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President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Index President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), founded in 1848, is the world's largest general scientific society. [1]

177 relations: Alan Tower Waterman, Albert A. Michelson, Albert Benjamin Prescott, Albert Francis Blakeslee, Alexander Dallas Bache, Alexis Caswell, Alfred Romer, Alice S. Huang, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Civil War, Anna J. Harrison, Anton Julius Carlson, Arthur Amos Noyes, Arthur Compton, Asa Gray, Asaph Hall, Athelstan Spilhaus, Barbara A. Schaal, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Benjamin Peirce, Calvin M. Woodward, Carroll D. Wright, Charles Augustus Young, Charles Doolittle Walcott, Charles Edwin Bessey, Charles F. Kettering, Charles R. Van Hise, Charles Sedgwick Minot, Charles William Eliot, Chauncey D. Leake, D. Allan Bromley, Daniel Garrison Brinton, David A. Hamburg, David Baltimore, David Starr Jordan, Detlev Bronk, Don K. Price, Donald N. Langenberg, E. H. Moore, Edmund Beecher Wilson, Edmund Ware Sinnott, Edward Charles Pickering, Edward Condon, Edward Drinker Cope, Edward E. David Jr., Edward Leamington Nichols, Edward Orton Sr., Edward S. Morse, Edward Thorndike, Edward W. Morley, ..., Edwin Conklin, Eloise E. Clark, Elvin C. Stakman, Emilio Q. Daddario, F. Sherwood Rowland, Floyd E. Bloom, Francisco J. Ayala, Franz Boas, Frederic Ward Putnam, Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard, Frederick Mosteller, George Beadle, George David Birkhoff, George Frederick Barker, George Jarvis Brush, George Lincoln Goodale, Gerald Fink, Geraldine L. Richmond, Gerard Piel, Gil Omenn, Glenn T. Seaborg, Grove Karl Gilbert, H. Bentley Glass, Harlow Shapley, Henry Eyring (chemist), Henry Fairfield Osborn, Henry Norris Russell, Hubert Anson Newton, Ira Remsen, Irving Langmuir, Isaac Lea, Isaiah Bowman, J. Lawrence Smith, J. Playfair McMurrich, Jacob Whitman Bailey, James Bryant Conant, James Dwight Dana, James Hall (paleontologist), James McCarthy (oceanographer), James McKeen Cattell, Jane Lubchenco, Jeffries Wyman, John Holdren, John Jacob Abel, John Lawrence LeConte, John Merle Coulter, John Strong Newberry, John Torrey, John Wells Foster, John Wesley Powell, John William Dawson, Joseph Henry, Joseph LeConte, Joseph Lovering, Julius Erasmus Hilgard, Karl Taylor Compton, Kenneth E. Boulding, Kirtley F. Mather, Laurence H. Snyder, Laurence McKinley Gould, Lawrence Bogorad, Leland Ossian Howard, Leon M. Lederman, Leonard M. Rieser, Lewis H. Morgan, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Louis Agassiz, M. R. C. Greenwood, Marcus Benjamin, Margaret Burbidge, Margaret Hamburg, Margaret Mead, Mary Ellen Avery, Mary L. Good, Mihajlo Pupin, Mildred Dresselhaus, Mina Rees, Nina Fedoroff, Othniel Charles Marsh, Paul E. Klopsteg, Paul Magnus Gross, Paul Sears, Peter Agre, Peter H. Raven, Peter Lesley, Phillip Allen Sharp, Richard C. Atkinson, Rita R. Colwell, Robert Andrews Millikan, Robert Simpson Woodward, Roger Adams, Roger Revelle, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Science, Science (journal), Sheila Widnall, Shirley Ann Jackson, Simon Flexner, Simon Newcomb, Stephen Alexander (astronomer), Stephen Jay Gould, Susan Hockfield, Theodore Gill, Theodore William Richards, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Thomas Park (AAAS), Thomas Sterry Hunt, Wallace R. Brode, Walter Bradford Cannon, Walter E. Massey, Walter Orr Roberts, Warren Weaver, Wesley Clair Mitchell, William Barton Rogers, William Charles Redfield, William Chauvenet, William D. McElroy, William Gilson Farlow, William H. Press, William H. Welch, William Harkness, William John McGee, William Wallace Campbell, Wolcott Gibbs. Expand index (127 more) »

Alan Tower Waterman

Alan Tower Waterman (June 4, 1892 – November 30, 1967) was an American physicist.

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Albert A. Michelson

Albert Abraham Michelson FFRS HFRSE (December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931) was an American physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment.

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Albert Benjamin Prescott

Albert Benjamin Prescott (December 12, 1832, Hastings, New York – February 25, 1905) was an American chemist.

