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1721	Name:	Dr. Robert Mason Hauser
	Institution:	University of Wisconsin
	Year Elected:	2005
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1942

	Robert Mason Hauser became the American Philosophical Society’s new Executive Officer on June 12, 2017. He was born in Chicago and is a graduate of The University of Chicago and The University of Michigan. Among his mentors were two members of the APS, Otis Dudley Duncan and William Hamilton Sewell, Jr. Dr. Hauser is one of the preeminent quantitative sociologists of his generation. After two years at Brown University, he had a career of more than forty years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has made fundamental contributions to the study of social stratification in advanced industrial societies. Building on the work of Peter Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan, Dr. Hauser developed a model of intergenerational status attainment to challenge the idea that inequality stemmed primarily from differential rewards to human capital in the market. He has written more than 120 scientific papers. His two classic books with David Featherman showed that much of the inequality observed in the market originated in pre-market processes rooted in the family, which led to the intergenerational transmission of social status. His analytic framework, which became known as "the Wisconsin model," dominated sociological research on stratification for an entire generation. From 1968 onward, Dr. Hauser directed the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a multi-disciplinary study of the life course and aging among more than 10,000 Wisconsin high school graduates of 1957. The sixth round of the study went into the field in 2011, and the WLS has become a major resource for investigators in the U.S. and other nations. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Hauser has variously served as Samuel Stouffer Professor, Hilldale Professor, and Vilas Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At the UW-Madison, Dr. Hauser has directed the Center for Demography and Ecology, the Institute for Research on Poverty, and the Center for the Demography of Health and Aging. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the Russell Sage Foundation and visiting professorships at the University of Bergen and Peking University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1984) and the National Academy of Sciences (1984) and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Statistical Association, National Academy of Education, American Educational Research Association, the Gerontological Association of America, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He has mentored more than 50 doctoral students, and in 2002 he won the award of the American Sociological Association for distinguished contributions to teaching. In 2011, that association named its award for research in social stratification for Dr. Hauser. In 2017 Dr. Hauser completed a six-year term as the Executive Director of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Academies. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2005.

1722	Name:	Samuel F. Haven
	Year Elected:	1865
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1806
	Death Date:	09/05/1881

1723	Name:	Philip B. Hawk
	Year Elected:	1915
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1874
	Death Date:	09/13/66

1724	Name:	Dr. Kristen Hawkes
	Institution:	Univresity of Utah
	Year Elected:	2021
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	203. Evolution & Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Paleontology, and Physical Anthropology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1947

	Kristen Hawkes is Distinguished Professor in Anthropology at the University of Utah who continues to investigate human life history evolution. That began with ethnographic behavioral ecology in two hunter-gatherer communities where hunters fail daily but successes are bonanzas for all. Those findings suggested men’s risky hunting may be better explained as status competition than as paternal provisioning. Quantitative observations showed savanna hunter-gatherers’ day-to-day reliance on resources that infants and children are too small to acquire for themselves. In contrast, our great ape cousins rely on foods that infants pick and eat while still nursing. That contrast, combined with evolutionary theory to explain mammalian life history variation, highlighted the importance of Hadza grandmothers’ dependable foraging productivity. Their reliable subsidies for dependent juveniles allow mothers to bear next babies sooner. The same tradeoffs that modern Hadza face likely confronted ancestral hominin populations colonizing the expanding savannas in ancient Africa. Mathematical modeling to explore likely consequences shows that given mammalian regularities, great ape-like life histories plus grandmothers’ subsidies evolve human-like postmenopausal longevity, slower maturation, shorter birth intervals and male-biased sex ratios in the fertile ages. Initially aimed to explain the evolution of postmenopausal longevity, a grandmother hypothesis now helps explain other distinctly human features, including pair bonding, bigger brains, and preoccupation with engaging others that begins in infancy. Hawkes received a BS from Iowa State, MA and PhD from the University of Washington in Cultural Anthropology, and a long (informal) postdoc in Evolutionary Ecology after joining the Utah Anthropology faculty. A member of the Scientific Executive Council of the Leakey Foundation, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1725	Name:	Leland John Haworth
	Year Elected:	1965
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1904
	Death Date:	03/05/79

1726	Name:	Dr. Wick C. Haxton
	Institution:	University of California, Berkeley; University of Washington
	Year Elected:	2024
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	106. Physics
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1949

