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1801	Name:	George W. Hill
	Year Elected:	1903
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	04/16/14

1802	Name:	David J. Hill
	Year Elected:	1910
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	03/02/32

1803	Name:	William F. Hillebrand
	Year Elected:	1906
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased

1804	Name:	Michael Hillegas
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	4/22/1729
	Death Date:	09/29/1804

	Michael Hillegas (22 April 1729–29 September 1804) was a public officeholder, merchant, first Treasurer of the United States under the Articles of Confederation, and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. Born in Philadelphia to a large and prosperous family, he joined his father’s store and inherited the business in 1750. Among his many wares, Hillegas was unique for offering musical instruments and was likely the leading purveyor. He bought one of Benjamin Franklin’s glass armonicas and counted Thomas Jefferson among his customers. Hillegas was active in the civil life of Philadelphia, and among his many beneficent and confraternal commitments—he supported the Philadelphia Hospital, Freemasons’ Hall, Silk Society, and various poor relief committees—he corresponded with Franklin in London about book purchases for the Library Company of Philadelphia. Hillegas served in a variety of small public offices before being put forth as a candidate for the Pennsylvania Assembly who could woo ethnic German voters. He served in the Assembly from 1765–76 and held multiple committee posts, often regarding finance, grievances, or improvements. In the aftermath of the Boston Port Act (1774), Hillegas was elected to the Committee of Correspondence, and later served on the Committees of Observation (1774) and of Safety (1775), before becoming co-Treasurer of the United Colonies (1775) with fellow APS Member George Clymer. Hillegas became the sole Treasurer in 1776 and with Confederation in 1777 became the first Treasurer of the United States, serving until the ratification of the Constitution in 1789 created a new Treasury Department with APS member Alexander Hamilton as its Secretary. Hillegas promoted the collection of Revolutionary-era documents and stories through an exchange with fellow APS member Ebenezer Hazard and supported APS member Mathew Carey’s American Museum. Hillegas became a Philadelphia alderman and an associate judge in the mayor’s court by 1793, posts he held until his death in 1804. (PI, ANB)

1805	Name:	Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman
	Institution:	Merck Institute for Vaccinology & University of Pennsylvania
	Year Elected:	1997
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	205. Microbiology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1919
	Death Date:	April 11, 2005

	Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman is Director, Merck Institute for Vaccinology and Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania. His past career of six decades of medical research included the Squibb Research Labs, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, and the Merck Institute for Medical Research. His bibliography includes more than 500 original publications in virology, immunology, epidemiology, and infectious diseases. Dr. Hilleman is a senior statesman and authority in the medical sciences for basic discoveries and vaccine developments. He has received numerous awards and accolades from academia, government, and industry. Among the most significant, he is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences; the Institute of Medicine of the Academy; the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Distinctive honors include the Lasker Medical Research Award; Award of the National Medal of Science by President Reagan; the Robert Koch Gold Medal (Berlin); the Prince Mahidol Award presented by the King of Thailand; the Maxwell Finland Award; the Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal; Decoration for Distinguished Science Achievement by the U.S. Secretary of Defense, and numerous lifetime achievement awards. Dr. Hilleman received his B.S. degree from Montana State University (1941), and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1944). He holds honorary doctorate degrees from U.S. and foreign universities. Dr. Hilleman’s career has been devoted to both basic and applied research with breakthrough discoveries and developments in virology, cancer, immunology, epidemiology, and vaccinology. Basic research examples include the discoveries of SV40 virus and its oncogenicity, the codiscoveries of the Adenoviruses and the Rhinoviruses, purification and characterization of interferon and it’s induction by double-stranded RNA, pioneering propagation of hepatitis A virus and its growth in cell culture. He pioneered the development of numerous live, killed and recombinant vaccines including measles, mumps, rubella, MMR, varicella, Marek’s Disease, hepatitis A; both plasma-derived and recombinant hepatitis B, and the commercial evolution of vaccines against meningococci and pneumococci. He has been credited with developing more vaccines than any person and is recognized for having changed the face of the world in providing means to prevent and control a number of its most important diseases. Many consider him a living legend!

