Founded in 1886 at Cornell University.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Roger Adams |
Chemist |
2-Jan-1889 |
6-Jul-1971 |
Organic chemist at Illinois |
| Howard Aiken |
Physicist |
8-Mar-1900 |
14-Mar-1973 |
Designer of early computers |
| Luis W. Alvarez |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1911 |
1-Sep-1988 |
Particle accelerator, extinction of dinosaurs |
| Carl David Anderson |
Physicist |
3-Sep-1905 |
11-Jan-1991 |
Discovered the positron, mu-meson |
| Isaac Asimov |
Author |
2-Jan-1920 |
6-Apr-1992 |
Foundation |
| Norman Augustine |
Business |
27-Jul-1935 |
|
CEO of Martin Marietta, 1987-97 |
| Julius Axelrod |
Chemist |
30-May-1912 |
29-Dec-2004 |
Research of neurotransmitters |
| Horace W. Babcock |
Astronomer |
13-Sep-1912 |
29-Aug-2003 |
Adaptive optics and the Babcock Model |
| Leo Baekeland |
Scientist |
14-Nov-1863 |
23-Feb-1944 |
Father of plastics |
| Bill Bass |
Scientist |
30-Aug-1928 |
|
Human decomposition |
| Doug Bereuter |
Politician |
6-Oct-1939 |
|
Congressman from Nebraska, 1979-2004 |
| Frederick M. Bernthal |
Administrator |
10-Jan-1943 |
|
President, Universities Research Association |
| Norman Borlaug |
Scientist |
25-Mar-1914 |
12-Sep-2009 |
Engineered disease-resistant wheat |
| Gregory Breit |
Physicist |
14-Jul-1899 |
11-Sep-1981 |
Proton-proton dispersion |
| Wallace R. Brode |
Chemist |
12-Jun-1900 |
10-Aug-1974 |
Absorption spectra of dyes |
| Dirk Brouwer |
Astronomer |
1-Sep-1902 |
31-Jan-1966 |
Celestial mechanics |
| John S. Chen |
Business |
1-Jul-1955 |
|
CEO of Sybase |
| Thomas W. Cole, Jr. |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
President of Clark Atlanta, 1989-2002 |
| William D. Coolidge |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1873 |
4-Feb-1975 |
Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes |
| Leon N. Cooper |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1930 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
| France A. Córdova |
Educator |
5-Aug-1947 |
|
President, Purdue University |
| Frederick G. Cottrell |
Inventor |
10-Jan-1877 |
16-Nov-1948 |
Smokestack filters to fight pollution |
| George A. Cowan |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1920 |
20-Apr-2012 |
Founder, Santa Fe Institute |
| Robert F. Curl, Jr. |
Chemist |
23-Aug-1933 |
|
Co-Discovered fullerines |
| Brady J. Deaton |
Educator |
c. 1944 |
|
President, University of Missouri |
| Michael DeBakey |
Doctor |
7-Sep-1908 |
11-Jul-2008 |
Father of cardiovascular surgery |
| Johann Deisenhofer |
Chemist |
30-Sep-1943 |
|
Proteins of photosynthesis |
| Nicholas M. Donofrio |
Business |
7-Sep-1945 |
|
EVP at IBM |
| Gerald M. Edelman |
Scientist |
1-Jul-1929 |
17-May-2014 |
Chemical structure of antibodies |
| Doug Engelbart |
Computer Programmer |
30-Jan-1925 |
2-Jul-2013 |
Pioneer of human-computer interaction |
| Thomas E. Everhart |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1932 |
|
President of CalTech, 1987-97 |
| Marye Anne Fox |
Educator |
9-Dec-1947 |
|
Chancellor, UC San Diego |
| Joseph S. Francisco |
Chemist |
1955 |
|
Atmospheric chemist |
| Richard Freeman |
Economist |
29-Jun-1943 |
|
Labor economist |
| Edward A. Frieman |
Physicist |
19-Jan-1926 |
11-Apr-2013 |
