Founded in 1780.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Edward P. Abraham |
Chemist |
10-Jun-1913 |
8-May-1999 |
Cephalosporins |
| Shirley S. Abrahamson |
Judge |
17-Dec-1933 |
|
Wisconsin Chief Justice |
| Floyd Abrams |
Attorney |
9-Jul-1936 |
|
First Amendment lawyer |
| Alexei A. Abrikosov |
Physicist |
25-Jun-1928 |
|
Particle physicist, explored superconductivity |
| Dean Acheson |
Government |
11-Apr-1893 |
12-Oct-1971 |
US Secretary of State, 1949-53 |
| Bruce Ackerman |
Scholar |
19-Aug-1943 |
|
We the People |
| H. Gardner Ackley |
Economist |
30-Jun-1915 |
12-Feb-1998 |
US Ambassador to Italy, 1968-69 |
| Ansel Adams |
Photographer |
20-Feb-1902 |
22-Apr-1984 |
Yosemite photographer |
| Charles Francis Adams IV |
Business |
2-May-1910 |
5-Jan-1999 |
Former president of Raytheon |
| Peter Agre |
Biologist |
30-Jan-1949 |
|
Water channels of cell membranes |
| George A. Akerlof |
Economist |
17-Jun-1940 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| Alan Alda |
Actor |
28-Jan-1936 |
|
Capt. Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H |
| Christopher Alexander |
Architect |
4-Oct-1936 |
|
A Pattern Language, The Nature of Order |
| Luis W. Alvarez |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1911 |
1-Sep-1988 |
Particle accelerator pioneer |
| Charles McLean Andrews |
Historian |
22-Feb-1863 |
9-Sep-1943 |
The Colonial Period of American History |
| Walter Annenberg |
Business |
13-Mar-1908 |
1-Oct-2002 |
Media mogul, created TV Guide |
| Daniel I. Arnon |
Biologist |
14-Nov-1910 |
20-Dec-1994 |
Photophosphorylation |
| Kenneth J. Arrow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1921 |
|
Social Choice and Individual Values |
| Norman Augustine |
Business |
27-Jul-1935 |
|
CEO of Martin Marietta, 1996-97 |
| Robert J. Aumann |
Economist |
8-Jun-1930 |
|
Game theorist |
| Dennis A. Ausiello |
Doctor |
c. 1945 |
|
Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Richard Axel |
Scientist |
2-Jul-1946 |
|
Odorant receptors and olfactory organization |
| Julius Axelrod |
Chemist |
30-May-1912 |
29-Dec-2004 |
Research of neurotransmitters |
| Milton Babbitt |
Composer |
10-May-1916 |
|
Music for Synthesizer |
| Horace W. Babcock |
Astronomer |
13-Sep-1912 |
29-Aug-2003 |
Adaptive optics and the Babcock Model |
| Lawrence S. Bacow |
Educator |
c. 1950 |
|
President, Tufts University |
| Elizabeth E. Bailey |
Educator |
1938 |
|
Professor, the Wharton School |
| Kenneth Bainbridge |
Physicist |
27-Jul-1904 |
14-Jul-1996 |
Director of the Trinity atomic test |
| David Baltimore |
Biologist |
7-Mar-1938 |
|
Co-Discoverer, reverse transcriptase |
| Percy N. Barnevik |
Business |
13-Feb-1941 |
|
CEO of ABB, 1988-96 |
| John Bartlett |
Author |
14-Jun-1820 |
3-Dec-1905 |
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations |
| Derek Barton |
Chemist |
8-Sep-1918 |
16-Mar-1998 |
Conformational analysis |
| Jacqueline K. Barton |
Chemist |
7-May-1952 |
|
Professor of Chemistry at CalTech |
| Jacques Barzun |
Historian |
30-Nov-1907 |
|
From Dawn to Decadence |
| Walter Jackson Bate |
Critic |
23-May-1918 |
26-Jul-1999 |
Samuel Johnson |
| Lucian A. Bebchuk |
Educator |
c. 1955 |
|
Corporate governance scholar |
| Riley P. Bechtel |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Bechtel |
| Gary S. Becker |
Economist |
2-Dec-1940 |
|
Human Capital |
| Baruj Benacerraf |
Scientist |
29-Oct-1920 |
|
Gene control of HLA antigens |
| Frank A. Bennack, Jr. |
Business |
12-Feb-1933 |
|
CEO of Hearst, 1979-2002 |
| Robert M. Berdahl |
Educator |
1937 |
|
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1997-2004 |
| Paul Berg |
Chemist |
30-Jun-1926 |
|
Pioneer in recombinant DNA |
| Sune K. Bergström |
Scientist |
10-Jan-1916 |
15-Aug-2004 |
Prostaglandins |
| Ben Bernanke |
Economist |
13-Dec-1953 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman |
| Tim Berners-Lee |
Computer Programmer |
8-Jun-1955 |
|
Inventor of the World Wide Web |
| Jacob Bigelow |
Botanist |
27-Feb-1786 |
10-Jan-1879 |
American Medical Botany |
| John H. Biggs |
Business |
19-Jul-1936 |
|
CEO of TIAA-CREF, 1993-2002 |
| James Billington |
Historian |
1-Jun-1929 |
|
13th Librarian of Congress |
| Robert J. Birgeneau |
Educator |
1942 |
|
Chancellor, UC Berkeley |
| John P. Birkelund |
Business |
c. 1930 |
|
Chairman of Dillon Read, 1986-98 |
| George David Birkhoff |
Mathematician |
21-Mar-1884 |
12-Nov-1944 |
Modern theory of dynamical systems |
| J. Michael Bishop |
Scientist |
22-Feb-1936 |
|
Genetic causes of cancer |
| Rebecca M. Blank |
Economist |
19-Sep-1955 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1998-99 |
| Alan S. Blinder |
Economist |
14-Oct-1945 |
|
Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve |
| Konrad Bloch |
Scientist |
21-Jan-1912 |
15-Oct-2000 |
Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism |
| Nicolaas Bloembergen |
Physicist |
11-Mar-1920 |
|
Nonlinear optics |
| Harold Bloom |
Critic |
11-Jul-1930 |
|
Literary critic, Yale professor |
| Michael Bloomberg |
Politician |
14-Feb-1942 |
|
Mayor of New York City |
| Samuel Bodman |
Government |
26-Nov-1938 |
|
US Secretary of Energy |
| Aage N. Bohr |
Physicist |
19-Jun-1922 |
|
Determined shapes of nuclei |
| Niels Bohr |
Physicist |
7-Oct-1885 |
18-Nov-1962 |
Father of Quantum Theory |
| Lee C. Bollinger |
Educator |
c. 1946 |
|
President of Columbia University |
| Wayne C. Booth |
Critic |
22-Feb-1921 |
10-Oct-2005 |
The Rhetoric of Fiction |
| Edwin G. Boring |
Psychologist |
23-Oct-1886 |
1-Jul-1968 |
A History of Experimental Psychology |
| Kenneth E. Boulding |
Economist |
18-Jan-1910 |
18-Mar-1993 |
The Image: Knowledge of Life in Society |
| Nathaniel Bowditch |
Astronomer |
26-Mar-1773 |
17-Mar-1838 |
American Practical Navigator |
| H. Kent Bowen |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
Baker Foundation Professor at HBS |
| Ira S. Bowen |
Astronomer |
21-Dec-1898 |
6-Feb-1973 |
Debunked nebulium |
| William G. Bowen |
Educator |
6-Oct-1933 |
|
President, Princeton University, 1972-88 |
| Herbert W. Boyer |
Biologist |
10-Jul-1936 |
|
Recombinant DNA, first synthetic insulin |
| Paul D. Boyer |
Chemist |
31-Jul-1918 |
|
ATP process |
| John Brademas |
Politician |
2-Mar-1927 |
|
Congressman from Indiana, 1959-81 |
| Walter H. Brattain |
Physicist |
10-Feb-1902 |
13-Oct-1987 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
| Gregory Breit |
Physicist |
14-Jul-1899 |
11-Sep-1981 |
Proton-proton dispersion |
| Stephen Breyer |
Judge |
15-Aug-1938 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
| Percy Williams Bridgman |
Physicist |
21-Apr-1882 |
20-Aug-1961 |
Investigated high pressure physics |
| Sergey Brin |
Business |
21-Aug-1973 |
|
Co-Founder of Google |
| Richard H. Brodhead |
Educator |
1947 |
|
President, Duke University |
| William R. Brody |
Educator |
4-Jan-1944 |
|
President, Johns Hopkins University |
| Tom Brokaw |
Journalist |
6-Feb-1940 |
|
Former anchor, NBC Nightly News |
| Fred Brooks |
Author |
19-Apr-1931 |
|
The Mythical Man-Month |
| Dirk Brouwer |
Astronomer |
1-Sep-1902 |
31-Jan-1966 |
Celestial mechanics |
| Herbert C. Brown |
Chemist |
22-May-1912 |
19-Dec-2004 |
Discovered organoboranes |
| Michael S. Brown |
Biologist |
13-Apr-1941 |
|
Metabolism of cholesterol |
| Robert A. Brown |
Educator |
22-Jul-1951 |
|
President, Boston University |
| John Browne |
Business |
20-Feb-1948 |
|
CEO of British Petroleum, 1995-2007 |
| Robert Brustein |
Educator |
21-Apr-1927 |
|
Founder, American Reportory Theatre |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski |
Government |
28-Mar-1928 |
|
National Security Advisor, 1977-81 |
| James M. Buchanan |
Economist |
2-Oct-1919 |
|
Public Choice Theory |
| Warren Buffett |
Business |
30-Aug-1930 |
|
Billionaire in Omaha |
| Mac Bundy |
Government |
30-Mar-1919 |
16-Sep-1996 |
National Security Advisor, 1961-66 |
| Ellsworth Bunker |
Diplomat |
11-May-1894 |
30-Sep-1984 |
US Ambassador to South Vietnam, 1967-73 |
| Walter Dean Burnham |
Scholar |
1930 |
|
Democracy in the Making |
| George H.W. Bush |
Head of State |
12-Jun-1924 |
|
41st US President, 1989-93 |
| Caroline Bynum |
Historian |
1941 |
|
Medieval historian |
| James Branch Cabell |
Novelist |
14-Apr-1879 |
5-May-1958 |
Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice |
| John Cage |
Composer |
5-Sep-1912 |
12-Aug-1992 |
Experimental composer |
| Melvin Calvin |
Chemist |
8-Apr-1911 |
8-Jan-1997 |
Deciphered photosynthesis |
| William W. Campbell |
Astronomer |
11-Apr-1862 |
14-Jun-1938 |
Stellar Motions |
| Albert Camus |
Playwright |
7-Nov-1913 |
4-Jan-1960 |
L'Etranger |
| Claude R. Canizares |
Physicist |
1945 |
|
Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics |
| Nancy Cantor |
Educator |
c. 1952 |
|
Chancellor, Syracuse University |
| Leonard Carmichael |
Educator |
9-Nov-1898 |
16-Sep-1973 |
Smithsonian Chief, 1953-64 |
| Rachel Carson |
Scientist |
27-May-1907 |
14-Apr-1964 |
Silent Spring |
| Gerhard Casper |
Educator |
25-Dec-1937 |
|
