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1601	Name:	Samuel J. Gummere
	Year Elected:	1868
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased

1602	Name:	Francis B. Gummere
	Year Elected:	1903
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased

1603	Name:	Dr. Werner Gundersheimer
	Institution:	Folger Shakespeare Library
	Year Elected:	1998
	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? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1937

	Werner Gundersheimer, a highly respected French and Italian Renaissance scholar, is a major interpreter of Ferrara's cultural history who has brought unusual ingenuity and intellect to his directorship of The Folger Shakespeare Library, one of the world's great humanistic research centers. He succeeded in restructuring the Folger's operations and staff, increased the endowment and operating funds impressively, improved the physical environment, modernized the seminar program, organized both scholarly and popular conferences and lectures and created better lines of communication with the general public. Dr. Gundersheimer is a prominent leader in the study and interpretation of Renaissance history, and he continues to publish important articles in leading journals. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1963). He has taught at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, Swarthmore College, and Tel Aviv University and presently lectures at several universities and colleges. Among his many honors is the Star of Italian Solidarity (Cavaliere della Stella Solidarieta Italiana) conferred by the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Italy (1974).

1604	Name:	Dr. James Gunn
	Institution:	Princeton University
	Year Elected:	1987
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	101. Astronomy
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1938

	James Edward Gunn is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University Observatory. His range of abilities, including great skill in physical theory and applied mathematics, an outstanding capability in the design of novel and powerful instruments, and extensive experience as an observational astronomer with a keen choice of central problems, is unique in astronomy. Dr. Gunn's early theoretical work helped establish the current understanding of how galaxies form and properties of the space between galaxies. He also suggested important observational tests to confirm the presence of dark matter in galaxies. Much of Dr. Gunn's later work has involved leadership in major observational projects. He developed plans for one of the first uses of digital camera technology for space observation, a project that led to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the most extensive three-dimensional mapping of the universe ever undertaken. Dr. Gunn has worked as a scientist at JPL and taught at the University of California, Berkeley, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Washington, the University of Chicago, and Rice University. He was a deputy principal investigator on the Wide Field/Planetary Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, served as the associate director of the Apache Point Observatory and is a MacArthur Fellow. He was also a project scientist and technical director for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. His numerous honors include the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal, the National Medal of Science (2009) and membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Gunn earned his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1966 and has served on the faculty at Princeton since 1968.

1605	Name:	Dr. Gerald Gunther
	Institution:	Stanford University
	Year Elected:	1981
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1927
	Death Date:	July 30, 2002

1606	Name:	Mr. A. R. Gurney
	Year Elected:	2009
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	501. Creative Artists
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1930
	Death Date:	June 13, 2017

	A.R. Gurney was a prolific playwright who dissected the fading folkways of the Northeast's traditional white Anglo-Saxon Protestant society, of which he himself was a member. Among his plays are Scenes from American Life; The Dining Room; The Cocktail Hour; Love Letters; Slyvia; Later Life; Far East; Ancestral Voices; Big Bill; Mrs. Farnsworth; Indian Blood; Buffalo Gal; The Grand Manner; Black Tie; Heresy, and Family Furniture. He had written three published novels, several television scripts, and the libretto for Michael Torke's Strawberry Fields, commissioned and produced by the New York City Opera. Gurney was a Professor of Literature at M.I.T. before devoting himself full time to the theatre. He is a member of the Theatre Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he has honorary degrees from Williams College and Buffalo State University. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2009. A. R. Gurney died June 13, 2017, at the age of 86, in Manhattan.

