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1761	Name:	Lawrence J. Henderson
	Year Elected:	1921
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1878
	Death Date:	02/10/42

1762	Name:	Robert Henderson
	Year Elected:	1927
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1871
	Death Date:	02/16/42

1763	Name:	Yandell Henderson
	Year Elected:	1935
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1874
	Death Date:	02/18/44

1764	Name:	Dr. Sterling B. Hendricks
	Year Elected:	1967
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1902
	Death Date:	1/4/81

1765	Name:	George L. Hendrickson
	Year Elected:	1932
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1865
	Death Date:	12/18/63

1766	Name:	Mr. Louis Henkin
	Institution:	Columbia University
	Year Elected:	1986
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1917
	Death Date:	October 14, 2010

	Louis Henkin was University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, Chair of the University's Center for the Study of Human Rights and Director of the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School. Before his appointment as University Professor, Professor Henkin held chairs in constitutional law and, earlier, in international law and diplomacy. Professor Henkin earned his B.A. from Yeshiva University in 1937 and his LL.B. from Harvard University in 1940 where he served as Book Reviews Editor for the Harvard Law Review. He served as law clerk to Judge Learned Hand and to Justice Felix Frankfurter and was a State Department officer before turning to academic life. Among various public and professional activities, he was the Chief Reporter of the Restatement of Foreign Relations Law of the U.S. (1979-87) and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of International Law (1978-84); from 1992-94, Professor Henkin served as the President of the American Society of International Law. Louis Henkin's books include Arms Control and Inspection in American Law; Foreign Affairs and the Constitution; The Rights of Man Today; How Nations Behave: Law and Foreign Policy; International Law: Politics and Values; The Age of Rights; Constitutionalism, Democracy and Foreign Affairs; and other books as well as numerous articles. He served as co-editor of International Law, Cases and Materials (3rd edition) and of Human Rights (1999). Louis Henkin was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 1986. He was awarded the Society's Henry M. Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence in 2000. The citation reads, "In recognition of his lifetime of scholarly research and writing to demonstrate that international human rights are more than noble aspirations to be enforced in the court of public opinion and are definable legal rights to be enforced in national and international tribunals." Louis Henkin died October 14, 2010, at the age of 92 in New York.

1767	Name:	Dr. John L. Hennessy
	Institution:	Stanford University
	Year Elected:	2008
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	107
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1952

	John L. Hennessy joined Stanford's faculty in 1977 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering. He rose through the academic ranks to full professorship in 1986 and was the inaugural Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1987 to 2004. From 1983 to 1993, Dr. Hennessy was director of the Computer Systems Laboratory, a research and teaching center operated by the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science that fosters research in computer systems design. He served as chair of computer science from 1994 to 1996 and, in 1996, was named dean of the School of Engineering. As dean, he launched a five-year plan that laid the groundwork for new activities in bioengineering and biomedical engineering. In 1999, he was named provost, the university's chief academic and financial officer. As provost, he continued his efforts to foster interdisciplinary activities in the biosciences and bioengineering and oversaw improvements in faculty and staff compensation. In October 2000, he was inaugurated as Stanford University's 10th president. In 2005, he became the inaugural holder of the Bing Presidential Professorship. A pioneer in computer architecture, in 1981 Dr. Hennessy drew together researchers to focus on a computer architecture known as RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer), a technology that has revolutionized the computer industry by increasing performance while reducing costs. In addition to his role in the basic research, Dr. Hennessy helped transfer this technology to industry. In 1984, he cofounded MIPS Computer Systems, now MIPS Technologies, which designs microprocessors. In recent years, his research has focused on the architecture of high-performance computers. Dr. Hennessy is a recipient of the 2000 IEEE John von Neumann Medal, the 2000 ASEE Benjamin Garver Lamme Award, the 2001 ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award, the 2001 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, a 2004 NEC C&C Prize for lifetime achievement in computer science and engineering, a 2005 Founders Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 2013 Academic Leadership Award of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, and he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He has lectured and published widely and is the co-author of two internationally used undergraduate and graduate textbooks on computer architecture design. Dr. Hennessy earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University and his master's and doctoral degrees in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2008.

