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| 1241 | Name: | Dr. Gerald D. Fischbach | | Institution: | Columbia University | | Year Elected: | 2003 | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | Subdivision: | 208. Plant Sciences | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Living
| | Birth Date: | 1938 | | | | | Gerald Fischbach received an M.D. at Cornell University Medical School in
1965. Dr. Fischbach was Edison Professor of Neurobiology at the Washington
University School of Medicine from 1981-90 and served as chief of the
Neurobiology Department of Massachusetts General Hospital and Nathan Pusey
Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School from 1990-98. In 1998 he
was appointed Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders
and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health. He joined the faculty of
Columbia University in 2001 and served as Executive Vice President for Health
and Biomedical Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Harold and
Margaret Hatch Professor of the University before assuming his current role
as John E. Borne Professor of Medical and Surgical Research. In 2006 he
joined the Simons Foundation as their Scientific Director. Gerald Fischbach
pioneered the field of synapse formation with the dramatic discovery that
motor neurons form functional synapses with muscle cells in dissociated cell
culture. This brilliant advance revolutionized the study of neuronal
development in general, and synapse formation in particular, permitting Dr.
Fischbach to solve many key problems about the synaptic organization of CNS
neurons. Dr. Fischbach showed that motor nerves induce Adh receptor
expression at sites of neurotransmitter release, through the release of a
diffusible factor, cloned the gene encoding this factor, and identified it as
Neuregulin. This discovery represented a landmark in the neurosciences: the
delineation of a molecule that directs synapse organization. Dr. Fischbach's
studies have transformed the study of synapse formation from a purely
physiological field to one that is now in the mainstream of cell and
molecular biology. His visionary use of neuronal cell culture has served as a
prototype for studies of how synapses form between CNS neurons, and how
synaptic plasticity is regulated. Dr. Fischbach received the Foundation Ipsen
Neuronal Plasticity Prize in 1998, the Nathan Davis Award in 2000, and the
Parkinson's Disease Foundation Honor for Contributions in 2003. He is a
member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts &
Sciences, and the Society of Neuroscience, where he served as president from
1983-84. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in
2003.
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1242 | Name: | Dr. Claude S. Fischer | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | Year Elected: | 2017 | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Living
| | Birth Date: | 1948 | | | | | Claude S. Fischer is Professor of the Graduate School in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been since 1972. Most of his early research focused on urban studies, social networks, and economic inequality (The Urban Experience, 1976; Fischer et al., Networks and Places, 1977; To Dwell Among Friends, 1982; Fischer et al., Inequality by Design, 1996). More recently, he has worked on American social history: adoption of the telephone (America Calling, 1992); social change during the 20th century (Fischer and Hout, Century of Difference, 2006); and a social history of American culture and character (Made in America, 2010). In 2011, he published Still Connected: Family and Friends in America Since 1970. Several of these books have won awards. A collection of his columns for the Boston Review appeared in 2014 as Lurching Toward Happiness in America. His major current project, funded by the National Institute of Aging, is a multi-year panel study of how personal ties change. In 1996, Fischer won Robert and Helen Lynd Award of the American Sociological Association for lifetime contributions to urban studies. In 2011, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Fischer blogs at http://madeinamericathebook.wordpress.com/ . | |
1243 | Name: | Thomas Fisher | | Year Elected: | | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | Birth Date: | 5/6/1741 | | Death Date: | 9/6/1810 | | | | | Thomas Fisher (6 May 1741–6 September 1810) was a Quaker merchant and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. He was born in Lewes, Delaware, but relocated to Philadelphia around age five. In 1756 he produced the first accurate map of the Delaware River, a testament to his marine surveying knowledge that was utilized well into the nineteenth century. He then entered into a mercantile partnership with his father and departed for Europe, bearing specimens from APS member John Bartram. Fisher’s vessel was seized by a Spanish privateer and taken to Bilbao, but he used the opportunity to record his observations and collect additional specimens for Bartram. Within a year he reached London, where he engaged in business and saw the sights: the British