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1	Name:	The Honorable Arlin M. Adams
	Institution:	Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis
	Year Elected:	1979
	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:	1921
	Death Date:	December 22, 2015

	Arlin M. Adams was a Court of Appeals Judge, having served from 1969 to 1987. He was of counsel at one of Philadelphia's largest law firms, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, where he spent a significant amount of time on issues of public interest. Judge Adams earned his undergraduate degree from Temple University. He received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, serving as Editor-in-Chief of Penn Law Review. Later, he served on the school's faculty. Prior to his appointment to the Federal bench by President Richard M. Nixon, Judge Adams had a long history of public service, including a term as Secretary of Public Welfare of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1966. He was also the author of books and many articles on law and religion, including (with C. Emmerich and W. Burger) Nation Dedicated to Religious Liberty: The Constitutional Heritage of the Religious Clauses (1990) and (with W. Miller and M. Marty) Religion and the Public Good: A Bicentennial Forum (1989). Judge Adams was President of the American Judicature Society and chairman of the U.S. Supreme Court Fellows. In 1997 he received the Philadelphia Award, the highest award for civic service in the Delaware Valley. In addition to his having received numerous honorary degrees, the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Drexel University created professorships in his name in 2005 and 2007, respectively, and in 2001, Susquehanna University named a law center in his honor. Judge Adams served as trustee for numerous boards, including the University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr College, Einstein Medical Center, the Philadelphia Diagnostic Center, and the National Constitution Center. Arlin Adams was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1979 and served as its President from 1993 to 1999. He died December 22, 2015, at the age of 94 in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.

2	Name:	Dr. J. D. Baldeschwieler
	Institution:	California Institute of Technology
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1933

	John Dickson Baldeschwieler was born in New Jersey in 1933 and earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1959. After serving in the United States Army, he held assistant, associate and full professorships at Harvard University and Stanford University before joining the California Institute of Technology in 1973 as professor of chemistry and chairman of the division of chemistry and chemical engineering. From 1971-73 he also served as deputy director of the Office of Science and Technology in the White House. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Dr. Baldeschwieler pioneered the utilization of nuclear magnetic resonance and double resonance spectroscopy, nuclear Overhauser effects, ion cyclotron resonance and perturbed angular correlation spectroscopy in chemical problems. His latest contributions concentrate on the use of phospholipid vesicles in cancer diagnosis and therapy, on the development of scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopy for the study of molecules on surfaces, and on novel techniques for producing combinatorial arrays of oligonucleotides. He received the 2000 National Medal of Science for his contributions to science and public service, the American Chemical Society 2001 Award for Creative Invention and the 2003 Othmer Gold Medal of the Chemical Heritage Foundation. He is currently J. Stanley Johnson Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology.

3	Name:	Dr. Jerome Blum
	Institution:	Princeton University
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	303. History Since 1715
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1913
	Death Date:	5/7/93

4	Name:	Dr. Sydney Brenner
	Institution:	The Salk Institute
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	207. Genetics
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1927
	Death Date:	April 5, 2019

	Sydney Brenner was born in South Africa and studied medicine and science at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Working in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory, he received his D.Phil. degree from Oxford University in 1952. After briefly returning to South Africa, Dr. Brenner joined the Medical Research Council's Unit in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge. He became the director of its successor, the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in 1979. In 1987 he became director of the MRC's Unit of Molecular Genetics, retiring in 1992. His early research was in molecular genetics. Working with bacterophages and bacteria, he discovered messenger RNA (working with Jacob and Meselson) and, with Crick, showed that the code was composed of triplets. In the 1960s, he changed the direction of his work and began research on C. elegans, establishing it as a powerful experimental system for the analysis of complex biological processes. Believing that the techniques of cloning and sequencing would open up new ways of approaching genetics, he turned his attention to vertebrate genomics and established the pufferfish genome as a valuable tool in genome analysis. He served as the founder and president of the Molecular Sciences Institute, a private research institute in Berkeley, CA. His achievements were recognized with the Albert Lasker Medical Research Award (1971), both the Royal Medal (1974) and the Copley Medal (1991) from the Royal Society of London, and the Kyoto Prize (1990), to name just four of more than twenty such honors. In 1987 he was named a Companion of Honour. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002. He was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 1979. Sydney Brenner died April 5, 2019 in Singapore at the age of 92.

