ORGANIZATION

Founded in 1824 as The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts.

Official Website:
http://www.fi.edu/

Founding Date:
1824

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Roger Adams	Chemist	2-Jan-1889	6-Jul-1971	Organic chemist at Illinois
Zhores I. Alferov	Scientist	15-Mar-1930		Developed solar cells for the Sputnik program
Alexander Dallas Bache	Physicist	19-Jul-1806	17-Feb-1867	First President, National Academy of Sciences
Leo Baekeland	Scientist	14-Nov-1863	23-Feb-1944	Father of plastics
Frank Baldino, Jr.	Business	13-May-1953	16-Dec-2010	Founder of Cephalon
Edward Bouchet	Physicist	15-Sep-1852	28-Oct-1918	First African-American PhD
Walter H. Brattain	Physicist	10-Feb-1902	13-Oct-1987	Co-Inventor of the transistor
James Chadwick	Physicist	20-Oct-1891	24-Jul-1974	Discovered the neutron
Karl T. Compton	Physicist	15-Sep-1887	22-Jun-1954	Bikini Island atomic tests
John William Draper	Chemist	5-May-1811	4-Jan-1882	Radiant energy and portrait photography
James Pollard Espy	Scientist	9-May-1785	24-Jan-1860	The Philosophy of Storms
J. Michael Fitzpatrick	Business	c. 1946		President of Rohm and Haas, 1999-2005
Theodor W. Hänsch	Physicist	30-Oct-1941		Quantum optics
Edwin J. Houston	Inventor	9-Jul-1847	1-Mar-1914	Thomson-Houston Electric Company
Frederic Eugene Ives	Inventor	17-Feb-1856	27-May-1937	Halftone process
Herbert E. Ives	Physicist	21-Jul-1882	13-Nov-1953	Facsimile machine
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes	Physicist	21-Sep-1853	21-Feb-1926	Liquefied helium and discovered superconductivity
Theophilus Van Kannel	Inventor	1841	24-Dec-1919	Revolving door
Pyotr Kapitsa	Physicist	8-Jul-1894	8-Apr-1984	Discovered superfluidity
John William Mauchly	Physicist	30-Aug-1907	8-Jan-1980	ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers
Elmer Sperry	Inventor	12-Oct-1860	10-Jun-1930	Gyroscopic compass
Philip Sporn	Engineer	25-Nov-1896	23-Jan-1978	American Electric Power Company
Frank J. Sprague	Inventor	25-Jul-1857	25-Oct-1934	Streetcars and express elevators
Elihu Thomson	Inventor	29-Mar-1853	13-Mar-1937	Electric welding and A/C motors
James A. Unruh	Business	c. 1942		CEO of Unisys, 1990-97
Harold C. Urey	Chemist	29-Apr-1893	5-Jan-1981	Discovered Deuterium

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