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| | • | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry |
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| | • | 103. Engineering |
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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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| | • | 305 |
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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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| | • | 404c |
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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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| | 1881 | Name: | Inman Horner | | | Year Elected: | 1886 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1846 | | | Death Date: | 11/28/1912 | | | | |
| 1882 | Name: | Dr. Donald F. Hornig | | | Institution: | Brown University & Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1967 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1920 | | | Death Date: | January 21, 2013 | | | | | | |
A leader in theoretical and physical chemistry, Donald Hornig was born in 1920 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his doctoral degree from Harvard University in 1943 and went on to work at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the Los Alamos Laboratory where he conceived and developed a triggered spark-gap switch to initiate the explosive lenses used to set off the implosion in the first plutonium device. Later, Dr. Hornig held teaching positions at Brown University, becoming a full professor at the age of 31, before moving to Princeton University in 1957 as chairman of the Department of Chemistry. In 1964, he was named as the science advisor to President Lyndon Johnson, fulfilling that role until 1969. He had previously served as a science advisor to Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. After a brief term as vice president of Eastman Kodak Company, he returned to Brown as president of the university, serving in that capacity until 1976, when he became President Emeritus. Subsequently he became Professor of Chemistry in the School of Public Health at Harvard University, and from 1987-90, when he retired, he was chairman of the Department of Environmental Health in the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Hornig was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship and the Charles Lathrop Parsons Award of the American Chemical Society as well as a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Donald Hornig died January 21, 2013, at the age of 92, in Providence, Rhode Island. | |
| 1883 | Name: | Frank Lappin Horsfall | | | Year Elected: | 1956 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1906 | | | Death Date: | 2/19/71 | | | | |
| 1884 | Name: | Thomas Horsfield | | | Year Elected: | 1829 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Death Date: | 1859 | | | | |
| 1885 | Name: | E.N. Horsford | | | Year Elected: | 1849 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Death Date: | 01/01/1893 | | | | |
| 1886 | Name: | Daniel Horsmanden | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 6/4/1694 | | | Death Date: | 9/23/1778 | | | | | | |
Daniel Horsmanden (4 June 1694–23 September 1778) was a legislator and judge, famous for his role in the 1741 New York slave conspiracy trials, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1744. Born in Purleigh, Essex, England, he studied law at London’s Middle and Inner Temples. Financial troubles stemming from the South Sea Bubble prompted his relocation to Virginia in 1729 and to New York soon after. Horsmanden passed the New York bar and, through his cousin William Byrd of Westover, was named to the Provincial Council in 1732. In 1735, he participated in the Zenger trial. Between 1736 and 1737, he was named recorder of the city of New York; judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut; and third judge of the New York Supreme Court. When a series of unexplained fires and burglaries stoked fears that New York’s black population—and a handful of whites—were plotting an attack on its white inhabitants, Horsmanden presided over the ensuing trials. In 1744, he published an account of the conspiracy and a defense of the court’s indictments, which had ordered 154 blacks imprisoned, seventeen slaves and four whites hanged, thirteen others burned at the stake, and 71 banished to the West Indies. Horsmanden frequently switched allegiances between the different New York factions during his career. After losing and regaining his offices as the political winds changed, he was finally appointed Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court in 1763. In 1772 he served on the royal commission to investigate the Gaspee Affair, wherein a group of Rhode Islanders attacked a British revenue schooner that had run aground near Providence. Although his sympathies were Loyalist, Horsmanden was too elderly to play a role in the conflict over independence. (PI, ANB, DAB) | |
| 1887 | Name: | Dr. H. Robert Horvitz | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Howard Hughes Medical Institute; McGovern Institute for Brain Research | | | Year Elected: | 2004 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 207. Genetics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1947 | | | | | | |
H. Robert Horvitz's Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, awarded for his pioneering genetic dissection of programmed cell death (apoptosis), including the crucial discovery of the first caspase that mediates apoptosis, celebrated just one of his several comparably important contributions. Through genetic analysis of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, Dr. Horvitz discovered and dissected many genes and pathways that play highly specific roles during animal development, and in animal behavior as well. He defined genes that control specific aspects of cell lineage and cell fate, including the generation of cell diversity during development; the timing of particular developmental events; inter- and intracellular signaling; and programmed cell death. Dr. Horvitz's molecular analyses of these genes revealed most of them to be strikingly similar to genes found in other organisms, including humans, and in many cases similar to genes that cause human disease. A member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty since 1978, Dr. Horvitz has been David H. Koch Professor of Cancer Biology since 2001. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University (1974) and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1991); the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1994); and the Genetics Society of America (president, 1995). | |
| 1888 | Name: | Dr. Eric J. Horvitz | | | Institution: | Microsoft | | | Year Elected: | 2018 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 107 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1958 | | | | | | |
Eric Horvitz has made extensive influential contributions to artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction research and has had major industry impact through deployed AI systems, ( he holds nearly 300 patents). He pioneered the decision-theoretic paradigm (Bayesian inference methods), leading to the probabilistic inference paradigm widely used in AI. He has pioneered predictive models related to healthcare, ecommerce, aerospace and traffic patterns.