Museum, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and the Tower of London. He also visited the Royal Society with Peter Collinson and toured nearby manufacturing and mining towns. And he saw Holland and France, commenting on the Jardin des Plantes in his travel diary. He returned home to find his firm flourishing, but the American Revolution disturbed this prosperity. Although the Fishers signed the Non-Importation Agreement, they proved steadfastly Loyalist. When they refused to accept Continental currency, they were deemed enemies of the state. Fisher was arrested, and when he refused to take an oath not to aid the British, he was exiled to Virginia. Following his safe return he invested in extensive western landholdings, in a brewery, and in paper mills with his nephews, APS members Thomas and Joshua Gilpin. Fisher was a member of the Union Library Company, a manager of the Silk Society and the Pennsylvania Hospital, and the first treasurer of the Westtown School. His grandson Joshua Francis Fisher was an APS member. (PI) | |
1244 | Name: | Joshua Francis Fisher | | Year Elected: | 1833 | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | Death Date: | 1/21/1873 | | | |
1245 | Name: | William R. Fisher | | Year Elected: | 1840 | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | Birth Date: | 1808 | | Death Date: | 10/26/1842 | | | |
1246 | Name: | Sidney George Fisher | | Year Elected: | 1860 | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | Death Date: | 7/25/1871 | | | |
1247 | Name: | Sidney George Fisher | | Year Elected: | 1897 | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | Death Date: | 2/22/1927 | | | |
1248 | Name: | Irving Fisher | | Year Elected: | 1927 | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | Birth Date: | 1867 | | Death Date: | 4/29/1947 | | | |
1249 | Name: | Dr. Michael E. Fisher | | Institution: | University of Maryland; Cornell University | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | Birth Date: | 1931 | | Death Date: | November 26, 2021 | | | | | Michael E. Fisher has been called the unquestioned father of the modern theory of the behavior of matter at thermodynamic phase transitions and critical points. Beginning with early work on understanding the non-analytic mean description of matter near a critical point (the existence of generalized power-law changes of physical properties in the neighborhood of a critical point), he went on to participate in the great 1965-72 period during which this deep, long-standing problem was effectively solved. Persisting in broadening and deepening the breatkthrough mode in this period, Dr. Fisher's group exploited the renormalization group scheme, which came to penetrate science in fields as far apart as polymers and cosmology. Since 1987 Dr. Fisher has been a professor at the University of Maryland's Institute for Physical Science and Technology. Born in Trinidad in 1931, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of London, and he has also taught at the Royal Air Force Technical College, King's College, the University of London and, from 1966 to 1987, at Cornell University. Winner of the American Physical Society's Irving Langmuir Prize (1971), the Wolf Prize (1980) and the Boltzmann Medal (1983) among other honors, Dr. Fisher is a fellow of the Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Indian Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the Brasilian Academy of Sciences and of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. | |
1250 | Name: | James Brown Fisk | | Year Elected: | 1960 | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | Birth Date: | 1910 | | Death Date: | 8/10/81 | | | |
1251 | Name: | Dr. Zachary Fisk | | Institution: | University of California, Irvine | | Year Elected: | 2010 | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Living
| | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | | | Following an undergraduate physics major at Harvard, I trained with Bernd Matthias at the then new University of California, San Diego, graduating in 1969. After a post doctoral year at Imperial College with Bryan Coles and a year as assistant professor at the University of Chicago, I returned as a research physicist to San Diego and spent the next decade in research on new superconducting and magnetic materials. In 1981, I went to Los Alamos National Laboratory as a staff member with the idea to study the f-electron physics of actinides from a materials driven standpoint. There followed the discovery of so-called heavy Fermion superconductivity in UBe13 and UPt3, the first examples known in this class of superconducting materials after their original discovery of in CeCu2Si2 by Steglich. These materials provided the first convincing evidence of a non-BCS and hence non-trivial superconducting order which has since been found in materials such as the high Tc cuprates. This research on superconductivity at the remarkably fertile boundary with magnetism has been my main research focus and has continued at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee (1994 - 2004) and then at the Universities of California at Davis and now Irvine.