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Albert Francis Blakeslee

Albert Francis Blakeslee (November 9, 1874 – November 16, 1954) was an American botanist.

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Alexander Dallas Bache

Alexander Dallas Bache (July 19, 1806 – February 17, 1867) was an American physicist, scientist, and surveyor who erected coastal fortifications and conducted a detailed survey to map the mideastern United States coastline.

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Alexis Caswell

Alexis Caswell (January 29, 1799 – January 8, 1877) was an American educator, born in Taunton, Massachusetts.

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Alfred Romer

Alfred Sherwood Romer (December 28, 1894 – November 5, 1973) was an American paleontologist and biologist and a specialist in vertebrate evolution.

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Alice S. Huang

Alice S. Huang (is an American biologist specialized in microbiology and virology. She is Senior Faculty Associate in Biology at the California Institute of Technology, and served as President of AAAS during the 2010-2011 term.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Anna J. Harrison

Anna Jane Harrison (December 23, 1912 – August 8, 1998) was an American organic chemist and a professor of chemistry at Mount Holyoke College for nearly forty years.

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Anton Julius Carlson

Anton Julius Carlson (January 29, 1875 – September 2, 1956) was a Swedish American physiologist.

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Arthur Amos Noyes

Arthur Amos Noyes (September 13, 1866 – June 3, 1936) was a U.S. chemist, inventor and educator.

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Arthur Compton

Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.

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Asa Gray

Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888) is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century.

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Asaph Hall

Asaph Hall III (October 15, 1829 – November 22, 1907) was an American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877.

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Athelstan Spilhaus

Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus (November 25, 1911 – March 30, 1998) was a South African-American geophysicist and oceanographer.

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Barbara A. Schaal

Barbara Anna Schaal (born 1947 in Berlin, Germany, naturalized in 1956) American scientist, evolutionary biologist, is a professor at Washington University in St. Louis and vice president of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Benjamin Apthorp Gould

Benjamin Apthorp Gould (September 27, 1824 – November 26, 1896) was a pioneering American astronomer.

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Benjamin Peirce

Benjamin Peirce FRSFor HFRSE April 4, 1809 – October 6, 1880) was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for approximately 50 years. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics.

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Calvin M. Woodward

Calvin Milton Woodward (August 25, 1837 – January 12, 1914) was a United States educator and professor.

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Carroll D. Wright

Carroll Davidson Wright (July 25, 1840 – February 20, 1909) was an American statistician.

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Charles Augustus Young

Charles Augustus Young (December 15, 1834 – January 4, 1908) one of the foremost solar spectroscopist astronomers in the United States, died of pneumonia after a brief illness, at his home in Hanover, New Hampshire, on 4 January 1908.

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Charles Doolittle Walcott

Charles Doolittle Walcott (March 31, 1850 – February 9, 1927) was an American paleontologist, administrator of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927, and geologist.

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Charles Edwin Bessey

Charles Edwin Bessey (21 May 1845 – 25 February 1915) was an American botanist.

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Charles F. Kettering

Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 – November 25, 1958) sometimes known as Charles "Boss" Kettering was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents.

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Charles R. Van Hise

Charles Richard Van Hise (May 29, 1857 – November 19, 1918) was an American geologist, academic and progressive.

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Charles Sedgwick Minot

Charles Sedgwick Minot (December 23, 1852 – November 19, 1914) was an American anatomist and a founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research.

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Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot (March 20, 1834 – August 22, 1926) was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869.

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Chauncey D. Leake

Chauncey Depew Leake (September 5, 1896 – January 11, 1978) was an American pharmacologist, medical historian and ethicist.

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D. Allan Bromley

David Allan Bromley (May 4, 1926 – February 10, 2005) was a Canadian-American physicist, academic administrator and Science Advisor to American president George H. W. Bush.

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Daniel Garrison Brinton

Daniel Garrison Brinton (May 13, 1837July 31, 1899) was an American archaeologist and ethnologist.

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David A. Hamburg

David A. Hamburg is President Emeritus at Carnegie Corporation of New York, where he served as president from 1982 to 1997.

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David Baltimore

David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) is an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.

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David Starr Jordan

David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was an American ichthyologist, educator, eugenicist, and peace activist.

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Detlev Bronk

Detlev Wulf Bronk (August 13, 1897 – November 17, 1975) was a prominent American scientist, educator, and administrator.

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Don K. Price

Don Krasher Price (23 January 1910 – 9 July 1995) was an American political scientist who served as the founding dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government from 1958 to 1976.

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Donald N. Langenberg

Donald Newton Langenberg (born March 17, 1932) is a physicist and college professor.