President of Stanford University, 1992-2000 |
| James McKeen Cattell |
Psychologist |
24-May-1860 |
20-Jan-1944 |
Academic freedom |
| Thomas R. Cech |
Chemist |
8-Dec-1947 |
|
Proved enzyme role of RNA |
| Vint Cerf |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1943 |
|
Co-Designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
| Kenneth Chenault |
Business |
2-Jun-1951 |
|
CEO of American Express |
| Noam Chomsky |
Linguist |
7-Dec-1928 |
|
Linguist, dissident intellectual |
| Carol T. Christ |
Educator |
21-May-1944 |
|
President, Smith College |
| Warren Christopher |
Government |
27-Oct-1925 |
|
US Secretary of State, 1993-97 |
| Steven Chu |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1948 |
|
Trapped atoms with laser light |
| John Ciardi |
Poet |
24-Jun-1916 |
30-Mar-1986 |
How Does a Poem Mean? |
| Alvan Clark |
Astronomer |
8-Mar-1804 |
19-Aug-1887 |
Telescope maker |
| Joseph Sill Clark |
Politician |
21-Oct-1901 |
21-Jan-1990 |
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1956-69 |
| Bill Clinton |
Head of State |
19-Aug-1946 |
|
42nd US President, 1993-2001 |
| William K. Coblentz |
Attorney |
c. 1921 |
|
Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass |
| Stanley Cohen |
Scientist |
17-Nov-1922 |
|
Nerve and skin cell growth factors |
| Claude Cohen-Tannoudji |
Physicist |
1-Apr-1933 |
|
Trapped atoms with laser light |
| Johnnetta B. Cole |
Educator |
19-Oct-1936 |
|
President of Spelman College, 1987-97 |
| James S. Coleman |
Sociologist |
12-May-1926 |
25-Mar-1995 |
Foundations of Social Theory |
| Lewis W. Coleman |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
President, Dreamworks Animation SKG |
| Mary Sue Coleman |
Educator |
2-Oct-1943 |
|
President, University of Michigan |
| Samuel C. Collins |
Chemist |
28-Dec-1898 |
19-Jun-1984 |
Collins-type cryocooler |
| James B. Conant |
Educator |
26-Mar-1893 |
11-Feb-1978 |
President of Harvard, 1933-53 |
| Edward Condon |
Physicist |
2-Mar-1902 |
26-Mar-1974 |
Quantum Mechanics |
| George Conrades |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Akamai, 1999-2005 |
| William D. Coolidge |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1873 |
4-Feb-1975 |
Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes |
| Leon N. Cooper |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1930 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
| Elias James Corey |
Chemist |
12-Jul-1928 |
|
Retrosynthetic analysis |
| George Henry Corliss |
Inventor |
2-Jun-1817 |
21-Feb-1888 |
Corliss valve and steam engines |
| Allan M. Cormack |
Physicist |
23-Feb-1924 |
7-May-1998 |
Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans) |
| George A. Cowan |
Physicist |
c. 1919 |
|
Founder, Santa Fe Institute |
| James W. Cronin |
Physicist |
29-Sep-1931 |
|
Time not necessarily reversible |
| Walter Cronkite |
Journalist |
4-Nov-1916 |
|
America's most trusted newscaster |
| Harvey Cushing |
Doctor |
8-Apr-1869 |
7-Oct-1939 |
Cushing's Syndrome |
| Guy Davenport |
Author |
23-Nov-1927 |
4-Jan-2005 |
Thasos and Ohio |
| Drew S. Days III |
Government |
1941 |
|
US Solicitor General, 1993-96 |
| Gerard Debreu |
Economist |
4-Jul-1921 |
31-Dec-2004 |
Supply and demand theorist |
| Margaret Deland |
Author |
23-Feb-1857 |
13-Jan-1945 |
Old Chester Tales |
| Max Delbrück |
Scientist |
4-Sep-1906 |
10-Mar-1981 |
Molecular structure of viral genes (phages) |
| Peter B. Dervan |
Chemist |
28-Jun-1945 |
|
DNA Researcher |
| Joan Didion |
Author |
5-Dec-1934 |
|
Slouching Toward Bethlehem |
| Edsger Dijkstra |
Computer Programmer |
11-May-1930 |
6-Aug-2002 |
Enemy of the goto statement |
| E. J. Dionne |
Journalist |
23-Apr-1952 |
|
The Washington Post |
| T. G. Dobzhansky |
Scientist |
25-Jan-1900 |
18-Dec-1975 |
Genetics and the Origin of Species |
| Ray Milton Dolby |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1933 |
|
Inventor of Dolby Stereo |
| Nicholas M. Donofrio |
Business |
7-Sep-1945 |
|
EVP at IBM |
| Rita Dove |
Poet |
28-Aug-1952 |
|
7th US Poet Laureate, 1993-95 |
| Henry Draper |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1837 |
20-Nov-1882 |
Early astrophotographer |
| Sidney D. Drell |
Physicist |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
In the Shadow of the Bomb |
| Daniel C. Drucker |
Engineer |
1918 |
25-Aug-2001 |
Drucker's stability postulate |
| James J. Duderstadt |
Educator |
c. 1943 |
|
President, University of Michigan, 1988-96 |
| Robin Chandler Duke |
Activist |
13-Oct-1923 |
|
