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<html> <head> <title>American Academy of Arts and Sciences</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> American Academy of Arts and Sciences PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION Founded in 1780. Official Website: <a href="http://www.amacad.org/">http://www.amacad.org/</a> Founding Date: 1780<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/279/000163787/">Edward P. Abraham</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jun-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-May-1999</tt></td> <td>Cephalosporins</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/974/000167473/">Shirley S. Abrahamson</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Wisconsin Chief Justice</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/648/000117297/">Floyd Abrams</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>First Amendment lawyer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/021/000027937/">Alexei A. Abrikosov</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jun-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Particle physicist, explored superconductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/425/000054263/">Dean Acheson</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Apr-1893</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Oct-1971</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of State, 1949-53</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/335/000129945/">Edward G. Acheson</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1856</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jul-1931</tt></td> <td>Discovered silicon carbide</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/652/000117301/">Bruce Ackerman</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>We the People</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/923/000161440/">H. Gardner Ackley</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jun-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Feb-1998</tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Italy, 1968-69</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/233/000025158/">Ansel Adams</a></td> <td><center>Photographer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Apr-1984</tt></td> <td>Yosemite photographer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/210/000134805/">Charles Francis Adams IV</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-May-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jan-1999</tt></td> <td>Former president of Raytheon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/868/000100568/">Peter Agre</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Water channels of cell membranes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/654/000141231/">George A. Akerlof</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jun-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Asymmetric markets</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/887/000023818/">Alan Alda</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Capt. Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/073/000109743/">Christopher Alexander</a></td> <td><center>Architect</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>A Pattern Language, The Nature of Order</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/852/000099555/">Hannes Alfvén</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-May-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Apr-1995</tt></td> <td>Renegade Swedish astrophysicist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/767/000100467/">Sidney Altman</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-May-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Proved enzyme role of RNA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/803/000099506/">Luis W. Alvarez</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jun-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Sep-1988</tt></td> <td>Particle accelerator, extinction of dinosaurs</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/877/000025802/">Christiane Amanpour</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jan-1958</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Host of ABC's This Week</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/733/000099436/">Carl David Anderson</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jan-1991</tt></td> <td>Discovered the positron, mu-meson</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/911/000099614/">Philip W. Anderson</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Dec-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Solid state physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/025/000117671/">Charles McLean Andrews</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Feb-1863</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Sep-1943</tt></td> <td>The Colonial Period of American History</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/632/000202026/">Leonore Annenberg</a></td> <td><center>Socialite</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Mar-2009</tt></td> <td>Wife of Walter Annenberg</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/632/000024560/">Walter Annenberg</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Mar-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Oct-2002</tt></td> <td>Media mogul, created TV Guide</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/132/000397935/">Joyce Appleby</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Apr-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Capitalism and a New Social Order</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/082/000179542/">Daniel I. Arnon</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Nov-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Dec-1994</tt></td> <td>Photophosphorylation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/079/000107755/">Kenneth J. Arrow</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Aug-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Social Choice and Individual Values</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/601/000052445/">Norman Augustine</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jul-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Martin Marietta, 1987-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/343/000116992/">Robert J. Aumann</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jun-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Game theorist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/526/000170016/">Dennis A. Ausiello</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Massachusetts General Hospital</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/711/000136303/">Richard Axel</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jul-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Odorant receptors and olfactory organization</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/983/000113644/">Julius Axelrod</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-May-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Dec-2004</tt></td> <td>Research of neurotransmitters</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/881/000116533/">Milton Babbitt</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-May-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jan-2011</tt></td> <td>Music for Synthesizer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/081/000167577/">Horace W. Babcock</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Aug-2003</tt></td> <td>Adaptive optics and the Babcock Model</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/957/000165462/">Lawrence S. Bacow</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Tufts University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/334/000163842/">Elizabeth E. Bailey</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Professor, the Wharton School</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/158/000397961/">Bernard Bailyn</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Sep-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/859/000117508/">Kenneth Bainbridge</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jul-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jul-1996</tt></td> <td>Director of the Trinity atomic test</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/851/000104539/">David Baltimore</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Discoverer, reverse transcriptase</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/691/000269881/">Albert Bandura</a></td> <td><center>Psychologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Dec-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Bobo doll experiments</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/192/000126811/">Percy N. Barnevik</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Feb-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of ABB, 1988-96</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/112/000084857/">John Bartlett</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1820</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Dec-1905</tt></td> <td>Bartlett's Familiar Quotations</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/582/000100282/">Derek Barton</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Mar-1998</tt></td> <td>Conformational analysis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/875/000126497/">Jacqueline K. Barton</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-May-1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Professor of Chemistry at CalTech</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/314/000104002/">Jacques Barzun</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Nov-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Oct-2012</tt></td> <td>From Dawn to Decadence</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/787/000159310/">Walter Jackson Bate</a></td> <td><center>Critic</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-May-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jul-1999</tt></td> <td>Samuel Johnson</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/904/000171391/">Lucian A. Bebchuk</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Corporate governance scholar</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/688/000125313/">Riley P. Bechtel</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Bechtel</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/461/000099164/">Carl Becker</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1873</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Apr-1945</tt></td> <td>Everyman His Own Historian</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/260/000116909/">Gary S. Becker</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Dec-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-May-2014</tt></td> <td>Human Capital</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/851/000026773/">Alexander Graham Bell</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Mar-1847</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Aug-1922</tt></td> <td>Inventor of the telephone</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/797/000113458/">Daniel Bell</a></td> <td><center>Sociologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-May-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jan-2011</tt></td> <td>The End of Ideology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/165/000361079/">Samuel Flagg Bemis</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Oct-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Sep-1973</tt></td> <td>Scholar of diplomacy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/697/000131304/">Baruj Benacerraf</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Oct-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Aug-2011</tt></td> <td>Gene control of HLA antigens</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/033/000178496/">Frank A. Bennack, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Feb-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Hearst, 1979-2002</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/694/000167193/">Robert M. Berdahl</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1997-2004</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/631/000100331/">Paul Berg</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jun-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Pioneer in recombinant DNA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/311/000131915/">Sune K. Bergström</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Aug-2004</tt></td> <td>Prostaglandins</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/370/000117019/">Isaiah Berlin</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1909</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1997</tt></td> <td>The Hedgehog and the Fox</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/447/000094165/">Ben Bernanke</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Dec-1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Federal Reserve Chairman, 2006-14</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/573/000023504/">Tim Berners-Lee</a></td> <td><center>Computer Programmer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jun-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Inventor of the World Wide Web</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/593/000207969/">Lipman Bers</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Oct-1993</tt></td> <td>Riemann surfaces</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/298/000206677/">Catherine Bertini</a></td> <td><center>Administrator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>World Food Programme, 1992-2002</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/929/000115584/">Bruno Bettelheim</a></td> <td><center>Psychologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Aug-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Mar-1990</tt></td> <td>Fraudulent child psychologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/159/000115811/">Jacob Bigelow</a></td> <td><center>Botanist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Feb-1787</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1879</tt></td> <td>American Medical Botany</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/564/000128180/">John H. Biggs</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jul-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of TIAA-CREF, 1993-2002</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/053/000052894/">James Billington</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jun-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>13th Librarian of Congress</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/930/000165435/">Robert J. Birgeneau</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chancellor, UC Berkeley</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/477/000166976/">John P. Birkelund</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jun-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chairman of Dillon Read, 1986-98</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/926/000166428/">George David Birkhoff</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Mar-1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Nov-1944</tt></td> <td>Modern theory of dynamical systems</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/187/000132788/">J. Michael Bishop</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Feb-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Genetic causes of cancer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/444/000365346/">David Blackbourn</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Nov-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Populists and Patricians</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/888/000208264/">Elizabeth H. Blackburn</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Nov-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Discoverer of telomerase</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/806/000243077/">David H. Blackwell</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Apr-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jul-2010</tt></td> <td>Bayesian statistics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/778/000161295/">Rebecca M. Blank</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Sep-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Council of Economic Advisers, 1998-99</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/800/000161317/">Alan S. Blinder</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Oct-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/527/000071314/">Felix Bloch</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Oct-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1983</tt></td> <td>Nuclear magnetic resonance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/080/000129690/">Konrad Bloch</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jan-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Oct-2000</tt></td> <td>Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/982/000165487/">Gene D. Block</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chancellor, UCLA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/951/000099654/">Nicolaas Bloembergen</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Mar-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Nonlinear optics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/130/000030040/">Harold Bloom</a></td> <td><center>Critic</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jul-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Literary critic, Yale professor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/099/000026021/">Michael Bloomberg</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Feb-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Mayor of New York City, 2002-13</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/403/000366302/">Philip Bobbitt</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jul-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Shield of Achilles</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/196/000129806/">Samuel Bodman</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Nov-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Secretary