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| | 2421 | Name: | Dr. Rodolfo R. Llinas | | | Institution: | New York University School of Medicine; Warburg Pincus | | | Year Elected: | 1996 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 208. Plant Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1934 | | | | | | |
Rodolfo Llinás was born in Bogota, Colombia in 1934. He went to the Gimnasio Moderno school and received his M.D. from the Universidad Javeriana, Bogota (1959) and his Ph.D. in 1965 from the Australian National University working under Sir John Eccles. Professor Llinás is presently the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman of the Department of Physiology & Neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine. He has published over 400 scientific articles and is especially known for his work on the physiology of the cerebellum and the thalamus as well as for his pioneering work on the inferior olive, on the squid giant synapse and on human magnetoencephalography (MEG). Dr. Llínas is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1986), the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1996), the Real Academia Nacional de Medicina (Madrid) (1996) and the French Academy of Science (2002). | |
| 2422 | Name: | James Lloyd | | | Year Elected: | 1771 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 3/24/1728 | | | Death Date: | 3/14/1810 | | | | | | |
James Lloyd (24 March 1728–14 March 1810) was a surgeon and obstetrician, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1771. He was born at a manor on Long Island, New York, and his father’s sizable collection of medical texts may have inspired him to pursue a career as a doctor. James apprenticed and studied under the Boston physicians Silvester Gardiner and John Clark between 1745 and 1748, and, in 1749, traveled to London to work as a resident at Guy’s Hospital. There, he learned groundbreaking surgical techniques like flap amputations, and attended lectures performed by pioneering surgeons and obstetricians. After completing his tenure in London, Lloyd returned to Boston, where, in addition to opening his own practice in surgery and obstetrics, he showed a commitment to educating a new generation of physicians. He performed lectures on the techniques he had learned abroad and apprenticed at least ten young doctors between 1760 and 1790. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, Lloyd was serving as a surgeon for a British military unit based near Boston. For this, he was labeled a traitor and jailed, but was soon released in the hopes that he would use his medical skill to serve the patriot cause. After the war, the British offered Lloyd financial redress for his war-ravaged Long Island manor if he would become a British citizen. He refused. Lloyd was a founder of the Massachusetts Medical Society and thought to be the first specialized obstetrician in America. He was the father of six children, one of whom, James Lloyd III, became a Massachusetts senator. James Lloyd died in Boston in 1810. (ANB) | |
| 2423 | Name: | Morris Lloyd | | | Year Elected: | 1963 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | 1/22/86 | | | | |
| 2424 | Name: | Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones | | | Institution: | University of Oxford | | | Year Elected: | 1992 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | October 5, 2009 | | | | | | |
Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, formerly Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, is one of the world's leading authorities on ancient Greek literature. A graduate of Oxford (Christ Church), he has taught at Cambridge, Yale, Berkeley, Chicago, and Harvard. He holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Chicago, Tel Aviv, and Thessalonica, Göttingen. His books include Menandri Dyscolus (1960); The Justice of Zeus (1971); Blood for the Ghosts (1982); Classical Survivals (1982); (with P.J. Parsons) Supplementum Hellenisticum (1983); (with N.G. Wilson) Sophoclis Fabulae (1990); (with N.G. Wilson) Sophoclea (1990); Academic Papers I (Greek Epic, Lyric and Tragedy) and II (Greek Comedy, Hellenistic Literature, Greek Religion and Miscellanea) (1990); Greek in a Cold Climate (1991); Sophocles: Second Thoughts (1997); and translations of Aeschylus' Oresteia. Most recently, he completed a new three-volume translation of Sophocles for Harvard's Loeb Classical Library series. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1992. | |
| 2425 | Name: | John Locke | | | Year Elected: | 1844 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1792 | | | Death Date: | 6/10/1856 | | | | |
| 2426 | Name: | Dr. Lewis Lockwood | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2013 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | | | | |
Lewis Lockwood is an American music historian. He has worked primarily in two fields: music and culture in Italy from c. 1400 to 1600; and the intensive study of Beethoven’s life and music. Lockwood was born in New York City in 1930 (by chance on Beethoven’s birthday), was trained as a cellist and continues to be active in chamber music. After attending the High School of Music and Art, then Queens College, he did his graduate studies at Princeton University with Oliver Strunk and others (Ph.D 1960). He taught at Princeton from 1958 to 1980, then moved to Harvard University, remaining there until his retirement in 2002. In 2010 he accepted appointment as Distinguished Senior Scholar in Musicology at Boston University.
