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261	Name:	Mr. Louis Begley
	Institution:	Debevoise & Plimpton
	Year Elected:	2000
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	501. Creative Artists
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1933

	LOUIS BEGLEY, b. Poland, October 6, 1933. Author of: Wartime Lies (1991), The Man Who Was Late (1993), As Max Saw It (1994), About Schmidt (1996), Mistler’s Exit (1998), Schmidt Delivered (2000), Das Gelobte Land (2001), Venedig unter vier Augen (with Anka Muhlstein, 2003), Shipwreck (2003), Matters of Honor (2007), Zwischen Fakten und Fiktionen (2008), The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka (2008), Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters (2009), Schmidt Steps Back (2012), Memories of a Marriage (2013), Killer, Come Hither (2015), Kill and Be Killed (2016);, and numerous essays and articles. Retired partner, Debevoise & Plimpton. Education: AB (s.c.l), Harvard, 1954; LL.B. (m.c.l.), Harvard, 1959. Prizes include: The Irish Times-Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize, National Book Award Finalist, National Book Critics’ Circle Finalist, PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, Prix Médicis Étranger, Jeanette-Schocken-Preis, Bremerhavener Bürgerpreis für Literatur, American Academy of Letters Award in Literature, and Konrad Adenauer-Stiftung Literaturpreis. Past Trustee and President, PEN American Center. Chevalier, Ordre des Arts et Lettres. Ph. D. (h.c.), University of Heidelberg.

262	Name:	Dr. Anna Katherine Behrensmeyer
	Institution:	National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
	Year Elected:	2021
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	203. Evolution & Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Paleontology, and Physical Anthropology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1946

	Anna K. “Kay’ Behrensmeyer is a paleontologist and geologist who is recognized as a pioneer in the field of taphonomy and the study of land environments and faunas through geological time, with particular focus on the paleoecology of human evolution in Africa. She is originally from Quincy, Illinois and earned her undergraduate degree in geology from Washington University, St. Louis, and her doctorate in vertebrate paleontology and sedimentology from the Department of Geological Sciences, Harvard University. After post-doctoral positions at UC Berkeley and Yale University and an interval of teaching at UC Santa Cruz, in 1981 she became a Research Curator in Paleobiology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. She has served as Acting Associate Director for Science at NMNH (1993-96), co-Director of the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems (ETE) Program since 1988, and Deep Time Initiative Lead Scientist since 2014. Her research uses geology, paleontology, and ecology to investigate the paleoecology of land environments, and she has worked in time intervals ranging from the Permian to the Pleistocene in North America, Africa, and Pakistan. Through experiments and field observations in both modern and past environments, she has built understanding of processes that affect organic remains and control the information content of the fossil record. Much of her work has been collaborative and focused on synergizing team efforts to investigate ecological change through geological time. She has been involved with museum-based education and outreach and was a member of the exhibit core time for the recently renovated Deep Time Fossil Hall at NMNH. Awards include the 2016 R.C Moore Medal (SEPM), the 2018 Romer-Simpson Medal (Society of Vertebrate Paleontology), the 2018 Paleontological Society Medal, and the 2019 G.K. Warren Prize (National Academy of Sciences). She also is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. Kay lives in Arlington, Virginia, and is married to William F. Keyser.

263	Name:	Mr. George B. Beitzel
	Institution:	IBM
	Year Elected:	1987
	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:	1928
	Death Date:	June 26, 2018

	George B. Beitzel retired from IBM as a member of the corporate office and the board of directors. Mr. Beitzel graduated from Amherst College and was Chairman Emeritus of Amherst. He served twenty-one years on the board, the last six as chairman. His alma mater awarded him a Doctor of Law Degree (honorary). George Beitzel received an MBA from Harvard and served twelve years on the board of directors of the Associates at Harvard Business School. He was a recipient of HBS Alumni Achievement Award. Mr. Beitzel was also Chairman Emeritus of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1987. Over his business career, Mr. Beitzel served on the boards of Bankers Trust, Caliber System, Inc., Datalogix, FlightSafety, IBM, Phillips Petroleum, Roadway Express, Rohm & Haas, Square D, Actuate, Deutsche Bank Corporation, Bitstream, Computer Task Group and Gevity HR. George "Spike" Beitzel died June 26, 2018, at age 90 in Redding, Connecticut.