of Energy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/003/000365902/">Jack Bogle</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-May-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Founder, The Vanguard Group</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/895/000099598/">Aage N. Bohr</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jun-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-2009</tt></td> <td>Determined shapes of nuclei</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/560/000024488/">Niels Bohr</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Oct-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Nov-1962</tt></td> <td>Father of Quantum Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/343/000160860/">Lee C. Bollinger</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Columbia University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/363/000117012/">Wayne C. Booth</a></td> <td><center>Critic</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Feb-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Oct-2005</tt></td> <td>The Rhetoric of Fiction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/931/000117580/">Edwin G. Boring</a></td> <td><center>Psychologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Oct-1886</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jul-1968</tt></td> <td>A History of Experimental Psychology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/565/000119208/">Stephen W. Bosworth</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Dec-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jan-2016</tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to South Korea, 1997-2000</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/939/000117588/">Kenneth E. Boulding</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jan-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Mar-1993</tt></td> <td>The Image: Knowledge of Life in Society</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/316/000232617/">Louise Bourgeois</a></td> <td><center>Sculptor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Dec-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-May-2010</tt></td> <td>Crouching Spider</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/425/000164930/">Nathaniel Bowditch</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Mar-1773</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1838</tt></td> <td>American Practical Navigator</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/837/000171324/">H. Kent Bowen</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Baker Foundation Professor at HBS</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/326/000167822/">Ira S. Bowen</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Dec-1898</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-1973</tt></td> <td>Debunked nebulium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/728/000167227/">William G. Bowen</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Princeton University, 1972-88</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/353/000179813/">George E. P. Box</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Oct-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Mar-2013</tt></td> <td>Statistician at University of Wisconsin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/316/000127932/">Herbert W. Boyer</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jul-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Recombinant DNA, first synthetic insulin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/804/000100504/">Paul D. Boyer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jul-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>ATP process</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/658/000367554/">Paul S. Boyer</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Aug-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-2012</tt></td> <td>When Time Shall Be No More</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/372/000062186/">John Brademas</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Mar-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from Indiana, 1959-81</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/788/000099491/">Walter H. Brattain</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Feb-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Oct-1987</tt></td> <td>Co-Inventor of the transistor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/957/000117606/">Gregory Breit</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jul-1899</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Sep-1981</tt></td> <td>Proton-proton dispersion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/044/000023972/">Stephen Breyer</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Aug-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/750/000099453/">Percy Williams Bridgman</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Apr-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Aug-1961</tt></td> <td>High-pressure physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/826/000044694/">Sergey Brin</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Aug-1973</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Founder of Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/044/000099744/">Bertram N. Brockhouse</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Oct-2003</tt></td> <td>Triple-axis crystal spectrometry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/945/000165450/">Richard H. Brodhead</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Apr-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Duke University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/394/000127013/">William R. Brody</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jan-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Salk Institute</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/309/000022243/">Tom Brokaw</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Former anchor, NBC Nightly News</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/456/000030366/">David Brooks</a></td> <td><center>Columnist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Aug-1961</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Conservative pundit</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/991/000029904/">Fred Brooks</a></td> <td><center>Computer Programmer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Father of the IBM System 360</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/537/000168033/">Dirk Brouwer</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Sep-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-1966</tt></td> <td>Celestial mechanics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/625/000100325/">Herbert C. Brown</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-2004</tt></td> <td>Discovered organoboranes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/174/000123802/">Michael S. Brown</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Apr-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Metabolism of cholesterol</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/276/000365178/">Peter Brown</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jul-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Rise of Western Christendom</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/074/000162585/">Robert A. Brown</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jul-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Boston University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/454/000045319/">John Browne</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of British Petroleum, 1995-2007</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/824/000026746/">Charles F. Brush</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1849</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jun-1929</tt></td> <td>Street lights</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/237/000116886/">Robert Brustein</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Apr-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Founder, American Reportory Theatre</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/520/000161037/">Louise H. Bryson</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chairman of Getty Trust</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/263/000023194/">Zbigniew Brzezinski</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Mar-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>National Security Advisor, 1977-81</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/245/000116894/">James M. Buchanan</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Oct-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jan-2013</tt></td> <td>Public Choice Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/729/000125354/">Linda B. Buck</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jan-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Odorant receptors and olfactory organization</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/445/000022379/">Warren Buffett</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Aug-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Billionaire in Omaha</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/278/000093996/">Mac Bundy</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Mar-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Sep-1996</tt></td> <td>National Security Advisor, 1961-66</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/845/000121482/">Ellsworth Bunker</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-May-1894</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Sep-1984</tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to South Vietnam, 1967-73</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/287/000106966/">Walter Dean Burnham</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jun-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Democracy in the Making</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/362/000022296/">George H.W. Bush</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jun-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>41st US President, 1989-93</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/475/000166974/">Caroline Bynum</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Medieval historian</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/108/000086847/">James Branch Cabell</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Apr-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-May-1958</tt></td> <td>Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/012/000208385/">José A. Cabranes</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Dec-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>2nd Circuit Court of Appeals</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/567/000024495/">John Cage</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Sep-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Aug-1992</tt></td> <td>Experimental composer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/545/000100245/">Melvin Calvin</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1997</tt></td> <td>Deciphered photosynthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/771/000168267/">William W. Campbell</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Apr-1862</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1938</tt></td> <td>Stellar Motions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/788/000028704/">Albert Camus</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Nov-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jan-1960</tt></td> <td>French author and Nobel laureate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/081/000170568/">Claude R. Canizares</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/947/000165452/">Nancy Cantor</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chancellor, Syracuse University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/554/000103245/">Leonard Carmichael</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Nov-1898</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Sep-1973</tt></td> <td>Smithsonian Chief, 1953-64</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/843/000031750/">Rachel Carson</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-May-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Apr-1964</tt></td> <td>Mother of the environmental movement</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/438/000179898/">Henri Cartan</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jul-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Aug-2008</tt></td> <td>Leader of the math Bourbakistes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/488/000389318/">Ashton Carter</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Sep-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Secretary of Defense</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/465/000166964/">Gerhard Casper</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Dec-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Stanford University, 1992-2000</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/313/000165815/">James McKeen Cattell</a></td> <td><center>Psychologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-May-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jan-1944</tt></td> <td>Academic freedom</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/769/000100469/">Thomas R. Cech</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Dec-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Proved enzyme role of RNA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/745/000023676/">Vint Cerf</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jun-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/819/000099522/">Owen Chamberlain</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jul-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-2006</tt></td> <td>Co-Discoverer of the antiproton</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/300/000206679/">Robert F. Chandler</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jun-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Mar-1999</tt></td> <td>International Rice Research Institute</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/462/000179922/">Erwin Chargaff</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Aug-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jun-2002</tt></td> <td>Biochemist at Columbia University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/491/000179951/">Jule Charney</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jun-1981</tt></td> <td>Quasi-gesotrophic theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/403/000053244/">Kenneth Chenault</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jun-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of American Express</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/590/000022524/">Noam Chomsky</a></td> <td><center>Linguist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Dec-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Linguist, dissident intellectual</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/092/000165594/">Carol T. Christ</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-May-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Smith College</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/145/000023076/">Warren Christopher</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Oct-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Mar-2011</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of State, 1993-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/061/000099761/">Steven Chu</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Secretary of Energy, 2009-13</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/150/000202541/">Alonzo Church</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Aug-1995</tt></td> <td>Lambda calculus, Church-Turing thesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/958/000115613/">John Ciardi</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jun-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Mar-1986</tt></td> <td>How Does a Poem Mean?