Having been swept into Renaissance studies in his undergraduate years by Edward Lowinsky, his first area of scholarship was Italian music history of the 15th and 16th centuries. His dissertation on the north Italian 16th-century composer Vincenzo Ruffo showed the influence of church patronage on style in sacred music. His later work included numerous articles on sacred and secular music, culminating in his major book, Music in Renaissance Ferrara, 1400-1505 (1984, rev. 2009) This book was the first fully documented study of the rise of this important musical center, and received the Howard Marraro Prize of the Society of Italian Historians in 1985. In 2008 Lockwood received the Paul Oskar Kristeller Award from the Renaissance Society of America, and he holds honorary degrees from the Universita degli Studi di Ferrara, New England Conservatory, and Wake Forest University. In 2019 he shared the Guido Adler Prize of the International Music Association with fellow APS member Margaret Bent, in honor of "scholars who have made an outstanding contribution to musicology."
In the 1960's he turned towards the study of Beethoven, with a special focus on the vast patrimony of Beethoven’s surviving sketches and autograph manuscripts as evidence of his compositional process. Still only very partially known and published, these sources offer unparalleled insight into Beethoven’s methods of composition over his entire lifetime. Lockwood’s essay on the composing score of the cello sonata Op. 69 appeared in The Music Forum, 1970 and later in his Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process (1992). In 2003 he brought out his Beethoven: The Music and the Life (New York: Norton). which has been translated into six language and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in biography. This book gives primacy to Beethoven as composer while it also deals with the most salient issues in his life and career. In 2008, in collaboration with the members of the Juilliard String Quartet, he co-authored the book, Inside Beethoven’s Quartets. Most recently he has co-edited, with Alan Gosman, the critical edition of Beethoven’s "Eroica" Sketchbook (2013). He was the founding editor of Beethoven Forum, (1992-2007), the first serial scholarly publication on Beethoven produced in America. Lockwood was named by Joseph Kerman in the New York Review of Books as "a leading musical scholar of the postwar generation and the leading American scholar on Beethoven."
Lewis Lockwood was elected a members of the American Philosophical Society in 2013. | |
| 2427 | Name: | Jacques Loeb | | | Year Elected: | 1899 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1859 | | | Death Date: | 2/11/24 | | | | |
| 2428 | Name: | Leo Loeb | | | Year Elected: | 1910 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1869 | | | Death Date: | 12/28/59 | | | | |
| 2429 | Name: | Robert F. Loeb | | | Year Elected: | 1951 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 201. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1895 | | | Death Date: | 10/21/73 | | | | |
| 2430 | Name: | Dr. John Nichols Loeb | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1998 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 204. Medicine, Surgery, Pathology and Immunology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1935 | | | | | | |
John N. Loeb is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Special Lecturer in Medicine at Columbia University. He graduated summa cum laude from both Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and after a year of internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital moved to New York City in 1962 for a year as an assistant resident on the Medical Service of the Presbyterian Hospital. After two years as a Research Associate with Gordon M. Tomkins in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, he returned to New York as Chief Resident in Medicine at the Presbyterian Hospital and Instructor in Medicine at the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University. He has remained affiliated with both institutions, where since 2005 he has been Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Special Lecturer in Medicine at Columbia University and continues as an Attending Physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Loeb's research was principally focused on mechanisms of hormone action, the physical chemistry of receptor-ligand interactions and their quantitative relationship to biological response, and the regulation of glucose and monovalent cation transport. In pursuing these studies he chose to maintain only a small laboratory so that he could devote substantial time himself to benchwork, and his work was continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health from 1967 to 1999, support for the final ten years coming from an NIH MERIT award. From 1997 until 2003 he served as Associate Chairman for Research in the Department of Medicine and, from 2003 until his retirement, as Vice Chairman for Academic Affairs. Throughout his career Dr. Loeb has had an abiding interest in teaching both medical students and house staff, and in particular in bedside teaching. He has received numerous awards as a teacher at Columbia and additionally has devoted substantial time to teaching abroad. He received a Distinguished Service Award from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2007. Major non-scientific interests include nineteenth-century English and French literature and playing chamber music. Dr. Loeb was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1998. | |
| 2431 | Name: | Dr. Elizabeth F. Loftus | | | Institution: | University of California, Irvine | | | Year Elected: | 2006 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 305 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | | |
For more than three decades, Elizabeth Loftus has been delving into the mysteries of human memory. Her fascination with memory began shortly after completing her undergraduate education at UCLA (where she majored in mathematics and psychology) when she was half way through her graduate education at Stanford, where she received a Ph.D. in psychology. That education helped to transform her from a puzzled, uncertain adolescent into a psychological scientist.
