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| • | 101. Astronomy |
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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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| | • | 401. Archaeology |
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| | • | 402. Criticism: Arts and Letters |
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| | • | 402a |
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| | • | 402b |
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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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| | • | 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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| | • | 408 |
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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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| | 2241 | Name: | Dr. George A. Kubler | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | 10/3/96 | | | | |
| 2242 | Name: | Stephen W. Kuffler | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | 10/10/80 | | | | |
| 2243 | Name: | Adam Kuhn | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 11/17/1741 | | | Death Date: | 7/5/1817 | | | | | | |
Adam Kuhn (17 November 1741–3 July 1817) was a physician and botanist, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, he attended the Academy of Philadelphia and studied medicine with his father before voyaging to Sweden in 1761. There, he studied botany at the University of Upsala under Carolus Linnaeus, who named an American plant genus after him. Kuhn also studied in London and Scotland, earning an M.D. degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1767. He returned to Pennsylvania in 1768 and became professor of botany and materia medica at the College of Philadelphia. He also served as physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital and Philadelphia Dispensary and volunteered his services with the Society for Inoculating the Poor. Patients of his private practice included APS member Henry Drinker and the family of George Washington. During the American Revolution, he evaluated military surgery candidates and served as director-general of a hospital for Pennsylvania troops. He refused to take the Test Oath, however, and so was placed under house arrest by the revolutionary government as British forces advanced on Philadelphia. Following the British evacuation, Kuhn departed for the West Indies. Suspicions about his loyalties delayed his return, but in 1789 he resettled and was named professor of medicine at the University of the State of Pennsylvania. When the University united with the College of Philadelphia in 1792 he became professor of physic, and in 1808 he was named president of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, an institution he helped found. His few publications included a periodical piece on the 1793 yellow fever epidemic; the piece drew harsh criticism from APS member Benjamin Rush, who advocated a vastly different course of treatment. Kuhn’s son Hartman Kuhn was an APS member. (PI, DAB) | |
| 2244 | Name: | Hartman Kuhn | | | Year Elected: | 1840 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1784 | | | Death Date: | 11/6/1860 | | | | |
| 2245 | Name: | Dr. Thomas S. Kuhn | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1974 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 407. Philosophy | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | 6/17/96 | | | | |
| 2246 | Name: | Dr. Bruce Kuklick | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 2004 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | | | | |
Bruce Kuklick is primarily an intellectual historian, although he has also written about the American presidency, the partition of Germany in 1945, and a Philadelphia baseball stadium. In two of his finest books he analyzes American intellectual life between 1880 and 1930. The Rise of American Philosophy presents a group portrait of Harvard philosophers in the golden age of Josiah Royce and William James, while Puritans in Babylon studies the cultural and institutional impact of the first American archaeological explorations of the ancient Near East. In A History of Philosophy in America, 1720-2000, which received a rave review in the Times Literary Supplement, he focuses with great acuity on the 300-year conflict between religious and secular values in American intellectual life. His more recent published work focuses on the role of academics in the political world (Intellectuals and War: From Kennan to Kissinger, 2006), and at the present time he is engaged in writing an international history of great power intervention in the Congo in 1960-61 and the assassination of Patrice Lumumba. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., 1968) and a member of the faculty since 1972, Dr. Kuklick has served as Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History since 1996. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2004. In 2015 he was awarded the Henry Allen Moe Prize from the American Philosophical Society for his paper "Killing Lumumba" presented at the Society’s April Meeting in 2012, and published in the June 2014 Proceedings. | |
| 2247 | Name: | Dr. Vijay Kumar | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 2018 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 103. Engineering | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1962 | | | | | | |
Vijay Kumar is the Nemirovsky Family Dean of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Computer and Information Science and Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies control systems and collective behaviors in biological and robotic systems. His GRASP lab has developed multi-robot systems and microscale aerial robots that are capable of impressive coordination, such as swarming and teamwork. From 2012-14 he was assistant director of Robotics and Cyber Physical Systems in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President. As Dean and as a researcher he has contributed greatly to the standing of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and to the surrounding community. He has been a member of the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics and the Springer Tract in Advanced Robotics (STAR). He served as Editor of the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics from 2014-17. Vijay Kumar was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2018. | |
| 2248 | Name: | Louis O. Kunkel | | | Year Elected: | 1942 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1884 | | | Death Date: | 3/20/60 | | | | |
| 2249 | Name: | J.C. Kunze | | | Year Elected: | 1780 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 8/5/1744 | | | Death Date: | 7/24/1807 | | | | | | |
