| Name
|
Class and range
|
Notability
|
Reference
|
| Cleveland Abbe
|
1883–1884
|
professor of meteorology with the U.S. Weather Bureau
|
|
| Cleveland Abbe Jr.
|
1895–1899
|
professor of geography and biology at Western Maryland College
|
|
| Truman Abbe
|
1903
|
surgeon
|
|
| Philip Abelson
|
1953
|
physicist
|
|
| Henry Adams
|
1878
|
historian and Pulitzer Prize recipient
|
|
| Henry Carter Adams
|
1889
|
professor of political economy at the University of Michigan
|
|
| James Truslow Adams
|
|
writer, historian, and Pulitzer Prize winner
|
|
| Leason Adams
|
|
geophysicist and researcher at the Carnegie Institute
|
|
| Alvey A. Adee
|
1887–1889
|
United States Secretary of State
|
|
| Jesse C. Adkins
|
|
judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
|
|
| Cyrus Adler
|
1890
|
Educator, librarian
|
|
| Fred C. Ainsworth
|
1887–1888
|
U.S. Army surgeon and adjutant general
|
|
| Clyde Bruce Aitchison
|
|
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
|
|
| Charles Henry Alden
|
1893–1897
|
first president of the Army Medical School
|
|
| Asa O. Aldis
|
1880–1884
|
Judge and diplomat
|
|
| John Merton Aldrich
|
|
associate curator of insects at the United States National Museum
|
|
| Dean C. Allard
|
|
naval historian, archivist, director of the United States Navy's Naval Historical Center
|
|
| Charles Herbert Allen
|
1888–1890
|
Governor of Puerto Rico, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, member of Congress
|
|
| Eugene Thomas Allen
|
|
pioneer of geochemistry, worked at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution
|
|
| Harvey J. Alter
|
1970
|
medical researcher, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
|
|
| Benjamin Alvord
|
1878
|
mathematician, soldier, U.S. Army paymaster
|
|
| Henry Elijah Alvord
|
1895
|
Professor of agriculture, chief of the dairy division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Nicholas Longworth Anderson
|
1886–1887
|
U.S. Army brigadier general and major general of volunteers
|
|
| Eliphalet F. Andrews
|
1880–1896
|
painter, director of the Corcoran School of Art
|
|
| Lincoln Clark Andrews
|
|
U.S. Army brigadier general, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
|
|
| Earl C. Arnold
|
|
attorney, academic, college administrator
|
|
| William Harris Ashmead
|
1892
|
Entomologist, assistant curator Smithsonian
|
|
| John Vincent Atanasoff
|
1957
|
computer pioneer, built the first digital computer
|
|
| Wilbur Olin Atwater
|
1899
|
professor of chemistry, U.S. Department of Agriculture nutritionist
|
|
| Albert William Atwood
|
1928
|
author, journalist, and writer for National Geographic and The Saturday Evening Post
|
|
| James Percy Ault
|
|
Geodetic surveyor, geophysicist, geomagnetic researcher
|
|
| Louis Winslow Austin
|
|
Physicist U.S. Bureau of Standards
|
|
| Michael Auslin
|
|
writer
|
|
| Cyrus Cates Babb
|
1892
|
civil engineer and hydrographer with U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Ernest Adna Back
|
|
Entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Henry Bacon
|
1888
|
architect
|
|
| Barbara A. Bailar
|
1988
|
mathematical statistician; executive director of the American Statistical Association
|
|
| Jennings Bailey
|
|
judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
|
|
| Vernon Orlando Bailey
|
|
Mammologist with the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture
|
|
| H. Foster Bain
|
|
geologist, director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines.
|
|
| George Washington Baird
|
1895
|
Chief engineer and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy
|
|
| Spencer Fullerton Baird
|
1878
|
ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, first curator and Secretary of the Smithsonian
|
|
| Marcellus Bailey
|
1878–1885,
1866–1890
|
patent lawyer
|
|
| Frank Baker
|
1882
|
physician and superintendent of the National Zoo
|
|
| Marcus Baker
|
1884
|
cartographer with U. S. Geological Survey; assistant secretary of Carnegie Institution
|
|
| Aram Bakshian Jr.
|
|
Author and speechwriter for three presidents
|
|
| Albertus H. Baldwin
|
1899
|
commissioner U.S. Tariff Commission
|
|
| Carleton Roy Ball
|
|
botanist, in charge of the U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry
|
|
| John Chandler Bancroft
|
1890–1898
|
sculptor
|
|
| Orion M. Barber
|
|
politician and associate judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
|
|
| Edward Chester Barnard
|
1899
|
topographer, U.S. Geological Survey; chief topographer, U.S. and Canada boundary survey
|
|
| Job Barnard
|
1903
|
associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
|
|
| John Russell Bartlett
|
1886–1897
|
oceanographer and U.S. Navy Admiral
|
|
| Paul Wayland Bartlett
|
1914
|
sculptor
|
|
| Henry Askew Barton
|
|
first director of the American Institute of Physics
|
|
| Paul Bartsch
|
|
malacologist, carcinologist, curator of the division of mollusks U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Carl Barus
|
1885–1895
|
physicist with U.S. Geological Survey and Smithsonian Institution, professor at Brown University
|
|
| Ray S. Bassler
|
|
geologist and paleontologist with the U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Frederick John Bates
|
|
physicist, chief of polarimetric and carbohydrate section, Bureau of Standards; supervisor of the Government Sugar Laboratories, Treasury Department
|
|
| Newton Lemuel. Bates
|
1878–1881, 1884
|
surgeon general of the U.S. Navy
|
|
| Louis Agricola Bauer
|
1899
|
geophysicist, chief of the terrestrial magnetism division of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.
|
|
| Nathan D. Baxter
|
|
bishop of the Episcopal Church
|
|
| Clifton Bailey Beach
|
1896
|
member of the U.S. Congress
|
|
| George Ferdinand Becker
|
1890
|
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| George Beadle
|
|
geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
|
|
| Truxtun Beale
|
1902
|
diplomat
|
|
| Tarleton Hoffman Bean
|
1883
|
ichthyologist, curator of the department of fishes at the Smithsonian Institution
|
|
| Thomas M. Beggs
|
1955
|
painter
|
|
| Alexander Graham Bell
|
1880
|
scientist, engineer, and inventor of the first telephone; president, National Geographic Society
|
|
| Charles J. Bell
|
1883
|
co-founder of the National Geographic Society, secretary of the Bell Telephone Company
|
|
| Chichester Bell
|
1881–1887
|
chemist and inventor
|
|
| Samuel Flagg Bemis
|
|
historian, biographer, professor of history at George Washington University
|
|
| Marcus Benjamin
|
1896
|
chemist, editor for the U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Charles Bendire
|
1888
|
ornithologist, captain of infantry in the U.S. Army
|
|
| Arden L. Bement Jr.
|
1980
|
engineer, scientist, professor at Purdue University, director of the National Science Foundation
|
|
| Andrew H. Berding
|
|
journalist, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
|
|
| Patricia Wilson Berger
|
|
librarian, president of the American Library Association
|
|
| Emil Bessels
|
1878
|
zoologist, entomologist, and arctic researcher with the Smithsonian Institution
|
|
| John M. Bevan
|
|
university professor
|
|
| Albert Burnley Bibb
|
1892–1899
|
architect with United States Life-Savings Service, professor of architecture at Catholic University
|
|
| Ernest Percy Bicknell
|
|
director of the American Red Cross
|
|
| Julius Bien
|
1885
|
artist, publisher, lithographer
|
|
| Frank Hagar Bigelow
|
1890
|
professor of meteorology with the U.S. Weather Bureau
|
|
| John Bigelow Jr.
|
|
U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, teacher at MIT, superintendent of Yosemite National Park
|
|
| John Shaw Billings
|
1878
|
librarian of the New York Public Library, deputy of the US Army Surgeon General
|
|
| Henry H. Bingham
|
1881–1889
|
Congressman from Pennsylvania
|
|
| Theodore A. Bingham
|
1897–1898
|
U.S. Army General, superintendent of the public buildings and grounds at Washington
|
|
| Claude Hale Birdseye
|
|
chief topographic engraver, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Rogers Birnie
|
1886
|
co-founder of National Geographic Society, United States Army officer, explorer of Death Valley
|
|
| William Herbert Bixby
|
|
U.S. Army brigadier general
|
|
| Henry Campbell Black
|
1892
|
lawyer, founder of Black's Law Dictionary
|
|
| William Murray Black
|
1897–1898
|
Commissioner of the District of Columbia, chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
|
|
| Harry Blackmun
|
|
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
|
|
| James P. Blair
|
1998
|
photographer with National Geographic
|
|
| William Bodde Jr.
|
|
U.S. Ambassador to the Marshall Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Kiribati
|
|
| Ernest L. Bogart
|
|
economist and academic, president of the American Economic Association
|
|
| Henry Carrington Bolton
|
1888
|
chemist
|
|
| Robert Whitney Bolwell
|
|
professor at George Washington University, pioneer of American studies
|
|
| Stephen Bonsal
|
|
journalist, war correspondent, author, and diplomat, won the Pulitzer Prize for History
|
|
| Daniel J. Boorstin
|
|
Librarian of Congress and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
|
|
| William A. Boring
|
1901
|
architect
|
|
| Clement Lincoln Bouvé
|
|
attorney, Register of Copyrights in the United States Copyright Office
|
|
| John Wesley Bovee
|
1902
|
gynecology professor at George Washington University, founder American College of Surgeons
|
|
| Adam Giede Böving
|
|
entomologist and zoologist, U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Norman L. Bowen
|
|
geologist, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington
|
|
| William Bowie
|
|
geodetic engineer, chief of the division of geodesy, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
|
|
| Francis Tiffany Bowles
|
1882–1901
|
chief naval constructor and youngest Rear Admiral in the history of the U.S. Navy
|
|
| Alpheus Henry Bowman
|
|
brigadier general U.S. Army
|
|
| George Lothrop Bradley
|
1883
|
artist
|
|
| Frank B. Brady
|
|
engineer, executive director of the Institute of Navigation
|
|
| Charles John Brand
|
|
chief of the Bureau of Markets at the United States Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Louis Brandeis
|
1915–1932
|
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
|
|
| Gregory Breit
|
|
Mathematical physicist, academic
|
|
| Lyman James Briggs
|
|
Physicist and engineer
|
|
| David Brinkley
|
|
journalist
|
|
| Alfred Hulse Brooks
|
1895
|
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Glenn Brown
|
1888
|
architect
|
|
| Henry Billings Brown
|
1897
|
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
|
|
| Joseph Stanley Brown
|
1881–1885, 1894
|
assistant geologist, U. S. Geological Survey; private secretary to President James A. Garfield
|
|
| Lester R. Brown
|
|
environmental analyst
|
|
| Stimson Joseph Brown
|
1900
|
professor of mathematics, astronomical director of the United States Naval Observatory
|
|
| John Mills Browne
|
1883–1884
|
surgeon general of the U.S. Navy
|
|
| Arnold W. Brunner
|
1902
|
Architect and historian
|
|
| Kirk Bryan
|
|
Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, professor at Harvard University
|
|
| Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan
|
|
journalist, author, editor of The Washington Star
|
|
| Albert H. Bumstead
|
|
cartographer
|
|
| William E. Bunney Jr.