	Wick Haxton is Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he currently directs a National Science Foundation Physics Frontier Center on multi-messenger astrophysics. He is also Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Senior Visiting Scientist, RIKEN. Previously he served for 15 years as the first director of the Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, the Department of Energy’s national center for the field. In that role he established what is now known as the Bahcall Committee, whose recommendations led to the creation of a US facility for deep underground science in South Dakota. Born in Santa Cruz, CA, he received his BA degree in Mathematics and Physics from UC Santa Cruz in 1971, and his PhD in Physics from Stanford University in 1976. After a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Mainz, he became a J. R. Oppenheimer Fellow and then a staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He then spent 25 years at the University of Washington as Professor of Physics and Adjunct Professor of Astronomy, before moving to Berkeley in 2009. He served as chair of Berkeley’s Physics Department from 2017 to 2020. His research contributions focus on low-energy tests of fundamental symmetries and on neutrino astrophysics. His work has impacted multiple subfields of physics, including nuclear and particle physics, astrophysics, atomic physics, and condensed matter. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Washington State Academy of Sciences. He is a former Guggenheim, Senior Humboldt Foundation, and Simons Foundation Fellow, and in 2004 was awarded the American Physical Society’s Hans Bethe Prize. He and his wife, Laura Kathleen, have two grown children and two grandchildren.

1727	Name:	John Hay
	Year Elected:	1898
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	07/01/05

1728	Name:	Ferdinand V. Hayden
	Year Elected:	1860
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	12/22/1887

1729	Name:	Isaac I. Hayes
	Year Elected:	1863
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1831
	Death Date:	12/17/1881

1730	Name:	Richard S. Hayes
	Year Elected:	1886
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1847
	Death Date:	03/02/05

1731	Name:	Carlton J. H. Hayes
	Year Elected:	1940
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1882
	Death Date:	09/03/64

1732	Name:	John F. Hayford
	Year Elected:	1915
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	03/10/25

1733	Name:	Isaac Hays
	Year Elected:	1830
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	04/12/1879

1734	Name:	I. Minis Hays
	Year Elected:	1886
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1848
	Death Date:	06/05/25

1735	Name:	Nathan Hayward
	Year Elected:	1937
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1872
	Death Date:	06/21/44

1736	Name:	Ebenezer Hazard
	Year Elected:	1781
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1744
	Death Date:	06/13/1817

1737	Name:	Dr. John N. Hazard
	Institution:	Columbia University
	Year Elected:	1972
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1909
	Death Date:	4/7/95

1738	Name:	Professor Geoffrey C. Hazard
	Institution:	Hastings College of the Law, University of California
	Year Elected:	2003
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	504. Scholars in the Professions
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1929
	Death Date:	January 11, 2018

	One of the most distinguished figures in American law, Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., received his LL.B. from Columbia University in 1954. He was a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Hastings College of the Law, University of California. Hazard's great scholarly distinction led to his selection in 1984 to succeed the late (APS member) Herbert Wechsler as Director of the American Law Institute. At the helm of the Institute for fifteen years, Hazard orchestrated the work of the unique American law reform enterprise which, for more than three-quarters of a century, brought together leaders of the bar, the bench and the academy in long-term efforts to examine, render coherent, and appropriately "restate" major areas of legal doctrine, both substantive and procedureal. The Institute's celebrated "restatements" of the law have become grist for the mills of courts, state legislatures, and, in certain selected fields, Congress and federal agencies. In 1999 Hazard retired from the Directorship in order to resume, on a full-time basis, his own teaching and scholarly endeavors in realms in which he was preeminent: legal ethics and civil procedure. His legal scholarship was widely respected not only by his academic colleagues but by practicing lawyers and members of the judiciary as well. Geoffrey Hazard was the author of works such as Quest for Justice (1973); (with F. James, Jr., J. Leubsdorf) Civil Procedure (5th edition, 2004); Ethics in the Practice of Law (1978); (with W. Brazil, P. Rice) Managing Complex Litigation: A Practical Guide to the Use of Special Masters (1983); (with S. Koniak, R. Cramton) The Law and Ethics of Lawyering (4th edition, 2005); and (with M. Taruffo) American Civil Procedure: An Introduction (1993). He was also the editor of Law in a Changing America (1968) and (with D. Rhode) The Legal Profession: Responsibility and Regulation. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1986), he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2003. Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., died January 11, 2018, at the age of 88.

1739	Name:	Charles D. Hazen
	Year Elected:	1923
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1868
	Death Date:	09/19/41

1740	Name:	Isaac Hazlehurst
	Year Elected:	1851
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	07/07/1891

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