ORGANIZATION

"The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution, was established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr., then President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation."

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

Location:
New York City

Founding Date:
1934

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Alan S. Blinder	Economist	14-Oct-1945		Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve
Stephen L. Brown	Business	c. 1938		President of John Hancock, 1987-2000
Linda B. Buck	Biologist	29-Jan-1947		Odorant receptors and olfactory organization
John Clarke	Physicist	10-Feb-1942		Superconducting quantum interference
Karl T. Compton	Physicist	15-Sep-1887	22-Jun-1954	Bikini Island atomic tests
Leon N. Cooper	Physicist	28-Feb-1930		BCS Theory of Superconductivity
Robert F. Curl, Jr.	Chemist	23-Aug-1933		Co-Discovered fullerines
Ed Felten	Computer Programmer	25-Mar-1963		Broke SDMI
Sheldon Glashow	Physicist	5-Dec-1932		Electroweak Theory
Ralph E. Gomory	Business	c. 1938		Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
David J. Gross	Physicist	19-Feb-1941		Deep structure of matter
Sanford J. Grossman	Business	21-Jul-1953		CEO of Quantitative Financial Strategies
Alan J. Heeger	Physicist	22-Jan-1936		Metallic polymers
Roald Hoffmann	Chemist	18-Jul-1937		Woodward-Hoffmann reaction
Freeman A. Hrabowski	Educator	13-Aug-1950		President, University of Maryland Baltimore
Paul L. Joskow	Economist	c. 1946		Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Charles R. LaMantia	Business	c. 1940		CEO of Arthur D. Little, 1988-99
Rudolph A. Marcus	Chemist	21-Jul-1923		Electron-transfer reactions
Eric Maskin	Economist	12-Dec-1950		Mechanism design theory
Sandra O. Moose	Business	c. 1941		Ex-VP, Boston Consulting Group
Roger B. Myerson	Economist	29-Mar-1951		Mechanism design theory
John C. Polanyi	Chemist	23-Jan-1929		Infrared chemiluminescence
Frederick Reines	Physicist	16-Mar-1918	26-Aug-1998	Co-Discover of the neutrino
Kenneth S. Rogoff	Economist	22-Mar-1953		Harvard economist
Richard E. Salomon	Business	c. 1942		Chairman of Mecox Ventures
Wallace Sargent	Astronomer	15-Feb-1935	29-Oct-2012	Astrophysicist at CalTech
Melvin Schwartz	Physicist	2-Nov-1932	28-Aug-2006	Researcher of neutrinos
Harold T. Shapiro	Educator	8-Jun-1935		President of Princeton, 1988-2000
K. Barry Sharpless	Chemist	28-Apr-1941		Chiral catalysts
Alfred P. Sloan	Business	23-May-1875	17-Feb-1966	Chairman of GM, 1937-56
Richard E. Smalley	Chemist	6-Jun-1943	28-Oct-2005	Co-Discovered fullerines
Robert M. Solow	Economist	23-Aug-1924		Theory of economic growth
A. Michael Spence	Economist	7-Nov-1943		Asymmetric markets
Timothy Swager	Chemist	1-Jul-1961		Chemist at MIT
Dennis Weatherstone	Business	29-Nov-1930	13-Jun-2008	CEO of JP Morgan, 1990-94
Frank Wilczek	Physicist	15-May-1951		Deep structure of matter
Ahmed H. Zewail	Chemist	26-Feb-1946		Femtochemistry

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