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| | 1841 | Name: | Dr. Pierre Hohenberg | | | Institution: | New York University | | | Year Elected: | 2014 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1934 | | | Death Date: | December 15, 2017 | | | | | | |
Pierre Hohenberg received his PhD from Harvard University in 1962. After postdoctoral positions in Moscow and Paris he was a staff member at Bell Laboratories until 1995. During the period 1974-1977 he was also a professor of Physics at the Technical University in Munich. From 1995 to 2004 he served as Deputy Provost for Science and Technology at Yale University. In 2004 he moved to NYU as the Senior Vice Provost for Research, until 2010, when he joined the Department of Physics as professor. He became emeritus in 2013. Hohenberg's principal areas of scholarship included condensed matter physics, statistical
physics, non-equilibrium phenomena and the foundations of quantum
mechanics and the philosophy of science. He was particularly well-known as one of the originators of Density Functional Theory and of the Dynamical Scaling Theory of critical phenomena.
He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, fellow of the American Physical Society, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the recipient of the Fritz London Prize for Low Temperature Physics, the Max Planck Medaille of the German Physical Society and the Lars Onsager Prize of the American Physical Society. In addition, he served on numerous advisory committees to universities, federal agencies, and national and international professional organizations. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2014. Pierre Hohenberg died December 15, 2017, at the age of 84. | |
| 1842 | Name: | John E. Holbrook | | | Year Elected: | 1839 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Death Date: | 09/08/1871 | | | | |
| 1843 | Name: | Edward S. Holden | | | Year Elected: | 1897 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Death Date: | 03/16/14 | | | | |
| 1844 | Name: | Dr. John P. Holdren | | | Institution: | Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President of the United States | | | Year Elected: | 2015 | | | 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? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | | |
Dr. John P. Holdren was President Obama’s Science and Technology Advisor and the Senate-confirmed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, 2009-2017. He was also the Chair (on behalf of the President) of the interagency National Science and Technology Council, Chair of the Arctic Executive Steering Committee, Co-Chair of the National Oceans Council, Co-Chair of the Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). He has returned to Harvard University as the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Professor of Environmental Science and Policy in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Trained in aerospace engineering and theoretical plasma physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, he is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a foreign member of the Royal Society of London and a former President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
His awards include one of the first MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowships (1981), the Volvo International Environment Prize (1993), the Tyler Prize for Environment (2000), the Heinz Prize for Public Policy (2001), and the Moynihan Prize (2018). In 1995 he gave the acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an international organization of scientists and public figures in which he served in leadership positions from 1982 to 1997.
Prior to joining the Obama administration, Dr. Holdren was a professor in both the Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, as well as Director of the independent, non-profit Woods Hole Research Center. From 1973 to 1996 he was on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where he co-founded and co-led the interdisciplinary graduate-degree program in energy and resources.
He served from 1991 to 2005 as a member of the Board of Trustees of the MacArthur Foundation and from 1994 to 2005 as Chairman of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control at the National Academy of Sciences. During the Clinton Administration he served for both terms on PCAST, leading studies on nuclear-materials protection, fusion-energy research, strengthening Federal investments in energy R&D, and international cooperation on energy-technology innovation.
Dr. Holdren has been married since 1966 to Dr. Cheryl E. Holdren, a biologist. They have a son, a daughter, and five grandchildren. John and Cheryl have a home in Falmouth, Massachusetts. | |
| 1845 | Name: | James W. Holland | | | Year Elected: | 1886 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1850 | | | Death Date: | 02/10/22 | | | | |
| 1846 | Name: | William J. Holland | | | Year Elected: | 1928 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Death Date: | 12/13/32 | | | | |
| 1847 | Name: | Leicester B. Holland | | | Year Elected: | 1931 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1883 | | | Death Date: | 02/07/52 | | | | |
| 1848 | Name: | Dr. David Hollinger | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 2017 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | | | | |
From the time of my first publication in 1968, I have worked primarily in the intellectual and ethnoracial histories of the United States.
Thematically, my work has been inspired by an essay of 1967 by the great sinologist, Joseph R. Levenson, "The Province, the Nation, the World: The Problem of Chinese Identity." I read this as a graduate student. It led me to engage the tension between provincialism and cosmopolitanism. This tension I have explored in special relation to ethnoracial and religious affiliations. For many years I focused on the relation of Jews to American culture, and later moved to a focus on the varieties of Protestantism and their differing connections to the American nation. Central always has been the diversity of American society, and the challenge Americans have faced in deciding just whom to join with in the forming of communities.
Methodologically, my work has been inspired by the scholarship of Perry Miller, the great historian of New England Puritanism, and by the scholarly practices of medievalists. Both of these affected me in graduate school, at the same time I was reading Levenson. Miller showed me what intellectual history could be like, and the medievalists showed me what highly specialized, monographic scholarship on what the Germans call "advanced problems" looked like. I decided early on to try to write modern American history as it would be written by a medievalist. Hence I have written primarily analytic articles in the medievalist manner, focusing on this or that question (e.g., the question of ethnoracial mixture, or the problem of pragmatism). I have aimed not to tell stories, but to answer questions.
