Founded in 1780.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Edward P. Abraham |
Chemist |
10-Jun-1913 |
8-May-1999 |
Cephalosporins |
| Shirley S. Abrahamson |
Judge |
17-Dec-1933 |
|
Wisconsin Chief Justice |
| Floyd Abrams |
Attorney |
9-Jul-1936 |
|
First Amendment lawyer |
| Alexei A. Abrikosov |
Physicist |
25-Jun-1928 |
|
Particle physicist, explored superconductivity |
| Dean Acheson |
Government |
11-Apr-1893 |
12-Oct-1971 |
US Secretary of State, 1949-53 |
| Edward G. Acheson |
Inventor |
9-Mar-1856 |
6-Jul-1931 |
Discovered silicon carbide |
| Bruce Ackerman |
Scholar |
19-Aug-1943 |
|
We the People |
| H. Gardner Ackley |
Economist |
30-Jun-1915 |
12-Feb-1998 |
US Ambassador to Italy, 1968-69 |
| Ansel Adams |
Photographer |
20-Feb-1902 |
22-Apr-1984 |
Yosemite photographer |
| Charles Francis Adams IV |
Business |
2-May-1910 |
5-Jan-1999 |
Former president of Raytheon |
| Peter Agre |
Biologist |
30-Jan-1949 |
|
Water channels of cell membranes |
| George A. Akerlof |
Economist |
17-Jun-1940 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| Alan Alda |
Actor |
28-Jan-1936 |
|
Capt. Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H |
| Christopher Alexander |
Architect |
4-Oct-1936 |
|
A Pattern Language, The Nature of Order |
| Hannes Alfvén |
Physicist |
30-May-1908 |
2-Apr-1995 |
Renegade Swedish astrophysicist |
| Sidney Altman |
Chemist |
7-May-1939 |
|
Proved enzyme role of RNA |
| Luis W. Alvarez |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1911 |
1-Sep-1988 |
Particle accelerator, extinction of dinosaurs |
| Christiane Amanpour |
Journalist |
12-Jan-1958 |
|
Host of ABC's This Week |
| Carl David Anderson |
Physicist |
3-Sep-1905 |
11-Jan-1991 |
Discovered the positron, mu-meson |
| Philip W. Anderson |
Physicist |
13-Dec-1923 |
|
Solid state physics |
| Charles McLean Andrews |
Historian |
22-Feb-1863 |
9-Sep-1943 |
The Colonial Period of American History |
| Leonore Annenberg |
Socialite |
20-Feb-1918 |
12-Mar-2009 |
Wife of Walter Annenberg |
| Walter Annenberg |
Business |
13-Mar-1908 |
1-Oct-2002 |
Media mogul, created TV Guide |
| Joyce Appleby |
Historian |
9-Apr-1929 |
|
Capitalism and a New Social Order |
| Daniel I. Arnon |
Biologist |
14-Nov-1910 |
20-Dec-1994 |
Photophosphorylation |
| Kenneth J. Arrow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1921 |
|
Social Choice and Individual Values |
| Norman Augustine |
Business |
27-Jul-1935 |
|
CEO of Martin Marietta, 1987-97 |
| Robert J. Aumann |
Economist |
8-Jun-1930 |
|
Game theorist |
| Dennis A. Ausiello |
Doctor |
c. 1945 |
|
Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Richard Axel |
Scientist |
2-Jul-1946 |
|
Odorant receptors and olfactory organization |
| Julius Axelrod |
Chemist |
30-May-1912 |
29-Dec-2004 |
Research of neurotransmitters |
| Milton Babbitt |
Composer |
10-May-1916 |
29-Jan-2011 |
Music for Synthesizer |
| Horace W. Babcock |
Astronomer |
13-Sep-1912 |
29-Aug-2003 |
Adaptive optics and the Babcock Model |
| Lawrence S. Bacow |
Educator |
c. 1950 |
|
President, Tufts University |
| Elizabeth E. Bailey |
Educator |
1938 |
|
Professor, the Wharton School |
| Bernard Bailyn |
Historian |
9-Sep-1922 |
|
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution |
| Kenneth Bainbridge |
Physicist |
27-Jul-1904 |
14-Jul-1996 |
Director of the Trinity atomic test |
| David Baltimore |
Biologist |
7-Mar-1938 |
|
Co-Discoverer, reverse transcriptase |
| Albert Bandura |
Psychologist |
4-Dec-1925 |
|
Bobo doll experiments |
| Percy N. Barnevik |
Business |
13-Feb-1941 |
|
CEO of ABB, 1988-96 |
| John Bartlett |
Author |
14-Jun-1820 |
3-Dec-1905 |
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations |
| Derek Barton |
Chemist |
8-Sep-1918 |
16-Mar-1998 |
Conformational analysis |
| Jacqueline K. Barton |
Chemist |
7-May-1952 |
|
Professor of Chemistry at CalTech |
| Jacques Barzun |
Historian |
30-Nov-1907 |
25-Oct-2012 |
From Dawn to Decadence |
| Walter Jackson Bate |
Critic |
23-May-1918 |
26-Jul-1999 |
Samuel Johnson |
| Lucian A. Bebchuk |
Educator |
c. 1955 |
|
Corporate governance scholar |
| Riley P. Bechtel |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Bechtel |
| Carl Becker |
Historian |
7-Sep-1873 |
10-Apr-1945 |
Everyman His Own Historian |
| Gary S. Becker |
Economist |
2-Dec-1930 |
3-May-2014 |
Human Capital |
| Alexander Graham Bell |
Inventor |
3-Mar-1847 |
2-Aug-1922 |
Inventor of the telephone |
| Daniel Bell |
Sociologist |
10-May-1919 |
25-Jan-2011 |
The End of Ideology |
| Samuel Flagg Bemis |
Historian |
20-Oct-1891 |
26-Sep-1973 |
Scholar of diplomacy |
| Baruj Benacerraf |
Scientist |
29-Oct-1920 |
2-Aug-2011 |
Gene control of HLA antigens |
| Frank A. Bennack, Jr. |
Business |
12-Feb-1933 |
|
CEO of Hearst, 1979-2002 |
| Robert M. Berdahl |
Educator |
15-Mar-1937 |
|
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1997-2004 |
| Paul Berg |
Chemist |
30-Jun-1926 |
|
Pioneer in recombinant DNA |
| Sune K. Bergström |
Scientist |
10-Jan-1916 |
15-Aug-2004 |
Prostaglandins |
| Isaiah Berlin |
Philosopher |
6-Jun-1909 |
5-Nov-1997 |
The Hedgehog and the Fox |
| Ben Bernanke |
Economist |
13-Dec-1953 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman, 2006-14 |
| Tim Berners-Lee |
Computer Programmer |
8-Jun-1955 |
|
Inventor of the World Wide Web |
| Lipman Bers |
Mathematician |
22-May-1914 |
29-Oct-1993 |
Riemann surfaces |
| Catherine Bertini |
Administrator |
31-Mar-1950 |
|
World Food Programme, 1992-2002 |
| Bruno Bettelheim |
Psychologist |
28-Aug-1903 |
13-Mar-1990 |
Fraudulent child psychologist |
| Jacob Bigelow |
Botanist |
27-Feb-1787 |
10-Jan-1879 |
American Medical Botany |
| John H. Biggs |
Business |
19-Jul-1936 |
|
CEO of TIAA-CREF, 1993-2002 |
| James Billington |
Historian |
1-Jun-1929 |
|
13th Librarian of Congress |
| Robert J. Birgeneau |
Educator |
1942 |
|
Chancellor, UC Berkeley |
| John P. Birkelund |
Business |
23-Jun-1930 |
|
Chairman of Dillon Read, 1986-98 |
| George David Birkhoff |
Mathematician |
21-Mar-1884 |
12-Nov-1944 |
Modern theory of dynamical systems |
| J. Michael Bishop |
Scientist |
22-Feb-1936 |
|
Genetic causes of cancer |
| David Blackbourn |
Historian |
1-Nov-1949 |
|
Populists and Patricians |
| Elizabeth H. Blackburn |
Scientist |
26-Nov-1948 |
|
Co-Discoverer of telomerase |
| David H. Blackwell |
Mathematician |
24-Apr-1919 |
8-Jul-2010 |
Bayesian statistics |
| Rebecca M. Blank |
Economist |
19-Sep-1955 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1998-99 |
| Alan S. Blinder |
Economist |
14-Oct-1945 |
|
Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve |
| Felix Bloch |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1905 |
10-Sep-1983 |
Nuclear magnetic resonance |
| Konrad Bloch |
Scientist |
21-Jan-1912 |
15-Oct-2000 |
Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism |
| Gene D. Block |
Educator |
c. 1948 |
|
Chancellor, UCLA |
| Nicolaas Bloembergen |
Physicist |
11-Mar-1920 |
|
Nonlinear optics |
| Harold Bloom |
Critic |
11-Jul-1930 |
|
Literary critic, Yale professor |
| Michael Bloomberg |
Politician |
14-Feb-1942 |
|
Mayor of New York City, 2002-13 |
| Philip Bobbitt |
Author |
22-Jul-1948 |
|
The Shield of Achilles |
| Samuel Bodman |
Government |
26-Nov-1938 |
|
US Secretary of Energy |
| Jack Bogle |
Business |
8-May-1929 |
|
Founder, The Vanguard Group |
| Aage N. Bohr |
Physicist |
19-Jun-1922 |
8-Sep-2009 |
Determined shapes of nuclei |
| Niels Bohr |
Physicist |
7-Oct-1885 |
18-Nov-1962 |
Father of Quantum Theory |
| Lee C. Bollinger |
Educator |
c. 1946 |
|
President of Columbia University |
| Wayne C. Booth |
Critic |
22-Feb-1921 |
10-Oct-2005 |
The Rhetoric of Fiction |
| Edwin G. Boring |
Psychologist |
23-Oct-1886 |
1-Jul-1968 |
A History of Experimental Psychology |
| Stephen W. Bosworth |
Diplomat |
4-Dec-1939 |
4-Jan-2016 |
US Ambassador to South Korea, 1997-2000 |
| Kenneth E. Boulding |
Economist |
18-Jan-1910 |
18-Mar-1993 |
The Image: Knowledge of Life in Society |
| Louise Bourgeois |
Sculptor |
25-Dec-1911 |
31-May-2010 |
Crouching Spider |
| Nathaniel Bowditch |
Astronomer |
26-Mar-1773 |
17-Mar-1838 |
American Practical Navigator |
| H. Kent Bowen |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
Baker Foundation Professor at HBS |
| Ira S. Bowen |
Astronomer |
21-Dec-1898 |
6-Feb-1973 |
Debunked nebulium |
| William G. Bowen |
Educator |
6-Oct-1933 |
|
President, Princeton University, 1972-88 |
| George E. P. Box |
Mathematician |
18-Oct-1919 |
28-Mar-2013 |
Statistician at University of Wisconsin |
| Herbert W. Boyer |
Biologist |
10-Jul-1936 |
|
Recombinant DNA, first synthetic insulin |
| Paul D. Boyer |
Chemist |
31-Jul-1918 |
|
ATP process |
| Paul S. Boyer |
Historian |
