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1681	Name:	William Harris
	Year Elected:	1838
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	03/03/1861

1682	Name:	Robert P. Harris
	Year Elected:	1856
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	02/20/1899

1683	Name:	Joseph S. Harris
	Year Elected:	1887
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	06/02/10

1684	Name:	Dr. Zellig S. Harris
	Institution:	University of Pennsylvania
	Year Elected:	1962
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1909
	Death Date:	5/22/92

1685	Name:	Dr. Cyril M. Harris
	Institution:	Columbia University
	Year Elected:	1987
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	504. Scholars in the Professions
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1917
	Death Date:	January 4, 2011

	Cyril M. Harris was one of the world's leading acoustical consultants and engineers. He was born in 1917 and, after working as a researcher during World War II, he received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1945. He was employed as a research engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1945-51 before joining the faculty at Columbia University. Dr. Harris was named professor of architecture in 1964, chairman of the division of architectural technology at Columbia in 1974 and Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1976. He also served as an acoustical consultant for the Metropolitan Opera House and the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and was responsible for the acoustical revitalization of Avery Fisher Hall at New York's Lincoln Center. Dr. Harris is the author of works such as Acoustical Designing in Architecture (1950), Handbook of Noise Control (1957) and Shock and Vibration Handbook (1961) and has been presented with numerous awards including the A.I.A. Institute Medal (1980) and the Gold Medal of the Audio Engineering Society (1984). He also served as the 85th president of the New York Academy of Sciences (1991-93) and was Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Charles Batchelor Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. Cyril Harris died January 4, 2011, at the age of 93, at his home in New York City.

1686	Name:	Dr. Ellen T. Harris
	Institution:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Year Elected:	2016
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	401. Archaeology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1945

	Ellen T. Harris, Class of 1949 Professor Emeritus at MIT, is a musicologist whose work focuses on Handel, Baroque opera, and vocal performance practice. She has taught at Columbia University; the University of Chicago, where she served as department chair; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was the first Associate Provsot for the Arts. She has served as the President of the American Handel Society and is currently President of the American Musicological Society. Her most recent book, George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends (W. W. Norton, 2014), detailing the place of Handel and his music in eighteenth-century London, received the Nicolas Slonimsky Award (ASCAP/Deems Taylor) for Outstanding Musical Biography. Her previous book, Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas (Harvard University Press, 2001) received the 2002 Otto Kindeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2002-03 Louis Gottschalk Prize from the Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Her earlier publications include an edition of cantatas for alto voice (Oxford University Press, 2001), a critical facsimile edition of Handel’s opera librettos in 13 vols. (Garland, 1989), Henry Purcell’s ‘Dido and Aeneas’ (Oxford, 1987, of which a 30th-anniversary edition is now in preparation), an edition (with Edward Dent) of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Oxford, 1987), and Handel and the Pastoral Tradition (Oxford, 1980). Articles and reviews by Professor Harris have appeared in numerous publications including Journal of the American Musicological Society, Händel Jahrbuch, Notes, and The New York Times. Her article "Handel the Investor" (Music & Letters, 2004), based on her research in the Bank of England, received the 2004 Westrup Prize. Harris has enjoyed residencies at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College in Harvard University (1995-96) and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2004), and in 2005 won the Gyorgy Kepes Prize for her contributions to the arts at MIT. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998) and made an Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society (2011). For the 2013-14 academic year, she was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, and in 2016 a Visiting Professor at The Juilliard School. In her role as a musicologist-singer, Harris served as consultant to Renée Fleming on her recording of Handel arias and to the Santa Fe Opera on their production of Mozart’s Mitridate. She also served as musicological advisor to the complete recording of Handel’s Italian instrumental cantatas by the Italian early music group La Risonanza and has given joint presentations with its musical director Fabio Bonizzoni. She has performed twice with John Williams and the Boston Pops and sung the National Anthem at Fenway Park.

1687	Name:	Joseph Harrison
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	11/25/1709
	Death Date:	1/15/1787

	Joseph Harrison (25 November 1709–15 January 1787) was a merchant, imperial official, and scientist, and a member of the American Society, elected in 1768. Born into a well-to-do Quaker family in Yorkshire, England, he was apprenticed to a merchant before immigrating to Newport, Rhode Island, in 1739. He managed the affairs of a Newport merchant before forming a partnership with his brother Peter, also an APS member. Elected a freeman in 1745, Harrison helped draft the construction plan for Fort George and served on the Rhode Island-Massachusetts border commission. He was also a founder and director of the Redwood Library Company and produced a sextant that APS member Benjamin West used to observe the Transit of Venus from Providence. In 1760, Harrison returned from a visit to England as collector of customs at New Haven. Finding this position less remunerative than he had hoped, he voyaged to England again in 1764 to seek another post and to petition the government to make Rhode Island a royal colony. The petition was unsuccessful, but his knowledge of colonial affairs proved an asset. Though he was denied the post of surveyor of American customs, he was named assistant to the surveyor’s secretary Edmund Burke. Later that year, Harrison became collector of customs at Boston, where he was involved in an episode significant to the American Revolution. In 1768, he attempted to assert the king’s authority by making an example of one of the city’s wealthiest merchants. But when he seized a ship belonging to John Hancock on charges of smuggling, a mob rose in protest, beating Harrison and damaging his property. He returned to England in 1769, where he occasionally advised the government, continued his mercantile business, and supported the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. (PI)

