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1001	Name:	Theodosius Dobzhansky
	Year Elected:	1942
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1900
	Death Date:	12/18/75

1002	Name:	Mr. E. L. Doctorow
	Institution:	New York University
	Year Elected:	2007
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	501. Creative Artists
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1931
	Death Date:	July 21, 2015

	E.L. Doctorow was a consummate American novelist whose works have masterfully explored the country's history. In The Book of Daniel it was the trial of the Rosenbergs; in Ragtime ebullient America at the turn of the nineteenth century; in the superb Billy Bathgate New York during Prohibition; and in The March Sherman's fabled sweep through the South. His 2009 book, Homer & Langley, details the lives of two wealthy Manhattan packrats who collected over 100 tons of miscellaneous items. All the Time in the World, published in 2011, is a collection of several of his short stories. His last work was Andrew's Brain (2014). Doctorow was a prolific writer of short stories, a deeply appreciated teacher of creative writing, and a dignified, highly erudite, yet convivial man. A graduate of Kenyon College, he was the Lewis and Loretta Glucksman Professor in American Letters and Professor of English at New York University. In 2014 he was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. E. L. Doctorow died July 21, 2015, at age 84, in Manhattan. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2006.

1003	Name:	William E. Dodd
	Year Elected:	1936
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1870
	Death Date:	2/9/40

1004	Name:	Harold W. Dodds
	Year Elected:	1935
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1889
	Death Date:	10/25/80

1005	Name:	Edward A. Doisy
	Year Elected:	1942
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1893
	Death Date:	10/23/86

1006	Name:	Charles S. Dolley
	Year Elected:	1886
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased

1007	Name:	Dr. Don L. Anderson
	Institution:	California Institute of Technology
	Year Elected:	1990
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	105. Physical Earth Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1933
	Death Date:	December 2, 2014

	Don L. Anderson was Eleanor and John R. McMillan Professor of Geophysics in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology at the time of his death at 81 on December 2, 2014. With an interest in the origin, evolution, structure and composition of Earth and other planets, Dr. Anderson integrated into his work seismological, solid state physics, geochemical and petrological data. He received his B.S. in Geology and Geophysics from Rochester Polytechnic Institute in 1955 and his Ph.D. in Geophysics and Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1962. From 1955-58 Dr. Anderson worked for Chevron Oil Company, the Air Force Cambridge Research Center and the Arctic Institute of North America, and from 1967-89 he directed the Seismological Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Anderson received the Emil Wiechert Medal of the German Geophysical Society, the Arthur L. Day Gold Medal of the Geological Society of America, the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union, the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science and the National Medal of Science. He was a past president of the American Geophysical Union. Dr. Anderson was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1972 and the National Academy of Sciences in 1982. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1990.

1008	Name:	Donald H. Andrews
	Institution:	Johns Hopkins University
	Year Elected:	1933
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1898
	Death Date:	6/3/73

1009	Name:	Henry H. Donaldson
	Year Elected:	1906
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1858
	Death Date:	1/23/28

1010	Name:	Dr. Wendy Doniger
	Institution:	University of Chicago
	Year Elected:	1996
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1940

	Wendy Doniger is accomplished in the study of myth, especially Hindu mythology. One of the most influential scholars in the field, she has helped introduce a generation to a concept of myth with special reference to themes of creation, the erotic and the deceptive. A respected teacher and speaker, Dr. Doniger has been Mircea Eliade Professor of History of Religions at the University of Chicago since 1986 while also serving as director of the university's Martin Marty Center. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1968 as well as a D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1973. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Dr. Doniger is also the author of numerous articles, such as in The New York Times Book Review, and has served as editor of History of Religions and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Her many books include Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva (1973) and Dreams, Illusion and Other Realities (1984), and she has also edited Mythologies, an English-language edition of the 1,300 page Dictionnaires des Mythologies. Among her latest works are The Hindus: An Alternative History (2009) and The Ring of Truth: Myths of Sex and Jewellery (2017).

1011	Name:	Dr. David L. Donoho
	Institution:	Stanford University
	Year Elected:	2019
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	104. Mathematics
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1957

	David L. Donoho is currently Professor of Statistics and Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1984. Prior to moving to Stanford, he worked for a decade at the University of California, Berkeley. Dramatic developments in technology present fundamental new challenges in theoretical and applied mathematical statistics. David Donoho has played a major role in building powerful new mathematical and statistical tools to deal with these problems, ranging from how best to extract information from large data-sets in high dimensions to how to deal with contamination by noise. His work provides fast, efficient, and often optimal algorithms that are founded on rigorous mathematical analysis. He introduced many now standard techniques that overcome difficulties caused by noise with very little loss of efficiency or reliability. Along the way, he demonstrated the power of the mathematical theory of wavelets in dealing with such problems in statistics. He also developed efficient techniques for sparse representation and recovery in large data-sets. Among his awards are a MacArthur Fellowship in 1991, the John von Neumann Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2001, the Weiner Prize of AMS-SIAM in 2011, and the Shaw Prize in 2013. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1998), French Academy of Sciences (2009), and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2012). David Donoho was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.