|
1982
|
Psychiatrist, academic
|
|
| Horatio C. Burchard
|
1879–1886
|
director of the U.S. Mint, congressman, father of the consumer price index
|
|
| George K. Burgess
|
|
physicist
|
|
| Swan Moses Burnett
|
1879
|
surgeon, pioneering ophthalmologist at the Georgetown University School of Medicine
|
|
| Arthur F. Burns
|
|
economist, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany
|
|
| Vannevar Bush
|
|
electrical engineer
|
|
| Henry Kirke Bush-Brown
|
|
sculptor
|
|
| Charles Henry Butler
|
|
lawyer, reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court
|
|
| Robert W. Cairns
|
1954
|
chemist, executive director of the American Chemical Society
|
|
| Edgar B. Calvert
|
|
Principal meteorologist and chief of the Forecast Division, U.S. Weather Bureau
|
|
| Charles R. Cameron
|
|
U.S. Foreign Service
|
|
| Frank Kenneth Cameron
|
1895
|
soil chemist with U.S. Department of Agriculture, professor at University of North Carolina
|
|
| Edward Kernan Campbell
|
|
chief judge of the Court of Claims
|
|
| Marius Robinson Campbell
|
1896
|
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Henry W. Cannon
|
1884
|
Comptroller General of the United States
|
|
| Stephen Capps
|
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Horace Capron
|
1879
|
United States Commissioner of Agriculture
|
|
| David Carliner
|
|
attorney with JAG Office Army, lecturer at the Harvard University Foreign Service Institute
|
|
| Frances Carpenter
|
|
Folklorist and photographer
|
|
| Wilbur J. Carr
|
|
assistant secretary of State, diplomat
|
|
| William George Carr
|
|
educator, executive secretary (chief administrator) of the National Education Association
|
|
| William Kearney Carr
|
1903
|
Philosopher, physician, author
|
|
| John Merven Carrère
|
1905
|
architect
|
|
| Henry A. P. Carter
|
1881
|
businessman, politician, and diplomat in the Kingdom of Hawaii
|
|
| Philip L. Cantelon
|
1984
|
academic, historian, co-founder and CEO of History Associates Incorporated
|
|
| Thomas Lincoln Casey Jr.
|
1894
|
major with the Army Corps of Engineers and entomologist
|
|
| James McKeen Cattell
|
1902
|
first professor of psychology in the U.S., editor of Science and Popular Science Monthly
|
|
| Bruce Catton
|
|
historian, author, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History
|
|
| Joan R. Challinor
|
|
chairperson of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
|
|
| Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
|
1883–1889
|
geologist, president University of Wisconsin, founder of The Journal of Geology
|
|
| Steve Charnovitz
|
|
Legal scholar, writer, educator
|
|
| Hobart Chatfield-Taylor
|
1902
|
author, novelist
|
|
| Victor King Chesnut
|
1896
|
botanist. U.S. Department of Agriculture; expert in poisonous and Native American plants
|
|
| Colby Mitchell Chester
|
|
U.S. Navy admiral
|
|
| John White Chickering
|
1878–1880
|
Botanist, professor at Columbian Institution for Deaf and Dumb
|
|
| George B. Chittenden
|
1881
|
Chief topographer for the San Juan division and director of the White River division
of the U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Hong-Yee Chiu
|
|
astrophysicist at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
|
|
| Martha E. Church
|
1988
|
geographer and president of Hood College
|
|
| Earle H. Clapp
|
|
forester
|
|
| Alonzo Howard Clark
|
1889
|
naturalist, author, historian, secretary American Historical Association, Smithsonian Institution
|
|
| Austin Hobart Clark
|
|
zoologist, curator U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Edgar E. Clark
|
|
attorney
|
|
| William Bullock Clark
|
1895
|
professor of geology at Johns Hopkins University
|
|
| William Mansfield Clark
|
|
chemist, academic, chief of the division of chemistry, U.S. Public Health Service
|
|
| Bruce C. Clarke
|
1968
|
U.S. army general
|
|
| Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
|
1883
|
chemist with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Stanwood Cobb
|
|
educator
|
|
| Theodore I. Coe
|
|
architect
|
|
| Roberta Cohen
|
|
executive director, International League for Human Rights; senior fellow Brookings Institution
|
|
| William Colby
|
|
CIA director
|
|
| Charles Cleaves Cole
|
1894–1895
|
associate justice Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
|
|
| William Byron Colver
|
|
chairman, Federal Trade Commission; general editorial director, Scripps-Howard newspapers
|
|
| Rita R. Colwell
|
1988
|
microbiologist
|
|
| Arthur Compton
|
|
physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
|
|
| Karl Taylor Compton
|
|
physicist and president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
|
|
| Wilson Martindale Compton
|
|
lawyer, president of the State College of Washington
|
|
| Charles Arthur Conant
|
1899
|
assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury, journalist, economist
|
|
| James B. Conant
|
|
chemist
|
|
| David H. Condon
|
1967–1996
|
architect
|
|
| Willis Conover
|
|
radio producer, host of Voice of America's Music USA Jazz Hour
|
|
| Holmes Conrad
|
1895–1900, 1903
|
attorney, Solicitor General of the United States
|
|
| Nancy Conrad
|
|
teacher, author
|
|
| Joseph A. Conry
|
1935
|
consul of Russia; director of the Port of Boston; special attorney, U.S. Maritime Commission
|
|
| Orator F. Cook
|
|
botanist
|
|
| Luis Felipe Corea
|
1890–1902
|
minister to the United States from Nicaragua, E. E. and M. P. of Nicaragua
|
|
| Frederic René Coudert Sr.
|
1897–1899
|
lawyer
|
|
| Elliott Coues
|
1879
|
ornithologist, secretary of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories
|
|
| Frederick Vernon Coville
|
1892
|
chief botanist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| J. Harry Covington
|
|
politician, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
|
|
| Allyn Cox
|
1973
|
painter
|
|
| Thomas Craig
|
1879–1890
|
mathematician at Johns Hopkins University
|
|
| William Crentz
|
1962–2002
|
Engineer and a national authority on fossil fuels
|
|
| Oscar Terry Crosby
|
1896
|
electrician, assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury, president of the World Federation League
|
|
| Charles Whitman Cross
|
1888
|
geologist and petrologist with U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| George Crossette
|
|
Chief of the geographic research division of the National Geographic Society
|
|
| Barbara Culliton
|
|
science journalist, news editor at Science, and deputy editor of Nature
|
|
| Hugh S. Cumming
|
|
surgeon general, U.S. Public Health Service
|
|
| Harry F. Cunningham
|
|
architect
|
|
| Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
|
1895
|
educator, diplomat, state politician, congressman
|
|
| George Edward Curtis
|
1889–1893
|
meteorologist with U.S. Weather Bureau, photographer
|
|
| William Eleroy Curtis
|
1886
|
journalist, author, director of the Bureau of the American Republics;
Chief of the Latin American Department of the World's Columbian Exposition
|
|
| William Parker Cutter
|
1894
|
chemist, chief of the order division of the Library of Congress;
director of the U.S. National Agricultural Library
|
|
| Charles William Dabney
|
1894
|
university president, assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| William Healey Dall
|
1887
|
naturalist, curator of mollusks, U.S. National Museum of Natural History
|
|
| Joan Danziger
|
2003
|
sculptor
|
|
| Nelson Horatio Darton
|
1899
|
geologist with U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Joseph E. Davies
|
|
Lawyer and diplomat
|
|
| Arthur Powell Davis
|
1895
|
civil engineer and topographer with U. S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Bancroft Davis
|
1886–1892
|
attorney, judge of the Court of Claims, Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the U.S.
|
|
| Charles Henry Davis
|
1878
|
rear admiral of the U.S. Navy, worked on the United States Coast Survey
|
|
| George Whitefield Davis
|
1881–1885
|
engineer and major general in the U.S. Army, governor of the Panama Canal Zone
|
|
| James Cox Davis
|
|
director general of the Federal Railroad Administration
|
|
| John Davis
|
1886–1887
|
associate justice of the Court of Claims
|
|
| Arthur Louis Day
|
|
geophysicist; volcanologist; director Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington
|
|
| David Talbot Day
|
1889–1893, 1901
|
chief of mining and mineral division, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Sara Day
|
2014
|
author of historical nonfiction
|
|
| Frederic Adrian Delano
|
|
railroad president, first Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve
|
|
| John Howard Dellinger
|
|
telecommunication engineer
|
|
| Laura DeNardis
|
|
endowed chair in technology, ethics, and society at Georgetown University
|
|
| Tyler Dennett
|
|
editor, writer, historian, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
|
|
| Leon E. Dessez
|
1903
|
architect
|
|
| Dozier A. DeVane
|
|
attorney and judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida and U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
|
|
| Arthur E. Dewey
|
2003
|
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration
|
|
| Lyster Hoxie Dewey
|
|
botanist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Roscoe DeWitt
|
|
architect, one of the Monuments Men during World War II
|
|
| Edwin Grant Dexter
|
|
educator
|
|
| Joseph Silas Diller
|
1885
|
assistant geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, academic
|
|
| Alvin E. Dodd
|
|
consulting engineer and president of the American Management Association
|
|
| Charles Richards Dodge
|
1894
|
Textile fiber expert, botanist with the Office of Fiber Investigation U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Edward W. Donn Jr.
