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<html> <head> <title>Smithsonian Institution</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> <map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/org/040/000057866/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Smithsonian Institution MUSEUM Founded in 1846 by the bequest of English chemist <a href="/people/131/000056960/">James Smithson</a>, a man who had never once stepped foot in the United States. Also operates the <a href="/org/685/000128301/">National Air and Space Museum</a>. Official Website: <a href="http://www.si.edu/">http://www.si.edu/</a> Location: <a href="/geo/761/000069554/" class=proflink>Washington, DC</a> Founding Date: 1846<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/022/000167518/">Charles Greeley Abbot</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-May-1872</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1973</tt></td> <td>Solar energy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/858/000095573/">Dwayne Andreas</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Mar-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Archer Daniels Midland CEO, 1970-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/971/000051818/">Anne L. Armstrong</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Dec-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jul-2008</tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to the UK, 1976-77</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/294/000163802/">Alexander Dallas Bache</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jul-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Feb-1867</tt></td> <td>First President, National Academy of Sciences</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/241/000100938/">Spencer Fullerton Baird</a></td> <td><center>Naturalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Feb-1823</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1887</tt></td> <td>History of North American Birds</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/331/000023262/">James Baker</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Apr-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Secretary of State, 1989-92</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/232/000165734/">Barbara M. Barrett</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Finland</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/714/000031621/">Bill Bass</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Aug-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Human decomposition</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/360/000032264/">Xavier Becerra</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jan-1958</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman, California 31st</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/259/000167755/">Afsaneh M. Beschloss</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1956</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Rock Creek Group</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/012/000049862/">Michael Beschloss</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Nov-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Conquerors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/227/000058053/">Lindy Boggs</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Mar-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jul-2013</tt></td> <td>Congresswoman from Louisiana, 1973-91</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/387/000032291/">Daniel Boorstin</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Oct-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-2004</tt></td> <td>The Creators</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/797/000118443/">Eli Broad</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Billionaire</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/129/000088862/">Warren Burger</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Sep-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jun-1995</tt></td> <td>US Chief Justice, 1969-86</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/040/000129650/">Sheila P. Burke</a></td> <td><center>Administrator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>COO of the Smithsonian Institution</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/059/000206438/">Clarence Cannon</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Apr-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1964</tt></td> <td>Congressman from Missouri, 1923-64</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/248/000118891/">Henry Catto</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Dec-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Dec-2011</tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to the UK, 1989-91</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/925/000127544/">Paul L. Cejas</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Belgium, 1998-2001</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/958/000165463/">G. Wayne Clough</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Secretary of the Smithsonian</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/208/000032112/">Thad Cochran</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Dec-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Senator from Mississippi</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/968/000055803/">Arthur H. Compton</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1892</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-1962</tt></td> <td>Discovered the Compton Effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/007/000057833/">Barber Conable</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Nov-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Nov-2003</tt></td> <td>World Bank President, Congressman</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/237/000118880/">Peter Coneway</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Switzerland</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/135/000130742/">Frederick G. Cottrell</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1877</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Nov-1948</tt></td> <td>Smokestack filters to fight pollution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/613/000248866/">Clyde Cowan</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Dec-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-May-1974</tt></td> <td>Co-Discover of the neutrino</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/405/000206784/">Shelby M. Cullom</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1829</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1914</tt></td> <td>Governor and Senator from Illinois</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/254/000160771/">Lynn G. Dolnick</a></td> <td><center>Naturalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>National Zoological Park</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/221/000050071/">Stephen A. Douglas</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1813</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jun-1861</tt></td> <td>US Senator, debated Lincoln</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/089/000169579/">Ervin S. Duggan</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jun-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of PBS, 1994-99</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/032/000127648/">Archie W. Dunham</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Conoco, 1996-2002</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/945/000121582/">James C. Early</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jan-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Smithsonian Institution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/165/000166664/">James Pollard Espy</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-May-1785</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jan-1860</tt></td> <td>The Philosophy of Storms</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/711/000107390/">Cornelius Felton</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Nov-1807</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Feb-1862</tt></td> <td>Classical scholar of Greek</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/215/000024143/">Bill Frist</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Feb-1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Senate Majority Leader, 2003-07</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/067/000128680/">Phillip Frost</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Founder of IVAX Corporation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/889/000180349/">Melville W. Fuller</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Feb-1833</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jul-1910</tt></td> <td>US Chief Justice, 1888-1910</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/368/000094086/">Robert Goddard</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Oct-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Aug-1945</tt></td> <td>Father of modern rocketry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/894/000119537/">Robert F. Goheen</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Aug-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-2008</tt></td> <td>President of Princeton University, 1957-72</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/717/000167216/">Hanna Holborn Gray</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Oct-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of