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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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| | • | 107 |
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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 [401] |
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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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| | 621 | Name: | Isaac Jamineau | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1710 | | | Death Date: | 11/3/1789 | | | | | | |
Isaac Jamineau (1710–3 November 1789) was a diplomat and scientific observer, and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. Born in England, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and London’s Middle Temple. He began his career with a post office sinecure before taking the position of British Consul at Naples. His 1764 encounter with APS member Dr. John Morgan, then on a grand tour of Italy, initiated a lengthy correspondence. Three years later, Jamineau sent an account of the 1767 eruption of Mount Vesuvius to Morgan, who read it to the American Society the following year. Printed in the Pennsylvania Chronicle, APS member Lewis Nicola’s American Magazine, and the first volume of the APS Transactions, these observations led to Jamineau’s 1768 election to the Society. A decade earlier his account of the volcano’s 1754 eruption had been read to the Royal Society of London, but no evidence of his other scientific activities survives. He was, however, awarded a gold medal by the Society for Promoting Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in 1775. He resigned the consulship in 1779 and died in 1789. (PI) | |
| 622 | Name: | Pierre Janet | | | Year Elected: | 1940 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1859 | | | Death Date: | 2/24/47 | | | | |
| 623 | Name: | Claudio Jannet | | | Year Elected: | 1881 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| 624 | Name: | Sir William Jardine | | | Year Elected: | 1845 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| 625 | Name: | Jose de Jaudences | | | Year Elected: | 1796 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| 626 | Name: | Sir Richard C. Jebb | | | Year Elected: | 1904 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| 627 | Name: | Edward Jenner | | | Year Elected: | 1804 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| 628 | Name: | Dr. Tibor Jermy | | | Institution: | Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 208. Plant Sciences | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | September 23, 2014 | | | | | | |
Tibor Jermy was distinguished for his work in ecology, especially insect-plant relationships. He was the foremost proponent of the sequential theory of the evolution of insect-plant relationships, emphasizing the asymmetry of the relationship. He postulated that the explosive evolution of the plant kingdom provided the diverse biochemical basis for the radiation of phytophagous insects without significant evolutionary feedback from the insects to the plants. He proposed that the evolution of host specialization is an autonomous process initiated by random heritable changes in the insects' host recognition trait. In the 1950s Dr. Jermy conducted pioneering work on the functioning of ecosystems, and through his fluency in Hungarian, English, German and Russian, he helped unlock a storehouse of literature that had previously been unknown to Western scientists. Born in 1917, Dr. Jermy had a Ph.D. from the University of Budapest. He began his career as an agricultural entomologist at the Plant Protection Institute of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture, where he focused on the biology and control of pest insects. He went on to direct the Institute from 1969-79 and became Director Emeritus in 1979. Dr. Jermy had also served as a Ford Foundation fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and as visiting scientist at the Agricultural University of Wageningen in the Netherlands and the USDA Agricultural Research Laboratory in Yakima, WA. Among other learned societies he was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1976) and an Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society (1992). He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1990. His many awards include the Golden Medal of Wrok (1977), the Hungarian State Prize (1983) and the Golden Medal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Tibor Jermy died September 23, 2014, at the age of 97, in Budapest, Hungary. | |
| 629 | Name: | Dr. Niels Kaj Jerne | | | Institution: | Basel Institute for Immunology | | | Year Elected: | 1979 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 204. Medicine, Surgery, Pathology and Immunology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | 10/7/94 | | | | |
| 630 | Name: | Joseph J.C. Joffre | | | Year Elected: | 1918 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| 631 | Name: | Wilhelm L. Johannsen | | | Year Elected: | 1916 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| 632 | Name: | Sir William Johnson | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1715 | | | Death Date: | 7/11/1774 | | | | | | |
