Harvard Society of Fellows

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Harvard Society of Fellows

ORGANIZATION

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

John Bardeen Physicist 23-May-1908 30-Jan-1991 Co-Inventor of the transistor

Nicolaas Bloembergen Physicist 11-Mar-1920 Nonlinear optics

Walter Gilbert Chemist 21-Mar-1932 Sequencing techniques for DNA

David J. Gross Physicist 19-Feb-1941 Deep structure of matter

Dudley R. Herschbach Chemist 18-Jun-1932 Crossed molecular beam experiments

Roald Hoffmann Chemist 18-Jul-1937 Woodward-Hoffmann reaction

Wassily Leontief Economist 5-Aug-1906 5-Feb-1999 Structure of the American Economy

Steven Levitt Economist 1968 Freakonomics

Marvin Minsky Scientist 9-Aug-1927 Father of Artificial Intelligence

H. David Politzer Physicist 31-Aug-1949 Deep structure of matter

E. M. Purcell Physicist 30-Aug-1912 7-Mar-1997 Nuclear magnetic resonance

Paul Samuelson Economist 15-May-1915 13-Dec-2009 Theory of revealed preference

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Historian 15-Oct-1917 28-Feb-2007 The Age of Roosevelt

Leon Wieseltier Editor 14-Jun-1952 The New Republic

Edward O. Wilson Biologist 10-Jun-1929 Father of Sociobiology

Kenneth G. Wilson Physicist 8-Jun-1936 15-Jun-2013 Second-order phase transitions

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