Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Peter Agre |
Biologist |
30-Jan-1949 |
|
Water channels of cell membranes |
Norman Augustine |
Business |
27-Jul-1935 |
|
CEO of Martin Marietta, 1987-97 |
Lawrence S. Bacow |
Educator |
c. 1950 |
|
President, Tufts University |
Brian Baird |
Politician |
7-Mar-1956 |
|
Congressman from Washington, 1999-2011 |
David Baltimore |
Biologist |
7-Mar-1938 |
|
Co-Discoverer, reverse transcriptase |
Craig R. Barrett |
Business |
29-Aug-1939 |
|
Chairman of Intel |
Henry S. Bienen |
Educator |
5-May-1939 |
|
President, Northwestern University, 1995-2009 |
Alfred H. Bloom |
Educator |
27-Feb-1946 |
|
President, Swarthmore College |
Lee C. Bollinger |
Educator |
c. 1946 |
|
President of Columbia University |
David L. Boren |
Politician |
21-Apr-1941 |
|
Governor and Senator from Oklahoma |
David Brin |
Novelist |
6-Oct-1950 |
|
The Uplift War |
Richard H. Brodhead |
Educator |
17-Apr-1947 |
|
President, Duke University |
William R. Brody |
Educator |
4-Jan-1944 |
|
President, Salk Institute |
Robert H. Bruininks |
Educator |
22-Feb-1942 |
|
President, University of Minnesota |
Nancy Cantor |
Educator |
c. 1952 |
|
Chancellor, Syracuse University |
Arne Carlson |
Politician |
24-Sep-1934 |
|
Governor of Minnesota, 1991-99 |
Jean-Lou Chameau |
Educator |
1953 |
|
President, California Institute of Technology |
Carol T. Christ |
Educator |
21-May-1944 |
|
President, Smith College |
Steven Chu |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1948 |
|
US Secretary of Energy, 2009-13 |
G. Wayne Clough |
Educator |
c. 1942 |
|
Secretary of the Smithsonian |
Jared L. Cohon |
Educator |
c. 1947 |
|
President, Carnegie Mellon University |
George A. Cowan |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1920 |
20-Apr-2012 |
Founder, Santa Fe Institute |
Michael M. Crow |
Educator |
c. 1955 |
|
President, Arizona State University |
Ann Druyan |
Author |
13-Jun-1949 |
|
Co-wrote Cosmos with husband Carl Sagan |
Vernon Ehlers |
Politician |
6-Feb-1934 |
|
Congressman from Michigan, 1993-2011 |
Stephen G. Emerson |
Educator |
c. 1952 |
|
President, Haverford College |
Mark Emmert |
Educator |
16-Dec-1952 |
|
President, University of Washington |
Sam Farr |
Politician |
4-Jul-1941 |
|
Congressman, California 17th |
Drew Gilpin Faust |
Educator |
18-Sep-1947 |
|
President of Harvard University |
Andrew Z. Fire |
Scientist |
27-Apr-1959 |
|
RNA interference |
Val Fitch |
Physicist |
10-Mar-1923 |
5-Feb-2015 |
Time not necessarily reversible |
Ira Flatow |
Radio Personality |
9-Mar-1949 |
|
Talk of the Nation: Science Friday |
Bill Foster |
Politician |
7-Oct-1955 |
|
Congressman from Illinois, 2008-11 |
Jerome I. Friedman |
Physicist |
28-Mar-1930 |
|
Verified existence of quarks |
Alice P. Gast |
Educator |
25-May-1958 |
|
President, Lehigh University |
Gregory L. Geoffroy |
Educator |
c. 1946 |
|
President, Iowa State University |
Wayne Gilchrest |
Politician |
15-Apr-1946 |
|
Congressman from Maryland, 1991-2009 |
Newt Gingrich |
Politician |
17-Jun-1943 |
|
Speaker of the House, 1995-99 |
Sheldon Glashow |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1932 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
Bart Gordon |
Politician |
24-Jan-1949 |
|
Congressman from Tennessee, 1985-2011 |
David J. Gross |
Physicist |
19-Feb-1941 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
Robert H. Grubbs |
Chemist |
27-Feb-1942 |
|
Metathesis |
Amy Gutmann |
Educator |
19-Nov-1949 |
|
President, University of Pennsylvania |
Ann Weaver Hart |
Educator |
1948 |
|
President, Temple University |
John L. Hennessy |
Educator |
c. 1953 |
|
President of Stanford University |
Richard Herman |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
Chancellor, UI Urbana-Champaign |
Dudley R. Herschbach |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1932 |
|
Crossed molecular beam experiments |
Susan Hockfield |
Educator |
24-Mar-1951 |
|
President of MIT |
Roald Hoffmann |
Chemist |
18-Jul-1937 |
|
Woodward-Hoffmann reaction |
Rush Holt |
Politician |
15-Oct-1948 |
|
Congressman, New Jersey 12th |
H. Robert Horvitz |
Scientist |
8-May-1947 |
|
Genetic regulation of organ development |
Freeman A. Hrabowski |
Educator |
13-Aug-1950 |
|
President, University of Maryland Baltimore |
