Alan Boss

male, 58 years old
CarnegieInstitutionofWashington, Astronomer, Kepler Mission, Navigator Program, Carnegie Institution, University of California, Santa Barbara…university of south florida
Alan P. Boss (born July 20, 1951, in Lakewood, Ohio) is an American astrophysicist. Educated at the University of South Florida and the University...
Vera Rubin

Vera Rubin

female, 81 years old
Harvard University, Yale, Master's Degree, peer review, Ph.D., Vassar College alumni…Doctor of Philosophy, United States National Academy of Sciences, National Medal of Science recipient, CarnegieInstitutionofWashington, Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Vera (Cooper) Rubin (born 23 July 1928) is an astronomer who has done pioneering work on galaxy rotation rates. Her discovery of what is known as...
Andrew Fire

Andrew Fire

male, 50 years old
Stanford University faculty, Stanford University, RNA interference, Andrew Zachary Fire, CarnegieInstitutionofWashington, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Andrew Zachary Fire (born on April 27th 1959) is an American professor of genetics at Stanford University. Fire is one of the laureates of the 2006...
R. Paul Butler

R. Paul Butler

male
San Francisco State University, Paul Butler, radial velocity, Henry Draper Medal, CarnegieInstitutionofWashington, University of Maryland, College Park…Winner of the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize
Paul Butler is an astronomer who searches for extrasolar planets. He has co-discovered two thirds of the approximately 233 extrasolar planets...
George Wetherill

George Wetherill

male
University of Chicago, CarnegieInstitutionofWashington, argon, strontium, rubidium, geochronology…GI Bill of Rights, University of California, Los Angeles, National Medal of Science recipient
George Wetherill (August 12, 1925-July 19, 2006) was the Director Emeritus, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of...

Margaret Turnbull

female
PhD, Allen Telescope Array, Alpha Centauri B, Epsilon Eridani, 7863 Turnbull, Epsilon Indi…University of Arizona, CarnegieInstitutionofWashington
Margaret Carol Turnbull is an American astronomer and a NASA Astrobiology Institute postdoctoral research associate at the Department of...
Alfred Hershey

Alfred Hershey

male, deceased (1997) (Owosso, Michigan, United States)
Ex Cathedra, Hershey-Chase blender experiment, Chemist, From owosso, michigan, From Long Island, papal infallibility…Washington University faculty, Washington University in St. Louis, CarnegieInstitutionofWashington
Alfred Day Hershey was an American Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist and geneticist. He was born in Owosso, Michigan and received his B.S. in...
Sylvanus Morley

Sylvanus Morley

male, deceased (1948)
Episcopalian, pre-Columbian, Archaeologist, archaeology, chichen itza, American…Office of Naval Intelligence, Carnegie Institution, CarnegieInstitutionofWashington
Sylvanus Griswold Morley (June 7, 1883 - September 2 1948) was an American archaeologist, epigrapher, and Mayanist scholar who made significant...

Ronald E. Cohen

male
Geophysicist, geophysics, American, CarnegieInstitutionofWashington, Mineralogical Society of America
Ronald E. Cohen is an American geophysicist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Geophysical Laboratory. He was awarded the 1994...