2-Aug-1935 |
17-Mar-2012 |
When Time Shall Be No More |
| John Brademas |
Politician |
2-Mar-1927 |
|
Congressman from Indiana, 1959-81 |
| Walter H. Brattain |
Physicist |
10-Feb-1902 |
13-Oct-1987 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
| Gregory Breit |
Physicist |
14-Jul-1899 |
11-Sep-1981 |
Proton-proton dispersion |
| Stephen Breyer |
Judge |
15-Aug-1938 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
| Percy Williams Bridgman |
Physicist |
21-Apr-1882 |
20-Aug-1961 |
High-pressure physics |
| Sergey Brin |
Business |
21-Aug-1973 |
|
Co-Founder of Google |
| Bertram N. Brockhouse |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1918 |
13-Oct-2003 |
Triple-axis crystal spectrometry |
| Richard H. Brodhead |
Educator |
17-Apr-1947 |
|
President, Duke University |
| William R. Brody |
Educator |
4-Jan-1944 |
|
President, Salk Institute |
| Tom Brokaw |
Journalist |
6-Feb-1940 |
|
Former anchor, NBC Nightly News |
| David Brooks |
Columnist |
11-Aug-1961 |
|
Conservative pundit |
| Fred Brooks |
Computer Programmer |
19-Apr-1931 |
|
Father of the IBM System 360 |
| Dirk Brouwer |
Astronomer |
1-Sep-1902 |
31-Jan-1966 |
Celestial mechanics |
| Herbert C. Brown |
Chemist |
22-May-1912 |
19-Dec-2004 |
Discovered organoboranes |
| Michael S. Brown |
Biologist |
13-Apr-1941 |
|
Metabolism of cholesterol |
| Peter Brown |
Historian |
26-Jul-1935 |
|
The Rise of Western Christendom |
| Robert A. Brown |
Educator |
22-Jul-1951 |
|
President, Boston University |
| John Browne |
Business |
20-Feb-1948 |
|
CEO of British Petroleum, 1995-2007 |
| Charles F. Brush |
Inventor |
17-Mar-1849 |
15-Jun-1929 |
Street lights |
| Robert Brustein |
Educator |
21-Apr-1927 |
|
Founder, American Reportory Theatre |
| Louise H. Bryson |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Chairman of Getty Trust |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski |
Government |
28-Mar-1928 |
|
National Security Advisor, 1977-81 |
| James M. Buchanan |
Economist |
2-Oct-1919 |
9-Jan-2013 |
Public Choice Theory |
| Linda B. Buck |
Biologist |
29-Jan-1947 |
|
Odorant receptors and olfactory organization |
| Warren Buffett |
Business |
30-Aug-1930 |
|
Billionaire in Omaha |
| Mac Bundy |
Government |
30-Mar-1919 |
16-Sep-1996 |
National Security Advisor, 1961-66 |
| Ellsworth Bunker |
Diplomat |
11-May-1894 |
30-Sep-1984 |
US Ambassador to South Vietnam, 1967-73 |
| Walter Dean Burnham |
Scholar |
15-Jun-1930 |
|
Democracy in the Making |
| George H.W. Bush |
Head of State |
12-Jun-1924 |
|
41st US President, 1989-93 |
| Vannevar Bush |
Scientist |
11-Mar-1890 |
30-Jun-1974 |
Pre-internet visionary |
| Caroline Bynum |
Historian |
1941 |
|
Medieval historian |
| James Branch Cabell |
Novelist |
14-Apr-1879 |
5-May-1958 |
Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice |
| José A. Cabranes |
Judge |
22-Dec-1940 |
|
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals |
| John Cage |
Composer |
5-Sep-1912 |
12-Aug-1992 |
Experimental composer |
| Melvin Calvin |
Chemist |
8-Apr-1911 |
8-Jan-1997 |
Deciphered photosynthesis |
| William W. Campbell |
Astronomer |
11-Apr-1862 |
14-Jun-1938 |
Stellar Motions |
| Albert Camus |
Novelist |
7-Nov-1913 |
4-Jan-1960 |
French author and Nobel laureate |
| Claude R. Canizares |
Physicist |
1945 |
|
Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics |
| Nancy Cantor |
Educator |
c. 1952 |
|
Chancellor, Syracuse University |
| Leonard Carmichael |
Educator |
9-Nov-1898 |
16-Sep-1973 |
Smithsonian Chief, 1953-64 |
| Rachel Carson |
Scientist |
27-May-1907 |
14-Apr-1964 |
Mother of the environmental movement |
| Henri Cartan |
Mathematician |
8-Jul-1904 |
13-Aug-2008 |
Leader of the math Bourbakistes |
| Ashton Carter |
Government |
24-Sep-1954 |
|
US Secretary of Defense |
| Gerhard Casper |
Educator |
25-Dec-1937 |
|
President of Stanford University, 1992-2000 |
| James McKeen Cattell |
Psychologist |
24-May-1860 |
20-Jan-1944 |
Academic freedom |
| Thomas R. Cech |
Chemist |
8-Dec-1947 |
|
Proved enzyme role of RNA |
| Vint Cerf |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1943 |
|
Co-Designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
| Owen Chamberlain |
Physicist |
10-Jul-1920 |
28-Feb-2006 |
Co-Discoverer of the antiproton |
| Robert F. Chandler |
Educator |
22-Jun-1907 |
23-Mar-1999 |
International Rice Research Institute |
| Erwin Chargaff |
Biologist |
11-Aug-1905 |
20-Jun-2002 |
Biochemist at Columbia University |
| Jule Charney |
Scientist |
1-Jan-1917 |
16-Jun-1981 |
Quasi-gesotrophic theory |
| Kenneth Chenault |
Business |
2-Jun-1951 |
|
CEO of American Express |
| Noam Chomsky |
Linguist |
7-Dec-1928 |
|
Linguist, dissident intellectual |
| Carol T. Christ |
Educator |
21-May-1944 |
|
President, Smith College |
| Warren Christopher |
Government |
27-Oct-1925 |
18-Mar-2011 |
US Secretary of State, 1993-97 |
| Steven Chu |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1948 |
|
US Secretary of Energy, 2009-13 |
| Alonzo Church |
Mathematician |
14-Jun-1903 |
11-Aug-1995 |
Lambda calculus, Church-Turing thesis |
| John Ciardi |
Poet |
24-Jun-1916 |
30-Mar-1986 |
How Does a Poem Mean? |
| Alvan Clark |
Astronomer |
8-Mar-1804 |
19-Aug-1887 |
Telescope maker |
| Joseph Sill Clark |
Politician |
21-Oct-1901 |
21-Jan-1990 |
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1956-69 |
| Bill Clinton |
Head of State |
19-Aug-1946 |
|
42nd US President, 1993-2001 |
| William K. Coblentz |
Attorney |
28-Jul-1922 |
13-Sep-2010 |
Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass |
| Stanley Cohen |
Scientist |
17-Nov-1922 |
|
Nerve and skin cell growth factors |
| Stanley N. Cohen |
Biologist |
17-Feb-1935 |
|
Recombinant DNA |
| Claude Cohen-Tannoudji |
Physicist |
1-Apr-1933 |
|
Trapped atoms with laser light |
| Johnnetta B. Cole |
Educator |
19-Oct-1936 |
|
President of Spelman College, 1987-97 |
| James S. Coleman |
Sociologist |
12-May-1926 |
25-Mar-1995 |
Foundations of Social Theory |
| Lewis W. Coleman |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
President, Dreamworks Animation SKG |
| Mary Sue Coleman |
Educator |
2-Oct-1943 |
|
President, University of Michigan |
| Samuel C. Collins |
Chemist |
28-Dec-1898 |
19-Jun-1984 |
Collins-type cryocooler |
| James B. Conant |
Educator |
26-Mar-1893 |
11-Feb-1978 |
President of Harvard, 1933-53 |
| Edward Condon |
Physicist |
2-Mar-1902 |
26-Mar-1974 |
Quantum Mechanics |
| George Conrades |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Akamai, 1999-2005 |
| William D. Coolidge |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1873 |
4-Feb-1975 |
Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes |
| Leon N. Cooper |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1930 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
| Francis Ford Coppola |
Film Director |
7-Apr-1939 |
|
The Godfather |
| Elias James Corey |
Chemist |
12-Jul-1928 |
|
Retrosynthetic analysis |
| George Henry Corliss |
Inventor |
2-Jun-1817 |
21-Feb-1888 |
Corliss valve and steam engines |
| Allan M. Cormack |
Physicist |
23-Feb-1924 |
7-May-1998 |
Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans) |
| F. Albert Cotton |
Chemist |
9-Apr-1930 |
20-Feb-2007 |
Metal-metal bonds |
| George A. Cowan |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1920 |
20-Apr-2012 |
Founder, Santa Fe Institute |
| Scott S. Cowen |
Educator |
c. 1946 |
|
President, Tulane University |
| Donald J. Cram |
Chemist |
22-Apr-1919 |
17-Jun-2001 |
Synthesis of molecules |
| James W. Cronin |
Physicist |
29-Sep-1931 |
|
Time not necessarily reversible |
| Walter Cronkite |
Journalist |
4-Nov-1916 |
17-Jul-2009 |
America's most trusted newscaster |
| Alfred W. Crosby |
Historian |
15-Jan-1931 |
|
The Columbian Exchange |
| Paul J. Crutzen |
Physicist |
3-Dec-1933 |
|
Ozone depletion |
| Robert F. Curl, Jr. |
Chemist |
23-Aug-1933 |
|
Co-Discovered fullerines |
| Harvey Cushing |
Doctor |
8-Apr-1869 |
7-Oct-1939 |
Cushing's Syndrome |
| Robert Cutler |
Government |
12-Jun-1895 |
8-May-1974 |
1950s National Security Advisor |
| Guy Davenport |
Author |
23-Nov-1927 |
4-Jan-2005 |
Thasos and Ohio |
| Drew S. Days III |
Government |
1941 |
|
US Solicitor General, 1993-96 |
| Mark Dean |
Engineer |
2-Mar-1957 |
|
Computer architecture |
| Gerard Debreu |
Economist |
4-Jul-1921 |
31-Dec-2004 |
Supply and demand theorist |
| John J. DeGioia |
Educator |
1957 |
|
President, Georgetown University |
| Margaret Deland |
Author |
23-Feb-1857 |
13-Jan-1945 |
Old Chester Tales |
| Max Delbrück |
Scientist |
4-Sep-1906 |
10-Mar-1981 |
Molecular structure of viral genes (phages) |
| Peter B. Dervan |
Chemist |
28-Jun-1945 |
|
DNA Researcher |
| Persi Diaconis |
