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1861	Name:	Dr. Leroy Hood
	Institution:	Phenome Health; Institute for Systems Biology
	Year Elected:	2000
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	201. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1938

	Leroy E. Hood is the President and Director of the Institute for Systems Biology, a not-for-profit institution he recently established. He has helped start more than half a dozen companies, including Amgen, the largest biotech company, and Applied Biosystems, the leading maker of genetic analysis equipment. He received an M.D. at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1964 and a Ph.D. in biochemistry at California Institute of Technology in 1968. A member of the faculty of the California Institute of Technology for twenty-two years, he was also director of the Cancer Center, 1981-90, and director of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Molecular Biotechnolgy, 1989-92. From 1992-2000 he was the Director of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Washington, as well as William Gates III Professor and Chairman of the Department of Molecular Biotechnology, professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Immunology, and an adjunct professor in the Departments of Medicine and Computer Science. Leroy Hood played a central role in deciphering the mechanisms of immunological diversity by being among the first to clone and characterize genes encoding antibodies, genes of the major histocompatibility complex, and T-cell receptors. His laboratory also developed four instruments widely used to synthesize and sequence genes and proteins. Dr. Hood also played a pioneering role in the Human Genome Project and co-edited The Code of Codes, covering the scientific, legal, and ethical aspects of the Human Genome Project. Dr. Hood initiated major programs for bringing hands-on, inquiry-based science to all levels of teachers in Seattle. Dr. Hood is the recipient of many awards, including the Louis Pasteur Award, Dickson Prize, Lasker Award, Rabbi Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize of Hebrew University, the American College of Physicians Award, the NAE's Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize, and the National Medal of Science (2012). In January 2017 he was awarded the National Academy of Sciences' Award for Chemistry in Service to Society. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2000.

1862	Name:	Dr. William H. Hooke
	Institution:	American Meteorological Society
	Year Elected:	2006
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	105. Physical Earth Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1943

	William H. Hooke was a senior policy fellow at the American Meteorological Society from 2000-2022, and director of the Policy Program from 2001-2022. His current policy research interests include: natural disaster reduction; historical precedents as they illuminate present-day policy; and the nature and implications of changing national requirements for weather and climate science and services. He also directs AMS policy education programs, including the AMS Summer Policy Colloquium, and the AMS-UCAR Congressional Science Fellowship Program. From 1967-2000, Dr. Hooke worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and antecedent agencies. After six years of research in fundamental geophysical fluid dynamics and its application to the ionosphere, the boundary layer, air quality, aviation, and wind engineering, he moved into a series of management positions of increasing scope and responsibility. From 1973-80, he was Chief of the Wave Propagation Laboratory Atmospheric Studies Branch; from 1980-83 he rotated through a series of management development assignments; and from 1984-87 he directed NOAA's Environmental Sciences Group (now the Forecast Systems Lab), responsible for much of the systems R&D for the NWS Modernization, as well as a range of other weather and climate research activities. From 1987-93 he served as the Deputy Chief Scientist and Acting Chief Scientist of NOAA, setting policy and direction for $300M/year of NOAA R&D in oceanography, atmospheric science, hydrology, climate, marine biology, and associated technologies. Between 1993 and 2000, he held two national responsibilities: Director of the U.S. Weather Research Program Office, and Chair of the interagency Subcommittee for Natural Disaster Reduction of the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. Dr. Hooke was an adjunct faculty member at the University of Colorado from 1969-87 and served as a fellow of two NOAA Joint Institutes (CIRES, 1971-1977; CIRA 1987-2000). The author of over fifty refereed publications and co-author of one book, Dr. Hooke holds a B.S. (Physics Honors) from Swarthmore College (1964) and S.M. (1966) and Ph.D (1967) degrees from the University of Chicago. He is a Fellow of the AMS and a member of the American Philosophical Society. Currently, he chairs the NAS/NRC Disasters Roundtable and serves on the ICSU Planning Group on Natural and Human-Induced Environmental Hazards and Disasters.