|
1896
|
architect
|
|
| Marion Dorset
|
1902
|
chief, biochemical division of the Bureau of Animal Husbandry, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| George Amos Dorsey
|
1902
|
ethnographer, professor, curator of the Field Museum of Natural History
|
|
| Noah Ernest Dorsey
|
|
physicist
|
|
| Edward Morehouse Douglas
|
1887
|
geographer and topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Alexander Wilson Drake
|
1884–1887
|
artist, art director of The Century Magazine
|
|
| Allen Drury
|
|
writer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
|
|
| Horace Bookwalter Drury
|
|
Economist, academic, author
|
|
| Paul du Quenoy
|
|
historian, professor, Fulbright scholar
|
|
| Charles Benjamin Dudley
|
1900
|
chemist
|
|
| William Ward Duffield
|
1894–1897
|
superintendent, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
|
|
| Arthur William Dunn
|
|
national director of the Junior American Red Cross, college lecturer
|
|
| Edward Dana Durand
|
1903
|
director of the United States Census Bureau
|
|
| Clarence Dutton
|
1878
|
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight
|
1878–1882
|
librarian, archivist, and diplomat, a librarian with the U.S. Department of State
|
|
| William Sylvester Eames
|
1900
|
architect
|
|
| John Robie Eastman
|
1878
|
astronomer with Naval Observatory, professor of mathematics, U.S. Navy
|
|
| Edward D. Easton
|
1883–1902
|
founder and president of the Columbia Phonograph Company
|
|
| Burton Edelson
|
|
U.S. Navy officer, associate administrator of NASA
|
|
| Henry White Edgerton
|
|
attorney, academic, judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
|
|
| John Joy Edson
|
1896–1898
|
president, Washington Loan & Trust Company
|
|
| Lawrence Edwards
|
|
innovator in aerospace and ground transportation
|
|
| Maurice F. Egan
|
1898
|
Professor, author, diplomat
|
|
| Edward Eggleston
|
1901
|
Novelist, historian
|
|
| William Snyder Eichelberger
|
|
astronomer, director of The Nautical Almanac, professor of mathematics U.S. Navy
|
|
| Churchill Eisenhart
|
|
mathematician; chief, Statistical Engineering Laboratory, National Bureau of Standards
|
|
| Milton Courtright Elliott
|
|
Lawyer and judge
|
|
| Samuel Franklin Emmons
|
1882–1892
|
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, president of the Geological Society of America
|
|
| Mordecai Thomas Endicott
|
1896
|
Civil engineer, chief of Yards and Docks Navy Department, father of the Civil Engineering Corps
|
|
| Carl Engel
|
|
pianist, composer, musicologist, chief of the music division of the Library of Congress
|
|
| William Phelps Eno
|
|
father of traffic safety
|
|
| Jesse Frederick Essary
|
|
journalist
|
|
| Edward Trantor Evans
|
|
senior topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Robley D. Evans
|
1883–1901
|
U.S. Navy admiral
|
|
| Barton Warren Evermann
|
1898
|
ichthyologist, U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries
|
|
| William M. Ewing
|
1942
|
geophysicist at the University of Texas, National Medal of Science recipient
|
|
| David Fairchild
|
1898
|
Plant explorer and botanist, Bureau of Plant Industry U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Tom Farer
|
|
academic, author, and former president of the University of New Mexico
|
|
| Guy Otto Farmer
|
|
lawyer, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board
|
|
| Arthur Briggs Farquhar
|
1902
|
Businessman and writer
|
|
| John Barclay Fassett
|
1886–1887
|
Medal of Honor recipient
|
|
| Oliver Lanard Fassig
|
1893
|
meteorologist with the U.S. Weather Bureau, professor at Johns Hopkins University
|
|
| Clarence Norman Fenner
|
|
geologist
|
|
| Henry G. Ferguson
|
|
geologist with U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Thomas B. Ferguson
|
1879–1880
|
United States Ambassador to Sweden, assistant commissioner of Fish and Fisheries
|
|
| Alan Fern
|
|
scholar of American prints and photographs at the Library of Congress
|
|
| Bernhard Fernow
|
1887
|
director, New York State College of Forestry, Cornell University; chief, U.S. Division of Forestry
|
|
| Jesse Walter Fewkes
|
|
chief, Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution
|
|
| George Wilton Field
|
|
biologist
|
|
| Albert Kenrick Fisher
|
1902
|
biologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture; ornithologist
|
|
| Walter Kenrick Fisher
|
1902
|
biologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture; zoologist, evolutionary biologist, illustrator, and painter
|
|
| John Fitterer
|
1973
|
educator and president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities
|
|
| J. A. Henry Flemer
|
1886–1888
|
architect
|
|
| James Milton Flint
|
1880
|
medical director, U. S. Navy; medical collection curator U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Allen Ripley Foote
|
1891
|
political economist, author, and founder of the National Tax Association
|
|
| Paul D. Foote
|
|
physicist, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
|
|
| Kenneth M. Ford
|
|
computer scientist
|
|
| William H. Forwood
|
1903
|
surgeon general of the U.S. Army
|
|
| John W. Foster
|
1889
|
Secretary of State, jurist, diplomat
|
|
| William Dudley Foulke
|
1902
|
Civil service commissioner, literary critic, journalist, reformer
|
|
| Harry Crawford Frankenfield
|
|
senior meteorologist, U.S. Weather Bureau
|
|
| John Hope Franklin
|
1963
|
historian
|
|
| James E. Freeman
|
|
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington
|
|
| Herbert Friedenwald
|
1894
|
author, historian, librarian, and secretary of the American Jewish Committee
|
|
| Daniel Mortimer Friedman
|
|
judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; chief judge of the U.S.Court of Claims
|
|
| Paul L. Friedman
|
|
judge
|
|
| Ed Frost
|
|
sculptor
|
|
| Thomas James Duncan Fuller Jr.
|
1900
|
architect
|
|
| Ira Noel Gabrielson
|
|
entomologist
|
|
| Frank E. Gaebelein
|
1965
|
educator, author, editor of Christianity Today
|
|
| Arthur Burton Gahan
|
|
entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| John Kenneth Galbraith
|
|
economist
|
|
| Edward Miner Gallaudet
|
1878
|
first president of Gallaudet University
|
|
| Beverly Thomas Galloway
|
1894
|
chief of Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Henry Gannett
|
1878
|
chief geographer-in-charge of topographic mapping U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Samuel Gannett
|
1891
|
geographer, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Wilbur E. Garrett
|
1966
|
photographer, editor of National Geographic
|
|
| Hampson Gary
|
|
colonel, U.S. Army; lawyer, and diplomat
|
|
| Georgie Anne Geyer
|
|
journalist; syndicated columnist, television news analyst
|
|
| Tatiana C. Gfoeller
|
|
ambassador
|
|
| Riccardo Giacconi
|
|
astrophysicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize
|
|
| Cass Gilbert
|
1902
|
architect
|
|
| Grove Karl Gilbert
|
1878
|
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Joseph Bernard Gildenhorn
|
2013
|
attorney, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland
|
|
| Theodore Gill
|
1878
|
Biologist, zoologist
|
|
| Daniel Coit Gilman
|
1878–1882, 1903
|
president, Johns Hopkins University; president, Carnegie Institution of Washington
|
|
| Charles C. Glover
|
1887–1891, 1903
|
treasurer, Corcoran Gallery of Art; banker
|
|
| Martin B. Gold
|
2000
|
lobbeyist
|
|
| Arthur J. Goldberg
|
|
U.S. Secretary of Labor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and Ambassador to the United Nations
|
|
| Joseph Goldberger
|
|
epidemiologist and surgeon, U.S. Public Health Service
|
|
| Edward Alphonso Goldman
|
|
biologist
|
|
| Frank Austin Gooch
|
1884–1886
|
chemist and engineer
|
|
| George Brown Goode
|
1881
|
ichthyologist and assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
|
|
| Richard Urquhart Goode
|
1886
|
geographer and topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Elliot Hersey Goodwin
|
|
vice president and secretary of the United States Chamber of Commerce
|
|
| James Howard Gore
|
1883
|
geodesist, author, and professor of mathematics at the Columbian University
|
|
| Carol Graham
|
2008
|
Economist, Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
|
|
| Henry S. Graves
|
1898–1901
|
chief of the United States Forest Service, co-founded the Yale Forest School
|
|
| Horace Gray
|
1882
|
U.S. Supreme Court justice
|
|
| John H. Gray
|
|
Economist, academic
|
|
| William B. Greeley
|
|
chief of the United States Forest Service
|
|
| Adolphus Greely
|
1887
|
polar explorer, brigadier general and chief signal officer in the U. S. Army
|
|
| William R. Green
|
|
congressman, judge of the Court of Claims
|
|
| Edward Lee Greene
|
1895–1902
|
professor of botany, Catholic University
|
|
| Charles Ravenscroft Greenleaf
|
1889–1903
|
assistant surgeon general and brigadier general, U. S. Army
|
|
| James Leal Greenleaf
|
|
Landscape architect and civil engineer
|
|
| Willis Ray Gregg
|
|
meteorologist and chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau
|
|
| Robert Fiske Griggs
|
|
botanist, academic, head of National Geographic Society
|
|
| Gilbert M. Grosvenor
|
1901
|
president and chairman of the National Geographic Society, editor of National Geographic
|
|
| Nathan Clifford Grover
|
|
chief hydraulic engineer, U.S. Geological Survey; academic
|
|
| John M. Grunsfeld
|
|
astronaut and astronomer
|
|
| Francis M. Gunnell
|
1878
|
Surgeon General U.S. Navy
|
|
| Alexander Burton Hagner
|
1883
|
associate justice Supreme Court District of Columbia
|
|
| Arnold Hague
|
1884
|
geologist, U. S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Benjamin F. Hake
|
|
geologist and general manager of Gulf Oil Company of Bolivia
|
|
| Asaph Hall Jr.
