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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. 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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| | • | [405] |
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| | 481 | Name: | Isaac Briggs | | | Year Elected: | 1796 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| 482 | Name: | Robert Briggs | | | Year Elected: | 1863 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | [1827] | | | Death Date: | 7/24/1882 | | | | |
| 483 | Name: | Lyman J. Briggs | | | Year Elected: | 1935 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1874 | | | Death Date: | 3/26/63 | | | | |
| 484 | Name: | Clarence S. Brigham | | | Year Elected: | 1955 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1877 | | | Death Date: | 8/13/63 | | | | |
| 485 | Name: | James W. Bright | | | Year Elected: | 1914 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Death Date: | 11/29/26 | | | | |
| 486 | Name: | Joseph Bringhurst | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 8/8/1733 | | | Death Date: | 3/20/1811 | | | | | | |
Joseph Bringhurst (20 March 1733–c. 8 August 1811) was a Quaker mechanic, merchant, and ultimately, gentleman, and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. Born in Philadelphia, he followed his father into the cooper’s trade before graduating to a profitable mercantile business. He was an active member of the Society of Friends, signing a remonstrance against the incarceration of Quakers suspected of Loyalism in 1777 and serving as clerk of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and as overseer of the Friends School. During the American Revolution, he maintained his Quaker pacifism and withstood the temptations of wartime profiteering that beset some of his fellow Friends. After the war, he was active in the early temperance movement, calling on the U.S. government to discontinue the practice of providing liquor at treaty signings with Native Americans. By 1791, the Philadelphia Directory listed Bringhurst as a “gentleman.” He spent much of the next two decades in Wilmington, Delaware, formally relocating there in 1808. Scholars sometimes attribute a pair of verse satires of Wilmington politicians to him. (PI) | |
| 487 | Name: | James Bringhurst | | | Year Elected: | 1774 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1731 | | | Death Date: | 2/27/1810 | | | | |
| 488 | Name: | Dr. William F. Brinkman | | | Institution: | United States Department of Energy | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 103. Engineering | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1938 | | | | | | |
William F. Brinkman received a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Missouri in 1965. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1966 after spending one year as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford University. In 1972, he became head of the Infrared Physics and Electronics Research Department, and in 1974 he became the director of the Chemical Physics Research Laboratory. He held the position of director of the Physical Research Laboratory from 1981 until moving to Sandia in 1984. He returned to Bell Laboratories in 1987 to become executive director of the Physics Research Division. In 1993 he became Physical Sciences Research Vice President, and in January 2000 became Vice President, Research. He retired from this position in September 2001. He then served as president of the American Physical Society and senior research associate in the Department of Physics at Princeton University until June 2009 when he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Director of the Office of Science in the United States Department of Energy. Overseeing the nation's research programs in fusion energy sciences and nuclear and high-energy physics, the Office is the country's single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences. He retired from the position in 2013.
William Brinkman's personal research covered materials classes of great engineering significance such as metals, semiconductors, superconductors and liquid crystals. He contributed significantly in the understanding of correlated electron motion, electron-hole liquid formation, exotic superfluid states and defects in liquid crystals. His technical leadership for the development of Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) for high capacity communications systems and optical fiber fabrication has revolutionized long distance transmission. He has chaired many committees shaping the national policy for technology development and science. A contribution of singular importance is the 8 volume 1986 NRC "Brinkman Report" on the status of physics.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the American Physical Society. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |
| 489 | Name: | J.H. Brinton | | | Year Elected: | 1810 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Death Date: | 5/7/1827 | | | | |
| 490 | Name: | Daniel G. Brinton | | | Year Elected: | 1869 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Death Date: | 7/31/1899 | | | | |
| 491 | Name: | John H. Brinton | | | Year Elected: | 1886 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1833 | | | Death Date: | 3/18/1907 | | | | |
| 492 | Name: | Crane Brinton | | | Year Elected: | 1953 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1898 | | | Death Date: | 9/7/68 | | | | |
| 493 | Name: | J. Blodget Britton | | | Year Elected: | 1873 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Death Date: | 1/19/1899 | | | | |
| 494 | Name: | Lord Nathaniel L. Britton | | | Year Elected: | 1928 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1859 | | | Death Date: | 6/25/34 | | | | |
| 495 | Name: | Robert C.H. Brock | | | Year Elected: | 1899 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1861 | | | Death Date: | 8/8/06 | | | | |
| 496 | Name: | John Brockenbrough | | | Year Elected: | 1835 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 84 | | | Death Date: | 7/3/1852 | | | | |
| 497 | Name: | Dr. Wallace S. Broecker | | | Institution: | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 2015 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 105. Physical Earth Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | February 18, 2019 | | | | | | |
For more than half a century Wally Broecker devoted his life to study of the role of the oceans in climate change. By using isotopic analysis to study physical mixing and chemical cycling in the ocean, he developed a picture of the ocean’s thermohaline circulations as comprising a conveyor belt. He showed this global conveyor belt to be susceptible to sudden shifts from one mode to another, and in the process able to trigger changes in climate that are not slow to develop but instead abrupt. This conceptual framework, which he outlined in more than 450 papers and ten books, provides an essential starting point for our present-day understanding of climate, dating back to the Pleistocene and extending forward to its long-term future outlook. Broecker was a recipient of the National Medal of Science (1996) and numerous other honors. Wallace Broecker died February 18, 2019 in Manhattan at the age of 87. | |
| 498 | Name: | Dr. Victor H. Brombert | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1987 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1923 | | | | | | |
Winner of many awards for both scholarship and teaching, Victor Brombert is, in the words of a distinguished senior colleague in the field, "a superb literary critic and polished stylist, eclectic in his tastes, averse to all dogmatic theories, and probably the most eminent and influential French scholar of his generation." Currently the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton University, Dr. Brombert has taught at Princeton since 1975 and has served as chairman of its Council of Humanities. Prior to his appointment at Princeton, Dr. Brombert was assistant professor and Benjamin F. Barge Professor of Romance Language and Literature at Yale University, where he served as chairman of the Department of Romance Languages (1964-73). He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1953 and has honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago and the University of Toronto. A former president of the Modern Language Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Dr. Brombert is the author of a dozen books of literary criticism, in addition to his wartime memoirs Trains of Thought.(2002). He has published extensively on Flaubert, both in this country and in France, and has also written widely on T.S. Eliot, Hugo and Stendhal, among others. A comparativist and literary historian, Dr. Brombert is that rare scholar from whose observations all readers of literature have benefited. | |
| 499 | Name: | Detlev W. Bronk | | | Year Elected: | 1934 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1897 | | | Death Date: | 11/17/75 | | | | |
| 500 | Name: | Richard Brooke | | | Year Elected: | 1769 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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