| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Gary Stanley Becker | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 1986 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | Death Date: | May 3, 2014 | | | | | | |
Gary Stanley Becker was born in 1930 in a coal mining town in eastern Pennsylvania. His family moved to Brooklyn a few years later, where he was first exposed to economics by his father, who gave him the task of reading stock quotations and other reports on financial developments. After graduating from Princeton University in three years, Dr. Becker earned his Ph.D. in 1955 from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Milton Friedman, Gregg Lewis and other prominent thinkers. Known for his distinction as an economic theorist and for pioneering the application of economic theory to human behavior (such as in welfare policy, population and the family), Dr. Becker published numerous important works, including the 1981 book A Treatise on the Family, in which he analyzed the effect of factors such as divorce, family size and changes in family composition and structure on inequality and economic growth. A greatly expanded edition of this pioneering work was published in 1991. In addition to his scholarly output, Dr. Becker also penned monthly articles for Business Week magazine beginning in 1985. He served on the faculty of Columbia University from 1957-70 and was University Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago beginning in 1970. A Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution as well, Dr. Becker held the presidency of the American Economic Association and had been recognized with the Seidman Award as well as the first social science Award of Merit from the National Institute of Health. He received the National Medal of Science in 2000 and then served on the committee that recommends medal recipients. Dr. Becker was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 2007 and the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1992. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1986. Gary Becker died May 3, 2014, at the age of 83, in Chicago, Illinois. | |
| 2 | Name: | Mr. Louis Henkin | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1986 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | October 14, 2010 | | | | | | |
Louis Henkin was University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, Chair of the University's Center for the Study of Human Rights and Director of the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School. Before his appointment as University Professor, Professor Henkin held chairs in constitutional law and, earlier, in international law and diplomacy. Professor Henkin earned his B.A. from Yeshiva University in 1937 and his LL.B. from Harvard University in 1940 where he served as Book Reviews Editor for the Harvard Law Review. He served as law clerk to Judge Learned Hand and to Justice Felix Frankfurter and was a State Department officer before turning to academic life. Among various public and professional activities, he was the Chief Reporter of the Restatement of Foreign Relations Law of the U.S. (1979-87) and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of International Law (1978-84); from 1992-94, Professor Henkin served as the President of the American Society of International Law. Louis Henkin's books include Arms Control and Inspection in American Law; Foreign Affairs and the Constitution; The Rights of Man Today; How Nations Behave: Law and Foreign Policy; International Law: Politics and Values; The Age of Rights; Constitutionalism, Democracy and Foreign Affairs; and other books as well as numerous articles. He served as co-editor of International Law, Cases and Materials (3rd edition) and of Human Rights (1999). Louis Henkin was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 1986. He was awarded the Society's Henry M. Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence in 2000. The citation reads, "In recognition of his lifetime of scholarly research and writing to demonstrate that international human rights are more than noble aspirations to be enforced in the court of public opinion and are definable legal rights to be enforced in national and international tribunals." Louis Henkin died October 14, 2010, at the age of 92 in New York. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Gertrude Himmelfarb | | | Institution: | Graduate School, City University of New York | | | Year Elected: | 1986 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | December 30, 2019 | | | | | | |
Gertrude Himmelfarb was distinguished professor of history and later professor emeritus of history at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. For many years she was chair of the doctoral program in history. Dr. Himmelfarb received her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1950. She also studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary and at Girton College, Cambridge. A leader in the field of 19th century British intellectual history, Dr. Himmelfarb wrote extensively on Victorian England and on contemporary society and culture, earning a reputation as a conservative cultural critic. Her publications included Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution (1959), On Liberty and Liberalism (1974), Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians (1991), and The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values (1995). She also edited a collection of essays by Irving Kristol, entitled The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, 1942-2009 (2011). She was the recipient of many honorary degrees and a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the Society of American Humanities. She served on the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities and on the editorial boards of the American Historical Review, the American Scholar and other journals. Known for her great erudition and meticulous scholarship, Dr. Himmelfarb was a gifted writer and thinker who expressed her strong opinions with force and clarity. Gertrude Himmelfarb died December 30, 2019 in Washington, DC at the age of 97. | |
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