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Clair Cameron Patterson (June 2, 1922 – December 5, 1995) was an American geochemist. Born in Mitchellville, Iowa, Patterson graduated from Grinnell College. He later received his Ph.D. from the Univ...

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J B Rhine was best known for his work in parapsychology at Duke University. He was already interested in psychology even though his degree from Ohio Northern University was in botany. He married Loui...

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Carvel Emerson Collins, PhD

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"Premier of Manitoba (1958-1967). He is probably best-known for his role in urging, against considerable opposition, the construction of the Red River Floodway, which since its completion in 1968 has r...

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Dr. Justin Wroe Nixon Education Graduate Doane Academy, Granville, Ohio, 1901. Bachelor of Arts, Denison University, 1905. Graduate Rochester Theological Seminary, 1908. Post-graduate Universit...

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Dr. Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, JD, PhM, PhD

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Dr. William Tipton Bell Dr. Bell was born on November 27, 1858 on the family farm near Hatch, Ralls County, Missouri. He was the second son of James William Bell and Josephine Amanda Tipton. He ...

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David Prescott Barrows (June 27, 1873 – September 5, 1954) was an American anthropologist, explorer, and educator. Born in Chicago in 1874, his family moved to California. He showed a keen interest i...

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James Joseph Heckman (born April 19, 1944) is an American economist and Nobel laureate who serves as the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, where...

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Dr. Clarence Burton Day Clarence Burton Day was born in American Fork, Utah, on 1 September, 1889, and died in Duarte, Califorrnia, on 7 January, 1987. He was a graduate of Hamilton College...

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Donald Szantho Harrington (July 11, 1914 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts – September 16, 2005 in Romania) was an American politician and religious leader. Education Harrington graduated ...

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David S. Broder, who skillfully straddled the line between commentary and reportage for more than four decades as a political correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post and who spread his infl...

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Jill Catherine Pipher (born December 14, 1955, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) was the president of the American Mathematical Society. She began a two-year term in 2019. She is also the past president o...

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David Alexander Vogan Jr. (born September 8, 1954) is a mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who works on unitary representations of simple Lie groups.

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David Eisenbud (born 8 April 1947 in New York City) is an American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and former director of the then Mathematic...

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Hyman Bass (/ˈhaɪmən bæs/; born October 5, 1932) is an American mathematician, known for work in algebra and in mathematics education. From 1959 to 1998 he was Professor in the Mathematics Department...

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Felix Earl Browder (/ˈbraʊdər/; July 31, 1927 – December 10, 2016) was an American mathematician known for his work in nonlinear functional analysis. He received the National Medal of Science in 1999...

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Ronald Lewis Graham (October 31, 1935 – July 6, 2020) was an American mathematician credited by the American Mathematical Society as "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwid...

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James Oscar McKinsey (June 4, 1889 – November 30, 1937) was an American accountant, management consultant, professor of accounting at the University of Chicago, and founder of McKinsey & Company.

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Harry Prosen (27 June 1930 – 21 June 2021) was a North American psychiatrist. He was Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA; Professor of Psychia...

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