EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Operated by Brookhaven Science Associates for the US Energy Department.

Location:
Upton, NY

Founding Date:
1947

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

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Bertram N. Brockhouse	Physicist	15-Jul-1918	13-Oct-2003	Triple-axis crystal spectrometry
James W. Cronin	Physicist	29-Sep-1931	25-Aug-2016	Time not necessarily reversible
Raymond Davis, Jr.	Scientist	14-Oct-1914	31-May-2006	Detected solar neutrinos
Donald A. Glaser	Physicist	21-Sep-1926	28-Feb-2013	Inventor of the bubble chamber
Maurice Goldhaber	Physicist	18-Apr-1911	11-May-2011	Neutrons
Roald Hoffmann	Chemist	18-Jul-1937		Woodward-Hoffmann reaction
Robert Hofstadter	Physicist	5-Feb-1915	17-Nov-1990	Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons
Henry W. Kendall	Physicist	9-Dec-1926	15-Feb-1999	Verified existence of quarks
David M. Lee	Physicist	20-Jan-1931		Superfluidity of helium-3
Roderick MacKinnon	Biologist	19-Feb-1956		Ion channels of cell membranes
Robert L. Mills	Physicist	15-Apr-1927	27-Oct-1999	Subatomic particles
Isidor Isaac Rabi	Physicist	29-Jul-1898	11-Jan-1988	Magnetic beam resonances
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	Scientist	1952		Ribosomes
Norman F. Ramsey	Physicist	27-Aug-1915	4-Nov-2011	Energy levels of atoms
Burton Richter	Physicist	22-Mar-1931		Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson
Samuel C. C. Ting	Physicist	27-Jan-1936		Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson
Leona Woods	Physicist	9-Aug-1919	10-Nov-1986	Physicist at University of Chicago

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Donald M. Engelman	Biologist	c. 1941		Biochemistry Professor at Yale
Maurice Goldhaber	Physicist	18-Apr-1911	11-May-2011	Neutrons
Tsung-Dao Lee	Physicist	25-Nov-1926		Violations of parity law
James Simons	Mathematician	c. 1938		Renaissance Technologies hedge fund

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