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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