Sir William Johnson (c.1715–11 July 1774) was a colonial official and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Born in Ireland, little is known of Johnson’s youth but by 1738 the young man had emigrated to present-day New York to manage his uncle’s business affairs. It did not take long for Johnson to wrest a fortune from his new position in the Mohawk River Valley, a combination of trade with the neighboring Haudenosaunee Confederacy (also known as the Six Nations Iroquois), land speculation, and rental income from his tenants. From there, Johnson’s wealth and influence only grew over the subsequent decades in large part because of his relationship with Molly Brant, sister of Mohawk leader Joseph Brant. Johnson parlayed his relationship with Molly and their eight children to expand his kinship and economic ties within the Mohawk Nation, a calculated move that brought him influence with some, but not all, of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. In 1746, British officials, recognizing the value of Johnson’s ability to foster Indian allies, appointed him as Albany’s commissioner of Indian affairs. As the Seven Years’ War flared in 1755, an agent to the British crown appointed Johnson again to the commissioner position, which he followed up with a number of military successes. After the war, Johnson acted as a superintendent of Indian affairs where he proved successful in facilitating trade and diplomacy from his newly built estate, Johnson Hall. Once there, he oversaw holdings of over 400 square miles filled with Indian and colonist communities while continuing to host Indian diplomacy at his home. Unsurprisingly, it was Johnson’s work with Indian Nations that brought him to the attention of APS, most memorably when he arranged safe passage through Indian Country for two men observing the Transit of Venus in 1768. Johnson conducted diplomacy, quite literally, up until his death. After a long day of conducting critical negotiations surrounding the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1774, Johnson collapsed and died in his room. (PI, DNB) | |
| 633 | Name: | Edme F. Jomard | | | Year Elected: | 1829 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| 634 | Name: | William Jones | | | Year Elected: | 1801 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| 635 | Name: | H. Spencer Jones | | | Year Elected: | 1942 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1890 | | | Death Date: | 11/4/60 | | | | |
| 636 | Name: | Dr. J. Steve Jones | | | Institution: | University College London | | | Year Elected: | 2011 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 203. Evolution & Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Paleontology, and Physical Anthropology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | | |
Steve Jones is a geneticist whose research, primarily concerned with snails and the light their anatomy can shed on biodiversity and genetics, has led to the publication of over 100 specialist papers. He also does more than his share of university teaching and administration, but his main contribution is in the popularization of science. Jones is one of the best known contemporary writers on evolution, and in 1996 he won the Royal Society’s Michael Faraday Prize “for his numerous, wide ranging contributions to the public understanding of science in areas such as human evolution and variation, race, sex, inherited disease and genetic manipulation through his many broadcasts on radio and television, his lectures, popular science books, and his regular science column in The Daily Telegraph and contributions to other newspaper media.” Jones combines profundity with wit, as the APS members who attended his two lectures in the UK in June/July 2009 can attest. His publications include: The Language of the Genes, 1993; (S. Jones, et al) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, 1994; In the Blood: God, Genes and Destiny, 1997; Almost Like a Whale: The Origin of Species Updated, 1999; Darwin’s Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated, 2000; Y: The Descent of Men, 2003; (with B. Van Loon) Introducing Genetics, 2005; Coral, 2007; and Darwin’s Island, 2009. In addition to the Faraday Prize, he has been awarded the Institute of Biology Charter Medal (2002) and the Thomson Reuters Award of the Zoological Society of London (2009). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1971. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2011. | |
| 637 | Name: | Dr. Joshua Jortner | | | Institution: | Tel Aviv University | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1933 | | | | | | |
Joshua Jortner held the position of Heinemann Professor of Chemistry at Tel Aviv University from 1973-2003. He previously served as the Chair of the Chemistry Department, Deputy Rector, Acting Rector and Vice President of Tel-Aviv University (1965-72). He holds honorary doctorates from universities in Israel, France and Germany. Among his awards are the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1998) and the EMET Prize in Exact Sciences (2008). He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a foreign member of 13 academies and learned societies in the USA, Europe and Asia. Dr. Jortner's scientific work in physical and theoretical chemistry, which focuses on the elucidation of the dynamics of energy acquisition, storage and disposal in complex systems from large molecules and clusters to biomolecules, is summarized in 725 scientific articles and 29 books. He contributed to shaping the scientific research and public service in Israel. He served as the President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1986-95) and as the first Chairman of the Israel National Science Foundation (1986-95). He acted as science advisor to three Prime Ministers of Israel. On the international level Dr. Jortner served as the President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (1998-2000). His current public service activities span issues of science and public policy and the maintenance of scientific enterprise. | |
| 638 | Name: | Josiah Charles, 1st Baron of Shortlands Stamp | | | Year Elected: | 1940 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1880 | | | Death Date: | 4/17/41 | | | | |
| 639 | Name: | Stanislas Julien | | | Year Elected: | 1843 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| 640 | Name: | Marc A. Jullien | | | Year Elected: | 1830 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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