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401	Name:	Mr. John C. Bogle
	Institution:	The Vanguard Group; Bogle Financial Markets Research Center
	Year Elected:	2004
	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:	1929
	Death Date:	January 16, 2019

	Born in 1929, John C. Bogle grew up in a family whose wealth had vanished during the depression. Bogle was a responsible young man who worked steadily to support himself, as waiter, post-office clerk, reporter, and other jobs. He earned a scholarship to Blair Academy (N.J.), where he was captain of the student waiters and voted "most likely to succeed," graduating in 1947. With the help of another scholarship and more jobs, he entered Princeton University, working his way through with jobs of increasing responsibility. In December 1949, he received what he called "the lucky break of a lifetime." Reading Fortune magazine in the university library, he stumbled on an article that described the "tiny but contentious" mutual fund industry. He decided to make it the subject of his senior thesis. After exhaustive study of the industry, Bogle concluded that "The principal function of mutual funds is the management of their investment portfolios. Everything else is incidental - that future industry growth can be maximized by a reduction of costs," that funds could "make to no claim for superiority over the market averages," and that funds should operate "in the most efficient, honest, and economical way possible." Entitled The Economic Role of the Investment Company, the thesis enabled Bogle to graduate magna cum laude in June 1951. Largely on the basis of his thesis, Bogle was immediately hired by fund industry pioneer Walter L. Morgan, founder of Philadelphia's Wellington Fund. He rose quickly through the ranks, and by 1965 was leading the firm. In a move he describes as opportunistic and naïve, Bogle merged Wellington with a Boston investment firm that had achieved spectacular results during the "Go-Go Era" of the mid 1960s. The once-happy marriage was not to last, and in the midst of the 1973-74 bear market, Bogle was fired from the firm that he considered "his." Heartsick but determined, Bogle seized that well-disguised opportunity to create a firm that would embody the idealism of his senor thesis. In founding The Vanguard Group in 1974, he created a unique mutual fund firm: one that was owned, not by an external management company, as was (and is) the industry standard, but one that was owned by its mutual fund shareholders-a truly mutual fund organization. At the outset, Vanguard was responsible for just $1.4 billion of mutual fund assets. Thirty-one years later, assets under management approach $850 billion. Bogle's innovations did not stop with Vanguard's ownership structure, which has allowed the firm to operate at costs that are less than one-fifth the industry average. In 1975, just a year after he founded the firm, Vanguard launched the world's first index mutual fund (today, the 500 Index Fund is the world's largest mutual fund). Two years later, Vanguard created the first multi-series bond fund, whose then-novel structure, comprising separate short-, intermediate-, and long-term funds, quickly became the industry standard. His 1977 decision to eliminate broker distribution and abandon sales loads sharply accelerated the growth of no-load mutual funds. In 1999, exactly a half-century after the magazine had introduced him to the mutual fund industry, Fortune named John C. Bogle one of the financial industry's four "Giants of the Twentieth Century." In 2004, Time magazine named him to the "Time 100," the "World's 100 Most Powerful and Influential People." Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker has praised Bogle for his "fiduciary responsibility, objectivity of analysis, and willingness to take a stand," and the former Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, William T. Allen, described him as "a man of high virtue." Bogle dedicated his long career to the notion that the human beings who own mutual fund shares deserve a fair shake. He died on January 16, 2019 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania at the age of 89.

402	Name:	Dr. Lawrence Bogorad
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	1985
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	202. Cellular and Developmental Biology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1921
	Death Date:	December 28, 2003

403	Name:	Dr. Paul J. Bohannan
	Institution:	University of Southern California
	Year Elected:	1970
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1920
	Death Date:	July 13, 2007

404	Name:	William Ewing Du Bois
	Year Elected:	1844
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1811
	Death Date:	7/14/1881

405	Name:	Patterson Du Bois
	Year Elected:	1880
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1848
	Death Date:	8/8/1917

406	Name:	Dr. Yve-Alain Bois
	Institution:	Institute for Advanced Study
	Year Elected:	2016
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	401. Archaeology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1952

	Yve-Alain Bois is one of the most original and active critics of 20th century art working today. A pupil of Roland Barthes, he is equally at home in the theory and the history of the visual arts. In 2015 he published the first of four volumes of his monumental catalog of the American painter and sculptor Ellsworth Kelly, and is about to publish a 900-page catalog of the works by Matisse (including the famous wall-paintings) in the Barnes Collection. At the Society’s April 2015 meeting, he gave a memorable paper, “Can a Genuine Picasso be a Fake?” In addition to his many books, he has written twelve exhibition catalogs, about fifty articles with titles as surprising and diverse as “The Meteorite in the Garden” and “Painting as Trauma,” and numerous exhibition- and book-reviews. One of his current projects is the modern history of axonometric projection.