1806	Name:	Hiram M. Hiller
	Year Elected:	1897
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	08/09/21

1807	Name:	Hermann V. Hilprecht
	Year Elected:	1886
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	03/19/25

1808	Name:	Charles F. Himes
	Year Elected:	1874
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	12/06/18

1809	Name:	John Himili
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	1809

	John James Himili (?–1809) was a watchmaker and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. He was born in Switzerland, likely in the town of Neuveville on the Lake of Bienne, but spent much of his life in Charleston, South Carolina, as did his cousin, the Huguenot pastor Bartholomew Henry Himili. Himili sold and repaired watches from his shop in Charleston for decades; after 1791, city directories list him as a clockmaker and a merchant as well. Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. speculates that Himili’s training in watchmaking may have acquainted him with other scientific instruments and encouraged meteorological observations, but the nature of his connection to the APS is otherwise unclear. One possibility is the French botanist and explorer André Michaux, with whom Himili met during a visit to his homeland around 1796 and whose ambitious proposed expedition to the American West the Society financially supported. Himili arranged the purchase of lands for a botanical garden outside Charleston for Michaux and then cared for them in his absence. When Michaux’s heir conveyed the lands to Himili in 1802, Himili conveyed them in turn to the South Carolina Society for Promoting Agriculture. (PI)

1810	Name:	Dr. Gertrude Himmelfarb
	Institution:	Graduate School, City University of New York
	Year Elected:	1986
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	303. History Since 1715
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1922
	Death Date:	December 30, 2019

	Gertrude Himmelfarb was distinguished professor of history and later professor emeritus of history at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. For many years she was chair of the doctoral program in history. Dr. Himmelfarb received her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1950. She also studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary and at Girton College, Cambridge. A leader in the field of 19th century British intellectual history, Dr. Himmelfarb wrote extensively on Victorian England and on contemporary society and culture, earning a reputation as a conservative cultural critic. Her publications included Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution (1959), On Liberty and Liberalism (1974), Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians (1991), and The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values (1995). She also edited a collection of essays by Irving Kristol, entitled The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, 1942-2009 (2011). She was the recipient of many honorary degrees and a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the Society of American Humanities. She served on the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities and on the editorial boards of the American Historical Review, the American Scholar and other journals. Known for her great erudition and meticulous scholarship, Dr. Himmelfarb was a gifted writer and thinker who expressed her strong opinions with force and clarity. Gertrude Himmelfarb died December 30, 2019 in Washington, DC at the age of 97.

1811	Name:	Dr. Brooke Hindle
	Institution:	Smithsonian Institution
	Year Elected:	1982
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	303. History Since 1715
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1918
	Death Date:	June 3, 2001

1812	Name:	Dr. Elizabeth Hinton
	Institution:	Yale Law School, Yale University
	Year Elected:	2022
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	303. History Since 1715
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1983

	Elizabeth Hinton is Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Department of African American Studies at Yale University, with a secondary appointment as Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Considered one of the nation’s leading experts on criminalization and policing, Hinton’s research focuses on the persistence of poverty, racial inequality, and urban violence in the 20th century United States. In her first book, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Harvard University Press), Hinton examines the implementation of federal law enforcement programs beginning in the mid-1960s that transformed domestic social policies and laid the groundwork for the expansion of U.S. policing and prison regimes. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime received numerous awards and recognition, including the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Her recent book, America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s (Liveright 2021), won a Robert F. Kennedy book award. America on Fire provides a new framework for understanding the problem of police abuse and the broader, systemic repression of Black people and other people of color in post-civil rights America. Both From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime and American on Fire were named New York Times Notable books. Before joining the Yale faculty, Hinton was a Professor in the Department of History and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She spent two years as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Michigan Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. A Ford Foundation and Carnegie Corporation Fellow, Hinton completed her Ph.D. in United States History from Columbia University in 2013. Hinton’s articles and op-eds can be found in the pages of Science, the Journal of American History, the Journal of Urban History, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, The Boston Review, The Nation, and Time. She also coedited The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction (Palgrave Macmillan 2011) with the late historian Manning Marable.