|
1890–1895
|
astronomer
|
|
| Henry Clay Hall
|
|
attorney and commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission
|
|
| Percival Hall
|
|
president of Gallaudet University
|
|
| William Hallock
|
1885–1886
|
physicist, U. S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Stefan Halper
|
|
Foreign policy scholar
|
|
| Walton Hale Hamilton
|
|
economist and professor at Yale Law School
|
|
| Charles Sumner Hamlin
|
1879
|
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
|
|
| John Hays Hammond
|
|
Mining engineer, diplomat
|
|
| Hugh S. Hanna
|
|
president, The Capital Transit Company
|
|
| George Wallace William Hanger
|
1902
|
chief clerk, Department of Labor; U.S. Board of Mediation
|
|
| Norman Hapgood
|
|
writer, journalist, editor, critic, and an American minister to Denmark
|
|
| William Hard
|
|
Social reformist and journalist
|
|
| William Harkness
|
1878
|
astronomer, professor of mathematics for the U. S. Navy
|
|
| James S. Harlan
|
|
attorney
|
|
| Mark Walrod Harrington
|
1891–1898
|
chief of Weather Bureau, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Albert L. Harris
|
|
architect
|
|
| William Torrey Harris
|
1890
|
commissioner of education, U.S. Department of Interior; educator, lexicographer
|
|
| Albert Bushnell Hart
|
|
academic, historian, writer, and editor
|
|
| Frederick Hart
|
1983
|
Sculptor, and designer of the soldiers at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
|
|
| Thomas Hastings
|
1918–1919
|
architect
|
|
| George Wesson Hawes
|
1881
|
geologist, curator U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Joseph Roswell Hawley
|
1887–1890
|
congressman, senator, Governor of Connecticut
|
|
| William Perry Hay
|
1900
|
zoologist, professor of natural sciences at Howard University
|
|
| Edward Everett Hayden
|
1885
|
naval officer, meteorologist with the Smithsonian Institution and the US Geological Survey
|
|
| Charles Willard Hayes
|
1892
|
geologist, U. S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Harvey C. Hayes
|
|
pioneer in underwater acoustics, superintendent of Naval Research Laboratory Sound Division
|
|
| Helen Hayes
|
1988
|
actress
|
|
| John Fillmore Hayford
|
1898
|
assistant, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
|
|
| William Babcock Hazen
|
1884
|
brigadier general, Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army
|
|
| A. G. Heaton
|
1886
|
artist, painter
|
|
| Arthur B. Heaton
|
|
architect
|
|
| Nicholas H. Heck
|
|
geophysicist and officer of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps
|
|
| Carl Heinrich
|
|
entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Henry Henshaw
|
1878
|
ornithologist and ethnologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology
|
|
| Christian A. Herter Jr.
|
|
politician, vice president of Mobil Oil Company
|
|
| Charles M. Herzfeld
|
|
scientist and director of DARPA
|
|
| Donnel Foster Hewett
|
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Francis J. Higginson
|
1883–1896
|
rear admiral in the U.S. Navy
|
|
| Julius Erasmus Hilgard
|
1882–1883
|
superintendent, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
|
|
| Charles E. Hill
|
|
professor and administrator at George Washington University, international law expert
|
|
| David Jayne Hill
|
1898
|
Assistant Secretary of State, U. S. Minister to Switzerland
|
|
| James G. Hill
|
1893
|
architect, head of the Office of the Supervising Architect, U.S. Department of the Treasury
|
|
| Joseph Adna Hill
|
1900
|
statistitian and chief of the division, U.S. Census Office
|
|
| Nathaniel P. Hill
|
1883
|
senator, professor of Brown University, mining engineer
|
|
| Samuel Hill
|
1895–1900
|
lawyer, railroad executive, president Minneapolis Trust Co.
|
|
| Robert Cutler Hinckley
|
1886–1887
|
artist
|
|
| A. S. Hitchcock
|
|
agrostologist and senior botanist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Frank Harris Hitchcock
|
1901
|
chief, section of foreign markets, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Postmaster General
|
|
| William Hitz
|
|
associate justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
|
|
| Frederick Webb Hodge
|
1898
|
international exchanges, Smithsonian Institution; anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian
|
|
| Howard Lincoln Hodgkins
|
1895
|
professor of mathematics, Columbian University
|
|
| Samuel B. Holabird
|
1887–1889
|
brigadier general, quartermaster general, U. S. Army
|
|
| Edward S. Holden
|
1878
|
astronomer and professor of mathematics for U. S. Navy
|
|
| William Jacob Holland
|
1900
|
zoologist' director, Carnegie Museum of Natural History; chancellor, University of Pittsburgh
|
|
| Herman Hollerith
|
1886
|
statistician, inventor
|
|
| Ned Hollister
|
|
biologist and superintendent of the National Zoological Park
|
|
| Joseph Austin Holmes
|
1902
|
geologist, first director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines
|
|
| Oliver Wendell Holmes
|
|
archivist and historian
|
|
| William Henry Holmes
|
1878
|
chief, Bureau of American Ethnology; illustrator, U.S. Geological Survey; archaeologist,Smithsonian Institution
|
|
| Judy Holoviak
|
1999
|
director of publications at the American Geophysical Union
|
|
| Calvin B. Hoover
|
|
Economist and academic
|
|
| Herbert Hoover
|
1921–1964
|
president of the United States
|
|
| Andrew Delmar Hopkins
|
1903
|
entomologist, investigator of foliage insects of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Stanley Hornbeck
|
|
Economist, author, professor, diplomat
|
|
| William Temple Hornaday
|
1888–1890
|
taxidermist, U. S. National Museum; zoologist; first director of the New York Zoological Park
|
|
| Joseph Coerten Hornblower
|
1883
|
architect
|
|
| George Horton
|
|
consul general, U.S. Foreign Service
|
|
| Walter Hough
|
1890
|
ethnologist, anthropologist, curator of anthropology at the U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Riley D. Housewright
|
|
microbiologist
|
|
| Richard Hovey
|
1893
|
poet
|
|
| Leland Ossian Howard
|
1886–1950
|
entomologist, chief of the Division of Entomology, Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Harrison E. Howe
|
|
chemical engineer, head of the Division of Research Extension, National Research Council,
|
|
| William Wirt Howe
|
1899
|
associate justice Louisiana Supreme Court
|
|
| Alfred Brazier Howell
|
|
comparative anatomist, zoologist
|
|
| Edwin E. Howell
|
1891
|
Geologist, relief map maker
|
|
| Henry W. Howgate
|
1878
|
U.S. Army Signal Corps officer and Arctic explorer
|
|
| Henry L. Howison
|
1883–1884
|
rear admiral, U.S. Navy; professor and department head, United States Naval Academy
|
|
| Richard L. Hoxie
|
|
brigadier general in the United States Army
|
|
| Gardiner Greene Hubbard
|
1883
|
lawyer, president of the National Geographic Society
|
|
| Henry Guernsey Hubbard
|
1884
|
entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| J. Stephen Huebner
|
1973
|
research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Edgar Erskine Hume
|
|
physician, a major general in the U.S Army medical corps
|
|
| Paul Hume
|
|
music critic
|
|
| Harry Baker Humphrey
|
|
botanist, pathologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Edward Eyre Hunt Jr.
|
|
academic, physical anthropologist and human biologist
|
|
| William Jackson Humphreys
|
|
Physicist and atmospheric researcher
|
|
| Gaillard Hunt
|
1894–1897
|
state department, author
|
|
| Thomas Sterry Hunt
|
1887
|
chemist, geologist, mineralogist
|
|
| Benjamin Hutto
|
|
musician specializing in writing, producing and directing choral music
|
|
| James A. Hyslop
|
|
entomologist, U.S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine.
|
|
| Joseph P. Iddings
|
1885
|
professor of petrology, University of Chicago
|
|
| M. Thomas Inge
|
|
academic
|
|
| Ernest Ingersoll
|
1882
|
Naturalist, writer, explorer
|
|
| Ketanji Brown Jackson
|
|
U.S. Supreme Court justice
|
|
| William Henry Jackson
|
|
Photographer, painter
|
|
| Elaine Jaffe
|
1988
|
physician; pathologist; National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
|
|
| A. Everette James Jr.
|
1981–2017
|
radiologist, academic, and founder of the Center for Medical Imaging Research
|
|
| J. Franklin Jameson
|
|
historian, director of the department of historical research, Carnegie Institution of Washington
|
|
| William Marion Jardine
|
|
United States Secretary of Agriculture, U.S. Minister to Egypt
|
|
| Jeremiah Jenks
|
1903
|
professor of economics at Cornell University
|
|
| Emory Richard Johnson
|
1900
|
economist, Isthmian Canal Commissioner
|
|
| Nelson T. Johnson
|
|
ambassador, diplomat
|
|
| Andrieus A. Jones
|
|
Senator, lawyer
|
|
| Ernest Lester Jones
|
|
Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, father of the Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps, which later became the NOAA Commissioned Corps
|
|
| H. McCoy Jones
|
1969
|
president of the International Hajji Baba Society, oriental rug collector
|
|
| Neil Judd
|
|
curator of American archaeology, U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Julius Kaplan
|
1983
|
art historian
|
|
| Walter Karig
|
|
Officer in charge of the Navy Narrative History Project, assistant director of Navy public relations
|
|
| Samuel Hay Kauffman
|
1881
|
publisher, editor of the Evening Star
|
|
| Rudolph Kauffmann
|
|
managing editor Evening Star, vice president Evening Star Company
|
|
| Thomas Henry Kearney
|
1901
|
botanist and agronomist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Robert V. Keeley
|
1985
|
diplomat
|
|
| Arthur Keith
|
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Vernon Lyman Kellogg
|
|
secretary, National Research Council; entomologist
|
|
| Brian Kelly
|
2013
|
author, journalist, editor
|
|
| George Kennan
|
1879–1885
|
Explorer, author, lecturer
|
|
| George F. Kennan
|
|
Diplomat and historian
|
|
| Frederick C. Kenyon
|
1897
|
zoologist and anatomist
|
|
| Washington Caruther Kerr
|
1882–1884
|
State Geologist of North Carolina
|
|
| Mary Dublin Keyserling
|
1988
|
economist
|
|
| Jerome H. Kidder
|
1879
|
surgeon, astronomer with Smithsonian Institution and Naval Research Laboratory
|
|
| James J. Kilpatrick
|
|
Journalist, newspaper columnist
|
|
| Sumner Increase Kimball
|
1887
|
politician, superintendent United States Life Savings Service
|
|
| William Wirt Kimball
|
1879–1880
|
U.S. naval officer and an early pioneer in the development of submarines
|
|
| Albert Freeman Africanus King
|
1880
|
physician
|
|
| Clarence King
|
1878–1881
|
first director of the U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Henry Kissinger
|
|
United States Secretary of State and winner of the Nobel Prize
|
|
| Jacques Paul Klein
|
|
Senior Foreign Service Officer (Ret.); Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (Ret.); Major General of the USAF (Ret.)
