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1281	Name:	Dr. William Alfred Fowler
	Institution:	California Institute of Technology
	Year Elected:	1962
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	106. Physics
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1911
	Death Date:	3/14/95

1282	Name:	Joseph Fox
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1709
	Death Date:	12/9/1779

	Joseph Fox (1709–10 December 1779) was a carpenter and a public officeholder, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Born in Philadelphia, he learned carpentry under a master builder. He would draw on this knowledge in his subsequent career as a carpenter and building planner, but once he was financially established, he devoted more of his energies to public office. His service began in 1745 with his appointment as a city commissioner. In 1750, he was elected to the Assembly as a representative of the city of Philadelphia, and in 1753 he was re-elected as a representative of Philadelphia County, winning re-election every year through 1771. During this time Fox took a leading role in Indian affairs with APS member Israel Pemberton and attended several treaty conferences in the 1760s. These activities made him a target when the Paxton Boys marched on Philadelphia in 1764. In 1764 Fox was elected Speaker of the House, but his measured tone eventually compelled men like APS members Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Galloway to choose another figure to lead the anti-proprietary party. Fox maintained his moderate views through the American Revolution. This stance brought trouble from both sides in the conflict: the revolutionaries considered him a potential enemy, while British forces damaged his country home. He died suddenly at the end of 1779. During his time in Philadelphia he supported a number of civic and charitable organizations, serving as a manager of the Pennsylvania Hospital and subscribing to the Silk Society and City Tavern. His son George Fox was an APS member. (PI)

1283	Name:	George Fox
	Year Elected:	1784
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased

1284	Name:	Herbert Fox
	Year Elected:	1932
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1881
	Death Date:	2/26/1942

1285	Name:	Dixon R. Fox
	Year Elected:	1935
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1887
	Death Date:	1/30/1945

1286	Name:	Dr. Marye Anne Fox
	Institution:	University of California, San Diego
	Year Elected:	1996
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1947
	Death Date:	May 9, 2021

	Dr. Marye Anne Fox, a nationally known chemist and academic leader, was named the seventh chancellor of the University of California, San Diego in April 2004 by the University of California Board of Regents. She stepped down from that position in July 2012 and continued at the university as Professor of Chemistry. Previously, Dr. Fox was chancellor and distinguished university professor of chemistry at North Carolina State University, a post she held since 1998. Before going to North Carolina State, Fox spent 22 years at the University of Texas, where she advanced from assistant professor of organic chemistry to vice president for research and held the Waggoner Regents Chair in chemistry. Dr. Fox has held over 50 endowed lectureships at universities around the world. She has also served as visiting professor at Harvard University, the University of Iowa, the University of Chicago, the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris and the Chemistry Research Promotion Center in Taipei. Dr. Fox earned a bachelor's degree in science from Notre Dame College, a master's degree in science from Cleveland State University and a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and has served on its executive committee, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Fox has received numerous awards, including the Charles Lathrop Parsons Award (2005) from the American Chemical Society in recognition of outstanding public service and the 2010 National Medal of Science. She has received a long list of research awards from professional societies in the U.S. and abroad. She also has been honored with numerous teaching awards, as well as the Monie Ferst Award, a national award recognizing outstanding mentoring of graduate students. More than 50 students have received advanced degrees under her supervision, and over 100 postdoctoral fellows and sabbatical visitors have worked with her. Dr. Fox also served on numerous boards, including the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), where she chaired the Subcommittee on Infrastructure for the 21st Century in 2003; the National Academy's Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable; the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC); and a number of corporate boards. Dr. Fox, who was born in Canton, Ohio, is married to UCSD professor of chemistry James K. Whitesell. She has three sons and two stepsons. She died on May 9, 2021.