1768	Name:	Dr. Albert Henrichs
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	1998
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1942
	Death Date:	April 16, 2017

	Through his work in papyrology, Albert Henrichs made himself one of the most original and versatile scholars in Classics. His most signal and seminal contributions were in the field of religious thought, ranging from an edition of magical texts to new interpretations of religious tenets of leading Sophists, from a commentary on the book of Job to a text of Mani. His research led to innumerable insights into Greek tragedy and comedy, into Homer and into Greek history (where his work on the Theramenes papyrus deserves special mention). Dr. Henrichs has written on mythography and on rhetoric; in short, there is hardly a field of Greek (and related) studies that has not been enriched by the profound questions he asked and the novel answers at which he had arrived. A native of Cologne, Germany, Dr. Henrichs was Eliot Professor of Greek at Harvard University from 1984 to 2017. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1985); the American Philological Association; l'Association Internationale de papyrologues; and the Egypt Exploration Society. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1998. Dr. Henrichs died April16, 2017, at age 74 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1769	Name:	William Henry
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	5/19/1729
	Death Date:	12/15/1786

	William Henry (19 May 1729–15 December 1786) was a gunsmith, inventor, mechanic, and public official, and a member of the American Society, elected in 1767. Born in West Caln Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, he was apprenticed to a gunsmith in Lancaster at age fifteen. In 1750, he formed a firearm manufacturing concern, quickly gaining a reputation for the quality of his work. Thereafter, he became the principal armorer of provincial troops during the French and Indian War. Deeply interested in natural science, Henry built a laboratory inside his factory where he conducted experiments on electricity, magnetism, and steam. He compared notes on steam engines with James Watt during a 1761 visit to England and built a steamboat prototype of his own. Henry produced several other inventions, including a wind-powered carriage, a screw auger, and an improvement to furnace systems, publishing a description of the latter in the APS Transactions. He was also a subscriber to the Silk Society, a member of the survey for a proposed Delaware-Susquehanna canal, and a founding director, treasurer, and librarian of Lancaster’s Juliana Library Company, which housed scientific instruments and natural specimens as well as books. Henry held a number of public offices, including justice of the peace, assistant burgess, assistant justice of the county courts, delegate to the state assembly, and treasurer of Lancaster County. During the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, on the Council of Safety, and as superintendent of arms and assistant commissary general for the district of Lancaster, overseeing the production of shoes, firearms, and other supplies for Continental troops. He was a patron of the painter and APS member Benjamin West and a close friend of APS member David Rittenhouse, whom he boarded along with APS member Thomas Paine during the British occupation of Philadelphia. (PI, DAB)

1770	Name:	Joseph Henry
	Year Elected:	1835
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1878
	Death Date:	05/13/1878

1771	Name:	Henry F. D'Alaigny
	Year Elected:	1870
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased

1772	Name:	Henry J. Anderson
	Year Elected:	1828
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	10/19/1875

1773	Name:	Dr. Robert L. Herbert
	Institution:	Mount Holyoke College
	Year Elected:	1993
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1929
	Death Date:	December 17, 2020

	Robert L. Herbert was a world-renowned Impressionism scholar and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Mount Holyoke College. Perhaps the leading American scholar of French painting of the late 19th century, Dr. Herbert possesses the unique ability to analyze individual paintings, a flair for lucid, fluid prose, and a mastery of the social and economic milieu of the period. A prolific author, he has published major works on individual artists including Jean-François Millet and Georges Seurat. Dr. Herbert received his Ph.D. in 1957 from Yale University, where he later served as assistant professor (1960-63), associate professor (1963-66), professor (1966-74) and Robert Lehman Professor of History of Art (1974-90) before joining the faculty at Mount Holyoke as Professor of Art History. A gifted teacher, Dr. Herbert has trained two generations of excellent scholars in his field, and he is a recipient of the College Art Association's Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, he is also an Officer dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French government. He died on December 17, 2020.

1774	Name:	Dr. David Herlihy
	Institution:	Brown University
	Year Elected:	1990
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	401. Archaeology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1930
	Death Date:	2/21/91

1775	Name:	Dr. Richard Herr
	Institution:	University of California, Berkeley
	Year Elected:	1993
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	303. History Since 1715
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1922
	Death Date:	May 29, 2022

