ORGANIZATION

US Government agency to promote science policy, founded 1950.

Official Website:
http://www.nsf.gov/

Founding Date:
1950

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Roger Adams	Chemist	2-Jan-1889	6-Jul-1971	Organic chemist at Illinois
Daniel I. Arnon	Biologist	14-Nov-1910	20-Dec-1994	Photophosphorylation
Steven C. Beering	Educator	1932		President of Purdue, 1983-2000
Ben Bernanke	Economist	13-Dec-1953		Federal Reserve Chairman
Frederick M. Bernthal	Administrator	10-Jan-1943		President, Universities Research Association
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
Charles R. LaMantia	Business	c. 1940		CEO of Arthur D. Little, 1988-99
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
Aviel Rubin	Computer Programmer	8-Nov-1967		Computer security expert at Johns Hopkins
AnnaLee Saxenian	Scholar	c. 1954		Information technologist
Richard R. Schrock	Chemist	4-Jan-1945		Metathesis
William R. Sears	Engineer	1-Mar-1913	12-Oct-2002	Airfoil engineer
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
Timothy Swager	Chemist	1-Jul-1961		Chemist at MIT
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

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