Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

JOURNAL

Founded 1945.

Official Website:
http://www.thebulletin.org/

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

David Baltimore Biologist 7-Mar-1938 Co-Discoverer, reverse transcriptase

Paul Berg Chemist 30-Jun-1926 Pioneer in recombinant DNA

Georges Charpak Physicist 1-Aug-1924 29-Sep-2010 Subatomic particle detectors

Samuel H. Day Activist 5-Oct-1926 26-Jan-2001 Antinuke crusader

Val Fitch Physicist 10-Mar-1923 Time not necessarily reversible

Sheldon Glashow Physicist 5-Dec-1932 Electroweak Theory

Roald Hoffmann Chemist 18-Jul-1937 Woodward-Hoffmann reaction

Alfred Kastler Physicist 3-May-1902 7-Jan-1984 Optical pumping

Henry W. Kendall Physicist 9-Dec-1926 15-Feb-1999 Verified existence of quarks

Masatoshi Koshiba Physicist 19-Sep-1926 Detected cosmic neutrinos

Leon M. Lederman Physicist 15-Jul-1922 Researcher of neutrinos

Ben R. Mottelson Physicist 9-Jul-1926 Determined shapes of nuclei

Pief Panofsky Physicist 24-Apr-1919 24-Sep-2007 Stanford Linear Accelerator

Julian Schwinger Physicist 12-Feb-1918 16-Jul-1994 Quantum electrodynamics

James B. Steinberg Government 7-May-1953 Deputy Secretary of State

Leo Szilard Physicist 11-Feb-1898 30-May-1964 Nuclear chain reaction

Steven Weinberg Physicist 3-May-1933 Electroweak Theory

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