|
|
| Ernest Knaebel
|
|
lawyer, reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court
|
|
| Martin Augustine Knapp
|
1893
|
chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission; United States circuit judge
|
|
| Frank Knowlton
|
1890
|
paleontologist, U. S. Geological Survey
|
|
| John Jay Knox Jr.
|
1878
|
Comptroller of the Currency, U.S. Treasury Department
|
|
| Simmie Knox
|
2006
|
Painter, portraitist
|
|
| George M. Kober
|
|
physician, author, namesake of George M. Kober Medal and Lectureship
|
|
| John Oliver La Gorce
|
|
editor, National Geographic Society
|
|
| Carol C. Laise
|
1988
|
director of Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy; Ambassador to Nepal
|
|
| Theodore Frederick Laist
|
1901
|
architect; chief architect central district, Interstate Commerce Commission
|
|
| Samuel Langley
|
1880
|
physicist, astronomer, Secretary of the Smithsonian
|
|
| Walter H. Larrimer
|
|
entomologist; chief, Bureau of Entomology, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Carl. W. Larson
|
|
Chief, Bureau of Dairy Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture; director, National Dairy Council
|
|
| James Laurence Laughlin
|
|
Economist, academic
|
|
| Thelma Z. Lavine
|
|
Philosopheracademic
|
|
| Luther Morris Leisenring
|
|
architect
|
|
| Levi Leiter
|
1883
|
capitalist, co-founded Marshall Field & Company
|
|
| Peter P. Lejins
|
1970
|
educator, criminologist, director of the National Institute of Criminal Justice and Criminology
|
|
| Waldo Gifford Leland
|
|
historian and archivist, Carnegie Institution and Library of Congress
|
|
| Samuel Conrad Lemly
|
1884–1890
|
Judge Advocate General of the Navy
|
|
| Harvey J. Levin
|
1986
|
economist
|
|
| Francis E. Leupp
|
1885–1894, 1902
|
journalist, New York Evening Post assistant editor, Commissioner of Indian Affairs
|
|
| David C. Levy
|
|
president and director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Corcoran College of Art and Design
|
|
| George W. Lewis
|
|
director, Aeronautical Research, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
|
|
| Sinclair Lewis
|
|
writer, playwright, and winner of the Nobel Prize
|
|
| William Mather Lewis
|
|
teacher, university president, state and national government official
|
|
| Manuel de Oliveira Lima
|
|
Brazilian writer, literary critic, diplomat, historian, and journalist
|
|
| Samuel C. Lind
|
|
radiation chemist, the father of modern radiation chemistry
|
|
| Waldemar Lindgren
|
1896
|
geologist, U. S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Michael C. Linn
|
|
Attorney and businessman
|
|
| Sol Linowitz
|
1994
|
lawyer
|
|
| Walter Lippmann
|
|
journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize winner
|
|
| George W. Littlehales
|
1900
|
hydrographic engineer, Navy Department
|
|
| Arthur H. Livermore
|
|
professor of biochemistry at Cornell University and Reed College
|
|
| Charles S. Lobingier
|
|
International judge, author, and law instructor
|
|
| Edwin Chesley Estes Lord
|
1895
|
geologist and petrologist with U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Max O. Lorenz
|
|
economist and statistician
|
|
| Alan David Lourie
|
|
U.S. circuit judge, chemist
|
|
| Alfred Maurice Low
|
1898
|
journalist
|
|
| Isador Lubin
|
|
head, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
|
|
| Anthony Francis Lucas
|
1893
|
engineer, explorer
|
|
| Robert Luce
|
|
Congressman, writer,
|
|
| William Ludlow
|
1883–1888
|
major, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; major general U.S. Army
|
|
| David Alexander Lyle
|
1887
|
major, Ordnance Department, U.S. Army; inventor of the Lyle gun
|
|
| Theodore Lyman III
|
1884–1885
|
Natural scientist, congressman
|
|
| Frank Lyon
|
|
lawyer, newspaper publisher, and land developer
|
|
| Arthur MacArthur Sr.
|
1888–1893
|
associate justice, Supreme Court District of Columbia; Governor of Wisconsin
|
|
| Alexander Mackay-Smith
|
1893–1903
|
bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania
|
|
| Archibald MacLeish
|
|
poet, Librarian of Congress, and winner of a Pulitzer Prize
|
|
| Garrick Mallery
|
1878
|
ethnologist at the Smithsonian Institution
|
|
| Charles M. Manly
|
1899
|
engineer
|
|
| Charles A. Mann
|
1887
|
Lawyer and politician
|
|
| Parker Mann
|
1887–1890,
1894–1899
|
artist
|
|
| Van H. Manning
|
1893
|
director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines
|
|
| George Rogers Mansfield
|
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Curtis F. Marbut
|
|
Director of the Soil Survey Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Deanna B. Marcum
|
1994
|
librarian, president of the Council on Library and Information Resources
|
|
| Hans Mark
|
|
professor of aerospace engineering, U.S. Secretary of the Air Force
|
|
| Ronald A. Marks
|
|
senior official with the Central Intelligence Agency
|
|
| Charles Lester Marlatt
|
1894
|
chief of the Bureau of Entomology
|
|
| Harry A. Marmer
|
|
engineer, mathematician, and oceanographer with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
|
|
| Fred Maroon
|
|
photographer
|
|
| Charles Dwight Marsh
|
|
botanist; physiologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| William Johnston Marsh
|
1895
|
architect
|
|
| James Rush Marshall
|
1883
|
architect
|
|
| H. Newell Martin
|
1878–1880
|
physiologist, professor of biology at Johns Hopkins University
|
|
| Robert S. Martin
|
|
librarian, archivist, administrator, and professor
|
|
| Susan K Martin
|
1988
|
librarian; executive director, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
|
|
| Charles F. Marvin
|
1890
|
professor of meteorology; chief, U.S. Weather Bureau
|
|
| Otis Tufton Mason
|
1878–1898
|
ethnologist; curator, U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Stephen Mather
|
|
first director of the National Park Service
|
|
| François E. Matthes
|
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Washington Matthews
|
1884–1900
|
surgeon in the United States Army, ethnographer, and linguist
|
|
| Philip Mauro
|
1894
|
lawyer
|
|
| George Hebard Maxwell
|
1899
|
lawyer, lobbyist, executive chairman National Irrigation Association
|
|
| O. Louis Mazzatenta
|
2011
|
photographer and editor with National Geographic
|
|
| Addams Stratton McAllister
|
|
Physicist, electrical engineer,
|
|
| John S. McCain Jr.
|
|
United States Navy admiral
|
|
| S. S. McClure
|
1892
|
co-founder and editor of McClure's
|
|
| Richard Cunningham McCormick
|
1896–1899
|
governor of Arizona Territory, congressman, journalist
|
|
| George Walter McCoy
|
|
director of the National Institute of Health
|
|
| Walter I. McCoy
|
|
chief justice of the D.C. Supreme Court
|
|
| Arthur Williams McCurdy
|
1898
|
inventor, astronomer
|
|
| William John McGee
|
1885
|
ethnologist, Smithsonian Institution
|
|
| John P. McGovern
|
1953–2007
|
allergist and philanthropist
|
|
| Gerald S. McGowan
|
|
lawyer, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal
|
|
| Jonas H. McGowan
|
1902
|
Lawyer, congressman
|
|
| Frederick Banders McGuire
|
1883–1901
|
director Corcoran Art Gallery
|
|
| Charles Follen McKim
|
1902
|
architect
|
|
| William B. McKinley
|
|
U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative
|
|
| Ann Dore McLaughlin
|
1988
|
U.S. Secretary of Labor
|
|
| Robert McNamara
|
|
U.S. Secretary of Defense
|
|
| Elwood Mead
|
1903
|
irrigation engineer, head of United States Bureau of Reclamation
|
|
| Milton Bennett Medary
|
|
architect
|
|
| Oscar Edward Meinzer
|
|
hydrogeologist
|
|
| Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
|
1885
|
superintendent U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; president Worcester Polytechnic Institute
|
|
| Walter Curran Mendenhall
|
1902
|
director of the US Geological Survey
|
|
| Clinton Hart Merriam
|
1886
|
chief U.S. Biological Survey, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| John Campbell Merriam
|
|
paleontologist
|
|
| William Rush Merriam
|
1899–1900
|
director of the U.S. Census, governor of Minnesota
|
|
| George Perkins Merrill
|
1893
|
curator, department of geology, U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Edmund Clarence Messer
|
1902
|
artist
|
|
| Balthasar H. Meyer
|
|
Interstate Commerce Commission, economist, academic
|
|
| Eugene Meyer
|
|
chairman of the Federal Reserve, publisher of The Washington Post
|
|
| Ellen Miles
|
2005
|
curator of the National Portrait Gallery
|
|
| Christine Odell Cook Miller
|
|
judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims
|
|
| Eleazar Hutchinson Miller
|
1893–1899
|
artist
|
|
| Gerrit Smith Miller Jr.
