FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION

Founded 1902 at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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

Founding Date:
1902

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Herbert C. Brown	Chemist	22-May-1912	19-Dec-2004	Discovered organoboranes
Elias James Corey	Chemist	12-Jul-1928		Retrosynthetic analysis
Raymond Davis, Jr.	Scientist	14-Oct-1914	31-May-2006	Detected solar neutrinos
Peter Debye	Physicist	24-Mar-1884	2-Nov-1966	Studied molecular structure, dipoles
Edward A. Doisy	Scientist	3-Nov-1893	23-Oct-1986	Chemical structure of Vitamin K
Paul J. Flory	Chemist	19-Jun-1910	9-Sep-1985	Studied polymers
George H. Hitchings	Scientist	18-Apr-1905	27-Feb-1998	Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, arthritis
Robert W. Holley	Scientist	28-Jan-1922	11-Feb-1993	RNA's role in protein synthesis
Paul C. Lauterbur	Scientist	6-May-1929	27-Mar-2007	Magnetic resonance imaging
Willard F. Libby	Chemist	17-Dec-1908	8-Sep-1980	Carbon-14 dating technique
William Lipscomb	Chemist	9-Dec-1919	14-Apr-2011	Chemical bonding
Alan G. MacDiarmid	Chemist	14-Apr-1927	7-Feb-2007	Metallic polymers
Rudolph A. Marcus	Chemist	21-Jul-1923		Electron-transfer reactions
Bruce Merrifield	Chemist	15-Jul-1921	14-May-2006	Synthesized polypeptides
Thomas Midgley	Chemist	18-May-1889	2-Nov-1944	Ethyl gasoline, Freon
Lars Onsager	Chemist	27-Nov-1903	5-Oct-1976	Fourth Law of Thermodynamics
Linus Pauling	Chemist	28-Feb-1901	19-Aug-1994	Scientist and peacenik
Glenn Seaborg	Physicist	19-Apr-1912	25-Feb-1999	Co-Discoverer of Plutonium
Edward Tatum	Scientist	14-Dec-1909	7-Nov-1975	One gene, one enzyme theory
Vincent du Vigneaud	Chemist	18-May-1901	11-Dec-1978	Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin

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