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1641	Name:	Dr. David A. Hamburg
	Institution:	Weill Cornell Medical College; Carnegie Corporation of New York
	Year Elected:	1983
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	205. Microbiology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1925
	Death Date:	April 21, 2019

	David Hamburg was president emeritus at Carnegie Corporation of New York, where he served as the Corporation's eleventh president from 1982-97. Under his leadership the work of the Corporation focused on education and healthy development of children and youth, human resources in developing countries, and international security issues. He established a number of task forces on education and preventing conflict which produced seminal research and policy analysis and which will continue to influence the work in these fields in the future. A medical doctor, Dr. Hamburg had a long history of leadership in the research, medical and psychiatric fields before his transition from a trustee of Carnegie to its president. An authority on psychosomatic and psychiatric diseases, he was broadly interested in human genetics and evolution. He was chief of the adult psychiatry branch at the National Institutes of Health, from 1958-61; professor and chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University from 1961-72; Reed-Hodgson Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University from 1972-76; president of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1975-80; and director of the division of health policy research and education and John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy at Harvard University, 1980-83. He served as president and chairman of the board (1984-1986) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Hamburg was a member of the United States Defense Policy Board with Secretary of Defense William Perry and cochair with former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. He was a member of President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology and a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School's department of social medicine and was the founder of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government. In May 2006 Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed him to chair the newly formed United Nations Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention. The committee provided guidance and support to the work of the UN Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide and contributed to the broader efforts of the UN to avert massive crimes against humanity. He was DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar at the Weill Cornell Medical College and Co-Chair of the Social Medicine and Public Policy Programs. Hamburg received both his A.B. and M.D. degrees from Indiana University. He also received numerous honorary degrees during his career as well as the American Psychiatric Association's Distinguished Service Award in 1991, the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House in 1996, the International Peace Academy's 25th Anniversary Special Award in 1996, the Achievement in Children and Public Policy Award from the Society for Research in Child Development in 1997, and the National Academy of Sciences' Public Welfare Medal in 1998. In 2007 he received the Institute of Medicine's Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Award in Mental Health jointly with his wife Beatrix; similarly, they were jointly awarded the 2015 Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. David Hamburg died on April 21, 2019 in Washington, D.C. at the age of 93.

1642	Name:	Dr. Jeffrey Hamburger
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	2010
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	401. Archaeology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1957

	Professor Hamburger's teaching and research focus on the art of the High and later Middle Ages. Among his areas of special interest are medieval manuscript illumination, text-image issues, the history of attitudes towards imagery and visual experience, and German vernacular religious writing of the Middle Ages, especially in the context of mysticism. Beginning with his dissertation on the Rothschild Canticles (Yale, 1987), much of his scholarship has focused on the art of female monasticism, a program of research that culminated in 2005 in an international exhibition, Krone und Schleier (Crown and Veil) that was sponsored by the German government and held jointly in Bonn and Essen. An English translation of the essays in the exhibition catalog was published by Columbia University Press in 2008. His current research includes a project that seeks to integrate digital technology into the study and presentation of liturgical manuscripts, a study of narrative imagery in late medieval German prayer books and a major international exhibition on German manuscript illumination in the age of Gutenberg. The recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the NEH, and the Humboldt-Stiftung, Prof. Hamburger was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2001 and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2009. He serves on numerous advisory boards, among them, those of the German Manuscript Cataloguing Centers, the Europäisches Romanikzentrum, the Centre International de Codicologie, Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier, Brussels, and the Katalog der deutschsprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich. He is currently Chair of Harvard's Medieval Studies Committee. In addition to numerous articles, Prof. Hamburger's books include: The Mind's Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Medieval West , co-edited with Anne-Marie Bouché (Princeton: Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, Princeton University Press, 2005); Die Ottheinrich-Bibel. Kommentar zur Faksimile-Ausgabe der Handschrift Cgm 8010/1.2 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München co-authored with Brigitte Gullath, Karin Schneider, & Robert Suckale (Luzern: Faksimile-Verlag, 2002); St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology (Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002); The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany (New York: Zone Books, 1998), awarded the Charles Rufus Morey Prize of the College Art Association and the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize in Art & Music; Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996, awarded the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society and the Otto Gründler Prize of the International Congress of Medieval Studies; and The Rothschild Canticles : Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland circa 1300 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), awarded the Arlt Award in the Humanities by the Council of Graduate Schools and the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America. His most recent book, Leaves from Paradise: The Cult of John at the Dominican Convent of Paradies bei Soest , Houghton Library Studies, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Houghton Library, distributed by Harvard University Press), was published in 2008. Prof. Hamburger holds both his B.A. and Ph.D. in art history from Yale University . He previously held teaching positions at Oberlin College and the University of Toronto. He has been a guest professor in Zurich, Paris, Oxford and Fribourg, Switzerland. In 2015 he was awarded the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Foundation.