Former president of NARAL |
| John T. Dunlop |
Government |
5-Jul-1914 |
2-Oct-2003 |
US Secretary of Labor, 1975-76 |
| Ronald Dworkin |
Philosopher |
11-Dec-1931 |
|
Taking Rights Seriously |
| Robert C. Dynes |
Educator |
8-Nov-1942 |
|
President, University of California, 2003-08 |
| Gerald M. Edelman |
Scientist |
1-Jul-1929 |
|
Chemical structure of antibodies |
| Paul R. Ehrlich |
Scientist |
29-May-1932 |
|
The Population Bomb |
| Manfred Eigen |
Physicist |
9-May-1927 |
|
Studied fast chemical reactions |
| Charles Elton |
Scientist |
29-Mar-1900 |
1-May-1991 |
Animal Ecology |
| John Hart Ely |
Scholar |
3-Dec-1938 |
25-Oct-2003 |
Democracy and Distrust |
| Doug Engelbart |
Scientist |
30-Jan-1925 |
|
Inventor of computer mouse |
| Richard Epstein |
Scholar |
17-Apr-1943 |
|
Takings |
| Gerhard Ertl |
Chemist |
10-Oct-1936 |
|
Auto emissions and the ozone layer |
| Leo Esaki |
Physicist |
12-Mar-1925 |
|
Electron tunneling |
| Thomas E. Everhart |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1932 |
|
President of CalTech, 1987-97 |
| Robert Fagles |
Translator |
11-Sep-1933 |
26-Mar-2008 |
Translator of Greek literature |
| Daniel A. Farber |
Educator |
16-Jul-1950 |
|
Retained by the People |
| Larry R. Faulkner |
Educator |
1944 |
|
President of UT-Austin, 1998-2006 |
| Drew Gilpin Faust |
Educator |
18-Sep-1947 |
|
President of Harvard University |
| Martin Feldstein |
Economist |
25-Nov-1939 |
|
Reagan economist |
| Frances D. Fergusson |
Educator |
3-Oct-1944 |
|
President of Vassar, 1986-2006 |
| Andrew Z. Fire |
Scientist |
27-Apr-1959 |
|
RNA interference |
| Edmond H. Fischer |
Scientist |
6-Apr-1920 |
|
Protein phosphorylation |
| Franklin M. Fisher |
Economist |
13-Dec-1934 |
|
Economist at MIT |
| Richard W. Fisher |
Business |
18-Mar-1949 |
|
President and CEO, Dallas Fed |
| Val Fitch |
Physicist |
10-Mar-1923 |
|
Time not necessarily reversible |
| Joel L. Fleishman |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
The Foundation: A Great American Secret |
| Marion B. Folsom |
Business |
23-Nov-1893 |
27-Sep-1976 |
HEW Secretary, 1955-58 |
| Marye Anne Fox |
Educator |
9-Dec-1947 |
|
Chancellor, UC San Diego |
| James Franck |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1882 |
21-May-1964 |
Franck-Hertz experiment |
| John R. Freeman |
Engineer |
27-Jul-1855 |
6-Oct-1932 |
Charles River Dam |
| Richard Freeman |
Economist |
29-Jun-1943 |
|
Labor economist |
| Charles Fried |
Government |
15-Apr-1935 |
|
US Solicitor General, 1985-89 |
| David B. Frohnmayer |
Politician |
9-Jul-1940 |
|
President, University of Oregon |
| Kenichi Fukui |
Chemist |
4-Oct-1918 |
9-Jan-1998 |
Frontier orbitals |
| Ellen V. Futter |
Educator |
21-Sep-1949 |
|
President of Barnard College, 1980-93 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith |
Economist |
15-Oct-1908 |
29-Apr-2006 |
Modern economics renegade |
| Hector Garcia-Molina |
Educator |
c. 1954 |
|
Stanford EECS Professor |
| Alice P. Gast |
Educator |
25-May-1958 |
|
President, Lehigh University |
| Bill Gates |
Business |
28-Oct-1955 |
|
Co-Founder of Microsoft |
| William H. Gates, Sr. |
Philanthropist |
30-Nov-1925 |
|
Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Claire L. Gaudiani |
Educator |
1944 |
|
President, Connecticut College, 1988-2001 |
| Leslie H. Gelb |
Government |
4-Mar-1937 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1993-2003 |
| Murray Gell-Mann |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1929 |
|
Weak interaction of particles |
| Pierre-Gilles de Gennes |
Physicist |
24-Oct-1932 |
18-May-2007 |
Molecular structure of polymers |
| Ivan Getting |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1912 |
11-Oct-2003 |
Global Positioning System |
| William F. Giauque |
Chemist |
12-May-1895 |
28-Mar-1982 |
Adiabatic demagnetization |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
Judge |
15-Mar-1933 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
| Donald A. Glaser |
Physicist |
21-Sep-1926 |
|
Inventor of the bubble chamber |
| Sheldon Glashow |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1932 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
| Nathan Glazer |
Pundit |
25-Feb-1923 |
|
Co-Editor, The Public Interest |
| Laurie H. Glimcher |
Educator |
c. 1950 |
|
Professor of Immunology at Harvard |
| Thomas Gold |
Scientist |
22-May-1920 |
22-Jun-2004 |
Certain that oil is not a fossil fuel |
| Joseph L. Goldstein |
Scientist |
18-Apr-1940 |
|
Hypercholesterolemia and cell metabolism |
