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<html> <head> <title>Cosmos Club</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Cosmos Club ORGANIZATION Founded 1878. Under a reciprocal arrangement, members of the <a href="/org/498/000163009/">Travellers Club</a> are granted access. Official Website: <a href="http://www.cosmos-club.org/">http://www.cosmos-club.org/</a> Location: <a href="/geo/761/000069554/" class=proflink>Washington, DC</a> Founding Date: 1878<table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/959/000095674/">David Abshire</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Apr-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-2014</tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to NATO, 1983-87</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/699/000252940/">John Atanasoff</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jun-1995</tt></td> <td>Atanasoff-Berry Computer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/223/000053064/">Harry Blackmun</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Nov-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Mar-1999</tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice, 1970-94</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/237/000044105/">Louis D. Brandeis</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Nov-1856</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Oct-1941</tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice, 1916-39</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/244/000055079/">David Brinkley</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jul-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jun-2003</tt></td> <td>The Huntley-Brinkley Report</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/269/000172750/">Wallace R. Brode</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jun-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Aug-1974</tt></td> <td>Absorption spectra of dyes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/887/000180347/">Henry Billings Brown</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Mar-1836</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Sep-1913</tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice, 1891-1906</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/178/000165680/">Lester R. Brown</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Mar-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Earth Policy Institute</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/130/000026052/">Vannevar Bush</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Mar-1890</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jun-1974</tt></td> <td>Pre-internet visionary</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/719/000241993/">Robert N. Butler</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jan-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jul-2010</tt></td> <td>Expert on aging</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/665/000119308/">Chester A. Crocker</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Oct-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Asst. Secy. State, African Affairs, 1981-89</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/241/000027160/">Michael DeBakey</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jul-2008</tt></td> <td>Father of cardiovascular surgery</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/102/000179562/">Diana Lady Dougan</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jan-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Former US Ambassador</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/094/000130701/">Gerald M. Edelman</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jul-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-May-2014</tt></td> <td>Chemical structure of antibodies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/849/000055684/">John Hope Franklin</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Mar-2009</tt></td> <td>From Slavery to Freedom</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/310/000023241/">Murray Gell-Mann</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Quarks and strangeness</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/141/000137727/">Georgie Anne Geyer</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Apr-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Foreign correspondent turned columnist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/031/000027947/">Riccardo Giacconi</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Discovered cosmic X-ray sources</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/682/000055517/">John Oliver La Gorce</a></td> <td><center>Explorer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Sep-1880</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Dec-1959</tt></td> <td>Antarctica explorer, National Geographic editor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/522/000203910/">William C. Gorgas</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1854</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jul-1920</tt></td> <td>Malaria and yellow fever</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/465/000366364/">Sebastian de Grazia</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Aug-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Dec-2000</tt></td> <td>Machiavelli in Hell</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/505/000163016/">Christian Herter, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jan-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Sep-2007</tt></td> <td>First Chairman, New York Urban Coalition</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/064/000119704/">Thomas L. Hughes</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>?</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/222/000084967/">Zora Neale Hurston</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jan-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1960</tt></td> <td>Their Eyes Were Watching God</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/127/000119767/">Robert Keeley</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Sep-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jan-2015</tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Greece, 1985-89</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/113/000024041/">John F. Kennedy</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-May-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1963</tt></td> <td>35th US President, 1961-63</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/236/000044104/">Walter Lippmann</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Sep-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Dec-1974</tt></td> <td>Today and Tomorrow</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/064/000165566/">John V. Lombardi</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Louisiana State University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/076/000208449/">Alan D. Lourie</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jan-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/947/000122581/">Gerald S. McGowan</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Portugal, 1998-2001</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/211/000099911/">Robert S. Mulliken</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jun-1896</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-1986</tt></td> <td>Molecular orbital theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/679/000122313/">David G. Newton</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Nov-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Iraq, 1984-88</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/496/000399296/">Roy Franklin Nichols</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Mar-1896</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jan-1973</tt></td> <td>The Disruption of American Democracy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/309/000119949/">Phyllis E. Oakley</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Assistant Secy. of State for Intelligence, 1997-99</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/364/000120004/">Richard B. Parker</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jul-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jan-2011</tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Morocco, 1978-79</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/335/000105020/">John Wesley Powell</a></td> <td><center>Geologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Mar-1834</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Sep-1902</tt></td> <td>Exploration of the Colorado River</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/415/000041292/">Larry Pressler</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Mar-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Senator from South Dakota, 1979-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/808/000399608/">Charles R. Ritcheson</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Feb-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Dec-2011</tt></td> <td>British Politics and the American Revolution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/277/000093995/">Walt Rostow</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Oct-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Feb-2003</tt></td> <td>National Security Advisor, 1966-69</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/895/000023826/">Antonin Scalia</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Mar-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/410/000117059/">Herbert Stein</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Aug-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1999</tt></td> <td>Economic adviser for Nixon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/248/000173726/">Ambrose Swasey</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1846</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jun-1937</tt></td> <td>Warner and Swasey Company and Observatory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/980/000174458/">Merle Tuve</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jun-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-1982</tt></td> <td>Proximity fuse</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/873/000092597/">Harold C. 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