1012	Name:	Charles L. Doolittle
	Year Elected:	1881
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1843
	Death Date:	3/3/19

1013	Name:	Eric Doolittle
	Year Elected:	1903
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1870
	Death Date:	9/21/20

1014	Name:	Dr. Russell F. Doolittle
	Institution:	University of California, San Diego
	Year Elected:	1992
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	206. Physiology, Biophysics, and Pharmacology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1931
	Death Date:	October 11, 2019

	Russell Doolittle was a professor of biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego. An insightful and articulate scientist, he was an expert on the structure and evolution of proteins. Having worked out the covalent structure of fibrinogen and its role in blood clot formation, he became interested in the molecular evolution of this protein and contributed to the molecular analysis of its evolution as well as those of other proteins. Drawing on his personal computerized file of protein and DNA sequences, Dr. Doolittle discovered the remarkable similarity between the cancer-producing gene of a virus and a normal gene that encodes a growth factor from blood platelets. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Institutes of Health Career Development Award, Dr. Doolittle was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Russell Doolittle died October 11, 2019 in La Jolla, California at the age of 88.

1015	Name:	Carl Van Doren
	Year Elected:	1942
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1886
	Death Date:	7/18/50

1016	Name:	Benjamin Dorr
	Year Elected:	1841
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1796
	Death Date:	9/18/1869

1017	Name:	John S. Dorsey
	Year Elected:	1814
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1783
	Death Date:	11/12/18

1018	Name:	Dr. Paul Mead Doty
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	1970
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	201. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1920
	Death Date:	December 5, 2011

	Paul M. Doty was professor of public policy and Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He was also the founder and Director Emeritus of the Center for Science and International Affairs and an emeritus member of the BCSIA Board of Directors. During his 42 years on the Harvard University faculty, Dr. Doty embraced two careers: one in biochemistry, where he founded the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the other in science policy and international security studies, where he founded the Center for Science and International Affairs in 1974. From 1960-64 he was a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee and from 1961-67 he also served as a consultant to the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. The recipient of awards including the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry, Dr. Doty was the author of numerous articles in scientific journals and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 1970. Paul Doty died on December 5, 2011, at age 91 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1019	Name:	Thomas H. Dougherty
	Year Elected:	1899
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	10/25/29

1020	Name:	Mr. Peter J. Dougherty
	Institution:	American Philosophical Society; Princeton University Press; University of Pennsylvania
	Year Elected:	2023
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1948

	Peter J. Dougherty is Director of The APS Press of the American Philosophical Society, former Director of Princeton University Press, and Fox Family Pavilion Scholar and Distinguished Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania. A 1971 graduate of La Salle College in his hometown of Philadelphia, Dougherty began his publishing career in 1972 as a college sales representative at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. After holding editorial positions at HBJ and several other New York-based publishers, he joined Princeton University Press in 1992 as economics editor. Dougherty was named PUP Director in 2005, and stepped down from that post in 2017, returning to editorial acquisitions at PUP until 2022. In his Princeton editorial role, Dougherty’s list of publications included works by twelve Nobel Prize-winning economists, including Robert Shiller’s Irrational Exuberance, George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton’s Identity Economics, The Essential John Nash (edited by Harold Kuhn and Sylvia Nasar), Ben Bernanke’s Essays on The Great Depression, Thomas Sargent’s The Conquest of American Inflation, Douglass North’s Understanding the Process of Economic Change, and Jean Tirole’s Economics for the Common Good. As PUP Director from 2005 through 2017, Dougherty led the Press to sustained growth, expanding its operation in Europe and opening its office in China; publishing the Digital Edition of The Einstein Papers, launching The Princeton Legacy Library, a digitized selection of over 2,500 backlist titles, reviving The Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, and initiating The Toni Morrison Lecture Series. During his directorship PUP published numerous award-winners, including two winners of the R.R. Hawkins Prize of the Association of American Publishers, Peter Cole’s The Dream of the Poem, and Peter Brown’s Through the Eye of The Needle, and several New York Times Best Sellers, among them, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff’s This Time is Different, Robert Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth, and Andrew Hodges’ Alan Turing: The Enigma. Dougherty is a past president of the Association of University Presses and a former board member of the American Association of Publishers. He is a trustee of Ithaka, an editorial board member of the Princeton University Library Chronicle, and former faculty member of the University of Denver Publishing Institute. In the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program at Penn, he conducted the publishing workshop series, Books for the Long Run. He is the author of two books, Who’s Afraid of Adam Smith? (John Wiley & Sons, 2002), and Confessions of a Scholarly Publisher (Princeton University Press, 2017). His essays have appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Journal of Scholarly Publishing, American Purpose, and other periodicals.

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