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1041	Name:	Ferdinand J. Dreer
	Year Elected:	1897
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1812
	Death Date:	5/24/1902

1042	Name:	Dr. Sidney Drell
	Institution:	Stanford University
	Year Elected:	1987
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	106. Physics
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1926
	Death Date:	December 21, 2016

	Sidney D. Drell was professor of theoretical physics (emeritus) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford University, as well as a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at the time of his death on December 21, 2016, at the age of 90. He served as SLAC's deputy director until retiring in 1998. A theoretical physicist and arms control specialist, Dr. Drell had also been active as an adviser to the executive and legislative branches of government on national security and defense technical issues. He was a founding member of JASON, a group of academic scientists who consult for the government on issues of national importance, and he acted as a consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was a member of the Advisory Committee to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA/DOE) and chaired the Senior Review Board for the Intelligence Technology Innovation Center. Dr. Drell was widely recognized for his contributions in the study of theoretical physics, particularly elementary particle processes and quantum theory. His work contributed to the early understanding of meson physics and quantum electrodynamics and then went beyond those areas, ranging from basic studies on quantum chromodynamics on a lattice to such "down the laboratory" problems as the interaction of monopoles with helium. He isolated the processes of secondary particle production from photons from hadron-hadron collisions. Among numerous awards, Dr. Drell received the Heinz award in 2005 for his contributions in public policy, and in 2000 he was awarded the Enrico Fermi Award, the nation's oldest award in science and technology, for a lifetime of achievement in the field of nuclear energy. He also received the 2012 National Medal of Science. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was coauthor, with J.D. Bjorken, of two books on relativistic quantum mechanics and fields that have been widely translated and used for more than 30 years.

1043	Name:	Arnold Dresden
	Year Elected:	1932
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1882
	Death Date:	4/12/1954

1044	Name:	Dr. Mildred S. Dresselhaus
	Institution:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Year Elected:	1995
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	103. Engineering
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1930
	Death Date:	February 20, 2017

	Mildred Dresselhaus was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in a poor section of the Bronx. She attended the New York City public schools through junior high school. She then went to Hunter College High School in New York City and continued her education at Hunter College. She was a Fulbright Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University from 1951-52. Next, she earned her master's degree at Radcliffe in 1953 and continued on to get a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1958. Her thesis was on "The Microwave Surface Impedance of a Superconductor in a Magnetic Field." At the University of Chicago she came into contact with Enrico Fermi, one of the great physicists of the 20th century. The "survival" tactics that helped propel her to success were honed in her earliest years; raised in poverty, she learned as a child to protect herself against daily intimidation in a tough New York neighborhood. Dr. Dresselhaus started college planning to go into elementary school teaching. When she was a sophomore at Hunter College, she met Rosalyn Yalow, who taught her physics and later became a Nobel Laureate in medicine (1977). It was in part due to her interactions with Rosalyn Yalow that Dr. Dresselhaus recognized her potential as a physicist and developed higher goals for herself. Also coming from a disadvantaged background, Yalow encouraged the young undergraduate to press ahead despite detractors, taught her to recognize and seize opportunity, and followed her career as it unfolded with "advice and love". Mildred Dresselhaus moved to Cornell University to complete her NSF sponsored Post-Doctoral fellowship where she continued her studies on superconductivity. After her post-doctorate days were over, she and her husband moved to the Boston area where they both got jobs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts. Both worked at Lincoln Labs for the next 7 years. At the Lincoln Laboratory, she switched from research on superconductivity to magneto-optics and carried out a series of experiments that led to a fundamental understanding of the electronic structure of semimetals, especially graphite. With four young children, she was invited in 1967 by Louis Smullin, head of the Electrical Engineering Department, to come to MIT and be a visiting professor for a year. She was so enthusiastic about teaching undergraduates and graduate students, and about working with graduate students on research projects, that she was in 1968 appointed as a tenured full professor. She remained on the MIT faculty throughout her career, pursuing an intense research and teaching career in the area of electronic materials. A leader in promoting opportunities for women in science and engineering, Dr. Dresselhaus received a Carnegie Foundation grant in 1973 to encourage women's study of traditionally male dominated fields, such as physics. In 1973, she was appointed to The Abby Rockefeller Mauze chair, an Institute-wide chair, endowed in support of the scholarship of women in science and engineering. She greatly enjoyed her career in science. As Dr. Dresselhaus says about working with MIT students, "I like to be challenged. I welcome the hard questions and having to come up with good explanations on the spot. That's an experience I really enjoy." She has over her career graduated over 60 Ph.D. students and has given many invited lectures worldwide on her research work. Her later research interests were on little tiny things, which go under the name of nanostructures, carbon nanotubes, bismuth nanowires and low dimensional thermoelectricity. Awards received include the Karl T. Compton Medal for Leadership in Physics from the American Institute of Physics (2001); the Medal of Achievement in Carbon Science and Technology from the American Carbon Society (2001); honorary membership in the Ioffe Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2000); the National Materials Advancement Award of the Federation of Materials Societies (2000); 19 honorary doctorate degrees; the Nicholson Medal of the American Physical Society (2000); the Weizmann Institute's Millennial Lifetime Achievement Award (2000); UNESCO's Award for Women in Science (2007); the University of Chicago's Alumni Medal (2008); the Presidential Enrico Fermi Award (2012); the Kavli Prize from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2012), the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the IEEE Medal of Honor (2015). She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1995. Mildred Dresselhaus died February 20, 2017, in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the age of 86.

