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 |
| Steven C. Beering |
Educator |
1932 |
|
President of Purdue, 1983-2000 |
| Ben Bernanke |
Economist |
13-Dec-1953 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman |
| Erich Bloch |
Business |
9-Jan-1925 |
|
Director of NSF, 1984-90 |
| Mary Brown Bullock |
Historian |
c. 1945 |
|
President of Agnes Scott College, 1995-2006 |
| Vannevar Bush |
Scientist |
11-Mar-1890 |
30-Jun-1974 |
Started the National Science Foundation |
| James B. Conant |
Educator |
26-Mar-1893 |
11-Feb-1978 |
President of Harvard, 1933-53 |
| Gerty Cori |
Scientist |
15-Aug-1896 |
26-Oct-1967 |
Catalytic conversion of glycogen |
| Peter P. Edwards |
Chemist |
1949 |
|
Metal-non-metal transition |
| 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 |
|
Cliometrics |
| Richard J. Goldstein |
Engineer |
c. 1936 |
|
Fluid mechanics |
| 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 |
| Roald Hoffmann |
Chemist |
18-Jul-1937 |
|
Woodward-Hoffmann reaction |
| Robert W. Holley |
Scientist |
28-Jan-1922 |
11-Feb-1993 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| Leroy Hood |
Biologist |
10-Oct-1938 |
|
Systems biology and Human Genome Project |
| Glenn Hubbard |
Economist |
1958 |
|
George W. Bush economist |
| Paul L. Joskow |
Economist |
c. 1946 |
|
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Edward Lazear |
Economist |
1948 |
|
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors |
| Frank J. Low |
Astronomer |
23-Nov-1933 |
|
Infrared astronomy |
| Willem J. Luyten |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1899 |
21-Nov-1994 |
Stellar mortician |
| 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 |
| William D. McElroy |
Biologist |
22-Jan-1917 |
17-Feb-1999 |
Bioluminescence |
| James C. Miller III |
Economist |
25-Jun-1942 |
|
Conservative economist |
| Dixy Lee Ray |
Politician |
3-Sep-1914 |
2-Jan-1994 |
Governor of Washington, 1977-81 |
| AnnaLee Saxenian |
Scholar |
c. 1954 |
|
Information technologist |
| Richard R. Schrock |
Chemist |
4-Jan-1945 |
|
Metathesis |
| Kathryn L. Shaw |
Economist |
c. 1954 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1999-2001 |
| Gene Spafford |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1957 |
|
Spaf |
| A. Michael Spence |
Economist |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| H. Guyford Stever |
Educator |
24-Oct-1916 |
|
President of CMU, 1965-72 |
| 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 |
| Edward Witten |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1951 |
|
String theorist at Princeton |