In keeping with this commitment to the analytic essay as a mode, I published many articles and relatively few book-length studies. This approach to research and writing appealed to me also because it enabled me to address a greater range of topics than if I had followed the normal path for historians, moving from one Big Book to another. Hence four of my books are collections of articles: In the American Province (Indiana University Press, 1985), Science, Jews, and Secular Culture (Princeton University Press, 1996), Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), and After Cloven Tongues of Fire (Princeton University Press, 2013). But I also wrote three more conventionally "book-like" books: Morris R. Cohen and the Scientific Ideal (MIT Press, 1975), Postethnic America (Basic Books, 1995, 2000, and 2006), and Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America (Princeton University Press, 2017).
My entire career has been influenced by the experience of moving out of the church-intensive culture of my upbringing and finding myself more at home in the more or less standard, highly secular culture of the academic life of my generation. I have discussed this experience in an autobiographical essay, "Church People and Others," found within the collection, After Cloven Tongues of Fire. | |
| 1849 | Name: | Levi Hollingsworth | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1739 | | | Death Date: | 03/1824 | | | | |
| 1850 | Name: | Samuel L. Hollingsworth | | | Year Elected: | 1856 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Death Date: | 12/14/1872 | | | | |
| 1851 | Name: | Henry Hollyday | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 3/9/1725 | | | Death Date: | 11/11/1789 | | | | | | |
Henry Hollyday (9 March 1725–11 November 1789) was a public officeholder, slave holder, and businessman, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Born in Talbot County, Maryland, Hollyday spent almost all his years living on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. At fourteen, he traveled to Philadelphia to apprentice at William Allen’s counting house, but once he returned, he called Maryland home for the remainder of his life. Hollyday’s family’s status helped secure him public office positions beginning with an appointment as Maryland’s Deputy Navy Officer, Deputy Collector, and Deputy Receiver of Seamen’s Wages of Oxford’s port in 1746. He continued to secure new positions that steadily increased his income, especially his appointment in 1747 as Sheriff of Queen Anne’s County (a position previously held by his brother). By 1752 he was the Commissary General for Talbot County. Hollyday’s fortune rose exponentially with the inheritance of his patrimony after the death of his mother in 1755. With these funds he paid for the construction of a new estate and plantation, Ratcliffe Manor, near Easton, MD. Once established there he increased his enslaved labor pool and began his agricultural business in earnest. Over the next twenty years he watched over business operations and performed the socially expected duties for family, church and government, including sitting on the Assembly in 1765-66. His tenure as a public officeholder, however, came to an end during the American Revolution when he refused to swear allegiance to the new government. Though not a Tory, legislative retribution arrived all the same in the form of heavy taxation that brought the unfamiliar spectre of financial stress. He and his fortune weathered the storm quite well enough: upon his death, he owned some 3,119 acres, counted 131 enslaved men, women, and children at Ratcliffe Manor, while his personal property was valued at £18,431. (PI) | |
| 1852 | Name: | Abiel Holmes | | | Year Elected: | 1816 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Death Date: | 06/04/1837 | | | | |
| 1853 | Name: | Oliver W. Holmes | | | Year Elected: | 1880 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1809 | | | Death Date: | 10/09/1894 | | | | |
| 1854 | Name: | William H. Holmes | | | Year Elected: | 1899 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Death Date: | 04/20/33 | | | | |
| 1855 | Name: | Dr. Frederic Lawrence Holmes | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1932 | | | Death Date: | March 27, 2003 | | | | |
| 1856 | Name: | Dr. Thomas C. Holt | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 2016 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1942 | | | | | | |
Currently the James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Service Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago, Tom Holt has a longstanding professional interest in comparing the experiences of people in the African diaspora, particularly those in the Caribbean and the United States. Elected president of the American Historical Association for 1994-95, Holt has been a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow since 1990 and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2003. Last year Holt was a recipient the Wilbur Cross Medal, awarded by Yale University in recognition of distinguished alumni. His most significant publications are a study of Jamaica's economy, politics, and society after slavery, The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938, which was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1992 and awarded the Elsa Goveia Prize by the Association of Caribbean Historians in 1995. In 1978, the Southern Historical Association awarded the Charles S. Sydnor Prize for Holt's first book, Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction, published by the University of Illinois Press in 1977, which dealt with a comparable period in the American South after emancipation. Holt's Nathan I. Huggins’ lectures, The Problem of Race in the 21st Century, were published by Harvard University Press in 2000. He is co-author with Rebecca J. Scott and Frederick Cooper of Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies, which was published by the University of North Carolina Press, also in 2000. With Elsa Barkley Brown, he has edited a two-volume collection of essays and documents on African American History, Major Problems in African American History, published by Houghton Mifflin in 2000. In 2010, Holt published Children of Fire: A History of African Americans (Hill&Wang), a synthetic account of African American History from its 16th century beginnings to the present. Holt’s most recent publication is Race, the 24th volume of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (2013), which he edited with Laurie Green for the University of North Carolina Press. In that collection of essays, they explore the multi-racial - as opposed to the more conventional bi-racial - history and present of the American South. Prof. Holt is currently working on a study of the Civil Rights Movement for Oxford University Press and on a study of the problem of race in the Atlantic World with Leora Auslander.
