PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

"The Washington Academy of Sciences was incorporated in 1898 as an affiliation of eight Washington DC area scientific societies. The formation of the Academy culminated a decade of planning under the leadership of the Philosophical Society of Washington. The founders included Alexander Graham Bell and Samuel P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The purpose of the new Academy was to encourage the advancement of science and to conduct, endow, or assist investigation in any department of science."

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

Location:
Washington, DC

Founding Date:
1898

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Percy Williams Bridgman	Physicist	21-Apr-1882	20-Aug-1961	High-pressure physics
William D. Coolidge	Physicist	23-Oct-1873	4-Feb-1975	Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes
Harvey Cushing	Doctor	8-Apr-1869	7-Oct-1939	Cushing's Syndrome
Sheldon Glashow	Physicist	5-Dec-1932		Electroweak Theory
William M. Jardine	Educator	16-Jan-1879	17-Jan-1955	US Secretary of Agriculture, 1925-29
James E. Keeler	Astronomer	10-Sep-1857	12-Aug-1900	Composition of Saturn's rings
John Muir	Activist	21-Apr-1838	24-Dec-1914	Patron saint of Yosemite National Park
William D. Phillips	Physicist	5-Nov-1948		Trapped atoms with laser light
Frank Schlesinger	Astronomer	11-May-1871	10-Jul-1943	Stellar parallaxes

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