Mathematician |
31-Jan-1945 |
|
Science of random numbers |
| Jared Diamond |
Scientist |
10-Sep-1937 |
|
Guns, Germs and Steel |
| Peter Diamond |
Economist |
29-Apr-1940 |
|
Diamond paradox in economics |
| Joan Didion |
Author |
5-Dec-1934 |
|
Slouching Toward Bethlehem |
| Edsger Dijkstra |
Computer Programmer |
11-May-1930 |
6-Aug-2002 |
Enemy of the goto statement |
| E. J. Dionne |
Journalist |
23-Apr-1952 |
|
The Washington Post |
| T. G. Dobzhansky |
Scientist |
25-Jan-1900 |
18-Dec-1975 |
Genetics and the Origin of Species |
| Ray Milton Dolby |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1933 |
12-Sep-2013 |
Inventor of Dolby stereo |
| Nicholas M. Donofrio |
Business |
7-Sep-1945 |
|
EVP at IBM |
| Rita Dove |
Poet |
28-Aug-1952 |
|
7th US Poet Laureate, 1993-95 |
| Kenneth Dover |
Scholar |
11-Mar-1920 |
7-Mar-2010 |
Greek Homosexuality |
| John W. Dower |
Historian |
21-Jun-1938 |
|
Embracing Defeat |
| Henry Draper |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1837 |
20-Nov-1882 |
Early astrophotographer |
| Sidney D. Drell |
Physicist |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
In the Shadow of the Bomb |
| Daniel C. Drucker |
Engineer |
1918 |
25-Aug-2001 |
Drucker's stability postulate |
| James J. Duderstadt |
Educator |
5-Dec-1942 |
|
President, University of Michigan, 1988-96 |
| Robin Chandler Duke |
Activist |
13-Oct-1923 |
|
Former president of NARAL |
| John T. Dunlop |
Government |
5-Jul-1914 |
2-Oct-2003 |
US Secretary of Labor, 1975-76 |
| Ronald Dworkin |
Philosopher |
11-Dec-1931 |
14-Feb-2013 |
Taking Rights Seriously |
| Robert C. Dynes |
Educator |
8-Nov-1942 |
|
President, University of California, 2003-08 |
| Frank H. Easterbrook |
Judge |
3-Sep-1948 |
|
7th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Gerald M. Edelman |
Scientist |
1-Jul-1929 |
17-May-2014 |
Chemical structure of antibodies |
| Paul R. Ehrlich |
Scientist |
29-May-1932 |
|
The Population Bomb |
| Manfred Eigen |
Physicist |
9-May-1927 |
|
Studied fast chemical reactions |
| Samuel Eilenberg |
Mathematician |
30-Sep-1913 |
30-Jan-1998 |
Category theory |
| Charles Elton |
Scientist |
29-Mar-1900 |
1-May-1991 |
Animal Ecology |
| John Hart Ely |
Scholar |
3-Dec-1938 |
25-Oct-2003 |
Democracy and Distrust |
| Doug Engelbart |
Computer Programmer |
30-Jan-1925 |
2-Jul-2013 |
Pioneer of human-computer interaction |
| Richard A. Epstein |
Scholar |
17-Apr-1943 |
|
Takings |
| Richard R. Ernst |
Chemist |
14-Aug-1933 |
|
NMR spectroscopy |
| Gerhard Ertl |
Chemist |
10-Oct-1936 |
|
Auto emissions and the ozone layer |
| Leo Esaki |
Physicist |
12-Mar-1925 |
|
Electron tunneling |
| Thomas E. Everhart |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1932 |
|
President of CalTech, 1987-97 |
| Robert Fagles |
Translator |
11-Sep-1933 |
26-Mar-2008 |
Translator of Greek literature |
| Daniel A. Farber |
Educator |
16-Jul-1950 |
|
Retained by the People |
| Suzanne Farrell |
Dancer |
16-Aug-1945 |
|
Ballerina, NYC Ballet |
| Larry R. Faulkner |
Educator |
1944 |
|
President of UT-Austin, 1998-2006 |
| Drew Gilpin Faust |
Educator |
18-Sep-1947 |
|
President of Harvard University |
| Martin Feldstein |
Economist |
25-Nov-1939 |
|
Reagan economist |
| Ed Felten |
Computer Programmer |
25-Mar-1963 |
|
Broke SDMI |
| Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. |
Government |
28-Oct-1951 |
|
CEO of TIAA-CREF |
| Frances D. Fergusson |
Educator |
3-Oct-1944 |
|
President of Vassar, 1986-2006 |
| Andrew Z. Fire |
Scientist |
27-Apr-1959 |
|
RNA interference |
| Edmond H. Fischer |
Scientist |
6-Apr-1920 |
|
Protein phosphorylation |
| Ernst Otto Fischer |
Chemist |
10-Nov-1918 |
23-Jul-2007 |
Organometallic "sandwich" compounds |
| Franklin M. Fisher |
Economist |
13-Dec-1934 |
|
Economist at MIT |
| Richard W. Fisher |
Business |
18-Mar-1949 |
|
President and CEO, Dallas Fed |
| Ronald Fisher |
Mathematician |
17-Feb-1890 |
29-Jul-1962 |
Analysis of variance and covariance |
| Val Fitch |
Physicist |
10-Mar-1923 |
5-Feb-2015 |
Time not necessarily reversible |
| Leon Fleisher |
Pianist |
23-Jul-1928 |
|
Piano virtuoso |
| Joel L. Fleishman |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
The Foundation: A Great American Secret |
| Marion B. Folsom |
Business |
23-Nov-1893 |
27-Sep-1976 |
HEW Secretary, 1955-58 |
| Marye Anne Fox |
Educator |
9-Dec-1947 |
|
Chancellor, UC San Diego |
| Joseph S. Francisco |
Chemist |
1955 |
|
Atmospheric chemist |
| James Franck |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1882 |
21-May-1964 |
Franck-Hertz experiment |
| John R. Freeman |
Engineer |
27-Jul-1855 |
6-Oct-1932 |
Charles River Dam |
| Richard Freeman |
Economist |
29-Jun-1943 |
|
Labor economist |
| Charles Fried |
Government |
15-Apr-1935 |
|
US Solicitor General, 1985-89 |
| Jerome I. Friedman |
Physicist |
28-Mar-1930 |
|
Verified existence of quarks |
| David B. Frohnmayer |
Politician |
9-Jul-1940 |
9-Mar-2015 |
President, University of Oregon, 1994-2009 |
| Kenichi Fukui |
Chemist |
4-Oct-1918 |
9-Jan-1998 |
Frontier orbitals |
| Ellen V. Futter |
Educator |
21-Sep-1949 |
|
President of Barnard College, 1980-93 |
| John Lewis Gaddis |
Historian |
2-Apr-1941 |
|
George F. Kennan: An American Life |
| John Kenneth Galbraith |
Economist |
15-Oct-1908 |
29-Apr-2006 |
Modern economics renegade |
| Robert Gallucci |
Diplomat |
11-Feb-1946 |
|
President, MacArthur Foundation |
| Hector Garcia-Molina |
Educator |
c. 1954 |
|
Stanford EECS Professor |
| Alice P. Gast |
Educator |
25-May-1958 |
|
President, Lehigh University |
| Bill Gates |
Business |
28-Oct-1955 |
|
Co-Founder of Microsoft |
| William H. Gates, Sr. |
Philanthropist |
30-Nov-1925 |
|
Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Claire L. Gaudiani |
Educator |
1944 |
|
President, Connecticut College, 1988-2001 |
| Ignace J. Gelb |
Scholar |
14-Oct-1907 |
22-Dec-1985 |
A Study of Writing |
| Leslie H. Gelb |
Government |
4-Mar-1937 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1993-2003 |
| Israel Gelfand |
Mathematician |
2-Sep-1913 |
5-Oct-2009 |
Banach algebras, Lie groups |
| Murray Gell-Mann |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1929 |
|
Quarks and strangeness |
| Pierre-Gilles de Gennes |
Physicist |
24-Oct-1932 |
18-May-2007 |
Molecular structure of polymers |
| Ivan Getting |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1912 |
11-Oct-2003 |
Global Positioning System |
| Riccardo Giacconi |
Astronomer |
6-Oct-1931 |
|
Discovered cosmic X-ray sources |
| Ivar Giaever |
Physicist |
5-Apr-1929 |
|
Tunneling through superconductors |
| William F. Giauque |
Chemist |
12-May-1895 |
28-Mar-1982 |
Adiabatic demagnetization |
| John H. Gibbon, Jr. |
Doctor |
29-Sep-1903 |
5-Feb-1973 |
Open-heart surgery |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
Judge |
15-Mar-1933 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
| Donald A. Glaser |
Physicist |
21-Sep-1926 |
28-Feb-2013 |
Inventor of the bubble chamber |
| Sheldon Glashow |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1932 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
| Nathan Glazer |
Pundit |
25-Feb-1923 |
|
Co-Editor, The Public Interest |
| Laurie H. Glimcher |
Educator |
c. 1950 |
|
Professor of Immunology at Harvard |
| Erving Goffman |
Sociologist |
11-Jun-1922 |
19-Nov-1982 |
The Presentation of Self |
| Thomas Gold |
Scientist |
22-May-1920 |
22-Jun-2004 |
Certain that oil is not a fossil fuel |
| Maurice Goldhaber |
Physicist |
18-Apr-1911 |
11-May-2011 |
Neutrons |
| Joseph L. Goldstein |
Scientist |
18-Apr-1940 |
|
Hypercholesterolemia and cell metabolism |
| Matthew Goldstein |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
Chancellor of CUNY |
| Nelson Goodman |
Philosopher |
7-Aug-1906 |
25-Nov-1998 |
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast |
| Bill Gordon |
Astronomer |
8-Jan-1918 |
16-Feb-2010 |
Designed Arecibo radio telescope |
| Al Gore |
Politician |
31-Mar-1948 |
|
US Vice President under Clinton |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Biologist |
10-Sep-1941 |
20-May-2002 |
Evolutionary scientist |
| Donald E. Graham |
Journalist |
22-Apr-1945 |
|
CEO of Washington Post |
| Ronald Graham |
Mathematician |
31-Oct-1935 |
|
Mathematician, Computer Scientist |
| Clive W.J. Granger |
Economist |
4-Sep-1934 |
27-May-2009 |
Granger causality |
| Ragnar Granit |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1900 |
31-Mar-1990 |
Physiology of the retina |
| Robert Grant |
Novelist |
24-Jan-1852 |
19-May-1940 |
Unleavened Bread |
| Günter Grass |
Author |
16-Oct-1927 |
13-Apr-2015 |
German novelist, The Tin Drum |
| Earl G. Graves |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