Director of Scripps, 1986-96 |
| John W. Gardner |
Administrator |
8-Oct-1912 |
16-Feb-2002 |
Founder of Common Cause |
| Owen K. Garriott |
Astronaut |
22-Nov-1930 |
|
Skylab, Spacelab astronaut |
| Murray Gell-Mann |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1929 |
|
Quarks and strangeness |
| Sheldon Glashow |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1932 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
| Robert Goddard |
Scientist |
5-Oct-1882 |
10-Aug-1945 |
Father of modern rocketry |
| Richard J. Goldstein |
Engineer |
c. 1936 |
|
Fluid mechanics |
| Mary L. Good |
Educator |
20-Jun-1931 |
|
Donaghey Professor, U. Arkansas |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Biologist |
10-Sep-1941 |
20-May-2002 |
Evolutionary scientist |
| Patrick W. Gross |
Business |
15-May-1944 |
|
Co-Founder, American Management Systems |
| Frederick A. Halsey |
Engineer |
12-Jul-1856 |
20-Oct-1935 |
Kept America safe from the metric system |
| Theodor W. Hänsch |
Physicist |
30-Oct-1941 |
|
Quantum optics |
| Martin Hellman |
Inventor |
2-Oct-1945 |
|
Public key cryptographer |
| Richard Herman |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
Chancellor, UI Urbana-Champaign |
| Melville J. Herskovits |
Anthropologist |
10-Sep-1895 |
25-Feb-1963 |
The Myth of the Negro Past |
| James Hillier |
Physicist |
22-Aug-1915 |
15-Jan-2007 |
Electron microscope |
| Robert Hofstadter |
Physicist |
5-Feb-1915 |
17-Nov-1990 |
Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons |
| Grace Murray Hopper |
Computer Programmer |
9-Dec-1906 |
1-Jan-1992 |
Computer programming pioneer |
| Shirley A. Jackson |
Physicist |
5-Aug-1946 |
|
NRC Chairman, 1995-99 |
| Irwin M. Jacobs |
Business |
18-Oct-1933 |
|
Co-Founder of Qualcomm |
| William M. Jardine |
Educator |
16-Jan-1879 |
17-Jan-1955 |
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1925-29 |
| Kelly Johnson |
Engineer |
27-Feb-1910 |
21-Dec-1990 |
Lockheed Skunk Works plane designer |
| Percy Julian |
Chemist |
11-Apr-1899 |
19-Apr-1975 |
Physostigmine and cortisone |
| Joseph M. Juran |
Scientist |
24-Dec-1904 |
28-Feb-2008 |
The Pareto Principle |
| Donald E. Knuth |
Computer Programmer |
10-Jan-1938 |
|
The Art of Computer Programming |
| William I. Koch |
Business |
3-May-1940 |
|
Koch Industries |
| Robert H. Krieble |
Philanthropist |
1916 |
8-May-1997 |
Loctite Corporation |
| Bill Kurtis |
Journalist |
21-Sep-1940 |
|
Shoulder-shrugging host of American Justice |
| Robert B. Leighton |
Astronomer |
10-Sep-1919 |
9-Mar-1997 |
Leighton dishes |
| Arnold J. Levine |
Biologist |
1939 |
|
Cancer researcher |
| William Lipscomb |
Chemist |
9-Dec-1919 |
14-Apr-2011 |
Chemical bonding |
| Salvador Luria |
Biologist |
13-Aug-1912 |
6-Feb-1991 |
Natural selection in bacteria |
| Benoit Mandelbrot |
Mathematician |
20-Nov-1924 |
14-Oct-2010 |
Fractal mathematician |
| William E. Mayberry |
Business |
22-Aug-1929 |
|
Former President, Mayo Foundation |
| John McCarthy |
Computer Programmer |
4-Sep-1927 |
24-Oct-2011 |
Created LISP programming language |
| Barbara McClintock |
Scientist |
16-Jun-1902 |
2-Sep-1992 |
Discovered transposable genes |
| Edwin M. McMillan |
Physicist |
18-Sep-1907 |
7-Sep-1991 |
Discovered neptunium and plutonium |