Professor Holt earned BA and MA degrees in English Literature from Howard University and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. Prior to his academic career Holt worked in the federal anti-poverty program (the Office of Economic Opportunity) developing educational, employment, and housing programs for economically disadvantaged seasonal and migrant farmworkers. | |
| 1857 | Name: | Dr. Gerald Holton | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1996 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | | | | |
Gerald Holton is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics and Research Professor of the History of Science Emeritus at Harvard University. He obtained his Ph.D. in physics at Harvard as a student of P. W. Bridgman. His chief interests are in the history and philosophy of science, in the physics of matter at high pressure, and in the study of career paths of young scientists. Among his recent books are Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought (2nd ed., 1988); Science and Anti-Science (1993); Einstein, History, and Other Passions (2000); The Advancement of Science, and its Burdens (1998); The Scientific Imagination (1998); four books with Gerhard Sonnert: Gender Differences in Science Careers: Project Access Study (1995), Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension (1995), Ivory Bridges: Connecting Science and Society (2002), and What Happened to the Children? (2006); Physics, the Human Adventure: From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond (with S.G. Brush, 2001); and Understanding Physics (with D. Cassidy and F. J. Rutherford, 2002). Professor Holton is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Life Honorary Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of several Learned Societies in Europe. Founding editor of the quarterly journal Daedalus, and founder of Science, Society, & Human Values, he was also on the editorial committee of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (Princeton University Press). Among the honors he has received are the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society, the Gemant Award of the American Institute of Physics, election to the Presidency of the History of Science Society, and the selection by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the Jefferson Lecturer. He was awarded the American Physical Society's 2008 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics. | |
| 1858 | Name: | Edward A. Holyoke | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 8/1/1728 | | | Death Date: | 03/21/1829 | | | | | | |
Edward A. Holyoke (1 August 1728–31 March 1829) was a physician and public officeholder, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Holyoke would spent the rest of his life never far from the Atlantic Ocean. His family moved to Cambridge in 1737 when his father was elected Harvard’s President, the institution that became Holyoke’s alma mater in 1746. The following year Holyoke began to study the material that would define the rest of his adult life: the study of medicine. After working under Thomas Berry of Ipswich, Holyoke moved to Salem in 1749 and settled into a practice that spanned more than half a century. Over that time his practice attracted peers and thirty five apprentices alike looking to consult and learn from him. Always intellectually curious (he even performed autopsies on his children that died in infancy), Holyoke was one of the first adopters of vaccination and, in 1777, it was his smallpox hospital that inoculated over six hundred people while only losing two. A sense of duty to community service paired with Holyoke’s relentless work ethnic translated to long days with many patients. He did his caseload no favors by he keeping his fees low and not pressing for payments. He did not welcome the American Revolution and he eventually recanted the public farewell address he signed to Governor Hutchinson. And while he sent his family to live on Nantucket for their safety, he remained in Salem to attend to his patients. In addition to his medicine practice he was active in a variety of public institutions including the Essex Historical Society and the Salem Athenaeum. He was a founding member in the American Academy of Arts of Science and the Massachusetts medical Society, serving as President for each institution. Always busy, Holyoke remained active up until his preternatural health began to fail in the winter of 1828-1829. He died just months away from his 101st birthday. Per his request, his colleagues performed a postmortem examination that confirmed his self-diagnosis regarding his final illness. | |
| 1859 | Name: | Dr. George C. Homans | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1910 | | | Death Date: | 5/29/89 | | | | |
| 1860 | Name: | Archibald Home | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1705 | | | Death Date: | 1744 | | | | | | |
Archibald Home (1705?–April 1744) was a poet and public official and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1744. Born the son of a baronet in Berwick, Scotland, he was educated privately and spent time in Glasgow before immigrating to New York in 1733. In America, he soon earned a reputation as a prominent tavern wit. Hoping to gain a government appointment, Home wrote pieces supporting Governor William Cosby and criticizing Cosby opponents like Lewis Morris and his fellow contributors to the New York Weekly Journal, printed by John Peter Zenger. So effective were Home’s satires that his erstwhile enemy Morris took him on as his protégé. When Morris became Governor of New Jersey in 1737, he made Home the colony’s deputy secretary. Morris later appointed Home clerk of the Provincial Council, member of the royal council, and secretary of the province. A prolific poet adept in a variety of genres—from romantic odes, classical imitations, and dialect elegies to fables, riddles, epigrams, and bawdy songs—Home was at the center of a mixed sex literary circle in Trenton, New Jersey, that included his patron’s son (and fellow APS member) Robert Hunter Morris. Following Home’s early death, members of his circle prepared manuscript copies of “Poems on Several Occasions by Archibald Home. Esqr. Late Secretary, and One of His Majestie’s Council for the Province of New Jersey: North America,” which circulated on both sides of the Atlantic. (PI, ANB) | |
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