Black Enterprise magazine |
| Stephen Greenblatt |
Critic |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
The Swerve |
| Vartan Gregorian |
Educator |
8-Apr-1934 |
|
President of Carnegie Corporation |
| Carol W. Greider |
Scientist |
15-Apr-1961 |
|
Co-Discoverer of telomerase |
| Zvi Griliches |
Economist |
12-Sep-1930 |
4-Nov-1999 |
Technology, Education, and Productivity |
| David J. Gross |
Physicist |
19-Feb-1941 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
| Sanford J. Grossman |
Business |
21-Jul-1953 |
|
CEO of Quantitative Financial Strategies |
| Robert H. Grubbs |
Chemist |
27-Feb-1942 |
|
Metathesis |
| Erich S. Gruen |
Historian |
7-May-1935 |
|
The Last Generation of the Roman Republic |
| Roger Guillemin |
Scientist |
11-Jan-1924 |
|
Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides) |
| Alan Guth |
Physicist |
27-Feb-1947 |
|
Inflationary theory of cosmology |
| Amy Gutmann |
Educator |
19-Nov-1949 |
|
President, University of Pennsylvania |
| Ian Hacking |
Philosopher |
18-Feb-1936 |
|
The Taming of Chance |
| Jacques-Salomon Hadamard |
Mathematician |
8-Dec-1865 |
17-Oct-1963 |
Prime number theorem |
| William Stewart Halsted |
Doctor |
23-Sep-1852 |
7-Sep-1922 |
Pioneer of sterile surgical technique |
| William R. Hambrecht |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
W.R. Hambrecht & Co. |
| Oscar Handlin |
Historian |
29-Sep-1915 |
20-Sep-2011 |
The Uprooted |
| Theodor W. Hänsch |
Physicist |
30-Oct-1941 |
|
Quantum optics |
| Robert Hare |
Chemist |
17-Jan-1781 |
15-May-1858 |
Hydrostatic blow-pipe and spiritoscope |
| Sidney Harman |
Business |
5-Aug-1918 |
12-Apr-2011 |
Founder of Harman International |
| Conrad K. Harper |
Attorney |
c. 1940 |
|
Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett |
| William V. Harris |
Historian |
13-Sep-1938 |
|
War and Imperialism in Republican Rome |
| George Russell Harrison |
Physicist |
14-Jul-1898 |
27-Jul-1979 |
Echelle spectrograph |
| John C. Harsanyi |
Economist |
29-May-1920 |
9-Aug-2000 |
Game theory |
| Haldan K. Hartline |
Scientist |
22-Dec-1903 |
17-Mar-1983 |
Physiology of the retina |
| Jerry A. Hausman |
Economist |
5-May-1946 |
|
Hausman Specification Test |
| Alexander Heard |
Educator |
14-Mar-1917 |
24-Jul-2009 |
Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, 1963-82 |
| Oliver Heaviside |
Engineer |
18-May-1850 |
3-Feb-1925 |
Kennelly-Heaviside layer |
| James J. Heckman |
Economist |
19-Apr-1944 |
|
Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior |
| Werner Heisenberg |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1901 |
1-Feb-1976 |
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle |
| Warren Hellman |
Business |
25-Jul-1934 |
|
Hellman & Friedman |
| John L. Hennessy |
Educator |
c. 1953 |
|
President of Stanford University |
| George Herbig |
Astronomer |
2-Jan-1920 |
12-Oct-2013 |
Herbig-Haro objects |
| Dudley R. Herschbach |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1932 |
|
Crossed molecular beam experiments |
| Alfred D. Hershey |
Scientist |
4-Dec-1908 |
22-May-1997 |
Molecular structure of viral genes |
| Gerhard Herzberg |
Physicist |
25-Dec-1904 |
3-Mar-1999 |
Molecular spectroscopy |
| Antony Hewish |
Astronomer |
11-May-1924 |
|
Co-Discoverer of pulsars |
| William Hewlett |
Business |
20-May-1913 |
12-Jan-2001 |
Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard |
| Jaroslav Heyrovsky |
Chemist |
20-Dec-1890 |
27-Mar-1967 |
Polarography |
| Raymond Hide |
Physicist |
17-May-1929 |
|
Earth's rotation |
| Raul Hilberg |
Historian |
2-Jun-1926 |
4-Aug-2007 |
The Destruction of the European Jews |
| Danny Hillis |
Business |
25-Sep-1956 |
|
Co-Founder, Thinking Machines |
| Gertrude Himmelfarb |
Historian |
8-Aug-1922 |
|
Victorian Minds |
| Peter B. Hirsch |
Scientist |
16-Jan-1925 |
|
Electron microscopy in metallurgy |
| David Ho |
Doctor |
3-Nov-1952 |
|
AIDS researcher |
| Eric Hobsbawm |
Historian |
9-Jun-1917 |
1-Oct-2012 |
The Age of Revolution |
| Susan Hockfield |
Educator |
24-Mar-1951 |
|
President of MIT |
| Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin |
Chemist |
12-May-1910 |
29-Jul-1994 |
Determined structure of Vitamin B12 |
| Jules A. Hoffmann |
Biologist |
2-Aug-1941 |
|
Innate immunity |
| Roald Hoffmann |
Chemist |
18-Jul-1937 |
|
Woodward-Hoffmann reaction |
| Richard C. Holbrooke |
Diplomat |
24-Apr-1941 |
13-Dec-2010 |
US Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan |
| Bert Hölldobler |
Zoologist |
25-Jun-1936 |
|
Social organizations in insects |
| Robert W. Holley |
Scientist |
28-Jan-1922 |
11-Feb-1993 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| Nick Holonyak |
Physicist |
3-Nov-1928 |
|
Light-emitting diodes |
| Donald F. Hornig |
Educator |
17-Mar-1920 |
21-Jan-2013 |
President of Brown University, 1970-76 |
| Amo Houghton |
Politician |
7-Aug-1926 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1987-2005 |
| Karen Elliott House |
Journalist |
7-Dec-1947 |
|
Publisher, Wall Street Journal, 2002-06 |
| Hendrik S. Houthakker |
Economist |
31-Dec-1924 |
15-Apr-2008 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71 |
| Freeman A. Hrabowski |
Educator |
13-Aug-1950 |
|
President, University of Maryland Baltimore |
| Evelyn Hu |
Physicist |
c. 1947 |
|
Nanoscale device fabrication |
| Alexander von Humboldt |
Geographer |
14-Sep-1769 |
6-May-1859 |
Cosmos |
| Tim Hunt |
Scientist |
19-Feb-1943 |
|
Regulators of cell cycle |
| Leonid Hurwicz |
Economist |
21-Aug-1917 |
24-Jun-2008 |
Mechanism design theory |
| Gwen Ifill |
Journalist |
29-Sep-1955 |
|
Washington Week, Lehrer News Hour |
| Louis J. Ignarro |
Scientist |
31-May-1941 |
|
Nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signal |
| Herbert E. Ives |
Physicist |
21-Jul-1882 |
13-Nov-1953 |
Facsimile machine |
| Molly Ivins |
Columnist |
30-Aug-1944 |
31-Jan-2007 |
Loudmouthed Texas dame |
| Shirley A. Jackson |
Physicist |
5-Aug-1946 |
|
NRC Chairman, 1995-99 |
| François Jacob |
Scientist |
17-Jun-1920 |
19-Apr-2013 |
Operon theory of genetic control |
| Irwin M. Jacobs |
Business |
18-Oct-1933 |
|
Co-Founder of Qualcomm |
| Kathleen Hall Jamieson |
Scholar |
24-Nov-1946 |
|
Annenberg Public Policy Center |
| John I. Jenkins |
Educator |
17-Dec-1953 |
|
President, University of Notre Dame |
| Richard Jenrette |
Business |
5-Apr-1929 |
|
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette |
| Robert Jervis |
Historian |
1940 |
|
The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy |
| Deborah S. Jin |
Physicist |
c. 1968 |
|
Created a fermionic condensate |
| Chalmers Johnson |
Author |
6-Aug-1931 |
20-Nov-2010 |
Blowback |
| James A. Johnson |
Business |
24-Dec-1943 |
|
CEO of Fannie Mae, 1991-98 |
| Anita K. Jones |
Educator |
c. 1942 |
|
Professor at University of Virginia |
| Dale W. Jorgenson |
Economist |
7-May-1933 |
|
Economist at Harvard |
| Brian D. Josephson |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1940 |
|
Discovered the Josephson Effect |
| Paul L. Joskow |
Economist |
c. 1946 |
|
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Tony Judt |
Historian |
2-Jan-1948 |
6-Aug-2010 |
Postwar |
| Percy Julian |
Chemist |
11-Apr-1899 |
19-Apr-1975 |
Physostigmine and cortisone |
| Leo P. Kadanoff |
Physicist |
14-Jan-1937 |
26-Oct-2015 |
Second-order phase transitions |
| Brewster Kahle |
Business |
22-Oct-1960 |
|
Founder of the Internet Archive |
| Daniel Kahneman |
Psychologist |
5-Mar-1934 |
|
The psychology of economics |
| David Kaiser |
Physicist |
14-Feb-1971 |
|
How the Hippies Saved Physics |
| Marvin Kalb |
Journalist |
9-Jun-1930 |
|
CBS and NBC news correspondent |
| Eric R. Kandel |
Scientist |
7-Nov-1929 |
|
Signal transduction in the nervous system |
| Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich |
Mathematician |
19-Jan-1912 |
7-Apr-1986 |
Linear programming |
| Pyotr Kapitsa |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1894 |
8-Apr-1984 |
Discovered superfluidity |
| Helene L. Kaplan |
Attorney |
19-Jun-1933 |
|
Of Counsel, Skadden Arps |
| Jerome Karle |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1918 |
6-Jun-2013 |
X-Ray diffraction studies |
| Martin Karplus |
Chemist |
15-Mar-1930 |
|
Karplus Equation |
| Bernard Katz |
Scientist |
26-Mar-1911 |
20-Apr-2003 |
Neurotransmitters and the pineal gland |
| Fred Kavli |
Philanthropist |
20-Aug-1927 |
21-Nov-2013 |
Kavli Foundation |
| Alan Kay |
Computer Programmer |
17-May-1940 |
|
Father of Object-Oriented Programming |
| Judith S. Kaye |
Judge |
4-Aug-1938 |
7-Jan-2016 |
Chief Judge, State of New York, 1993-2008 |
| Thomas H. Kean |
Politician |
21-Apr-1935 |
|
Governor of New Jersey, 1982-90 |
| James E. Keeler |
Astronomer |
10-Sep-1857 |
