ORGANIZATION

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

Location:
Washington, DC

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Walter S. Adams	Astronomer	20-Dec-1876	11-May-1956	Long-time director of Mt Wilson Observatory
John S. Billings	Administrator	12-Apr-1838	11-Mar-1913	New York Public Library
Vannevar Bush	Scientist	11-Mar-1890	30-Jun-1974	Started the National Science Foundation
Anton J. Carlson	Biologist	29-Jan-1875	2-Sep-1956	The Machinery of the Body
John Diebold	Inventor	8-Jun-1926	26-Dec-2005	Automation evangelist
William F. Durand	Engineer	5-Mar-1859	9-Aug-1958	National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Gerald M. Edelman	Scientist	1-Jul-1929		Chemical structure of antibodies
Andrew Z. Fire	Scientist	27-Apr-1959		RNA interference
Walter S. Gifford	Business	10-Jan-1885	7-May-1966	President of AT&T, 1925-48
William R. Hearst III	Business	c. 1950		San Francisco Examiner Editor, 1984-95
William Hewlett	Business	20-May-1913	12-Jan-2001	Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard
Freeman A. Hrabowski	Educator	13-Aug-1950		President, University of Maryland Baltimore
J. Franklin Jameson	Historian	19-Sep-1859	28-Sep-1937	Dictionary of United States History
Suzanne Nora Johnson	Business	14-May-1957		Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, 2004-07
Arthur E. Kennelly	Physicist	17-Dec-1861	18-Jun-1939	Kennelly-Heaviside layer
John Macomber	Business	13-Jan-1928		JDM Investment Group
Paul W. Merrill	Astronomer	15-Aug-1887	19-Jul-1961	S-process of nucleosynthesis
Richard A. Meserve	Attorney	20-Nov-1944		President of the Carnegie Institution
J. Irwin Miller	Business	26-May-1909	16-Aug-2004	Former CEO of Cummins Engine
Oscar Riddle	Biologist	27-Sep-1877	29-Nov-1968	Prolactin
Vera Rubin	Astronomer	23-Jul-1928		Structure of galaxies
Allan R. Sandage	Astronomer	18-Jun-1926		Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars
Frank Stanton	Business	20-Mar-1908	24-Dec-2006	President of CBS, 1946-73
Merle Tuve	Physicist	27-Jun-1901	20-May-1982	Proximity fuse
James Van Allen	Astronomer	7-Sep-1914	9-Aug-2006	Discovered the Van Allen Belt
William H. Welch	Scientist	8-Apr-1850	30-Apr-1934	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

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