David Baltimore, 1975 Nobel laureate in medicine
Paul Berg, 1980 Nobel laureate in chemistry
Nicolaas Bloembergen, 1981 Nobel laureate in physics
James Cronin, 1980 Nobel laureate in physics
Jayantha Dhanapala, former United Nations Under-Secretary General for Disarmament Affairs
Freeman Dyson, 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction
Manfred Eigen, 1967 Nobel laureate in chemistry
Gareth Evans, Convenor, Asia Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Chair, ANU Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Co-Chair, International Commission for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Chancellor, Australian National University
Jerome Friedman, 1990 Nobel laureate in physics
Richard Garwin, Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York
Sheldon Glashow, 1979 Nobel laureate in physics
Brian Greene, professor of mathematics and physics and joint director of the Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astrophysics at Columbia University
Stephen W. Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge
Dudley Herschbach, 1986 Nobel laureate in chemistry
Howard Hiatt, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
Roald Hoffmann, 1981 Nobel laureate in chemistry
Pervez Hoodbhoy, professor of physics at Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan
Masatoshi Koshiba, 2002 Nobel laureate in physics
Lawrence Krauss (Chair), inaugural director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University and foundation professor at ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Department
Leon Lederman (Chair Emeritus), 1988 Nobel laureate in physics
Reimar Lüst, former president of the Max Planck Society
Shirley Malcom, head of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Ben Mottelson, 1975 Nobel laureate in physics
William Perry, Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor at Stanford University
Thomas R. Pickering, Chairman of the Board of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service
John Polanyi, 1986 Nobel laureate in chemistry
Victor Rabinowitch, former senior vice president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Lisa Randall, professor of physics at Harvard University
Martin Rees, president of The Royal Society
Richard Roberts, 1973 Nobel laureate in physics
Roald Sagdeev, professor of physics at the University of Maryland
Jaan Tallinn, founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa and co-founder of Future of Life Institute
Kosta Tsipis, former director of the Program in Science & Technology for International Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Frank von Hippel, codirector of the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Steven Weinberg, 1979 Nobel laureate in Physics and holder of the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin.
Frank Wilczek, 2004 Nobel laureate in physics
Past Sponsors
Ruth Adams (1923-2005), former editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Samuel Allison (1900–1965), first and third director of the Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago
Edoardo Amaldi (1908–1989), secretary-general of the nascent CERN Laboratory
Robert Bacher (1905-2004), former chair of the Division of Mathematics, Physics, and Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology
Hans Bethe (1906-2005), 1967 Nobel laureate in physics
Detlev W. Bronk (1897–1975), president of the National Academy of Sciences
S. Chandrasekhar (1910–1995), 1983 Nobel laureate in physics
Owen Chamberlain (1920-2006), 1959 Nobel laureate in physics
Georges Charpak (1924-2010), 1992 Nobel laureate in physics
Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008), author and screenwriter
A. H. Compton (1892–1962), 1927 Nobel laureate in physics
E. U. Condon (1902–1974), president of the American Physical Society
Farrington Daniels (1889–1972), president of the American Chemical Society
Carl Djerassi, (1923-2015), recipient of the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology
Paul Doty (1920-2011), founder and director emeritus of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University
Lee A. DuBridge (1901–1994), director of the radiation laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sam Edwards (1928-2015), Cavendish Professor Emeritus for Theoretical Physics and former pro-vice chancellor of Cambridge University
Albert Einstein (1879–1955), 1921 Nobel laureate in physics
Val Fitch (1923-2015), 1980 Nobel laureate in physics
Brian Flowers (1924-2010), fellow at the Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Environment Office
James Franck (1883–1964), 1925 Nobel laureate in physics
Donald Glaser (1927-2013), 1960 Nobel laureate in physics
Bentley Glass (1906-2005), academic vice president at the State University of New York, Stony Brook
Marvin Goldberger (1922-2014), president emeritus at the California Institute of Technology
S. A. Goudsmit (1902–1978), senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Gerhard Herzberg (1904–1999), 1971 Nobel laureate in chemistry
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), 1964 Nobel laureate in chemistry
T. R. Hogness (1894–1976), director of the Institute of Radiobiology and Biophysics at the University of Chicago
Alfred Kastler (1902–1984), 1966 Nobel laureate in physics
Henry Kendall (1926–1999), 1990 Nobel laureate in physics
Ryogo Kubo (1920–1995), 1977 recipient of the Boltzmann Medal
F. W. Loomis (1889–1976), associate head of the Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Philip M. Morse (1903–1985), first director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory
Marcos Moshinsky (1921-2009), former chair of the Mexican Physics Society
Nevill Mott (1905–1996), 1977 Nobel laureate in physics
H. J. Muller (1890–1967), 1946 Nobel laureate in medicine
Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), director of the Manhattan Project
W. K. H. Panofsky, director emeritus of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Linus Pauling (1901–1994), 1954 Nobel laureate in chemistry
G. B. Pegram (1876–1958), vice president of Columbia University's School of Mines, Engineering, and Chemistry
Rudolf Peierls (1907–1995), Manhattan Project scientist
Gerald Piel (1915-2004), president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
I. I. Rabi (1898–1988), 1944 Nobel laureate in physics
Leonard Rieser (1922–1998), chairman of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Joseph Rotblat (1908-2005), 1995 Nobel laureate in peace
Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989), 1975 Nobel laureate in peace
Oscar Sala (1922-2010), former head of the Department of Nuclear Physics at the University of São Paulo
Abdus Salam (1926–1996), 1978 Nobel laureate in physics
Julian Schwinger (1918–1994), 1965 Nobel laureate in physics
Frederick Seitz (1911–2008), president emeritus of Rockefeller University
John Simpson (1916–2000), founder of the Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research
Cyril Smith (1903–1992), Manhattan Project scientist
Leo Szilard (1898–1964), co-organizer of the first Pugwash conference
Toshiyuki Toyoda (1920 - 2009), professor emeritus of physics at Nagoya University
Edward Teller (1908–2003), member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's General Advisory Committee
Harold Urey (1893–1981), 1934 Nobel laureate in chemistry
V. F. Weisskopf (1908–2002), cofounder of the Federation of Atomic Scientists
C. F. von Weizsäcker (1912-2007), former director of the Max Planck Institute of Physics
Jerome Wiesner (1915–1994), special assistant to the president for science and technology from 1961–1964
Robert Wilson (1914–2000), 1978 Nobel Laureate in physics
Sewall Wright (1889–1988), 1966 recipient of the National Medal of Science
J. R. Zacharias (1905–1986), head of the Transmitter Components Division of the Radiation Laboratory