12-Aug-1900 |
Composition of Saturn's rings |
| Garrison Keillor |
Radio Personality |
7-Aug-1942 |
|
A Prairie Home Companion |
| Morton Keller |
Historian |
1-Mar-1929 |
|
Regulating a New Economy |
| William N. Kelley |
Doctor |
23-Jun-1939 |
|
Kelley-Seegmiller Syndrome |
| Henry W. Kendall |
Physicist |
9-Dec-1926 |
15-Feb-1999 |
Verified existence of quarks |
| Donald Kennedy |
Educator |
18-Aug-1931 |
|
Editor-in-Chief of Science |
| Paul Kennedy |
Historian |
17-Jun-1945 |
|
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers |
| Nan Keohane |
Scholar |
18-Sep-1940 |
|
Political scientist |
| Robert O. Keohane |
Scholar |
3-Oct-1941 |
|
After Hegemony |
| Donald R. Keough |
Business |
4-Sep-1926 |
24-Feb-2015 |
President and COO of Coca Cola, 1981-93 |
| Linda K. Kerber |
Historian |
23-Jan-1940 |
|
Federalists in Dissent |
| Wolfgang Ketterle |
Physicist |
21-Oct-1957 |
|
Bose-Einstein condensates |
| Charles P. Kindleberger |
Economist |
12-Oct-1910 |
7-Jul-2003 |
The World in Depression |
| Leon Kirchner |
Composer |
24-Jan-1919 |
17-Sep-2009 |
Quartet No. 3 |
| Henry Kissinger |
Government |
27-May-1923 |
|
US Secretary of State, 1973-77 |
| Jeremy R. Knowles |
Business |
1935 |
|
Chemistry Professor, Harvard University |
| Donald E. Knuth |
Computer Programmer |
10-Jan-1938 |
|
The Art of Computer Programming |
| Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. |
Business |
10-Jul-1925 |
30-Jul-2015 |
KKR, Kohlberg & Company |
| Walter Kohn |
Chemist |
9-Mar-1923 |
|
Density-functional theory |
| Willem Johan Kolff |
Scientist |
14-Feb-1911 |
11-Feb-2009 |
Artificial kidney, artificial heart |
| Jeff Koons |
Sculptor |
21-Jan-1955 |
|
Artistic hack, Cicciolina's ex-husband |
| Roger D. Kornberg |
Scientist |
24-Apr-1947 |
|
Molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription |
| Robert P. Kraft |
Astronomer |
16-Jun-1927 |
26-May-2015 |
Lick Observatory |
| Stephen Krasner |
Educator |
15-Feb-1942 |
|
State Dept Policy Planning Dir., 2005-07 |
| Alfred Kroeber |
Anthropologist |
11-Jun-1876 |
5-Oct-1960 |
Pioneer in American Anthropology |
| Madeleine M. Kunin |
Politician |
28-Sep-1933 |
|
Governor of Vermont, 1985-91 |
| Polykarp Kusch |
Physicist |
26-Jan-1911 |
20-Mar-1993 |
Magnetic moment of the electron |
| Walter LaFeber |
Historian |
30-Aug-1933 |
|
The New Empire |
| Edwin H. Land |
Inventor |
7-May-1909 |
1-Mar-1991 |
Polaroid Land Camera |
| Lev Landau |
Physicist |
22-Jan-1908 |
1-Apr-1968 |
Superfluidity of helium |
| Andrew E. Lange |
Astronomer |
23-Jul-1957 |
22-Jan-2010 |
Cosmologist, astrophysicist at Caltech |
| Irving Langmuir |
Chemist |
31-Jan-1881 |
16-Aug-1957 |
Inventor of the high-vacuum tube |
| Ralph S. Larsen |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Johnson & Johnson, 1989-2002 |
| Robert B. Laughlin |
Physicist |
1-Nov-1950 |
|
Fractional quantum Hall effect |
| Edward Lazear |
Economist |
1948 |
|
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors |
| Jim Leach |
Politician |
15-Oct-1942 |
|
Congressman from Iowa, 1977-2007 |
| Paul LeClerc |
Administrator |
28-May-1941 |
|
CEO of New York Public Library |
| Philip Leder |
Biologist |
19-Nov-1934 |
|
Harvard Geneticist |
| Joshua Lederberg |
Biologist |
23-May-1925 |
2-Feb-2008 |
Genetic properties of bacteria |
| David M. Lee |
Physicist |
20-Jan-1931 |
|
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
| Tsung-Dao Lee |
Physicist |
25-Nov-1926 |
|
Violations of parity law |
| Yuan T. Lee |
Chemist |
29-Nov-1936 |
|
Crossed molecular beam experiments |
| Anthony J. Leggett |
Physicist |
26-Mar-1938 |
|
Particle physicist, explored superfluidity |
| Jean-Marie Lehn |
Chemist |
30-Sep-1939 |
|
Synthesis of molecules |
| Jeffrey M. Leiden |
Doctor |
c. 1953 |
|
Clarus Ventures |
| Mike Leigh |
Film Director |
20-Feb-1943 |
|
Naked, Topsy-Turvy |
| Tom Leighton |
Mathematician |
c. 1956 |
|
Co-founder of Akamai |
| Luis Leloir |
Chemist |
6-Sep-1906 |
2-Dec-1987 |
Conversion of carbohydrates |
| Jill Lepore |
Historian |
27-Aug-1966 |
|
The Name of War |
| Abba Lerner |
Economist |
28-Oct-1903 |
27-Oct-1982 |
The Economics of Control |
| Richard A. Lerner |
Biologist |
28-Aug-1938 |
|
Scripps Research Institute |
| Lawrence Lessig |
Attorney |
3-Jun-1961 |
|
Constitutional and internet law |
| Edward H. Levi |
Government |
26-Jun-1911 |
7-Mar-2000 |
US Attorney General, 1975-77 |
| Claude Lévi-Strauss |
Anthropologist |
28-Nov-1908 |
1-Nov-2009 |
French anthropologist |
| Richard C. Levin |
Educator |
7-Apr-1947 |
|
President of Yale University |
| Judy C. Lewent |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CFO of Merck |
| Bernard Lewis |
Scholar |
31-May-1916 |
|
Middle East scholar |
| Edward B. Lewis |
Scientist |
20-May-1918 |
21-Jul-2004 |
Drosophila researcher, Nobel laureate |
| Susan L. Lindquist |
Biologist |
5-Jun-1949 |
|
Protein folding |
| Sol Linowitz |
Business |
17-Dec-1913 |
18-Mar-2005 |
Negotiated return of the Panama Canal |
| William Lipscomb |
Chemist |
9-Dec-1919 |
14-Apr-2011 |
Chemical bonding |
| Martin Lipton |
Attorney |
22-Jun-1931 |
|
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz |
| John Lithgow |
Actor |
19-Oct-1945 |
|
Third Rock From The Sun |
| Henry Cabot Lodge |
Politician |
12-May-1850 |
9-Nov-1924 |
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1893-1924 |
| Robert Lucas |
Economist |
15-Sep-1937 |
|
Theory of rational expectations |
| Salvador Luria |
Biologist |
13-Aug-1912 |
6-Feb-1991 |
Natural selection in bacteria |
| Richard W. Lyman |
Educator |
18-Oct-1923 |
27-May-2012 |
President of Stanford University, 1971-80 |
| Feodor Lynen |
Scientist |
6-Apr-1911 |
6-Aug-1979 |
Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism |
| Paul W. MacAvoy |
Economist |
21-Apr-1934 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1975-76 |
| Robert Morrison MacIver |
Sociologist |
17-Apr-1882 |
15-Jun-1970 |
The Web of Government |
| Benoit Mandelbrot |
Mathematician |
20-Nov-1924 |
14-Oct-2010 |
Fractal mathematician |
| Thomas E. Mann |
Government |
10-Sep-1944 |
|
Brookings Institution |
| Rudolph A. Marcus |
Chemist |
21-Jul-1923 |
|
Electron-transfer reactions |
| Geoffrey W. Marcy |
Astronomer |
29-Sep-1954 |
|
Discoverer of exoplanets |
| Lynn Margulis |
Biologist |
5-Mar-1935 |
22-Nov-2011 |
Origin of eukaryotic organelles |
| Joseph B. Martin |
Doctor |
1938 |
|
Dean, Harvard Medical School, 1997-2007 |
| Steve Martin |
Comic |
14-Aug-1945 |
|
The Jerk |
| Eric Maskin |
Economist |
12-Dec-1950 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| John C. Mather |
Physicist |
7-Aug-1946 |
|
Big Bang |
| Ernst Mayr |
Biologist |
5-Jul-1904 |
3-Feb-2005 |
Evolutionary biologist |
| James J. McCarthy |
Scientist |
? |
|
President of AAAS |
| John McCarthy |
Computer Programmer |
4-Sep-1927 |
24-Oct-2011 |
Created LISP programming language |
| Barbara McClintock |
Scientist |
16-Jun-1902 |
2-Sep-1992 |
Discovered transposable genes |
| Michael W. McConnell |
Attorney |
18-May-1955 |
|
Stanford Constitutional Law Center |
| John F. McDonnell |
Business |
18-Mar-1938 |
|
CEO of McDonnell-Douglas, 1988-94 |
| John McDowell |
Philosopher |
7-Mar-1942 |
|
Mind and World |
| William D. McElroy |
Biologist |
22-Jan-1917 |
17-Feb-1999 |
Bioluminescence |
| Daniel L. McFadden |
Economist |
29-Jul-1937 |
|
Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior |
| Donald F. McHenry |
Diplomat |
13-Oct-1936 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN, 1979-81 |
| Victor A. McKusick |
Scientist |
21-Oct-1921 |
22-Jul-2008 |
Father of medical genetics |
| Edwin M. McMillan |
Physicist |
18-Sep-1907 |
7-Sep-1991 |
Discovered neptunium and plutonium |
| Barbara J. McNeil |
Educator |
c. 1940 |
|
Harvard Professor of Health Care Policy |
| James M. McPherson |
Historian |
11-Oct-1936 |
|
Battle Cry of Freedom |
| Peter Medawar |
Biologist |
28-Feb-1915 |
2-Oct-1987 |
Acquired immunological tolerance |
| Robert C. Merton |
Economist |
31-Jul-1944 |
|
Risk management and options |
| Robert K. Merton |
Sociologist |
4-Jul-1910 |
23-Feb-2003 |
On the Shoulders of Giants |
| Richard A. Meserve |
Attorney |
20-Nov-1944 |
|
President of the Carnegie Institution |
| Bob Metcalfe |
Business |
1946 |
|
Co-Inventor of Ethernet |
| J. Irwin Miller |
Business |
26-May-1909 |
16-Aug-2004 |
Former CEO of Cummins Engine |
| Merton H. Miller |
Economist |
16-May-1923 |
3-Jun-2000 |
Modigliani-Miller theorem |
| Ira M. Millstein |
Attorney |
8-Nov-1926 |
|
Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
| Raymond D. Mindlin |
Engineer |
17-Sep-1906 |
22-Nov-1987 |
Mindlin's problem |
| Martha L. Minow |
Attorney |
6-Dec-1954 |
|
Dean of Harvard Law School |
| Newton N. Minow |
