People by era
People Who Lived 1900 to 1950
38 people from 1900 to 1950 on Credible Theories, oldest first, each with a sourced profile.
Legendary and scriptural figuresBefore 1000 BCE1000 to 500 BCE500 BCE to 1 CE1 to 500 CE500 to 1000 CE1000 to 15001500 to 1800The 1800s1900 to 19501950 to today
Edward CondonPhysicist who led the University of Colorado UFO study1902–1974Samuel GoudsmitPhysicist, co-discoverer of electron spin; Robertson Panel member1902–1978Seton LloydBritish archaeologist of Mesopotamia and Anatolia1902–1996H. P. RobertsonCaltech physicist who chaired the CIA's 1953 UFO panel1903–1961Roger RameyAir Force general linked to Roswell (1947) and the 1952 briefing1903–1963J. Robert OppenheimerPhysicist and wartime director of the Los Alamos laboratory1904–1967John SamfordAir Force Director of Intelligence; later NSA Director1905–1968Lloyd BerknerPhysicist, IGY proposer; Robertson Panel member1905–1967Nahman AvigadIsraeli archaeologist and epigraphist1905–1992Frank OlsonArmy biological warfare scientist given LSD by the CIA1910–1953J. Allen HynekAstronomer and scientific consultant to Project Blue Book1910–1986Luis AlvarezNobel physicist; member of the CIA's 1953 UFO panel1911–1988Ruth MontgomeryWashington journalist and later psychic author1912–2001Alexander BadawyEgyptian-born architect and Egyptologist, UCLA1913–1986Josef BlumrichNASA engineer, author of The Spaceships of Ezekiel1913–2002Thornton PageAstronomer; Robertson Panel member and NASA scientist1913–1996Frederick DurantRocketry expert and CIA consultant; Robertson Panel secretary1916–2015Yigael YadinIsraeli general, archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar1917–1984Pat PricePsychic subject in the CIA-funded SRI remote viewing tests1918–1975Sidney GottliebCIA chemist who ran the MKUltra program1918–1999Philip J. KlassAviation journalist and leading UFO skeptic1919–2005Edward UllendorffBritish scholar of Ethiopian and Semitic languages1920–2011Edward RuppeltFirst director of the US Air Force's Project Blue Book1923–1960Stansfield TurnerUS Navy admiral; Director of Central Intelligence, 1977–19811923–2018Daniel InouyeUS Senator from Hawaii; first chair of Senate Intelligence Committee1924–2012Ray HymanPsychologist and skeptic, reviewer of the Stargate programb. 1928George NickelsburgAmerican scholar of early Judaism and 1 Enochb. 1934Russell TargLaser physicist who co-founded SRI's remote viewing researchb. 1934Erich von DänikenSwiss author of Chariots of the Gods?1935–2026Harold PuthoffLaser physicist who co-founded SRI's remote viewing researchb. 1936Nicholas ClappDocumentary filmmaker who led the 1990s search for Ubar1936–2025John MarksWriter who exposed the CIA's MKUltra program through FOIAb. 1943Juris ZarinsAmerican archaeologist of Arabia who excavated Shisr in Oman1945–2023Muhammad Ali al-SammanEgyptian farmer who found the Nag Hammadi codices in 1945fl. 1945Richard BauckhamBritish New Testament scholar, St Andrewsb. 1946Uri GellerIsraeli-British performer known for spoon bendingb. 1946Ian RidpathEnglish astronomy writer and Rendlesham Forest investigatorb. 1947Philip AlexanderBritish scholar of post-biblical Jewish literatureb. 1947
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