</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/702/000167201/">Alvan Clark</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Mar-1804</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1887</tt></td> <td>Telescope maker</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/221/000055056/">Joseph Sill Clark</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Oct-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jan-1990</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1956-69</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/427/000026349/">Bill Clinton</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>42nd US President, 1993-2001</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/367/000160884/">William K. Coblentz</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jul-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-2010</tt></td> <td>Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/687/000132291/">Stanley Cohen</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Nov-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Nerve and skin cell growth factors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/510/000275682/">Stanley N. Cohen</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Feb-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Recombinant DNA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/064/000099764/">Claude Cohen-Tannoudji</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Apr-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Trapped atoms with laser light</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/519/000169012/">Johnnetta B. Cole</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Oct-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Spelman College, 1987-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/665/000117314/">James S. Coleman</a></td> <td><center>Sociologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Mar-1995</tt></td> <td>Foundations of Social Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/062/000128675/">Lewis W. Coleman</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Dreamworks Animation SKG</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/253/000128866/">Mary Sue Coleman</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Oct-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of Michigan</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/011/000168504/">Samuel C. Collins</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-1898</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jun-1984</tt></td> <td>Collins-type cryocooler</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/232/000086971/">James B. Conant</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Mar-1893</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Feb-1978</tt></td> <td>President of Harvard, 1933-53</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/476/000164981/">Edward Condon</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Mar-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Mar-1974</tt></td> <td>Quantum Mechanics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/646/000117295/">George Conrades</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Akamai, 1999-2005</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/950/000167449/">William D. Coolidge</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Oct-1873</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Feb-1975</tt></td> <td>Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/854/000099557/">Leon N. Cooper</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>BCS Theory of Superconductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/866/000022800/">Francis Ford Coppola</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Apr-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Godfather</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/771/000100471/">Elias James Corey</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jul-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Retrosynthetic analysis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/732/000167231/">George Henry Corliss</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jun-1817</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Feb-1888</tt></td> <td>Corliss valve and steam engines</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/498/000131105/">Allan M. Cormack</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Feb-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-May-1998</tt></td> <td>Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/689/000180149/">F. Albert Cotton</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Apr-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-2007</tt></td> <td>Metal-metal bonds</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/206/000165708/">George A. Cowan</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Apr-2012</tt></td> <td>Founder, Santa Fe Institute</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/177/000128790/">Scott S. Cowen</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Tulane University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/671/000100371/">Donald J. Cram</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Apr-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jun-2001</tt></td> <td>Synthesis of molecules</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/826/000099529/">James W. Cronin</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Sep-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Time not necessarily reversible</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/313/000022247/">Walter Cronkite</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Nov-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jul-2009</tt></td> <td>America's most trusted newscaster</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/895/000396704/">Alfred W. Crosby</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jan-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Columbian Exchange</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/789/000100489/">Paul J. Crutzen</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Dec-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Ozone depletion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/798/000100498/">Robert F. Curl, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Aug-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Discovered fullerines</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/641/000127260/">Harvey Cushing</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1869</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Oct-1939</tt></td> <td>Cushing's Syndrome</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/285/000094003/">Robert Cutler</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jun-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-May-1974</tt></td> <td>1950s National Security Advisor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/985/000115640/">Guy Davenport</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Nov-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jan-2005</tt></td> <td>Thasos and Ohio</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/836/000118482/">Drew S. Days III</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Solicitor General, 1993-96</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/765/000240045/">Mark Dean</a></td> <td><center>Engineer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Mar-1957</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Computer architecture</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/490/000160010/">Gerard Debreu</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jul-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Dec-2004</tt></td> <td>Supply and demand theorist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/979/000165484/">John J. DeGioia</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1957</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Georgetown University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/428/000115083/">Margaret Deland</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Feb-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jan-1945</tt></td> <td>Old Chester Tales</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/348/000129958/">Max Delbrück</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Sep-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Mar-1981</tt></td> <td>Molecular structure of viral genes (phages)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/977/000168473/">Peter B. Dervan</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jun-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>DNA Researcher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/542/000262753/">Persi Diaconis</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Science of random numbers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/663/000268856/">Jared Diamond</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Guns, Germs and Steel</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/581/000254816/">Peter Diamond</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Apr-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Diamond paradox in economics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/823/000023754/">Joan Didion</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Slouching Toward Bethlehem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/941/000023872/">Edsger Dijkstra</a></td> <td><center>Computer Programmer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-May-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Aug-2002</tt></td> <td>Enemy of the goto statement</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/151/000104836/">E. J. Dionne</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Washington Post</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/573/000167072/">T. G. Dobzhansky</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jan-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Dec-1975</tt></td> <td>Genetics and the Origin of Species</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/653/000023584/">Ray Milton Dolby</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jan-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-2013</tt></td> <td>Inventor of Dolby stereo</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/892/000127511/">Nicholas M. Donofrio</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>EVP at IBM</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/536/000031443/">Rita Dove</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Aug-1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>7th US Poet Laureate, 1993-95</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/539/000213897/">Kenneth Dover</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Mar-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-2010</tt></td> <td>Greek Homosexuality</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/940/000364845/">John W. Dower</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jun-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Embracing Defeat</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/739/000167238/">Henry Draper</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-1837</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Nov-1882</tt></td> <td>Early astrophotographer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/284/000106963/">Sidney D. Drell</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>In the Shadow of the Bomb</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/262/000168755/">Daniel C. Drucker</a></td> <td><center>Engineer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Aug-2001</tt></td> <td>Drucker's stability postulate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/556/000171043/">James J. Duderstadt</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of Michigan, 1988-96</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/816/000124444/">Robin Chandler Duke</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Oct-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Former president of NARAL</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/785/000117434/">John T. Dunlop</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jul-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Oct-2003</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of Labor, 1975-76</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/376/000117025/">Ronald Dworkin</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Dec-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Feb-2013</tt></td> <td>Taking Rights Seriously</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/065/000169555/">Robert C. Dynes</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Nov-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of California, 2003-08</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/925/000208301/">Frank H. Easterbrook</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>7th Circuit Court of Appeals</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/257/000059080/">Paul R. Ehrlich</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-May-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Population Bomb</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/571/000100271/">Manfred Eigen</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-May-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Studied fast chemical reactions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/371/000181825/">Samuel Eilenberg</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Sep-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-1998</tt></td> <td>Category theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/622/000117271/">Charles Elton</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Mar-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-May-1991</tt></td> <td>Animal Ecology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/578/000117227/">John Hart Ely</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Dec-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Oct-2003</tt></td> <td>Democracy and Distrust</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/131/000026053/">Doug Engelbart</a></td> <td><center>Computer Programmer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jul-2013</tt></td> <td>Pioneer of human-computer interaction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/379/000117028/">Richard A. Epstein</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Apr-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Takings</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/774/000100474/">Richard R. Ernst</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Aug-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>NMR spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/969/000163480/">Gerhard Ertl</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Oct-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Auto emissions and the ozone layer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/880/000099583/">Leo Esaki</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Mar-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Electron tunneling</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/230/000165732/">Thomas E. Everhart</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of CalTech, 1987-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/082/000169572/">Robert Fagles</a></td> <td><center>Translator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Sep-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Mar-2008</tt></td> <td>Translator of Greek literature</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/365/000166864/">Daniel A. Farber</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jul-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Retained by the People</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/689/000206071/">Suzanne Farrell</a></td> <td><center>Dancer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Aug-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Ballerina, NYC Ballet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/247/000167743/">Larry R. Faulkner</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of UT-Austin, 1998-2006</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/247/000166746/">Drew Gilpin Faust</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Sep-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Harvard University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/448/000094166/">Martin Feldstein</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Nov-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Reagan economist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/725/000115380/">Ed Felten</a></td> <td><center>Computer Programmer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Mar-1963</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Broke SDMI</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/765/000123396/">Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Oct-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of TIAA-CREF</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/430/000128046/">Frances D. Fergusson</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Vassar, 1986-2006</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/364/000136953/">Andrew Z. Fire</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Apr-1959</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>RNA interference</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/913/000133514/">Edmond H. Fischer</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Apr-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Protein phosphorylation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/619/000100319/">Ernst Otto Fischer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Nov-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jul-2007</tt></td> <td>Organometallic "sandwich" compounds</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/559/000169052/">Franklin M. Fisher</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Dec-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Economist at MIT</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/480/000166979/">Richard W. Fisher</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Mar-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President and CEO, Dallas Fed</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/763/000196175/">Ronald Fisher</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Feb-1890</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jul-1962</tt></td> <td>Analysis of variance and covariance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/838/000099541/">Val Fitch</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Mar-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Feb-2015</tt></td> <td>Time not necessarily reversible</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/811/000206193/">Leon Fleisher</a></td> <td><center>Pianist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jul-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Piano virtuoso</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/954/000169447/">Joel L. Fleishman</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Foundation: A Great American Secret</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/466/000167962/">Marion B. Folsom</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Nov-1893</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Sep-1976</tt></td> <td>HEW Secretary, 1955-58</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/107/000165609/">Marye Anne Fox</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chancellor, UC San Diego</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/406/000227722/">Joseph S. Francisco</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Atmospheric chemist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/326/000072110/">James Franck</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Aug-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-May-1964</tt></td> <td>Franck-Hertz experiment</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/754/000169247/">John R. Freeman</a></td> <td><center>Engineer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jul-1855</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1932</tt></td> <td>Charles River Dam</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/454/000166953/">Richard Freeman</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jun-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Labor economist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/800/000099503/">Charles Fried</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Solicitor General, 1985-89</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/034/000099734/">Jerome I. Friedman</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Mar-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Verified existence of quarks</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/066/000165568/">David B. Frohnmayer</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-2015</tt></td> <td>President, University of Oregon, 1994-2009</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/650/000100350/">Kenichi Fukui</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jan-1998</tt></td> <td>Frontier orbitals</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/191/000124816/">Ellen V. Futter</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Sep-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Barnard College, 1980-93</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/704/000397510/">John Lewis Gaddis</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Apr-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>George F. Kennan: An American Life</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/630/000022564/">John Kenneth Galbraith</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Oct-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Apr-2006</tt></td> <td>Modern economics renegade</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/789/000119432/">Robert Gallucci</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Feb-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, MacArthur Foundation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/655/000164163/">Hector Garcia-Molina</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Stanford EECS Professor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/146/000165648/">Alice P. Gast</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-May-1958</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Lehigh University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/435/000022369/">Bill Gates</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Oct-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Founder of Microsoft</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/600/000122234/">William H. Gates, Sr.