It’s true they aren’t going to work many precincts, but this groups is pretty impressive:
Alexei Abrikosov
Peter Agre
James W Cronin
Johann Deisenhofer
Jerome Friedman
Sheldon Glashow
Roy Glauber
David Gross
John Hall
Dudley Herschbach
Roald Hoffmann
Harold Kroto
Leon Lederman
Douglas Osheroff
David Politzer
Norman F. Ramsey
Sherwood Rowland
George Smoot
Frank Wilczek
Smoot was the first name I recognized–he pretty much confirmed expansion with his work in cosmology. The great humor here is that assuming Foster goes to the general election, two off the three Republcians probably don’t accept that the Big Bang occurred, while Foster’s supporters proved them wrong in oh so many ways.
I believe there are only two physicists in Congress right now–Vern Ehlers from Michigan and Rush Holt from New Jersey.
I’m sure Laesch will claim this is no big deal and that they “aren’t that smart”
Agre is also an intriguing guy, contemplated running for Senate in Minnesota this year did work on cellular biology if I remember correctly.
Sean
Agre did his work on water channels that allow water in and out of cells- got his prize at the same time as Rod MacKinnon (potassium channels). I suppose you could call that cell biology.