| 1 | Name: | Dr. Frank H. T. Rhodes | |
| Institution: | American Philosophical Society & Cornell University | ||
| Year Elected: | 1991 | ||
| Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | ||
| Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Deceased | ||
| Birth Date: | 1926 | ||
| Death Date: | February 3, 2020 | ||
Frank H. T. Rhodes was president of the American Philosophical Society and Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences and President Emeritus of Cornell University, where he served for eighteen years. Before assuming the presidency at Cornell in 1977, Dr. Rhodes was Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan. He was previously professor and head of the geology department and dean of the faculty of science at the University of Wales and a faculty member at the University of Illinois and the University of Durham. Dr. Rhodes was a graduate of the University of Birmingham, England, from which he held four degrees. A Fulbright scholar and Fulbright distinguished fellow, a National Science Foundation senior visiting fellow, and a visiting fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Oxford, he was also a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and an honorary fellow of both Robinson College, Cambridge and the University of Wales, Swansea. Dr. Rhodes was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was the recipient of the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society, the Justin Morrill Award of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, the Higher Education Leadership Award of the Commission of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Clark Kerr Medal of the University of California, Berkeley Faculty Senate, and the Ian Campbell Medal of the American Geological Institute. He was the 1999 Jefferson Lecturer at Berkeley. Dr. Rhodes was appointed by President Reagan as a member of the National Science Board, which he chaired for a time, and was appointed by President Bush as a member of the President's Educational Policy Advisory Committee. He served as chair of the governing boards of the American Council on Education, the American Association of Universities, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and Atlantic Philanthropies. In 2008 he was named to the board of trustees of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Dr. Rhodes has published widely in the fields of geology, paleontology, evolution, the history of science, and education. His books included Language of the Earth, The Evolution of Life, The Creation of the Future, and Earth: A Tenant's Manual. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1991. Frank H. T. Rhodes died on February 3, 2020, at the age of 93. | |||