| Matthew Goldstein |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
Chancellor of CUNY |
| Nelson Goodman |
Philosopher |
7-Aug-1906 |
25-Nov-1998 |
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast |
| Al Gore |
Politician |
31-Mar-1948 |
|
US Vice President under Clinton |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Biologist |
10-Sep-1941 |
20-May-2002 |
Evolutionary biologist and paleontologist |
| Donald E. Graham |
Journalist |
22-Apr-1945 |
|
Washington Post CEO |
| Ronald Graham |
Mathematician |
31-Oct-1935 |
|
Mathematician, Computer Scientist |
| Clive W.J. Granger |
Economist |
4-Sep-1934 |
|
Granger causality |
| Ragnar Granit |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1900 |
31-Mar-1990 |
Physiology of the retina |
| Robert Grant |
Novelist |
24-Jan-1852 |
19-May-1940 |
Unleavened Bread |
| Earl G. Graves |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
Black Enterprise magazine |
| Vartan Gregorian |
Educator |
8-Apr-1934 |
|
President of Carnegie Corporation |
| Zvi Griliches |
Economist |
12-Sep-1930 |
4-Nov-1999 |
Technology, Education, and Productivity |
| David J. Gross |
Physicist |
19-Feb-1941 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
| Sanford J. Grossman |
Business |
21-Jul-1953 |
|
CEO of Quantitative Financial Strategies |
| Robert H. Grubbs |
Chemist |
27-Feb-1942 |
|
Metathesis |
| Roger Guillemin |
Scientist |
11-Jan-1924 |
|
Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides) |
| Alan Guth |
Physicist |
27-Feb-1947 |
|
Inflationary theory |
| Amy Gutmann |
Educator |
1949 |
|
President, University of Pennsylvania |
| Ian Hacking |
Philosopher |
18-Feb-1936 |
|
The Taming of Chance |
| Jacques-Salomon Hadamard |
Mathematician |
8-Dec-1865 |
17-Oct-1963 |
Prime number theorem |
| William R. Hambrecht |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
W.R. Hambrecht & Co. |
| Oscar Handlin |
Historian |
29-Sep-1915 |
|
The Uprooted |
| Theodor W. Hänsch |
Physicist |
30-Oct-1941 |
|
Quantum optics |
| Robert Hare |
Chemist |
17-Jan-1781 |
15-May-1858 |
Hydrostatic blow-pipe and spiritoscope |
| Sidney Harman |
Business |
c. 1919 |
|
Founder of Harman International |
| Conrad K. Harper |
Attorney |
c. 1940 |
|
Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett |
| George Russell Harrison |
Physicist |
14-Jul-1898 |
27-Jul-1979 |
Echelle spectrograph |
| John C. Harsanyi |
Economist |
29-May-1920 |
9-Aug-2000 |
Game theory |
| Haldan K. Hartline |
Scientist |
22-Dec-1903 |
17-Mar-1983 |
Physiology of the retina |
| Jerry A. Hausman |
Economist |
5-May-1946 |
|
Hausman Specification Test |
| James J. Heckman |
Economist |
19-Apr-1944 |
|
Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior |
| Werner Heisenberg |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1901 |
1-Feb-1976 |
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle |
| Warren Hellman |
Business |
25-Jul-1934 |
|
Hellman & Friedman |
| John L. Hennessy |
Educator |
c. 1953 |
|
President of Stanford University |
| George Herbig |
Astronomer |
2-Jan-1920 |
|
Herbig-Haro objects |
| Dudley R. Herschbach |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1932 |
|
Crossed molecular beam experiments |
| Alfred D. Hershey |
Scientist |
4-Dec-1908 |
22-May-1997 |
Molecular structure of viral genes |
| Gerhard Herzberg |
Chemist |
25-Dec-1904 |
3-Mar-1999 |
Molecular spectroscopy |
| William Hewlett |
Business |
20-May-1913 |
12-Jan-2001 |
Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard |
| Jaroslav Heyrovsky |
Chemist |
20-Dec-1890 |
27-Mar-1967 |
Polarography |
| Raymond Hide |
Geologist |
17-May-1929 |
|
Earth's rotation |
| Danny Hillis |
Business |
25-Sep-1956 |
|
Co-Founder, Thinking Machines |
| Gertrude Himmelfarb |
Historian |
8-Aug-1922 |
|
Victorian Minds |
| Peter B. Hirsch |
Scientist |
16-Jan-1925 |
|
Electron microscopy in metallurgy |
| David Ho |
Doctor |
3-Nov-1952 |
|
AIDS researcher |
| Susan Hockfield |
Educator |
c. 1951 |
|
President, MIT |
| Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin |
Chemist |
12-May-1910 |
29-Jul-1994 |
Determined structure of Vitamin B12 |
| Roald Hoffmann |
Chemist |
18-Jul-1937 |
|
Woodward-Hoffmann reaction |
| Richard C. Holbrooke |
Diplomat |
24-Apr-1941 |
|
US Ambassador to UN, 1998-2001 |
| Bert Hölldobler |
Zoologist |
1936 |
|
The Ants |
| Robert W. Holley |
Scientist |
28-Jan-1922 |
11-Feb-1993 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| Nick Holonyak |
Physicist |
3-Nov-1928 |