264	Name:	Jeremy Belknap
	Year Elected:	1784
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1744

265	Name:	John Bell
	Year Elected:	1832
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	8/19/1872

266	Name:	Alexander G. Bell
	Year Elected:	1882
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1847
	Death Date:	8/2/22

267	Name:	Joseph S. Bell
	Year Elected:	1882
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	1/-/29

268	Name:	Eric T. Bell
	Year Elected:	1937
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1883
	Death Date:	12/20/60

269	Name:	Dr. Whitfield J. Bell
	Institution:	American Philosophical Society
	Year Elected:	1964
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	303. History Since 1715
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1914
	Death Date:	January 2, 2009

	Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. was Librarian and Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society. He received his Bachelor's degree from Dickinson College in 1935 and went on to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1947. Dr. Bell taught history at Dickinson College from 1937-54 and was visiting professor of history at the College of William and Mary and visiting editor of the William and Mary Quarterly. He left to edit the Papers of Benjamin Franklin. He was an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania for two decades, beginning in 1977. Dr. Bell came to the American Philosophical Society Library in 1954, serving as librarian from 1966-80. He also served as Executive Officer from 1977-83. Dr. Bell was a member of many historical societies, including the American Antiquarian Society, the American Historical Association, and the American Association for the History of Medicine, of which he was president from 1970-72. He was an honorary Fellow of the College of Physicians and recently received the Distinguished Service Medal from the College in recognition of his bicentennial history of the College. He authored several books and many articles on history, history of science, history of medicine and Benjamin Franklin. He also authored "Patriot Improvers," a collection of biographical sketches of members of the American Philosophical Society. Whitfield Bell died January 2, 2009 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania at the age of 94.

270	Name:	Dr. Daniel Bell
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	1978
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1919
	Death Date:	January 15, 2011

	Daniel Bell was a sociologist and professor emeritus at Harvard University and a former scholar in residence of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He taught sociology at the University of Chicago from 1945-48 and Columbia University from 1952-69. He was also known for his contributions as an editor to The Public Interest Magazine, Fortune and The New Leader as well as for his studies of post-industrialism. Dr. Bell's influential books include The End of Ideology (1960), The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976) and The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973). The End of Ideology and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism appeared on the Times Literary Supplement's list of the 100 most important books of the second half of the twentieth century. Dr. Bell has long theorized on a new kind of society that would be information-led and service-oriented. A perceptive and imaginative student of changing contemporary society, Dr. Bell has seen many of his forecasts come true.

271	Name:	Dr. Robert Bellah
	Institution:	University of California, Berkeley
	Year Elected:	1996
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1927
	Death Date:	July 30, 2013

	Robert N. Bellah was Elliott Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He was educated at Harvard University, receiving his B.A. in 1950 and his Ph.D. in 1955. He began teaching at Harvard in 1957 before moving to the University of California, Berkeley ten years later. From 1967-97 he served as UC Berkeley Ford Professor of Sociology and also chaired the Center for Japanese and Korean Studies from 1968-74. Dr. Bellah was the author and editor of several essays and books, including the influential articles "Civil Religion in America" (1967) and "Religious Evolution" (1964), the latter of which he transformed into a book. His books include Tokugawa Religion, Beyond Belief, The Broken Covenant, The New Religious Consciousness, Varieties of Civil Religion and Uncivil Religion: Interreligious Hostility in America, and Religion in Human Evolution (2011). In 1985, the University of California Press published Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life , a cultural analysis of American society that Professor Bellah wrote in collaboration with Richard Madsen, William Sullivan, Ann Swidler and Steven Tipton. In 1991 he published a follow-up, The Good Society, written by the same five authors as Habits of the Heart. Dr. Bellah was known for his studies of the relations between religion and related value systems and social functioning and individual development in the United States; his sociological studies were suffused with concern for public morality and the search for deep-rooted community. Among his many honors, Dr. Bellah received the United States National Humanities Medal in 2000. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1996. Robert Bellah died July 30, 2013, at the age of 86, in Oakland, California.