Government |
17-Jan-1926 |
|
FCC Chairman, 1961-63 |
| Marvin Minsky |
Scientist |
9-Aug-1927 |
|
Father of Artificial Intelligence |
| Maria Mitchell |
Astronomer |
1-Aug-1818 |
28-Jun-1889 |
First American female astronomer |
| Franco Modigliani |
Economist |
18-Jun-1918 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Life-cycle theory |
| James Moeser |
Educator |
1939 |
|
Chancellor, UNC Chapel Hill |
| Stanford Moore |
Chemist |
4-Sep-1913 |
23-Aug-1982 |
Amino-acid analyzer |
| William W. Morgan |
Astronomer |
3-Jan-1906 |
21-Jun-1994 |
Spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy |
| Dale Mortensen |
Economist |
2-Feb-1939 |
9-Jan-2014 |
Job creation and destruction |
| C. D. Mote, Jr. |
Educator |
c. 1937 |
|
President, University of Maryland |
| Robert S. Mulliken |
Chemist |
7-Jun-1896 |
31-Oct-1986 |
Molecular orbital theory |
| Robert A. Mundell |
Economist |
24-Oct-1932 |
|
Floating exchange rates |
| Barry A. Munitz |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
President of Getty Trust, 1998-2006 |
| Alicia H. Munnell |
Economist |
12-Jun-1942 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1996-97 |
| Roger B. Myerson |
Economist |
29-Mar-1951 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| Gunnar Myrdal |
Economist |
6-Dec-1898 |
17-May-1987 |
Monetary Equilibrium |
| Thomas Nagel |
Philosopher |
4-Jul-1937 |
|
What is it like to be a bat? |
| Daniel Nathans |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1928 |
16-Nov-1999 |
Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage) |
| Louis Néel |
Physicist |
22-Nov-1904 |
17-Nov-2000 |
Magnetic properties of solids |
| Jawaharlal Nehru |
Head of State |
14-Nov-1889 |
27-May-1964 |
First Prime Minister of India |
| Gerry Neugebauer |
Astronomer |
3-Sep-1932 |
|
Infrared astronomy |
| Joseph P. Newhouse |
Economist |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Rand economist, Harvard professor |
| Peter M. Nicholas |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Co-Founder of Boston Scientific |
| Ernest Fox Nichols |
Physicist |
1-Jun-1869 |
29-Apr-1924 |
Infrared radiation |
| Marshall W. Nirenberg |
Scientist |
10-Apr-1927 |
15-Jan-2010 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| John T. Noonan, Jr. |
Judge |
24-Oct-1926 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1985-96 |
| Douglass C. North |
Economist |
5-Nov-1920 |
23-Nov-2015 |
Cliometrics |
| Edwin G. Nourse |
Economist |
20-May-1883 |
7-Apr-1974 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-49 |
| Robert Noyce |
Inventor |
12-Dec-1927 |
3-Jun-1990 |
Co-Inventor, integrated circuit |
| Ryoji Noyori |
Chemist |
3-Sep-1938 |
|
Chiral catalysts |
| Martha Nussbaum |
Philosopher |
6-May-1947 |
|
The Fragility of Goodness |
| Joseph S. Nye |
Government |
19-Jan-1937 |
|
Chairman, National Intelligence Council, 1993-94 |
| Sandra Day O'Connor |
Judge |
26-Mar-1930 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice, 1981-2006 |
| Onora O'Neill |
Philosopher |
23-Aug-1941 |
|
President of the British Academy, 2005-09 |
| George A. Olah |
Chemist |
22-May-1927 |
|
Isolated carbonium ions |
| Gilbert S. Omenn |
Business |
30-Aug-1941 |
|
Professor, University of Michigan |
| Lars Onsager |
Chemist |
27-Nov-1903 |
5-Oct-1976 |
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics |
| Øystein Ore |
Mathematician |
7-Oct-1899 |
13-Aug-1968 |
Ring theorist |
| Norman Ornstein |
Author |
14-Oct-1948 |
|
American Enterprise Institute |
| Douglas D. Osheroff |
Physicist |
1-Aug-1945 |
|
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
| Donald E. Osterbrock |
Astronomer |
13-Jul-1924 |
11-Jan-2007 |
Director of Lick Observatory, 1973-81 |
| Elinor Ostrom |
Sociologist |
7-Aug-1933 |
12-Jun-2012 |
Common-pool resources |
| Cynthia Ozick |
Author |
17-Apr-1928 |
|
The Puttermesser Papers |
| Ray Ozzie |
Computer Programmer |
20-Nov-1955 |
|
Microsoft Chief Software Architect, 2006-10 |
| Larry Page |
Business |
26-Mar-1973 |
|
Co-Founder of Google |
| George E. Palade |
Scientist |
19-Nov-1912 |
7-Oct-2008 |
Microstructure of the cell |
| Sam Palmisano |
Business |
29-Jul-1951 |
|
CEO of IBM |
| Erwin Panofsky |
Historian |
30-Mar-1892 |
14-Mar-1968 |
Studies in Iconology |
| Pief Panofsky |
Physicist |
24-Apr-1919 |
24-Sep-2007 |
Stanford Linear Accelerator |
| Carole Pateman |
Scholar |
11-Dec-1940 |
|
The Disorder of Women |
| Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin |
Astronomer |
10-May-1900 |
7-Dec-1979 |
Hydrogen in the Sun |
| Raymond Pearl |
Biologist |
3-Jun-1879 |
17-Nov-1940 |
Biogerontology |
| Norman Pearlstine |
Journalist |
4-Oct-1942 |
|
Former Time Inc. Editor in Chief |
| Rudolf Peierls |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1907 |
19-Sep-1995 |
Frisch-Peierls Memorandum |
| Jaroslav Pelikan |
Historian |
17-Dec-1923 |
13-May-2006 |
The Christian Tradition |
| Jack Peltason |
Educator |
29-Aug-1923 |
21-Mar-2015 |
President, University of California, 1992-95 |
| Arno Penzias |
Astronomer |
26-Apr-1933 |
|
Detected primordial radiation |
| Louis A. Pérez, Jr. |
Historian |
5-Jun-1943 |
|
Cuba Between Empires, 1878-1902 |
| Martin L. Perl |
Physicist |
24-Jun-1927 |
30-Sep-2014 |
Discovered the tau lepton |
| Saul Perlmutter |
Astronomer |
1959 |
|
Accelerating expansion of the universe |
| William J. Perry |
Government |
11-Oct-1927 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1994-97 |
| Max F. Perutz |
Chemist |
19-May-1914 |
6-Feb-2002 |
X-Ray analysis of hemoglobin |
| Henry Petroski |
Educator |
6-Feb-1942 |
|
Engineering professor |
| Edmund S. Phelps |
Economist |
26-Jul-1933 |
|
Golden Rules of Economic Growth |
| William D. Phillips |
Physicist |
5-Nov-1948 |
|
Trapped atoms with laser light |
| Gregory Pincus |
Scientist |
9-Apr-1903 |
22-Aug-1967 |
Inventor of oral contraceptives |
| Kenneth S. Pitzer |
Chemist |
6-Jan-1914 |
26-Dec-1997 |
President of Rice University, 1961-68 |
| J. H. Plumb |
Historian |
20-Aug-1911 |
21-Oct-2001 |
England in the Eighteenth Century |
| J. G. A. Pocock |
Historian |
7-Mar-1924 |
|
The Machiavellian Moment |
| Sidney Poitier |
Actor |
20-Feb-1927 |
|
In The Heat Of The Night |
| John C. Polanyi |
Chemist |
23-Jan-1929 |
|
Infrared chemiluminescence |
| Richard H. Popkin |
Philosopher |
27-Dec-1923 |
14-Apr-2005 |
The History of Scepticism |
| John A. Pople |
Chemist |
31-Oct-1925 |
15-Mar-2004 |
Quantum mechanics of molecules |
| George Porter |
Chemist |
6-Dec-1920 |
31-Aug-2002 |
Rapid chemical and biological processes |
| Richard Posner |
Judge |
11-Jan-1939 |
|
7th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| David M. Potter |
Historian |
6-Dec-1910 |
18-Feb-1971 |
The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 |
| Vladimir Prelog |
Chemist |
23-Jul-1906 |
7-Jan-1998 |
Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts |
| Edward C. Prescott |
Economist |
26-Dec-1940 |
|
Dynamic macroeconomics |
| Ilya Prigogine |
Chemist |
25-Jan-1917 |
28-May-2003 |
Theory of dissipative structures |
| Aleksandr M. Prokhorov |
Physicist |
11-Jul-1916 |
8-Jan-2002 |
Invention of the maser and laser |
| Stanley B. Prusiner |
Scientist |
28-May-1942 |
|
Prions |
| E. M. Purcell |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1912 |
7-Mar-1997 |
Nuclear magnetic resonance |
| Isidor Isaac Rabi |
Physicist |
29-Jul-1898 |
11-Jan-1988 |
Magnetic beam resonances |
| Franklin Raines |
Government |
14-Jan-1949 |
|
CEO of Fannie Mae, 1999-2004 |
| Norman F. Ramsey |
Physicist |
27-Aug-1915 |
4-Nov-2011 |
Energy levels of atoms |
| Don Michael Randel |
Educator |
9-Dec-1940 |
|
President, University of Chicago, 2000-06 |
| Diane Ravitch |
Government |
1-Jul-1938 |
|
Education reformer |
| Raj Reddy |
Educator |
13-Jun-1937 |
|
Professor of Computer Science, CMU |
| John S. Reed |
Business |
1939 |
|
CEO of Citibank, 1984-2000 |
| Martin Rees |
Astronomer |
23-Jun-1942 |
|
President of the Royal Society |
| William Rehnquist |
Judge |
1-Oct-1924 |
3-Sep-2005 |
US Chief Justice, 1986-2005 |
| L. Rafael Reif |
Educator |
21-Aug-1950 |
|
President of MIT |
| Frederick Reines |
Physicist |
16-Mar-1918 |
26-Aug-1998 |
Co-Discover of the neutrino |
| Jehuda Reinharz |
Educator |
1944 |
|
President, Brandeis University |
| Eric Reissner |
Mathematician |
5-Jan-1913 |
1-Nov-1996 |
Reissner shear-deformation plate theory |
| Nicholas V. Riasanovsky |
Historian |
21-Dec-1923 |
14-May-2011 |
A History of Russia |
| Condoleezza Rice |
Government |
14-Nov-1954 |
|
US Secretary of State, 2005-09 |
| Adrienne Rich |
Poet |
16-May-1929 |
27-Mar-2012 |
An Atlas of the Difficult World |
| Theodore W. Richards |
Chemist |
31-Jan-1868 |
2-Apr-1928 |
Atomic weights |
| William C. Richardson |