| James R. Mellor |
Business |
3-May-1930 |
|
CEO of General Dynamics, 1994-97 |
| Bruce Merrifield |
Chemist |
15-Jul-1921 |
14-May-2006 |
Synthesized polypeptides |
| Thomas Midgley |
Chemist |
18-May-1889 |
2-Nov-1944 |
Ethyl gasoline, Freon |
| Ei-ichi Negishi |
Chemist |
14-Jul-1935 |
|
Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings |
| Arun Netravali |
Business |
26-May-1946 |
|
Chief Scientist at Lucent, 2002-03 |
| Jane Margaret O'Brien |
Educator |
c. 1953 |
|
President, St. Mary's College of Maryland |
| Gilbert S. Omenn |
Business |
30-Aug-1941 |
|
Professor, University of Michigan |
| William D. Phillips |
Physicist |
5-Nov-1948 |
|
Trapped atoms with laser light |
| James D. Plummer |
Educator |
3-Dec-1944 |
|
Dean of Stanford's Engineering School |
| Franklyn G. Prendergast |
Doctor |
7-Mar-1945 |
|
Mayo Clinic |
| Frederick Reines |
Physicist |
16-Mar-1918 |
26-Aug-1998 |
Co-Discover of the neutrino |
| Albert Sabin |
Biologist |
26-Aug-1906 |
3-Mar-1993 |
Developed oral polio vaccine |
| Jack Schmitt |
Astronaut |
3-Jul-1935 |
|
12th Man on the Moon |
| Rusty Schweickart |
Astronaut |
25-Oct-1935 |
|
Apollo 9 Lunar Module pilot |
| David Scott |
Astronaut |
6-Jun-1932 |
|
Commander, Apollo 15 |
| Glenn Seaborg |
Physicist |
19-Apr-1912 |
25-Feb-1999 |
Co-Discoverer of Plutonium |
| Claude Shannon |
Scientist |
30-Apr-1916 |
24-Feb-2001 |
Pioneer in information theory |
| Judith Shapiro |
Educator |
24-Jan-1942 |
|
President, Barnard College |
| Harlow Shapley |
Astronomer |
2-Nov-1885 |
20-Oct-1972 |
Organizer of Heaven |
| Robert N. Shelton |
Educator |
1948 |
|
President, University of Arizona |
| Richard E. Smalley |
Chemist |
6-Jun-1943 |
28-Oct-2005 |
Co-Discovered fullerines |
| George E. Smith |
Scientist |
10-May-1930 |
|
Digital photography |
| Theobald Smith |
Scientist |
31-Jul-1859 |
10-Dec-1934 |
Infectious and parasitic diseases |
| Alfred Sommer |
Doctor |
1942 |
|
SPH Dean at Johns Hopkins, 1990-2005 |
| Gene Spafford |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1957 |
|
Spaf |
| Philip Sporn |
Engineer |
25-Nov-1896 |
23-Jan-1978 |
American Electric Power Company |
| William H. Stein |
Chemist |
25-Jun-1911 |
2-Feb-1980 |
Amino-acid analyzer |
| James B. Sumner |
Chemist |
19-Nov-1887 |
12-Aug-1955 |
Crystallized enzymes |
| Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. |
Scientist |
19-Nov-1915 |
9-Mar-1974 |
Hormones mechanisms (cyclic AMP) |
| Henry Taube |
Chemist |
30-Nov-1915 |
16-Nov-2005 |
Mechanisms of electron transfer |
| Charles H. Townes |
Physicist |
28-Jul-1915 |
27-Jan-2015 |
Invention of the maser and laser |
| James Van Allen |
Astronomer |
7-Sep-1914 |
9-Aug-2006 |
Discovered the Van Allen Belt |
| George Wald |
Biologist |
18-Nov-1906 |
12-Apr-1997 |
Physiology of the retina |
| George H. Whipple |
Scientist |
28-Aug-1878 |
2-Feb-1976 |
Bile, hemoglobin, and the liver |
| John A. White |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Chancellor, University of Arkansas |
| Robert Woodrow Wilson |
Astronomer |
10-Jan-1936 |
|
Detected primordial radiation |
| Joe B. Wyatt |
Educator |
c. 1935 |
|
Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, 1982-2000 |
| Ahmed H. Zewail |
Chemist |
26-Feb-1946 |
|
Femtochemistry |
