| Peter Diamond |
Economist |
29-Apr-1940 |
|
Diamond paradox in economics |
| John Diebold |
Author |
8-Jun-1926 |
26-Dec-2005 |
Advocate of automation |
| Ray Milton Dolby |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1933 |
12-Sep-2013 |
Inventor of Dolby stereo |
| Peter P. Edwards |
Chemist |
1949 |
|
Metal-non-metal transition |
| Paul Ekman |
Psychologist |
15-Feb-1934 |
|
Facial Action Coding System |
| Douglas W. Elmendorf |
Government |
c. 1961 |
|
Director, Congressional Budget Office |
| Martin Feldstein |
Economist |
25-Nov-1939 |
|
Reagan economist |
| Edmond H. Fischer |
Scientist |
6-Apr-1920 |
|
Protein phosphorylation |
| Franklin M. Fisher |
Economist |
13-Dec-1934 |
|
Economist at MIT |
| Robert W. Fogel |
Economist |
1-Jul-1926 |
11-Jun-2013 |
Cliometrics |
| William A. Fowler |
Astronomer |
9-Aug-1911 |
14-Mar-1995 |
Element generation within stars |
| Kenichi Fukui |
Chemist |
4-Oct-1918 |
9-Jan-1998 |
Frontier orbitals |
| Donald A. Glaser |
Physicist |
21-Sep-1926 |
28-Feb-2013 |
Inventor of the bubble chamber |
| Richard J. Goldstein |
Engineer |
c. 1936 |
|
Fluid mechanics |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Biologist |
10-Sep-1941 |
20-May-2002 |
Evolutionary 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 |
| Louis Henyey |
Astronomer |
3-Feb-1910 |
18-Feb-1970 |
Henyey method |
| Starr Roxanne Hiltz |
Sociologist |
c. 1943 |
|
Mother of on-line education |
| Roald Hoffmann |
Chemist |
18-Jul-1937 |
|
Woodward-Hoffmann reaction |
| Bert Hölldobler |
Zoologist |
25-Jun-1936 |
|
Social organizations in insects |
| Robert W. Holley |
Scientist |
28-Jan-1922 |
11-Feb-1993 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| Johannes Holtfreter |
Zoologist |
9-Jan-1901 |
13-Nov-1992 |
Chemotaxis |
| Leroy Hood |
Biologist |
10-Oct-1938 |
|
Systems biology and Human Genome Project |
| Evelyn Hu |
Physicist |
c. 1947 |
|
Nanoscale device fabrication |
| Glenn Hubbard |
Economist |
4-Sep-1958 |
|
George W. Bush economist |
| Dave Hughes |
Journalist |
c. 1928 |
|
Electronic bulletin boards |
| Brian D. Josephson |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1940 |
|
Discovered the Josephson Effect |
| Paul L. Joskow |
Economist |
c. 1946 |
|
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Henry W. Kendall |
Physicist |
9-Dec-1926 |
15-Feb-1999 |
Verified existence of quarks |
| Donald E. Knuth |
Computer Programmer |
10-Jan-1938 |
|
The Art of Computer Programming |
| Walter Kohn |
Chemist |
9-Mar-1923 |
|
Density-functional theory |
| Charles R. LaMantia |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Arthur D. Little, 1988-99 |
| Edward Lazear |
Economist |
1948 |
|
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors |
| Willard F. Libby |
Chemist |
17-Dec-1908 |
8-Sep-1980 |
Carbon-14 dating technique |
| Frank J. Low |
Astronomer |
23-Nov-1933 |
11-Jun-2009 |
Infrared astronomy |
| Willem J. Luyten |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1899 |
21-Nov-1994 |
Stellar mortician |
| Michael E. Mann |
Physicist |
28-Dec-1965 |
|
Climate change scientist |
| Rudolph A. Marcus |
Chemist |
21-Jul-1923 |
|
Electron-transfer reactions |
| Hans Mark |
Physicist |
17-Jun-1929 |
|
US Air Force Secretary, 1979-81 |
| Eric Maskin |
Economist |
12-Dec-1950 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| Walter E. Massey |
Business |
5-Apr-1938 |
|
Morehouse College president, physicist |
| Barbara McClintock |
Scientist |
16-Jun-1902 |
2-Sep-1992 |
Discovered transposable genes |
| William D. McElroy |
Biologist |
22-Jan-1917 |
17-Feb-1999 |
Bioluminescence |
| James C. Miller III |
Economist |
25-Jun-1942 |
|
Conservative economist |
| Mario J. Molina |
Chemist |
19-Mar-1943 |
|
Ozone depletion |
| Dale Mortensen |
Economist |
2-Feb-1939 |
9-Jan-2014 |
Job creation and destruction |
| Elinor Ostrom |
Sociologist |
7-Aug-1933 |
12-Jun-2012 |
Common-pool resources |
| William D. Phillips |
Physicist |
5-Nov-1948 |
|
Trapped atoms with laser light |
| Dixy Lee Ray |
Politician |
3-Sep-1914 |
2-Jan-1994 |
Governor of Washington, 1977-81 |
| Robert C. Richardson |
Physicist |
26-Jun-1937 |
19-Feb-2013 |
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
| Burton Richter |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1931 |
|
Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson |
| Marc Rotenberg |
Activist |
20-Apr-1960 |
|
Electronic Privacy Information Center |
| Aviel Rubin |
Computer Programmer |
8-Nov-1967 |
|
Computer security expert at Johns Hopkins |
| AnnaLee Saxenian |
Scholar |
c. 1954 |
|
Information technologist |
| Robert Schrieffer |
Physicist |
31-May-1931 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
| Richard R. Schrock |
Chemist |
4-Jan-1945 |
|
Metathesis |
| Melvin Schwartz |
Physicist |
2-Nov-1932 |
28-Aug-2006 |
Researcher of neutrinos |
| William R. Sears |
Engineer |
1-Mar-1913 |
12-Oct-2002 |
Airfoil engineer |
| K. Barry Sharpless |
Chemist |
28-Apr-1941 |
|
Chiral catalysts |
| Kathryn L. Shaw |
Economist |
c. 1954 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1999-2001 |
| John Shoven |
Economist |
1947 |
|
Stanford economist |
| Christopher A. Sims |
Economist |
21-Oct-1942 |
|
Statistical theory of time series |
| Gene Spafford |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1957 |
|
Spaf |
| A. Michael Spence |
Economist |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| H. Guyford Stever |
Educator |
24-Oct-1916 |
9-Apr-2010 |
President of CMU, 1965-72 |
| Timothy Swager |
Chemist |
1-Jul-1961 |
|
Chemist at MIT |
| Jack W. Szostak |
Scientist |
9-Nov-1952 |
|
First artificial chromosome |
| John B. Taylor |
Economist |
8-Dec-1946 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
| Eric F. Wieschaus |
Scientist |
8-Jun-1947 |
|
Embryonic development of fruit flies |
| Frank Wilczek |
Physicist |
15-May-1951 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
| Oliver E. Williamson |
Economist |
27-Sep-1932 |
|
Transaction cost economics |
| Edward O. Wilson |
Biologist |
10-Jun-1929 |
|
Father of Sociobiology |
| Kenneth G. Wilson |
Physicist |
8-Jun-1936 |
15-Jun-2013 |
Second-order phase transitions |
| Edward Witten |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1951 |
|
String theorist at Princeton |
| Leona Woods |
Physicist |
9-Aug-1919 |
10-Nov-1986 |
Physicist at University of Chicago |
| Ahmed H. Zewail |
Chemist |
26-Feb-1946 |
|
Femtochemistry |
