ORGANIZATION

Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, renamed the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 2006.

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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Steve Allen	Talk Show Host	26-Dec-1921	30-Oct-2000	The Tonight Show
Isaac Asimov	Author	2-Jan-1920	6-Apr-1992	Foundation
Bart Jan Bok	Astronomer	28-Apr-1906	5-Aug-1983	Bok globules
Francis Crick	Scientist	8-Jun-1916	28-Jul-2004	Co-Discoverer of the structure of DNA
Richard Dawkins	Biologist	26-Mar-1941		Zoologist and evolutionary biologist
Persi Diaconis	Mathematician	31-Jan-1945		Science of random numbers
Ann Druyan	Author	13-Jun-1949		Co-wrote Cosmos with husband Carl Sagan
Martin Gardner	Mathematician	21-Oct-1914	22-May-2010	Mathematical games, Scientific American
Murray Gell-Mann	Physicist	15-Sep-1929		Quarks and strangeness
Stephen Jay Gould	Biologist	10-Sep-1941	20-May-2002	Evolutionary scientist
Douglas Hofstadter	Author	15-Feb-1945		Godel, Escher, Bach
Paul Kurtz	Philosopher	21-Dec-1925	20-Oct-2012	Pro-skeptic activist
Marvin Minsky	Scientist	9-Aug-1927		Father of Artificial Intelligence
Joe Nickell	Author	1-Dec-1944		Professional skeptic
Bill Nye	TV Personality	27-Nov-1955		Bill Nye the Science Guy
James E. Oberg	Historian	7-Nov-1944		Space exploration historian
John Allen Paulos	Mathematician	4-Jul-1945		Innumeracy
James Randi	Magician	7-Aug-1928		The Amazing Randi
Carl Sagan	Astronomer	9-Nov-1934	20-Dec-1996	Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos
Glenn Seaborg	Physicist	19-Apr-1912	25-Feb-1999	Co-Discoverer of Plutonium
Neil deGrasse Tyson	Astronomer	5-Oct-1958		Astrophysicist
Marilyn vos Savant	Columnist	11-Aug-1946		IQ 228, writes for Parade
Steven Weinberg	Physicist	3-May-1933		Electroweak Theory

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