| | 1 | Name: | Maria Goeppert-Mayer | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1906 | | | Death Date: | 2/20/72 | | | | |
| 2 | Name: | Christian Mayer | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 8/20/1719 | | | Death Date: | 4/16/1783 | | | | | | |
Christian Mayer (20 August 1719–16 April 1783) was an astronomer and educator, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Born in Moravia, Mayer’s education propelled him to Würzburg University to study theology before entering the Society of Jesuits in 1745. While he taught classical languages he increasingly devoted his time to other philosophical subjects, namely mathematics and astronomy. By 1751 he had introduced instruction in experimental physics at Heidelberg University and the following year assumed a professorship there as well. His work in astronomy drew the right attention and in 1755, the Electoral prince of the region (and a patron of the sciences) commissioned Mayer to design and furnish an observatory at the Electoral palace at Schwetzingen. With generous funding he met with French astronomers, purchased French and English instruments, and, in the nick of time, erected everything he needed to join astronomers worldwide as they trained their instruments on the anticipated 1761 Transit of Venus. With funding from the Russian Empress, Mayer was also able to observe the second occurrence in 1769. Mayer’s observations were published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, which consequently garnered him election therein. With his proven record of completing these projects, the Elector supported his plans to build a new observatory with the best scientific instruments London could offer. Finished in 1775, it became a place that Wrangel called home, effectively living there with his assistant Father Johann Mesger. Together they made daily observations that suggested, and as later work by Herschel would show, they were in fact observing stars accompanying stars. David Rittenhouse accepted Mayer’s work for publication with the APS in 1778 and was sure to write his own collegial letter of appreciation to Mayer himself. Ever an educator, Mayer taught and served at Heidelberg University in the last five years of his life. (PI) | |
| 3 | Name: | Alfred M. Mayer | | | Year Elected: | 1869 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Death Date: | 7/13/1897 | | | | |
| 4 | Name: | Joseph E. Mayer | | | Year Elected: | 1970 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1904 | | | Death Date: | 10/15/83 | | | | |
| 5 | Name: | Professor Hans E. Mayer | | | Institution: | University of Kiel, Germany | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404a | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1932 | | | Death Date: | October 21, 2023 | | | | | | |
Hans Eberhard Mayer is Professor of Medieval and Modern History Emeritus at the University of Kiel, Germany, where he has taught since 1967. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Innsbruck, Austria in 1955 and for the following 12 years was affiliated with the German Institute for Medieval Research. Among the leading medievalists in Germany, Dr. Mayer is a particularly outstanding historian of the European Crusades. He is the author of the definitive text on the subject, The Crusades, of which a second edition was published in 1997. | |
| 6 | Name: | Ms. Jane Mayer | | | Institution: | The New Yorker Magazine | | | Year Elected: | 2016 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1955 | | | | | | |
Jane Mayer joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in March 1995. Based in Washington, DC, she writes about politics, culture and national security for the magazine.
Before joining The New Yorker, Mayer was for twelve years a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. In 1984 she became the Journal's first female White House correspondent. She was also a war correspondent and a foreign correspondent for the paper. Among other stories, she covered the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, the Persian Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the final days of Communism in the Soviet Union.
Mayer was the 2008 winner of the John Chancellor Award for Journalistic Excellence, as well as a Guggenheim Foundation Grant in 2008, and winner in 2009 of the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard, the 2009 Edward Weintal Prize from Georgetown University, the 2009 Ridenhour Prize, the New York Public Library's 2009 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, the 2009 J. Anthony Lukas Prize from Columbia, the 2009 Sidney Hillman Award, the 2009 Ambassador Award from the English-Speaking Union, and the 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize. She was also a 2009 finalist for the National Book Award and for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has been a finalist three times for the National Magazine award, and was nominated twice by the Journal for a Pulitzer Prize. In 2011, she was the winner of the George Polk Award for her coverage of the Obama Administration's prosecution of national security whistle blowers, and the James Aronson Award for social justice journalism. In 2012 she was awarded the Toner Prize for political reporting. She was also the 2013 winner of the IF Stone "Izzy" award presented by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. In 2014, Mayer was winner of the Matrix Award, given by the New York Women in Communications.
Before joining the Journal in 1982, Mayer worked as a metropolitan reporter for the Washington Star. She began her career in journalism as a stringer for Time magazine while still a student in college.
Mayer is the author of the 2016 book "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right," and the 2008 book "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War in Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals," which was chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times, the Economist Magazine, Salon, Slate and Bloomberg. In 2010 the NYU Journalism School named it one of the ten most important works of journalism of the decade. She was also the co-author of two additional best-selling books. "Strange Justice," written with Jill Abramson, published in 1994, was a finalist for the 1994 National Book Award for nonfiction. Her first book, "Landslide: The Unmaking of the President 1984-1988," co-authored by Doyle McManus, was an acclaimed account of the Iran-Contra affair in the Reagan Administration.
In 2009, Mayer was chosen Princeton University's Ferris Professor of the Humanities, teaching an undergraduate seminar on political reporting. She has been a speaker at Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Mount Holyoke, Northwestern, Boston College and Grinnell, among other schools.
Mayer, who was born in New York, graduated with honors from Yale in 1977 and continued her studies in history at Oxford. She lives in Washington with her husband, Bill Hamilton, and daughter, Kate. | |
| 7 | Name: | Mayer Sulzberger | | | Year Elected: | 1895 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1843 | | | Death Date: | 4/20/23 | | | | |
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