Founded 1888 as the New York Mathematical Society; renamed American Mathematical Society in 1894.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Lipman Bers |
Mathematician |
22-May-1914 |
29-Oct-1993 |
Riemann surfaces |
| George David Birkhoff |
Mathematician |
21-Mar-1884 |
12-Nov-1944 |
Modern theory of dynamical systems |
| David H. Blackwell |
Mathematician |
24-Apr-1919 |
8-Jul-2010 |
Bayesian statistics |
| Gregory Breit |
Physicist |
14-Jul-1899 |
11-Sep-1981 |
Proton-proton dispersion |
| Ernest W. Brown |
Astronomer |
29-Nov-1866 |
22-Jul-1938 |
Tables of the Motion of the Moon |
| William Marshall Bullitt |
Attorney |
4-Mar-1873 |
3-Oct-1957 |
US Solicitor General, 1912-13 |
| Vannevar Bush |
Scientist |
11-Mar-1890 |
30-Jun-1974 |
Pre-internet visionary |
| Henri Cartan |
Mathematician |
8-Jul-1904 |
13-Aug-2008 |
Leader of the math Bourbakistes |
| Alonzo Church |
Mathematician |
14-Jun-1903 |
11-Aug-1995 |
Lambda calculus, Church-Turing thesis |
| Samuel Eilenberg |
Mathematician |
30-Sep-1913 |
30-Jan-1998 |
Category theory |
| Israel Gelfand |
Mathematician |
2-Sep-1913 |
5-Oct-2009 |
Banach algebras, Lie groups |
| Ronald Graham |
Mathematician |
31-Oct-1935 |
|
Mathematician, Computer Scientist |
| George W. Hill |
Astronomer |
3-Mar-1838 |
16-Apr-1914 |
A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn |
| Jerome Karle |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1918 |
6-Jun-2013 |
X-Ray diffraction studies |
| Maria M. Klawe |
Educator |
5-Jul-1951 |
|
President, Harvey Mudd College |
| Donald E. Knuth |
Computer Programmer |
10-Jan-1938 |
|
The Art of Computer Programming |
| John McCarthy |
Computer Programmer |
4-Sep-1927 |
24-Oct-2011 |
Created LISP programming language |
| Jerry McNerney |
Politician |
18-Jun-1951 |
|
Congressman, California 11th |
| Claude Shannon |
Scientist |
30-Apr-1916 |
24-Feb-2001 |
Pioneer in information theory |
| Isadore Singer |
Mathematician |
3-May-1924 |
|
Atiyah-Singer index theorem |
| Stephen Timoshenko |
Engineer |
23-Dec-1878 |
29-May-1972 |
Mechanical engineering professor at Stanford |
| John H. van Vleck |
Physicist |
13-Mar-1899 |
27-Oct-1980 |
Quantum theory of paramagnetism |
| Vernor Vinge |
Author |
10-Feb-1944 |
|
A Fire Upon The Deep |
| John von Neumann |
Mathematician |
28-Dec-1903 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory |
| Norbert Wiener |
Mathematician |
26-Nov-1894 |
18-Mar-1964 |
Cybernetics |
| Eugene Wigner |
Physicist |
17-Nov-1902 |
1-Jan-1995 |
Law of conservation of parity |