1287	Name:	Dr. Renée Claire Fox
	Institution:	University of Pennsylvania
	Year Elected:	2012
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1928
	Death Date:	September 23, 2020

	Renée C. Fox, a summa cum laude graduate of Smith College, earned her Ph.D. in Sociology in 1954 from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, where she studied in the Department of Social Relations. Before joining the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1969, she was a member of the Columbia University Bureau of Applied Social Research, taught for twelve years at Barnard College, and then spent two years as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard. At the University of Pennsylvania, she was a professor in the Department of Sociology with joint, secondary appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, and in the School of Nursing; and she held an interdisciplinary chair as the Annenberg Professor of the Social Sciences. From 1972-1978 she was the Chair of the Penn Sociology Department. On July 1, 1998, she became the Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences. She is also an Emerita Senior Fellow of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. Renée Fox’s major teaching and research interests - sociology of medicine, medical research, medical education, and medical ethics - have involved her in first-hand, participant observation-based studies in Continental Europe (particularly in Belgium), in Central Africa (especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo), and in the People’s Republic of China, as well as in the United States. She has lectured in colleges, universities, and medical schools throughout the United States, and has taught in a number of universities abroad. During the 1996-1997 academic year, she was the George Eastman Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. Her books include: Experiment Perilous: Physicians and Patients Facing the Unknown; The Sociology of Medicine: A Participant Observer’s View; Essays in Medical Sociology; In the Belgian Château: The Spirit and Culture of a European Society in an Age of Change; In the Field: A Sociologist’s Journey, and (in co-authorship with Judith P.Swazey), The Courage to Fail: A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis, Spare Parts: Organ Replacement in American Society, and Observing Bioethics. Her most recent book is her "ethnographic autobiography," In the Field: A Sociologist’s Journey, published in 2010. Fox is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an Honorary Member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. She is the holder of a Radcliffe Graduate School Medal, and of a Centennial Medal from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, and is a recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Leo G. Reeder Award for Distinguished Contributions to Medical Sociology. She has received several teaching awards: an E. Harris Harbison Gifted Teaching Award of the Danforth Foundation, and a Lindback Foundation Award for Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds eleven honorary degrees, and in 1995, the Belgian Government named her Chevalier of the Order of Leopold II. In October 2007, she was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. In 2015 she was the recipient of the Hastings Center for Bioethics' Henry Knowles Beecher Award. She died on September 23, 2020, at age 92.

1288	Name:	John Foxcroft
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	5/13/1790

	John Foxcroft (?–c. 13 May 1790) was the joint deputy postmaster general for the Northern District of North America with Benjamin Franklin and a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Society, elected to both in 1768. Little is known of his early years in England, but by 1753 he had immigrated to Virginia. In 1758 he became private secretary to Governor Francis Fauquier, and three years later he was named deputy postmaster general with Franklin. In 1763 Foxcroft and Franklin journeyed from Virginia to New Hampshire, inspecting post roads, publishing rate tables, training postmasters, and ensuring the system’s solvency. The two became friendly, with Franklin asking Foxcroft to handle some of his wife’s business affairs. In 1765 Foxcroft moved to Philadelphia, where he continued to improve the postal system: he established new routes, chose riders, and took steps to guarantee the mail’s security, all while forwarding accounts to Franklin in London. In 1766 he named his brother, APS member Thomas Foxcroft, postmaster of Philadelphia. During a visit to England, John joined Franklin and others in forming the Grand Ohio Company. He returned to Philadelphia in 1770, but in 1772 British authorities relocated the headquarters of the American post office to New York and Foxcroft followed. The American Revolution brought trouble for the postmaster general. Mail was seized in transit and read publicly, and the Sons of Liberty endorsed a rival postal system beyond the crown’s control. Although he had purchased two dozen copies of John Dickinson’s Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Foxcroft remained a Loyalist. He was imprisoned in 1776 after refusing to take the oath of allegiance. Once freed, he became the head of the British Post Office’s packet service at New York, a post he held until his death in 1790. (PI)