407	Name:	Dr. Derek C. Bok
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	1980
	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:	1930

	Derek Bok is the 300th Anniversary University Professor; University President Emeritus; and Faculty Chair of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. He has been a lawyer and Professor of Law, Dean of the Law School and President of Harvard University. He has written several books on higher education: Beyond the Ivory Tower (1982), Higher Learning (1986), Universities and the Future of America (1990), The Shape of the River (1998), Universities in the Marketplace (2003), Our Underachieving Colleges (2006), Higher Education in America (2013) and The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges (2017). He serves as Chair of the Board of the Spencer Foundation and as Chair of Common Cause. His current research interests include the state of higher education and a project sponsored by several foundations on the adequacy of the U.S. government in coping with the nation's domestic problems. The first of his two books on this subject is The State of the Nation (1997); the second, The Trouble with Government, was published in 2001. His most recent book, The Politics of Happiness (2010), is an exploration of the crossover space between economics and psychology. In his time at Harvard, including 20 years as the university's president, Dr. Bok has reasserted the values of liberal learning and the place of undergraduate instruction in the contemporary "research university."

408	Name:	George H. Boker
	Year Elected:	1884
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1823
	Death Date:	1/2/1890

409	Name:	Dr. Lee C. Bollinger
	Institution:	Columbia University
	Year Elected:	2004
	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:	1946

	Lee Bollinger became the president of Columbia University in 2002 after achieving eminence at the University of Michigan as professor, Dean of the Law School and, later, as president of the University. He also served successfully as provost of Dartmouth College. His widely acclaimed scholarship on U.S. Constitutional rights has concentrated on the freedom of speech and freedom of the press, stressing that these rights not only protect individual freedom and the right to know but also promote another important value - maintaining a tolerant society. He has led the effort, recently affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court, to ensure diversity in education through affirmative measures. He has authored or edited several books, including Uninhibited, Robust and Wide Open: A Free Press for a New Century (2009).

410	Name:	Justus E. Bollmann
	Year Elected:	1800
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	12/9/1821

411	Name:	Herbert E. Bolton
	Year Elected:	1937
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1871
	Death Date:	1/30/53

412	Name:	Bertram B. Boltwood
	Year Elected:	1911
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	8/16/27

413	Name:	James C. Bonbright
	Year Elected:	1946
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1891
	Death Date:	11/10/85

414	Name:	Phineas Bond
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1717
	Death Date:	6/11/1773

	Phineas Bond (13 September 1717–11 June 1773) was a physician, surgeon, and natural philosopher, as well as a founding member of the American Philosophical Society, an agent of its revival, and part of the committee that saw it unified with the American Society in 1769. Born into a Quaker family in Calvert County, Maryland, he studied medicine there under Dr. John Hamilton and, upon relocating to Philadelphia, under APS member John Kearsley, Sr. Thereafter, Bond opened an apothecary shop. In 1741 he went abroad, studying medicine in London, Paris, and Leiden. Upon his return, he began a successful medical practice with his brother (and fellow APS founder) Thomas Bond, Sr. He engaged in experimental cures, took on apprentices, and helped found the Pennsylvania Hospital, where he volunteered his services as a physician until his death over twenty years later. Bond was also a director of the Library Company, an original trustee of the Academy of Philadelphia, and a member of the Society of the Sons of St. George. He was elected to the Philadelphia Common Council in 1747. In addition to his brother, his nephew Thomas Bond, Jr., was an APS member. (PI)

415	Name:	Thomas Bond
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	3/26/1784

	Thomas Bond, Sr. (2 May 1713–26 March 1784) was a physician, surgeon, and philanthropist, and a founding member of the American Philosophical Society, both in its original and revived forms. Born into a Quaker family in Calvert County, Maryland, he began his studies there but completed his education in Europe, studying anatomy, medicine, and botany at the Hôtel-Dieu and the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. He then settled in Philadelphia, earning a reputation as a surgeon that brought him elite patients from as far afield as Boston. He was an elected member of the Philadelphia Common Council, a subscriber to the Library Company, and an original trustee of the Academy of Philadelphia. With Benjamin Franklin, Bond co-founded the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1751 and volunteered his services there until his death. In 1766, Bond inaugurated the first course of clinical lectures delivered in the colonies. His novel emphasis on hands-on training made Philadelphia a major center for medical study in North America and earned him the title "the Father of Clinical Medicine." During the American Revolution, Bond treated soldiers in the first American field hospitals and evaluated the candidacy of military surgeons. In the 1770s he was also active in promoting smallpox inoculation, serving as a physician with the Society for the Inoculation of the Poor Gratis and writing a paper in support of inoculation that was read to the APS and then published in translation in France and Germany. His brother Phineas Bond, his son Thomas Bond, Jr., and his brother-in-law Hugh Roberts were APS members. (PI, ANB, DAB)

