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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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| | • | 404a |
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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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| | 661 | Name: | Dr. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 1945 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 101. Astronomy | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1910 | | | Death Date: | 8/21/95 | | | | |
| 662 | Name: | Ralph W. Chaney | | | Year Elected: | 1943 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1891 | | | Death Date: | 3/3/71 | | | | |
| 663 | Name: | Dr. john Chaniotis | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1959 | | | | | | |
Angelos Chaniotis is since 2010 Professor of Ancient History and Classics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Previously he held Professorships of Ancient History at the University of Heidelberg and New York University, and a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College in Oxford. He has also served as Vice Rector of the University of Heidelberg. He specializes in epigraphy and the history of Hellenism from Alexander to Late Antiquity. His researches focuses on social history, memory, identity, and religion in Greece and the Roman East. Since 1998 he has been editor of the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. He participates in the excavation of Aphrodisias since 1995, and since 2021 he co-directs the excavation in Lyktos (Crete). His books include War in the Hellenistoc World: A Social and Cultural History (2005), Theatricality and Public Life in the Hellenistic Age (2009, in Greek), Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian (2018), and Emotionen und Fiktionen: Gefühle in Politik, Gesellschaft und Kultur der griechischen Antike (2023). For his research he has received numerous awards and distinctions, among them the Greek State Award for Essay, the Anneliese-Meier Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation, the Research Award of the State of Baden-Württenberg, and four honorary degrees. In 2013 he was made Commander of the Order of the Phoenix in Greece. He has served in numerous research boards, among others the Comitato Nazionale dei Garanti per la Ricerca in Italy (2012–2014), the Collegium for Advanced Study in Finland (2004–2009) the Research Board of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2008–2013), and the International Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2005–2010). Since 2020 he is President of the Scientific Committee of the Fondation Hardt pour l’Étude de l’Antiquité Classique in Geneva. In Greece, he serves in the Supreme Council of the Authority of Higher Education (2020–) and the National Council of Research, Innovation and Technology (2023–). He is member of the European Academy and corresponding member of the academies of Athens, Belgium, Finland, and Heidelberg. | |
| 664 | Name: | John Chapman | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 10/18/1740 | | | Death Date: | 1/27/1780 | | | | | | |
John Chapman (18 October 1740–27 January 1800) was a physician and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. Born into a Quaker family in Wrightstown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, he traveled to Philadelphia in 1762 to study medicine with APS member Cadwalader Evans. Chapman then returned to Wrightstown and established his own practice. A supporter of the patriot cause during the American Revolution, he served on the Committee of Safety and the Committee of Correspondence. He also helped to collect funds to relieve victims of the British blockade of Boston, but his religious principles prevented him from supporting outright war and in 1775 he asked to be excused from the latter Committee. Nonetheless, he took the oath of allegiance in 1779, before accepting the offices of justice of the peace and judge of the Court of Common Pleas. For these actions and his subsequent role caring for wounded soldiers and prisoners of war, Chapman was disowned by the Friends Monthly Meeting, though he would later be reinstated. His 1783 bid for election to the State Council was unsuccessful, but three years later he was elected to the Assembly with a number of other politicians hostile to the state’s radical new constitution; he was re-elected annually from 1787 to 1795. In 1796 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives on the Federalist ticket, where he voted for the Alien and Sedition Acts. Chapman also served as president of the Bucks County equivalent of the Philadelphia County Society for Promoting Agriculture. (PI) | |
| 665 | Name: | Nathaniel Chapman | | | Year Elected: | 1807 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1779 | | | Death Date: | 7/1/1853 | | | | |
| 666 | Name: | Henry C. Chapman | | | Year Elected: | 1875 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1845 | | | Death Date: | 9/7/09 | | | | |
| 667 | Name: | Frank M. Chapman | | | Year Elected: | 1921 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1864 | | | Death Date: | 11/15/45 | | | | |
| 668 | Name: | Dr. Erwin Chargaff | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1979 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 201. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1905 | | | Death Date: | June 20, 2002 | | | | |
| 669 | Name: | Pliny E. Chase | | | Year Elected: | 1863 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1820 | | | Death Date: | 12/17/1886 | | | | |
| 670 | Name: | Thomas Chase | | | Year Elected: | 1864 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1827 | | | Death Date: | 10/6/1892 | | | | |
| 671 | Name: | George H. Chase | | | Year Elected: | 1929 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1875 | | | Death Date: | 2/2/52 | | | | |
| 672 | Name: | Ms. Rosalind Chast | | | Institution: | The New Yorker | | | Year Elected: | 2010 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 501. Creative Artists | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1954 | | | | | | |
Rosalind (Roz) Chast received a BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1998 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Pratt Institute and in 2004 she was given the Museum of Cartoon and Comic Art Festival Award. She is the author and illustrator of Last Resorts, 1979; Unscientific Americans, 1982; Parallel Universes, 1984; Mondo Boxo, 1987; The Four Elements, 1988; Proof of Life on Earth, 1992; The Joy of Being Single, 1992; Childproof, 1997; Rationalizations To Live By, 2002; Weird and Wonderful Words, 2004; The Party, After You Left, 2004; Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons 1978-2006, 2006; with Steve Martin, The Alphabet from A to Y With Bonus Letter Z!, 2007; What I Hate: From A to Z, 2011; and Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? 2014 (which won the National Book Award in Autobiography). She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2010.