|
1903
|
biologist, assistant curator of mammals, U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Warren L. Miller
|
|
chairman, U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad
|
|
| John D. Millett
|
|
chancellor, Miami University; senior vice president, Academy for Educational Development
|
|
| Robert Andrews Millikan
|
|
physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
|
|
| Harry A. Millis
|
|
economist, educator, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board
|
|
| Arthur Millspaugh
|
|
Administrator general of the finance of Persia
|
|
| George Heron Milne
|
|
Librarian and chief of the Congressional Reading Room
|
|
| Cosmos Mindeleff
|
1887
|
journalist
|
|
| Charles Sedgwick Minot
|
1902
|
anatomist and a founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research
|
|
| Betty C. Monkman
|
2004
|
curator of the White House
|
|
| Charles Moore
|
1891
|
Journalist, historian, city planner, and clerk to the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia
|
|
| George Thomas Moore
|
1903
|
botanist, plant physiologist, algologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| John Moore
|
1887
|
Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
|
|
| John Bassett Moore
|
1887
|
judge, Assistant Secretary of State, professor of law and diplomacy at Columbia University
|
|
| Veranus Alva Moore
|
1895
|
professor of comparative pathology and bacteriology, Cornell University
|
|
| Willis Luther Moore
|
1895
|
chief of the weather bureau, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| George W. Morey
|
|
geochemist, physical chemist, mineralogist, and petrologist
|
|
| Sylvanus Morley
|
|
archaeologist
|
|
| Edward Lyman Morris
|
|
botanist, curator of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
|
|
| Edward Lind Morse
|
1902
|
artist
|
|
| Harold G. Moulton
|
|
economist
|
|
| Charles Edward Munroe
|
1882–1885, 1892
|
chemistry professor, Columbian University
|
|
| Denys Peter Myers
|
1977–2003
|
architectural historian with National Park Service, part of the Monuments Men team
|
|
| Charles Willis Needham
|
1894
|
president George Washington University; solicitor, Interstate Commerce Commission
|
|
| Charles P. Neill
|
1900
|
economist, U.S. Commissioner of Labor; professor of political economy, Catholic University
|
|
| Edward William Nelson
|
1882–1883, 1903
|
naturalist and ethnologist, chief of the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey
|
|
| Henry Clay Nelson
|
1883
|
medical inspector and assistant surgeon general of the U.S. Navy
|
|
| Edwin Lowe Neville
|
|
diplomat
|
|
| W. Coleman Nevils
|
|
Jesuit educator
|
|
| John Strong Newberry
|
1878
|
professor of geology and paleontology at Columbia University School of Mines
|
|
| Simon Newcomb
|
1880
|
rear admiral, professor at the Naval Observatory and Georgetown University
|
|
| Frederick Haynes Newell
|
1890
|
chief, division of hydrography, U. S. Geological Survey; director, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
|
|
| Oliver Peck Newman
|
|
president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia; journalist
|
|
| David George Newton
|
|
United States Ambassador to Iraq and Yemen
|
|
| Hobart Nichols
|
1902–1962
|
painter; paleontologic draftsman, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Nathaniel B. Nichols
|
|
illustrator with U.S. Geological Survey and Bureau of American Ethnology
|
|
| Harald Herborg Nielsen
|
1954
|
physicist
|
|
| Charles Nordhoff
|
1880–1883, 1888
|
Journalist, author
|
|
| Thaddeus Norris
|
1894–1897
|
writer, father of American fly fishing
|
|
| S. N. D. North
|
1899
|
director of the U.S. Census, statistician
|
|
| Janet L. Norwood
|
1988
|
economist, statistician, U.S. Commissioner of Labor Statistics
|
|
| Crosby Stuart Noyes
|
1884
|
editor and publisher of the Washington Evening Star
|
|
| Theodore W. Noyes
|
1887
|
editor the Washington Evening Star
|
|
| William A. Noyes
|
1903
|
chemist, professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
|
|
| Perley G. Nutting
|
|
optical physicist and the founder of the Optical Society of America
|
|
| Harry C. Oberholser
|
|
ornithologist
|
|
| Robert Lincoln O'Brien
|
1899
|
journalist, chairman of U.S. Tariff Commission
|
|
| Stephen J. O'Brien
|
|
geneticist
|
|
| Sandra Day O'Connor
|
|
U.S. Supreme Court justice
|
|
| Paul Henry Oehser
|
|
journalist
|
|
| Goetz Oertel
|
|
physicist
|
|
| Herbert Gouverneur Ogden
|
1889
|
civil engineer, inspector of hydrography and topography, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
|
|
| Frederick E. Olmsted
|
1902
|
forester and agent with the Bureau of Forestry, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
|
1917–1957
|
landscape architect
|
|
| Mark Olshaker
|
|
author
|
|
| Frederick I. Ordway III
|
|
Air space scientist, author, educator
|
|
| William Allen Orton
|
|
Plant pathologist, Director of the Tropical Research Foundation
|
|
| Henry Fairfield Osborn
|
1894
|
academic, president of the American Museum of Natural History
|
|
| Wilfred Hudson Osgood
|
1901
|
zoologist; staff with Division of Biological Survey, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Joseph H. Outhwaite
|
1886–1893
|
Lawyer and congressman
|
|
| Robert Latham Owen
|
1899
|
Senator for Oklahoma
|
|
| Robert Oxnam
|
|
Writer and academic
|
|
| Harvey L. Page
|
1880
|
architect
|
|
| Thomas Nelson Page
|
1885
|
author and U.S. Ambassador to Italy
|
|
| William Nelson Page
|
|
Civil engineer and industrialist
|
|
| Sidney Paige
|
|
geologist, faculty of Columbia University
|
|
| Alajos Paikert
|
1901–1903
|
farmer, lawyer, director of the Museum of Hungarian Agricultural
|
|
| Theodore Sherman Palmer
|
1885
|
co-founder of the National Audubon Society
|
|
| Stefan Panaretov
|
|
Diplomat and professor
|
|
| Walter Paris
|
1883–1885
|
artist
|
|
| John Parke
|
1878–1880
|
colonel with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, general in the Civil War
|
|
| Charles Lathrop Parsons
|
|
chemist
|
|
| William Ordway Partridge
|
1894
|
sculptor
|
|
| Leo Pasvolsky
|
|
Journalist, economist
|
|
| Stewart Paton
|
1903
|
educator and physician specializing in neuropsychiatry
|
|
| Richard North Patterson
|
|
novelist
|
|
| Raymond Stanton Patton
|
|
director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, rear admiral
|
|
| Charles O. Paullin
|
|
author, naval historian
|
|
| George Foster Peabody
|
1896
|
banker
|
|
| Albert Charles Peale
|
1883
|
geologist, mineralogist, paleobotanist, Section of Paleobotany U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Raymond Allen Pearson
|
1897
|
Assistant, Dairy Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture; college president
|
|
| Horace C. Peaslee
|
1926–1959
|
architect
|
|
| Dallas Lynn Peck
|
|
director of the U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| William Thomas Pecora
|
|
director of the U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Stanton J. Peelle
|
|
Politician and jurist
|
|
| R. A. F. Penrose Jr.
|
1889–1897
|
geologist with the U. S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Jack Perlmutter
|
|
artist, printmaker
|
|
| Joseph E. Pesce
|
2010
|
astrophysicist
|
|
| William John Peters
|
1889
|
topographer, U. S. Geological Survey, explorer
|
|
| Esther Peterson
|
1988
|
consumer advocate; United Nations representative
|
|
| Ivan Petrof
|
1881–1885
|
Writer, translator, and statistician of Alaska for the U.S. Census
|
|
| Duncan Phillips
|
|
art collector and critic who played a seminal role in introducing modern art to America
|
|
| Walter P. Phillips
|
1882–1888
|
head of the United Press International, journalist, telegrapher, and inventor
|
|
| Thomas R. Pickering
|
|
diplomat
|
|
| Ulysses Grant Baker Pierce
|
1901
|
Unitarian minister who served as Chaplain of the United States Senate
|
|
| Theodore Wells Pietsch I
|
1902
|
architect; designer, Office Supervising Architect, U.S. Treasury Department
|
|
| Charles Snowden Piggot
|
|
chemist and geophysicist, one of the founding fathers of ocean-bottom marine research
|
|
| James Pilling
|
1879
|
ethnologist, Bureau of Ethnology
|
|
| Michael Pillsbury
|
|
Strategist and expert on China
|
|
| Gifford Pinchot
|
1897–1946
|
chief forester of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Edmund Platt
|
|
congressman, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve
|
|
| Michael Pocalyko
|
|
Businessman and writer
|
|
| Forrest Pogue
|
|
military historian
|
|
| William Mundy Poindexter
|
1883
|
architect
|
|
| Charles Louis Pollard
|
1900
|
botanist, assistant curator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Botany
|
|
| John Addison Porter
|
1884–1888
|
clerk to Senate Committee; Secretary to the President, journalist
|
|
| George B. Post
|
1903
|
architect
|
|
| Louis F. Post
|
|
Assistant United States Secretary of Labor
|
|
| John Wesley Powell
|
1878
|
director of the U.S. Geological Survey, director Bureau of American Ethnology
|
|
| William Bramwell Powell
|
1886–1901
|
educator
|
|
| Frederick Belding Power
|
|
Research chemist and academic
|
|
| Frank Presbrey
|
1892–1894
|
pioneering advertiser
|
|
| Overton Westfeldt Price
|
1902
|
assistant chief, Forestry Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| William Jennings Price
|
|
professor of law Georgetown University; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Panama)
|
|
| Irwin G. Priest
|
|
Chief of Colorimetry Section Bureau of Standards
|
|
| Henry Smith Pritchett
|
1878–1880, 1897
|
astronomer, university president, superintendent of United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
|
|
| John Robert Procter
|
1894
|
geologist, Kentucky State geolostic survey, civil service commissioner
|
|
| Raphael Pumpelly
|
1889–1894
|
Geologist, author, explorer
|
|
| Edmund R. Purves
|
|
architect
|
|
| Merlo J. Pusey
|
|
journalist
|
|
| Herbert Putnam
|
1900
|
Librarian of Congress
|
|
| Frederic Bennett Pyle
|
1900
|
architect
|
|
| Altus Lacy Quaintance
|
|
Entomologist and associate chief of the U.S. Bureau of Entomology
|
|
| Wallace Radcliffe
|
|
pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
|
|
| Jackson H. Ralston
|
|
Lawyer, professor of international law
|
|
| John Hall Rankin
|
1902
|
architect
|
|
| Frederick Leslie Ransome
|
1899
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Richard Rathbun
|
1883
|
biologist and assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
|
|
| George Lansing Raymond
|
1898
|
professor of esthetics, Princeton University
|
|
| Mila Rechcigl
|
|
researcher
|
|
| Walter Reed
|
1893
|
U.S. Army physician and surgeon
|
|
| John Bernard Reeside Jr.