1045	Name:	Anthony J. Drexel
	Year Elected:	1892
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	6/30/1893

1046	Name:	Dr. Harry G. Drickamer
	Institution:	University of Illinois
	Year Elected:	1983
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1918
	Death Date:	May 6, 2002

1047	Name:	Henry Drinker
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	2/21/1734
	Death Date:	6/26/1809

	Henry Drinker (21 February 1734–26 June 1809) was a merchant, and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. Married at twenty-three and widowed by childbirth at twenty-four, Drinker redoubled his focus on his business partnership with his former mentor George James and his son Abel, who helped Drinker rise to prominence as a leading merchant. Although he doubted the efficacy of non-importation, his firm signed onto the 1765 and 1769 Agreements, and he did, albeit reluctantly, send back a shipment of tea that arrived in Philadelphia in 1773. Indeed, prior to the Revolution, Drinker’s stature in the civil life of Philadelphia only grew: he was an adamant supporter of the Silk Society and himself an experimenter: records indicate he received from friends at least twenty five mulberry trees and some 21,400 cocoons by 1770. Like peers, he was a member of the Library Company, generously supported the Pennsylvania Hospital, and served as the Treasurer for the Corporation for the Relief of the Poor for a time. But just days before Howe defeated Washington at the Battle of the Brandywine to take Philadelphia in September 1777, the Supreme Council ordered Drinker and more than forty others to take the oath of allegiance, which Drinker’s Quakerism forbade. A slow, embarrassing, but otherwise comfortable march to Virginia, and confinement until April 1778, became the definitive turning point in Drinker’s life. A variety of rebel confiscations did not soften his hardline stance: an irreparable divide now stood between martyrs like himself and supposed Friends who collaborated. His mercantile business asunder, Drinker rose from the ashes to invest in iron works and maple sugaring ventures and charted a new course to civic prominence. He redoubled his service to the Meeting of Friends, joined the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture (1785), the Prison Society (1787) and was even elected to the Philadelphia Common Council (1789). His beloved wife Elizabeth passed in 1807, two years before he. (PI)

1048	Name:	John Drinker
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	7/-/1800

1049	Name:	Henry S. Drinker
	Year Elected:	1951
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1880
	Death Date:	3/9/1965

1050	Name:	Thomas M. Drown
	Year Elected:	1875
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1842
	Death Date:	11/16/1904

1051	Name:	Dr. Johanna Ruth Drucker
	Institution:	University of California, Los Angeles
	Year Elected:	2023
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	501. Creative Artists
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1952

1052	Name:	Hugh L. Dryden
	Year Elected:	1950
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1898
	Death Date:	12/2/1965

1053	Name:	Russell Duane
	Year Elected:	1906
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1867
	Death Date:	1/19/1938

1054	Name:	William Duane
	Year Elected:	1920
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1872
	Death Date:	3/7/1935

1055	Name:	Dr. Morris Duane
	Institution:	Duane, Morris & Heckscher
	Year Elected:	1940
	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:	1901
	Death Date:	7/18/92

1056	Name:	Eugene Floyd DuBois
	Year Elected:	1940
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1883
	Death Date:	2/12/1959

1057	Name:	William Dubourg
	Year Elected:	1806
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1756

1058	Name:	Dr. Lee A. DuBridge
	Institution:	California Institute of Technology
	Year Elected:	1942
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	106. Physics
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1901
	Death Date:	1/23/94

1059	Name:	Julius T. Ducatel
	Year Elected:	1832
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1796
	Death Date:	4/23/1849

1060	Name:	Jacob Duche
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1/31/1737
	Death Date:	1/3/1798

	Jacob Duché Jr. (31 January 1737–3 January 1798) was an Anglican clergyman and member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. His father, Jacob Sr., was a wealthy merchant, later mayor of Philadelphia, and also an APS member. Jacob Jr. studied at the Academy of Philadelphia and then the College of Philadelphia, graduating as valedictorian of its first class in 1757, before sailing to London to pursue ordination at Cambridge. He left after a year with an ordination to the deaconate, taking posts at Philadelphia’s Christ Church (assistant minister) and the College (professor of oratory), before marrying Elizabeth Hopkinson, the daughter of first APS president Thomas Hopkinson. In 1762, Duché returned to England, received orders to the priesthood, and quickly decamped back to Philadelphia, remaining an assistant minister until his elevation to pastor in 1775. Beginning with the opening prayer to the first Continental Congress in September 1774, Duché established himself as the religious voice of the early rebellion, preaching publicly on the providential support of the cause for liberty. He became the chaplain of Congress in July 1776 but resigned in October due to the strain of tending his congregation amidst ill health. Despite his earlier warmth for the rebel cause, Duché in 1777 wrote an infamous letter to George Washington enumerating a potpourri of reasons the American effort was doomed. The letter quickly appeared in print, and in December 1777 Duché made way for England; his property was confiscated and his family sent into flight, joining him only in 1780. From 1782 on he made a fairly comfortable life in exile at the head of the Orphan’s Asylum in St. George’s Field, Lambeth, but he longed to return, doing so in 1792 after the repeal of anti-Tory laws. Although he argued in the early 1780s he remained the rector of Christ Church, a reunion was preposterous for multiple reasons: the damning letter to Washington, of course—but also the fact that fellow APS member William White had supplanted him, and that Duché’s religiosity took a mystical and Swedenborgian turn. (PI)

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