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1361	Name:	Dr. Peter Galison
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	2005
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	303. History Since 1715
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1955

	Peter Galison is a main shaper of new thinking in the history of science. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University both in theoretical particle physics and in the history of modern science, and his wide-ranging expertise and innovative mind are evident in books such as How Experiments End, Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics, and Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré's Maps. Dr. Galison has also published essays on such diverse topics as the links between Bauhaus architecture and the philosophy of the Vienna Circle, and on the development of cybernetics. He has taught at Harvard University since 1992. He was the Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics, 1994-2007, and is currently the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor. From 1982-92 he taught at Stanford University, where he was the recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Galison's other honors include a MacArthur Fellowship and the Max Planck Research Award for International Cooperation. His latest work is a documentary film titled "Secrecy". Made with Harvard lecturer Robb Moss and screened at the Sundance Film Festival, it explores the complicated role that classified activity has played in American political affairs and in democracy at large. In 2018 he received the Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics.

1362	Name:	Dr. Joseph Grafton Gall
	Institution:	Carnegie Institution of Washington
	Year Elected:	1989
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	202. Cellular and Developmental Biology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1928
	Death Date:	9/12/2024

	Joseph Gall is an outstanding cytogeneticist known for his research on the organization and structure of genes along animal chromosomes and for developing methods for detecting individual genes on chromosomes. He is a co-discoverer of gene amplification, which was later found to be an important concomitant of some cancers. Dr. Gall received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1952 and has taught at the University of Minnesota and at Yale University, where he was Ross Granville Harrison Professor of Biology and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Chemistry from 1964-83. He has been a staff member in the department of embryology at the Carnegie Institute of Washington since 1983 and American Cancer Society Professor of Developmental Genetics since 1984. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and was awarded the American Society for Cell Biology's E.B. Wilson Medal in 1983. A scholar of the history and use of microscopes and a collector of scientific books, especially those relating to cytology, Dr. Gall is a true naturalist with an encyclopedic knowledge and curiosity about living things.

1363	Name:	Albert Gallatin
	Year Elected:	1791
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1759
	Death Date:	8/13/1849

1364	Name:	Joseph Galloway
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1731
	Death Date:	8/20/1803

	Joseph Galloway (1731–29 August 1803) was a lawyer, politician, and prolific polemicist, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Born in West River, Maryland, he moved to Philadelphia to practice law in 1747. Numbered among the city’s leading men, he was elected to Pennsylvania’s provincial assembly in 1756 with the help of Benjamin Franklin. Along with Franklin, Galloway lost his seat in 1764 after failing to transform the proprietary government into a royally-appointed one. But he was re-elected two years later, defeating pro-proprietary politician (and fellow APS member) John Dickinson, and in 1766 was named speaker, a position he held until 1775. Galloway objected to the Stamp Act but sought to suppress mob violence and to mitigate calls for independence. Seeking a system of government that granted colonial subjects representation without compromising parliamentary sovereignty, he proposed an imperial constitution guaranteeing a separate, though subordinate, American assembly. The First Continental Congress rejected this conciliatory proposal in 1774, however, and Galloway declined an invitation to the Second Continental Congress in order to prepare a defense of his proposal for publication. Now committed to Loyalism, he joined the British army, serving General William Howe as superintendent-general for the maintenance of civic peace and civil governor of occupied Philadelphia during the winter of 1777-1778. When Continental forces retook the city, Galloway evacuated to New York. Early 1779 found him in London, where he continued to promote imperial reconciliation and criticized the conduct of the war under General Howe, both in print and via parliamentary testimony. Often extracted and reprinted, his publications influenced many, including the preacher John Wesley. Late in life, Galloway turned from political writing to biblical prophecy and ecclesiastical history. (PI, ANB, DNB, DAB)

1365	Name:	Arch Gamble
	Year Elected:	1784
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased

1366	Name:	Dr. Marjorie Garber
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	2012
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	401. Archaeology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1944

	Marjorie Garber is an internationally renowned scholar of Shakespeare, Renaissance literature and contemporary culture. Her interests encompass literary and cultural theory, psychoanalysis, gender, sexuality, the arts, and intellectual life. Her books include Shakespeare’s Ghost Writers (1987); Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety (1992);Vice-Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life (1995); Dog Love (1997); Sex and Real Estate (2000); Academic Instincts (2001); Shakespeare After All (2004); Patronizing the Arts (2008);Shakespeare and Modern Culture (2008) and The Use and Abuse of Literature (2011); as well as several volumes of collected essays: Symptoms of Culture (1998); Quotation Marks (2002); Profiling Shakespeare (2008); Loaded Words (2012); and Character: The History of a Cultural Obsession (2020). Shakespeare After All was awarded the prestigious Christian Gauss Prize by the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 2005. Her essays, known for their incisive wit, have established her as an astute cultural critic and commentator on modern life. Her dynamic and compelling lectures on Shakespeare have been widely influential for generations of students and scholars. Her recent work has addressed the arts, theater and performance, the centrality of literature and the future of the humanities. Dr. Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College (with Highest Honors) in 1966, and her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1969. She taught at Yale for a decade and then at Haverford College before joining the Harvard faculty in 1981. At Harvard she has been Director of the Humanities Center, Chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Chair of the Committee on Dramatic Arts, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Garber is the former President of the international Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes and a continuing member of its advisory board, and has served on the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies. She is a Trustee of the English Institute, and a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar.

