JASON

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JASON

ORGANIZATION

Founded 1959 by three scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory: Marvin Goldberger, Kenneth Watson and Keith Brueckner.

Location:
San Diego, CA

Founding Date:
1959

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Luis W. Alvarez Physicist 13-Jun-1911 1-Sep-1988 Particle accelerator pioneer

Hans Bethe Physicist 2-Jul-1906 6-Mar-2005 Atomic scientist

Sidney D. Drell Physicist 13-Sep-1926 In the Shadow of the Bomb

Freeman Dyson Physicist 15-Dec-1923 Theoretical physicist at Princeton

Val Fitch Physicist 10-Mar-1923 Time not necessarily reversible

Murray Gell-Mann Physicist 15-Sep-1929 Weak interaction of particles

Donald A. Glaser Physicist 21-Sep-1926 Inventor of the bubble chamber

Henry W. Kendall Physicist 9-Dec-1926 15-Feb-1999 Verified existence of quarks

Leon M. Lederman Physicist 15-Jul-1922 Researcher of neutrinos

Pief Panofsky Physicist 24-Apr-1919 24-Sep-2007 Stanford Linear Accelerator

Burton Richter Physicist 22-Mar-1931 Co-Discoverer of J/psi particle

Sally Ride Astronaut 26-May-1951 First American woman in space

Charles H. Townes Physicist 28-Jul-1915 Invention of the maser and laser

Steven Weinberg Physicist 3-May-1933 Electroweak Theory

John Archibald Wheeler Physicist 9-Jul-1911 13-Apr-2008 The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission

Eugene Wigner Physicist 17-Nov-1902 1-Jan-1995 Law of conservation of parity

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