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| | 801 | Name: | Dr. Karen S. Cook | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 2018 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1946 | | | | | | |
KAREN S. COOK is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology and Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Stanford University. She is also the founding Director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) at Stanford and a trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation. Professor Cook has a long-standing interest in social exchange, social networks, social justice and trust in social relations. She has edited a number of books in the Russell Sage Foundation Trust Series including Trust in Society (2001), Trust and Distrust in Organizations: Emerging Perspectives (with R. Kramer, 2004), eTrust: Forming Relations in the Online World (with C. Snijders, V. Buskens, and Coye Cheshire, 2009), and Whom Can Your Trust? (with M. Levi and R. Hardin, 2009). She is co-author of Cooperation without Trust? (with R. Hardin and M. Levi, 2005). She has served on numerous National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine committees, including the council, and currently is a member of the DBASSE advisory committee. She also serves as chair of the NSF advisory committee for the social, behavioral and economic sciences (SBE). In 1996, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2007 to the National Academy of Sciences. In 2004 she received the ASA Social Psychology Section Cooley Mead Award for Career Contributions to Social Psychology. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2018.
Karen Cook conducts research on social interaction, social networks, social exchange, and trust. She is among the foremost scholars who have researched the role of trust dynamics in shaping organizational and institutional outcomes. Her early work focused on how power differentials shaped processes of social exchange within organizations and between individuals within networks, criticizing microeconomic theory for overlooking the social structures within which actors are embedded. Her latest work focuses on the origins and generation of trust in human society and its role in promoting effective use of social capital. In particular, she has done much influential research on the role of interpersonal and social relations in physician-patient relations. She argues that a general trust of others liberates people from safe but closed relationships and facilitates the creation of social capital in a variety of human domains. | |
| 802 | Name: | William D. Coolidge | | | Year Elected: | 1938 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1873 | | | Death Date: | 2/4/75 | | | | |
| 803 | Name: | Thomas Coombe | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1720 | | | Death Date: | 9/29/1799 | | | | | | |
Thomas Coombe, Sr. (c. 1720–29 September 1799) was a Philadelphia city official and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Little is known about Coombe’s early life, but much of his adult life was spent working in the service of the city, namely as the Health Officer of Philadelphia and in various positions as a collector of special duties. The income provided by these positions allowed him to live comfortably and to contribute to local institutions such as the Pennsylvania Hospital and the College Philadelphia. An enthusiastic amateur scientist, Coombe was an early and active member of the APS, serving on a number of committees, including the committee convened to observe the Transit of Venus, and publishing his own meteorological journal in a volume of APS Transactions. To further his learning he amassed a large library and acquired a number of scientific instruments including a microscope and achromatic refracting telescope. Although he was sympathetic towards England during the American Revolution, he endured no patriot reprisals because of his political discretion and advanced years. When the British occupation of Philadelphia ended in 1778, Coombe relocated to his farm, Auburn, in Chestnut Hill where he lived out his remaining years. Deteriorating mental health seems to have kept him from returning to Philadelphia society and to the APS. His son Thomas Coombe, Jr., was an APS member. (PI) | |
| 804 | Name: | Thomas Coombe | | | Year Elected: | 1773 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 10/21/1747 | | | Death Date: | 8/15/1822 | | | | | | |
Thomas Coombe, Jr. (21 October 1747–15 August 1822) was an Anglican priest, a poet, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1773. The son of APS Member Thomas Coombe, Sr., Coombe, Jr. was born in Philadelphia. He attended the College of Philadelphia and was the valedictorian of his graduating class. As a student, he displayed writerly promise which he developed throughout his life; as a clergyman, his sermons were recognized for their craft and persuasiveness. In 1768, Coombe, Jr. traveled to London, seeking the priesthood. During this visit, he stayed at the home of family friend Benjamin Franklin. Coombe, Jr. was ordained in 1771 and returned to Philadelphia to continue his ministry the following year. He came to be known as a moving and memorable preacher, and several of his sermons were published and distributed throughout the colonies. In one popular 1775 sermon, he expressed support for the colonial cause; however, at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, Coombe refused to break his ordination vows of fidelity to the British government by pronouncing his support of the Declaration of Independence. He was arrested for this refusal in 1777 and managed to avoid imprisonment in Virginia by claiming he was in poor health. When the British army arrived in the colonies, Coombe, Jr. was given permission to sail for England, where he lived out the rest of his life. While living abroad, he continued his ministry as a priest and chaplain, he published a book of poetry, and he continued his education, obtaining a Doctor of Divinity degree from Trinity College in 1781. Coombe, Jr. was married twice and, upon his death in 1822, left his wife and his four surviving children a sizable fortune. (DNB) | |
