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| | • | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry |
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| | • | 104. Mathematics |
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| | • | 105. Physical Earth Sciences |
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| | • | 106. Physics |
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| | • | 201. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry |
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| | • | 202. Cellular and Developmental Biology |
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| | • | 203. Evolution & Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Paleontology, and Physical Anthropology |
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| | • | 204. Medicine, Surgery, Pathology and Immunology |
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| | • | 205. Microbiology |
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| | • | 206. Physiology, Biophysics, and Pharmacology |
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| | • | 207. Genetics |
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| | • | 208. Plant Sciences |
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| | • | 209. Neurobiology |
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| | • | 210. Behavioral Biology, Psychology, Ethology, and Animal Behavior |
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| | • | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology |
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| | • | 302. Economics |
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| | • | 303. History Since 1715 |
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| | • | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science |
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| | • | 401. Archaeology |
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| | • | 402. Criticism: Arts and Letters |
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| | • | 402a |
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| | • | 403. Cultural Anthropology |
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| | • | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences |
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| | • | 405 [401] |
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| | • | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century |
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| | • | 406. Linguistics |
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| | • | 407. Philosophy |
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| | • | 501. Creative Artists |
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| | • | 502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions |
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| | • | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors |
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| | • | 504. Scholars in the Professions |
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| | 861 | Name: | Jacques P. Merigon de Montgery | | | Year Elected: | 1820 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| 862 | Name: | John Montresor | | | Year Elected: | 1772 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 4/6/1736 | | | Death Date: | 6/26/1799 | | | | | | |
John Montresor (6 April 1736–26 June 1799) was a British military engineer and officer, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1772. John spent his early years in Gibraltar, learning the basics of military engineering from his father, who was a colonel of engineers. In 1754, his father arranged for John to accompany him on a military expedition led by General Edward Braddock at the beginning of the French and Indian War. In 1755, Braddock’s troops attacked the French-held Fort Duquense, and John was badly wounded; he would suffer from this injury for the rest of his life. He served on several other expeditions throughout the war, some of which were marked by dangerous and nearly deadly conditions: on a mission in Quebec under General James Murray, John suffered a month of freezing and nearly starving circumstances. In 1766, while on leave in England, he was promoted, earning the titles captain-lieutenant and engineer-extraordinary. Montresor served with the British army throughout the Revolutionary War, occasionally destroying fortresses, including Castle William near Boston, that he had helped to fortify just a few years before. John had married in 1764 and made his home on an island near New York, but in 1778 decided to return to England, resigning his post and hoping to live out the rest of his life peacefully. However, in 1782, the commissioner of public accounts became suspicious of some of John’s expenditures during the war; it seemed that he had spent tens of thousands of government pounds for which he could not account. He fought this audit and tried to clear his name for nearly a decade, but was thrown in Maidstone prison for his misdealings, where he died in 1799. (ANB, DNB) | |
| 863 | Name: | Dr. Henry Moore | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1898 | | | Death Date: | 8/31/86 | | | | |
| 864 | Name: | Samuel More | | | Year Elected: | 1774 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 11/30/1726 | | | Death Date: | 10/11/1799 | | | | | | |
Samuel More (30 November 1726–11 October 1799) was an apothecary, administrator, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1774. Born in Westminster, England to a schoolmaster and his wife, More was educated by his father in his early years. More went on to apprentice under an apothecary in Whitechapel and afterwards opened his own business with his family inheritance. Notably, he cured the incapacitated hands of a dyer’s apprentice thereby earning himself an election to the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce in May of 1761. He served as chairman of the committee of chemistry, and in all other main committees, becoming very popular within the society. His popularity earned him the office of Secretary in 1769, which involved running in yearly elections against candidates who would often run smear campaigns in the newspaper. Nevertheless, through his tireless work ethic and popularity, More held down his office as secretary for the rest of his life. The office enabled him to develop relationships with many of his contemporaries in scientific and industrial fields and oftentimes his peers sought his advice on technical matters. His renowned expertise led him to be summoned as witness in various high-profile trials and committees, such as the Richard Akwright patent trials that persisted throughout the 1780’s. After years of good health, he began to suffer intense flare-ups of gout before dying at his home in London. (DNB) | |
| 865 | Name: | Mekeric L.E. Moreau | | | Year Elected: | 1789 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1750 | | | | |
| 866 | Name: | Domenico C. Morelli | | | Year Elected: | 1836 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| 867 | Name: | Dr. Janet Morgan | | | Year Elected: | 2012 | | | 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: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1945 | | | | | | |
After some years of teaching politics and recent history at Oxford University, I joined the Central Policy Review Staff in the Cabinet Office, the so called ‘Think Tank’, working there during the governments of James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher. The invitation to do so came at the end of a long case, heard by the Lord Chief Justice, to decide whether volume one of the diaries of a recently deceased cabinet minister, Richard Crossman, should or should not be published. I had edited this book - and went on to edit three further volumes - and, when the Government lost the case, was asked to come into the Cabinet Office to see for myself.
