MUSEUM

Hands-on science museum, established by Frank Oppenheimer in San Francisco, CA.

Official Website:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Natalie Angier	Journalist	16-Feb-1958		Science reporter
Paul Berg	Chemist	30-Jun-1926		Pioneer in recombinant DNA
J. Michael Bishop	Scientist	22-Feb-1936		Genetic causes of cancer
William K. Coblentz	Attorney	c. 1921		Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass
Ann Druyan	Author	13-Jun-1949		Co-wrote Cosmos with husband Carl Sagan
Donald A. Glaser	Physicist	21-Sep-1926		Inventor of the bubble chamber
Richard Gregory	Psychologist	24-Jul-1923		Optical illusions and "hands-on" science
Bob Metcalfe	Business	1946		Co-Inventor of Ethernet
Gordon Moore	Business	3-Jan-1929		Intel, Moore's Law
Frank Oppenheimer	Relative	14-Aug-1912	3-Feb-1985	Founder of the Exploratorium
Pief Panofsky	Physicist	24-Apr-1919	24-Sep-2007	Stanford Linear Accelerator
Arno Penzias	Astronomer	26-Apr-1933		Detected primordial radiation
Philip Rosedale	Business	1968		Founder and CEO, Linden Lab
Peter C. Wendell	Business	c. 1950		Venture capitalist, Sierra Ventures

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