1367	Name:	Alexander Garden
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1730
	Death Date:	4/15/1791

	Alexander Garden (January 1730–15 April 1791) was a physician and naturalist, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, he received a solid early education in mathematics, natural philosophy, and ancient and modern languages. He was an apprentice and then a student at Marischal College (where he eventually earned his M.D. degree), served as a naval surgeon’s mate, and studied under the king’s botanist at Edinburgh University. Garden then departed for Charleston, South Carolina, where he established a profitable medical practice and continued his botanical and zoological research. A trip to New York and Philadelphia put him in contact with APS members Cadwallader Colden, Benjamin Franklin, and John Bartram. He also corresponded extensively with—and sent countless specimens, including an electric eel, to—Carolus Linnaeus, Peter Collinson, Johannes Gronovius, John Ellis, and John Clayton. Garden conducted a botanical excursion in Florida in 1754, and in 1755 joined an expedition into Cherokee territory near the Blue Ridge Mountains. In recognition of his discovery and classification of numerous plants and animals, Linnaeus nominated him for membership in the Royal Society of Upsala in 1763. He was also a member of the Royal Society of London, the Royal Society of Arts, the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, the Philadelphia Medical Society, and the American Society. Garden sided with Britain during the American Revolution. In 1782, his property was confiscated (and later given to his patriot son) and he was banished. Following trips to France, Switzerland, and Scotland for his health, he spent the rest of his life in England, where he became vice-president of the Royal Society. He published in Philosophical Transactions and prepared several natural histories that were never printed; his major published treatise on the Virginia pink root does not survive. (PI, ANB, DNB, DAB)

1368	Name:	Dr. David Pierpont Gardner
	Institution:	University of Utah & University of California, Berkeley
	Year Elected:	1989
	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:	1933
	Death Date:	January 2, 2024

	For more than 40 years, David Pierpont Gardner has set a standard of excellence for higher education leadership. Nationally recognized as a visionary for his work throughout America's higher education structure, he was most recently Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Utah, President Emeritus of the University of California and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1983-92, Dr. Gardner served as the 15th president of the now 10-campus University of California system, one of the world's most distinguished centers of higher learning, and during his presidency, he successfully led the university through periods of intense controversy over affirmative action, animal rights, AIDS research, weapons labs and divestment in South Africa. In 1992, he was named president emeritus of the University of California. While serving as president of the University of Utah from 1973-83, Dr. Gardner chaired the U.S. Department of Education's Commission on Excellence in Education, which helped spark a national effort to improve and reform United States schools through its influential report "A Nation at Risk". Prior to his tenure at the University of Utah, Dr. Gardner spent seven years as a faculty member and vice chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara, during a tumultuous era of culture wars, ethnic division and anti-Vietnam-war protests. He is the author of many articles and books on educational policy reform. The latter include The California Oath Controversy; Higher Education and Government: An Uneasy Alliance; and Earning My Degree: Memoirs of an American University President. Dr. Gardner has earned numerous awards for his work, including the California School Board's Research Foundation Hall of Fame Award, the James Bryan Conant Award, and the Fulbright 40th Anniversary Distinguished Fellow Award. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a member of the National Academy of Education, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Gardner received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966.

1369	Name:	Dr. Richard N. Gardner
	Institution:	Columbia University
	Year Elected:	1998
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	504. Scholars in the Professions
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1927
	Death Date:	February 16, 2019

	Richard N. Gardner was Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia Law School and Senior Counsel to Morgan Lewis, a global law firm. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Italy from 1977-81 and as U.S. Ambassador to Spain from 1993-97. During his service in Spain, he received the Thomas Jefferson Award for his contributions to U.S. citizens abroad. From 1961-65 he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. He was a member of the President's Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN) and of the U.S. delegation to the Ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization held in Seattle at the end of 1999. He was later a member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. Professor Gardner held a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Yale Law School, a Doctor of Philosophy degree in economics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and a B.A. degree in economics from Harvard University. His Oxford thesis, published by the Oxford University Press as Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy, has been described as the "classic" study of Anglo-American economic collaboration in the creation of the Bretton Woods institutions and GATT. He authored four other books on international affairs, including In Pursuit of World Order: US Foreign Policy and International Organization. His latest book, Mission Italy: On the Front Lines of the Cold War, was published in Italian by Mondadori in September 2004 and presented in the Italian Parliament by two former Italian Prime Ministers. The U.S. edition was published in 2005. He was also the author of numerous articles in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. In 1992 the Council on Foreign Relations published his booklet entitled Negotiating Survival: Four Priorities After Rio. Professor Gardner was a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a member of the International Advisory Board of Grupo Santander of Spain and served on the International Capital Markets Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange. He was Vice President of the American Ditchley Foundation and a member of the Board of the Salzburg Seminar. In 2000, Professor Gardner served as a public delegate to the 55th "Millennium" United Nations General Assembly. He served as Special Advisor to the United Nations at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, as he did in 1972 to the U.N. Conference on the Human Environment. From 1982-93 he was Co-Chairman of the Aspen Institute Program on the United States and the World Economy. He also served from 1988-92 as chairman of the U.S. group in a joint Russian-American program on the United Nations and collective security, established under the auspices of the U.S. and Russian U.N. Associations. He was a member of a U.N. Association group engaged in a dialogue on multilateral issues with the Chinese Institute of International Studies. Professor Gardner married the former Danielle Almeida Luzzatto, a columnist for the Italian magazine Chi?. The Gardners had two children, Nina Gardner Olivieri, a lawyer and consultant in Paris, and Anthony Laurence Gardner, a former member of the staff of the National Security Council, a lawyer, and currently Executive Director of GE Commercial Finance-Europe in London. Richard N. Gardner died February 16, 2019 in New York, NY at the age of 91.