Today, Elizabeth Loftus is Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine. She holds positions in the Departments of Psychology & Social Behavior, and Criminology, Law & Society. She also holds appointments in the Department of Cognitive Sciences and the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. Formerly, she was Professor of Psychology and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she taught for 29 years.
Dr. Loftus's early studies were about semantic memory -- memory for language, concepts and general knowledge of the world. Soon she wanted to study some aspect of memory that had more obvious real-world applications. With a background in memory and a keen interest in legal issues, it was natural to turn to the study of witnesses to legally relevant events, like crimes and accidents. Her earliest studies of eyewitness testimony addressed several issues: When someone sees a crime or accident, how accurate is their memory? What happens when witnesses are questioned by police officers, and what if those questions are biased? Her early findings revealed that leading questions could contaminate or distort a witness's memory. Dr. Loftus began to apply these findings to issues in the justice system, where eyewitness testimony is often crucial evidence. Over the last several decades, she has published extensively on eyewitness memory, covering both its psychological and legal aspects. She has also investigated the issue of the accuracy of memories formed in childhood, and the possibility of recovery later in life of memories of traumatic events that had apparently been repressed. She has devoted much research effort to the possibility that recovered memories may be false, false memories that in some cases are due to therapeutic treatments designed to help patients dredge up memory. She has done scores of studies that show that memories can be distorted by suggestive influences, but also that entirely false memories can be planted in people's minds. She has succeeded in planting false memories of getting lost for an extended time as a child, facing a threat to one's life as a child, witnessing demonic possession as a child, seeing wounded animals as part of a traumatic bombing, and more.
Because of the research, Dr. Loftus has been invited to consult or to testify in hundreds of cases, including the McMartin PreSchool Molestation case, the Hillside Strangler, the Abscam cases, the trial of Oliver North, the trial of the officers accused in the Rodney King beating, the Menendez brothers, the Michael Jackson case, the Bosnian War trials in the Hague, the Oklahoma bombing case, and the Martha Stewart case. Dr. Loftus also worked on numerous cases involving allegations of "repressed memories", such as the case involving Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago. The research also has given her opportunities to consult with many government agencies on problems of human memory, including the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service, the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Justice, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Dr. Loftus has received eight honorary doctorates for her research, the first in 1982 from Miami University (Ohio), and the most recent from Australian National University in 2020. She was the 1998-99 President of the Association of Psychological Science and also served twice as President of the Western Psychological Association. For her research, Dr. Loftus has received numerous awards. She received the two top scientific awards from the Association of Psychological Science: The James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award in 1997 ("for a career of significant intellectual contributions to the science of psychology in the area of applied psychological research") and, in 2001, the William James Fellow Award (for "ingeniously and rigorously designed research studies that yielded clear objective evidence on difficult and controversial questions"). In 2003, the same year that she received the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Applications of Psychology, she was also elected to membership of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. In 2004 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In 2005, she won the Grawemeyer Prize in Psychology (for Outstanding Ideas in the Science of Psychology), which came with a $200,000 monetary prize. That same year she was elected Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (which is Scotland's National Academy of Science & Letters, Est 1783 - some 40 years after the establishment of the American Philosophical Society). Also that year, she was honored by her own university (UC- Irvine) with the Lauds & Laurels, Faculty Achievement Award, (for "great professional prominence in their field" in research, teaching and public service; 9th recipient in UCI history).