While advancing the capabilities of AI, he has also advanced the study of ethical concerns surrounding AI, including by founding Stanford’s 100 Year Study on AI. As co-founder of The Partnership on AI, he has brought together industry leaders and other notable experts to foster dialogue and education on best practices related to transparency, privacy, safety, and fairness of AI systems.
In 2020 Eric Horvitz was appointed Microsoft's first ever Chief Scientific Officer, as part of a plan to bring together parts of Microsoft research under one person. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2018. | |
| 1889 | Name: | Dr. Susan Band Horwitz | | | Institution: | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | | | Year Elected: | 2013 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 201. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1937 | | | | | | |
Dr. Susan Band Horwitz was born in Boston where she grew up and attended public high school. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College, she attended Brandeis University where she received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Departments of Pharmacology at Tufts University Medical School, Emory University Medical School and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She joined the faculty at Albert Einstein in 1970 and is presently the Falkenstein Professor of Cancer Research, Co-Chair of the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and the Associate Director for Therapeutics at the Albert Einstein Cancer Center.
Dr. Horwitz has had a continuing interest in natural products as a source of new drugs for the treatment of cancer. Her contributions span several decades of research and encompass agents which have served as prototypes for some of our most important drugs that are currently in clinical use. She made major contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms of action of camptothecin, the epipodophyllotoxins and bleomycin. However, Dr. Horwitz’ most seminal research contribution has been in the development of Taxol, a drug isolated from the yew plant, Taxus brevifolia. Although no one was interested in Taxol when she began her studies, today it is an important antitumor drug approved by the FDA for the treatment of ovarian, breast and lung carcinomas. The drug has been given to over a million patients. Dr. Horwitz' research played an important role in encouraging the development of Taxol by the National Cancer Institute.
Dr. Horwitz is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has received numerous honors and awards including the Cain Memorial Award of the AACR, the ASPET Award for Experimental Therapeutics, the C. Chester Stock Award from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize from Harvard Medical School, The American Cancer Society’s Medal of Honor -Clinical Research Award, The Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science & Technology, the Barnard Medal of Distinction, and the 2014 John Scott Science Award. In 2011, Dr. Horwitz received the AACR Lifetime Achievement Award in Cancer Research and The New York Academy Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Biomedical Science. She served as president (2002-2003) of the American Association of Cancer Research. Susan Horwitz was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2013. | |
| 1890 | Name: | David Hosack | | | Year Elected: | 1810 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Death Date: | 12/22/1835 | | | | |
| 1891 | Name: | Jedediah Hotchkiss | | | Year Elected: | 1881 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Death Date: | 01/17/1899 | | | | |
| 1892 | Name: | Andrews Everardus Van Braam Houckgeest | | | Year Elected: | 1797 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| 1893 | Name: | George W. Hough | | | Year Elected: | 1872 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Death Date: | 01/01/1909 | | | | |
| 1894 | Name: | Franklin B. Hough | | | Year Elected: | 1882 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1822 | | | Death Date: | 06/11/1885 | | | | |
| 1895 | Name: | William C. Houston | | | Year Elected: | 1780 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Death Date: | 08/12/1788 | | | | |
| 1896 | Name: | Edwin J. Houston | | | Year Elected: | 1872 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Death Date: | 03/01/14 | | | | |
| 1897 | Name: | Henry H. Houston | | | Year Elected: | 1887 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Death Date: | 06/21/1895 | | | | |
| 1898 | Name: | William V. Houston | | | Year Elected: | 1949 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1900 | | | Death Date: | 08/22/1968 | | | | |
| 1899 | Name: | Dr. Michael Hout | | | Institution: | New York University; University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 2006 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1950 | | | | | | |
Michael Hout's research is highly influential not only in his own field of sociology, but also in demography, political science and that part of economics concerned with inequality. In a continuing series of heavily cited papers and books in such disparate problem areas as stratification, demography, religion and methodology, he has demonstrated a keen sense for important (and socially significant) problems and has deployed highly sophisticated skills in empirical research and modeling. Much of his work has focused on using demographic methods to study intergenerational social mobility, especially as it is affected by educational attainment, not only in the United States but also in Ireland, Russia, and Sweden, as well as the effects of intermarriage and subjective identification on the size of ethnic groups, and the importance of religious identification in the United States. His methodological contributions have been in modeling social processes such as delinquency. His Mobility Tables has instructed generations of researchers in stratification. As a co-author of Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth, he judiciously but effectively dismantled the claim that differences in social standing and achievement are primarily the result of innate differences in intelligence. A graduate of Indiana University (Ph.D., 1976), Dr. Hout served as Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Joint Program in Demography and Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he had taught since 1985. He became Natalie Cohen Professor of Sociology and Demography Emeritus in June 2013 and moved to New York University where is Professor of Sociology. | |
| 1900 | Name: | Carl I. Hovland | | | Year Elected: | 1950 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | 04/16/61 | | | | |
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