1688	Name:	Peter Harrison
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	6/16/1716
	Death Date:	4/30/1775

	Peter Harrison (16 June 1716–30 April 1775) was an architect, merchant, and imperial official, and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. Born in Yorkshire, England, he followed his brother, fellow APS member Joseph Harrison, to Newport, Rhode Island, around 1740. There, he became a merchant and ship captain and developed a gentlemanly passion for architecture. In virtually every port he visited, Harrison offered to design buildings. As a result, his neo-Palladian designs can be seen throughout the Atlantic world: from Gibraltar, Barbados, Georgia, and the Carolinas to Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. In 1744, he was captured by a French privateer and taken to Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island. But because he had designed buildings there, he was treated as a guest rather than a prisoner. He seized the opportunity to copy blueprints of the fortress, smuggling them to Massachusetts governor William Shirley who used them to attack the stronghold the following year; the fort then became a bargaining chip in subsequent treaty negotiations with France. When Shirley encouraged Britons to show their gratitude, Harrison was inundated with commissions. Buildings attributed to him include King’s Chapel (Boston); Christ Church (Cambridge); the Redwood Library, Touro Synagogue, and St. John’s Masonic Hall (Newport); St. Paul’s Chapel (New York City); and the steeple of Christ Church (Philadelphia). Unconfirmed attributions can also be found in England, Ireland, India, China, and America and include governors’ mansions, marketplaces, houses of worship, and private homes. In 1766, Harrison relocated to New Haven, Connecticut, to take up the post of collector of customs. But his Loyalism increasingly conflicted with the local move toward independence. He died of apoplexy in 1775 when a mob threatened to lynch him following the outbreak of open hostilities with the Battle of Concord. (PI, ANB, DNB)

1689	Name:	Joseph Harrison
	Year Elected:	1864
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1810
	Death Date:	03/27/1874

1690	Name:	George L. Harrison
	Year Elected:	1885
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1811
	Death Date:	09/09/1885

1691	Name:	Charles C. Harrison
	Year Elected:	1895
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1844
	Death Date:	02/12/29

1692	Name:	Ross G. Harrison
	Year Elected:	1913
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1870
	Death Date:	09/30/59

1693	Name:	George R. Harrison
	Year Elected:	1950
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1898
	Death Date:	07/27/79

1694	Name:	Dr. Evelyn B. Harrison
	Institution:	Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	401. Archaeology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1920
	Death Date:	November 3, 2012

	Evelyn Byrd Harrison was one of the greatest scholars of our time in the field of Greek sculpture. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1952 and taught classics at the University of Cincinnati before joining the faculty at Columbia in 1955. In 1970 she was named professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University, becoming the first woman to be appointed full professor in the department. In 1974 she moved to New York University's Institute of Fine Arts as Professor of the History of Fine Arts. She was Edith Kitzmiller Professor Emerita of the History of Fine Arts and Adjunct Professor at the time of her death on November 3, 2012. She died at home in New York City at the age of 92. Dr. Harrison's publications include The Athenian Agora I: Portrait Sculpture (1953) and Achaic and Archaistic Sculpture (1965). She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as the Archaeological Institute of America's Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement (1992). When she discussed a well-known piece of Greek sculpture, you felt as though you were seeing it for the first time.

1695	Name:	Dr. Stephen Coplan Harrison
	Institution:	Harvard University & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
	Year Elected:	1997
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	206. Physiology, Biophysics, and Pharmacology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1943

	Stephen Harrison is a world leader in understanding virus structure and in probing the relationship between structure and function of complex protein assemblies. He has devised innovative methodological enhancements of X-ray crystallography to determine the detailed molecular structures of viruses, cell-surface receptors, and DNA-protein complexes. His pioneering studies of small plant viruses at atomic dimensions revealed the basic molecular design of a large class of RNA viruses of plants, insects, and vertebrates. This work, and his subsequent studies of many other viruses, allowed Dr. Harrison to formulate principles that govern viral structure, assembly, stability, cellular attachment, and fusion. This information is fundamental to understanding viral disease and to the design of antiviral drugs and vaccines. Similarly, Dr. Harrison's X-ray crystallographic studies of the structures of DNA-protein complexes revealed important molecular mechanisms in the control of gene activity. Dr. Harrison earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1967. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1971 and is currently director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics at Harvard Medical School and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Medicine at Children's Hospital, Boston. He won the Welch Award in Chemistry in 2015 and the Rosenstiel Award for Basic Medical Research in 2018.

1696	Name:	John W. Harshberger
	Year Elected:	1906
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	04/27/29

1697	Name:	John S. Hart
	Year Elected:	1844
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1810
	Death Date:	03/26/1877

1698	Name:	James M. Hart
	Year Elected:	1877
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	04/18/16

1699	Name:	Dr. James B. Hartle
	Institution:	University of California, Santa Barbara; Santa Fe Institute
	Year Elected:	2016
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	106. Physics
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1939
	Death Date:	May 17, 2023

	James Hartle was educated at Princeton University (AB,1960), and the California Institute of Technology where he completed a Ph.D.in 1964 with Murray Gell-Mann. He has held positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago. He is currently Research Professor and Professor of Physics Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. His scientific work is concerned with the application of Einstein's relativistic theory of gravity --- general relativity --- to realistic astrophysical situations, especially cosmology. He has contributed usefully to the understanding of gravitational waves, relativistic stars, and black holes. He is currently interested in the quantum origin of the universe and the earliest moments of the big bang where the subjects of quantum mechanics, quantum gravity, and cosmology overlap. His work with Stephen Hawking on the quantum wave function of the universe is an example. He has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a NATO Senior Science Fellow, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and a founder and past director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He received the American Physical Society’s 2009 Einstein Prize for his work in gravitational physics.

1700	Name:	Haldan Keffer Hartline
	Year Elected:	1952
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1903
	Death Date:	3/17/83

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