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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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| | • | 200 |
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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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| | • | 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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| | • | 404b |
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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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| | • | 500 |
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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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| | 941 | Name: | Frank M. Day | | | Year Elected: | 1899 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1861 | | | Death Date: | 6/15/18 | | | | |
| 942 | Name: | William C. Day | | | Year Elected: | 1899 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1857 | | | Death Date: | 8/4/05 | | | | |
| 943 | Name: | Arthur L. Day | | | Year Elected: | 1912 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1870 | | | Death Date: | 3/2/60 | | | | |
| 944 | Name: | Charles Day | | | Year Elected: | 1925 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1879 | | | Death Date: | 5/10/31 | | | | |
| 945 | Name: | Edmund E. Day | | | Year Elected: | 1937 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1884 | | | Death Date: | 3/23/51 | | | | |
| 946 | Name: | William L. Day | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | 12/31/73 | | | | |
| 947 | Name: | The Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor | | | Institution: | United States Supreme Court | | | Year Elected: | 1992 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | Death Date: | December 1, 2023 | | | | | | |
Sandra Day O'Connor received her B.A. and LL.B. from Stanford University. She served as Deputy County Attorney of San Mateo County, California, from 1952-53, and as a civilian attorney for Quartermaster Market Center, Frankfurt, Germany, from 1954-57. From 1958-60 she practiced law in Arizona and served as Assistant Attorney General of Arizona from 1965-69. She was appointed to the Arizona State Senate in 1969 and was subsequently reelected to two two-year terms. In 1975 she was elected Judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court and served until 1979, when she was appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals. President Reagan nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and she took her seat in 1981, the first woman to sit on the Court. She retired from the Court in 2006.
Justice O'Connor is the author of two books. Her first book, Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest, written with her brother H. Alan Day and released in 2002, is described by the New York Times Book Review as "a loving but clear-eyed portrait of a distinctive and vanished American way of life." Her book In the Majesty of the Law explores the law, her life as a Justice, and how the Court has evolved as an American institution. In 2013 she wrote Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court. In cooperation wtih Georgetown University Law Center and Arizona State University, Justice O'Connor is also currently helping to develop Our Courts, a Web site and interactive civics curriculum for seventh, eighth and ninth grade students.
She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. Justice O'Connor was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1992. She was awarded the Society's Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Public Service in 2003. The citation reads, "In recognition of her lifelong commitment to public service, including service in all three branches of State government in her native Arizona and, now for nearly twenty-two years, membership on the Supreme Court of the United States, and in recognition of the trailblazing example she has set for others as the first woman Majority Leader of a State Senate and as the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, and in recognition of her contributions to the work of the Court in thoughtful and well-written opinions, and in recognition of her valuable participation in the efforts of American lawyers and judges to promote the rule of law in Central and Eastern Europe." | |
| 948 | Name: | Benjamin Dearborn | | | Year Elected: | 1803 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1755 | | | Death Date: | 2/22/1838 | | | | |
| 949 | Name: | John Deas | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1/29/1735 | | | Death Date: | 9/30/1790 | | | | | | |
John Deas (29 January 1735–30 September 1790) was a merchant, plantation owner, and slaveholder, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Deas arrived in Charleston in 1749 to begin a trading venture with his brother David. Business indeed proved good for the brothers and their ships of rice, indigo, and other Carolina produce began to reach buyers in England and the Netherlands. After his wife inherited her father’s plantation, the Deas family divided its time between their home in Charleston and the newly acquired property. As was expected for a man with his wealth and stature, Deas joined a number of institutions—St. Andrew’s Society, St. Cecilia Society, the Freemasons, and the Charleston Library Society—before he was elected to the APS. After the death of his father-in-law, a generous inheritance allowed him and his family to take an extended trip back to Scotland in 1769 where Deas reconnected with family and friends, not returning until 1772. During the American Revolution, Deas served in the military until he eventually surrendered when British troops took control of his corner of South Carolina. Nevertheless, he found ways to support Independence throughout the conflict including supplying horses, forage, and enslaved labor to the Continental army. Though colonial officials interpreted his quiet contributions as acceding to the British, his neighbors recognized him as a contributing Patriot as evidenced by his elections to a series of fraternal and religious organizations, including his election as Grand Master at the Provincial Lodge of Masons in 1781, following the end of the war. When he died in 1790, his commercial and human capital made him one of Charleston’s wealthiest residents. (PI) | |
| 950 | Name: | Sir Angus Deaton | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2014 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1945 | | | | | | |
Angus Deaton is Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University where he has taught for more than thirty years. In March 2017 he was appointed Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. He is the author of five books including, most recently, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was educated there, in the Scottish borders, and at Cambridge University. He taught at the University of Bristol, where he was Professor of Econometrics, from 1976 to 1983. Over the years, his interests have included consumer behavior, econometrics, health, development, poverty, inequality, and wellbeing. His book with John Muellbauer, Economics and Consumer Behavior, has been a basic reference since its publication in 1980. His 1997 book, The Analysis of Household Surveys, is widely used by researchers in economic development. He has consulted for the World Bank, on poverty measurement and on international comparisons, and for the Gallup Organization, exploring global and national links between life evaluation, hedonic wellbeing, income and health. He was the first recipient of the Econometric Society’s Frisch Medal, and was Editor of Econometrica in the 1980s. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and was President of the American Economic Association in 2009. He holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Rome, London, St Andrews, Edinburgh, and Cyprus. In 2012, he won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in recognition of his life’s work. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2014. In 2015 he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare. In 2016 he was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. | |
| 951 | Name: | Dr. Gerard Debreu | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1984 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | December 31, 2004 | | | | |
| 952 | Name: | Peter Debye | | | Year Elected: | 1936 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1884 | | | Death Date: | 11/2/66 | | | | |
| 953 | Name: | Dr. Carl N. Degler | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 1985 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | December 27, 2014 | | | | | | |
Carl Degler was Margaret Byrne Professor of American History Emeritus at Stanford University at the time of his death December 27, 2014, at the age of 93. He joined the faculty at Stanford in 1968, before which time he was an instructor and professor at Vassar College (1952-68) and an instructor at Hunter College, City College of Music, Adelphi University and New York University (1947-52). The recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1972 for his book Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States (which also won the Bancroft and Beveridge Prizes), Dr. Degler had published extensively on subjects such as the American South, the history of women, evolutionary theory, Darwin and Darwinism in America, and the uses and limits of history. A past president of the Organization of American Historians, Dr. Degler had also been president of the American Historical Association and the Southern Historical Association and was a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1985. | |
| 954 | Name: | Dr. Karl Deisseroth | | | Institution: | Stanford University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 208. Plant Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1971 | | | | | | |
Karl Deisseroth is the D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He earned both his Ph.D. and his M.D. from Stanford University in 1998 and 2000, respectively. He continues as a practicing psychiatrist with specialization in affective disorders and autism-spectrum disease.
