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<html> <head> <title>Science Debate 2008</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> Science Debate 2008 ORGANIZATION Official Website: <a href="http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/">http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/</a> Location: Marine on St Croix, MN <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/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/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/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/331/000032235/">Brian Baird</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-1956</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from Washington, 1999-2011</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/643/000117292/">Craig R. Barrett</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Aug-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chairman of Intel</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/972/000165477/">Henry S. Bienen</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-May-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Northwestern University, 1995-2009</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/082/000165584/">Alfred H. Bloom</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Feb-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Swarthmore College</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/839/000051686/">David L. Boren</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Apr-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Governor and Senator from Oklahoma</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/732/000023663/">David Brin</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Uplift War</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/991/000165496/">Robert H. Bruininks</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Feb-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of Minnesota</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/089/000120726/">Arne Carlson</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Sep-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Governor of Minnesota, 1991-99</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/959/000165464/">Jean-Lou Chameau</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, California Institute of Technology</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/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/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/045/000165547/">Jared L. Cohon</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Carnegie Mellon University</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/501/000127120/">Michael M. Crow</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Arizona State University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/291/000026213/">Ann Druyan</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jun-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-wrote Cosmos with husband Carl Sagan</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/483/000037372/">Vernon Ehlers</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from Michigan, 1993-2011</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/112/000165614/">Stephen G. Emerson</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Haverford College</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/929/000165434/">Mark Emmert</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Dec-1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of Washington</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/524/000037413/">Sam Farr</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jul-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman, California 17th</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/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/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/939/000024867/">Ira Flatow</a></td> <td><center>Radio Personality</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Talk of the Nation: Science Friday</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/446/000168939/">Bill Foster</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Oct-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from Illinois, 2008-11</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/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/126/000165628/">Gregory L. Geoffroy</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Iowa State University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/695/000038581/">Wayne Gilchrest</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from Maryland, 1991-2009</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/487/000024415/">Newt Gingrich</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jun-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Speaker of the House, 1995-99</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/718/000038604/">Bart Gordon</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jan-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from Tennessee, 1985-2011</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/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/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/938/000165443/">Ann Weaver Hart</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Temple University</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/017/000165519/">Richard Herman</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chancellor, UI Urbana-Champaign</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/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/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/082/000038965/">Rush Holt</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Oct-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman, New Jersey 12th</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/864/000135459/">H. Robert Horvitz</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-May-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Genetic regulation of organ development</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/940/000165445/">Mark W. Huddleston</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of New Hampshire</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/091/000038974/">Jay Inslee</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Feb-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Governor of Washington</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/673/000030583/">Walter Isaacson</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Former Managing Editor for Time</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/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/114/000165616/">Don W. Kassing</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, San Jose State University, 2004-08</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/229/000043100/">Bob Kerrey</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Aug-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Governor and Senator from Nebraska</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/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/948/000165453/">Karen R. Lawrence</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Mar-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Sarah Lawrence College</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/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/933/000165438/">Sally Mason</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of Iowa</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/689/000039572/">Betty McCollum</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jul-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congresswoman, Minnesota 4th</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/993/000165498/">Richard L. McCormick</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Dec-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Rutgers University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/048/000122679/">Jerry McNerney</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman, California 11th</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/774/000137363/">Craig C. Mello</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Oct-1960</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>RNA interference</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/053/000039933/">Brad Miller</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-May-1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman, North Carolina 13th</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/834/000030744/">Bill Nye</a></td> <td><center>TV Personality</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Nov-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Bill Nye the Science Guy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/148/000165650/">David W. Oxtoby</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Pomona College</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/009/000120646/">Marty Peretz</a></td> <td><center>Publisher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Owner, The New Republic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/299/000051146/">John Podesta</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>White House Chief of Staff for Pres. Clinton</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/716/000140296/">H. David Politzer</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Aug-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Deep structure of matter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/644/000121281/">John Edward Porter</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jun-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from Illinois, 1980-2001</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/256/000040136/">Jim Ramstad</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-May-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from Minnesota, 1991-2009</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/056/000099756/">Robert C. Richardson</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Feb-2013</tt></td> <td>Superfluidity of helium-3</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/935/000165440/">Michael S. Roth</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1956</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Wesleyan University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/499/000167995/">R. T. Rybak</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Nov-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Mayor of Minneapolis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/344/000172825/">Edwin E. Salpeter</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Dec-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Nov-2008</tt></td> <td>Quantitative electron microscopic autoradiography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/375/000172856/">Allan R. Sandage</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Nov-2010</tt></td> <td>Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars</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/080/000026002/">David Schwimmer</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Nov-1966</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Ross on Friends</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/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/934/000165439/">Robert N. Shelton</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of Arizona</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/275/000055110/">Michael Shermer</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Skeptic Magazine</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/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/112/000161626/">Walter B. Slocombe</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Sep-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Defense analyst</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/041/000165543/">Barbara R. Snyder</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jul-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, CWRU</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/618/000170108/">Graham B. Spanier</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jul-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Penn State University, 1995-2011</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/975/000104663/">Shirley M. Tilghman</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Sep-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Princeton University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/207/000132808/">Harold E. Varmus</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Dec-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Genetic causes of cancer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/832/000163343/">Craig Venter</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Oct-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Engineered the first man-made bacterial cell</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/109/000122740/">Tim Walz</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Apr-1964</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman, Minnesota 1st</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/322/000022256/">James Watson</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Apr-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Discoverer of DNA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/077/000165579/">Stephen L. 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