</a></td> <td><center>Philanthropist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Nov-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/215/000167711/">Claire L. Gaudiani</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Connecticut College, 1988-2001</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/710/000397516/">Ignace J. Gelb</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Oct-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Dec-1985</tt></td> <td>A Study of Writing</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/814/000079577/">Leslie H. Gelb</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Mar-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1993-2003</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/458/000358381/">Israel Gelfand</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Sep-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Oct-2009</tt></td> <td>Banach algebras, Lie groups</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/816/000099519/">Pierre-Gilles de Gennes</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Oct-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-2007</tt></td> <td>Molecular structure of polymers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/607/000172091/">Ivan Getting</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jan-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Oct-2003</tt></td> <td>Global Positioning System</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/884/000099587/">Ivar Giaever</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Apr-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Tunneling through superconductors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/439/000100139/">William F. Giauque</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Mar-1982</tt></td> <td>Adiabatic demagnetization</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/317/000203705/">John H. Gibbon, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Sep-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Feb-1973</tt></td> <td>Open-heart surgery</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/679/000023610/">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/796/000099499/">Donald A. Glaser</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Sep-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-2013</tt></td> <td>Inventor of the bubble chamber</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/942/000099645/">Sheldon Glashow</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Electroweak Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/305/000116954/">Nathan Glazer</a></td> <td><center>Pundit</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Feb-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Editor, The Public Interest</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/326/000124951/">Laurie H. Glimcher</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Professor of Immunology at Harvard</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/682/000117331/">Erving Goffman</a></td> <td><center>Sociologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jun-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Nov-1982</tt></td> <td>The Presentation of Self</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/832/000047691/">Thomas Gold</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jun-2004</tt></td> <td>Certain that oil is not a fossil fuel</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/279/000206658/">Maurice Goldhaber</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Apr-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-May-2011</tt></td> <td>Neutrons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/604/000132208/">Joseph L. Goldstein</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Apr-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Hypercholesterolemia and cell metabolism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/360/000122991/">Matthew Goldstein</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chancellor of CUNY</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/679/000117328/">Nelson Goodman</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Aug-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Nov-1998</tt></td> <td>Fact, Fiction, and Forecast</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/172/000213530/">Bill Gordon</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Feb-2010</tt></td> <td>Designed Arecibo radio telescope</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/499/000023430/">Al Gore</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Vice President under Clinton</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/641/000024569/">Stephen Jay Gould</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-2002</tt></td> <td>Evolutionary scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/538/000052382/">Donald E. Graham</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Apr-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Washington Post</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/042/000136631/">Ronald Graham</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Mathematician, Computer Scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/216/000140793/">Clive W.J. Granger</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Sep-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-May-2009</tt></td> <td>Granger causality</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/294/000129904/">Ragnar Granit</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Oct-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-1990</tt></td> <td>Physiology of the retina</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/196/000114851/">Robert Grant</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jan-1852</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-May-1940</tt></td> <td>Unleavened Bread</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/983/000027902/">Günter Grass</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Oct-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Apr-2015</tt></td> <td>German novelist, The Tin Drum</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/866/000127485/">Earl G. Graves</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Black Enterprise magazine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/883/000364788/">Stephen Greenblatt</a></td> <td><center>Critic</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Nov-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Swerve</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/238/000162749/">Vartan Gregorian</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Carnegie Corporation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/890/000208266/">Carol W. Greider</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1961</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Discoverer of telomerase</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/008/000169498/">Zvi Griliches</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Nov-1999</tt></td> <td>Technology, Education, and Productivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/715/000140295/">David J. Gross</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Feb-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Deep structure of matter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/055/000169545/">Sanford J. Grossman</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Quantitative Financial Strategies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/285/000139865/">Robert H. Grubbs</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Feb-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Metathesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/644/000396453/">Erich S. Gruen</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-May-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Last Generation of the Roman Republic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/437/000131044/">Roger Guillemin</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jan-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/021/000166520/">Alan Guth</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Feb-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Inflationary theory of cosmology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/943/000165448/">Amy Gutmann</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Nov-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of Pennsylvania</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/815/000159338/">Ian Hacking</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Feb-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Taming of Chance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/910/000101607/">Jacques-Salomon Hadamard</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Dec-1865</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Oct-1963</tt></td> <td>Prime number theorem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/121/000161635/">William Stewart Halsted</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Sep-1852</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1922</tt></td> <td>Pioneer of sterile surgical technique</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/128/000123756/">William R. Hambrecht</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>W.R. Hambrecht & Co.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/366/000117015/">Oscar Handlin</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Sep-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Sep-2011</tt></td> <td>The Uprooted</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/795/000138381/">Theodor W. Hänsch</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Oct-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Quantum optics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/755/000167254/">Robert Hare</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jan-1781</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-May-1858</tt></td> <td>Hydrostatic blow-pipe and spiritoscope</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/935/000172419/">Sidney Harman</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Aug-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Apr-2011</tt></td> <td>Founder of Harman International</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/132/000167628/">Conrad K. Harper</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/726/000397532/">William V. Harris</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>War and Imperialism in Republican Rome</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/077/000169567/">George Russell Harrison</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jul-1898</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jul-1979</tt></td> <td>Echelle spectrograph</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/795/000159318/">John C. Harsanyi</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-May-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Aug-2000</tt></td> <td>Game theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/315/000129925/">Haldan K. Hartline</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Dec-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1983</tt></td> <td>Physiology of the retina</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/154/000169644/">Jerry A. Hausman</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-May-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Hausman Specification Test</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/026/000206405/">Alexander Heard</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Mar-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jul-2009</tt></td> <td>Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, 1963-82</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/627/000204015/">Oliver Heaviside</a></td> <td><center>Engineer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1850</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Feb-1925</tt></td> <td>Kennelly-Heaviside layer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/743/000141320/">James J. Heckman</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/488/000071275/">Werner Heisenberg</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Feb-1976</tt></td> <td>Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/419/000174894/">Warren Hellman</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jul-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Hellman & Friedman</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/278/000123906/">John L. Hennessy</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Stanford University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/197/000169687/">George Herbig</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Oct-2013</tt></td> <td>Herbig-Haro objects</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/662/000100362/">Dudley R. Herschbach</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Crossed molecular beam experiments</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/416/000130026/">Alfred D. Hershey</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Dec-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1997</tt></td> <td>Molecular structure of viral genes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/594/000100294/">Gerhard Herzberg</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Dec-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Mar-1999</tt></td> <td>Molecular spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/892/000099595/">Antony Hewish</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-May-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Discoverer of pulsars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/307/000058133/">William Hewlett</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jan-2001</tt></td> <td>Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/464/000100164/">Jaroslav Heyrovsky</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Dec-1890</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Mar-1967</tt></td> <td>Polarography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/300/000169790/">Raymond Hide</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-May-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Earth's rotation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/322/000400119/">Raul Hilberg</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jun-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Aug-2007</tt></td> <td>The Destruction of the European Jews</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/285/000140862/">Danny Hillis</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Sep-1956</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Founder, Thinking Machines</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/304/000116953/">Gertrude Himmelfarb</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Aug-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Victorian Minds</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/351/000169841/">Peter B. Hirsch</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jan-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Electron microscopy in metallurgy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/658/000127277/">David Ho</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Nov-1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>AIDS researcher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/872/000356801/">Eric Hobsbawm</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jun-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Oct-2012</tt></td> <td>The