| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Felix Bloch |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1905 |
10-Sep-1983 |
Nuclear magnetic resonance |
| Clyde Cowan |
Physicist |
6-Dec-1919 |
24-May-1974 |
Co-Discover of the neutrino |
| George A. Cowan |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1920 |
20-Apr-2012 |
Founder, Santa Fe Institute |
| Robert H. Ewald |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Silicon Graphics |
| Enrico Fermi |
Physicist |
29-Sep-1901 |
29-Nov-1954 |
First controlled nuclear chain reaction |
| Val Fitch |
Physicist |
10-Mar-1923 |
5-Feb-2015 |
Time not necessarily reversible |
| Klaus Fuchs |
Spy |
29-Dec-1911 |
28-Jan-1988 |
Manhattan Project scientist, spy for USSR |
| Murray Gell-Mann |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1929 |
|
Quarks and strangeness |
| David Greenglass |
Spy |
2-Mar-1922 |
1-Jul-2014 |
Gave atomic secrets to Julius Rosenberg |
| Leslie R. Groves |
Military |
17-Aug-1896 |
13-Jul-1970 |
Director of the Manhattan Project |
| Dudley R. Herschbach |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1932 |
|
Crossed molecular beam experiments |
| William A. Higinbotham |
Physicist |
25-Oct-1910 |
10-Nov-1994 |
Physicist, Tennis for Two |
| Donald M. Kerr |
Government |
c. 1941 |
|
Deputy Director, US National Intelligence |
| Jay Keyworth |
Physicist |
c. 1939 |
|
Science advisor to Reagan |
| Wen Ho Lee |
Victim |
21-Dec-1939 |
|
Allegedly spied for China |
| John M. Palms |
Physicist |
6-Jun-1935 |
|
President, University of South Carolina, 1991-2002 |
| Frederick Reines |
Physicist |
16-Mar-1918 |
26-Aug-1998 |
Co-Discover of the neutrino |
| Emilio Segrè |
Physicist |
30-Jan-1905 |
22-Apr-1989 |
Co-Discoverer of the antiproton |
| Maurice M. Shapiro |
Physicist |
13-Nov-1915 |
27-Feb-2008 |
Composition and origin of cosmic rays |
| Tsutomu Shimomura |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1964 |
|
Helped catch Kevin Mitnick |
| Louis Slotin |
Physicist |
1-Dec-1910 |
30-May-1946 |
Died tickling the dragon's tail |
| Henry Taube |
Chemist |
30-Nov-1915 |
16-Nov-2005 |
Mechanisms of electron transfer |
| John von Neumann |
Mathematician |
28-Dec-1903 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory |
