John Carew Eccles

John Carew Eccles

male, deceased (1997)
University at Buffalo alumni, rhodes scholar, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Erdős number 3, Sir John Carew Eccles…american philosophical society
Sir John Carew Eccles (January 27, 1903 - May 2, 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
Lee Alvin Dubridge

Lee Alvin Dubridge

male, deceased (1994)
physicist, Federal Telegraph Company, presidential science advisor, Radiation Laboratory, Cornell College, vacuum tube…american philosophical society
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...
Sandra M. Faber

Sandra M. Faber

female, 65 years old
Harvard Centennial Medal recipient, Harvard Centennial Medal, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz faculty, Bok Prize, Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics…american philosophical society
Sandra Moore Faber (1944 -) is a professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and works at the Lick...
John Bartram

John Bartram

male, deceased (1777)
Botanist, quaker, ohio river, american philosophical society, botany, Botanists active in North America
John Bartram (May 23, 1699 O.S., Darby, Pennsylvania - September 22, 1777, Philadelphia) was an American botanist. Carolus Linnaeus said he was the...
Ruth J. Simmons

Ruth J. Simmons

female, 64 years old
President of Brown University, Academic, Literature educator, Brown Daily Herald, Harvard Centennial Medal recipient, Harvard University alumni…american philosophical society
Ruth J. Simmons (born 1945 in Grapeland, Texas), is the 18th president of Brown University and first black president of an Ivy League institution....
Lipman Bers

Lipman Bers

male, deceased (1993)
From RIGA, New York University faculty, New York University, Syracuse University, mathematician, Jewish American…american philosophical society
Lipman Bers (May 22, 1914, Riga, Latvia – October 29, 1993, New Rochelle, New York) was an American mathematician who worked on Riemann surfaces. Be...
Samuel Stanhope Smith

Samuel Stanhope Smith

male, deceased (1819)
Presbyterian, Princeton University, american philosophical society, slavery, Harvard, ethnology
Samuel Stanhope Smith (1751-1819) was a Presbyterian minister and the seventh president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University)...
Morris Swadesh

Morris Swadesh

male, deceased (1967)
linguistics, American, yiddish, linguist, Anthropologist, communist…american philosophical society
Morris Swadesh (January 22, 1909 - July 20, 1967) was an American linguist. He was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts to Russian Jewish parents from...
Robert Cushman Murphy

Robert Cushman Murphy

male, deceased (1973)
Brown University, Biologist, Ornithologist, american philosophical society, american museum of natural history, American
Robert Cushman Murphy (April 29, 1887-March 20, 1973) was an American ornithologist and former Lamont curator of birds for the American Museum of...
David B. Wake

David B. Wake

male, 73 years old
webster, speciation, United States National Academy of Sciences, Linnean Society of London, Member of the Linnean Society of London, University of California, Berkeley…american philosophical society
David B. Wake (born June 8, 1936, Webster, South Dakota) is professor of integrative biology and curator of herpetology at the University of...