Loftus received the Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists in 2010, the UC Irvine Medal in 2012, the American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2013, and the Cornell University Lifetime Achievement in Human Development, Law & Psychology Award in 2015. Perhaps one of the most unusual signs of recognition of the impact of Dr. Loftus's research came in a study published by the Review of General Psychology which identified the top 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century. Well known names top the list: Freud, Skinner, and Piaget. Elizabeth Loftus was number 58, and the top ranked woman on the list. | |
| 2432 | Name: | William Logan | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1747 | | | Death Date: | 1/17/1772 | | | | | | |
William Logan Jr. (1747–17 January 1772) was a physician, and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election. Born to the famed Logan family of Stenton (his grandfather, James Logan, figured prominently the development of colonial Pennsylvania), William’s future was bright from birth. After early schooling with APS Member Robert Proud, the elder William Logan sent the younger to England in 1763 to complete higher education and apprentice as an apothecary. A master of the art of gentlemanly leisure, William’s temperament inclined him toward drawing and poetry, before he determined to sate his interest in surgery. He began attending medical lectures in London in 1767 and then enrolled at Edinburgh’s famed medical school in 1768. The other element of his temperament—a volatile brew of cocksure confidence and irrepressible will—shaped his professional and personal life. Besides worrying mentors, he brushed off every possible discouragement to court for four years and then eloped with Sarah Portsmouth, the sister-in-law to one of his mentors, in 1769. Neither lacked for funds, and they seemed and turned out well-matched. The wide-ranging resistance stemmed almost singularly from Logan’s bullheaded disregard for anything but his own desires. While talented, Logan exuded an arrogance that dominates the record of his adult life: a mentor forewarned William Sr. that junior demanded a firmer hand in 1771, but the young man’s missteps had already soured his prospects among London’s leading Friends, spurring his young family to start anew in Philadelphia that same year. A sudden attack of “flying gout” killed some six months later, at the age of twenty-five, leaving behind Sarah and their first, an unborn son. (PI) | |
| 2433 | Name: | William Logan | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 7/14/1722 | | | Death Date: | 10/28/1776 | | | | | | |
William Logan, Sr. (14 July 1718–28 October 1776) was a lawyer, merchant, diplomat, and public official, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. The son of the statesman, scholar, and Junto member James Logan, he was educated by his physician uncle William Logan in England and then apprenticed to another uncle, the merchant and APS member Israel Pemberton, back in Philadelphia. In 1741 Logan became one of the attorneys for the Penn family; in 1743 he was elected to the Philadelphia Common Council; and in 1747 he accepted his father’s seat on the Provincial Council. Upon his father’s death in 1751, Logan inherited the family’s five-hundred-acre estate, where he experimented with new agricultural techniques and exchanged seeds and information with other husbandmen. He also inherited his father’s famous library, which he eventually conveyed to the city of Philadelphia, serving as the collection’s librarian from 1760 to his death. Logan was a manager of the Pennsylvania Hospital and a member of the Library Company of Philadelphia, the institution that now houses the Loganian Library. An advocate for indigenous people, he provided space on his estate for native encampments and paid to educate native children. He was the only member of the Provincial Council to oppose a declaration of war against the Delawares in 1756. And as a member of the Friendly Association, he worked to secure peace at the 1758 Easton conference and convinced the Paxton Boys to leave Germantown in 1764. He was also active in Quaker affairs. During a 1760 visit to England he presented an address from the London Yearly Meeting to the recently crowned King George III. Logan signed the Non-Importation agreement but played no role in the revolution. His son William Logan, Jr. and uncle James Pemberton were APS members. (PI) | |
| 2434 | Name: | George Logan | | | Year Elected: | 1793 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1755 | | | Death Date: | 4/9/1821 | | | | |
| 2435 | Name: | Stephen H. Long | | | Year Elected: | 1823 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1784 | | | Death Date: | 9/4/1864 | | | | |
| 2436 | Name: | Esmond R. Long | | | Year Elected: | 1940 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1890 | | | Death Date: | 11/11/79 | | | | |
| 2437 | Name: | C.N. Hugh Long | | | Year Elected: | 1949 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1901 | | | Death Date: | 7/6/70 | | | | |
