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<html> <head> <title>JASON</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> JASON ORGANIZATION Quasi-independent, Defense Dept and privately-funded scientific group founded 1959 by three scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory: Marvin Goldberger, Kenneth Watson and Keith Brueckner. Though usually presented in all-capital letters as if it is an acronym, the name is inspired by the Jason of Greek mythology and "argonauts" fame. Location: <a href="/geo/694/000069487/" class=proflink>San Diego, CA</a> Founding Date: 1959<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/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/023/000025945/">Hans Bethe</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jul-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Mar-2005</tt></td> <td>Atomic scientist</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/967/000022901/">Freeman Dyson</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Dec-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Theoretical physicist at Institute for Advanced Study</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/122/000366021/">Edward A. Frieman</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jan-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Apr-2013</tt></td> <td>Director of Scripps, 1986-96</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/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/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/019/000099719/">Leon M. Lederman</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Researcher of neutrinos</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/382/000162893/">Pief Panofsky</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Apr-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Sep-2007</tt></td> <td>Stanford Linear Accelerator</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/165/000025090/">Sally Ride</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jul-2012</tt></td> <td>First American woman in space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/849/000099552/">Charles H. Townes</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jul-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jan-2015</tt></td> <td>Invention of the maser and laser</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/945/000099648/">Steven Weinberg</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-May-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Electroweak Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/115/000099815/">John Archibald Wheeler</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Apr-2008</tt></td> <td>The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/835/000099538/">Eugene Wigner</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Nov-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1995</tt></td> <td>Law of conservation of parity</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=162459" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2016 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/127/000001124/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/127/1124/s1124.jpg" width=128> The Beatles</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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