|
Light-emitting diodes |
| Donald F. Hornig |
Educator |
17-Mar-1920 |
|
President of Brown University, 1970-76 |
| Amo Houghton |
Politician |
7-Aug-1926 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1987-2005 |
| Karen Elliott House |
Journalist |
7-Dec-1947 |
|
Publisher, Wall Street Journal, 2002-06 |
| Hendrik S. Houthakker |
Economist |
31-Dec-1924 |
15-Apr-2008 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71 |
| Freeman A. Hrabowski |
Educator |
13-Aug-1950 |
|
President, University of Maryland Baltimore |
| Tim Hunt |
Scientist |
19-Feb-1943 |
|
Regulators of cell cycle |
| Leonid Hurwicz |
Economist |
21-Aug-1917 |
24-Jun-2008 |
Mechanism design theory |
| Gwen Ifill |
Journalist |
29-Sep-1955 |
|
Washington Week, Lehrer News Hour |
| Louis J. Ignarro |
Scientist |
31-May-1941 |
|
Nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signal |
| Herbert E. Ives |
Physicist |
21-Jul-1882 |
13-Nov-1953 |
Facsimile machine |
| Molly Ivins |
Columnist |
30-Aug-1944 |
31-Jan-2007 |
Loudmouthed Texas dame |
| Shirley A. Jackson |
Physicist |
5-Aug-1946 |
|
NRC Chairman, 1995-99 |
| François Jacob |
Scientist |
17-Jun-1920 |
|
Operon theory of genetic control |
| Irwin M. Jacobs |
Business |
18-Oct-1933 |
|
Co-Founder of Qualcomm |
| Kathleen Hall Jamieson |
Scholar |
1946 |
|
Annenberg Public Policy Center |
| Richard Jenrette |
Business |
5-Apr-1929 |
|
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette |
| Deborah S. Jin |
Physicist |
c. 1968 |
|
Created a fermionic condensate |
| James A. Johnson |
Business |
24-Dec-1943 |
|
CEO of Fannie Mae, 1991-98 |
| Anita K. Jones |
Educator |
c. 1942 |
|
Professor at University of Virginia |
| Dale W. Jorgenson |
Economist |
7-May-1933 |
|
Economist at Harvard |
| Brian D. Josephson |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1940 |
|
Discovered the Josephson Effect |
| Paul L. Joskow |
Economist |
c. 1946 |
|
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Percy Julian |
Chemist |
11-Apr-1899 |
19-Apr-1975 |
Physostigmine and cortisone |
| Brewster Kahle |
Business |
1960 |
|
Founder of the Internet Archive |
| Daniel Kahneman |
Psychologist |
5-Mar-1934 |
|
The psychology of economics |
| Marvin Kalb |
Journalist |
9-Jun-1930 |
|
CBS and NBC news correspondent |
| Eric R. Kandel |
Scientist |
7-Nov-1929 |
|
Signal transduction in the nervous system |
| Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich |
Mathematician |
19-Jan-1912 |
7-Apr-1986 |
Linear programming |
| Helene L. Kaplan |
Attorney |
19-Jun-1933 |
|
Of Counsel, Skadden Arps |
| Martin Karplus |
Chemist |
15-Mar-1930 |
|
Karplus Equation |
| Bernard Katz |
Scientist |
26-Mar-1911 |
20-Apr-2003 |
Neurotransmitters and the pineal gland |
| Fred Kavli |
Philanthropist |
1927 |
|
Kavli Foundation |
| Alan Kay |
Computer Programmer |
17-May-1940 |
|
Father of Object-Oriented Programming |
| Judith S. Kaye |
Judge |
4-Aug-1938 |
|
Chief Judge, State of New York |
| Thomas H. Kean |
Politician |
21-Apr-1935 |
|
Governor of New Jersey, 1982-90 |
| James E. Keeler |
Astronomer |
10-Sep-1857 |
12-Aug-1900 |
Composition of Saturn's rings |
| Garrison Keillor |
Radio Personality |
7-Aug-1942 |
|
A Prairie Home Companion |
| William N. Kelley |
Doctor |
23-Jun-1939 |
|
Kelley-Seegmiller Syndrome |
| Donald Kennedy |
Educator |
18-Aug-1931 |
|
Editor-in-Chief of Science |
| Paul Kennedy |
Historian |
Jun-1945 |
|
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers |
| Nan Keohane |
Scholar |
18-Sep-1940 |
|
Political scientist |
| Donald R. Keough |
Business |
4-Sep-1926 |
|
Chairman of Allen & Company |
| Wolfgang Ketterle |
Physicist |
21-Oct-1957 |
|
Bose-Einstein condensates |
| Henry Kissinger |
Government |
27-May-1923 |
|
Secretly bombed Cambodia |
| Jeremy R. Knowles |
Business |
1935 |
|
Chemistry Professor, Harvard University |
| Walter Kohn |
Chemist |
9-Mar-1923 |
|
Density-functional theory |
| Jeff Koons |
Sculptor |
21-Jan-1955 |
|
Artistic hack, Cicciolina's ex-husband |
| Roger D. Kornberg |
Scientist |
24-Apr-1947 |
|
Molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription |
| Robert P. Kraft |
Astronomer |
16-Jun-1927 |
|
Lick Observatory |
| Stephen Krasner |
Educator |
15-Feb-1942 |
|
State Dept Policy Planning Dir., 2005-07 |
| Alfred Kroeber |
Anthropologist |
11-Jun-1876 |
5-Oct-1960 |
Pioneer in American Anthropology |
| Madeleine M. Kunin |
Politician |
28-Sep-1933 |
|
Governor of Vermont, 1985-91 |
| Edwin H. Land |
Inventor |
7-May-1909 |
1-Mar-1991 |
