Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson

female, 63 years old
Dr. Jackson has been President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since July 1999. She was Chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from...
Amos Eaton

Amos Eaton

male, deceased (1842)
Amos Eaton (May 17, 1776 - 1842) was a scientist and educator in the Troy, New York area. Eaton attended Williams College; after graduating in 1799...
Ivar Giaever

Ivar Giaever

male, 80 years old
Ivar Giaever (born April 5, 1929 in Bergen, Norway) is a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian David...
Robert Resnick

Robert Resnick

male
Robert Resnick (1923 -) is a well respected physics educator and author of physics textbooks. He received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in...
Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros

female, 77 years old (Kingston, New York, United States)
Pauline Oliveros (born May 30, 1932 in Houston, Texas) is an accordionist and composer who currently resides in Kingston, New York. Her instrument...
George Low

George Low

male, deceased (1984)
George Michael Low, born George Wilhelm Low on June 10, 1926, near Vienna, Austria, was a NASA administrator. His parents were Artur and Gertrude...
James D. Meindl

James D. Meindl

male, 76 years old
James Meindl is the director of the Joseph M. Pettit Microelectronics Research Center and is the founding director of the Nanotechnology Research...
Henry Augustus Rowland

Henry Augustus Rowland

male, deceased (1901)
Henry Augustus Rowland (November 27, 1848-April 16, 1901) was a U.S. physicist. He served as the first president of the American Physical Society...