Educator |
c. 1940 |
|
President of Johns Hopkins, 1990-95 |
| Burton Richter |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1931 |
|
Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson |
| Charles Richter |
Scientist |
26-Apr-1900 |
30-Sep-1985 |
Groundbreaking seismologist |
| Adam G. Riess |
Astronomer |
1969 |
|
Accelerating expansion of the universe |
| David Rittenhouse |
Astronomer |
8-Apr-1732 |
26-Jun-1796 |
Early Pennsylvania scientist and statesman |
| Ron Rivest |
Computer Programmer |
1947 |
|
The R in RSA |
| Frederick C. Robbins |
Scientist |
25-Aug-1916 |
4-Aug-2003 |
Cultured the polio virus |
| John G. Roberts, Jr. |
Judge |
27-Jan-1955 |
|
US Chief Justice |
| Marilynne Robinson |
Novelist |
26-Nov-1943 |
|
Housekeeping |
| Sharon Percy Rockefeller |
Business |
10-Dec-1944 |
|
CEO of WETA Public Broadcasting |
| William Barton Rogers |
Educator |
7-Dec-1804 |
30-May-1882 |
Founder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Economist |
22-Mar-1953 |
|
Harvard economist |
| Felix Rohatyn |
Business |
29-May-1928 |
|
Financier, Lazard Frères |
| Sonny Rollins |
Jazz Musician |
7-Sep-1930 |
|
Tenor sax master |
| Richard Rorty |
Philosopher |
4-Oct-1931 |
8-Jun-2007 |
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature |
| Albert J. Rosenthal |
Educator |
5-Mar-1919 |
17-Mar-2010 |
Dean of Columbia Law School, 1979-84 |
| E. John Rosenwald, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1930 |
|
Former Vice Chairman of Bear Stearns |
| Bruno Rossi |
Astronomer |
13-Apr-1905 |
21-Nov-1993 |
Rossi curve and magnetopause |
| Walt Rostow |
Government |
7-Oct-1916 |
13-Feb-2003 |
National Security Advisor, 1966-69 |
| Mstislav Rostropovich |
Cellist |
27-Mar-1927 |
27-Apr-2007 |
Cellist and conductor |
| Joseph Rotblat |
Physicist |
4-Nov-1908 |
31-Aug-2005 |
Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist |
| John W. Rowe |
Business |
20-Jun-1944 |
|
CEO of Aetna, 2000-06 |
| F. Sherwood Rowland |
Chemist |
28-Jun-1927 |
10-Mar-2012 |
Ozone depletion |
| Carlo Rubbia |
Physicist |
31-Mar-1934 |
|
Co-Discovered W and Z particles |
| Neil Rudenstine |
Educator |
21-Jan-1935 |
|
President of Harvard, 1991-2001 |
| Edward Ruscha |
Painter |
16-Dec-1937 |
|
Twenty-six Gasoline Stations |
| Henry Norris Russell |
Astronomer |
25-Oct-1877 |
18-Feb-1957 |
Giant stars and dwarfs |
| Martin Ryle |
Astronomer |
27-Sep-1918 |
14-Oct-1984 |
Radio astronomer |
| Albert Sabin |
Biologist |
26-Aug-1906 |
3-Mar-1993 |
Developed oral polio vaccine |
| Oliver Sacks |
Doctor |
9-Jul-1933 |
30-Aug-2015 |
Awakenings |
| Esa-Pekka Salonen |
Conductor |
30-Jun-1958 |
|
Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic |
| Steven B. Sample |
Educator |
29-Nov-1940 |
|
President, University of Southern California |
| Henry Samueli |
Business |
20-Sep-1954 |
|
Co-Founder of Broadcom |
| Paul Samuelson |
Economist |
15-May-1915 |
13-Dec-2009 |
Theory of revealed preference |
| Frederick Sanger |
Chemist |
13-Aug-1918 |
19-Nov-2013 |
Two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry |
| Paul Sarbanes |
Politician |
3-Feb-1933 |
|
US Senator from Maryland, 1977-2007 |
| Thomas J. Sargent |
Economist |
19-Jul-1943 |
|
Rational expectations theory |
| Wallace Sargent |
Astronomer |
15-Feb-1935 |
29-Oct-2012 |
Astrophysicist at CalTech |
| Jean-Paul Sartre |
Philosopher |
21-Jun-1905 |
15-Apr-1980 |
Nausea, No Exit |
| John Sayles |
Film Director |
28-Sep-1950 |
|
The Secret of Roan Inish |
| Robert A. Scalapino |
Scholar |
19-Oct-1919 |
31-Oct-2011 |
Longtime Asia scholar at Berkeley |
| Marjorie Scardino |
Business |
25-Jan-1947 |
|
CEO of Pearson, 1997-2012 |
| Henry B. Schacht |
Business |
16-Oct-1934 |
|
Former CEO of Cummins, Lucent |
| Morton Owen Schapiro |
Educator |
1953 |
|
President, Northwestern University |
| Arthur L. Schawlow |
Physicist |
5-May-1921 |
28-Apr-1999 |
Laser spectroscopy |
| Thomas C. Schelling |
Economist |
14-Apr-1921 |
|
The Strategy of Conflict |
| Frank Schlesinger |
Astronomer |
11-May-1871 |
10-Jul-1943 |
Stellar parallaxes |
| Richard L. Schmalensee |
Economist |
1944 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
| Eric Schmidt |
Business |
27-Apr-1955 |
|
CEO of Google, 2001-11 |
| Maarten Schmidt |
Astronomer |
28-Dec-1929 |
|
Co-Discoverer of quasars |
| Myron S. Scholes |
Economist |
1-Jul-1941 |
|
Black-Scholes options pricing model |
| Robert Schrieffer |
Physicist |
31-May-1931 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
| Richard R. Schrock |
Chemist |
4-Jan-1945 |
|
Metathesis |
| Michael Schudson |
Sociologist |
3-Nov-1946 |
|
Discovering the News |
| Theodore W. Schultz |
Economist |
30-Apr-1902 |
26-Feb-1998 |
Investment in Human Capital |
| Martin Schwarzschild |
Astronomer |
31-May-1912 |
10-Apr-1997 |
Structure and Evolution of the Stars |
| Martin Scorsese |
Film Director |
17-Nov-1942 |
|
Taxi Driver |
| Glenn Seaborg |
Physicist |
19-Apr-1912 |
25-Feb-1999 |
Co-Discoverer of Plutonium |
| John Searle |
Philosopher |
31-Jul-1932 |
|
Chinese Room Argument, Philosopher of Language |
| William R. Sears |
Engineer |
1-Mar-1913 |
12-Oct-2002 |
Airfoil engineer |
| Emilio Segrè |
Physicist |
30-Jan-1905 |
22-Apr-1989 |
Co-Discoverer of the antiproton |
| Nathan Seiberg |
Physicist |
22-Sep-1956 |
|
String theorist at Princeton |
| Louis Michael Seidman |
Scholar |
16-Feb-1947 |
|
Our Unsettled Constitution |
| Amartya Sen |
Economist |
3-Nov-1933 |
|
Poverty and Famines |
| John Sexton |
Educator |
1942 |
|
President, New York University |
| Donna Shalala |
Government |
14-Feb-1941 |
|
Secretary of HHS, 1993-2001 |
| Albert Shanker |
Labor Leader |
14-Sep-1928 |
22-Feb-1997 |
American Federation of Teachers |
| Claude Shannon |
Scientist |
30-Apr-1916 |
24-Feb-2001 |
Pioneer in information theory |
| Harold T. Shapiro |
Educator |
8-Jun-1935 |
|
President of Princeton, 1988-2000 |
| Judith Shapiro |
Educator |
24-Jan-1942 |
|
President, Barnard College |
| Robert B. Shapiro |
Business |
4-Aug-1938 |
|
CEO of Monsanto, 1995-2000 |
| Phillip A. Sharp |
Biologist |
6-Jun-1944 |
|
Eukaryotic (split) genes |
| K. Barry Sharpless |
Chemist |
28-Apr-1941 |
|
Chiral catalysts |
| Thomas E. Shenk |
Biologist |
c. 1947 |
|
Princeton Molecular Biologist |
| Walter V. Shipley |
Business |
2-Nov-1935 |
|
CEO of Chase Manhattan, 1996-99 |
| Iosif S. Shklovskii |
Astronomer |
1-Jul-1916 |
3-Mar-1985 |
Synchrotron radiation of the Crab Nebula |
| William Shockley |
Physicist |
13-Feb-1910 |
12-Aug-1989 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
| David Shoenberg |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1911 |
10-Mar-2004 |
Physicist at Cambridge |
| John Shoven |
Economist |
1947 |
|
Stanford economist |
| Clifford G. Shull |
Physicist |
23-Sep-1915 |
31-Mar-2001 |
Neutron scattering |
| Kai M. Siegbahn |
Physicist |
20-Apr-1918 |
20-Jul-2007 |
Electron spectroscopy |
| Adele Simmons |
Administrator |
21-Jun-1941 |
|
President, MacArthur Foundation, 1989-99 |
| Ruth J. Simmons |
Educator |
3-Jul-1945 |
|
President, Brown University |
| Christopher A. Sims |
Economist |
21-Oct-1942 |
|
Statistical theory of time series |
| Isadore Singer |
Mathematician |
3-May-1924 |
|
Atiyah-Singer index theorem |
| Quentin Skinner |
Historian |
26-Nov-1940 |
|
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought |
| Theda Skocpol |
Educator |
4-May-1947 |
|
Harvard sociologist, political scientist |
| Richard E. Smalley |
Chemist |
6-Jun-1943 |
28-Oct-2005 |
Co-Discovered fullerines |
| Oliver Smithies |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1925 |
|
Knock-out mice |
| George D. Snell |
Scientist |
19-Dec-1903 |
6-Jun-1996 |
Recognition of HLA antigens |
| Robert M. Solow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1924 |
|
Theory of economic growth |
| Stephen Sondheim |
Composer |
22-Mar-1930 |
|
West Side Story |
| Hugo F. Sonnenschein |
Economist |
1941 |
|
President, University of Chicago, 1993-2000 |
| Larry Sonsini |
Attorney |
5-Feb-1941 |
|
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati |
| George Soros |
Business |
12-Aug-1930 |
|
Financial speculator |
| Michael I. Sovern |
Educator |
1-Dec-1931 |
|
President of Columbia University, 1980-93 |
| A. Michael Spence |
Economist |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| Jonathan D. Spence |
Historian |
11-Aug-1936 |
|
The Search for Modern China |
| Percy Spencer |
Scientist |
19-Jul-1894 |
8-Sep-1970 |
Invented the microwave oven |
| Roger W. Sperry |
Scientist |
20-Aug-1913 |
17-Apr-1994 |
"Split brain" hemispheric neurophysiology |
| Art Spiegelman |
Cartoonist |
15-Feb-1948 |
|
Maus |
| Lyman Spitzer, Jr. |
Astronomer |
26-Jun-1914 |
31-Mar-1997 |