	Richard Herr spent his first ten years in Mexico, the son of an American mining engineer. After his family moved to Cincinnati, he attended Walnut Hills High School there and went to Harvard University for an A.B. in history (1943). He served in the U.S. Army Signal Intelligence Corps in Europe, 1943-45, enjoying being stationed in London and then in Paris. At the end of the war he remained in France in order to attend the Sorbonne for a year. While there he married Elena Fernández Mel, a refugee from the Spanish Civil War. They have two sons, Charles and Winship. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1966. In 1968 he married Valerie Shaw. They have two daughters, Sarah and Jane. Dr. Herr prepared a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago (1954). From 1952-59 he was a junior faculty member at Yale University, and after 1960 an associate and later full professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. He retired in 1991, becoming professor of history emeritus. A specialist on the history of France and Spain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Dr. Herr has spent a number of years in both countries. One of his works is a critical study of Alexis de Tocqueville as a historian. His early research was on the impact of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution on Spanish thought and politics. This subject led him into the evolution of Spanish agriculture at the end of the Old Regime, and he taught and wrote on the agricultural revolution in Europe. His recent work deals with the evolution of individualism and community spirit in the Western world since the eighteenth century, an outgrowth of his continuing interest in the significance of the Enlightenment.

1776	Name:	Dr. Pendleton Herring
	Institution:	Social Science Research Council
	Year Elected:	1948
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1903
	Death Date:	August 21, 2004

1777	Name:	Dr. Dudley Robert Herschbach
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	1989
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1932

	Dudley Herschbach was born in San Jose, California (1932) and received his B.S. degree in Mathematics (1954) and M.S. in Chemistry (1955) at Stanford University, followed by an A.M. degree in Physics (1956) and Ph.D. in Chemical Physics (1958) at Harvard University. After a term as Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard (1957-1959), he was a member of the chemistry faculty at the University of California, Berkeley (1959-1963) before returning to Harvard as Professor of Chemistry (1963), where he was Baird Professor of Science (1976-2003) and is now an Emeritus Professor. Since 2005 he has been a Professor of Physics (fall only) at Texas A&M University. He has served as Chairman of the Chemical Physics program (1964-1977) and the Chemistry Department (1977-1980), as a member of the Faculty Council (1980-1983), and Co-Master with his wife Georgene of Currier House (1981-1986). His teaching roster includes graduate courses in quantum mechanics, chemical kinetics, molecular spectroscopy, and collision theory, as well as undergraduate courses in physical chemistry and general chemistry for freshmen, his most challenging assignment. Currently he gives a freshman seminar course on Molecular Motors and an informal graduate "minicourse" on topics in chemical physics. He is engaged in several efforts to improve K-16 science education and public understanding of science. He serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Science Service, which publishes Science News and conducts the Intel ScienceTalent Search and the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Association for Women in Science, and the Royal Chemical Society of Great Britain. His awards include the Pure Chemistry Prize of the American Chemical Society (1965), the Linus Pauling Medal (1978), the Michael Polanyi Medal (1981), the Irving Langmuir Prize of the American Physical Society (1983), the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986), jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi, the National Medal of Science (1991), the Jaroslav Heyrovsky Medal (1992), the Sierra Nevada Distinguished Chemist Award (1993), the Kosolapoff Award of the ACS (1994), and the William Walker Prize (1994). He was named by Chemical & Engineering News among the 75 leading contributors to the chemical enterprise in the past 75 years (1998). Dr. Herschbach's current research is devoted to methods of orienting molecules for studies of collision stereodynamics, means of slowing and trapping molecules in order to examine chemistry at long deBroglie wavelengths, a dimensional scaling approach to strongly correlated many-particle interactions, and theoretical analysis of molecular motors, particularly enzyme-DNA systems.

1778	Name:	Charles H. Herty
	Year Elected:	1917
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	07/27/38

1779	Name:	Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh
	Institution:	University of Notre Dame
	Year Elected:	1974
	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:	1917
	Death Date:	February 26, 2015

	The Rev. Theodore Martin Hesburgh, CSC was a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross and President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame. He served the longest tenure (1952-87) of a president in the university's history and is credited with building the institution to its present position. As a humanitarian, Rev. Hesburgh participated effectively in many national and international organizations. He served as a member of the United States Civil Rights Commission from 1957 and as Chairman from 1969-72, and he had been actively involved on issues including peaceful uses of atomic energy; campus unrest; treatment of Vietnam offenders; and Third World development and immigration reform, to name only a few. He had been an endorser of the Genocide Intervention Network. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Rev. Hesburgh was awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1964, and the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor in 2000. He has published three books as well as an autobiography entitled God, Country, Notre Dame (1990). He died February 26, 2015, at the age of 97, on the university campus in South Bend, Indiana.

1780	Name:	Alfred F. Hess
	Year Elected:	1931
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1875
	Death Date:	12/05/33

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