1643	Name:	James Hamilton
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1710
	Death Date:	08/14/1783

	James Hamilton (1710–14 August 1783) was a public officeholder and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Likely born in Kent County, Maryland, he was the son of a prominent lawyer who secured his status by representing the Penn family’s interests. Hamilton was educated in Philadelphia and England before settling in Philadelphia where, with with support from his father and patronage from the Penn family, he entered public office. His position as the prothonotary of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court would be the first in a long list of prominent public offices. From there, Hamilton would go on to serve in the Provincial Assembly, Philadelphia Common Council, and as mayor of Philadelphia before being commissioned as lieutenant governor in 1748 at the relatively young age of thirty-six. Hamilton’s careful management of his inheritance assured that his wealth—derived from rents, land sales, interest payments, and annuities—kept him living a comfortable life at his country estate Bush Hill, widely praised for its gardens. During the American Revolution, his sympathy and financial connections to England led to his imprisonment and exile in the winter of 1777-1778. He eventually secured a medical release and, after swearing an oath of allegiance, was able to return to his estate. However, he never held public office again. His spent his later years supporting a variety of Philadelphia institutions including serving as a trustee of the Academy and College of Philadelphia, founding St. John’s Masonic Lodge, and joining the St. Andrew’s Society. His brother-in-law William Allen and nephews John, Andrew, and James Allen were APS members. (PI, DNB, DAB)

1644	Name:	Alexander Hamilton
	Year Elected:	1791
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1757
	Death Date:	07/12/1804

1645	Name:	William Hamilton
	Year Elected:	1797
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1745
	Death Date:	06/05/1813

1646	Name:	Dr. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
	Institution:	Princeton University
	Year Elected:	2024
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1966

	Sharon Hammes-Schiffer received her B.A. in Chemistry from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University, followed by two years at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Her academic career has included faculty positions at the University of Notre Dame, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Yale University. She is currently a Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. Her work encompasses the development of analytical theories and computational methods, as well as applications to experimentally relevant systems. She has devised theories of proton-coupled electron transfer and computational strategies for nuclear-electronic quantum dynamics and quantum chemistry, including the invention of the nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) approach. She has used these approaches to investigate quantum mechanical effects in chemical, biological, and interfacial processes. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, and Biophysical Society. She has received the American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry, the Royal Society Bourke Award, the Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry, and the Gibbs Medal Award. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Reviews and is on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science and the Editorial Board for PNAS. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2024.

1647	Name:	William A. Hammond
	Year Elected:	1859
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	01/05/1900

1648	Name:	Dr. Eric P. Hamp
	Institution:	University of Chicago & University of Shkodër
	Year Elected:	1980
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	406. Linguistics
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1920
	Death Date:	February 17, 2019

	Linguist Eric P. Hamp was born in England in 1920 and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1954. He was associated with the University of Chicago from 1950, when he took the position of instructor, until the end of his career, when he was professor of Indo-European linguistics and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics. An authority on the Indo-European family of languages, Dr. Hamp approached languages ranging from Albanian and Celtic to Native American languages with both fine judgment and sophisticated control of data. He served as director of the Center for Balkan and Slavic Studies, presided over the Linguistic Society of America, and taught as a visiting professor at universities in Edinburgh, Belgrade, Copenhagen, and Bucharest. Dr. Hamp authored thousands of published works, including Glossary of American Technical Linguistic Usage (1966) and Language and Machines (1966). In 2015 he was awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of Kosova. Eric P. Hamp died February 17, 2019 in Traverse City, MI, at the age of 98.

1649	Name:	Dr. Philip Handler
	Year Elected:	1969
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1917
	Death Date:	12/29/81

1650	Name:	Dr. Oscar Handlin
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	1999
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	303. History Since 1715
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1915
	Death Date:	September 20, 2011

	Oscar Handlin ranks as one of the most prolific and influential American historians of the twentieth century, with pioneering works in the fields of immigration history, ethnic history, and social history. He began his long career at Harvard University in 1939, becoming a full professor in 1954. At a time when most historians of the U.S. were wholly absorbed by the frontier thesis of Professor F. J. Turner, Dr. Handlin turned his attention to another movement westward: that of Eastern Europeans, many of them Jews, to the United States. Dr. Handlin's best known work, The Uprooted, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize, is to some extent autobiographical. His many other books include The American People in the Twentieth Century; Race and Nationality in American Life; and Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences; the Massachusetts Historical Society; the Colonial Society of Massachusetts; and the American Jewish Historical Society. Oscar Handlin died on September 20, 2011, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at age 97.