1863	Name:	Nathaniel Hooker
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1738
	Death Date:	06/09/1770

1864	Name:	Earnest A. Hooten
	Year Elected:	1931
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1888
	Death Date:	05/03/54

1865	Name:	Herbert C. Hoover
	Year Elected:	1918
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1874
	Death Date:	10/20/64

1866	Name:	Dr. John J. Hopfield
	Institution:	Princeton University
	Year Elected:	1988
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1933

	John J. Hopfield has been a professor at Princeton University since 1997 and Howard A. Prior Professor of Molecular Biology since 2001. After receiving his Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University in 1957, he worked as a member of the Bell Laboratories technical staff (1958-60, 1973-89) and as a research physicist at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris (1960-61). He has served on the faculties of the University of California, Berkeley (1961-64), the California Institute of Technology (1980-97) and Princeton University (1964-80, 1997- ) and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. A scientist of considerable range, Dr. Hopfield started his career as a solid state physicist before moving into molecular biology and conducting path-breaking research in neurosciences. His areas of interest have included the electron-transfer processes important to photosynthesis; the mechanism of biological proofreading in the transcription and expression of DNA; and the relation between brain function and computers. He has received numerous honors for his work, including the APS Prize in Biophysics (1985), the Dirac Medal from the International Center for Theoretical Physics (2001), the Swartz Prize from the Society for Neuroscience (2012), and the Franklin Institute's Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics (2019).

1867	Name:	Stephen Hopkins
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	3/7/1707
	Death Date:	07/13/1785

	Stephen Hopkins (7 March 1707–13 July 1785) was a farmer, surveyor, and the Governor of Rhode Island, and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. A Rhode Island native born to one of its first families, Stephen had little formal education but was married at age nineteen and won his first elected position at age twenty-four. Besides early local offices in his hometown of Scituate, Hopkins was returned to the Assembly of Rhode Island some fourteen times after 1732. In 1754 he represented the colony at the Albany Congress and endorsed its Plan of Union, and from 1755 onward, after his widowerhood and remarriage, Hopkins became a Quaker and accelerated his political ascent. His gubernatorial jockeying with Samuel Ward between 1757 and 1768 led to his rejoining the General Assembly (1770–75) and becoming the Chief Justice of the Superior Court (1773–75). A restless essayist, he sharpened his politics and rose to renown in the Providence Gazette: among his many entries was a long-form serialized history of Rhode Island that accentuated the influence of the Narragansetts. As a trustee and the Chancellor of the College of Rhode Island from 1764 until his death, Hopkins nurtured and trumpeted the capacities of colonials as important commercial partners in the empire. Unsurprisingly, then, Hopkins was elected to the Continental Congress in 1774–79, where he won over other delegates with his sociability and learning before signing the Declaration of Independence. He effectively resigned owing to health in September 1776 but voters returned him for three more years. His renown as a broadly read and deeply thoughtful advocate of American liberty lived on well past his death in Providence in 1785. (PI)

1868	Name:	William Hopkins
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased

	William Hopkins (?–?) was likely a baker and a member of the Young Junto, elected c. 1758. Despite periods of absence due to his country residence, he was an active participant in the society. He served as its treasurer in 1762 and proposed queries for debate concerned with European interreligious warfare and ways of distinguishing the genuses of plants. In 1766 he petitioned the government for an appointment as inspector of Philadelphia’s flour exports. (PI)

1869	Name:	Edward W. Hopkins
	Year Elected:	1908
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	07/16/32

1870	Name:	B. Smith Hopkins
	Year Elected:	1927
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1873
	Death Date:	08/27/52

1871	Name:	Francis Hopkinson
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	9/21/1737
	Death Date:	05/09/1791

	Francis Hopkinson (21 September 1737–9 May 1791) was a lawyer, merchant, writer, musician and public officeholder, and elected to both the American Philosophical Society and the American Society in 1768. Born in Philadelphia, his exposure to learned societies began early: his father served as the first APS president and director of the Library Company. Hopkinson attended the Academy of Philadelphia and studied law under APS member Benjamin Chew before being admitted to the bar in 1761. Soon after he opened his legal practice but, after a few years’ time, was not satisfied with his financial opportunities in Philadelphia. To remedy this he left for England in 1766 to procure an office but, though his time was enjoyable and spent with family and friends such as Benjamin Franklin, a position never materialized. Consequently, he return to Philadelphia and opened a store in 1767. Things began to change when he relocated to Bordentown, NJ to practice law and, in 1774, he accepted a seat on the Provincial Council. Hopkinson believed there were financial, civil, and social advantages in continued union with Great Britain but by 1776 he was acting as New Jersey’s delegate to the Continental Congress where he served on the committee that drafted the Articles of Confederation. From there, his support of independence only grew. During the American Revolution he served on the congressional committees of the treasury and intelligence before his appointment as chairman of the Navy Board from 1776-1778. From 1778-1781 he served as the treasurer of the Continental Loan Office where he designed medals and government seals. While British troops destroyed his home and much of his property, his recovery was aided by President Washington’s appointment of him as a judge in the Federal District Court in Pennsylvania. Before the war, Hopkinson had carved out time to write poems, songs, and tributes to his friends for public occasion and he picked these activities up again. In 1779, he became a leading member at APS, acting as treasurer from 1781 until his death in 1791. During his period of renewed interest at the APS, he presented papers, engaged in small experiments, and joined the effort to design the society’s seal as well as find a suitable building for the library. His connections to APS members also included the marriages of members Jacob Duché and John Morgan to two of his sisters. His son, Joseph, would later serve as an APS vice president. (PI)

