US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Fred Brooks	Computer Programmer	19-Apr-1931		Father of the IBM System 360
Jack M. Campbell	Politician	10-Sep-1916	14-Jun-1999	Governor of New Mexico, 1963-67
Clyde Cowan	Physicist	6-Dec-1919	24-May-1974	Co-Discover of the neutrino
Arthur S. Flemming	Government	12-Jun-1905	7-Sep-1996	HEW Secretary, 1958-61
Donald A. Glaser	Physicist	21-Sep-1926	28-Feb-2013	Inventor of the bubble chamber
James Goodby	Diplomat	20-Dec-1929		US Ambassador to Finland, 1980-81
Robert Hofstadter	Physicist	5-Feb-1915	17-Nov-1990	Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons
Craig Hosmer	Politician	6-May-1915	11-Oct-1982	Congressman from California, 1953-74
Willard F. Libby	Chemist	17-Dec-1908	8-Sep-1980	Carbon-14 dating technique
David E. Lilienthal	Government	8-Jul-1899	15-Jan-1981	TVA Chairman, 1941-46
John McCone	Government	4-Jan-1902	14-Feb-1991	CIA Director, 1961-65
William D. McElroy	Biologist	22-Jan-1917	17-Feb-1999	Bioluminescence
Edwin M. McMillan	Physicist	18-Sep-1907	7-Sep-1991	Discovered neptunium and plutonium
Ben R. Mottelson	Physicist	9-Jul-1926		Determined shapes of nuclei
Robert Oppenheimer	Physicist	22-Apr-1904	18-Feb-1967	Physicist, headed the Manhattan Project
Kenneth S. Pitzer	Chemist	6-Jan-1914	26-Dec-1997	President of Rice University, 1961-68
Gilbert Plass	Physicist	22-Mar-1922	1-Mar-2004	Climate change scientist
Isidor Isaac Rabi	Physicist	29-Jul-1898	11-Jan-1988	Magnetic beam resonances
Norman F. Ramsey	Physicist	27-Aug-1915	4-Nov-2011	Energy levels of atoms
Dixy Lee Ray	Politician	3-Sep-1914	2-Jan-1994	Governor of Washington, 1977-81
Susan P. Read	Judge	1947		Judge, NY Court of Appeals
Frederick Reines	Physicist	16-Mar-1918	26-Aug-1998	Co-Discover of the neutrino
Burton Richter	Physicist	22-Mar-1931		Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson
F. Sherwood Rowland	Chemist	28-Jun-1927	10-Mar-2012	Ozone depletion
James R. Schlesinger	Government	15-Feb-1929	27-Mar-2014	Served Nixon, Ford, Carter
Glenn Seaborg	Physicist	19-Apr-1912	25-Feb-1999	Co-Discoverer of Plutonium
Sidney Souers	Government	30-Mar-1892	14-Jan-1973	CIA Director, 1946
Ronald Spiers	Diplomat	9-Jul-1925		US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1981-83
John von Neumann	Mathematician	28-Dec-1903	8-Feb-1957	Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory
Eugene Wigner	Physicist	17-Nov-1902	1-Jan-1995	Law of conservation of parity

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