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E. H. Moore

Eliakim Hastings Moore (January 26, 1862 – December 30, 1932), usually cited as E. H. Moore or E. Hastings Moore, was an American mathematician.

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Edmund Beecher Wilson

Edmund Beecher Wilson (19 October 1856 – 3 March 1939) was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist.

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Edmund Ware Sinnott

Edmund Ware Sinnott (February 5, 1888 in Cambridge, Massachusetts – January 6, 1968 in New Haven, Connecticut) was an American botanist and prolific textbook author.

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Edward Charles Pickering

Prof Edward Charles Pickering FRS(For) HFRSE (July 19, 1846 – February 3, 1919) was an American astronomer and physicist and the older brother to William Henry Pickering.

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Edward Condon

Edward Uhler Condon (March 2, 1902 – March 26, 1974) was a distinguished American nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, and a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project.

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Edward Drinker Cope

Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist.

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Edward E. David Jr.

Edward Emil "Ed" David Jr. (25 January 1925 – 13 February 2017) was an American electrical engineer who served as science advisor to President Richard M. Nixon and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology from 1970 to 1973.

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Edward Leamington Nichols

Edward Leamington Nichols (14 September 1854 – November 10, 1937) was an American physicist.

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Edward Orton Sr.

Edward Francis Baxter Orton Sr. (March 9, 1829, Deposit, New York – October 16, 1899, Columbus, Ohio) was a United States geologist, and the first president of The Ohio State University.

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Edward S. Morse

Edward Sylvester Morse (June 18, 1838 – December 20, 1925) was an American zoologist and orientalist.

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Edward Thorndike

Edward Lee Thorndike (August 31, 1874 – August 9, 1949) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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Edward W. Morley

Edward Williams Morley (January 29, 1838 – February 24, 1923) was an American scientist famous for his extremely precise and accurate measurement of the atomic weight of oxygen, and for the Michelson–Morley experiment.

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Edwin Conklin

Edwin Grant Conklin (November 24, 1863 – November 20, 1952) was an American biologist and zoologist.

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Eloise E. Clark

Eloise E. "Betsy" Clark (died 10 May 2017) was an American biologist, best known for her long service (1969–1983) as Assistant Director for Biological, Behavioral, and Social Sciences at the U.S. National Science Foundation.

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Elvin C. Stakman

Elvin Charles Stakman (May 17, 1885 – January 22, 1979) was an American plant pathologist who was a pioneer of methods of identifying and combatting disease in wheat.

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Emilio Q. Daddario

Emilio Quincy Daddario (September 24, 1918 – July 7, 2010) was an American Democratic politician from Connecticut.

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F. Sherwood Rowland

Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland (June 28, 1927 – March 10, 2012) was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine.

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Floyd E. Bloom

Floyd E. Bloom (born 1936 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American medical researcher specializing in chemical neuroanatomy.

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Francisco J. Ayala

Francisco José Ayala Pereda (born March 12, 1934) is a Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher who was a longtime faculty member at the University of California, Irvine.

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Franz Boas

Franz Uri Boas (July 9, 1858December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology".

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Frederic Ward Putnam

Frederic Ward Putnam (April 16, 1839 – August 14, 1915) was an American anthropologist.

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Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard

Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard (May 5, 1809 – April 27, 1889) was a deaf American scientist and educator.

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Frederick Mosteller

Charles Frederick Mosteller (December 24, 1916 – July 23, 2006), usually known as Frederick Mosteller, was one of the most eminent statisticians of the 20th century.

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George Beadle

George Wells Beadle (October 22, 1903 – June 9, 1989) was an American scientist in the field of genetics, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate who with Edward Tatum discovered the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells in 1958.

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George David Birkhoff

George David Birkhoff (March 21, 1884 – November 12, 1944) was an American mathematician best known for what is now called the ergodic theorem.

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George Frederick Barker

George Frederick Barker (1835–1910) was an American physician and scientist.

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George Jarvis Brush

George Jarvis Brush (1831–1912) was an American mineralogist and academic administrator who spent most of his career at Yale University in the Sheffield Scientific School.

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George Lincoln Goodale

George Lincoln Goodale (August 3, 1839 – April 12, 1923) was an American botanist and the first director of Harvard’s Botanical Museum (now part of the Harvard Museum of Natural History).

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Gerald Fink

Gerald Ralph Fink (born July 1, 1940) is an American biologist, who was Director of the Whitehead Institute at MIT from 1990–2001.

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Geraldine L. Richmond

Geraldine Lee Richmond (born January 17, 1953 in Salina, Kansas) is an American chemist and physical chemist.

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Gerard Piel

Gerard Piel (1 March 1915 in Woodmere, N.Y. – 5 September 2004) was the publisher of the new Scientific American magazine starting in 1948.

