ORGANIZATION

Founded 1878.

Under a reciprocal arrangement, members of the Travellers Club are granted access.

Official Website:
http://www.cosmos-club.org/

Location:
Washington, DC

Founding Date:
1878

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
David Abshire	Diplomat	11-Apr-1926	31-Oct-2014	US Ambassador to NATO, 1983-87
John Atanasoff	Inventor	4-Oct-1903	15-Jun-1995	Atanasoff-Berry Computer
Harry Blackmun	Judge	12-Nov-1908	4-Mar-1999	US Supreme Court Justice, 1970-94
Louis D. Brandeis	Judge	13-Nov-1856	5-Oct-1941	US Supreme Court Justice, 1916-39
David Brinkley	Journalist	10-Jul-1920	11-Jun-2003	The Huntley-Brinkley Report
Wallace R. Brode	Chemist	12-Jun-1900	10-Aug-1974	Absorption spectra of dyes
Henry Billings Brown	Judge	2-Mar-1836	4-Sep-1913	US Supreme Court Justice, 1891-1906
Lester R. Brown	Activist	28-Mar-1934		Earth Policy Institute
Vannevar Bush	Scientist	11-Mar-1890	30-Jun-1974	Pre-internet visionary
Robert N. Butler	Doctor	21-Jan-1927	4-Jul-2010	Expert on aging
Chester A. Crocker	Government	29-Oct-1941		Asst. Secy. State, African Affairs, 1981-89
Michael DeBakey	Doctor	7-Sep-1908	11-Jul-2008	Father of cardiovascular surgery
Diana Lady Dougan	Diplomat	13-Jan-1943		Former US Ambassador
Gerald M. Edelman	Scientist	1-Jul-1929	17-May-2014	Chemical structure of antibodies
John Hope Franklin	Historian	2-Jan-1915	25-Mar-2009	From Slavery to Freedom
Murray Gell-Mann	Physicist	15-Sep-1929		Quarks and strangeness
Georgie Anne Geyer	Journalist	2-Apr-1935		Foreign correspondent turned columnist
Riccardo Giacconi	Astronomer	6-Oct-1931		Discovered cosmic X-ray sources
John Oliver La Gorce	Explorer	22-Sep-1880	23-Dec-1959	Antarctica explorer, National Geographic editor
William C. Gorgas	Doctor	3-Oct-1854	3-Jul-1920	Malaria and yellow fever
Sebastian de Grazia	Author	11-Aug-1917	31-Dec-2000	Machiavelli in Hell
Christian Herter, Jr.	Government	29-Jan-1919	16-Sep-2007	First Chairman, New York Urban Coalition
Thomas L. Hughes	Government	?		Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace
Zora Neale Hurston	Novelist	7-Jan-1891	28-Jan-1960	Their Eyes Were Watching God
Robert Keeley	Diplomat	4-Sep-1929	9-Jan-2015	US Ambassador to Greece, 1985-89
John F. Kennedy	Head of State	29-May-1917	22-Nov-1963	35th US President, 1961-63
Walter Lippmann	Journalist	23-Sep-1889	14-Dec-1974	Today and Tomorrow
John V. Lombardi	Educator	1942		President, Louisiana State University
Alan D. Lourie	Judge	13-Jan-1935		US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
Gerald S. McGowan	Attorney	3-Sep-1946		US Ambassador to Portugal, 1998-2001
Robert S. Mulliken	Chemist	7-Jun-1896	31-Oct-1986	Molecular orbital theory
David G. Newton	Diplomat	13-Nov-1935		US Ambassador to Iraq, 1984-88
Roy Franklin Nichols	Historian	3-Mar-1896	12-Jan-1973	The Disruption of American Democracy
Phyllis E. Oakley	Government	1934		Assistant Secy. of State for Intelligence, 1997-99
Richard B. Parker	Diplomat	3-Jul-1923	7-Jan-2011	US Ambassador to Morocco, 1978-79
John Wesley Powell	Geologist	24-Mar-1834	23-Sep-1902	Exploration of the Colorado River
Larry Pressler	Politician	29-Mar-1942		US Senator from South Dakota, 1979-97
Charles R. Ritcheson	Historian	26-Feb-1925	8-Dec-2011	British Politics and the American Revolution
Walt Rostow	Government	7-Oct-1916	13-Feb-2003	National Security Advisor, 1966-69
Antonin Scalia	Judge	11-Mar-1936		US Supreme Court Justice
Herbert Stein	Economist	27-Aug-1916	8-Sep-1999	Economic adviser for Nixon
Ambrose Swasey	Business	19-Dec-1846	15-Jun-1937	Warner and Swasey Company and Observatory
Merle Tuve	Physicist	27-Jun-1901	20-May-1982	Proximity fuse
Harold C. Urey	Chemist	29-Apr-1893	5-Jan-1981	Discovered Deuterium
Edward O. Wilson	Biologist	10-Jun-1929		Father of Sociobiology

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