Founded 1878.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| David Abshire |
Diplomat |
11-Apr-1926 |
31-Oct-2014 |
US Ambassador to NATO, 1983-87 |
| John Atanasoff |
Inventor |
4-Oct-1903 |
15-Jun-1995 |
Atanasoff-Berry Computer |
| Harry Blackmun |
Judge |
12-Nov-1908 |
4-Mar-1999 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1970-94 |
| Louis D. Brandeis |
Judge |
13-Nov-1856 |
5-Oct-1941 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1916-39 |
| David Brinkley |
Journalist |
10-Jul-1920 |
11-Jun-2003 |
The Huntley-Brinkley Report |
| Wallace R. Brode |
Chemist |
12-Jun-1900 |
10-Aug-1974 |
Absorption spectra of dyes |
| Henry Billings Brown |
Judge |
2-Mar-1836 |
4-Sep-1913 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1891-1906 |
| Lester R. Brown |
Activist |
28-Mar-1934 |
|
Earth Policy Institute |
| Vannevar Bush |
Scientist |
11-Mar-1890 |
30-Jun-1974 |
Pre-internet visionary |
| Robert N. Butler |
Doctor |
21-Jan-1927 |
4-Jul-2010 |
Expert on aging |
| Chester A. Crocker |
Government |
29-Oct-1941 |
|
Asst. Secy. State, African Affairs, 1981-89 |
| Michael DeBakey |
Doctor |
7-Sep-1908 |
11-Jul-2008 |
Father of cardiovascular surgery |
| Diana Lady Dougan |
Diplomat |
13-Jan-1943 |
|
Former US Ambassador |
| Gerald M. Edelman |
Scientist |
1-Jul-1929 |
17-May-2014 |
Chemical structure of antibodies |
| John Hope Franklin |
Historian |
2-Jan-1915 |
25-Mar-2009 |
From Slavery to Freedom |
| Murray Gell-Mann |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1929 |
|
Quarks and strangeness |
| Georgie Anne Geyer |
Journalist |
2-Apr-1935 |
|
Foreign correspondent turned columnist |
| Riccardo Giacconi |
Astronomer |
6-Oct-1931 |
|
Discovered cosmic X-ray sources |
| John Oliver La Gorce |
Explorer |
22-Sep-1880 |
23-Dec-1959 |
Antarctica explorer, National Geographic editor |
| William C. Gorgas |
Doctor |
3-Oct-1854 |
3-Jul-1920 |
Malaria and yellow fever |
| Sebastian de Grazia |
Author |
11-Aug-1917 |
31-Dec-2000 |
Machiavelli in Hell |
| Christian Herter, Jr. |
Government |
29-Jan-1919 |
16-Sep-2007 |
First Chairman, New York Urban Coalition |
| Thomas L. Hughes |
Government |
? |
|
Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace |
| Zora Neale Hurston |
Novelist |
7-Jan-1891 |
28-Jan-1960 |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Robert Keeley |
Diplomat |
4-Sep-1929 |
9-Jan-2015 |
US Ambassador to Greece, 1985-89 |
| John F. Kennedy |
Head of State |
29-May-1917 |
22-Nov-1963 |
35th US President, 1961-63 |
| Walter Lippmann |
Journalist |
23-Sep-1889 |
14-Dec-1974 |
Today and Tomorrow |
| John V. Lombardi |
Educator |
1942 |
|
President, Louisiana State University |
| Alan D. Lourie |
Judge |
13-Jan-1935 |
|
US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit |
| Gerald S. McGowan |
Attorney |
3-Sep-1946 |
|
US Ambassador to Portugal, 1998-2001 |
| Robert S. Mulliken |
Chemist |
7-Jun-1896 |
31-Oct-1986 |
Molecular orbital theory |
| David G. Newton |
Diplomat |
13-Nov-1935 |
|
US Ambassador to Iraq, 1984-88 |
| Roy Franklin Nichols |
Historian |
3-Mar-1896 |
12-Jan-1973 |
The Disruption of American Democracy |
| Phyllis E. Oakley |
Government |
1934 |
|
Assistant Secy. of State for Intelligence, 1997-99 |
| Richard B. Parker |
Diplomat |
3-Jul-1923 |
7-Jan-2011 |
US Ambassador to Morocco, 1978-79 |
| John Wesley Powell |
Geologist |
24-Mar-1834 |
23-Sep-1902 |
Exploration of the Colorado River |
| Larry Pressler |
Politician |
29-Mar-1942 |
|
US Senator from South Dakota, 1979-97 |
| Charles R. Ritcheson |
Historian |
26-Feb-1925 |
8-Dec-2011 |
British Politics and the American Revolution |
| Walt Rostow |
Government |
7-Oct-1916 |
13-Feb-2003 |
National Security Advisor, 1966-69 |
| Antonin Scalia |
Judge |
11-Mar-1936 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
| Herbert Stein |
Economist |
27-Aug-1916 |
8-Sep-1999 |
Economic adviser for Nixon |
| Ambrose Swasey |
Business |
19-Dec-1846 |
15-Jun-1937 |
Warner and Swasey Company and Observatory |
| Merle Tuve |
Physicist |
27-Jun-1901 |
20-May-1982 |
Proximity fuse |
| Harold C. Urey |
Chemist |
29-Apr-1893 |
5-Jan-1981 |
Discovered Deuterium |
| Edward O. Wilson |
Biologist |
10-Jun-1929 |
|
Father of Sociobiology |