| 805 | Name: | Myles Cooper | | | Year Elected: | 1769 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 2/19/1737 | | | Death Date: | 5/20/1785 | | | | | | |
Myles Cooper (bap. 19 February 1737–20 May 1785) was an educator, clergymen, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1769. The son of William and Elizabeth Cooper, he was born in Lancashire in Northwest England. He was educated at Queen’s College, Oxford, where he was awarded a Bachelor’s degree in 1756 and a Master’s degree in 1760. He later became a chaplain of the college, serving until his ordination as a priest of the Church of England. In 1762, Reverend Edward Bensom of Christ Church recommended Cooper as a successor to Samuel Johnson as president of King’s College in New York. Cooper stood out as a candidate for the job, not because of any particular qualifications, but because of his willingness to leave the comfort of Oxford and travel to America. He began his presidential tenure in 1765, and worked with the governors of the college to make it resemble Oxford in its customs, values, and environment. The college improved during his tenure: attendance increased, the faculty grew, and a medical school opened. Cooper remained loyal to the British crown throughout the American Revolution, but he was not alone. Many of the students and faculty of King’s College were socially and politically conservative and supported the British cause. However, Cooper’s prominent public position made him the target of threats, and on May 10th, 1775, he was driven by a mob out of his home in the middle of the night. Half-dressed, he took shelter at a friend’s house and then fled to a British warship. He returned to England as soon as possible. Cooper never married, but in his later years cared for several orphaned children. He was outgoing, affable, and appreciated the material comforts of the world: food, wine, and company. He died at a luncheon in Edinburgh in 1785. (ANB, DNB) | |
| 806 | Name: | Thomas Cooper | | | Year Elected: | 1802 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Death Date: | 5/11/1839 | | | | |
| 807 | Name: | James F. Cooper | | | Year Elected: | 1823 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1789 | | | Death Date: | 9/14/1851 | | | | |
| 808 | Name: | Dr. Leon N Cooper | | | Institution: | Brown University & Institute for Brain and Neural Systems | | | Year Elected: | 1973 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | | | | |
Winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics, Leon Cooper is known for his role in developing the BCS theory of superconductivity and for the concept of Cooper electron pairs that bears his name. Dr. Cooper received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1954 and taught at the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Illinois and Ohio State University before moving to Brown University in 1958. At present he is Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Science at Brown and Director of the Institute for Brain and Neural Systems. His research at Brown focuses primarily on neural networks (architecture, learning rules, real world applications; biological basis of memory and learning; visual cortex: comparison of theory and experiment, mean field theories and foundations of the Quantum Theory). Dr. Cooper is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a member of the Natural Academy of Sciences, among other distinctions. | |
| 809 | Name: | Dr. Frederick Cooper | | | Institution: | New York University | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1947 | | | | | | |
Frederick Cooper has been studying Africa since his undergraduate days at Stanford in the 1960s. His approach to African history, in research and teaching, has emphasized changing perspectives: zooming in through detailed research on the particularities of place and time within a diverse continent, zooming out to explore connections across space and patterns over time. He has been concerned with how to understand and employ social theory in relation to historically specific situations. The “East African” phase of his career resulted in three books on slavery and post-emancipation agricultural labor in Zanzibar and Kenya (1977, 1980) and on urban labor in Kenya (1987). While these works were influenced by the literature on comparative slavery in the Americas and on labor and capitalist development in Europe, Cooper did not take western cases as a paradigm against which the rest of the world should be held but insisted that African material should lead to rethinking conceptual schemes themselves. During these years, Cooper also wrote field-defining essays on slavery in Africa (1979) and on Africa’s relation to the world economy (1981). He began to work on the politics of colonialism in collaboration with the anthropologist Ann Laura Stoler, resulting in an international conference and a co-edited book Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (1997). Meanwhile, Cooper’s archival research turned toward the study of the relationship of labor to decolonization and economic development and expanded to include French Africa, ending up with a monograph (1996) as well as a co-edited book on development and the social sciences (1997).