Polaroid Land Camera |
| Lev Landau |
Physicist |
22-Jan-1908 |
1-Apr-1968 |
Superfluidity of helium |
| Irving Langmuir |
Physicist |
31-Jan-1881 |
16-Aug-1957 |
Inventor of the high-vacuum tube |
| Ralph S. Larsen |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Johnson & Johnson, 1989-2002 |
| Edward Lazear |
Economist |
1948 |
|
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors |
| Paul LeClerc |
Administrator |
28-May-1941 |
|
CEO of New York Public Library |
| Philip Leder |
Biologist |
19-Nov-1934 |
|
Harvard Geneticist |
| Joshua Lederberg |
Biologist |
23-May-1925 |
2-Feb-2008 |
Genetic properties of bacteria |
| David M. Lee |
Physicist |
20-Jan-1931 |
|
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
| Yuan T. Lee |
Chemist |
29-Nov-1936 |
|
Crossed molecular beam experiments |
| Luis Leloir |
Chemist |
6-Sep-1906 |
2-Dec-1987 |
Conversion of carbohydrates |
| Abba Lerner |
Economist |
28-Oct-1903 |
27-Oct-1982 |
The Economics of Control |
| Richard A. Lerner |
Biologist |
28-Aug-1938 |
|
President, Scripps Research Institute |
| Lawrence Lessig |
Attorney |
3-Jun-1961 |
|
Constitutional and internet law |
| Edward H. Levi |
Government |
26-Jun-1911 |
7-Mar-2000 |
US Attorney General, 1975-77 |
| Claude Lévi-Strauss |
Anthropologist |
28-Nov-1908 |
|
French anthropologist |
| Richard C. Levin |
Educator |
7-Apr-1947 |
|
President of Yale University |
| Judy C. Lewent |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CFO of Merck |
| Bernard Lewis |
Scholar |
31-May-1916 |
|
Middle East scholar |
| Edward B. Lewis |
Scientist |
20-May-1918 |
21-Jul-2004 |
Drosophila researcher, Nobel laureate |
| Sol Linowitz |
Business |
17-Dec-1913 |
18-Mar-2005 |
Negotiated return of the Panama Canal |
| William Lipscomb |
Chemist |
9-Dec-1919 |
|
Investigated boron compounds |
| Martin Lipton |
Attorney |
22-Jun-1931 |
|
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz |
| Henry Cabot Lodge |
Politician |
12-May-1850 |
9-Nov-1924 |
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1893-1924 |
| Robert Lucas |
Economist |
15-Sep-1937 |
|
Theory of rational expectations |
| Salvador Luria |
Biologist |
13-Aug-1912 |
6-Feb-1991 |
Demonstrated natural selection in bacteria |
| Richard W. Lyman |
Educator |
18-Oct-1923 |
|
President of Stanford University, 1971-80 |
| Feodor Lynen |
Scientist |
6-Apr-1911 |
6-Aug-1979 |
Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism |
| Paul W. MacAvoy |
Economist |
21-Apr-1934 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1975-76 |
| Robert Morrison MacIver |
Sociologist |
17-Apr-1882 |
15-Jun-1970 |
The Web of Government |
| Benoit Mandelbrot |
Mathematician |
20-Nov-1924 |
|
Fractal mathematician |
| Thomas E. Mann |
Government |
10-Sep-1944 |
|
Brookings Institution |
| Rudolph A. Marcus |
Chemist |
21-Jul-1923 |
|
Electron-transfer reactions |
| Joseph B. Martin |
Doctor |
1938 |
|
Dean, Harvard Medical School, 1997-2007 |
| Eric Maskin |
Economist |
12-Dec-1950 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| John C. Mather |
Physicist |
7-Aug-1946 |
|
Big Bang |
| James J. McCarthy |
Scientist |
? |
|
President of AAAS |
| John McCarthy |
Computer Programmer |
4-Sep-1927 |
|
Created LISP programming language |
| John F. McDonnell |
Business |
18-Mar-1938 |
|
CEO of McDonnell-Douglas, 1988-94 |
| William D. McElroy |
Biologist |
22-Jan-1917 |
17-Feb-1999 |
Bioluminescence |
| Daniel L. McFadden |
Economist |
29-Jul-1937 |
|
Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior |
| Donald F. McHenry |
Diplomat |
13-Oct-1936 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN, 1979-81 |
| Victor A. McKusick |
Scientist |
21-Oct-1921 |
22-Jul-2008 |
Father of medical genetics |
| Edwin M. McMillan |
Physicist |
18-Sep-1907 |
7-Sep-1991 |
Discovered neptunium |
| Barbara J. McNeil |
Educator |
c. 1940 |
|
Harvard Professor of Health Care Policy |
| Robert C. Merton |
Economist |
31-Jul-1944 |
|
Risk management and options |
| Robert K. Merton |
Sociologist |
4-Jul-1910 |
23-Feb-2003 |
On the Shoulders of Giants |
| Richard A. Meserve |
Attorney |
20-Nov-1944 |
|
President of the Carnegie Institution |
| Bob Metcalfe |
Business |
1946 |
|
Co-Inventor of Ethernet |
| J. Irwin Miller |
Business |
26-May-1909 |
16-Aug-2004 |
Former CEO of Cummins Engine |
| Merton H. Miller |
Economist |
16-May-1923 |
3-Jun-2000 |
Modigliani-Miller theorem |
| Ira M. Millstein |
Attorney |
c. 1925 |
|
Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
