| | 1 | Name: | Harrison Allen | | | Year Elected: | 1867 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1841 | | | Death Date: | 11/14/1897 | | | | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Harrison S. Brown | | | Year Elected: | 1966 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | 12/8/86 | | | | |
| 3 | Name: | Charles Harrison Frazier | | | Year Elected: | 1905 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Death Date: | 6/26/1936 | | | | |
| 4 | Name: | Joseph Harrison | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 11/25/1709 | | | Death Date: | 1/15/1787 | | | | | | |
Joseph Harrison (25 November 1709–15 January 1787) was a merchant, imperial official, and scientist, and a member of the American Society, elected in 1768. Born into a well-to-do Quaker family in Yorkshire, England, he was apprenticed to a merchant before immigrating to Newport, Rhode Island, in 1739. He managed the affairs of a Newport merchant before forming a partnership with his brother Peter, also an APS member. Elected a freeman in 1745, Harrison helped draft the construction plan for Fort George and served on the Rhode Island-Massachusetts border commission. He was also a founder and director of the Redwood Library Company and produced a sextant that APS member Benjamin West used to observe the Transit of Venus from Providence. In 1760, Harrison returned from a visit to England as collector of customs at New Haven. Finding this position less remunerative than he had hoped, he voyaged to England again in 1764 to seek another post and to petition the government to make Rhode Island a royal colony. The petition was unsuccessful, but his knowledge of colonial affairs proved an asset. Though he was denied the post of surveyor of American customs, he was named assistant to the surveyor’s secretary Edmund Burke. Later that year, Harrison became collector of customs at Boston, where he was involved in an episode significant to the American Revolution. In 1768, he attempted to assert the king’s authority by making an example of one of the city’s wealthiest merchants. But when he seized a ship belonging to John Hancock on charges of smuggling, a mob rose in protest, beating Harrison and damaging his property. He returned to England in 1769, where he occasionally advised the government, continued his mercantile business, and supported the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. (PI) | |
| 5 | Name: | Peter Harrison | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 6/16/1716 | | | Death Date: | 4/30/1775 | | | | | | |
Peter Harrison (16 June 1716–30 April 1775) was an architect, merchant, and imperial official, and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. Born in Yorkshire, England, he followed his brother, fellow APS member Joseph Harrison, to Newport, Rhode Island, around 1740. There, he became a merchant and ship captain and developed a gentlemanly passion for architecture. In virtually every port he visited, Harrison offered to design buildings. As a result, his neo-Palladian designs can be seen throughout the Atlantic world: from Gibraltar, Barbados, Georgia, and the Carolinas to Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. In 1744, he was captured by a French privateer and taken to Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island. But because he had designed buildings there, he was treated as a guest rather than a prisoner. He seized the opportunity to copy blueprints of the fortress, smuggling them to Massachusetts governor William Shirley who used them to attack the stronghold the following year; the fort then became a bargaining chip in subsequent treaty negotiations with France. When Shirley encouraged Britons to show their gratitude, Harrison was inundated with commissions. Buildings attributed to him include King’s Chapel (Boston); Christ Church (Cambridge); the Redwood Library, Touro Synagogue, and St. John’s Masonic Hall (Newport); St. Paul’s Chapel (New York City); and the steeple of Christ Church (Philadelphia). Unconfirmed attributions can also be found in England, Ireland, India, China, and America and include governors’ mansions, marketplaces, houses of worship, and private homes. In 1766, Harrison relocated to New Haven, Connecticut, to take up the post of collector of customs. But his Loyalism increasingly conflicted with the local move toward independence. He died of apoplexy in 1775 when a mob threatened to lynch him following the outbreak of open hostilities with the Battle of Concord. (PI, ANB, DNB) | |
| 6 | Name: | Joseph Harrison | | | Year Elected: | 1864 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1810 | | | Death Date: | 03/27/1874 | | | | |
| 7 | Name: | George L. Harrison | | | Year Elected: | 1885 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1811 | | | Death Date: | 09/09/1885 | | | | |
| 8 | Name: | Charles C. Harrison | | | Year Elected: | 1895 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1844 | | | Death Date: | 02/12/29 | | | | |
| 9 | Name: | Ross G. Harrison | | | Year Elected: | 1913 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1870 | | | Death Date: | 09/30/59 | | | | |
| 10 | Name: | George R. Harrison | | | Year Elected: | 1950 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1898 | | | Death Date: | 07/27/79 | | | | |
| 11 | Name: | Dr. Evelyn B. Harrison | | | Institution: | Institute of Fine Arts, New York University | | | Year Elected: | 1979 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1920 | | | Death Date: | November 3, 2012 | | | | | | |
Evelyn Byrd Harrison was one of the greatest scholars of our time in the field of Greek sculpture. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1952 and taught classics at the University of Cincinnati before joining the faculty at Columbia in 1955. In 1970 she was named professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University, becoming the first woman to be appointed full professor in the department. In 1974 she moved to New York University's Institute of Fine Arts as Professor of the History of Fine Arts. She was Edith Kitzmiller Professor Emerita of the History of Fine Arts and Adjunct Professor at the time of her death on November 3, 2012. She died at home in New York City at the age of 92. Dr. Harrison's publications include The Athenian Agora I: Portrait Sculpture (1953) and Achaic and Archaistic Sculpture (1965). She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as the Archaeological Institute of America's Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement (1992). When she discussed a well-known piece of Greek sculpture, you felt as though you were seeing it for the first time. | |
| 12 | Name: | Dr. Stephen Coplan Harrison | | | Institution: | Harvard University & Howard Hughes Medical Institute | | | Year Elected: | 1997 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 206. Physiology, Biophysics, and Pharmacology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1943 | | | | | | |
Stephen Harrison is a world leader in understanding virus structure and in probing the relationship between structure and function of complex protein assemblies. He has devised innovative methodological enhancements of X-ray crystallography to determine the detailed molecular structures of viruses, cell-surface receptors, and DNA-protein complexes. His pioneering studies of small plant viruses at atomic dimensions revealed the basic molecular design of a large class of RNA viruses of plants, insects, and vertebrates. This work, and his subsequent studies of many other viruses, allowed Dr. Harrison to formulate principles that govern viral structure, assembly, stability, cellular attachment, and fusion. This information is fundamental to understanding viral disease and to the design of antiviral drugs and vaccines. Similarly, Dr. Harrison's X-ray crystallographic studies of the structures of DNA-protein complexes revealed important molecular mechanisms in the control of gene activity. Dr. Harrison earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1967. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1971 and is currently director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics at Harvard Medical School and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Medicine at Children's Hospital, Boston. He won the Welch Award in Chemistry in 2015 and the Rosenstiel Award for Basic Medical Research in 2018. | |
| 13 | Name: | Harrison S. Morris | | | Year Elected: | 1899 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1857 | | | Death Date: | 4/12/48 | | | | |
| 14 | Name: | Mr. Harrison E. Salisbury | | | Institution: | New York Times | | | Year Elected: | 1983 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1908 | | | Death Date: | 7/5/93 | | | | |
| 15 | Name: | Richard Harrison Shryock | | | Year Elected: | 1944 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1894 | | | Death Date: | 1/30/72 | | | | |
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