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Gil Omenn

Gilbert S. Omenn, M.D., Ph.D. is the Harold T. Shapiro Distinguished University Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Public Health at the University of Michigan.

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Glenn T. Seaborg

Glenn Theodore Seaborg (April 19, 1912February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Grove Karl Gilbert

Grove Karl Gilbert (May 6, 1843 – May 1, 1918), known by the abbreviated name G. K. Gilbert in academic literature, was an American geologist.

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H. Bentley Glass

Hiram Bentley Glass (January 17, 1906 – January 16, 2005) was an American geneticist and noted columnist.

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Harlow Shapley

Harlow Shapley (November 2, 1885 – October 20, 1972) was a 20th-century American scientist, head of the Harvard College Observatory (1921–1952), and political activist during the latter New Deal and Fair Deal.

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Henry Eyring (chemist)

Henry Eyring (February 20, 1901 – December 26, 1981) was a Mexican-born American theoretical chemist whose primary contribution was in the study of chemical reaction rates and intermediates.

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Henry Fairfield Osborn

Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist and geologist.

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Henry Norris Russell

Prof Henry Norris Russell FRS(For) HFRSE FRAS (October 25, 1877 – February 18, 1957) was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (1910).

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Hubert Anson Newton

Prof Hubert Anson Newton FRS HFRSE (19 March 1830 – 12 August 1896), usually cited as H. A. Newton, was an American astronomer and mathematician, noted for his research on meteors.

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Ira Remsen

Ira Remsen (February 10, 1846 – March 4, 1927) was a chemist who, along with Constantin Fahlberg, discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin.

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Irving Langmuir

Irving Langmuir (January 31, 1881 – August 16, 1957) was an American chemist and physicist.

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Isaac Lea

Isaac Lea (March 4, 1792 – December 8, 1886) was an American conchologist, geologist, and publisher, who was born in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Isaiah Bowman

Isaiah Bowman, AB, Ph.

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J. Lawrence Smith

John Lawrence Smith (December 17, 1818 – October 12, 1883) was an American chemist, born in Louisville, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Virginia, the Medical College of South Carolina (M.D., 1840), in Germany under Liebig, and in Paris under Pelouze.

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J. Playfair McMurrich

James Playfair McMurrich, (October 16, 1859 – February 9, 1939) was a Canadian zoologist and academic.

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Jacob Whitman Bailey

Jacob Whitman Bailey (1811–1857) was an American naturalist, known as the pioneer in microscopic research in America.

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James Bryant Conant

James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978) was an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.

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James Dwight Dana

James Dwight Dana FRS FRSE (February 12, 1813 – April 14, 1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist.

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James Hall (paleontologist)

James Hall (September 12, 1811 – August 7, 1898) was an American geologist and paleontologist.

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James McCarthy (oceanographer)

James J. McCarthy is a Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard and was President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from Feb 2008-Feb 2009.

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James McKeen Cattell

James McKeen Cattell (May 25, 1860 – January 20, 1944), American psychologist, was the first professor of psychology in the United States, teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, and long-time editor and publisher of scientific journals and publications, most notably the journal Science.

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Jane Lubchenco

Jane Lubchenco (born December 4, 1947) is an American environmental scientist and marine ecologist who teaches and does research at Oregon State University.

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Jeffries Wyman

Jeffries Wyman (August 11, 1814 – September 4, 1874) was an American naturalist and anatomist, born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

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John Holdren

John Paul Holdren (born March 1, 1944) was the senior advisor to President Barack Obama on science and technology issues through his roles as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

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John Jacob Abel

John Jacob Abel (19 May 1857 – 26 May 1938) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist.

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John Lawrence LeConte

John Lawrence LeConte (May 13, 1825 – November 15, 1883) was an American entomologist of the 19th century, responsible for naming and describing approximately half of the insect taxa known in the United States during his lifetime, - URL retrieved September 14, 2006 including some 5,000 species of beetles.

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John Merle Coulter

John Merle Coulter, Ph.

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John Strong Newberry

John Strong Newberry (December 22, 1822 – December 7, 1892) was an American geologist, physician, explorer, author, and a member of the Megatherium Club at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

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John Torrey

John Torrey (August 15, 1796 – March 10, 1873) was an American botanist, chemist, and physician.

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John Wells Foster

John Wells Foster (March 4, 1815 – June 29, 1873) was an American geologist and archaeologist.

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John Wesley Powell

John Wesley "Wes" Powell (March 24, 1834 – September 23, 1902) was a U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions.

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John William Dawson

Sir John William Dawson, (13 October 182019 November 1899), was a Canadian geologist and university administrator.

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Joseph Henry

Joseph Henry (December 17, 1797 – May 13, 1878) was an American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

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