ORGANIZATION

Founded 1603 by Federico Cesi, for the study of mathematics and natural sciences.

Official Website:
http://www.lincei.it/

Founding Date:
1603

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Philip W. Anderson	Physicist	13-Dec-1923		Solid state physics
Francis W. Aston	Chemist	1-Sep-1877	20-Nov-1945	Invented the mass spectograph
Michael Atiyah	Mathematician	22-Apr-1929		Atiyah-Singer index theorem
Henri Becquerel	Physicist	15-Dec-1852	25-Aug-1908	Discoverer of radioactivity
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji	Physicist	1-Apr-1933		Trapped atoms with laser light
Paul J. Crutzen	Physicist	3-Dec-1933		Ozone depletion
Paul Dirac	Physicist	8-Aug-1902	20-Oct-1984	The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Ronald Dworkin	Philosopher	11-Dec-1931	14-Feb-2013	Taking Rights Seriously
Freeman Dyson	Physicist	15-Dec-1923		Theoretical physicist at Institute for Advanced Study
Umberto Eco	Author	5-Jan-1932		Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose
T. S. Eliot	Poet	26-Sep-1888	4-Jan-1965	Author of "The Waste Land"
Enrico Fermi	Physicist	29-Sep-1901	29-Nov-1954	First controlled nuclear chain reaction
Bruno de Finetti	Mathematician	13-Jun-1906	20-Jul-1985	Subjective probability
James K. Galbraith	Scholar	29-Jan-1952		Economics Professor at UT-Austin
Galileo Galilei	Astronomer	15-Feb-1564	8-Jan-1642	Copernican observational astronomer
Ignace J. Gelb	Scholar	14-Oct-1907	22-Dec-1985	A Study of Writing
Israel Gelfand	Mathematician	2-Sep-1913	5-Oct-2009	Banach algebras, Lie groups
Riccardo Giacconi	Astronomer	6-Oct-1931		Discovered cosmic X-ray sources
Sheldon Glashow	Physicist	5-Dec-1932		Electroweak Theory
Jacques-Salomon Hadamard	Mathematician	8-Dec-1865	17-Oct-1963	Prime number theorem
Werner Heisenberg	Physicist	5-Dec-1901	1-Feb-1976	Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
John R. Hicks	Economist	8-Apr-1904	20-May-1989	Value and Capital
George W. Hill	Astronomer	3-Mar-1838	16-Apr-1914	A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes	Physicist	21-Sep-1853	21-Feb-1926	Liquefied helium and discovered superconductivity
Max von Laue	Physicist	9-Oct-1879	23-Apr-1960	X-ray crystallography
Jean-Marie Lehn	Chemist	30-Sep-1939		Synthesis of molecules
Tullio Levi-Civita	Mathematician	29-Mar-1873	29-Dec-1941	Explored tensor calculus and PDE's
Jean-Luc Marion	Philosopher	3-Jul-1946		Phenomenologist, God Without Being
Keith Moffatt	Mathematician	12-Apr-1935		Fluid dynamics
Giulio Natta	Chemist	26-Feb-1903	2-May-1979	Ziegler-Natta catalysts for polymerization
George A. Olah	Chemist	22-May-1927		Isolated carbonium ions
Pief Panofsky	Physicist	24-Apr-1919	24-Sep-2007	Stanford Linear Accelerator
Giambattista della Porta	Scientist	c. 1538	4-Feb-1615	Magia Naturalis
Vladimir Prelog	Chemist	23-Jul-1906	7-Jan-1998	Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts
Martin Rees	Astronomer	23-Jun-1942		President of the Royal Society
Carlo Rubbia	Physicist	31-Mar-1934		Co-Discovered W and Z particles
Emilio Segrè	Physicist	30-Jan-1905	22-Apr-1989	Co-Discoverer of the antiproton
Amartya Sen	Economist	3-Nov-1933		Poverty and Famines
Waclaw Sierpinski	Mathematician	14-Mar-1882	21-Oct-1969	Sierpinski's gasket
Quentin Skinner	Historian	26-Nov-1940		The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
Robert M. Solow	Economist	23-Aug-1924		Theory of economic growth
Arnold Sommerfeld	Physicist	5-Dec-1868	26-Apr-1951	Fine-structure constant
Jack Steinberger	Physicist	25-May-1921		Researcher of neutrinos
Stephen Timoshenko	Engineer	23-Dec-1878	29-May-1972	Mechanical engineering professor at Stanford
John von Neumann	Mathematician	28-Dec-1903	8-Feb-1957	Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory
Johannes Diderik van der Waals	Physicist	23-Nov-1837	9-Mar-1923	Investigated states of matter
Robert W. Wood	Physicist	2-May-1868	11-Aug-1955	Physical Optics
Robert B. Woodward	Chemist	10-Apr-1917	8-Jul-1979	Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc.

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