Three years of government work, in which I sought to specialise in issues to do with advanced technological development, unfitted me for a return to the university. Thinking that it would be interesting to try to write a biography, I was fortunate to be asked to write the authorised life of Agatha Christie (author of detective stories). I also found work as a consultant to various companies and governments, including some years as adviser first to the Director General of the BBC and then to the board of the Granada Group. This gave time for a little writing etc, including the authorised life of Edwina Mountbatten (a person too complicated to summarise here).
In 1988 I moved to Scotland. A variety of public appointments followed, supported by a sequence of directorships of companies in telecommunications, transport, retail, power generation, construction, finance etc. Since 1996 my main work has been in securing the investment of funds to deal with waste management and decommissioning liabilities of nuclear power stations. There has been one book, the account of a military espionage operation behind enemy lines in the First World War, the most difficult and enjoyable work I’ve done so far. | |
| 868 | Name: | Dr. Wataru Mori | | | Institution: | Japanese Association of Medical Sciences; University of Tokyo; International Association of Universities; Japan Academy | | | Year Elected: | 1998 | | | 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: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1926 | | | Death Date: | April 1, 2012 | | | | | | |
Wataru Mori was a former president of the Japanese Association of Medical Sciences; former president and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo; president emeritus of the International Association of Universities; a member of the Japan Academy, and Chairman of the Health Care Science Institute in Tokyo. One of two permanent members of the Prime Minister's Council (the senior advisory body in Japan on matters of science and technology), he served as chair of the Committee on Policy Matters, the function of which was the council's executive committee. Dr. Mori was also the Japanese member of the Carnegie Group of Ministers of Science (for some member countries including the U.S., the scientific advisor to the president) of the G-7 countries and Russia and the European Union. His major field of study was liver pathology, and he maintained an active interest in the pineal hormone melatonin, publishing more than 500 papers in medical literature. He held M.D. (1951) and Ph.D. (1957) degrees from the University of Tokyo. He was a foreign member of Institute of Medicine, U.S.A., and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 1998. Wataru Mori died in April 2013 at the age of 87 in Tokyo. | |
| 869 | Name: | Noel de la Moriniere | | | Year Elected: | 1818 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| 870 | Name: | Mr. Akio Morita | | | Institution: | Sony Corporation | | | Year Elected: | 1992 | | | 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: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | 10/3/99 | | | | |
| 871 | Name: | Charles A. Morlot | | | Year Elected: | 1864 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| 872 | Name: | Sir Peter Morris | | | Institution: | The Royal College of Surgeons of England; University of Oxford | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 204. Medicine, Surgery, Pathology and Immunology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1934 | | | Death Date: | October 29, 2022 | | | | | | |
Sir Peter Morris supplemented his medical education in Melbourne, Australia, with training at Guy's Hospital in London and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He returned to the University of Melbourne and obtained a Ph.D. in immunology in 1972. From 1974-2001, he was the Nuffield Professor of Surgery, chairman of the Department of Surgery, and director of the Oxford Transplant Centre at the University of Oxford. In 2001 he became President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and chairman of the Council of the Institute of Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. He is also currently chairman of the British Heart Foundation and Director of the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation at the Royal College of Surgeons. His more than 700 papers deal with the entire field of clinical and experimental transplantation and immunology. He has contributed especially to the study of mechanisms of rejection, tolerance induction and pancreatic islet transplantation. He is one of the distinguished surgeon scientists of our time. In addition to his work in transplantation, in the earlier part of his career he made many contributions to knowledge of the association between HLA and disease, as well as playing a major part in the early anthropological studies of HLA around the Pacific rim. He is the editor of Kidney Transplantation: Principles and Practice, which is now in its 5th edition, and the widely acclaimed Oxford Textbook of Surgery, which is in its 2nd edition. Sir Peter Morris has received many honors, including the Medawar Medal, the Lister Medal and the Hunterian Medal. In 1996 he received knighthood from the Queen for services to medicine, and in 2004 he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and a foreign member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He served as president of the International Transplantation Society, the British Transplantation Society, the European Surgical Association and the International Surgical Society. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |
| 873 | Name: | Gabriel de Mortillet | | | Year Elected: | 1895 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| 874 | Name: | Charles Morton | | | Year Elected: | 1771 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1716 | | | Death Date: | 2/10/1799 | | | | | | |
Charles Morton (1716–10 February 1799) was a physician, librarian, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1771. He was born in Westmorland in England and studied medicine at Leiden University in the Netherlands before returning to England to begin his practice. He graduated as a doctor in 1748 after publishing his thesis, De Tussi Convulsiva. A few years later he was a consultant physician at Middlesex Hospital in London, and physician at Foundling Hospital four years after that. During this time he became a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians (1751), and a member of the Royal Society of London (1752). In 1756, upon the establishment of the British Museum, Morton accepted an appointment as an under-librarian, responsible for manuscripts, books, coins, and medals. In 1758 Morton was promoted to head of the new department of manuscripts. During this time he became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Russian imperial science academy, the Imperatorskaya Akademiya Nauk in St. Petersburg. He also was admitted to German science academies, including the Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften and the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, and he served as secretary to the Royal Society of London from 1759 to 1774. His reputation began to falter after working on an edition of the Domesday Book, after which he received a payment of £500 ‘for doing little or nothing’ and ultimately someone else finished and published the facsimile. Still, in 1776 Morton became principal librarian at the British Museum, though by this time his gout began to impede on his daily life and his reputation for inactivity only grew; he even failed to appear for a visit from King George III. He married three times. His third and final wife was a close relative of his second, forty five years his junior, and they wedded only two months after the second’s death, in 1779. He died a few years later in his apartments in the British Museum. (DNB) | |
| 875 | Name: | Dr. Giuseppe Moruzzi | | | Year Elected: | 1961 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 200 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1910 | | | Death Date: | 3/11/86 | | | | |
| 876 | Name: | Benjamin Moseley | | | Year Elected: | 1775 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1742 | | | Death Date: | 9/25/1819 | | | | | | |
Benjamin Moseley (1742–25 September 1819) was a physician and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1775. Born in Essex, Moseley received his medical training in Paris and London and began his practice in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1768. During his sixteen years there, he studied and published pamphlets on diseases he encountered, like dysentery, and on the medicinal and agricultural effects of the island’s consumable crops, like coffee and sugar. His practice during this time was profitable, and upon his return to Britain in 1784 he had enough money to travel across Europe and to obtain more medical training, earning an M.D. from St. Andrews University. In 1788, he began a medical practice catering to wealthy patients in London and became a physician to the Royal Hospital in Chelsea. He was an early opponent of the new practice of vaccination. Beginning in 1799, in pamphlets and journal articles, he expressed doubt as to the efficacy of using doses of cowpox to protect patients from becoming ill with smallpox and outrage at his medical colleagues for adopting the new practice so quickly. He put forth theories that that vaccinations would have horrible side-effects, including physical ailments like whooping cough and intellectual afflictions like insanity. Some of his warnings were based on the fears of other objectors to vaccination; others were original to him. Moseley expressed his views before Parliament during investigations into the practice in 1802 and 1808. His outlandish theories were the basis for a satirical cartoon by James Gillray called “The Cow Pock” which portrayed small cows bursting out of human bodies. Moseley died in Southend, a favorite summer vacation spot, in 1819. (DNB) | |
