Subdivision
| • | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry |
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| | • | 103. Engineering |
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| | • | 104. Mathematics |
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| | • | 105. Physical Earth Sciences |
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| | • | 106. Physics |
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| | • | 201. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry |
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| | • | 203. Evolution & Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Paleontology, and Physical Anthropology |
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| | • | 208. Plant Sciences |
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| | • | 209. Neurobiology |
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| | • | 210. Behavioral Biology, Psychology, Ethology, and Animal Behavior |
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| | • | 303. History Since 1715 |
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| | • | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science |
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| | • | 401. Archaeology |
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| | • | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences |
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| | • | 406. Linguistics |
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| | • | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors |
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| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Hannes Olof G. Alfvén | | | Institution: | Royal Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1908 | | | Death Date: | 4/2/95 | | | | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Bernard Bailyn | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | August 7, 2020 | | | | | | |
American historian Bernard Bailyn received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1953 and taught history there, becoming full professor in 1961, University Professor in 1980, and professor emeritus in 1993. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice: first for his book The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967) which also won the Bancroft Prize, in which he challenged long-standing interpretations of the causes of the American Revolution, and then for Voyagers to the West (1986), a study of Anglo-American migration patterns on the eve of the Revolution. Dr. Bailyn's other books include The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century (1955); Education in the Forming of American Society (1960); The Origins of American Politics (1968); The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (1974), which won the National Book Award; The Peopling of British North America (1986); On the Teaching and Writing of History (1994); To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders (2003); Atlantic History: Concept and Contours (2005); and The Barbarous Years (2013). One of the wisest scholars on the colonial and Revolutionary period, Dr. Bailyn has also worked on economic, social and intellectual history. Since 1995 he has concentrated on Atlantic history, the interactions among the peoples of the four continents that border the Atlantic basin. Other posts he has held include editor-in-chief of the John Harvard Library, co-editor of the journal Perspectives in American History and Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. Professor bailyn was a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea, the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Mexican Academy of History and Geography. He was awarded the 2010 National Humanities Medal by President Obama. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Eric A. Blackall | | | Institution: | Cornell University | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1914 | | | Death Date: | 11/16/89 | | | | |
| 4 | Name: | Denis W. Brogan | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1900 | | | Death Date: | 1/5/74 | | | | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. James MacGregor Burns | | | Institution: | Williams College & University of Richmond | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1918 | | | Death Date: | July 15, 2014 | | | | | | |
James MacGregor Burns was a Pulitzer Prize-winning Presidential biographer, a pioneer in the study of leadership, and a senior scholar at the Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland that bears his name. He was also a Senior Scholar at the Jepson School of Leadership at the University of Richmond. Author of more than a dozen books, Dr. Burns devoted his professional life to the study of leadership in American political life. His books include Packing the Court: Judicial Leadership on Trial (2009),The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America , with Susan Dunn (2001), Dead Center: Clinton-Gore Leadership and the Perils of Moderation , with Georgia Sorenson (1999). Dr. Burns won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his biographies Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1956) and Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1970). His book Leadership (1978) is still considered the seminal work in the field of leadership studies, and his theory on transformational leadership has been the basis of more than 400 doctoral dissertations. Dr. Burns received his doctorate in political science from Harvard University, attended the London School of Economics and taught at Williams College. He was a Democratic nominee for the 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts in 1958 and also served as a delegate to four Democratic National Conventions. While in the military, he served as combat historian in the Pacific Theater from 1943-46 and was awarded the Bronze Star and four Battle Stars. Dr. Burns is a former president of the American Political Science Association, former president of the International Society of Political Psychology and former chair of the Berkshire Country Commission Against Discrimination. James MacGregor Burns died July 15, 2014, at the age of 95 in Williamstown, Massachusetts. | |
| 6 | Name: | Prof. Hendrik B. G. Casimir | | | Institution: | University of Leiden | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | May 4, 2000 | | | | |
| 7 | Name: | Dr. Bryce Crawford | | | Institution: | University of Minnesota | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1914 | | | Death Date: | September 16, 2011 | | | | | | |
