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| | 2281 | Name: | Dr. Robert P. Langlands | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 2004 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 104. Mathematics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1936 | | | | | | |
The "Langlands Philosophy" is widely recognized as the most far-reaching dream that mathematicians currently have for the future development of mathematics. For the past three centuries, the subject of modular forms has been a major strand of mathematics, treated by such great mathematicians as Euler and Gauss. But it had the character of a bag of tricks and special results. Then, in 1967, Dr. Langlands announced the "Langlands conjectures," which displayed for the first time the underlying patterns at work. In the 35 years since then, these conjectures have become increasingly important. Guided by them, an underlying unity has been found, with deep consequences for many branches of mathematics. These include number theory (where Langlands' work played a role in Wiles' proof of Fermat's conjecture), algebraic geometry (where 30 of the best young geometers work in what they call "geometric Langlands theory"), and representation theory (where the Langlands conjectures lead to a classification of the representations that come up in the study of quantum mechanics). Today, the Langlands conjectures provide the basic motivation and guidance for the work of many mathematicians working in diverse fields. Dr. Langlands has also written extensively on mathematical physics, and he has a strong interest in history. A graduate of Yale University (Ph.D., 1960), he has been a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study since 1972. He is currently Professor of Mathematics Emeritus. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and has been awarded the Lester R. Ford Prize from the Mathematical Association of America. In 2018 he was awarded the Abel Prize. | |
| 2282 | Name: | Samuel P. Langley | | | Year Elected: | 1875 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Death Date: | 2/27/1906 | | | | |
| 2283 | Name: | Irving Langmuir | | | Year Elected: | 1922 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Death Date: | 8/16/1957 | | | | |
| 2284 | Name: | Charles R. Lanman | | | Year Elected: | 1906 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Death Date: | 2/20/1941 | | | | |
| 2285 | Name: | Increase A. Lapham | | | Year Elected: | 1874 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Death Date: | 9/14/1875 | | | | |
| 2286 | Name: | Dr. Ira M. Lapidus | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1994 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1937 | | | | | | |
A versatile scholar whose 1967 book revolutionized the study of Muslim cities, Ira Lapidus then generated a spate of follow-up investigations on the structure of medieval societies. In over 40 years of scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is Professor Emeritus of History, Dr. Lapidus has proved exceptionally well versed in the scholarship of both western and eastern medieval studies. The author of works such as the aforementioned Muslim Cities in the Later Middle Ages (1967) and A History of Islamic Societies (1988), Dr. Lapidus possesses an acute sense of how to express complex phenomena in simple terms. The longtime chair of Berkeley's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, he remains, through his scholarship and teaching, one of the most influential and creative interpreters of medieval Islam. | |
| 2287 | Name: | Dr. Thomas W. Laqueur | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 2015 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1945 | | | | | | |
Thomas Laqueur is arguably one of the most important cultural historians of his generation, worldwide. A trustee of the National Humanities Center and a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian, his works have been translated into at least fifteen languages. Spanning two millennia of human experience his research and writing treats a remarkable range of topics and sub-fields in the history of western civilization - from literacy, education and popular politics to the scientific understanding of sex-differentiation, the origins of human rights and the cultural meanings of death. As a founding member of the editorial board of the journal Representations, he was a co-creator of what came to be called "the new cultural history" - whose hallmark is the deployment of literary and anthropological approaches to the study of major transformations in our understanding of fundamental elements of human experience, elements that had previously been viewed as beyond the scope and reach of historical investigation. | |
| 2288 | Name: | Lynford Lardner | | | Year Elected: | 1768 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 7/18/1715 | | | Death Date: | 10/6/1774 | | | | | | |
Lynford Lardner (18 July 1715–6 October 1774) was a public officeholder, businessman, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. He was born in London into a wealthy family, but his father lost his fortune when the South Sea Bubble burst in 1720-1721. Lardner was then apprenticed to his future brother-in-law Richard Penn, Sr. and his brother Thomas, who were then in the woolen business. Believing his family connections would afford him more opportunities across the Atlantic, he relocated to Philadelphia in 1740, where Thomas Penn immediately appointed him joint Receiver General of Pennsylvania. This position would prove the first in a series of similar appointments in the service of Pennsylvania and its proprietors, including the position of overseer of Thomas Penn’s personal estate and a position on the Governor’s Council. Lardner’s marriage to the daughter of a wealthy merchant provided the financial means he desired to leave these offices and set up his own business ventures, including a forge and farming operation. Though not active in the APS, he invested time and money in other cultural institutions in Philadelphia, among them subscribing to the Silk Society, serving as a director of the Library Company, acting as a trustee of the College of Philadelphia, and helping to found the Society of the Sons of St. George. His nephews John Penn and Richard Penn, Jr. were APS members. (PI) | |
| 2289 | Name: | Dr. Henry A. Lardy | | | Institution: | University of Wisconsin, Madison | | | Year Elected: | 1976 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 201. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | August 4, 2010 | | | | | | |