| Raymond D. Mindlin |
Engineer |
17-Sep-1906 |
22-Nov-1987 |
Mindlin's problem |
| Newton N. Minow |
Government |
17-Jan-1926 |
|
FCC Chairman, 1961-63 |
| Maria Mitchell |
Astronomer |
1-Aug-1818 |
28-Jun-1889 |
First American female astronomer |
| Franco Modigliani |
Economist |
18-Jun-1918 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Life-cycle theory |
| James Moeser |
Educator |
1939 |
|
Chancellor, UNC Chapel Hill |
| Stanford Moore |
Chemist |
4-Sep-1913 |
23-Aug-1982 |
Amino-acid analyzer |
| William W. Morgan |
Astronomer |
3-Jan-1906 |
21-Jun-1994 |
Spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy |
| C. D. Mote, Jr. |
Educator |
c. 1937 |
|
President, University of Maryland |
| Robert S. Mulliken |
Chemist |
7-Jun-1896 |
31-Oct-1986 |
Studied molecular structure |
| Robert A. Mundell |
Economist |
24-Oct-1932 |
|
Floating exchange rates |
| Barry A. Munitz |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
President of Getty Trust, 1998-2006 |
| Alicia H. Munnell |
Economist |
12-Jun-1942 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1996-97 |
| Roger B. Myerson |
Economist |
29-Mar-1951 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| Gunnar Myrdal |
Economist |
6-Dec-1898 |
17-May-1987 |
Monetary Equilibrium |
| Thomas Nagel |
Philosopher |
4-Jul-1937 |
|
What is it like to be a bat? |
| Daniel Nathans |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1928 |
16-Nov-1999 |
Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage) |
| Louis Néel |
Physicist |
22-Nov-1904 |
17-Nov-2000 |
Magnetic properties of solids |
| Jawaharlal Nehru |
Head of State |
14-Nov-1889 |
27-May-1964 |
First Prime Minister of India |
| Gerry Neugebauer |
Astronomer |
1932 |
|
Infrared astronomy |
| Joseph P. Newhouse |
Economist |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Rand economist, Harvard professor |
| Peter M. Nicholas |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Co-Founder of Boston Scientific |
| Ernest Fox Nichols |
Physicist |
1-Jun-1869 |
29-Apr-1924 |
Infrared radiation |
| Marshall W. Nirenberg |
Scientist |
10-Apr-1927 |
|
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| Douglass C. North |
Economist |
5-Nov-1920 |
|
Cliometrics |
| Edwin G. Nourse |
Economist |
20-May-1883 |
7-Apr-1974 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-49 |
| Robert Noyce |
Inventor |
12-Dec-1927 |
3-Jun-1990 |
Co-Inventor, integrated circuit |
| Ryoji Noyori |
Chemist |
3-Sep-1938 |
|
Chiral catalysts |
| Martha Nussbaum |
Philosopher |
6-May-1947 |
|
The Fragility of Goodness |
| Joseph Nye |
Government |
19-Jan-1937 |
|
Chairman, National Intelligence Council, 1993-94 |
| Sandra Day O'Connor |
Judge |
26-Mar-1930 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice, 1981-2006 |
| Gilbert S. Omenn |
Business |
30-Aug-1941 |
|
Professor, University of Michigan |
| Lars Onsager |
Chemist |
27-Nov-1903 |
5-Oct-1976 |
Irreversible chemical processes |
| Øystein Ore |
Mathematician |
7-Oct-1899 |
13-Aug-1968 |
Ring theorist |
| Norman Ornstein |
Author |
1948 |
|
American Enterprise Institute |
| Donald E. Osterbrock |
Astronomer |
13-Jul-1924 |
11-Jan-2007 |
Director of Lick Observatory, 1973-81 |
| Cynthia Ozick |
Author |
17-Apr-1928 |
|
The Puttermesser Papers |
| Larry Page |
Business |
26-Mar-1973 |
|
Co-Founder of Google |
| George E. Palade |
Scientist |
19-Nov-1912 |
7-Oct-2008 |
Microstructure of the cell |
| Erwin Panofsky |
Historian |
30-Mar-1892 |
14-Mar-1968 |
Studies in Iconology |
| Pief Panofsky |
Physicist |
24-Apr-1919 |
24-Sep-2007 |
Stanford Linear Accelerator |
| Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin |
Astronomer |
10-May-1900 |
7-Dec-1979 |
Hydrogen in the Sun |
| Raymond Pearl |
Biologist |
3-Jun-1879 |
17-Nov-1940 |
Biogerontology |
| Norman Pearlstine |
Journalist |
4-Oct-1942 |
|
Former Time Inc. Editor in Chief |
| Rudolf Peierls |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1907 |
19-Sep-1995 |
Frisch-Peierls Memorandum |
| Arno Penzias |
Astronomer |
26-Apr-1933 |
|
Detected primordial radiation |
| William J. Perry |
Government |
11-Oct-1927 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1994-97 |
| Max F. Perutz |
Chemist |
19-May-1914 |
6-Feb-2002 |
X-Ray analysis of hemoglobin |
| Henry Petroski |
Educator |
1942 |
|
Engineering professor |
| Edmund S. Phelps |
Economist |
26-Jul-1933 |
|
Golden Rules of Economic Growth |
| William D. Phillips |
Physicist |
5-Nov-1948 |
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