5	Name:	Dr. Robert H. Burris
	Institution:	University of Wisconsin, Madison
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	201. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1914
	Death Date:	May 11, 2010

	For forty years Robert H. Burris was a professor in the University of Wisconsin's department of biochemistry. After receiving his B.S. in Chemistry from South Dakota State University, he arrived at Wisconsin in 1936 and completed a Ph.D. in bacteriology in 1940. He conducted penicillin studies and taught plant biochemistry prior to joining the biochemistry department as an assistant professor in 1944. Around this time he began his research on biological nitrogen fixation, work which would be of great importance to agriculture and humankind. Marked by imagination, painstaking analysis and innovative use of methodologies, many of which were of his own devising, Dr. Burris conducted studies using radioactive isotopes and mass spectrometers, working primarily on photosynthesis and respiratory enzymes in addition to biological nitrogen fixation. Between 1958 and 1970 Dr. Burris was chair of the department, training many doctoral and post-doctoral students and authoring hundreds of research papers. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, and former president of the American Society of Plant Physiologists, Dr. Burris retired from the University of Wisconsin in 1984. He continued to conduct research and publish scientific papers long past his retirement. He died on May 11, 2010, at age 96.

6	Name:	Professor Halet Çambel
	Institution:	Istanbul University
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	401. Archaeology
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1916
	Death Date:	January 12, 2014

	An eminent scholar and expert in the archaeology of the Anatolian Peninsula, Halet Çambel was born in Germany in 1916. The daughter of an old and distinguished Ottoman family, she received her Ph.D. from Istanbul University in 1945 and went on to found the chair of prehistoric archaeology at Istanbul University, where she taught and inspired generations of students. Renowned for conducting rescue excavations of endangered heritage sites, Dr. Çambel introduced stone restoration techniques and ensured proper conservation of significant cultural heritage in Turkey. She was instrumental in protecting a village of unique Turkish houses and opened an Art and Culture House where concerts, exhibitions and other cultural activities take place. Halet Çambel's meticulous scholarship, commitment to international collaboration and enthusiasm for innovative research are praised both in Turkey and in the wider international community. Her numerous publications, television programs, documentaries, and the first open-air museum of antiquities at the Karatepe-Aslanta site are among her contributions to knowledge of and accessibility to the civilizations and historical riches of Turkey. Among Dr. Çambel's many awards is the Prince Claus Award honoring her dedicated scholarship and her role in expanding the possibilities for interaction between people and their cultural heritage. Halet Çambel died January 12, 2014, at the age of 97 at her home in Instanbul.

7	Name:	Dr. Erwin Chargaff
	Institution:	Columbia University
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	201. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1905
	Death Date:	June 20, 2002

8	Name:	Dr. Edward E. David
	Institution:	EED, Inc.
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	103. Engineering
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1925
	Death Date:	February 13, 2017

	Edward E. David was the president of EED, Inc, advisors to industry, government and universities, and consults on research and development, strategic planning and management, intellectual property, technology transfer, enhancing corporate research programs and developing corporate-academic research partnerships for the Washington Advisory Group. He received his doctorate in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950 and spent the first two decades of his research career at Bell Telephone Laboratories, ascending to the position of executive director. From 1970-73 Dr. David served as science advisor to the President of the United States and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He was also president of Exxon Research and Engineering Company from 1977-86, leading the corporation's research operations in projects both domestically and abroad. Dr. David was on the boards of several businesses and on technical advisory boards nationally and abroad. In 2009 he was awarded the Exceptional Public Service Medal for his outstanding leadership, dedication, and commitment to NASA as a member of the NASA Advisory Council. He was a retired U.S. Representative to the NATO Science Committee as well as a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2017. Edward E. David, Jr., died February 13, 2017, at age 92, at his home in Bedminster, New Jersey.

9	Name:	Dr. Louis B. Flexner
	Institution:	University of Pennsylvania
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	209. Neurobiology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1902
	Death Date:	3/29/96

10	Name:	Dr. Richard L. Garwin
	Institution:	IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	106. Physics
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1928

	Richard L. Garwin is IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received his B.S. in physics from Case Institute of Technology in 1947 and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1949. After three years on the faculty of the University of Chicago, he joined IBM Corporation in 1952 where he was IBM Fellow until 1993. He also held adjunct positions at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University and Columbia University. Dr. Garwin is the co-author of many books and holds numerous United States patents. He is the recipient of the 1983 Wright Prize for interdisciplinary scientific achievement, the 1988 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the 1991 Erice "Science for Peace" Prize, the 1996 R.V. Jones Intelligence Award, the 1996 Enrico Fermi Award, the 2002 National Medal of Science, and the 2016 Medal of Freedom. Richard Garwin has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Group to the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff and was in 1998 a Commissioner on the "Rumsfeld" Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States. From 1993-2001 he chaired the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Board of the Department of State. He was a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee (1962-65; 1969-72) and the Defense Science Board (1966-69). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1979.

