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Abraham M. Halpern

He went on to carry out work on international relations at several institutions, including the Carnegie Institution and the RAND Corporation, where he published extensively on China and Asia.

Chlorella

Many institutions began to research the algae, including the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation, the NIH, UC Berkeley, the Atomic Energy Commission, and Stanford University.

Hydrothermal synthesis

George W. Morey at the Carnegie Institution and later, Percy W. Bridgman at Harvard University did much of the work to lay the foundations necessary to containment of reactive media in the temperature and pressure range where most of the hydrothermal work is conducted.

McClintock Ridge

The ridge was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Barbara McClintock of the Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1942–67, although she continued full-time research, supported by Carnegie, until her death.

Robert Simpson Woodward House

The Robert Simpson Woodward House is a former residence located at 1513 16th Street, NW in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. From 1904 until 1914, it was a home of geologist Robert Simpson Woodward, the first president of the Carnegie Institution.


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Alfred Hershey

He became director of the Carnegie Institution in 1962 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, shared with Salvador Luria and Max Delbrück for their discovery on the replication of viruses and their genetic structure.

Carnegie Institute

Carnegie Institution for Science (formally known as the Carnegie Institution of Washington), Washington, D.C.

Chris Field

Christopher Field, Nobel laureate director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology

Desert Laboratory

Acting on the authority of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Frederick Vernon Coville Botanist of the USDA and Daniel T. McDougal of the New York Botanical Garden chose Tumamoc Hill as the location of the Desert Laboratory in February, 1903.

Edwin Grant Conklin Medal

2003 – Allan C. Spradling (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, MD)

Morris Steggerda

Steggerda joined the Division of Historical Research of the Carnegie Institution of Washington as part of the changes brought about with the hiring of Alfred V. Kidder as director of this research unit.

Photochemical Reflectance Index

The Photochemical Reflectance Index or PRI is a reflectance measurement developed by Dr. John Gamon during his tenure as a postdoctorate fellow supervised by Dr. Christopher Field at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University.

Robert Kennicutt

He shared the 2009 Gruber Prize in Cosmology with Wendy Freedman of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and Jeremy Mould of the University of Melbourne School of Physics, for their leadership in the definitive measurement of the value of the constant of proportionality in Hubble's Law.

Zing-Yang Kuo

Kuo was a visiting professor of UC Berkeley, Yale University and the University of Rochester, and a researcher at Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C..