PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Founded in 1919, 31,000 members.

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

Founding Date:
1919

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Gregory Breit	Physicist	14-Jul-1899	11-Sep-1981	Proton-proton dispersion
Jule Charney	Scientist	1-Jan-1917	16-Jun-1981	Quasi-gesotrophic theory
Jared L. Cohon	Educator	c. 1947		President, Carnegie Mellon University
Paul J. Crutzen	Physicist	3-Dec-1933		Ozone depletion
Owen K. Garriott	Astronaut	22-Nov-1930		Skylab, Spacelab astronaut
Robert Goddard	Scientist	5-Oct-1882	10-Aug-1945	Father of modern rocketry
Thomas Gold	Scientist	22-May-1920	22-Jun-2004	Certain that oil is not a fossil fuel
Bill Gordon	Astronomer	8-Jan-1918	16-Feb-2010	Designed Arecibo radio telescope
James E. Hansen	Scientist	29-Mar-1941		Greenhouse effect and global warming
Victor Francis Hess	Physicist	24-Jun-1883	17-Dec-1964	Proved cosmic origin of radiation
Raymond Hide	Physicist	17-May-1929		Earth's rotation
Michael E. Mann	Physicist	28-Dec-1965		Climate change scientist
Drummond Matthews	Geologist	5-Feb-1931	20-Jul-1997	Plate tectonics
James J. McCarthy	Scientist	?		President of AAAS
Eugene Parker	Astronomer	10-Jun-1927		Solar winds
Joaquin Ruiz	Educator	1951		Science Dean, University of Arizona
Carl Sagan	Astronomer	9-Nov-1934	20-Dec-1996	Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos
Lyman Spitzer, Jr.	Astronomer	26-Jun-1914	31-Mar-1997	Father of space telescopes
James V. Taranik	Geologist	23-Apr-1940	21-Jun-2011	Desert Research Institute
Lonnie Thompson	Scientist	1-Jul-1948		Paleoclimatologist, glaciologist
Stephen Timoshenko	Engineer	23-Dec-1878	29-May-1972	Mechanical engineering professor at Stanford
Merle Tuve	Physicist	27-Jun-1901	20-May-1982	Proximity fuse
Harold C. Urey	Chemist	29-Apr-1893	5-Jan-1981	Discovered Deuterium
James Van Allen	Astronomer	7-Sep-1914	9-Aug-2006	Discovered the Van Allen Belt

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