Age of Revolution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/980/000165485/">Susan Hockfield</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Mar-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of MIT</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/564/000100264/">Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jul-1994</tt></td> <td>Determined structure of Vitamin B12</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/907/000276079/">Jules A. Hoffmann</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Aug-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Innate immunity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/653/000100353/">Roald Hoffmann</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jul-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Woodward-Hoffmann reaction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/173/000044041/">Richard C. Holbrooke</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Apr-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Dec-2010</tt></td> <td>US Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/829/000159352/">Bert Hölldobler</a></td> <td><center>Zoologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jun-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Social organizations in insects</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/316/000129926/">Robert W. Holley</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Feb-1993</tt></td> <td>RNA's role in protein synthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/404/000169894/">Nick Holonyak</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Nov-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Light-emitting diodes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/756/000167255/">Donald F. Hornig</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jan-2013</tt></td> <td>President of Brown University, 1970-76</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/087/000038970/">Amo Houghton</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Aug-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from New York, 1987-2005</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/807/000167306/">Karen Elliott House</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Dec-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Publisher, Wall Street Journal, 2002-06</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/868/000161385/">Hendrik S. Houthakker</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Dec-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-2008</tt></td> <td>Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/921/000169414/">Freeman A. Hrabowski</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Aug-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of Maryland Baltimore</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/409/000227725/">Evelyn Hu</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Nanoscale device fabrication</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/530/000399330/">Alexander von Humboldt</a></td> <td><center>Geographer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Sep-1769</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-May-1859</tt></td> <td>Cosmos</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/696/000135291/">Tim Hunt</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Feb-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Regulators of cell cycle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/192/000163700/">Leonid Hurwicz</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Aug-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jun-2008</tt></td> <td>Mechanism design theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/065/000044930/">Gwen Ifill</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Sep-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Washington Week, Lehrer News Hour</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/234/000134829/">Louis J. Ignarro</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-May-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signal</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/456/000169946/">Herbert E. Ives</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Nov-1953</tt></td> <td>Facsimile machine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/975/000027894/">Molly Ivins</a></td> <td><center>Columnist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Aug-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-2007</tt></td> <td>Loudmouthed Texas dame</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/668/000061485/">Shirley A. Jackson</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Aug-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>NRC Chairman, 1995-99</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/157/000129767/">François Jacob</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jun-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-2013</tt></td> <td>Operon theory of genetic control</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/317/000168810/">Irwin M. Jacobs</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Oct-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Founder of Qualcomm</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/082/000135674/">Kathleen Hall Jamieson</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Nov-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Annenberg Public Policy Center</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/008/000165510/">John I. Jenkins</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of Notre Dame</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/738/000123369/">Richard Jenrette</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Apr-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/313/000361227/">Robert Jervis</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/324/000030234/">Deborah S. Jin</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1968</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Created a fermionic condensate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/492/000364397/">Chalmers Johnson</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Aug-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Nov-2010</tt></td> <td>Blowback</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/077/000057903/">James A. Johnson</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Dec-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Fannie Mae, 1991-98</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/855/000170345/">Anita K. Jones</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Professor at University of Virginia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/641/000170131/">Dale W. Jorgenson</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-May-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Economist at Harvard</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/887/000099590/">Brian D. Josephson</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jan-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Discovered the Josephson Effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/555/000170045/">Paul L. Joskow</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Alfred P. Sloan Foundation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/608/000245870/">Tony Judt</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Aug-2010</tt></td> <td>Postwar</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/957/000160477/">Percy Julian</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Apr-1899</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-1975</tt></td> <td>Physostigmine and cortisone</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/832/000397638/">Leo P. Kadanoff</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jan-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Oct-2015</tt></td> <td>Second-order phase transitions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/831/000124459/">Brewster Kahle</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Oct-1960</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Founder of the Internet Archive</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/316/000140893/">Daniel Kahneman</a></td> <td><center>Psychologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Mar-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The psychology of economics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/203/000399003/">David Kaiser</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Feb-1971</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>How the Hippies Saved Physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/334/000023265/">Marvin Kalb</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jun-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CBS and NBC news correspondent</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/644/000135239/">Eric R. Kandel</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Nov-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Signal transduction in the nervous system</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/713/000160233/">Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jan-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Apr-1986</tt></td> <td>Linear programming</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/932/000099635/">Pyotr Kapitsa</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jul-1894</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1984</tt></td> <td>Discovered superfluidity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/319/000128932/">Helene L. Kaplan</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jun-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Of Counsel, Skadden Arps</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/659/000100359/">Jerome Karle</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-2013</tt></td> <td>X-Ray diffraction studies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/219/000165721/">Martin Karplus</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Karplus Equation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/814/000130424/">Bernard Katz</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Mar-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Apr-2003</tt></td> <td>Neurotransmitters and the pineal gland</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/411/000123042/">Fred Kavli</a></td> <td><center>Philanthropist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Aug-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Nov-2013</tt></td> <td>Kavli Foundation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/038/000097744/">Alan Kay</a></td> <td><center>Computer Programmer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-May-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Father of Object-Oriented Programming</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/934/000167433/">Judith S. 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Keeler</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Aug-1900</tt></td> <td>Composition of Saturn's rings</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/409/000024337/">Garrison Keillor</a></td> <td><center>Radio Personality</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Aug-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>A Prairie Home Companion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/136/000398936/">Morton Keller</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Mar-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Regulating a New Economy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/980/000168476/">William N. Kelley</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jun-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Kelley-Seegmiller Syndrome</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/037/000099737/">Henry W. Kendall</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1999</tt></td> <td>Verified existence of quarks</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/176/000118819/">Donald Kennedy</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Aug-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Editor-in-Chief of Science</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/137/000178600/">Paul Kennedy</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jun-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/771/000136363/">Nan Keohane</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Sep-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Political scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/041/000365940/">Robert O. Keohane</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>After Hegemony</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/078/000127694/">Donald R. Keough</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Sep-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Feb-2015</tt></td> <td>President and COO of Coca Cola, 1981-93</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/151/000398951/">Linda K. Kerber</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jan-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Federalists in Dissent</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/036/000027952/">Wolfgang Ketterle</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Oct-1957</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Bose-Einstein condensates</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/611/000366510/">Charles P. Kindleberger</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Oct-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jul-2003</tt></td> <td>The World in Depression</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/802/000206184/">Leon Kirchner</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jan-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Sep-2009</tt></td> <td>Quartet No. 3</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/357/000022291/">Henry Kissinger</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-May-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Secretary of State, 1973-77</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/663/000127282/">Jeremy R. Knowles</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chemistry Professor, Harvard University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/571/000023502/">Donald E. Knuth</a></td> <td><center>Computer Programmer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Art of Computer Programming</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/719/000277885/">Jerome Kohlberg, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jul-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jul-2015</tt></td> <td>KKR, Kohlberg & Company</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/836/000100536/">Walter Kohn</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Density-functional theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/636/000205021/">Willem Johan Kolff</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Feb-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Feb-2009</tt></td> <td>Artificial kidney, artificial heart</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/812/000029725/">Jeff Koons</a></td> <td><center>Sculptor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jan-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Artistic hack, Cicciolina's ex-husband</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/615/000138201/">Roger D. Kornberg</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Apr-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/013/000170500/">Robert P. Kraft</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jun-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-2015</tt></td> <td>Lick Observatory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/333/000131937/">Stephen Krasner</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>State Dept Policy Planning Dir., 2005-07</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/040/000087776/">Alfred Kroeber</a></td> <td><center>Anthropologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jun-1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Oct-1960</tt></td> <td>Pioneer in American Anthropology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/483/000122117/">Madeleine M. Kunin</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Sep-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Governor of Vermont, 1985-91</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/782/000099485/">Polykarp Kusch</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jan-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Mar-1993</tt></td> <td>Magnetic moment of the electron</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/205/000399005/">Walter LaFeber</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Aug-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The New Empire</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/212/000119852/">Edwin H. Land</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-May-1909</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Mar-1991</tt></td> <td>Polaroid Land Camera</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/793/000099496/">Lev Landau</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jan-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Apr-1968</tt></td> <td>Superfluidity of helium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/567/000212928/">Andrew E. Lange</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jul-1957</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jan-2010</tt></td> <td>Cosmologist, astrophysicist at Caltech</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/776/000079539/">Irving Langmuir</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Aug-1957</tt></td> <td>Inventor of the high-vacuum tube</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/164/000126783/">Ralph S. Larsen</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Johnson & Johnson, 1989-2002</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/071/000099771/">Robert B. Laughlin</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Nov-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Fractional quantum Hall effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/642/000120282/">Edward