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Abelson, Philip Hauge

Adelberger, Eric G.

Aeppli, Gabriel

Anastasio, Michael R.

Bacher, Robert F. (Robert Fox), 1905-2004

Berkner, Lloyd V. (Lloyd Viel), 1905-1967

Berlincourt, T. G.

Birch, Francis, 1903-1992

Breit, Gregory, 1899-1981

Briggs, Lyman J. (Lyman James), 1874-1963

Brinkman, William F. (William Frank), 1938-

Brooks, Charles Franklin, 1891-1958

Brown, Harold, 1927-2019

Burgers, J. M. (Johannes Martinus), 1895-1981

Burstein, Elias, 1917-2017

Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974

Chew, Geoffrey F.

Clemence, Gerald M. (Gerald Maurice), 1908-

Coblentz, William W. (William Weber), 1873-1962

Collins, Samuel C. (Samuel Cornette)

Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954

Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974

Davis, Raymond, 1914-2006

Day, Arthur L. (Arthur Louis), 1869-1960

Dryden, Hugh L. (Hugh Latimer), 1898-1965

Fleming, J. A. (John Adam), 1877-1956

Fletcher, James Chipman, 1919-1991

Foote, Paul D. (Paul Darwin), 1888-1971

Forbush, Scott E., 1904-1984

Foster, John S., 1922-

Frazer, Benjamin Chalmers

Friedman, Herbert, 1916-2000

Frosch, Robert A. (Robert Alan), 1928-

Gamow, George, 1904-1968

Giacconi, Riccardo

Gibbons, John H., 1929-2015

Griggs, David, 1911-1974

Gross, David J. (David Jonathan)

Gunn, Ross, 1897-1966

Hafstad, Lawrence, 1904-

Hauptman, Herbert A. (Herbert Aaron), 1917-2011

Haworth, Leland J. (Leland John), 1904-

Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976

Herzfeld, Karl F. (Karl Ferdinand), 1892-

Holdren, John P.

Horowitz, Gary T., 1955-

Hunsaker, Jerome C. (Jerome Clarke), 1886-1984

Jackson, Shirley Ann, 1946-

Killian, T. J. (Thomas Joseph), 1905-

Kittel, Charles

Lambert, Walter D. (Walter Davis), 1879-

Marburger, John H., III (John Harmen), 1941-2011

McKee, Christopher, 1942-

McTague, John P.

Müller, Erwin W.

Press, Frank, 1924-

Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011

Raney, William P.

Richardson, Robert C. (Robert Coleman), 1937-2013

Riess, Adam, 1969-

Rosenfeld, Arthur H., 1926-

Simha, Robert, 1912-2008

Simpson, Joanne

Steinhardt, Paul J.

Tape, Gerald Frederick, 1915-2005

Teller, Edward, 1908-2003

Tousey, Richard

Truesdell, C. (Clifford), 1919-2000

Tuve, Merle Antony, 1901-1982

Vestine, E. H. (Ernest Harry), 1906-1968

Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957

Waterman, Alan Tower, 1892-1967

Wetherill, George West

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American Astronomical Society

American Institute of Physics

American Meteorological Society

Carnegie Institution of Washington

Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Terrestrial Magnetism

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

National Research Council (U.S.)

Optical Society of America

Society of Rheology (U.S.)

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

United States. National Bureau of Standards

United States. Office of Science and Technology Policy

United States. President's Science Advisory Committee

United States. Science Advisory Committee