Glenn Theodore Seaborg

Glenn Theodore Seaborg

male, deceased (1999) (Ishpeming, Michigan)
fermium, National Commission on Excellence in Education, actinide series, University of California, Berkeley chancellor, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Franck Report…National Medal of Science recipient, VannevarBushAwardrecipient, Enrico Fermi Award recipient
Glenn Seaborg worked his way through UCLA in a variety of ways - as stevedore, night watchman, apricot picker and linotype mechanic apprentice,...
Frederick Seitz

Frederick Seitz

male, 98 years old
Princeton University, National Academy of Sciences, National Medal of Science recipient, Solid State Physics, Eugene Wigner, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine…VannevarBushAwardrecipient
Seitz received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1932, and then a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 1934. During World War II, he...
Roger Revelle

Roger Revelle

male, deceased (1991) (California, United States)
From Seattle, Roger Randall Dougan Revelle, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, National Medal of Science recipient, Oceanographer, Oceanographer of the Navy…VannevarBushAwardrecipient
Roger Randall Dougan Revelle was a scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California, San Diego and...
Guyford Stever

Guyford Stever

male, deceased (1977)
Ph.D., American, World War II, director, Educator, Carnegie Mellon University…VannevarBushAwardrecipient, National Medal of Science recipient
Horton Guyford Stever (1916 - 1977) was an American administrator, physicist, educator, and engineer. Stever graduated from California Institute of...
Hans Bethe

Hans Bethe

male, deceased (2005)
physicist, 1906-2005, From Strasbourg, nuclear weapon design, From Ithaca, New York, University of Munich alumni…Oersted Medal recipient, VannevarBushAwardrecipient, Enrico Fermi Award recipient, National Medal of Science recipient
Hans Albrecht Bethe (pronounced "BAY-tuh"); (July 2 1906--March 6, 2005), was a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in...
Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling

male, deceased (1994)
scientist, Biophysicist, atheist, Chemist, Erdős number 4, Humanist…Presidential Medal for Merit recipient, National Medal of Science recipient, VannevarBushAwardrecipient
Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 - August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist. He was also acknowledged as a...
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.

Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.

male, 94 years old
Harvard University, Hans G. Dehmelt, separated oscillatory field method, IEEE Medal of Honor recipient, Erdős number 3, National Medal of Science recipient…VannevarBushAwardrecipient
Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. (born August 27, 1915, in Washington, DC) is an American physicist. A physics professor at Harvard University since 1947,...
Lee Alvin Dubridge

Lee Alvin Dubridge

male, deceased (1994)
physicist, Federal Telegraph Company, presidential science advisor, Radiation Laboratory, Cornell College, vacuum tube…VannevarBushAwardrecipient
Lee Alvin DuBridge (1901 - 1994) was a U.S. educator and physicist. He was born September 21 1901 in Terre Haute, Indiana. He graduated from...
Frank Press

Frank Press

male, 84 years old
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Columbia University, City College of New York, American, geophysics…VannevarBushAwardrecipient, National Medal of Science recipient
Dr. Frank Press (born December 4, 1924) is an American geophysicist. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Press is the recipient of 30 honorary degrees. He...
James van Allen

James van Allen

male, deceased (2006)
University of Iowa, physicist, death from cardiovascular disease, from Iowa, subatomic particle, VannevarBushAwardrecipient…National Medal of Science recipient
James Alfred Van Allen (September 7 1914 - August 9, 2006) was an American space scientist at the University of Iowa. The Van Allen radiation belts...