Lazear</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/623/000039506/">Jim Leach</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Oct-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from Iowa, 1977-2007</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/564/000161081/">Paul LeClerc</a></td> <td><center>Administrator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-May-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of New York Public Library</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/879/000169372/">Philip Leder</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Nov-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Harvard Geneticist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/911/000129524/">Joshua Lederberg</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-May-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Feb-2008</tt></td> <td>Genetic properties of bacteria</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/054/000099754/">David M. Lee</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jan-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Superfluidity of helium-3</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/790/000099493/">Tsung-Dao Lee</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Nov-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Violations of parity law</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/666/000100366/">Yuan T. Lee</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Nov-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Crossed molecular beam experiments</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/024/000027940/">Anthony J. Leggett</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Mar-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Particle physicist, explored superfluidity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/674/000100374/">Jean-Marie Lehn</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Sep-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Synthesis of molecules</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/619/000272800/">Jeffrey M. Leiden</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Clarus Ventures</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/220/000059043/">Mike Leigh</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Naked, Topsy-Turvy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/519/000253757/">Tom Leighton</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1956</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-founder of Akamai</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/589/000100289/">Luis Leloir</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Sep-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Dec-1987</tt></td> <td>Conversion of carbohydrates</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/241/000399041/">Jill Lepore</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Aug-1966</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Name of War</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/696/000049549/">Abba Lerner</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Oct-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Oct-1982</tt></td> <td>The Economics of Control</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/930/000171417/">Richard A. Lerner</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Aug-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Scripps Research Institute</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/145/000026067/">Lawrence Lessig</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jun-1961</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Constitutional and internet law</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/718/000167217/">Edward H. Levi</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-2000</tt></td> <td>US Attorney General, 1975-77</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/970/000027889/">Claude Lévi-Strauss</a></td> <td><center>Anthropologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Nov-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Nov-2009</tt></td> <td>French anthropologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/301/000116950/">Richard C. Levin</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Apr-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Yale University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/697/000128313/">Judy C. Lewent</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CFO of Merck</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/005/000120642/">Bernard Lewis</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-May-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Middle East scholar</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/791/000055626/">Edward B. Lewis</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-2004</tt></td> <td>Drosophila researcher, Nobel laureate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/303/000164808/">Susan L. Lindquist</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jun-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Protein folding</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/946/000116598/">Sol Linowitz</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Mar-2005</tt></td> <td>Negotiated return of the Panama Canal</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/601/000100301/">William Lipscomb</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Apr-2011</tt></td> <td>Chemical bonding</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/097/000136686/">Martin Lipton</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jun-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/586/000023517/">John Lithgow</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Oct-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Third Rock From The Sun</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/970/000047829/">Henry Cabot Lodge</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1850</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Nov-1924</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Massachusetts, 1893-1924</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/792/000107471/">Robert Lucas</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Theory of rational expectations</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/568/000082322/">Salvador Luria</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Aug-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-1991</tt></td> <td>Natural selection in bacteria</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/688/000167187/">Richard W. Lyman</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Oct-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-May-2012</tt></td> <td>President of Stanford University, 1971-80</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/091/000129701/">Feodor Lynen</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Apr-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Aug-1979</tt></td> <td>Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/856/000161373/">Paul W. MacAvoy</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Apr-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Council of Economic Advisers, 1975-76</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/024/000115676/">Robert Morrison MacIver</a></td> <td><center>Sociologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Apr-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jun-1970</tt></td> <td>The Web of Government</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/752/000022686/">Benoit Mandelbrot</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Nov-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Oct-2010</tt></td> <td>Fractal mathematician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/011/000129621/">Thomas E. Mann</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Brookings Institution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/778/000100478/">Rudolph A. Marcus</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Electron-transfer reactions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/120/000227436/">Geoffrey W. Marcy</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Sep-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Discoverer of exoplanets</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/228/000268421/">Lynn Margulis</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Mar-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-2011</tt></td> <td>Origin of eukaryotic organelles</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/037/000170524/">Joseph B. Martin</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Dean, Harvard Medical School, 1997-2007</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/407/000022341/">Steve Martin</a></td> <td><center>Comic</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Aug-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Jerk</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/195/000163703/">Eric Maskin</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Dec-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Mechanism design theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/915/000137504/">John C. Mather</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Aug-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Big Bang</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/280/000088016/">Ernst Mayr</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jul-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Feb-2005</tt></td> <td>Evolutionary biologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/347/000178810/">James J. McCarthy</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>?</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of AAAS</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/006/000030913/">John McCarthy</a></td> <td><center>Computer Programmer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Sep-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Oct-2011</tt></td> <td>Created LISP programming language</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/011/000083759/">Barbara McClintock</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jun-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Sep-1992</tt></td> <td>Discovered transposable genes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/090/000208463/">Michael W. McConnell</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Stanford Constitutional Law Center</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/562/000128178/">John F. McDonnell</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Mar-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of McDonnell-Douglas, 1988-94</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/518/000179978/">John McDowell</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Mind and World</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/497/000170984/">William D. McElroy</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jan-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Feb-1999</tt></td> <td>Bioluminescence</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/749/000141326/">Daniel L. McFadden</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jul-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/215/000119855/">Donald F. McHenry</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Oct-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to the UN, 1979-81</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/867/000173348/">Victor A. McKusick</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Oct-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jul-2008</tt></td> <td>Father of medical genetics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/448/000100148/">Edwin M. McMillan</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Sep-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1991</tt></td> <td>Discovered neptunium and plutonium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/171/000170658/">Barbara J. McNeil</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Harvard Professor of Health Care Policy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/859/000159382/">James M. McPherson</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Oct-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Battle Cry of Freedom</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/009/000113667/">Peter Medawar</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Oct-1987</tt></td> <td>Acquired immunological tolerance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/353/000117002/">Robert C. Merton</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jul-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Risk management and options</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/348/000116997/">Robert K. Merton</a></td> <td><center>Sociologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jul-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Feb-2003</tt></td> <td>On the Shoulders of Giants</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/505/000127124/">Richard A. Meserve</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Nov-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of the Carnegie Institution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/029/000117675/">Bob Metcalfe</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Inventor of Ethernet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/201/000058027/">J. Irwin Miller</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-1909</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Aug-2004</tt></td> <td>Former CEO of Cummins Engine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/174/000159694/">Merton H. Miller</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-May-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jun-2000</tt></td> <td>Modigliani-Miller theorem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/292/000162803/">Ira M. Millstein</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Nov-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Weil, Gotshal & Manges</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/844/000171331/">Raymond D. Mindlin</a></td> <td><center>Engineer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Sep-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1987</tt></td> <td>Mindlin's problem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/873/000225198/">Martha L. Minow</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Dec-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Dean of Harvard Law School</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/372/000128985/">Newton N. Minow</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jan-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>FCC Chairman, 1961-63</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/933/000031840/">Marvin Minsky</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Aug-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Father of Artificial Intelligence</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/676/000165181/">Maria Mitchell</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Aug-1818</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jun-1889</tt></td> <td>First American female astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/459/000159979/">Franco Modigliani</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Sep-2003</tt></td> <td>Life-cycle theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/009/000165511/">James Moeser</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chancellor, UNC Chapel Hill</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/638/000100338/">Stanford Moore</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Sep-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Aug-1982</tt></td> <td>Amino-acid analyzer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/041/000171525/">William W. Morgan</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jan-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jun-1994</tt></td> <td>Spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/582/000254817/">Dale Mortensen</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Feb-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jan-2014</tt></td> <td>Job creation and destruction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/013/000165515/">C. D. Mote, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of Maryland</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/573/000108249/">Robert A. Mundell</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Oct-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Floating exchange rates</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/587/000178053/">Barry A. Munitz</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Getty Trust, 1998-2006</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/781/000161298/">Alicia H. Munnell</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jun-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Council of Economic Advisers, 1996-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/199/000163707/">Roger B. Myerson</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Mar-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Mechanism design theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/277/000116926/">Gunnar Myrdal</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Dec-1898</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-May-1987</tt></td> <td>Monetary Equilibrium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/953/000044821/">Thomas Nagel</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jul-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>What is it like to be a bat?