Henry A. Lardy was the Vilas Professor of Biological Sciences Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was introduced to biochemical research as an undergraduate at South Dakota State University in 1937. The Experiment Station Chemistry Laboratory employed two or three chemistry majors during their junior and senior years, and he was fortunate to be selected. In his senior thesis research he reported a treatment for selenium poisoning in animals that was successful in treating a human case. In May of 1939 he became a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin and there discovered a medium that permitted sperm storage for 7 - 10 days with retention of motility and fertilizing capacity and made artificial insemination practical. While studying the metabolism of sperm he discovered the uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation by dinitrophenol. After a year of postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Professor Herman Fischer at the University of Toronto, he returned to the University of Wisconsin as an assistant professor. His research with graduate students involved carbohydrate chemistry and metabolism which led to our proving that the "nonphosphorylating glycolsis" of the Needham school was non-existent. He also discovered that the metabolic function of the vitamin Biotin is to fix carbon dioxide into organic structures. In 1950 the university opened an "Institute for Enzyme Research," and Dr. Lardy was one of two professors designated to conduct research and train students and postdoctoral fellows in the facility. From then until 1988, he supervised the worked of 60 graduate students and more postdoctorate fellows. Their research was summarized in Comprehensive Biochemistry, Vol. 36 (1986) and in a "Reflections" chapter in the Journal of Biological Chemistry 278:3499 (2003). After becoming Emeritus Professor, Lardy's research has dealt with steroids that cause weight loss in obese persons and animals, improve memory and decrease cholesterol. Lardy had continued to be an active member of the university's bioscience community until just months before his death on August 4, 2010 at the age of 92. | |
| 2290 | Name: | Karl S. Lashley | | | Year Elected: | 1938 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1890 | | | Death Date: | 8/7/1958 | | | | |
| 2291 | Name: | Benjamin H. Latrobe | | | Year Elected: | 1799 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1764 | | | Death Date: | 9/3/1820 | | | | |
| 2292 | Name: | John H.B. Latrobe | | | Year Elected: | 1854 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Death Date: | 8/1891 | | | | |
| 2293 | Name: | Dr. Owen Lattimore | | | Year Elected: | 1943 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1900 | | | Death Date: | 5/31/89 | | | | |
| 2294 | Name: | Richmond Lattimore | | | Year Elected: | 1959 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1906 | | | Death Date: | 2/26/84 | | | | |
| 2295 | Name: | Dr. Robert A. Laudise | | | Institution: | Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies & Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Rutgers University | | | Year Elected: | 1997 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 103. Engineering | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | Death Date: | 8/20/98 | | | | |
| 2296 | Name: | Henry Laurens | | | Year Elected: | 1772 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 2/24/1724 | | | Death Date: | 12/8/1792 | | | | | | |
Henry Laurens (24 February/6 March 1724–8 December 1792) was a planter-merchant, slave holder and trader, and public officeholder, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1772. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina to a wealthy family. In 1744 he apprenticed under a prominent London merchant for three years before returning to Charleston after his father died. With his inheritance, he opened up an export business dealing in deerskins, rice, rum, and slaves. He held 20,000 acres in plantation land as well as multiple residential properties. He accepted an election to the Assembly in 1757. Laurens believed that the crown did not respect the rights of its colonial citizens, declining an appointment to the Royal Council for this reason in 1764. However, he was also apprehensive of the growing revolutionary zeal; declaring his fealty to British law after the Sons of Liberty raided his basement during the Stamp Act crisis in 1765. As tensions between Britain and the Colonies increased, his sympathies shifted towards independence: in 1774 he joined the first South Carolina congress, became its president in 1775, and in 1776 he fought to defend Charleston. Seeing the inconsistency in his claim of exploitation by the hands of the British and his own slave-holding, Laurens freed the hundreds of enslaved people working on his plantation. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1777 to 1779, also serving as its president from 1777-1778. In 1780 British naval forces captured him at sea, en route to the Netherlands. The crown charged him with treason and held him in the tower of London. In captivity, his health declined before Benjamin Franklin secured his release in 1781. Still, Laurens joined Franklin at the peace conference in Paris before returning to New York in 1784. His now failing health along with the news of his son’s death at the hands of British forces weighed on him until his death. Rather unusually, he requested that his former slaves build and ignite his funeral pyre. (ANB, DNB) | |
| 2297 | Name: | John Laurens | | | Year Elected: | 1780 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| 2298 | Name: | Charles C. Lauritsen | | | Year Elected: | 1954 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1892 | | | Death Date: | 4/13/1968 | | | | |
| 2299 | Name: | Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey | | | Institution: | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | | | Year Elected: | 2016 | | | 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: | 1954 | | | | | | |
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey has been named the University of Pennsylvania's 19th Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, effective January 1, 2018.
Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, was president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a position she has held 2003 to 2017. Under her leadership, the RWJF focused on building a comprehensive Culture of Health for all, extending the Foundation's 4O-year history of addressing key public health issues. To advance the nation's movement toward better health RWJF concentrates on four major themes:
Healthy Communities
Healthy Children, Healthy Weight
Transforming Health and Health Care Systems
Leadership for Better Health
A specialist in geriatrics, Lavizzo-Mourey came to the Foundation from the University of Pennsylvania, where she served as the Sylvan Eisman Professor of Medicine and Health Care Systems. She also directed Penn's Institute on Aging and was chief of geriatric medicine at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine. In previous years, she worked on the White House Health Care Reform Task Force and served on numerous federal advisory committees, including the National Committee for Vital and Health Statistics. She also co-chaired a congressionally requested Institute of Medicine study on racial and ethnic disparities on health care. Lavizzo-Mourey earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and also holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the President's Council for Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. She currently serves on the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents and several other boards of directors. She and her husband, Robert Lavizzo-Mourey, PhD, have two adult children and one grandchild. | |
| 2300 | Name: | Edward E. Law | | | Year Elected: | 1853 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Death Date: | 9/16/1864 | | | | |
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