1607	Name:	Frederick Gutekunst
	Year Elected:	1885
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased

1608	Name:	Dr. Hans G. Güterbock
	Institution:	University of Chicago
	Year Elected:	1977
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1908
	Death Date:	March 29, 2000

1609	Name:	Dr. Amy Gutmann
	Institution:	U.S. State Department; University of Pennsylvania
	Year Elected:	2005
	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? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1949

	Amy Gutmann is a political philosopher, widely recognized for her work linking theory to practice in the core values of democratic civil society. In 2022 she became the U.S. Ambassador to Germany. From 2004-2022 she served as the eighth president of the University of Pennsylvania, where she also held the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science chair in the School of Arts and Sciences, along with secondary faculty appointments in Philosophy, the Annenberg School for Communication, and the Graduate School of Education. Dr. Gutmann has published widely on the value of education and deliberation in democracy, on the importance of access to higher education and health care, on "the good, the bad and the ugly" of identity politics, and on the essential role of ethics -especially professional and political ethics - in public affairs. She continued to be an active scholar as Penn's President, most recently lecturing on "What Makes a University Education Worthwhile?" and publishing her sixteenth book, The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It (with Dennis Thompson) in May 2012. During her term as university president she became a national leader in the push to facilitate broader access to higher education, making Penn the largest university to establish a no-loan guarantee that has become a national model, and significantly expanding the number of low-income students attending the University. Born in Brooklyn, New York to immigrant parents, Dr. Gutmann graduated magna cum laude from Harvard-Radcliffe College. She earned her master's degree in Political Science from the London School of Economics and her doctorate in Political Science from Harvard University. Prior to her appointment as Penn's president, she served as provost at Princeton University, where she was also the founding director of the University Center for Human Values. She served as Princeton's dean of the faculty from 1995-97 and as academic advisor to the President from 1997-98. In 2000, she was awarded the President's Distinguished Teaching Award by Princeton University. She won the Harvard University Centennial Medal (2003), the Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award (2009), and was named by Newsweek one of the "150 Women Who Shake the World" (2011). She is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, is a W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and served as president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Dr. Gutmann is a founding member of the Global Colloquium of the University Presidents, which advises the Secretary General of the U.N. on a range of issues, including the social responsibility of universities. In 2009, President Obama appointed her chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She is married to Michael W.Doyle, the Harold Brown Professor of Law and International Affairs at Columbia University. Their daughter, Abigail Gutmann Doyle, is an assistant professor of Chemistry at Princeton University.

1610	Name:	Dr. H. S. Gutowsky
	Institution:	University of Illinois
	Year Elected:	1982
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1919
	Death Date:	January 13, 2000

1611	Name:	Arnold Guyot
	Year Elected:	1867
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased

1612	Name:	Dr. F. Otto Haas
	Institution:	Rohm & Haas
	Year Elected:	1967
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1915
	Death Date:	1/2/94

1613	Name:	Mr. John C. Haas
	Institution:	Historical Society of Pennsylvania & Temple University Health System & Boys & Girls Clubs of Philadelphia & Chemical Heritage Foundation
	Year Elected:	1992
	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:	1918
	Death Date:	April 2, 2011

	John C. Haas spent his professional career with the Rohm and Haas Company (except for service in the Navy Reserve during World War II). He began his career at the company in 1942 and retired from the Board in 1988. Mr. Haas received an A.B. degree from Amherst College in 1940 and his M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1942. Mr. Haas served on the board of Temple University Health System and chaired the Temple University Health System Board of Overseers. He was a trustee emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Chemical Heritage Foundation. Mr. Haas was a member of the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1992. John C. Haas died on April 2, 2011, at the age of 92, at home in Villanova, Pennsylvania.

1614	Name:	Mr. David Haas
	Institution:	Wyncote Foundation; William Penn Foundation
	Year Elected:	2015
	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? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1955

	David Haas is a philanthropist working with a number of foundations that were created by his grandparents, Otto and Phoebe Haas, and parents, John and Chara Haas. From 1999-2009, he served on the board of directors of the Rohm & Haas Company, founded by Otto Haas and chemist Otto Rohm in 1909, which grew to become a global Fortune 500 company. Haas has a history of supporting public media and journalism locally and nationally, and arts, culture and green space efforts in Philadelphia. He has served on the board of the William Penn Foundation since 1982, and as board chair since 1993 for all but four of those years. WPF, founded in 1945 by his grandparents, makes grants in the Greater Philadelphia region, in the program areas: Great Learning, Watershed Protection, and Creative Communities. Now one of the 40 largest foundations in the country, its current annual grant budget is $105 million and has an endowment of about $2 billion. Haas also serves on the board of the Wyncote Foundation, which was created in 2009 by John C. Haas. Wyncote supports efforts in culture, community and the natural environment. Since 2002, He has served as board chair of Media Impact Funders, a network of funders supporting and a wide public service media and digital technology efforts that strengthen communities. From 1989-1997, he ran the Philadelphia Independent Film/Video Association, a service organization for independent film, video and audio makers based in the Philadelphia area. Born in 1955, Haas grew up in the area suburbs, is the father of three sons and has been a resident of the City of Philadelphia since 1981. In 2015 he was awarded the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy.