</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/479/000131086/">Daniel Nathans</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Oct-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Nov-1999</tt></td> <td>Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/853/000099556/">Louis Néel</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Nov-2000</tt></td> <td>Magnetic properties of solids</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/263/000085008/">Jawaharlal Nehru</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Nov-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-May-1964</tt></td> <td>First Prime Minister of India</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/061/000171545/">Gerry Neugebauer</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Infrared astronomy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/876/000127495/">Joseph P. Newhouse</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Feb-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Rand economist, Harvard professor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/938/000169431/">Peter M. Nicholas</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Founder of Boston Scientific</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/967/000167466/">Ernest Fox Nichols</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jun-1869</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Apr-1924</tt></td> <td>Infrared radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/347/000129957/">Marshall W. Nirenberg</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Apr-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jan-2010</tt></td> <td>RNA's role in protein synthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/099/000208472/">John T. Noonan, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Oct-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1985-96</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/129/000159649/">Douglass C. North</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Nov-2015</tt></td> <td>Cliometrics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/684/000161201/">Edwin G. 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Nye</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jan-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chairman, National Intelligence Council, 1993-94</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/326/000023257/">Sandra Day O'Connor</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Mar-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice, 1981-2006</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/021/000227337/">Onora O'Neill</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Aug-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of the British Academy, 2005-09</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/784/000100484/">George A. Olah</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Isolated carbonium ions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/580/000128196/">Gilbert S. 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Osheroff</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Aug-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Superfluidity of helium-3</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/113/000171597/">Donald E. 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Potter</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Dec-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Feb-1971</tt></td> <td>The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/614/000100314/">Vladimir Prelog</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jul-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jan-1998</tt></td> <td>Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/731/000140311/">Edward C. Prescott</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Dec-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Dynamic macroeconomics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/604/000100304/">Ilya Prigogine</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jan-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-May-2003</tt></td> <td>Theory of dissipative structures</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/851/000099554/">Aleksandr M. 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Purcell</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Aug-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-1997</tt></td> <td>Nuclear magnetic resonance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/743/000099446/">Isidor Isaac Rabi</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jul-1898</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jan-1988</tt></td> <td>Magnetic beam resonances</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/905/000094623/">Franklin Raines</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jan-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Fannie Mae, 1999-2004</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/028/000099728/">Norman F. Ramsey</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Aug-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Nov-2011</tt></td> <td>Energy levels of atoms</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/713/000167212/">Don Michael Randel</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of Chicago, 2000-06</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/894/000049747/">Diane Ravitch</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jul-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Education reformer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/348/000173826/">Raj Reddy</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jun-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Professor of Computer Science, CMU</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/438/000163946/">John S. Reed</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Citibank, 1984-2000</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/132/000172613/">Martin Rees</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jun-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of the Royal Society</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/984/000022918/">William Rehnquist</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Oct-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-2005</tt></td> <td>US Chief Justice, 1986-2005</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/740/000365642/">L. Rafael Reif</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Aug-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of MIT</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/052/000099752/">Frederick Reines</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Mar-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Aug-1998</tt></td> <td>Co-Discover of the neutrino</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/059/000165561/">Jehuda Reinharz</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Brandeis University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/113/000172594/">Eric Reissner</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jan-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Nov-1996</tt></td> <td>Reissner shear-deformation plate theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/576/000213934/">Nicholas V. Riasanovsky</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Dec-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-May-2011</tt></td> <td>A History of Russia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/205/000024133/">Condoleezza Rice</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Nov-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Secretary of State, 2005-09</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/892/000068688/">Adrienne Rich</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-May-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Mar-2012</tt></td> <td>An Atlas of the Difficult World</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/257/000099957/">Theodore W. Richards</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Apr-1928</tt></td> <td>Atomic weights</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/754/000127373/">William C. Richardson</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Johns Hopkins, 1990-95</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/905/000099608/">Burton Richter</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Mar-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/805/000140385/">Charles Richter</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Apr-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Sep-1985</tt></td> <td>Groundbreaking seismologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/937/000276109/">Adam G. Riess</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1969</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Accelerating expansion of the universe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/172/000172653/">David Rittenhouse</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1732</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1796</tt></td> <td>Early Pennsylvania scientist and statesman</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/160/000118803/">Ron Rivest</a></td> <td><center>Computer Programmer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The R in RSA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/668/000129281/">Frederick C. Robbins</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Aug-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Aug-2003</tt></td> <td>Cultured the polio virus</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/746/000099449/">John G. Roberts, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jan-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Chief Justice</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/972/000117621/">Marilynne Robinson</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Nov-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Housekeeping</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/148/000162659/">Sharon Percy Rockefeller</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Dec-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of WETA Public Broadcasting</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/546/000179009/">William Barton Rogers</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Dec-1804</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-May-1882</tt></td> <td>Founder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/262/000170749/">Kenneth S. Rogoff</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Mar-1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Harvard economist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/617/000120257/">Felix Rohatyn</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-May-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Financier, Lazard Fr鑢es</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/625/000047484/">Sonny Rollins</a></td> <td><center>Jazz Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Tenor sax master</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/343/000113004/">Richard Rorty</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jun-2007</tt></td> <td>Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/832/000214190/">Albert J. Rosenthal</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Mar-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-2010</tt></td> <td>Dean of Columbia Law School, 1979-84</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/304/000162815/">E. John Rosenwald, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Former Vice Chairman of Bear Stearns</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/308/000172789/">Bruno Rossi</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Apr-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Nov-1993</tt></td> <td>Rossi curve and magnetopause</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/558/000133159/">Mstislav Rostropovich</a></td> <td><center>Cellist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Mar-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Apr-2007</tt></td> <td>Cellist and conductor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/977/000090707/">Joseph Rotblat</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Nov-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Aug-2005</tt></td> <td>Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/291/000125913/">John W. Rowe</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jun-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Aetna, 2000-06</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/795/000100495/">F. Sherwood Rowland</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jun-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Mar-2012</tt></td> <td>Ozone depletion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/968/000099671/">Carlo Rubbia</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Discovered W and Z particles</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/294/000116943/">Neil Rudenstine</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jan-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Harvard, 1991-2001</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/968/000051815/">Edward Ruscha</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Dec-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Twenty-six Gasoline Stations</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/646/000167145/">Henry Norris Russell</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Oct-1877</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Feb-1957</tt></td> <td>Giant stars and dwarfs</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/889/000099592/">Martin Ryle</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Sep-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Oct-1984</tt></td> <td>Radio astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/180/000115832/">Albert Sabin</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Aug-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Mar-1993</tt></td> <td>Developed oral polio vaccine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/012/000161526/">Oliver Sacks</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Aug-2015</tt></td> <td>Awakenings</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/289/000051136/">Esa-Pekka Salonen</a></td> <td><center>Conductor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jun-1958</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/967/000165472/">Steven B. Sample</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Nov-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of Southern California</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/801/000118447/">Henry Samueli</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Sep-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Founder of Broadcom</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/870/000031777/">Paul Samuelson</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-May-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Dec-2009</tt></td> <td>Theory of revealed preference</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/213/000099913/">Frederick Sanger</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Aug-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Nov-2013</tt></td> <td>Two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/294/000032198/">Paul Sarbanes</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Feb-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Senator from Maryland, 1977-2007</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/500/000276669/">Thomas J. Sargent</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jul-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Rational expectations theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/405/000172886/">Wallace Sargent</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Oct-2012</tt></td> <td>Astrophysicist at CalTech</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/114/000056943/">Jean-Paul Sartre</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jun-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1980</tt></td> <td>Nausea, No Exit</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/098/000025023/">John Sayles</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Sep-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Secret of Roan Inish</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/058/000128671/">Robert A. Scalapino</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Oct-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-2011</tt></td> <td>Longtime Asia scholar at Berkeley</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/605/000160125/">Marjorie Scardino</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jan-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Pearson, 1997-2012</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/573/000061390/">Henry B. Schacht</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Oct-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Former CEO of Cummins, Lucent</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/014/000165516/">Morton Owen Schapiro</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Northwestern University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/954/000099657/">Arthur L. Schawlow</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-May-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Apr-1999</tt></td> <td>Laser spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/332/000116981/">Thomas C. Schelling</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Apr-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Strategy of Conflict</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/408/000172889/">Frank Schlesinger</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-May-1871</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jul-1943</tt></td> <td>Stellar parallaxes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/813/000161330/">Richard L. Schmalensee</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/360/000058186/">Eric Schmidt</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Apr-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Google, 2001-11</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/426/000172907/">Maarten Schmidt</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Discoverer of quasars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/822/000141399/">Myron S. Scholes</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jul-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Black-Scholes options pricing model</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/856/000099559/">Robert Schrieffer</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-May-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>BCS