416	Name:	Thomas Bond
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	8/10/1743
	Death Date:	7/17/1793

	Thomas Bond, Jr. (10 August 1743–17 July 1793) was a physician, manufacturer, and merchant, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Born in Philadelphia, the son of founding APS member Thomas Bond, he graduated from the College of Philadelphia in 1760 before beginning his preceptorship with his father. Rather than pursue medicine, Bond changed course and entered the mercantile business by way of manufacturing and selling hosiery. His business venture, however, proved unsuccessful and even his family’s wealth could not erase his substantial debt. This failure prompted his return to medicine, a shift aided by his brother-in-law and fellow APS member Dr. John Morgan. With the arrival of the American Revolution, Bond joined the Pennsylvania forces as a surgeon in 1776. The following year he was appointed an assistant director of the General Hospital. After the war, he practiced medicine with his father while expanding his land speculation efforts. He died in 1793 while touring lands he had recently acquired in western Virginia. In addition to his father and brother-in-law, his uncles Phineas Bond and Hugh Roberts were also APS members. (PI)

417	Name:	W.C. Bond
	Year Elected:	1852
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	1/-/1859

418	Name:	Dr. Larissa Bonfante
	Institution:	New York University
	Year Elected:	2009
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	401. Archaeology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1932
	Death Date:	August 23, 2019

	Larissa Bonfante was Professor of Classics at New York University (1963-2006). Born in Italy, she came with her family to the United States as a child by way of Spain and Geneva, Switzerland. She held a BA from Barnard College, an M.A. in Classics from the University of Cincinnati, and a PhD in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University, with Otto Brendel as dissertation adviser. Her first published article was "Emperor, God and Man: Julian the Apostate and Ammianus Marcellinus," followed by Etruscan Dress (1975). Further work on ancient dress, originally inspired by the works of Margarete Bieber, included an NEH Summer Seminar on the Symbolism of Roman Costume (1988), and publications on the Roman triumph, and nudity as a costume in classical art. Brendel’s statement, "we take the Greeks as our model, forgetting that they did everything differently from everyone else," helped direct her focus on the non-Greeks of the classical world, for example in The Etruscan Language, written with her father, the Indo-Europeanist Giuliano Bonfante. Bonfante was a member of the German Archaeological Institute, the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, founder and President of its US Section, and co-editor of Etruscan News. She was Visiting Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in 1980, received teaching awards at New York University for her work with undergraduates, and the 2007 Gold Medal for Archaeological Achievement from the Archaeological Institute of America. She delivered the Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series in 2006-07 and the AIA Norton Lecturesship in 2007-08. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2009. Larissa Bonfante died August 23, 2019 in New York, New York at the age of 88.

419	Name:	Dr. Dawn A. Bonnell
	Institution:	University of Pennsylvania
	Year Elected:	2024
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	103. Engineering
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1961

	Dr. Bonnell is the is the Henry Robinson Towne Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and the Senior Vice Provost for Research at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. and PhD from the University of Michigan and was a Fulbright scholar to the Max-Planck-Institute in Stuttgart, Germany. Dr. Bonnell is recognized for advances in atomic imaging and local electronic structure of complex surfaces, obtaining the first scanning probe images of atoms on oxide surfaces, a result that generated a new field of research. She has advanced probes of local properties, interfaces in electronic and plasmonic hybrid nanostructures, and ferroelectric nanolithography. She has served as President AVS: Science and Technology Society and vice President of the American Ceramic Society. She has authored or coauthored over 250 publications and edited or coedited seven books. Dr. Bonnell received the Sosman Award from the American Ceramic Society, the AVS Nanotechnology Award, the Staudinger/Durrer Medal from ETH Zurich, and several distinguished lectureships. She is a fellow of the Materials Research Society, Honorary Fellow of the AVS, Distinguished Life Fellow of the ACerS, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

420	Name:	Campbell Bonner
	Year Elected:	1938
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1876
	Death Date:	7/12/54

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