|
|
geologist and paleontologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Alan Reich
|
|
deputy assistant Secretary of State for Educational and cultural affairs
|
|
| Ira Remsen
|
1878–1882
|
chemist and president of Johns Hopkins University
|
|
| James Burton Reynolds
|
|
banker, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
|
|
| Joseph J. Reynolds
|
1886
|
colonel, cavalry, U.S. Army; engineer, and educator
|
|
| C. Allen Thorndike Rice
|
1879
|
journalist and the editor and publisher of the North American Review
|
|
| George S. Rice
|
|
Chief, Mining Division, U.S. Bureau of Mines
|
|
| Joseph Mayer Rice
|
1897
|
physician, editor of The Forum magazine
|
|
| Lois Rice
|
1988
|
Education policy scholar
|
|
| William Gorham Rice
|
1896
|
Civil Service Commissioner, author
|
|
| George Burr Richardson
|
1902
|
field geologist with U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Charles Valentine Riley
|
1878
|
pioneer in entomology, curator of insects at the U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Arthur Cuming Ringland
|
|
forester, conservationist, and founder of CARE
|
|
| Sidney Dillon Ripley II
|
|
ornithologist, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
|
|
| Charles Ritcheson
|
|
historian, diplomat, and university administrator
|
|
| William Emerson Ritter
|
|
Zoologist, biologist
|
|
| Ellis H. Roberts
|
|
Treasurer of the United States, congressman
|
|
| George E. Roberts
|
1901
|
director of the United States Mint
|
|
| Beverly Robertson
|
1886–1890
|
cavalry officer in the United States Army
|
|
| George M. Robeson
|
1883–1886
|
Secretary of the Navy, congressman
|
|
| Thomas Ralph Robinson
|
|
horticulturalist
|
|
| Nelson Rockefeller
|
|
Vice President of the United States
|
|
| William Woodville Rockhill
|
1901
|
diplomat, director Bureau American Republics
|
|
| Lore Alford Rogers
|
|
bacteriologist, Bureau of Dairy Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Sievert Allen Rohwer
|
|
entomologist
|
|
| Nina Roscher
|
1988
|
Professor of chemistry at American University
|
|
| Edward Bennett Rosa
|
1902
|
physicist, U.S. Bureau of Standards
|
|
| Milton J. Rosenau
|
1902
|
professor and assistant surgeon, Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
|
|
| Joseph Nelson Rose
|
1893
|
assistant curator, Department of Botany, U.S. National Museum
|
|
| John F. Ross
|
2000
|
Historian and author
|
|
| Abbott Lawrence Rotch
|
1891
|
meteorologist, Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
|
|
| Leo Stanton Rowe
|
1901
|
professor at the University of Pennsylvania, director general of the Pan-American Union
|
|
| Henry Augustus Rowland
|
1878–1887
|
physicist and Johns Hopkins educator
|
|
| George Rublee
|
|
lawyer
|
|
| Walter Rundell Jr.
|
|
Historian, archivist, and author
|
|
| William Edwin Safford
|
|
botanist
|
|
| Carl Sagan
|
|
Astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author
|
|
| Daniel Elmer Salmon
|
1884
|
veterinarian; chief Bureau Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture
|
|
| William Salomon
|
1897
|
banker
|
|
| Henry Y. Satterlee
|
1903
|
Bishop of Washington, Episcopal Church
|
|
| Rufus Saxton
|
1889–1891
|
colonel, assistant Quartermaster General, U.S. Army
|
|
| Antonin Scalia
|
19xx–1985
|
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
|
|
| Rudolf E. Schoenfeld
|
1952–1981
|
ambassador
|
|
| James Brown Scott
|
|
authority on international law, author, secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
|
|
| Frank Charles Schrader
|
1903
|
geologist with U.S. Geological Survey, professor at Harvard University
|
|
| Charles Schuchert
|
1895
|
invertebrate paleontologist, assistant curator for U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Carol Schwartz
|
1989
|
politician
|
|
| Eugene Amandus Schwarz
|
1889
|
entomological investigator, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Emil Alexander de Schweinitz
|
1889
|
director of biochemical laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Glenn T. Seaborg
|
|
chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize
|
|
| William Henry Seaman
|
1887
|
examiner, U.S. Patent Office; a federal judge
|
|
| George Mary Searle
|
1890–1894
|
Catholic priest and professor of astronomy, Catholic University
|
|
| Atherton Seidell
|
|
founder of the American Documentation Institute
|
|
| Harold Seidman
|
|
political scientist
|
|
| Frederick Seitz
|
1954
|
physicist at Rockefeller University, National Medal of Science recipient
|
|
| Ruth O. Selig
|
2007
|
anthropologist and educator
|
|
| George Dudley Seymour
|
1897
|
Historian, patent attorney, antiquarian, author, and city planner
|
|
| Nathaniel Shaler
|
1885
|
geologist; dean Lawrence Scientific School; professor geology, Harvard University
|
|
| Homer L. Shantz
|
|
botanist and president of the University of Arizona
|
|
| Willis Shapley
|
|
NASA administrator
|
|
| Samuel Shellabarger
|
1881–1884
|
Lawyer and congressman
|
|
| Seth Shepard
|
1903
|
associate justice and chief justice Supreme Court District of Columbia
|
|
| Charles Wesley Shilling
|
|
U.S. Navy physician, researcher, and educator
|
|
| Robert Wilson Shufeldt
|
1889–1895
|
diplomate, Rear Admiral U.S. Navy
|
|
| Robert Wilson Shufeldt Jr.
|
1881
|
osteologist, myologist, museologist and ethnographer
|
|
| Frederick Lincoln Siddons
|
|
associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
|
|
| Louis A. Simon
|
|
architect
|
|
| James B. Simpson
|
1991
|
journalist, author, and Episcopal priest
|
|
| Fred Singer
|
1957
|
physicist, director of the Science & Environmental Policy Project, professor University of Virginia
|
|
| Jeanne Sinkford
|
2015
|
Dentist, first female dean of an American college
|
|
| Denis Sinor
|
|
Historian and academic
|
|
| John Sinkankas
|
|
Navy officer, aviator, gemologist, and gem carver
|
|
| William W. Skinner
|
|
chemist, conservationist, and college football coach
|
|
| Edwin Emery Slosson
|
|
First director of Science Service, magazine editor, author, journalist, and chemist
|
|
| John Humphrey Small
|
|
attorney and a U.S. Representative from North Carolina
|
|
| Timothy Smiddy
|
|
Economist, academic, and diplomat
|
|
| Thomas Smillie
|
1888
|
photographer and curator, Smithsonian Institution
|
|
| Delos H. Smith
|
|
architect
|
|
| Erwin Frink Smith
|
1891
|
plant pathologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| George P. Smith II
|
|
academic
|
|
| George Otis Smith
|
1900
|
geologist and director of the U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Goldwin Smith
|
1892–1900
|
historian and journalist, college professor
|
|
| Hugh McCormick Smith
|
1903
|
ichthyologist and administrator in the United States Bureau of Fisheries
|
|
| John Bernhardt Smith
|
1886–1889
|
professor of entomology, assistant U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Philip Sidney Smith
|
|
Geologist, chief Alaskan geologist, U.S. Geodetic Survey
|
|
| Constantine Joseph Smyth
|
|
Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.