Theory of Superconductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/380/000139960/">Richard R. Schrock</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jan-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Metathesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/985/000397791/">Michael Schudson</a></td> <td><center>Sociologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Nov-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Discovering the News</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/632/000160152/">Theodore W. Schultz</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Apr-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Feb-1998</tt></td> <td>Investment in Human Capital</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/733/000168229/">Martin Schwarzschild</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-May-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Apr-1997</tt></td> <td>Structure and Evolution of the Stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/678/000022612/">Martin Scorsese</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Nov-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Taxi Driver</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/745/000055580/">Glenn Seaborg</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Feb-1999</tt></td> <td>Co-Discoverer of Plutonium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/457/000070247/">John Searle</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jul-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chinese Room Argument, Philosopher of Language</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/508/000172989/">William R. Sears</a></td> <td><center>Engineer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Mar-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Oct-2002</tt></td> <td>Airfoil engineer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/821/000099524/">Emilio Segrè</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Apr-1989</tt></td> <td>Co-Discoverer of the antiproton</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/539/000163050/">Nathan Seiberg</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Sep-1956</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>String theorist at Princeton</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/994/000343962/">Louis Michael Seidman</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Feb-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Our Unsettled Constitution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/800/000107479/">Amartya Sen</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Nov-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Poverty and Famines</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/966/000165471/">John Sexton</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, New York University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/260/000024188/">Donna Shalala</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Feb-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Secretary of HHS, 1993-2001</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/403/000131010/">Albert Shanker</a></td> <td><center>Labor Leader</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Sep-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Feb-1997</tt></td> <td>American Federation of Teachers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/934/000023865/">Claude Shannon</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Apr-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Feb-2001</tt></td> <td>Pioneer in information theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/101/000128714/">Harold T. Shapiro</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jun-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Princeton, 1988-2000</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/055/000165557/">Judith Shapiro</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jan-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Barnard College</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/194/000130801/">Robert B. Shapiro</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Aug-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Monsanto, 1995-2000</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/128/000133726/">Phillip A. Sharp</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Eukaryotic (split) genes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/854/000100554/">K. Barry Sharpless</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Apr-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chiral catalysts</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/522/000169015/">Thomas E. Shenk</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Princeton Molecular Biologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/126/000124751/">Walter V. Shipley</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Nov-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Chase Manhattan, 1996-99</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/655/000173136/">Iosif S. Shklovskii</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jul-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Mar-1985</tt></td> <td>Synchrotron radiation of the Crab Nebula</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/106/000026028/">William Shockley</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Feb-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Aug-1989</tt></td> <td>Co-Inventor of the transistor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/677/000173158/">David Shoenberg</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jan-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Mar-2004</tt></td> <td>Physicist at Cambridge</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/805/000206187/">John Shoven</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Stanford economist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/047/000099747/">Clifford G. Shull</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Sep-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-2001</tt></td> <td>Neutron scattering</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/957/000099660/">Kai M. Siegbahn</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Apr-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jul-2007</tt></td> <td>Electron spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/117/000169607/">Adele Simmons</a></td> <td><center>Administrator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jun-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, MacArthur Foundation, 1989-99</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/158/000123786/">Ruth J. Simmons</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jul-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Brown University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/501/000276670/">Christopher A. Sims</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Oct-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Statistical theory of time series</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/096/000179556/">Isadore Singer</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-May-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Atiyah-Singer index theorem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/937/000399737/">Quentin Skinner</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Nov-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Foundations of Modern Political Thought</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/685/000235977/">Theda Skocpol</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-May-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Harvard sociologist, political scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/802/000100502/">Richard E. Smalley</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Oct-2005</tt></td> <td>Co-Discovered fullerines</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/921/000163432/">Oliver Smithies</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jun-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Knock-out mice</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/826/000131433/">George D. Snell</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1996</tt></td> <td>Recognition of HLA antigens</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/269/000116918/">Robert M. Solow</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Aug-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Theory of economic growth</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/325/000023256/">Stephen Sondheim</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Mar-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>West Side Story</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/715/000167214/">Hugo F. Sonnenschein</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of Chicago, 1993-2000</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/103/000368993/">Larry Sonsini</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Feb-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/293/000023224/">George Soros</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Aug-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Financial speculator</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/414/000117063/">Michael I. Sovern</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Dec-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Columbia University, 1980-93</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/659/000141236/">A. Michael Spence</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Nov-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Asymmetric markets</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/865/000159388/">Jonathan D. Spence</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Aug-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Search for Modern China</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/766/000165271/">Percy Spencer</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jul-1894</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1970</tt></td> <td>Invented the microwave oven</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/922/000131529/">Roger W. Sperry</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Aug-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Apr-1994</tt></td> <td>"Split brain" hemispheric neurophysiology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/356/000025281/">Art Spiegelman</a></td> <td><center>Cartoonist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Maus</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/866/000173347/">Lyman Spitzer, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-1997</tt></td> <td>Father of space telescopes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/640/000100340/">William H. Stein</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jun-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Feb-1980</tt></td> <td>Amino-acid analyzer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/025/000099725/">Jack Steinberger</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-May-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Researcher of neutrinos</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/533/000104221/">George Steiner</a></td> <td><center>Critic</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>After Babel</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/906/000208282/">Thomas A. Steitz</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Aug-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Ribosomes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/463/000166962/">Fritz Stern</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Feb-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>German historian</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/323/000030233/">Joseph Stiglitz</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Feb-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/788/000055623/">Harlan Fiske Stone</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Oct-1872</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Apr-1946</tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice, 1925-46</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/027/000031931/">Patty Stonesifer</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1956</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Chair of Gates Foundation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/893/000207272/">Thomas P. Stossel</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Professor, Harvard Medical School</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/867/000196279/">P. F. Strawson</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Nov-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Feb-2006</tt></td> <td>Individuals</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/009/000022940/">William Styron</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jun-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-2006</tt></td> <td>The Confessions of Nat Turner</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/317/000116966/">Kathleen Sullivan</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Aug-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Scholar of constitutional law</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/638/000024566/">Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Publisher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Sep-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>New York Times Publisher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/476/000100176/">James B. Sumner</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Nov-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Aug-1955</tt></td> <td>Crystallized enzymes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/321/000116970/">Cass Sunstein</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Sep-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Why Societies Need Dissent</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/195/000173673/">Timothy Swager</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jul-1961</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chemist at MIT</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/472/000104160/">Leo Szilard</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Feb-1898</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-May-1964</tt></td> <td>Nuclear chain reaction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/907/000208283/">Jack W. Szostak</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Nov-1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>First artificial chromosome</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/846/000099549/">Igor Y. Tamm</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jul-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Apr-1971</tt></td> <td>Cherenkov radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/335/000164840/">Ratan N. Tata</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chairman of Tata Group</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/309/000162820/">Anne M. Tatlock</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Fiduciary Trust, 1999-2006</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/617/000100317/">Henry Taube</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Nov-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Nov-2005</tt></td> <td>Mechanisms of electron transfer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/416/000117065/">Charles Taylor</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Sources of the Self</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/814/000161331/">John B. Taylor</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Dec-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/995/000099698/">Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Mar-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Discovered first binary pulsar</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/041/000099741/">Richard E. Taylor</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Nov-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Verified existence of quarks</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/681/000026603/">Edward Teller</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jan-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Sep-2003</tt></td> <td>Father of the Hydrogen Bomb</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/368/000130975/">Howard M. 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Thier</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jun-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Massachusetts General, 1996-2002</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/971/000399771/">Keith Thomas</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Religion and the Decline of Magic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/916/000141493/">Lewis Thomas</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Nov-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Dec-1993</tt></td> <td>The Lives of a Cell</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/991/000167490/">Elihu Thomson</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Mar-1853</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Mar-1937</tt></td> <td>Electric welding and A/C motors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/482/000099185/">George Paget Thomson</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-May-1892</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1975</tt></td> <td>Diffraction of electrons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/899/000104587/">Lester Thurow</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-May-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Sloan School of Management</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/695/000167194/">Chang-Lin Tien</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jul-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Oct-2002</tt></td> <td>Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1990-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/975/000104663/">Shirley M. 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