A long standing amateur interest has been investigating the Gallina Culture of northern New Mexico. These people occupied hundreds of square miles in canyons and on high mesas along the continental divide in small, often highly defensive, villages over several centuries before vanishing in the late 13th century. My interest has been in trying to understand the physical layout of sites, many of which are well removed from food and water sources. | |
1252 | Name: | Dr. Susan T. Fiske | | Institution: | Princeton University | | Year Elected: | 2014 | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | Subdivision: | 305 | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Living
| | Birth Date: | 1952 | | | | | Susan T. Fiske was Eugene Higgins Professor, Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University, becoming Emerita in 2023. (Ph.D., Harvard University; honorary doctorates, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands; Universität Basel, Switzerland). She investigates social cognition, especially cognitive stereotypes and emotional prejudices, at cultural, interpersonal, and neuro-scientific levels. Author of over 300 publications and winner of numerous scientific awards, she has most recently been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Her just-published book is The HUMAN Brand: How We Relate to People, Products, and Companies (with Chris Malone, 2013). Sponsored by a Guggenheim, her 2011 Russell-Sage-Foundation book is Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us. With Shelley Taylor, she has written four editions of a classic text: Social Cognition (2013, 4/e). Currently an editor of Annual Review of Psychology, PNAS, and Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Sciences, she is also President of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Her graduate students arranged for her to win the University’s Mentoring Award. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2014. In 2017 she was awarded the Wilhelm Wundt - William James Award. | |
1253 | Name: | Dr. Val L. Fitch | | Institution: | Princeton University | | Year Elected: | 1995 | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | Birth Date: | 1923 | | Death Date: | February 5, 2015 | | | | | Val L. Fitch was born the youngest of three children on a cattle ranch in Cherry County, Nebraska, not far from the South Dakota border: a very sparsely populated part of the United States and remote from any center of population. His family later moved to Gordon, Nebraska, a town about 25 miles away, where all of his formal schooling took place. The most significant occurrence in his education, however, came when, as a soldier in the U.S. Army in WWII, he was sent to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to work on the Manhattan Project. Under the direction of Ernest Titterton, a member of the British Mission, he was engaged in highly stimulating work while, even as a technician garbed in a military fatigue uniform, he had the opportunity to meet and see at work many of the great figures in physics: Fermi, Bohr, Chadwick, Rabi, Tolman, etc. Dr. Fitch recorded some of the experiences from those days in a chapter in All in Our Time, a book edited by Jane Wilson and published by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. All told, he spent three years at Los Alamos and in that period learned well the techniques of experimental physics. He observed that the most accomplished experimentalists were also the ones who knew the most about electronics, so electronic techniques were the first he learned. But mainly he learned, in approaching the measurement of new phenomena, not just to consider using existing apparatus but to allow the mind to wander freely and invent new ways of doing the job.
Robert Bacher, the leader of the physics division in which he worked, offered Dr. Fitch a graduate assistantship at Cornell after the war, but he still had to finish the work for an undergraduate degree, which he did at McGill University. Another opportunity for graduate work soon came from Columbia, and he ended up there working with for his Ph.D. thesis. One day in his office, which he shared at the time with Aage Bohr, Rainwater handed him a preprint of a paper by John Wheeler devoted to µ-mesic atoms. This paper emphasized, in the case of the heavier nuclei, the extreme sensitivity of the Is level to the size of the nucleus. Even though the radiation from these atoms had never been observed, these atomic systems might be a good thesis topic. At this same time a convergence of technical developments took place. The Columbia Nevis cyclotron was just coming into operation. The beams of (pi)-measons from the cyclotron contained an admixture of µ-measons which came from the decay of the (pi)'s and which could be separated by range. Sodium iodide with thallium activation had just been shown by Hofstadter to be an excellent scintillation counter and energy spectrometer for gamma rays. And there were new phototubes just being produced by RCA which were suitable matches to sodium iodide crystals to convert the scintillations to electrical signals. The other essential ingredient to make a gamma-ray spectrometer was a multichannel pulse height analyzer which, utilizing his Los Alamos experience, Dr. Fitch designed and built with the aid of a technician. The net result of all the effort for his thesis was the pioneering work on µ-mesic atoms. It is of interest to note that the group came very close to missing the observation of the gamma-rays completely. Wheeler had calculated the 2p-1s transition energy in Pb, using the then accepted nuclear radius 1.4 A1/3 fermi, to be around 4.5 MeV. Correspondingly, they had set the spectrometer to look in that energy region. After several frustrating days, Rainwater suggested broadening the range and then the peak appeared - not at 4.5 MeV but at 6 MeV! The nucleus was substantially smaller than had been deduced from other effects. Shortly afterwards Hofstadter got the same results from his electron scattering experiments. While the µ-mesic atom measurements give the rms radius of the nucleus with extreme accuracy the electron scattering results have the advantage of yielding many moments to the charge distribution. Now the best information is obtained by combining the results from both µ-mesic atoms and electron scattering.
Subsequently, in making precise gamma-ray measurements to obtain a better mass value for the µ-meson, it was found that substantial corrections for the vacuum polarization were required to get agreement with independent mass determinations. While the vacuum polarization is about 2% of the Lamb shift in hydrogen it is the very dominant electrodynamic correction in µ-mesic atoms.