Deisseroth focuses his laboratory on understanding how operation of the brain arises from the properties and activities of its cellular components. Over the last 17 years, his laboratory has created and developed technologies for observing and controlling biological systems at high resolution while maintaining the systems intact; these technologies include optogenetics, hydrogel-tissue chemistry, and a broad range of enabling methods. He pioneered the resulting basic science discoveries as well, including resolution of the structural and functional machinery of light-gated ion channels, and discovery of neural cell types and connections that cause adaptive and maladaptive behavior. His contributions have revolutionized neuroscience by creating and using tools to assess causality between observed neural activity in specific neuronal populations and circuits and the emergence of behavior and emotional responses.
His awards and honors include the 2015 Breakthrough Prize, the 2015 Keio Prize, the 2015 Lurie Prize, the 2015 Albany Prize, the 2015 Dickson Prize in Medicine, the 2016 BBVA Award, the 2016 Massry Prize, the 2017 Redelsheimer Prize, the 2017 Fresenius Prize, the 2017 NOMIS Distinguished Scientist Award, the 2017 Harvey Prize from the Technion/Israel, the 2018 Eisenberg Prize, the 2018 Kyoto Prize, the 2018 Gairdner Award, and the 2020 Heineken Prize in Medicine from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine in 2010, to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2012, and to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2019. Deisseroth was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2022. | |
| 955 | Name: | Fredric A. Delano | | | Year Elected: | 1935 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1864 | | | Death Date: | 3/28/53 | | | | |
| 956 | Name: | Sharp Delany | | | Year Elected: | 1774 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1736 | | | Death Date: | 5/13/1799 | | | | |
| 957 | Name: | Dr. Pierre Deligne | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 2009 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 104. Mathematics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | | |
Pierre Deligne has been a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since 1984. He is the world's leading algebraic geometer, having received his Doctorat en mathématiques from the University of Brussels in 1968 and his Doctorat d'Etat des Sciences Mathématiques from the University of Paris-Sud in 1972. The methods he introduced have so completely permeated the subject that a large portion of the current research in algebraic geometry can't even be formulated without them. Consequently, his research is constantly referred to by young workers in the field. So far as is known, Deligne is the only mathematician in history to be commemorated by a postage stamp during his lifetime (.70 Euro, Belgium). He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1978, the Crafoord Prize in 1998, the Balzan Prize in Mathematics in 2004, the Wolf Prize in 2008, and the Abel prize in 2013. He belongs to the Académie des Sciences, Paris (1978), the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1978), the National Academy of Sciences (2007), and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2009). | |
| 958 | Name: | Mrs. Gladys Krieble Delmas | | | Institution: | Philanthropist | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 500 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | 11/20/91 | | | | |
| 959 | Name: | Dr. Philip J. Deloria | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2021 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1959 | | | | | | |
Philip J. Deloria is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, where his research and teaching focus on the social, cultural and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States, as well as the comparative and connective histories of indigenous peoples in a global context. He is the Chair of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature.
His first book, Playing Indian (1998), traced the tradition of white “Indian play” from the Boston Tea Party to the New Age movement, while his 2004 book Indians in Unexpected Places examined the ideologies surrounding Indian people in the early twentieth century and the ways Native Americans challenged them through sports, travel, automobility, and film and musical performance. He is the co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to American Indian History (with Neal Salisbury) and C.G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions by Vine Deloria (with Jerome Bernstein). Co-authored with Alexander Olson, American Studies: A User’s Guide (2017), offers a comprehensive treatment of the historiography and methodology of the field of American Studies. His most recent book is Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract (2019), which reclaims a previously unknown Native artist while offering a new exploration of American Indian visual arts of the mid-twentieth century.
Deloria received the Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1994, taught for six years at the University of Colorado, and then at the University of Michigan from 2001 to 2017, before joining the faculty at Harvard in January 2018. At Michigan, he served as the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Director of the Program in American Culture, and of the Native American Studies Program, and held the Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Chair. His courses have included American Indian history, Environmental history, the American West, and American Studies methods, as well as Food Studies, Songwriting, and Big History.
Deloria is a trustee of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, where he served for many years as chair of the Repatriation Committee. He is former president of the American Studies Association, an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the recipient of numerous prizes and recognitions and will serve as president of the Organization of American Historians in 2022. | |
| 960 | Name: | Milislav Demerec | | | Year Elected: | 1952 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1895 | | | Death Date: | 4/12/66 | | | | |
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