Cooper’s interest in social science theory was developed through critical essays on the concepts of identity, globalization, modernity, nation-state, and empire, collected in his 2005 book Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History, which earned him the reputation among his friends as “concept cop.” He was encouraged by years of conversation with his spouse, the Russian historian Jane Burbank, to think beyond the 1st-3rd world orientation and modernist bias of colonial studies. Burbank and Cooper took the leap of developing a year-long graduate course at the University of Michigan on empires in world history. When they both moved to New York University in 2002, they took the course with them and then developed an undergraduate course on the same theme. Their teaching in turn led them to write Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (2010), which has been translated into nine languages, won a book prize from the World History Association, and was a key element in the award to Burbank and Cooper of the Arnold Toynbee Prize in 2023 for contributions to global history. This spousal collective produced another book, Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia (2023). Cooper, along the way, wrote a monograph on citizenship and decolonization in France and French Africa (2014) and synthetic and analytical books on Africa’s place in the world (2014) and citizenship in world history (2018), as well as a textbook on contemporary African history (2nd ed. 2019).
Cooper’s teaching career went from Harvard to Michigan to NYU. He regularly taught courses in African history as well as on slavery, post-emancipation societies, colonialism, economic development, and empires. He has worked with PhD students who have gone on to stellar careers. He has been a visiting professor at several universities in France, where he has many close friends and colleagues, and he has given talks at universities and research centers in Africa, Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Australia. In addition to Empires in World History, others of his books and articles have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Italian. His research, over the years, in Great Britain, France, Kenya, and Senegal has been aided by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, and, at an early career stage, the American Philosophical Society. His writing benefitted from residential fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Institut d’Études Avancées de Nantes, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Center on Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History in Berlin, the Humanities Institute at Michigan, and the Remarque Institute at NYU. He retired from teaching in 2020 but continues to write, lecture, and participate in a variety of academic events. | |
| 810 | Name: | Thomas P. Cope | | | Year Elected: | 1843 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1767 | | | Death Date: | 11/22/1854 | | | | |
| 811 | Name: | Edward D. Cope | | | Year Elected: | 1866 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1841 | | | Death Date: | 4/12/1897 | | | | |
| 812 | Name: | Arthur Clay Cope | | | Year Elected: | 1961 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | 6/4/66 | | | | |
| 813 | Name: | Lammot duPont Copeland | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1905 | | | Death Date: | 7/1/83 | | | | |
| 814 | Name: | W. M. Late Coplin | | | Year Elected: | 1911 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Death Date: | 4/21/22 | | | | |
| 815 | Name: | Henry Coppee | | | Year Elected: | 1856 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1822 | | | Death Date: | 3/21/1895 | | | | |
| 816 | Name: | Dr. France Córdova | | | Institution: | Science Philanthropy Alliance; National Science Foundation; Purdue University | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | 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: | 1947 | | | | | | |
France Anne Córdova is a leader in science, engineering and education with more than three decades experience at universities and national labs. She is currently president of the Science Philanthropy Alliance. She has served in five presidential administrations, both Democratic and Republican. She is an internationally recognized astrophysicist for her contributions in space research and instrumentation. She has served on both corporate and nonprofit boards.
Córdova was the 14th Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), an $8.5 billion independent federal agency. It is the only government agency charged with advancing all fields of scientific discovery, technological innovation, and STEM education and workforce development.
She is the only woman to have served as president of Purdue University, where she led the university to record levels of research funding, reputational rankings, and student retention and graduation rates.
Córdova is also chancellor emerita of the University of California, Riverside, where she was a distinguished professor of physics and astronomy. She laid the foundation for a medical school, California's first public medical school in over 40 years.
Previously, Córdova served as NASA's chief scientist, representing NASA to the larger scientific community. She was the youngest person and first woman to serve as NASA's chief scientist and was awarded the agency's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal.
Córdova has published more than 150 scientific papers. She has been awarded a dozen honorary doctorates. She was awarded the Kennedy-Lemass Medal from Ireland, and (soon) the Order of Bernardo O’Higgins from Chile, its highest civilian award. She is a Kilby Laureate for "significant contributions to society through science, technology, innovation, invention and education." She was inducted into the California Hall of Fame and the Stanford University Multicultural Hall of Fame. She has been elected to the National Academy of Science, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Córdova received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Stanford University and her PhD in physics from the California Institute of Technology. | |
| 817 | Name: | Carl F. Cori | | | Year Elected: | 1947 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1896 | | | Death Date: | 10/19/84 | | | | |
| 818 | Name: | Gerty Teresa Cori | | | Year Elected: | 1948 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1896 | | | Death Date: | 10/26/57 | | | | |
| 819 | Name: | Robert Cornelius | | | Year Elected: | 1862 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1809 | | | Death Date: | 8/10/1893 | | | | |
| 820 | Name: | George W. Corner | | | Year Elected: | 1940 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1890 | | | Death Date: | 9/28/81 | | | | |
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