Chicago, 1978-93</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/829/000277995/">James M. Guyette</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Rolls-Royce North America</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/184/000093902/">Hannibal Hamlin</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Aug-1809</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jul-1891</tt></td> <td>Lincoln's first Vice President</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/019/000031923/">Mickey Hart</a></td> <td><center>Drummer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Sep-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Drummer for Grateful Dead</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/671/000096383/">Joseph Henry</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1797</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-May-1878</tt></td> <td>Discovered electromagnetic induction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/696/000167195/">Ira Michael Heyman</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-May-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Nov-2011</tt></td> <td>Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1980-90</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/800/000164308/">J. Tomilson Hill</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Vice Chairman of Blackstone Group</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/466/000172947/">George F. Hoar</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Aug-1826</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Sep-1904</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Massachusetts, 1877-1904</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/599/000349549/">William Temple Hornaday</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Dec-1854</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Mar-1937</tt></td> <td>Defender of the American bison</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/269/000167765/">George M. Humphrey</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Mar-1890</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jan-1970</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of the Treasury, 1953-57</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/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/199/000170686/">Richard D. Kinder</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chairman of Kinder Morgan Energy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/278/000126897/">Marie L. Knowles</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CFO of ARCO, 1996-2000</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/169/000278332/">Claudia Kotchka</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jul-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Retired Procter & Gamble executive</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/784/000118430/">Philip Lader</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to the UK, 1997-2001</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/670/000165175/">Samuel P. Langley</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Aug-1834</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Feb-1906</tt></td> <td>Heavier-than-air flying machine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/010/000163518/">Charles T. Manatt</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jun-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jul-2011</tt></td> <td>DNC Chairman, 1981-85</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/264/000162775/">Howard P. Milstein</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chairman of Emigrant Bank</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/812/000164320/">Steven T. Mnuchin</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1963</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Dune Capital Management</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/313/000127929/">Homer A. Neal</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jun-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Director of the ATLAS Project</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/389/000166888/">Constance Berry Newman</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jul-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Asst. Secy. of State for Africa, 2004-05</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/070/000102761/">Richard Olney</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1835</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1917</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of State, 1895-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/719/000122353/">Mary M. Ourisman</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>Feb-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Barbados</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/827/000118473/">James R. Patton, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Oct-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Founder, Patton Boggs</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/335/000105020/">John Wesley Powell</a></td> <td><center>Geologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Mar-1834</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Sep-1902</tt></td> <td>Exploration of the Colorado River</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/259/000040139/">Ralph Regula</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Dec-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from Ohio, 1973-2009</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/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/690/000030600/">Wilbur Ross</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Nov-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Private equity, W. L. Ross & Co.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/903/000094621/">Roger W. Sant</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Billionaire, AES</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/597/000087336/">Jim Sasser</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Sep-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Senator from Tennessee, 1977-95</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/236/000168729/">Richard T. Schlosberg III</a></td> <td><center>Publisher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Publisher of LA Times, 1994-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/982/000276154/">Brian P. Schmidt</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Feb-1967</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Accelerating universe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/971/000165476/">David J. Skorton</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Smithsonian Institution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/036/000129646/">Lawrence M. Small</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Sep-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, 2000-07</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/222/000159742/">A. W. "Pete" Smith</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Watson Wyatt Worldwide, 1993-99</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/131/000056960/">James Smithson</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1765</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jun-1829</tt></td> <td>Chemist, funded the Smithsonian Institution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/268/000167764/">John W. Snyder</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jun-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Oct-1985</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of the Treasury, 1946-53</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/537/000172021/">Alan Spoon</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Washington Post Co., 1991-2000</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/270/000123898/">H. Patrick Swygert</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Howard University, 1995-2008</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/460/000162971/">Mary Ann Tighe</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Tri-State CEO, CB Richard Ellis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/559/000055394/">James Van Allen</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Aug-2006</tt></td> <td>Discovered the Van Allen Belt</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/365/000026287/">Sarah Vowell</a></td> <td><center>Radio Personality</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Dec-1969</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>This American Life</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/015/000054850/">Earl Warren</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Mar-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1974</tt></td> <td>US Chief Justice, 1953-69</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/348/000169838/">Anthony Welters</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>AmeriChoice</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/617/000169110/">Wesley S. Williams, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Nov-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Former Partner, Covington & Burling</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/982/000031889/">James Woolsey</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Sep-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CIA Director, 1993-95</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/667/000266866/">Daniel W. 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