1651	Name:	John L. Haney
	Year Elected:	1929
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1877

1652	Name:	John L. Haney
	Year Elected:	1929
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	12/28/59

1653	Name:	George M. A. Hanfmann
	Year Elected:	1970
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1911
	Death Date:	03/14/86

1654	Name:	Howard Hanson
	Year Elected:	1950
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1896
	Death Date:	2/26/81

1655	Name:	Dr. William Happer
	Institution:	Princeton University
	Year Elected:	1998
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	106. Physics
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1939

	Dr. William Happer, a Professor in the Department of Physics at Princeton University, is a specialist in modern optics, optical and radiofrequency of atoms and molecules, and spin-polarized atoms and nuclei. Born July 27, 1939 in Vellore, India, Dr. Happer's parents were Lt. Col. William Happer, a Scottish physician in the Indian Army, and Dr. Gladys Morgan Happer, a medical missionary from North Carolina. He received a B.S. degree in physics from the University of North Carolina in 1960 and his Ph.D. degree in physics from Princeton University in 1964. He began his academic career in 1964 at Columbia University as a member of the research and teaching staff of the physics department. While serving as a Professor of Physics he also served as Co-Director of the Columbia Radiation Laboratory from 1971-76, and as Director from 1976-79. In 1980 he joined the faculty at Princeton University. He was named the Class of 1909 Professor of Physics in 1988. On August 5, 1991, with the consent of the Senate, he was appointed Director of Energy Research in the Department of Energy by President George Bush. While serving in that capacity under Secretary of Energy James Watkins, he oversaw a basic research budget of some $3 billon, which included much of the federal funding for high energy and nuclear physics, material science, magnetic confinement fusion, environmental science, biology, the human genome project, and other areas. He remained at the DOE until May 31, 1993 to help during the transition to the Clinton Administration. He was reappointed Professor of Physics at Princeton University on June 1, 1993, and named Eugene Higgens Professor of Physics and Chair of the University Research Board in 1995. He has maintained an interest in applied as well as basic science, and he has served as a consultant to numerous firms, charitable foundations and governmental agencies. From 1987-90 he served as Chairman of the Steering Committee of JASON, a group of scientists and engineers who advise agencies of the Federal Government on matters of defense, intelligence, energy policy and other technical problems. He is a trustee of the MITRE Corporation, the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, and a co-founder in 1994 of Magnetic Imaging Technologies Incorporated (MITI), a small company specializing in the use of laser polarized noble gases for magnetic resonance imaging. MITI was purchased by Nycomed Amersham in 1999. He has published over 160 scientific papers. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 1966, an Alexander von Humboldt Award in 1976, the 1997 Broida Prize and the 1999 Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society and the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award in 2000. Dr. Happer was married in 1967 to the former Barbara Jean Baker of Rahway, New Jersey. They have two grown children, James William and Gladys Anne.

1656	Name:	Alfred Bennett Harbage
	Year Elected:	1959
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1901
	Death Date:	05/02/76

1657	Name:	Frederick H. Harbison
	Year Elected:	1969
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1912
	Death Date:	04/05/76

1658	Name:	John W. Harden
	Year Elected:	1873
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	11/08/1879

1659	Name:	Dr. Garrett Hardin
	Institution:	University of California, Santa Barbara
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	203. Evolution & Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Paleontology, and Physical Anthropology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1915
	Death Date:	September 14, 2003

1660	Name:	Robert Harding
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	10/6/1701
	Death Date:	09/01/1772

	Robert Harding (6 October 1701–1 September 1772) was a Catholic rector and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Born in Nottingham, England, he embarked on a Jesuit education in Belgium. Believing Maryland sorely needed priests, the Catholic Church then sent him to St. Mary’s county in 1732. He served as a missionary there and in Prince George’s County for seventeen years before his appointment to St. Joseph’s Church in Philadelphia in 1749. In 1759 Harding was appointed head of the Jesuits in Pennsylvania, a position that included oversight of the missions in Conewago, Lancaster, and Goshenhoppen. Catholics were treated with hostility in the English colonies at this time because they were perpetually suspected of secretly aiding and abetting foreign countries by virtue of their shared faith. Harding worked diligently to assuage such fears and to prove his political loyalty. By the end of his life, he had garnered the respect of prominent Protestants like APS members Provost William Smith and Jacob Duché, Jr. Harding achieved this success, in part, because he proved his commitment to the city of Philadelphia and its institutions. In 1754 he was an early contributor to Pennsylvania Hospital; in 1755 he led relief efforts to feed and house Acadian refugees; and in 1772 he was a founding member of the Society of the Sons of St. George. (PI)

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