Dr. Fitch's interest then shifted to the strange particles and K mesons, but he had learned from his work at Columbia the delights of unexpected results and the challenge they present in understanding nature. Dr. Fitch took a position at Princeton where, most often working with a few graduate students, he spent the next 20 years studying K-mesons. The ultimate in unexpected results was that which was recognized by the Nobel Foundation in 1980, the discovery of CP-violation.
At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a comprehensive theory. But each time a new frontier of observation is broached we inevitably discover new phenomena which force us to modify substantially our previous conceptions. Dr. Fitch believed this process to be unending, that the delights and challenges of unexpected discovery will continue always. In 1967 he and Jim Cronin received the Research Corporation award for work on CP violation and in 1976 the John Price Witherill medal of the Franklin Institute. He received the E. O. Lawrence award in 1968. Dr. Fitch was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1995. He served as chairman of the Physics Department at Princeton University and was James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics Emeritus at the time of his death February 5, 2015, at age 91. | |
1254 | Name: | Dr. Walter M. Fitch | | Institution: | University of California, Irvine | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | Subdivision: | 203. Evolution & Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Paleontology, and Physical Anthropology | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | Birth Date: | 1929 | | Death Date: | March 10, 2011 | | | | | Walter Fitch received a Ph.D. in comparative biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1958. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison for twenty-four years before moving to the University of California, Irvine in 1986, where he was Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Walter Fitch may be considered the founder of the now widespread discipline of molecular phylogenetics. He developed a method for reconstructing phylogeny based on amino acid sequences and applied it first to the cytochrome c's of 20 species in one of the most cited papers in the field of molecular evolution (Science, 1967). He developed additional methods for phylogeny reconstruction, including parsimony, the most widely used (Systematic Zoology, 1971). Fitch's contributions in molecular evolution have contributed to settle issues such as the phylogeny of South American Indian tribes, the rate of evolution of mice strains, and albumin evolution in reptiles. He pioneered the theory of the molecular evolutionary clock. Most recently, he moved evolutionary theory from reconstructing the past to predicting the future. In a series of papers analyzing the pattern of evolution of the influenza virus, his method has correctly predicted in nine out of eleven years the strain that would predominantly infect the human population in the following season, a significant finding in developing vaccines. Dr. Fitch was the founder of the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, and served as editor-in-chief from 1983-93. He had also served on the editorial board of Systematic Zoology, Journal of Molecular Evolution, and Genomics, and was on the advisory board of Biochemical Genetics since 1966. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Human Genome Organization, and a foreign member of the Linnean Society. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2000. Walter Fitch died on March 10, 2011, at the age of 81 in Irvine, California. | |
1255 | Name: | Dr. Kent V. Flannery | | Institution: | University of Michigan | | Year Elected: | 2005 | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | Subdivision: | 403. Cultural Anthropology | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Living
| | Birth Date: | 1934 | | | | | Kent Flannery is an internationally renowned archaeologist who is justifiably recognized as one of the most important theorists in the field today. The James Bennett Griffin Distinguished University Professor of Anthropological Archaeology at the University of Michigan since 1985, he has made outstanding and lasting contributions to the field of archaeology over the past four decades not only in the realms of theory and method but substantively as well. He has significantly advanced scholarly understanding of the rise of agriculture in both the Old and New Worlds, with his research and writings having provided a number of important insights into the growth of preindustrial civilizations. In particular, he has convincingly demonstrated how material and ideological factors are inextricably linked in the development of cultural complexity. The field research of Dr. Flannery and his collaborators on the ancient Zapotec civilization in Mexico is especially notable in this regard. Dr. Flannery received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1964 and has served on the University of Michigan faculty since 1967. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1978; the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1998; and the American Philosophical Society in 2005. | |
1256 | Name: | Dr. Graham R. Fleming | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | Year Elected: | 2011 | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Living
| | Birth Date: | 1949 | | | | | Graham Fleming was appointed UC Berkeley’s Vice Chancellor for Research in April 2009, having previously served as the Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Through joint appointments as Melvin Calvin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, and Founding Director of both the Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division and UC Berkeley’s California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), he has re-shaped the intersection of physical and biological sciences, while maintaining his own investigations into ultrafast chemical and biological processes, in particular, the primary steps of photosynthesis. Throughout his administrative career, Fleming has remained a highly active scientific researcher. He has authored or co-authored more than 440 publications and 1 book; and is widely considered to be one of the world's foremost authorities on ultrafast processes.
