PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Founded 1888 as the New York Mathematical Society; renamed American Mathematical Society in 1894.

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

Location:
Providence, RI

Founding Date:
1888

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Lipman Bers	Mathematician	22-May-1914	29-Oct-1993	Riemann surfaces
George David Birkhoff	Mathematician	21-Mar-1884	12-Nov-1944	Modern theory of dynamical systems
David H. Blackwell	Mathematician	24-Apr-1919	8-Jul-2010	Bayesian statistics
Gregory Breit	Physicist	14-Jul-1899	11-Sep-1981	Proton-proton dispersion
Ernest W. Brown	Astronomer	29-Nov-1866	22-Jul-1938	Tables of the Motion of the Moon
William Marshall Bullitt	Attorney	4-Mar-1873	3-Oct-1957	US Solicitor General, 1912-13
Vannevar Bush	Scientist	11-Mar-1890	30-Jun-1974	Pre-internet visionary
Henri Cartan	Mathematician	8-Jul-1904	13-Aug-2008	Leader of the math Bourbakistes
Alonzo Church	Mathematician	14-Jun-1903	11-Aug-1995	Lambda calculus, Church-Turing thesis
Samuel Eilenberg	Mathematician	30-Sep-1913	30-Jan-1998	Category theory
Israel Gelfand	Mathematician	2-Sep-1913	5-Oct-2009	Banach algebras, Lie groups
Ronald Graham	Mathematician	31-Oct-1935		Mathematician, Computer Scientist
George W. Hill	Astronomer	3-Mar-1838	16-Apr-1914	A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn
Jerome Karle	Chemist	18-Jun-1918	6-Jun-2013	X-Ray diffraction studies
Maria M. Klawe	Educator	5-Jul-1951		President, Harvey Mudd College
Donald E. Knuth	Computer Programmer	10-Jan-1938		The Art of Computer Programming
John McCarthy	Computer Programmer	4-Sep-1927	24-Oct-2011	Created LISP programming language
Jerry McNerney	Politician	18-Jun-1951		Congressman, California 11th
Claude Shannon	Scientist	30-Apr-1916	24-Feb-2001	Pioneer in information theory
Isadore Singer	Mathematician	3-May-1924		Atiyah-Singer index theorem
Stephen Timoshenko	Engineer	23-Dec-1878	29-May-1972	Mechanical engineering professor at Stanford
John H. van Vleck	Physicist	13-Mar-1899	27-Oct-1980	Quantum theory of paramagnetism
Vernor Vinge	Author	10-Feb-1944		A Fire Upon The Deep
John von Neumann	Mathematician	28-Dec-1903	8-Feb-1957	Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory
Norbert Wiener	Mathematician	26-Nov-1894	18-Mar-1964	Cybernetics
Eugene Wigner	Physicist	17-Nov-1902	1-Jan-1995	Law of conservation of parity

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