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Cosmos Club Award

HONOR

"The Cosmos Club Award has been presented annually since 1964 to persons of national or international standing in a field of science, literature, the fine arts, the learned professions, or the public service."

Official Website:
http://www.cosmosclubfoundation.org/cosmosaward.htm

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Mac Bundy
Government
30-Mar-1919 16-Sep-1996 National Security Advisor, 1961-66
John Hope Franklin
Historian
2-Jan-1915 25-Mar-2009 From Slavery to Freedom
Helen Hayes
Actor
10-Oct-1900 17-Mar-1993 First Lady of the Theater
Max Kampelman
Diplomat
7-Nov-1920   US Ambassador to the CSCE
C. Everett Koop
Government
14-Oct-1916   US Surgeon General, 1982-89
Arthur Kornberg
Scientist
3-Mar-1918 26-Oct-2007 Synthesized DNA
Edwin H. Land
Inventor
7-May-1909 1-Mar-1991 Polaroid Land Camera
Jim Lehrer
Journalist
19-May-1934   PBS NewsHour
Archibald Macleish
Poet
7-May-1892 20-Apr-1982 Conquistador
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Politician
16-Mar-1927 26-Mar-2003 US Senator from New York, 1977-2001
Sandra Day O'Connor
Judge
26-Mar-1930   US Supreme Court Justice, 1981-2006
Barbara Tuchman
Historian
30-Jan-1912 6-Feb-1989 A Distant Mirror
James Van Allen
Astronomer
7-Sep-1914 9-Aug-2006 Discovered the Van Allen Belt
Paul Volcker
Economist
5-Sep-1927   Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1979-87
Elie Wiesel
Activist
30-Sep-1928   Anti-Holocaust and human-rights activist
Chuck Yeager
Aviator
13-Feb-1923   Test pilot, first to break speed of sound




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