1872	Name:	Thomas Hopkinson
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	1751

	Thomas Hopkinson (6 April 1709–5 November 1751) was a judge, lawyer, merchant, natural philosopher, and elected official, and a founding member of the original American Philosophical Society. Born and educated in London, he immigrated to Pennsylvania around 1731. There, he became a member of Benjamin Franklin’s Junto and a prominent public figure. Hopkinson was among the original directors of the Library Company, a founder and trustee of the Academy of Philadelphia, and a participant with Franklin in some of the first electrical experiments conducted in Philadelphia. In addition to running a thriving merchant business with APS member William Coleman, Hopkinson held a number of political and judicial appointments, including clerk of the Orphans’ Court, master of the rolls and recorder of Philadelphia, member of the Philadelphia Common Council, judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court, prothonotary of Philadelphia County, justice of the peace, and member of the Provincial Council. In the latter capacity, he attended the 1748 signing of the Treaty of Lancaster and served on the Pennsylvania delegation to the Pennsylvania-Maryland border negotiations. Concerned about Spanish incursions into the Delaware Bay, he supported the Defense Association of 1747. His son Francis Hopkinson and son-in-law John Morgan were APS members. (PI)

1873	Name:	Joseph Hopkinson
	Year Elected:	1815
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	01/15/1842

1874	Name:	John P. Hopkinson
	Year Elected:	1832
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	03/06/1836

1875	Name:	Edward Hopkinson
	Year Elected:	1938
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1886
	Death Date:	04/06/66

1876	Name:	Edward Hopper
	Year Elected:	1869
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	08/07/1893

1877	Name:	J.M. Hoppin
	Year Elected:	1893
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	10/15/1906

1878	Name:	George H. Horn
	Year Elected:	1869
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	11/24/1897

1879	Name:	Dr. John C. Van Horne
	Institution:	The Library Company of Philadelphia
	Year Elected:	2005
	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? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1950

	John C. Van Horne, a native of Illinois, graduated from Princeton University and received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia in 1979. He held a fellowship (1975-76) with The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, a multi-volume edition of the writings and drawings of America's first professional architect and engineer. The project was headquartered at the Maryland Historical Society under the direction of Editor in Chief Edward C. Carter II. Following the year-long fellowship, Dr. Van Horne stayed on with the Latrobe Papers, rising through the ranks to eventually become Editor. When Carter was appointed Librarian of the American Philosophical Society in 1980, Dr. Van Horne moved with the project to new quarters in Library Hall. In 1985 he took up his post as Director of the Library Company of Philadelphia, succeeding APS Member Edwin Wolf 2nd, who had led the Library Company for thirty years. For twenty-nine years Dr. Van Horne guided the fortunes of this institution that, like the APS itself, is so closely associated with Benjamin Franklin. Founded by Franklin in 1731 as the first American subscription library, the Library Company is today an independent research library with extensive collections of rare books documenting all aspects of American history through the end of the 19th century. Significant accomplishments during Van Horne's tenure include creating a research fellowship program; creating an online public access catalog; renovating a neighboring historic townhouse as a residential research center; establishing special programs relating to early American economic history, African American history, visual culture, and women’s history; and building the collections through major acquisitions. He retired from the Library Company in 2014 and is now Director Emeritus. Dr. Van Horne’s publications include many volumes of the Latrobe Papers and other edited works such as Religious Philanthropy and Colonial Slavery: The American Correspondence of the Associates of Dr. Bray, 1717-1777 (1985); The Letter Book of James Abercromby, Colonial Agent, 1751-1773 (1991); The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America (1994); Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad: The Photographs of William H. Rau (2002); and America's Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram (1699-1777) (published by APS in 2004). Van Horne currently chairs the Administrative Board of the The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (co-sponsored by Yale University and APS) and serves on the Board of the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (formerly the Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science); the Committee on Library of the American Philosophical Society; and the Academic Affairs Committee of Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. He is Chair of the Victorian Society Scholarship Fund and has previously served on the boards of the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary, the National Humanities Alliance, and the Abraham Lincoln Foundation of the Union League of Philadelphia. In 2017 he received the Heritage Award of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Dr. Van Horne lives in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania with his wife Christine.

1880	Name:	William E. Horner
	Year Elected:	1819
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	03/13/1853

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