Carnegie Institution for Science

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Carnegie Institution for Science

ORGANIZATION

"An organization for scientific discovery", founded 1902 by Andrew Carnegie as Carnegie Institution of Washington. Name changed to Carnegie Institution for Science since 2007, to end public confusion, as four of CIS's six scientific departments are now located across America, far from Washington, DC.

Official Website:
http://carnegiescience.edu/

Location:
Washington, DC

Founding Date:
1902

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Walter S. Adams Astronomer 20-Dec-1876 11-May-1956 Long-time director of Mt. Wilson Observatory

Peter Agre Biologist 30-Jan-1949 Water channels of cell membranes

Samuel Flagg Bemis Historian 20-Oct-1891 26-Sep-1973 Scholar of diplomacy

John S. Billings Administrator 12-Apr-1838 11-Mar-1913 New York Public Library

Vannevar Bush Scientist 11-Mar-1890 30-Jun-1974 Pre-internet visionary

Anton J. Carlson Biologist 29-Jan-1875 2-Sep-1956 The Machinery of the Body

John Diebold Author 8-Jun-1926 26-Dec-2005 Advocate of automation

William F. Durand Engineer 5-Mar-1859 9-Aug-1958 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

Gerald M. Edelman Scientist 1-Jul-1929 17-May-2014 Chemical structure of antibodies

Andrew Z. Fire Scientist 27-Apr-1959 RNA interference

Walter S. Gifford Business 10-Jan-1885 7-May-1966 President of AT&T, 1925-48

William R. Hearst III Business c. 1950 San Francisco Examiner Editor, 1984-95

William Hewlett Business 20-May-1913 12-Jan-2001 Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard

Freeman A. Hrabowski Educator 13-Aug-1950 President, University of Maryland Baltimore

J. Franklin Jameson Historian 19-Sep-1859 28-Sep-1937 Dictionary of United States History

Suzanne Nora Johnson Business 14-May-1957 Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, 2004-07

Arthur E. Kennelly Physicist 17-Dec-1861 18-Jun-1939 Kennelly-Heaviside layer

Willard F. Libby Chemist 17-Dec-1908 8-Sep-1980 Carbon-14 dating technique

John Macomber Business 13-Jan-1928 JDM Investment Group

Geoffrey W. Marcy Astronomer 29-Sep-1954 Discoverer of exoplanets

Barbara McClintock Scientist 16-Jun-1902 2-Sep-1992 Discovered transposable genes

Paul W. Merrill Astronomer 15-Aug-1887 19-Jul-1961 S-process of nucleosynthesis

Richard A. Meserve Attorney 20-Nov-1944 President of the Carnegie Institution

J. Irwin Miller Business 26-May-1909 16-Aug-2004 Former CEO of Cummins Engine

Norman F. Ramsey Physicist 27-Aug-1915 4-Nov-2011 Energy levels of atoms

Oscar Riddle Biologist 27-Sep-1877 29-Nov-1968 Prolactin

Vera Rubin Astronomer 23-Jul-1928 Structure of galaxies

Allan R. Sandage Astronomer 18-Jun-1926 13-Nov-2010 Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars

Claude Shannon Scientist 30-Apr-1916 24-Feb-2001 Pioneer in information theory

Frank Stanton Business 20-Mar-1908 24-Dec-2006 President of CBS, 1946-73

Merle Tuve Physicist 27-Jun-1901 20-May-1982 Proximity fuse

James Van Allen Astronomer 7-Sep-1914 9-Aug-2006 Discovered the Van Allen Belt

William H. Welch Scientist 8-Apr-1850 30-Apr-1934 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

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