Ms. Chast is one of the most gifted cartoonists of her generation. Since 1979 she has been on the staff of The New Yorker, where she has now published more than a thousand cartoons. Her first of many covers for The New Yorker appeared in 1986. Her work also appears in other publications, including Scientific American and Harvard Business Review. If her cartoons have a common denominator it must be that they are very clever and quietly and irresistibly funny. She draws little figures, sometimes inquisitive, sometimes abashed, and most often bewildered. Chast's subjects are usually domestic or family oriented. Her art is deceptively simple; many surprises await the reader who parses carefully the backgrounds against which her figures appear. Her comics reflect a "conspiracy of inanimate objects," an expression she credits to her mother. Her most recent book, Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons 1978-2006, offers a splendid review of Chast's work; amusement, with moments of breaking into uncontrollable laughter, is guaranteed. | |
| 673 | Name: | Charles Chauncey | | | Year Elected: | 1813 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1776 | | | Death Date: | 8/30/1849 | | | | |
| 674 | Name: | William Chauvent | | | Year Elected: | 1851 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1819 | | | Death Date: | 12/13/1870 | | | | |
| 675 | Name: | Dr. Shiing-shen Chern | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1989 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 104. Mathematics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | December 3, 2004 | | | | |
| 676 | Name: | Dr. Harold F. Cherniss | | | Year Elected: | 1949 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1904 | | | Death Date: | 6/18/87 | | | | |
| 677 | Name: | Peter Chevalier | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 3/25/1731 | | | Death Date: | 10/19/1778 | | | | | | |
Peter Chevalier (25 March 1731–19 October 1778) was a merchant and public official and a member of the Young Junto, elected c. 1758. Born in Philadelphia, he ran a store and owned a share in a privateer. He was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church and invested in the Presbyterian Ministers’ Fund. He also served on a commission responsible for equipping the province’s warship and outfitting its troops. He signed the 1765 Non-Importation Agreement and subscribed to both the Silk Society and the survey for a proposed canal connecting the Delaware and Chesapeake rivers. In 1770, he was named a justice of the peace and appointed to the Philadelphia Common Council. In 1774, he was a delegate to the Provincial Convention. And in 1776 he served on a committee charged with auditing the accounts of the Pennsylvania militia. That same year he was nominated to but did not serve in the Pennsylvania Assembly. Chevalier was noteworthy for his sizeable art collection. His brother-in-law John Baynton was an APS member. (PI) | |
| 678 | Name: | Langdon Cheves | | | Year Elected: | 1821 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| 679 | Name: | Benjamin Chew | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 11/29/1722 | | | Death Date: | 1/20/1810 | | | | | | |
Benjamin Chew, Sr. (29 November 1722–20 January 1810) was a lawyer, judge, slaveholder, and politician, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Born in West River, Maryland, Chew’s Quaker family relocated to the more tolerant province of Pennsylvania in 1732. He studied law under the prominent attorney Andrew Hamilton and at London’s Middle Temple, where he became connected to the Penn family. As both a lawyer and a politician, Chew would act as the Pennsylvania proprietors’ representative for decades, focusing on land disputes within their poorly defined territory. Upon his return to North America in 1744, he practiced law in Pennsylvania and the lower counties (Delaware). In 1750 he was elected to the latter’s assembly, where he served as speaker from 1753 to 1757. He also served on the Maryland-Pennsylvania border commission, drafting the report that established the Mason-Dixon Line, and attended the Albany Congress as secretary to the Pennsylvania delegation. In 1754 he was named Philadelphia city recorder and in 1755 Pennsylvania attorney general. He also served on the Pennsylvania and Delaware councils, defending proprietary rule against the popular faction led in part by his kinsman, APS member Joseph Galloway. In 1765 Chew was named register general for Pennsylvania, and in 1774 he was appointed Chief Justice of the province’s Supreme Court. Although he opposed the Stamp Act and hosted George Washington during the Continental Congress, Chew did not support independence. In 1777 he was suspected of disloyalty and arrested. Following his release a year later, he accepted the revolutionary regime but played no role therein. When Pennsylvania’s radical constitution was replaced with a more conservative one in 1790, he re-entered public life as president of the high court of errors and appeals. His son Benjamin Chew, Jr. was an APS member. (PI, ANB, DNB, DAB) | |
| 680 | Name: | Benjamin Chew | | | Year Elected: | 1787 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1758 | | | Death Date: | 4/30/1844 | | | | |
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