Father of space telescopes |
| William H. Stein |
Chemist |
25-Jun-1911 |
2-Feb-1980 |
Amino-acid analyzer |
| Jack Steinberger |
Physicist |
25-May-1921 |
|
Researcher of neutrinos |
| George Steiner |
Critic |
23-Apr-1929 |
|
After Babel |
| Thomas A. Steitz |
Scientist |
23-Aug-1940 |
|
Ribosomes |
| Fritz Stern |
Historian |
2-Feb-1926 |
|
German historian |
| Joseph Stiglitz |
Economist |
9-Feb-1943 |
|
Ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank |
| Harlan Fiske Stone |
Judge |
11-Oct-1872 |
22-Apr-1946 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1925-46 |
| Patty Stonesifer |
Business |
1956 |
|
Co-Chair of Gates Foundation |
| Thomas P. Stossel |
Doctor |
c. 1941 |
|
Professor, Harvard Medical School |
| P. F. Strawson |
Philosopher |
23-Nov-1919 |
13-Feb-2006 |
Individuals |
| William Styron |
Novelist |
11-Jun-1925 |
31-Oct-2006 |
The Confessions of Nat Turner |
| Kathleen Sullivan |
Scholar |
20-Aug-1955 |
|
Scholar of constitutional law |
| Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. |
Publisher |
22-Sep-1951 |
|
New York Times Publisher |
| James B. Sumner |
Chemist |
19-Nov-1887 |
12-Aug-1955 |
Crystallized enzymes |
| Cass Sunstein |
Scholar |
21-Sep-1954 |
|
Why Societies Need Dissent |
| Timothy Swager |
Chemist |
1-Jul-1961 |
|
Chemist at MIT |
| Leo Szilard |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1898 |
30-May-1964 |
Nuclear chain reaction |
| Jack W. Szostak |
Scientist |
9-Nov-1952 |
|
First artificial chromosome |
| Igor Y. Tamm |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1895 |
12-Apr-1971 |
Cherenkov radiation |
| Ratan N. Tata |
Business |
28-Dec-1937 |
|
Chairman of Tata Group |
| Anne M. Tatlock |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Fiduciary Trust, 1999-2006 |
| Henry Taube |
Chemist |
30-Nov-1915 |
16-Nov-2005 |
Mechanisms of electron transfer |
| Charles Taylor |
Philosopher |
5-Nov-1931 |
|
Sources of the Self |
| John B. Taylor |
Economist |
8-Dec-1946 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
| Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. |
Astronomer |
24-Mar-1941 |
|
Co-Discovered first binary pulsar |
| Richard E. Taylor |
Physicist |
2-Nov-1929 |
|
Verified existence of quarks |
| Edward Teller |
Physicist |
15-Jan-1908 |
9-Sep-2003 |
Father of the Hydrogen Bomb |
| Howard M. Temin |
Scientist |
10-Dec-1934 |
9-Feb-1994 |
Tumor viruses and host genetics |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson |
Poet |
6-Aug-1809 |
6-Oct-1892 |
The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| Samuel O. Thier |
Doctor |
23-Jun-1937 |
|
CEO of Massachusetts General, 1996-2002 |
| Keith Thomas |
Historian |
2-Jan-1933 |
|
Religion and the Decline of Magic |
| Lewis Thomas |
Doctor |
25-Nov-1913 |
3-Dec-1993 |
The Lives of a Cell |
| Elihu Thomson |
Inventor |
29-Mar-1853 |
13-Mar-1937 |
Electric welding and A/C motors |
| George Paget Thomson |
Physicist |
3-May-1892 |
10-Sep-1975 |
Diffraction of electrons |
| Lester Thurow |
Economist |
7-May-1938 |
|
Sloan School of Management |
| Chang-Lin Tien |
Educator |
24-Jul-1935 |
29-Oct-2002 |
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1990-97 |
| Shirley M. Tilghman |
Educator |
17-Sep-1946 |
|
President of Princeton University |
| Samuel C. C. Ting |
Physicist |
27-Jan-1936 |
|
Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson |
| Bob Tisch |
Business |
29-Apr-1926 |
15-Nov-2005 |
CEO of Loews, Owner NY Giants |
| Alexander R. Todd |
Chemist |
2-Oct-1907 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Nucleic acid, nucleotides |
| Charles H. Townes |
Physicist |
28-Jul-1915 |
27-Jan-2015 |
Invention of the maser and laser |
| Lionel Trilling |
Critic |
4-Jul-1905 |
5-Nov-1975 |
The Liberal Imagination |
| Garry Trudeau |
Cartoonist |
21-Jul-1948 |
|
Doonesbury |
| Roger Y. Tsien |
Scientist |
1-Feb-1952 |
|
Green Fluorescent Protein |
| Robert W. Tucker |
Author |
c. 1925 |
|
The Inequality of Nations |
| Edward Tufte |
Author |
14-Mar-1942 |
|
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information |
| Amos Tversky |
Psychologist |
16-Mar-1937 |
2-Jun-1996 |
Cognitive psychologist, studied risks |
| Peter Ueberroth |
Baseball |
2-Sep-1937 |
|
Commissioner of Baseball, 1984-89 |
| John Updike |
Novelist |
18-Mar-1932 |
27-Jan-2009 |
Rabbit, Run |
| Harold C. Urey |
Chemist |
29-Apr-1893 |
5-Jan-1981 |
Discovered Deuterium |
| Wylie Vale, Jr. |
Doctor |
3-Jul-1941 |
3-Jan-2012 |
Endocrinologist at Salk Institute |
| James Van Allen |
Astronomer |
7-Sep-1914 |
9-Aug-2006 |
Discovered the Van Allen Belt |
| Robert J. Van de Graaff |
Inventor |
20-Dec-1901 |
16-Jan-1967 |
Van de Graaff generator |
| Simon van der Meer |
Physicist |
24-Nov-1925 |
4-Mar-2011 |
Co-Discovered W and Z particles |
| John H. van Vleck |
Physicist |
13-Mar-1899 |
27-Oct-1980 |
Quantum theory of paramagnetism |
| Harold E. Varmus |
Scientist |
18-Dec-1939 |
|
Genetic causes of cancer |
| John von Neumann |
Mathematician |
28-Dec-1903 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory |
| Kurt Vonnegut |
Novelist |
11-Nov-1922 |
11-Apr-2007 |
Slaughterhouse Five |
| George Wald |
Biologist |
18-Nov-1906 |
12-Apr-1997 |
Physiology of the retina |
| Earl Warren |
Judge |
19-Mar-1891 |
9-Jul-1974 |
US Chief Justice, 1953-69 |
| Denzel Washington |
Actor |
28-Dec-1954 |
|
Training Day |
| Alvin M. Weinberg |
Physicist |
20-Apr-1915 |
18-Oct-2006 |
Nuclear scientist |
| Gerhard L. Weinberg |
Historian |
1-Jan-1928 |
|
The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany |
| Steven Weinberg |
Physicist |
3-May-1933 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
| Victor Weisskopf |
Physicist |
19-Sep-1908 |
21-Apr-2002 |
Head of CERN, 1961-65 |
| John Archibald Wheeler |
Physicist |
9-Jul-1911 |
13-Apr-2008 |
The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission |
| Edmund White |
Author |
13-Jan-1940 |
|
The Joy of Gay Sex |
| John C. Whitehead |
Business |
2-Apr-1922 |
7-Feb-2015 |
US Deputy Secretary of State, 1985-89 |
| George M. Whitesides |
Chemist |
3-Aug-1939 |
|
Harvard chemist, highest H-Index |
| Carl E. Wieman |
Physicist |
26-Mar-1951 |
|
Bose-Einstein Condensates |
| Eric F. Wieschaus |
Scientist |
8-Jun-1947 |
|
Embryonic development of fruit flies |
| Torsten N. Wiesel |
Scientist |
3-Jun-1924 |
|
Neurophysiology of vision |
| Eugene Wigner |
Physicist |
17-Nov-1902 |
1-Jan-1995 |
Law of conservation of parity |
| Frank Wilczek |
Physicist |
15-May-1951 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
| Geoffrey Wilkinson |
Chemist |
14-Jul-1921 |
26-Sep-1996 |
Organometallic "sandwich" compounds |
| J. Harvie Wilkinson III |
Judge |
29-Sep-1944 |
|
4th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Bernard Williams |
Philosopher |
21-Sep-1929 |
10-Jun-2003 |
Leading moral philosopher |
| Rowan Williams |
Religion |
14-Jun-1950 |
|
Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Oliver E. Williamson |
Economist |
27-Sep-1932 |
|
Transaction cost economics |
| Edmund Beecher Wilson |
Biologist |
19-Oct-1856 |
3-Mar-1939 |
X and Y chromosomes |
| Edward O. Wilson |
Biologist |
10-Jun-1929 |
|
Father of Sociobiology |
| James Q. Wilson |
Scholar |
27-May-1931 |
2-Mar-2012 |
The Moral Sense |
| Kenneth G. Wilson |
Physicist |
8-Jun-1936 |
15-Jun-2013 |
Second-order phase transitions |
| Robert Woodrow Wilson |
Astronomer |
10-Jan-1936 |
|
Detected primordial radiation |
| William Julius Wilson |
Sociologist |
20-Dec-1935 |
|
Poverty in America's inner cities |
| Niklaus Wirth |
Computer Programmer |
15-Feb-1934 |
|
Inventor of Pascal, Modula-2 |
| Edward Witten |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1951 |
|
String theorist at Princeton |
| Diane P. Wood |
Judge |
4-Jul-1950 |
|
7th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Robert B. Woodward |
Chemist |
10-Apr-1917 |
8-Jul-1979 |
Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc. |
| James Wright |
Educator |
1939 |
|
President, Dartmouth College |
| Mark S. Wrighton |
Educator |
1949 |
|
Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis |
| E. A. Wrigley |
Historian |
17-Aug-1931 |
|
Continuity, Chance and Change |
| Henry M. Wriston |
Educator |
4-Jul-1889 |
7-Mar-1978 |
President of Brown University, 1937-55 |
| Kurt Wüthrich |
Chemist |
4-Oct-1938 |
|
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy |
| Janet L. Yellen |
Economist |
13-Aug-1946 |
|
Federal Reserve Chair |
| Yevgeny Yevtushenko |
Poet |
18-Jul-1933 |
|
Babi Yar |
| Mark G. Yudof |
Educator |
30-Oct-1944 |
|
President of the University of California |
| Ahmed H. Zewail |
Chemist |
26-Feb-1946 |
|
Femtochemistry |
| Hans Zinsser |
Scientist |
17-Nov-1878 |
4-Sep-1940 |
Typhus vaccine |
