HONOR

The name of several awards, given variously by:

• Franklin Institute (presented since 1915)
• American Philosophical Society (presented since 1937)
• Royal Society of Arts (presented since 1956)

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Roger Adams	Chemist	2-Jan-1889	6-Jul-1971	Organic chemist at Illinois
Leo Baekeland	Scientist	14-Nov-1863	23-Feb-1944	Father of plastics
Elizabeth H. Blackburn	Scientist	26-Nov-1948		Co-Discoverer of telomerase
Charles F. Brush	Inventor	17-Mar-1849	15-Jun-1929	Street lights
James Chadwick	Physicist	20-Oct-1891	24-Jul-1974	Discovered the neutron
Arthur H. Compton	Physicist	10-Sep-1892	15-Mar-1962	Discovered the Compton Effect
William D. Coolidge	Physicist	23-Oct-1873	4-Feb-1975	Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes
Elias James Corey	Chemist	12-Jul-1928		Retrosynthetic analysis
Raymond Davis, Jr.	Scientist	14-Oct-1914	31-May-2006	Detected solar neutrinos
Peter Debye	Physicist	24-Mar-1884	2-Nov-1966	Studied molecular structure, dipoles
T. G. Dobzhansky	Scientist	25-Jan-1900	18-Dec-1975	Genetics and the Origin of Species
William F. Durand	Engineer	5-Mar-1859	9-Aug-1958	National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Albert Einstein	Physicist	14-Mar-1879	18-Apr-1955	Theory of relativity
John Ambrose Fleming	Engineer	29-Nov-1849	19-Apr-1945	Invented the vacuum tube
Murray Gell-Mann	Physicist	15-Sep-1929		Quarks and strangeness
Robert H. Grubbs	Chemist	27-Feb-1942		Metathesis
Alan Guth	Physicist	27-Feb-1947		Inflationary theory of cosmology
Edwin Hubble	Astronomer	20-Nov-1889	28-Sep-1953	Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble's Law
Pyotr Kapitsa	Physicist	8-Jul-1894	8-Apr-1984	Discovered superfluidity
Wolfgang Ketterle	Physicist	21-Oct-1957		Bose-Einstein condensates
Donald E. Knuth	Computer Programmer	10-Jan-1938		The Art of Computer Programming
Masatoshi Koshiba	Physicist	19-Sep-1926		Detected cosmic neutrinos
Irving Langmuir	Chemist	31-Jan-1881	16-Aug-1957	Inventor of the high-vacuum tube
Robert B. Laughlin	Physicist	1-Nov-1950		Fractional quantum Hall effect
Philipp Lenard	Physicist	7-Jun-1862	20-May-1947	Investigations of cathode rays
Benoit Mandelbrot	Mathematician	20-Nov-1924	14-Oct-2010	Fractal mathematician
Guglielmo Marconi	Scientist	25-Apr-1874	20-Jul-1937	Inventor of radio
Barry J. Marshall	Doctor	30-Sep-1951		H. pylori bacteria causes ulcers
John C. Mather	Physicist	7-Aug-1946		Big Bang
Ernst Mayr	Biologist	5-Jul-1904	3-Feb-2005	Evolutionary biologist
Albert A. Michelson	Physicist	19-Dec-1852	9-May-1931	Measured the speed of light
Marvin Minsky	Scientist	9-Aug-1927		Father of Artificial Intelligence
Yoichiro Nambu	Physicist	18-Jan-1921		Spontaneous broken symmetry
Walther Nernst	Chemist	25-Jun-1864	18-Nov-1941	Third Law of Thermodynamics
Frederick Reines	Physicist	16-Mar-1918	26-Aug-1998	Co-Discover of the neutrino
Theodore W. Richards	Chemist	31-Jan-1868	2-Apr-1928	Atomic weights
Frederick C. Robbins	Scientist	25-Aug-1916	4-Aug-2003	Cultured the polio virus
Henry Norris Russell	Astronomer	25-Oct-1877	18-Feb-1957	Giant stars and dwarfs
Paul Sabatier	Chemist	5-Nov-1854	14-Aug-1941	Heterogeneous catalysis
Marjorie Scardino	Business	25-Jan-1947		CEO of Pearson
Glenn Seaborg	Physicist	19-Apr-1912	25-Feb-1999	Co-Discoverer of Plutonium
Harlow Shapley	Astronomer	2-Nov-1885	20-Oct-1972	Organizer of Heaven
Phillip A. Sharp	Biologist	6-Jun-1944		Eukaryotic (split) genes
K. Barry Sharpless	Chemist	28-Apr-1941		Chiral catalysts
Richard E. Smalley	Chemist	6-Jun-1943	28-Oct-2005	Co-Discovered fullerines
Frank J. Sprague	Inventor	25-Jul-1857	25-Oct-1934	Streetcars and express elevators
Wendell M. Stanley	Chemist	16-Aug-1904	15-Jun-1971	First to crystallize a virus
The Svedberg	Chemist	30-Aug-1884	25-Feb-1971	Inventor of the ultracentrifuge
Elihu Thomson	Inventor	29-Mar-1853	13-Mar-1937	Electric welding and A/C motors
J. J. Thomson	Physicist	18-Dec-1856	30-Aug-1940	Discovered the electron
Daniel C. Tsui	Physicist	28-Feb-1939		Fractional quantum Hall effect
Harold C. Urey	Chemist	29-Apr-1893	5-Jan-1981	Discovered Deuterium
Edward O. Wilson	Biologist	10-Jun-1929		Father of Sociobiology
Kenneth G. Wilson	Physicist	8-Jun-1936		Second-order phase transitions
Pieter Zeeman	Physicist	25-May-1865	9-Oct-1943	Discovered Zeeman Effect
Ahmed H. Zewail	Chemist	26-Feb-1946		Femtochemistry

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