1370	Name:	Dr. Howard Gardner
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	2006
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	305
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1943

	Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A developmental psychologist by training, he has conducted research and written books in several areas, including developmental psychology, neuropsychology, cognitive science, arts education, structuralism, leadership, intelligence, ethics, creativity, and precollegiate education. Dr. Gardner is best known in educational circles for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists a single general intelligence that can be adequately assessed by psychometric instruments. Part of the original team of researchers at Project Zero when it was established by Nelson Goodman in 1967, Gardner went on to become co-director, then senior director. His research with Project Zero includes The Good Project (formerly the GoodWork Project), which promotes "excellence, engagement, and ethics in education, preparing students to become good workers and good citizens who contribute to the overall well-being of society," and Higher Education in the 20th Century, a large-scale national study of college today. Recently, he and colleagues on The Good Project have been studying the fate of professions during a time of rapid change and enormous market pressures. The recipient of 31 honorary degrees, Dr. Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. He is the author of 30 books, notably Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (1983); the most recent of which are Extraordinary minds: Portraits of exceptional individuals and an examination of our extraordinariness (1997), The disciplined mind: What all students should understand (1999), Intelligence reframed: Multiple intelligences for the 21st Century (1999), Changing minds: The art and science of changing our own and other people’s minds (2004), and The App Generation (2013). Among his many awards are the Grawemeyer Award in Education, University of Louisville (1990), Presidential Citation, American Educational Research Association (1996), Presidential Citation, American Psychological Association (1998), George Ledlie Prize, President and Fellows of Harvard College (2000), Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic, Pio Manzù (2001), Prince of Asturias Prize in Social Science (2011), Brock International Prize in Education (2015), and the Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, the premier honor from the American Educational Research Association (2020).

1371	Name:	Dr. Eugene Garfield
	Institution:	The Scientist; Institute for Scientific Information/Thomson Scientific
	Year Elected:	2007
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	504. Scholars in the Professions
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1925
	Death Date:	February 26, 2017

	Eugene Garfield was a pioneer in information retrieval systems and the inventor of Current Contents (1958), Index Chemicus (1960), Science Citation Index (1964), Social Sciences Citation Index (1970), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975). He was an eclectic science communicator, founding publisher/editor of The Scientist, and author of over 1,000 articles and books. His annual impact factor rankings of ISI's Journal Citation Reports (1975) have promoted high journal standards worldwide. His HistCite system (1964) of algorithmic historiography now maps research topics from searches of the ISI Web of Science database of 30,000,000 articles. Modern scholarship in the sciences and the humanities relies heavily on the retrieval of information and the assessment of its impact on the thinking of others. Garfield developed the technique of Science Citation. Papers are ranked based on the number of times that they are referenced in other papers. Google is based on the same principle. Web sites are ranked in the list that is generated by the search words or phrase based on the number of times other Web sites refer to them. In their Stanford thesis that is the basis of the Google concept, Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin cited Garfield's invention of Science Citations. His invention has been a major contribution to information technology and to American and world business. Eugene Garfield died February 26, 2017, at the age of 91.

1372	Name:	Charles De Garmo
	Year Elected:	1897
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	5/14/34

1373	Name:	John Garnett
	Year Elected:	1802
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1751
	Death Date:	5/11/1820

1374	Name:	Philip C. Garrett
	Year Elected:	1883
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1824
	Death Date:	12/9/1905

1375	Name:	Joseph F. Garrison
	Year Elected:	1884
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1823
	Death Date:	1/30/1892

1376	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.

1377	Name:	Herbert Spencer Gasser
	Year Elected:	1937
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1888
	Death Date:	5/11/1963

1378	Name:	William Gaston
	Year Elected:	1817
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	1/23/1844

1379	Name:	Merrill E. Gates
	Year Elected:	1886
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1848
	Death Date:	8/11/1922

1380	Name:	Thomas S. Gates
	Year Elected:	1930
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1873
	Death Date:	4/8/1948

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