|
|
| Thorvald Solberg
|
|
first Register of Copyrights in the United States Copyright Office
|
|
| Addison E. Southard
|
|
Diplomat, businessman, chief of the Division of Commercial Activities
|
|
| Ellis Spear
|
1896
|
lawyer, U.S. Commissioner of Patents, brevet brigadier general U.S. Army
|
|
| Arthur Coe Spencer
|
1898
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford
|
1884–1889
|
journalist, author, Librarian of Congress
|
|
| Josiah Edward Spurr
|
1903
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Thorvald Solberg
|
1887
|
Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress
|
|
| George Owen Squier
|
1900
|
major, U.S. Army Signal Corps; scientist, and inventor
|
|
| Wendell Phillips Stafford
|
|
associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
|
|
| Paul Carpenter Standley
|
|
botanist
|
|
| Timothy Willam Stanton
|
1894
|
paleontologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Robert Stead
|
1888
|
architect
|
|
| Robert Edwards Carter Stearns
|
1884–1891
|
paleontologist, U.S. Geological Survey; assistant curator U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Leonhard Stejneger
|
|
curatr of biology U.S. National Museum; ornithologist, herpetologist, and zoologist
|
|
| George Miller Sternberg
|
1893
|
Surgeon General of the U.S. Army; bacteriologist
|
|
| J. Macbride Sterrett
|
1892
|
professor of philosophy, Columbian University
|
|
| Irwin Stelzer
|
|
Economist and columnist
|
|
| James Stevenson
|
1884
|
executive officer, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Julian Steward
|
|
anthropologist
|
|
| William Mott Steuart
|
1903
|
director U.S. Census Office
|
|
| Moses T. Stevens
|
1893
|
Congressman and textile manufacturer
|
|
| Frederick W. Stevens
|
|
physicist
|
|
| Walter W. Stewart
|
|
Economist, Director of Research for the Federal Reserve Board
|
|
| Charles Wardell Stiles
|
1892
|
parasitologist and zoologist, Bureau of Animal Industry
|
|
| Frank R. Stockton
|
1900
|
author, humorist
|
|
| Alfred Holt Stone
|
1902
|
Cotton planter, writer, politician
|
|
| John Stone Stone
|
|
mathematician
|
|
| Samuel A. Stouffer
|
|
sociologist
|
|
| Ellery Cory Stowell
|
|
diplomat, professor of international law at Columbia University and American University
|
|
| Samuel Wesley Stratton
|
1901
|
physicist and the first head of the National Bureau of Standards
|
|
| Oscar Straus
|
1900
|
diplomat, U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor
|
|
| Thomas Hale Streets
|
1881–1889
|
Surgeon, U. S. Navy
|
|
| Walter Tennyson Swingle
|
1899–1902
|
botanist; agricultural explorer, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Barbara B. Taft
|
1988
|
historian and fellow in the Royal Historical Society
|
|
| William Howard Taft
|
1904–1913/30
|
President of the United States
|
|
| Charles Sumner Tainter
|
1882–1886, 1891
|
inventor of the Graphophone
|
|
| Gerald F. Tape
|
|
physicist
|
|
| Albert H. Taylor
|
|
electircal and radio engineer
|
|
| James Henry Taylor
|
|
mathematician
|
|
| Frederick Winslow Taylor
|
1880–1893
|
chemist, U.S. National Museum; mechanical engineer
|
|
| Henry Clay Taylor
|
1880–1910
|
rear admiral in the United States Navy
|
|
| James Knox Taylor
|
1898
|
supervising architect, U.S. Treasury Department
|
|
| Rufus Thayer
|
1885
|
judge
|
|
| Charles Thom
|
|
microbiologist, U.S. Bureau of Chemistry
|
|
| Almon Harris Thompson
|
1882
|
geographer, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Robert E. Thompson
|
|
Political writer and journalist
|
|
| John J. Tigert
|
|
Educator and university president
|
|
| Samuel Escue Tillman
|
1889
|
superintendent of the United States Military Academy, astronomer, engineer
|
|
| Otto Hilgard Tittmann
|
1878–1880, 1884
|
founder, National Geographic Society; superintendent United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
|
|
| Charles Hook Tompkins
|
|
architect
|
|
| James Toumey
|
1899–1902
|
Professor at the Yale School of Forestry, superintendent of Tree-Planting, Division of Forestry
|
|
| Charles Haskins Townsend
|
1897
|
zoologist and director of the New York Aquarium
|
|
| Clinton Paul Townsend
|
1896
|
chemist; Patent Office examiner
|
|
| Richard W. Townshend
|
1881–1885
|
congressman
|
|
| William L. Trenholm
|
1887–1901
|
United States Comptroller of the Currency
|
|
| Horace M. Trent
|
|
physicist
|
|
| Alfred Charles True
|
1896
|
director experiment stations, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Frederick W. True
|
1882
|
head curator department of biology, U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Henry St. George Tucker III
|
|
Lawyer and congressman
|
|
| Bryant Tuckerman
|
|
mathematician
|
|
| Lucius Tuckerman
|
1887
|
businessman, manufacturer, vice-president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
|
|
| John Tukey
|
1955
|
statistician with Bell Labs and Princeton University, National Medal of Science recipient
|
|
| Charles Yardley Turner
|
1910–1918
|
artist
|
|
| Henry Ward Turner
|
1990–1996
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Scott Turner
|
|
mining engineer, director of the United States Bureau of Mines
|
|
| Merle Tuve
|
|
geophysicist
|
|
| Frank Tweedy
|
1885–1901
|
botanist, topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Sanford J. Ungar
|
1980
|
university president
|
|
| Harold Urey
|
|
physical chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
|
|
| Charles Fox Urquhart
|
1895
|
topographer and administrator with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Charles R. Van Hise
|
1890
|
geologist, academic and president of the University of Wisconsin
|
|
| John van Schaick Jr.
|
|
clergyman and editor
|
|
| Frank A. Vanderlip
|
1897
|
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; president of the National City Bank of New York
|
|
| T. Wayland Vaughan
|
1897
|
geologist, U. S. Geological Survey and U.S. National Museum; director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
|
|
| Victor C. Vaughan
|
|
physician, medical researcher, educator, and academic administrator
|
|
| Herman Knickerbocker Vielé
|
1887–1892
|
Novelist, short story writer, and poet
|
|
| Herbert Elijah Wadsworth
|
1903
|
Businessman, politician, and philanthropist
|
|
| Elwood Otto Wagenhurst
|
1903
|
lawyer, football coach
|
|
| Charles Doolittle Walcott
|
1883
|
director, U.S. Geological Survey; administrator of the Smithsonian Institution
|
|
| Patricia Wald
|
1988
|
chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
|
|
| Francis Amasa Walker
|
1879–1882
|
superintendent of the U.S. Census Bureau
|
|
| Thomas Walsh
|
1900
|
mining engineer who discovered one of the largest gold mines in America
|
|
| Clyde W. Warburton
|
|
Director of Extension Work of the United States Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Lester Frank Ward
|
1878
|
paleobotanist with the U.S. Geological Survey and American Museum of Natural History
|
|
| Samuel Gray Ward
|
1887–1890
|
banker, poet, author, and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
|
|
| Eugene Fitch Ware
|
1902
|
Commissioner of Pensions
|
|
| Frank Julian Warne
|
1911–1948
|
Journalist, economist, and statistician
|
|
| Everett Warner
|
1943–1963
|
artist
|
|
| Edward Wight Washburn
|
|
Chemist, chief of the Division of Chemistry of the U.S. Bureau of Standards
|
|
| Wilcomb E. Washburn
|
1965–1997
|
historian
|
|
| Walter Washington
|
1969–2004
|
Mayor of the District of Columbia
|
|
| Alan Tower Waterman
|
|
physicist
|
|
| J. Elfreth Watkins
|
1888
|
superintendent and curator of mechanical technology, U.S. National Museum
|
|
| David K. Watson
|
1901–1902
|
Lawyer and congressman
|
|
| Christopher Weaver
|
2005
|
software developer and educator at MIT
|
|
| William Benning Webb
|
1887
|
President of the Board of Commissioners District of Columbia, lawyer
|
|
| Joseph Weber
|
|
physicist, University of Maryland professor
|
|
| Frank E. Webner
|
|
Consulting cost accountant, early management author, industrial engineer
|
|
| Hutton Webster
|
|
Sociologist, author
|
|
| Sidney Weintraub
|
|
economist
|
|
| James Clarke Welling
|
1878
|
president of Columbian University, co-founder of National Geographic Society.
|
|
| Volkmar Wentzel
|
|
photographer and cinematographer with National Geographic
|
|
| Alexander Wetmore
|
|
ornithologist and avian paleontologist
|
|
| William F. Wharton
|
1884
|
jurist, Assistant Secretary of State
|
|
| Andrew Dickson White
|
1896
|
U.S. Ambassador to Germany, historian, co-founder and president of Cornell University
|
|
| Charles Abiathar White
|
1882–1902
|
geologist and paleontologist
|
|
| David White
|
1882
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Frank White
|
|
Treasurer of the United States; Governor of North Dakota
|
|
| Gilbert F. White
|
|
Geographer, the father of floodplain management
|
|
| William Alanson White
|
|
neurologist and psychiatrist
|
|
| William Allen White
|
|
newspapers editor and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
|
|
| William Whiting II
|
1888–1889
|
politician, congressman
|
|
| Beniah Longley Whitman
|
1895–1900
|
president Columbian University
|
|
| Henry Howard Whitney
|
1899–1902
|
brigadier general, U.S. Army
|
|
| Milton Whitney
|
1894
|
academic and chief, Division of Soils, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Frederick W. Whitridge
|
1883–1884
|
lawyer, president of the Third Avenue Railway Company
|
|
| John Brewer Wight
|
1902
|
president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia
|
|
| Harvey Washington Wiley
|
1883–1930
|
chief chemist, U.S. Department of Agriculture; author of Pure Food and Drug Act
|
|
| Walter Francis Willcox
|
1899
|
statistician, U.S. Census Bureau; professor at Cornell University
|
|
| Maynard Owen Williams
|
|
National Geographic foreign correspondent
|
|
| Whiting Williams
|
|
co-founder of Welfare Federation of Cleveland (predecessor to United Way)
|
|
| James Alexander Williamson
|
1886–1887
|
commissioner, United States General Land Office; brigadier general U.S. Army
|
|
| Bailey Willis
|
1896
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
|
| Edwin Willits
|
1889–1894
|
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and congressman
|
|
| Westel W. Willoughby
|
1894–1895
|
professor political science, Johns Hopkins University
|
|
| William F. Willoughby
|
1895
|
author and expert, U.S. Department of Labor
|
|
| William Holland Wilmer
|
1896
|
ophthalmologist; founding director, Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University
|
|
| Jeremiah M. Wilson
|
1883
|
educator, lawyer, jurist, and congressman
|
|
| M. L. Wilson
|
|
professor, undersecretary of agriculture the U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
|
| Thomas Wilson
|
1887
|
anthropologist; curator prehistoric archaeology, U.S. National Museum
|
|
| William Lyne Wilson
|
1895
|
Postmaster General, president Washington and Lee University
|
|
| Woodrow Wilson
|
1913–1924
|
President of the United States
|
|
| Robert Watson Winston
|
|
Lawyer, judge, and author
|
|
| Leonard Wood
|
1895–1897
|
U.S. Army major general, military governor of Cuba, Governor-General of the Philippines.
|
|
| Robert Morse Woodbury
|
|
Economist, academic, author, and chief statistician of the International Labor Office in Geneva
|
|
| Albert Fred Woods
|
1896
|
botanist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, professor of forestry, university president
|
|
| Robert Simpson Woodward
|
1885
|
Professor of mechanics and mathematical physics, Columbia University
|
|
| William Creighton Woodward
|
1995
|
medical doctor and lawyer, legislative counsel for the American Medical Association
|
|
| John Maynard Woodworth
|
1878
|
surgeon general, Marine Hospital Service
|
|
| Alma S. Woolley
|
|
nurse, nurse educator, nursing historian, and author
|
|
| Herman Wouk
|
|
writer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
|
|
| Carroll D. Wright
|
1895
|
Statistician and first U.S. Commissioner of Labor
|
|
| Nathan C. Wyeth
|
1900
|
architect, supervising architect for the U.S. Treasury
|
|
| Walter Wyman
|
1889
|
supervising surgeon general, Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
|
|
| Robert Sterling Yard
|
|
Writer, journalist, editor, and wilderness activist
|
|
| H. C. Yarrow
|
1878–1893
|
ornithologist, herpetologist, surgeon, curator of reptiles in the U.S. National Museum
|
|
| Charles W. Yost
|
1974–1981
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Diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
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| Arthur N. Young
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Economist and government advisor
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| Albert Francis Zahm
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1902
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academic; chief of the Aeronautical Division of the U.S. Library of Congress
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| Estanislao Zeballos
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1894–1895
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E. E. and M. P. Argentina
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