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National Science Foundation

ORGANIZATION

US Government agency to promote science policy, founded 1950.

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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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


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