ORGANIZATION

Quasi-independent, Defense Dept and privately-funded scientific group founded 1959 by three scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory: Marvin Goldberger, Kenneth Watson and Keith Brueckner. Though usually presented in all-capital letters as if it is an acronym, the name is inspired by the Jason of Greek mythology and "argonauts" fame.

Location:
San Diego, CA

Founding Date:
1959

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Luis W. Alvarez	Physicist	13-Jun-1911	1-Sep-1988	Particle accelerator, extinction of dinosaurs
Hans Bethe	Physicist	2-Jul-1906	6-Mar-2005	Atomic scientist
Sidney D. Drell	Physicist	13-Sep-1926		In the Shadow of the Bomb
Freeman Dyson	Physicist	15-Dec-1923		Theoretical physicist at Institute for Advanced Study
Val Fitch	Physicist	10-Mar-1923	5-Feb-2015	Time not necessarily reversible
Edward A. Frieman	Physicist	19-Jan-1926	11-Apr-2013	Director of Scripps, 1986-96
Murray Gell-Mann	Physicist	15-Sep-1929		Quarks and strangeness
Donald A. Glaser	Physicist	21-Sep-1926	28-Feb-2013	Inventor of the bubble chamber
Henry W. Kendall	Physicist	9-Dec-1926	15-Feb-1999	Verified existence of quarks
Leon M. Lederman	Physicist	15-Jul-1922		Researcher of neutrinos
Pief Panofsky	Physicist	24-Apr-1919	24-Sep-2007	Stanford Linear Accelerator
Burton Richter	Physicist	22-Mar-1931		Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson
Sally Ride	Astronaut	26-May-1951	23-Jul-2012	First American woman in space
Charles H. Townes	Physicist	28-Jul-1915	27-Jan-2015	Invention of the maser and laser
Steven Weinberg	Physicist	3-May-1933		Electroweak Theory
John Archibald Wheeler	Physicist	9-Jul-1911	13-Apr-2008	The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission
Eugene Wigner	Physicist	17-Nov-1902	1-Jan-1995	Law of conservation of parity

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