Born in Barrow, England, in 1949, Fleming earned his Bachelor's of Science degree from the University of Bristol in 1971, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of London Royal Institute in 1974. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Melbourne, Australia, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1979. There, he rose through the academic ranks to become the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor, a post he held for ten years, starting in 1987. At University of Chicago, he also served for three years as the Chair of the Chemistry Department. In that role, he led the creation of University of Chicago’s first new research institute in more than 50 years, the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics.
In addition to his many other activities, Fleming has given numerous talks around the world on the inter-relation and inter-complexity of energy, climate and photosynthesis. In 2007, Fleming led the effort (with co-chair Mark Ratner) to define Grand Challenges in Basic Energy Science for DOE/BES, resulting in Directing Matter and Energy: Five Challenges for Science and the Imagination.
At present, Graham Fleming is engaged in coordinating energy and climate research at Berkeley, as well as continuing his research in photosynthesis and condensed phase dynamics. | |
1257 | Name: | Dr. John V. Fleming | | Institution: | Princeton University | | Year Elected: | 2015 | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | Subdivision: | 402a | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Living
| | Birth Date: | 1936 | | | | | John Fleming’s main contributions to scholarship have been in three areas—Romance (Old French) literature, the interaction of literary tropes and iconography in medieval painting and sculpture, especially associated with Franciscan spirituality, and Chaucer. His study of the thirteenth-century Roman de la Rose is regarded as a classic exegesis of this multi-layered text and also as a piece of exemplary scholarly prose. The same may be said of his study of Franciscan hermeneutics, From Bonaventure to Bellini, which was a pathbreaking interdisciplinary study. Fleming has also been an indefatigable editor, translator and commentator on medieval Franciscan texts (see his Introduction to the Franciscan Literature of the Middle Ages) and texts, like the Two Poems Attributed to Joachim of Fiore, which were regarded in the thirteenth and fourteenth century as bearing upon the Franciscan experience. Along the way he has made fundamental contributions to literary scholars’ and historians’ understanding and appreciation of matters as diverse as Chaucer’s classical sources and the mental universe of Christopher Columbus. Fleming has regularly, productively and with great wit challenged many of the stultifying orthodoxies regnant for so long in medieval scholarship, not least the concept of ‘courtly love’. Added to his scholarly impact through his published works one must include Fleming’s influence on the field through his teaching. Indeed his reputation as a teacher both of graduate students and undergraduates is legendary. | |
1258 | Name: | Professor Matthew L. M. Fletcher | | Institution: | University of Michigan Law School | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | 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? : |
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| | Birth Date: | 1972 | | | | | Matthew L. M. Fletcher is the Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and the Chief Justice of both the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. He received his J.D. from the University of Michigan in 1997. He previously worked as a staff attorney for the Pascua Yaqui, Hoopa, Suquamish, and Grand Traverse Tribes, and taught at the Michigan State University College of Law and the University of North Dakota School of Law. He has been a visiting professor at the law schools at the University of Arizona, the University of California, Hastings, the University of Montana, and Stanford University. He is a frequent instructor at the Pre-Law Summer Institute for American Indian students.
Fletcher (Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians) is the leading academic and most prolific scholar in American Indian Law today. His scholarship has been cited by the United States Supreme Court; in more than a dozen federal, state, and tribal courts; and in hundreds of law review articles and other secondary legal authorities. Over a decade ago, he proposed and then became the reporter for the American Law Institute (ALI) "Restatement of the Law: The Law of American Indians." Several portions of that work have already received final approval by the ALI. For perhaps two decades, he has operated the influential Turtle Talk blog which students, professors, and attorneys use on a daily basis.
He has been a co-author of the leading Indian Law casebook since 2013 and has written numerous other books and dozens of law review articles. These include: American Indian Education: Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle, and the Law (2008), The Return of the Eagle: The Legal History of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians (2012), Federal Indian Law (2016), Principles of Federal Indian Law (2017), and The Ghost Road: Anishinaabe Responses to Indian Hating (2020). Fletcher was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2022. | |
1259 | Name: | Simon Flexner | | Year Elected: | 1901 | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | Birth Date: | 1863 | | Death Date: | 5/2/1946 | | | |
1260 | 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 | | | |
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