1813	Name:	Dr. Peter H. von Hippel
	Institution:	Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon
	Year Elected:	2004
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	206. Physiology, Biophysics, and Pharmacology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1931

	Peter von Hippel was born in Germany and became a naturalized US citizen in 1942. He obtained his BS, MS, and Ph. D. degrees at MIT, working on the physical biochemistry of protein complexes in the laboratory of Professor David F. Waugh. He then did postdoctoral work on actomyosin complexes with Dr. Manuel F. Morales at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, followed by a period as a staff scientist at NMRI while serving in the U.S. Navy He began his academic career in 1959 as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire. His work at that time involved analyzes of the structure of proteins and nucleic acids, and the effects on these macromolecules of ions and other solvent additives. He remained at Dartmouth until 1967, and then moved to the University of Oregon as a Professor of Chemistry and Member of the Institute of Molecular Biology, where he has been ever since. While at Oregon the research program in the von Hippel laboratory has progressed from studies of the interactions of simple regulatory proteins and protein models with DNA to the quantitative analysis of the structure and function of various macromolecular complexes involved in the control of DNA replication and RNA transcription. He has served as Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Chair of the Chemistry Department at Oregon, and in 1989 was appointed an American Cancer Society Research Professor of Chemistry, which has spared him from further formal administrative activities. In other venues Dr. von Hippel has served on various study sections and advisory committees for both NIH and NSF and has participated in the activities of various professional organizations, including serving on the Board of Directors of FASEB and as President of the Biophysical Society. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous professional journals, and he and his laboratory colleagues have published more than 240 research papers. Dr. von Hippel was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1978, to fellowship of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1979, and to resident membership in the American Philosophical Society in 2004. He is the 2021 recipient of the Ignacio Tinoco Award from the Biophysical Society for his exceptional contributions to the field of biophysics.

1814	Name:	Dr. Julia Hirschberg
	Institution:	Columbia University
	Year Elected:	2014
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	107
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1947

	Julia Hirschberg is Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science and Chair of the Computer Science Department at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and also has a PhD in History from the University of Michigan. She worked at Bell Laboratories and AT&T Laboratories -- Research from 1985-2003 as a Member of Technical Staff and a Department Head, creating the Human-Computer Interface Research Department. She served as editor-in-chief of Computational Linguistics from 1993-2003 and co-editor-in-chief of Speech Communication from 2003-2006 and is now on the Editorial Board. She was on the Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) from 1993-2003, on the Permanent Council of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) since 1996, and on the board of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) from 1999-2007 (as President 2005-2007, Advisory Council 2007--). She now serves on the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee, the Executive Board of the Computing Research Associate (CRA), the Association for the Advancement of Artifical Intelligence (AAAI) Council, the Executive Board of the North American ACL, and the board of the CRA-W. She has been active in working for diversity at AT&T and at Columbia. She has been an AAAI fellow since 1994, an ISCA Fellow since 2008, and a (founding) ACL Fellow since 2011. She received an Honorary Doctorate (Hedersdoktor) from KTH in 2007, a Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association (CESAA) Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award in 2009, the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award in 2011, the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement in 2011, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2018. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2014.

1815	Name:	Dr. Albert Otto Hirschman
	Institution:	Institute for Advanced Study
	Year Elected:	1979
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	302. Economics
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1915
	Death Date:	December 10, 2012

	Albert O. Hirschman was a development economist renowned for his lucid and innovative contributions to economics, the history of ideas, and the social sciences. He was a major participant in the discussion of the emergence of authoritarian regimes in Latin America in the sixties and the seventies, and the return to democratic forms of governance in the eighties. His view of development acknowledges the complexity of human behavior and social reality. His books include Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (1970); The Passions and the Interests (1977), which traces the history of social thought from Machiavelli to Tocqueville; and The Rhetoric of Reaction (1991). Dr. Hirschman received a Ph.D. from the University of Trieste and has taught at Yale, Columbia, and Harvard Universities. He was affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study since 1972 and was Professor Emeritus of the School of Social Science since 1985. Dr. Hirschman was a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Berliner Wissenschaftliche Gesselschaft, and the National Academy of Sciences and is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Albert Hirschman died December 10, 2012, at the age of 97, in Ewing Township, New Jersey.

1816	Name:	Barton C. Hirst
	Year Elected:	1899
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	09/02/35

1817	Name:	Frederick L. Hisaw
	Year Elected:	1940
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1891
	Death Date:	12/03/72

1818	Name:	Charles R. Van Hise
	Year Elected:	1909
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased

1819	Name:	Edward Hitchcock
	Year Elected:	1841
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1794
	Death Date:	02/27/1814

1820	Name:	Charles H. Hitchcock
	Year Elected:	1870
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	11/05/19

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