Mark W. Huddleston |
Educator |
c. 1950 |
|
President, University of New Hampshire |
Jay Inslee |
Politician |
9-Feb-1951 |
|
Governor of Washington |
Walter Isaacson |
Author |
20-May-1952 |
|
Former Managing Editor for Time |
Shirley A. Jackson |
Physicist |
5-Aug-1946 |
|
NRC Chairman, 1995-99 |
John I. Jenkins |
Educator |
17-Dec-1953 |
|
President, University of Notre Dame |
Don W. Kassing |
Educator |
1941 |
|
President, San Jose State University, 2004-08 |
Bob Kerrey |
Politician |
27-Aug-1943 |
|
Governor and Senator from Nebraska |
Wolfgang Ketterle |
Physicist |
21-Oct-1957 |
|
Bose-Einstein condensates |
Madeleine M. Kunin |
Politician |
28-Sep-1933 |
|
Governor of Vermont, 1985-91 |
Karen R. Lawrence |
Educator |
18-Mar-1949 |
|
President, Sarah Lawrence College |
Jim Leach |
Politician |
15-Oct-1942 |
|
Congressman from Iowa, 1977-2007 |
Leon M. Lederman |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1922 |
|
Researcher of neutrinos |
Sally Mason |
Educator |
c. 1950 |
|
President, University of Iowa |
John C. Mather |
Physicist |
7-Aug-1946 |
|
Big Bang |
Betty McCollum |
Politician |
12-Jul-1954 |
|
Congresswoman, Minnesota 4th |
Richard L. McCormick |
Educator |
26-Dec-1947 |
|
President, Rutgers University |
Jerry McNerney |
Politician |
18-Jun-1951 |
|
Congressman, California 11th |
Craig C. Mello |
Scientist |
19-Oct-1960 |
|
RNA interference |
Brad Miller |
Politician |
19-May-1953 |
|
Congressman, North Carolina 13th |
C. D. Mote, Jr. |
Educator |
c. 1937 |
|
President, University of Maryland |
Bill Nye |
TV Personality |
27-Nov-1955 |
|
Bill Nye the Science Guy |
David W. Oxtoby |
Educator |
1951 |
|
President, Pomona College |
Marty Peretz |
Publisher |
c. 1937 |
|
Co-Owner, The New Republic |
John Podesta |
Government |
c. 1949 |
|
White House Chief of Staff for Pres. Clinton |
H. David Politzer |
Physicist |
31-Aug-1949 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
John Edward Porter |
Politician |
1-Jun-1935 |
|
Congressman from Illinois, 1980-2001 |
Jim Ramstad |
Politician |
6-May-1946 |
|
Congressman from Minnesota, 1991-2009 |
Robert C. Richardson |
Physicist |
26-Jun-1937 |
19-Feb-2013 |
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
Michael S. Roth |
Educator |
c. 1956 |
|
President, Wesleyan University |
R. T. Rybak |
Politician |
12-Nov-1955 |
|
Mayor of Minneapolis |
Edwin E. Salpeter |
Astronomer |
3-Dec-1924 |
26-Nov-2008 |
Quantitative electron microscopic autoradiography |
Allan R. Sandage |
Astronomer |
18-Jun-1926 |
13-Nov-2010 |
Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars |
Richard R. Schrock |
Chemist |
4-Jan-1945 |
|
Metathesis |
David Schwimmer |
Actor |
12-Nov-1966 |
|
Ross on Friends |
John Sexton |
Educator |
1942 |
|
President, New York University |
Donna Shalala |
Government |
14-Feb-1941 |
|
Secretary of HHS, 1993-2001 |
Harold T. Shapiro |
Educator |
8-Jun-1935 |
|
President of Princeton, 1988-2000 |
Judith Shapiro |
Educator |
24-Jan-1942 |
|
President, Barnard College |
Robert N. Shelton |
Educator |
1948 |
|
President, University of Arizona |
Michael Shermer |
Journalist |
8-Sep-1954 |
|
Skeptic Magazine |
Ruth J. Simmons |
Educator |
3-Jul-1945 |
|
President, Brown University |
David J. Skorton |
Educator |
22-Nov-1949 |
|
Smithsonian Institution |
Walter B. Slocombe |
Government |
23-Sep-1941 |
|
Defense analyst |
Barbara R. Snyder |
Educator |
23-Jul-1955 |
|
President, CWRU |
Graham B. Spanier |
Educator |
18-Jul-1948 |
|
President, Penn State University, 1995-2011 |
Shirley M. Tilghman |
Educator |
17-Sep-1946 |
|
President of Princeton University |
Harold E. Varmus |
Scientist |
18-Dec-1939 |
|
Genetic causes of cancer |
Craig Venter |
Biologist |
14-Oct-1946 |
|
Engineered the first man-made bacterial cell |
Tim Walz |
Politician |
6-Apr-1964 |
|
Congressman, Minnesota 1st |
James Watson |
Scientist |
6-Apr-1928 |
|
Co-Discoverer of DNA |
Stephen L. Weber |
Educator |
17-Mar-1942 |
|
President, San Diego State University |
Frank Wilczek |
Physicist |
15-May-1951 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
James Wright |
Educator |
1939 |
|
President, Dartmouth College |
Ahmed H. Zewail |
Chemist |
26-Feb-1946 |
|
Femtochemistry |
Nancy L. Zimpher |
Educator |
29-Oct-1946 |
|
President, University of Cincinnati |