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Published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Founded in 1880 on $10,000 of seed money from the American inventor Thomas Edison, Science has grown to become the world's leading outlet for scientific news, commentary, and cutting-edge research, with the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general-science journal. Through its print and online incarnations, Science reaches an estimated worldwide readership of more than one million.

Official Website:
http://www.sciencemag.org/

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Alexander Graham Bell Inventor 3-Mar-1847 2-Aug-1922 Inventor of the telephone

Michael S. Brown Biologist 13-Apr-1941 Metabolism of cholesterol

James McKeen Cattell Psychologist 24-May-1860 20-Jan-1944 Academic freedom

Paul J. Crutzen Physicist 3-Dec-1933 Ozone depletion

Thomas Edison Inventor 11-Feb-1847 18-Oct-1931 Invented the light bulb

Stephen Jay Gould Biologist 10-Sep-1941 20-May-2002 Evolutionary scientist

Donald Kennedy Educator 18-Aug-1931 Editor-in-Chief of Science

Willard F. Libby Chemist 17-Dec-1908 8-Sep-1980 Carbon-14 dating technique

Elinor Ostrom Sociologist 7-Aug-1933 12-Jun-2012 Common-pool resources

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