| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Robert Fox Bacher | | | Institution: | California Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1948 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1905 | | | Death Date: | November 18, 2004 | | | | |
| 2 | Name: | Joseph Fox | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1709 | | | Death Date: | 12/9/1779 | | | | | | |
Joseph Fox (1709–10 December 1779) was a carpenter and a public officeholder, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Born in Philadelphia, he learned carpentry under a master builder. He would draw on this knowledge in his subsequent career as a carpenter and building planner, but once he was financially established, he devoted more of his energies to public office. His service began in 1745 with his appointment as a city commissioner. In 1750, he was elected to the Assembly as a representative of the city of Philadelphia, and in 1753 he was re-elected as a representative of Philadelphia County, winning re-election every year through 1771. During this time Fox took a leading role in Indian affairs with APS member Israel Pemberton and attended several treaty conferences in the 1760s. These activities made him a target when the Paxton Boys marched on Philadelphia in 1764. In 1764 Fox was elected Speaker of the House, but his measured tone eventually compelled men like APS members Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Galloway to choose another figure to lead the anti-proprietary party. Fox maintained his moderate views through the American Revolution. This stance brought trouble from both sides in the conflict: the revolutionaries considered him a potential enemy, while British forces damaged his country home. He died suddenly at the end of 1779. During his time in Philadelphia he supported a number of civic and charitable organizations, serving as a manager of the Pennsylvania Hospital and subscribing to the Silk Society and City Tavern. His son George Fox was an APS member. (PI) | |
| 3 | Name: | George Fox | | | Year Elected: | 1784 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| 4 | Name: | Robert W. Fox | | | Year Elected: | 1840 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| 5 | Name: | Herbert Fox | | | Year Elected: | 1932 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1881 | | | Death Date: | 2/26/1942 | | | | |
| 6 | Name: | Dixon R. Fox | | | Year Elected: | 1935 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1887 | | | Death Date: | 1/30/1945 | | | | |
| 7 | Name: | Dr. Marye Anne Fox | | | Institution: | University of California, San Diego | | | Year Elected: | 1996 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1947 | | | Death Date: | May 9, 2021 | | | | | | |
Dr. Marye Anne Fox, a nationally known chemist and academic leader, was named the seventh chancellor of the University of California, San Diego in April 2004 by the University of California Board of Regents. She stepped down from that position in July 2012 and continued at the university as Professor of Chemistry. Previously, Dr. Fox was chancellor and distinguished university professor of chemistry at North Carolina State University, a post she held since 1998. Before going to North Carolina State, Fox spent 22 years at the University of Texas, where she advanced from assistant professor of organic chemistry to vice president for research and held the Waggoner Regents Chair in chemistry. Dr. Fox has held over 50 endowed lectureships at universities around the world. She has also served as visiting professor at Harvard University, the University of Iowa, the University of Chicago, the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris and the Chemistry Research Promotion Center in Taipei. Dr. Fox earned a bachelor's degree in science from Notre Dame College, a master's degree in science from Cleveland State University and a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and has served on its executive committee, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Fox has received numerous awards, including the Charles Lathrop Parsons Award (2005) from the American Chemical Society in recognition of outstanding public service and the 2010 National Medal of Science. She has received a long list of research awards from professional societies in the U.S. and abroad. She also has been honored with numerous teaching awards, as well as the Monie Ferst Award, a national award recognizing outstanding mentoring of graduate students. More than 50 students have received advanced degrees under her supervision, and over 100 postdoctoral fellows and sabbatical visitors have worked with her. Dr. Fox also served on numerous boards, including the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), where she chaired the Subcommittee on Infrastructure for the 21st Century in 2003; the National Academy's Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable; the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC); and a number of corporate boards. Dr. Fox, who was born in Canton, Ohio, is married to UCSD professor of chemistry James K. Whitesell. She has three sons and two stepsons. She died on May 9, 2021. | |
| 8 | Name: | Dr. Renée Claire Fox | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 2012 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | September 23, 2020 | | | | | | |
Renée C. Fox, a summa cum laude graduate of Smith College, earned her Ph.D. in Sociology in 1954 from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, where she studied in the Department of Social Relations.
Before joining the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1969, she was a member of the Columbia University Bureau of Applied Social Research, taught for twelve years at Barnard College, and then spent two years as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard. At the University of Pennsylvania, she was a professor in the Department of Sociology with joint, secondary appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, and in the School of Nursing; and she held an interdisciplinary chair as the Annenberg Professor of the Social Sciences. From 1972-1978 she was the Chair of the Penn Sociology Department. On July 1, 1998, she became the Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences. She is also an Emerita Senior Fellow of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Renée Fox’s major teaching and research interests - sociology of medicine, medical research, medical education, and medical ethics - have involved her in first-hand, participant observation-based studies in Continental Europe (particularly in Belgium), in Central Africa (especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo), and in the People’s Republic of China, as well as in the United States. She has lectured in colleges, universities, and medical schools throughout the United States, and has taught in a number of universities abroad. During the 1996-1997 academic year, she was the George Eastman Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.
Her books include: Experiment Perilous: Physicians and Patients Facing the Unknown; The Sociology of Medicine: A Participant Observer’s View; Essays in Medical Sociology; In the Belgian Château: The Spirit and Culture of a European Society in an Age of Change; In the Field: A Sociologist’s Journey, and (in co-authorship with Judith P.Swazey), The Courage to Fail: A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis, Spare Parts: Organ Replacement in American Society, and Observing Bioethics. Her most recent book is her "ethnographic autobiography," In the Field: A Sociologist’s Journey, published in 2010.
Fox is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an Honorary Member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. She is the holder of a Radcliffe Graduate School Medal, and of a Centennial Medal from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, and is a recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Leo G. Reeder Award for Distinguished Contributions to Medical Sociology. She has received several teaching awards: an E. Harris Harbison Gifted Teaching Award of the Danforth Foundation, and a Lindback Foundation Award for Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds eleven honorary degrees, and in 1995, the Belgian Government named her Chevalier of the Order of Leopold II. In October 2007, she was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. In 2015 she was the recipient of the Hastings Center for Bioethics' Henry Knowles Beecher Award.
She died on September 23, 2020, at age 92. | |
| 9 | Name: | Dr. Evelyn Fox Keller | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 2006 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404c | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1936 | | | Death Date: | September 22, 2023 | | | | | | |
Evelyn Fox Keller received her Ph.D. in theoretical physics at Harvard University, worked for a number of years at the interface of physics and biology, and is now Professor of History and Philosophy of Science in the Program in Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of many articles and books, including: A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock; Reflections on Gender and Science; Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death: Essays on Language, Gender and Science; Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth Century Biology; The Century of the Gene; and Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines. A new book, The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture, is forthcoming. Between Jan, 2006 and July, 2007, she held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in Paris at REHSEIS. | |
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