| 2438 | Name: | Dr. Sharon R. Long | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 209. Neurobiology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1951 | | | | | | |
Sharon Long has been responsible for elucidating many of the early reactions involved in the establishment of nitrogen-fixing nodules of leguminous plants. She has also described the genetic systems of the plants and bacteria involved in this infection process and has developed ingenious genetic and biochemical techniques for study of the nodulation of legumes. Her exceptional competence ranges from the most intricate details of plant and microbial molecular, genetic, cellular and developmental biology to large-scale concerns with science and society. Dr. Long has played an active role in the Plant Biology Section of the National Academy of Sciences, and she has served as Chair of the Biological Sciences Class of the Academy. An admirable teacher and communicator, Dr. Long is presently Professor of Biology at Stanford University, where she has taught since 1981. From 2001 to 2007 she served as the Dean of the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences and in 2008 she was recognized as one of the five science advisors to the Obama campaign. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale University (1979) and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1993); the American Academy of Microbiology (1993); and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1994). | |
| 2439 | Name: | Dr. Anthony A. Long | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 2009 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1937 | | | | | | |
I was born August 17, 1937 in Manchester, England, where my parents were secondary school teachers. As a high-school student, I was introduced to Plato by my school's charismatic principal. That experience was the primary reason I decided to study Classics as an undergraduate. After two years of military service I entered University College London where I had the good fortune to be taught by some of Britains's most outstanding scholars of Greek and Latin. I graduated BA in 1960, and was immediately appointed Lecturer in Classics, specializing in ancient philosophy, at the University of Otago, NZ. While teaching at Otago, I completed a PhD for the University of London with a dissertation on abstract nouns in Sophocles. This was the basis for my first book, Language and Thought in Sophocles (1968).
In 1964 I left Otago in order to return permanently to Britain, where I held appointments, first at the University of Nottingham, then at University College London, and finally as Gladstone Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool (1973-83). During these years I made several visits to the USA, most significantly in 1978-9, when I held fellowships consecutively at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. Princeton gave me my first experience of teaching graduate seminars, which I found so rewarding that I decided I would move permanently to the USA if I were offered a suitable position. That opportunity soon emerged at the University of California at Berkeley, where I have been Professor of Classics since 1983 and Irving Stone Professor of Literature since 1991, with occasional absences as visiting professor or fellowship holder in Germany, France, and Holland.
Although my first book was on Sophocles, my first article (1963) was a study of Parmenides, and it is ancient philosophy that has been the primary focus of my research. That has always included the early Greek philosophers on whom I edited a volume in the Cambridge Companion series (1999), but in 1967 I began a series of studies of the Hellenistic philosophers, especially Stoics, and these thinkers have remained the principal focus of my research ever since. When I began this work, Hellenistic philosophy was very much a minority pursuit, but it has now definitely become main stream. My first attempt to publicize it was a general study, Hellenistic Philosophy. Stoics, Sceptics, Epicureans (first edition 1974), which has been translated into seven languages. In collaboration with David Sedley (Lawrence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge), Cambridge University Press commissioned me to publish a two-volume source book of the principal texts of the Hellenistic Philosophers with philosophical commentary (1987). This work has been translated into French and German.
Since then, I have continued to work on many Hellenistic philosophical topics and Roman thinkers, including Cicero, Seneca and Epictetus on whom I published Epictetus. A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life (2002). At the same time, I have been working extensively on ancient models of mind and selfhood, with reference to all periods of ancient philosophy, and also on conceptual connexions between theology and rationality. I hope in due course to complete two further books on these topics. | |
| 2440 | Name: | Rev. Samuel Longfellow | | | Year Elected: | 1878 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Death Date: | 10/3/1892 | | | | |
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