1289	Name:	Thomas Foxcroft
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	6/29/1785

	Thomas Foxcroft (?–29 June 1785) was postmaster of Philadelphia and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. Little is known about his early life. He was born in England and immigrated to Philadelphia in 1764 when his brother, APS member John Foxcroft, offered him the position of postmaster. John was joint deputy postmaster general for the Northern District of North America with Benjamin Franklin, with whom Thomas became friendly. Thomas sent Franklin barrels of Pennsylvania flour in London and helped manage Mrs. Franklin’s finances during her husband’s absence abroad. During his tenure as postmaster of Philadelphia, Thomas hired riders, fielded queries and complaints, and oversaw the system’s finances. In 1770 he was appointed comptroller for the Northern District. He was a subscriber to the Library Company of Philadelphia, a founder of the Society of Sons of St. George, and a formidable chess player. He also subscribed to John Hawkesworth’s A New Voyage round the World … performed by Captain James Cook (1774) and donated to the Pennsylvania Hospital, the College of Philadelphia, and the Silk Society. He co-owned lands in Lancaster and Bedford counties with APS member Joseph Galloway. Foxcroft remained loyal to the crown during the American Revolution. After losing his position as postmaster, he sought refuge in New York and then in England, where he died suddenly in 1785. (PI)

1290	Name:	Frederick Fraley
	Year Elected:	1842
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1804
	Death Date:	9/23/1901

1291	Name:	Joseph Cresson Fraley
	Year Elected:	1880
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1848
	Death Date:	5/18/1921

1292	Name:	J.W. Francis
	Year Elected:	1844
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1790
	Death Date:	2/8/1861

1293	Name:	James B. Francis
	Year Elected:	1865
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1814
	Death Date:	9/18/1892

1294	Name:	Thomas Francis
	Year Elected:	1954
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1900
	Death Date:	10/1/1969

1295	Name:	Dr. Joseph S. Francisco
	Institution:	University of Pennsylvania; Purdue University
	Year Elected:	2021
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1955

	Joseph S. Francisco is the President's Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his B.S. at the University of Texas at Austin, and he received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Francisco was a Research Fellow at University of Cambridge in England, and a Visiting Associate in Planetary Science at California Institute of Technology. His research has focused on bringing new tools from experimental physical and theoretical chemistry to atmospheric chemical problems to enhance our understanding of chemistry in the atmosphere at the molecular level. This work has led to important discoveries of new chemistries occurring on the interfaces of cloud surfaces as well as fundamental new chemical bonding controlling these processes. He has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. He was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt U.S. Senior Scientist Award; appointed a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Bologna, Italy; Professeur Invité at the Université de Paris-Est, France; a Visiting Professor at Uppsala Universitet, Sweden; an Honorary International Chair Professor at National Taipei University, Taiwan; and an Honorary Professor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. He served as President of the American Chemical Society in 2010. Dr. Francisco currently serves as Executive and Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society and on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Joseph S. Francisco was elected, to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, as well as, a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2021.

1296	Name:	Kuno Francke
	Year Elected:	1904
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	6/25/1930

1297	Name:	Leonard G. Frank
	Year Elected:	1875
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	[5]/-/1876

1298	Name:	Tenney Frank
	Year Elected:	1927
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1877
	Death Date:	4/3/1939

1299	Name:	Mr. Richard J. Franke
	Institution:	The John Nuveen Company; Chicago Humanities Festival
	Year Elected:	2011
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1931
	Death Date:	April 15, 2022

	Richard Franke, who served for a distinguished twenty-two years as Chief Executive Officer of the John Nuveen Company, has been called the business community’s most visible and effective public advocate for humanities and for the value of a liberal arts education. He has been a trustee of Yale University, the University of Chicago, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Chicago Orchestral Association, the Newberry Library, and the Illinois Humanities Council. As chairman of the latter, he spearheaded the founding of the Chicago Humanities Festival, a city-wide event that brings together the major cultural institutions of the city and guest visitors from around the world in a wide-ranging celebration of the arts and humanities through lectures, exhibitions, and symposia. In addition, the Frankes have been generous philanthropists, contributing to many cultural institutions. Among these, they have endowed the Franke Humanities Institute and a humanities professorship at the University of Chicago and have donated fellowships, lectureships, and significant support to the library and to the Whitney Humanities Institute at Yale University. In recognition of his role, Mr. Franke was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Clinton in 1997. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he received the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s National Award for Distinguished Service to the Humanities in 2000 and the Phyllis Franklin Award for Public Advocacy of the Humanities from the Modern Language Association in 2007. He earned an M.B.A. from Harvard University. He is the author of Cut from Whole Cloth (2005), and was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2011.

1300	Name:	Henri Frankfort
	Year Elected:	1948
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1898
	Death Date:	7/16/1954

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