| 877 | Name: | Dr. May-Britt Moser | | | Institution: | Centre for Algorithms in the Cortex, Norwegian University of Science and Technology | | | Year Elected: | 2015 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 208. Plant Sciences | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1963 | | | | | | |
May-Britt Moser is a Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for Neural Computation at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. She is interested in the neural basis of spatial location and spatial specifically and cognition more generally. Her work, conducted with Edvard Moser as a long-term collaborator, includes the discovery of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex. The discovery of grid cells was succeeded by identification of other functional cell types, including head direction cells, conjunctive cells and border cells and collectively the findings point to the entorhinal cortex as a hub for the brain network that makes us find our way. May-Britt Moser received her initial training at the University of Oslo under the supervision of Dr. Per Andersen. She worked as a post-doc with Richard Morris and John O’Keefe in 1996, before she accepted a faculty position at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She became a Co-Director of the Centre for the Biology of Memory in 2002 and the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in 2007. In 2012, she was appointed Director of the newly established Centre for Neural Computation. Together with Edvard Moser, she has received a number of awards, including the 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. | |
| 878 | Name: | Dr. Edvard Moser | | | Institution: | Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology | | | Year Elected: | 2015 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 208. Plant Sciences | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1962 | | | | | | |
Edvard Moser is a Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. He is interested in how spatial location and spatial memory are computed in the brain. His work, conducted with May-Britt Moser as a long-term collaborator, includes the discovery of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, which provides clues to a neural mechanism for the metric of spatial mapping. Subsequent to this discovery the Mosers have identified additional space-representing cell types in the entorhinal cortex and they are beginning to unravel how the neural microcircuit is organized. Edvard Moser received his initial training at the University of Oslo under the supervision of Dr. Per Andersen. He worked as a post-doc with Richard Morris and John O’Keefe in 1996, before he accepted a faculty position at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology the same year. In 2002 he became the Founding Director of the Centre for the Biology of Memory. In 2007 the Centre became a Kavli Institute. Edvard Moser is also Co-Director of the newly established Centre for Neural Computation at the same institution. Together with May-Britt Moser, he has received a number of awards, including the 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. | |
| 879 | Name: | Dr. Ben R. Mottelson | | | Institution: | The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen | | | Year Elected: | 2011 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1926 | | | Death Date: | May 13, 2022 | | | | | | |
Ben Mottelson is one of the giants of theoretical nuclear physics. With Aage Bohr, he discovered the connection between collective and single particle motion in atomic nuclei, thus establishing the modern framework for understanding the rich experimental behavior of nuclei. For this discovery, he, Bohr, and Rainwater received the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics. The two volume study, Nuclear Structure, is the standard in the field. With Pines and Bohr, he pioneered the application of BCS theory of superconductivity to nuclei. He has been a major international figure, a founder and first director of the European Center for Nuclear Theory, and proponent of international cooperation - recognized by election to many nations’ scientific academies. He remains quite scientifically active, focusing on two new areas: man-made finite quantal systems (e.g., metallic clusters, quantum dots, and ultracold atomic clouds), which, as he has shown, can be fruitfully viewed as "artificial" nuclei; and reinterpretation of the foundations of quantum mechanics, where the central issue he grapples with is the role of fortuitousness in the theory. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1950 and was awarded the John Wetherill Medal in 1974. He is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters (1958 - foreign, 1974 - (Danish), the National Academy of Sciences (1973), and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1971). He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2011. | |
| 880 | Name: | Baron Charles E Coquebert de Mountbret | | | Year Elected: | 1823 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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