J.C. Kunze (5 August 1744–24 July 1807) was a Lutheran minister, an educator, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1780. Born in Germany in 1744, Kunze was educated in theology, history, and philosophy at the Academy of Leipzig, and later received a Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Pennsylvania. After he was ordained a Lutheran Minister, he was invited to Philadelphia to work for fellow pastor and APS Member Henry Muhlenberg. In 1771, he married Muhlenberg’s daughter Henrietta Margaretta, and in 1779 became pastor of the Zion Lutheran Church. Kunze was an active and passionate educator and was a strong advocate for teaching the English language to his fellow German immigrants and Lutheran pastors. As a part of this mission, Kunze began a pre-theological school in Philadelphia in 1773. In 1795, he created the first English-language Lutheran prayer and hymn book. He was also a sought-after scholar of Arabic and Hebrew, and in 1785 became an official translator for the U.S. Congress. In 1779, Kunze became a professor of philology at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1784, after moving to New York City to be the pastor of a newly formed congregation, became a professor at Columbia College. In addition to his work as an educator, Kunze had a talent for bringing people together by creating scholarly and cultural organizations. Inspired by the mission of the American Philosophical Society, Kunze helped create the Society for Useful Knowledge, he founded the German Society of New York with fellow APS Member Baron Friedrich von Steuben, and he helped form the Ministerium of New York, an organization of local Lutheran ministers. He served as the president of this latter organization until his death in 1807. (ANB) | |
| 2250 | Name: | Dr. Leslie Kurke | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 2010 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1960 | | | | | | |
Leslie Kurke is a specialist in ancient Greek literature and culture, with special emphasis on archaic Greek poetry in its socio-political context, Herodotus and early prose, and the constitution of ideology through material practices. She received her BA in Greek Literature from Bryn Mawr College (1981), and her MA and PhD in Classics from Princeton University (1984, 1988). She spent three years at the Harvard Society of Fellows (1987-90), and has taught in the Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1990. She is the author of The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social Economy (1991); Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: The Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece (1999); and Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose (2011). | |
| 2251 | Name: | Dr. Polykarp Kusch | | | Institution: | University of Texas | | | Year Elected: | 1967 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | 3/20/93 | | | | |
| 2252 | Name: | Mr. Tony Kushner | | | Year Elected: | 2013 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 501. Creative Artists | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1956 | | | | | | |
Tony Kushner's plays include A Bright Room Called Day; Angels in America, Parts One and Two; Slavs!; Homebody/Kabul; the musical Caroline, or Change and the opera A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck, both with composer Jeanine Tesori; and The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide To Capitalism And Socialism With A Key To The Scriptures. He has adapted and translated Pierre Corneille's The Illusion, S.Y. Ansky's The Dybbuk, Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan and Mother Courage and Her Children; and the English-language libretto for the opera Brundibár by Hans Krasa. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols' film of Angels In America, and for Steven Spielberg's Munich and Lincoln. His books include Brundibar, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; The Art of Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the Present; and Wrestling With Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon. Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy Award, two Oscar nominations, and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, among other honors. He was presented the 2012 National Medal of Arts by President Obama. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris. | |
| 2253 | Name: | Dr. Stephan George Kuttner | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1965 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | 8/12/96 | | | | |
| 2254 | Name: | Simon Kuznets | | | Year Elected: | 1948 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1901 | | | Death Date: | 7/8/85 | | | | |
| 2255 | Name: | Leonard Woods Labaree | | | Year Elected: | 1962 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1897 | | | Death Date: | 5/5/80 | | | | |
| 2256 | Name: | Dr. Gerhart B. Ladner | | | Institution: | University of California, Los Angeles | | | Year Elected: | 1972 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1905 | | | Death Date: | 9/21/93 | | | | |
| 2257 | Name: | Dr. David I. Laibson | | | Institution: | Harvard University; National Institutes of Health | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1966 | | | | | | |
David Laibson is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics, the Faculty Dean of Lowell House, and leader of the Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative at Harvard University. He has spent the majority of his career at Harvard, including as Harvard College Professor from 2008 to 2013, and chair of the Department of Economics from 2015 to 2018. He earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994.
Laibsonʼs research focuses on the topic of behavioral economics, with emphasis on intertemporal choice, self-regulation, behavior change, household finance, public finance, macroeconomics, asset pricing, aging, and biosocial science. Laibson is a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he directs the National Institute of Aging Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health and Savings, and is a Research Associate in the Aging, Asset Pricing, and Economic Fluctuations Working Groups. He serves on Harvardʼs Pension Investment Committee and on the Board of the Russell Sage Foundation, where he chairs the finance committee. Laibson serves on the advisory boards of the Social Science Genetics Association Consortium and the Consumer Finance Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Laibson has served as a member of the Academic Research Council of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Laibson is a recipient of a Marshall Scholarship, a two-time recipient of the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security, and a recipient of Harvardʼs ΦΒΚ Prize. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, and a member of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2022. | |
| 2258 | Name: | Arthur B. Lamb | | | Year Elected: | 1936 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1880 | | | Death Date: | 5/15/52 | | | | |
| 2259 | Name: | Preston A. Lambert | | | Year Elected: | 1904 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Death Date: | 2/15/25 | | | | |
| 2260 | Name: | William A. Lamberton | | | Year Elected: | 1899 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1849 | | | Death Date: | 9/8/1910 | | | | |
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