1615	Name:	Dr. Christian Habicht
	Institution:	Institute for Advanced Study
	Year Elected:	1983
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1926
	Death Date:	August 6, 2018

	Christian Herbert Habicht greatly illuminated the transition between the world of the Greek city state and that of imperial Rome, and dealt in a masterly way with some of the fundamental problems of the religious, political and social life of the ancient Mediterranean. Born in Dortmund, Germany in 1926, Dr. Habicht received his academic training in ancient history, Greek, Latin and classical archaeology at Hamburg, Heidelberg and Göttingen, earning a D. Phil. degree in 1952 from the University of Hamburg. From 1952-57 he served as an assistant professor at the University of Hamburg and traveled throughout Italy, Greece and the Near East through a German Archaeological Institute stipend. He served as Privatdozent at the University of Hamburg from 1957-61 before becoming Professor of Ancient History at the University of Marburg from 1961-65. Dr. Habicht served as co-editor of Hypomnemata. Untersuchungen zur Antike und zu ihrem Nachleben, Göttingen (1962-96), Jüdische Schriften aus hellenistisch-römischer Zeit, Gütersloh (1973-98) and The American Journal of Ancient History (1976-2000). From 1965-73 he was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Heidelberg and was also Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy there from 1966-67. From 1972-73 he was a Visiting Member at the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, where he later became a professor (1973-98) and professor emeritus (1998). AFter 1973 he was also Honorary professor at the University of Heidelberg. Dr. Habicht was a member of the German Archaeological Institute, the Heidelberg Academy (elected 1970), and the Academy of Athens and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. He received the Reuchlin Prize in the Humanities (1996), the American Philosophical Society's Henry Allen Moe Prize and the Criticos Prize of the London Hellenic Society, among his many honors. In 2017, he edited a new version The Histories by Polybius (Loeb Classical Library, Vols 1 & 2, 2010; Vol 3 2011), translated by W.R. Paton. Christian Habicht died on August 6, 2018 in Princeton, New Jersey at the age of 92.

1616	Name:	Dr. Norman Hackerman
	Institution:	Rice University & Robert A. Welch Foundation & University of Texas at Austin
	Year Elected:	1972
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1912
	Death Date:	June 16, 2007

1617	Name:	Dr. Sheldon Hackney
	Institution:	University of Pennsylvania
	Year Elected:	1988
	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:	September 12, 2013

	Sheldon Hackney was Professor Emeritus of History and President Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. His special interests were in the history of the South since the Civil War, the 1960s, and the American identity. He received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1955 and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1966, studying under C. Vann Woodward. His first book, Populism to Progressivism in Alabama (1969) won the Albert J. Beveridge Prize of the American Historical Association and the Charles Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association. Professor Hackney served as Provost of Princeton University (1972-75); President of Tulane University (1975-81); and President of the University of Pennsylvania (1981-93). In 1993 he became chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, returning to the Penn faculty in 1997. He had written and spoken widely about Southern history, higher education, and the role of the humanities in American life. His wife was Lucy Durr Hackney, an attorney and advocate for public policy affecting children. They had three children and eight grandchildren. Sheldon Hackney was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1988. He died September 12, 2013, at the age of 79.

1618	Name:	Arthur T. Hadley
	Year Elected:	1902
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	3/05/1930

1619	Name:	Hermann A. Hagen
	Year Elected:	1886
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1817
	Death Date:	11/09/1893

1620	Name:	Henry S. Hagert
	Year Elected:	1875
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	12/18/1885

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