11	Name:	Dr. Herman H. Goldstine
	Institution:	American Philosophical Society
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1913
	Death Date:	June 16, 2004

12	Name:	Ms. Beverly Sills Greenough
	Institution:	Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts & Metropolitan Opera & New York City Opera Company & Lincoln Center Theatre
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	501. Creative Artists
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1929
	Death Date:	July 2, 2007

13	Name:	Roland Hampe
	Year Elected:	1979
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1908
	Death Date:	1/23/81

14	Name:	Dr. Evelyn B. Harrison
	Institution:	Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	401. Archaeology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1920
	Death Date:	November 3, 2012

	Evelyn Byrd Harrison was one of the greatest scholars of our time in the field of Greek sculpture. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1952 and taught classics at the University of Cincinnati before joining the faculty at Columbia in 1955. In 1970 she was named professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University, becoming the first woman to be appointed full professor in the department. In 1974 she moved to New York University's Institute of Fine Arts as Professor of the History of Fine Arts. She was Edith Kitzmiller Professor Emerita of the History of Fine Arts and Adjunct Professor at the time of her death on November 3, 2012. She died at home in New York City at the age of 92. Dr. Harrison's publications include The Athenian Agora I: Portrait Sculpture (1953) and Achaic and Archaistic Sculpture (1965). She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as the Archaeological Institute of America's Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement (1992). When she discussed a well-known piece of Greek sculpture, you felt as though you were seeing it for the first time.

15	Name:	Dr. Albert Otto Hirschman
	Institution:	Institute for Advanced Study
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	302. Economics
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1915
	Death Date:	December 10, 2012

	Albert O. Hirschman was a development economist renowned for his lucid and innovative contributions to economics, the history of ideas, and the social sciences. He was a major participant in the discussion of the emergence of authoritarian regimes in Latin America in the sixties and the seventies, and the return to democratic forms of governance in the eighties. His view of development acknowledges the complexity of human behavior and social reality. His books include Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (1970); The Passions and the Interests (1977), which traces the history of social thought from Machiavelli to Tocqueville; and The Rhetoric of Reaction (1991). Dr. Hirschman received a Ph.D. from the University of Trieste and has taught at Yale, Columbia, and Harvard Universities. He was affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study since 1972 and was Professor Emeritus of the School of Social Science since 1985. Dr. Hirschman was a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Berliner Wissenschaftliche Gesselschaft, and the National Academy of Sciences and is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Albert Hirschman died December 10, 2012, at the age of 97, in Ewing Township, New Jersey.

16	Name:	Dr. Hiroshi Inose
	Institution:	National Institute of Informatics
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	103. Engineering
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1927
	Death Date:	October 11, 2000

17	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? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1911
	Death Date:	10/7/94

18	Name:	Dr. Georg Klein
	Institution:	Karolinska Institutet
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	202. Cellular and Developmental Biology
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1925
	Death Date:	December 10, 2016

	George Klein was a professor and research group leader at the Karolinska Institute's Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center (Sweden). He joined the Institute as a research fellow in 1947 and achieved the rank of professor in 1957. Prior to that time, he served as instructor of histology (1945) and pathology (1946) at the University of Budapest in his native Hungary. A pioneer in the application of somatic cell genetics to cancer research, Dr. Klein began using immunological techniques to analyze the nature of malignant transformation. He edited Advances in Cancer Research for many years and wrote a number of books, including The Atheist and the Holy City (1990); Pîetà (1992) and Live Now (1997). A foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Klein was also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the American Association of Immunologists. His many honors included the American Cancer Society Annual Award (1973), the Gardner Award (1976), the General Motors Sloan Award (1979); the Behring Prize (1977) and the Paracelsus Medal (2001). George Klein died December 10, 2016 in Sweden at the age of 91.

19	Name:	Dr. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
	Institution:	Collège de France & Bibliothèque Nationale
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	404a
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1929
	Death Date:	November 22, 2023

	French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is a leading authority on the history of peasantry, specifically in the region of Languedoc in the ancien regime. Credited with founding the "nouvelle histoire" (new history) movement, he has been a pioneer in the fields of history from below and microhistory. Dr. Ladurie is well known for works such as Les Paysans de Languedoc (1966); Histoire du Climat (1967), in which he focused on the impact of climate changes on human history; and Montaillou, village occitan de 1294 a 1324 (1975). The latter work, a study of a village in the south of France in the age of the Cathar heresy, uses meticulous notes of a member of the inquisition to develop a multi-layered study of life in a small French village over the course of several years. Dr. Ladurie served as professor, historian and chair of history of modern civilization at the College de France from 1973-99. He has also served as General Administrator of the Bibliothèque Nationale and currently holds the title of Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France.

20	Name:	Dr. Gardner Lindzey
	Institution:	Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	210. Behavioral Biology, Psychology, Ethology, and Animal Behavior
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1920
	Death Date:	February 4, 2008

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