272	Name:	Mr. Saul Bellow
	Institution:	Boston University
	Year Elected:	1998
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	501. Creative Artists
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1915
	Death Date:	April 5, 2005

273	Name:	Clarence S. Bement
	Year Elected:	1895
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1843
	Death Date:	1/27/23

274	Name:	Henry Benbridge
	Year Elected:	1771
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	10/20/1743
	Death Date:	1/25/1812

	Henry Benbridge (20 October 1743–25 January 1812) was a portraitist, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1771. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and began his studies at the Academy of Philadelphia from an early age, graduating in 1758. Benbridge then studied portraiture locally before receiving his father’s inheritance and moving to Rome to further his artistic education. There he is thought to have studied under Pompeo Batoni, whose influence is evident in Benbridge’s work. Benbridge’s career took off when his 1768 portrait of General Pascal Paoli appeared at the court of the Grand Duke of Florence and then at the Free Society of Artists in England the following year. Benbridge left for England shortly thereafter and exhibited two portraits at the Royal Academy in 1770 before returning to America. Back home, Benbridge moved from Philadelphia to Charleston, South Carolina. He supported the revolutionary cause which resulted in his capture and imprisonment by British forces in 1780 before being released and returning to Philadelphia where he painted his portrait of Bushrod Washington. After the war, Benbridge returned to Charleston and kept busy painting portraits until moving to Norfolk, Virginia about a decade later. In Norfolk, he instructed the now far more renowned Thomas Sully in portrait painting. It is unknown where Benbridge died, however he was buried in Christ Churchyard in Philadelphia. (ANB)

275	Name:	Dr. Reinhard Bendix
	Institution:	University of California, Berkeley
	Year Elected:	1977
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1916
	Death Date:	2/28/91

276	Name:	Francis G. Benedict
	Year Elected:	1910
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1871
	Death Date:	5/14/57

277	Name:	Dr. Manson Benedict
	Institution:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Year Elected:	1977
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	103. Engineering
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1907
	Death Date:	September 18, 2006

278	Name:	Dr. Benedict Anderson
	Institution:	Cornell University
	Year Elected:	2009
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1936
	Death Date:	December 12, 2015

	Benedict Anderson had been the Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies at the Government and Asian Studies Department in Cornell University since 2002, where he had taught since 1967. He died December 12, 2015, at age 79 in Batu, Indonesia. He was an expert on Indonesia and Southeast Asia and a leading theorist and historian of nationalisms whose work is standard reading in the humanities as well as the social sciences. His 1983 work, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, highlights the role of national myths and print culture in creating the idea of a national community and analyzes the development of European nation-states as derivative from the creation of nations in the Americas. His other works include Java in a Time of Revolution: Occupation and Resistance, 1944-46 (1972), Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia (1990), The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia and the World (1998), and Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-colonial Imagination (2005). He was the 1998 winner of the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies from the Association of Asian Studies and the 2000 winner of the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, 2000.

279	Name:	John Benezet
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	1781

	John Benezet (?–c. 1781) was a wealthy Philadelphian and public officeholder, and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. The son of a prosperous merchant, he briefly attended the College of Philadelphia in 1757 but did not enter a profession. He subscribed to John Bulkeley and John Cummings’s A Voyage to the South Seas (1757) and John Beveridge’s Familiar Epistles (1765), and he donated medals, coins, and other objects to APS member Pierre-Eugène Du Simitière’s museum, but his interest in science and learning seems to have extended no further. In 1772, Benezet returned from a trip to Europe and entered public life. He served as a Philadelphia delegate to the Pennsylvania Provincial Congress and as assistant secretary to the Committee of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia in 1775. In 1777 the Continental Congress named him commissioner of claims in the Treasury office. But aside from his membership in the Republican Society, which called for revisions to the state constitution in 1779, he played no other role in the American Revolution. Benezet occasionally imported West Indian sugar, rum, and molasses, but otherwise lived a gentleman. He was a donor to the Pennsylvania Hospital and the Silk Society, and as befitted a nephew of the prominent abolitionist Anthony Benezet, he contributed funds for the purchase and emancipation of slaves. He died in the winter of 1780-1781 when his ship was lost at sea en route to France. His brother-in-law William Bingham was an APS member. (PI)

280	Name:	Dr. Seyla Benhabib
	Institution:	Columbia University; Yale University
	Year Elected:	2024
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1950

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