Physical chemist Bryce Crawford, Jr. was associated with the University of Minnesota since 1940. He became a professor of physical chemistry there in 1946 and also served as chairman of the department and dean of the graduate school. At the time of his death he was Regent's Professor Emeritus. Dr. Crawford achieved prominence in the field of spectroscopy. He published the first of an influential series of papers on vibrational spectral intensities in 1950, systematically developed experimental techniques in areas such as infrared intensities and also carried out a wide range of investigations on molecular force fields, or the stiffness of chemical bonds. He had contributed significantly to the theory of molecular vibrations as well. Dr. Crawford was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and held a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1971. | |
| 8 | Name: | Dr. Frank Moore Cross | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | October 16, 2012 | | | | | | |
A leading expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls, philologist Frank Moore Cross, Jr. has been affiliated with Harvard University for nearly fifty years. After earning a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1950, he joined the Harvard faculty in 1954; four years later he became curator of the Semitic Museum and Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages (presently Emeritus) at Harvard. An extraordinarily gifted scholar, he is the author of many first-class papers in learned and popular journals. His many books include The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic, and, as editor, the Hermeneia series of Old Testament commentaries and Qumran and the History of Biblical Text. In addition, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and has received several honorary degrees and prizes, including the William Foxwell Albright Award in Biblical Scholarship, the Israel Museum's Percia Schimmel Prize in Archaeology, and the Medalla de Honor of the University of Madrid. | |
| 9 | Name: | William L. Day | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | 12/31/73 | | | | |
| 10 | Name: | Kermit Gordon | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | 6/21/1976 | | | | |
| 11 | Name: | Dr. Donald R. Griffin | | | Institution: | Rockefeller University | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 210. Behavioral Biology, Psychology, Ethology, and Animal Behavior | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1915 | | | Death Date: | November 7, 2003 | | | | |
| 12 | Name: | Dr. Henry M. Hoenigswald | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1915 | | | Death Date: | June 16, 2003 | | | | |
| 13 | Name: | Dr. Paul J. Kramer | | | Institution: | Duke University | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 208. Plant Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1904 | | | Death Date: | 5/24/95 | | | | |
| 14 | Name: | Dr. Mabel Louise Lang | | | Institution: | Bryn Mawr College | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | July 21, 2010 | | | | | | |
An archaeologist and scholar of classical Greek and Mycenaen culture, Mabel Louise Lang was the Paul Shorey Professor of Greek Emeritus at Bryn Mawr College. She earned her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr in 1943, after which time she joined the faculty, becoming professor of Greek in 1959. Early on, Dr. Lang mastered what became known as Greek Linear B, and she has written extensively on the Jn Formulas and on the usages of Athenian democracy. An expert on weights, tokens, measures and recondite archaeological artifacts, she was the author of a number of celebrated works, including Abacus and the Calendar (1964-65), Graffiti and Dipinti (1976), Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora (2005), The Palace of Nestor at Pylos, and several books on classical Greek law. In addition to her brilliant archaeological and historical work, Dr. Lang was known as an inspiring teacher and willing collaborator. Mabel Lang died on July 21, 2010, at the age of 92 in Rosemont, Pennsylvania. | |
| 15 | Name: | Dr. George W. Mackey | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 104. Mathematics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | March 15, 2006 | | | | |
| 16 | Name: | Dr. William D. McElroy | | | Institution: | University of California, San Diego | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 201. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | 2/17/99 | | | | |
| 17 | Name: | Mr. Paul Mellon | | | Institution: | Mellon Bank & National Gallery of Art | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | 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: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | 2/1/99 | | | | |
| 18 | Name: | Dr. George A. Miller | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 210. Behavioral Biology, Psychology, Ethology, and Animal Behavior | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1920 | | | Death Date: | July 22, 2012 | | | | | | |
George A. Miller was the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University at the time of his death on July 22 at the age of 92. Born in Charleston, West Virginia in 1920, he received his B.A. degree from the University of Alabama in 1940 and his Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University in 1946. During and after World War II, he studied speech production and perception at Harvard, and in 1948, inspired by E. Shannon's mathematical theory of communication, he conducted a series of experiments measuring how a listener's expectations influence his perceptions. Dr. Miller summarized that work in 1951 in "Language and Communication," a text that helped to establish psycholinguistics as an independent field of research in psychology. He subsequently tried to extend Shannon's measure of information to explain short-term memory, work that resulted in a widely quoted (and often misquoted) paper, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two." Dr. Miller's attempts to estimate the amount of information per word in conversational speech led him to Noam Chomsky, who showed him how the sequential predictability of speech follows from adherence to grammatical, not probabilistic, rules. The next decade was spent testing psychological implications of Chomsky's theories. Some of those ideas found expression in 1960 in "Plans and the Structure of Behavior," a book written jointly with E. Galanter and K. Pribram. In 1960 Dr. Miller co-founded, along with Jerome S. Bruner, the Harvard Center for Cognitive Studies. On the basis of these activities, Dr. Miller is generally considered one of the fathers of modern cognitive psychology. Dr. Miller's research interests shifted from grammar to lexicon, and in 1976 "Language and Perception," written with P. N. Johnson-Laird, presented a detailed hypothesis about the way lexical information is stored in a person's long-term memory. Dr. Miller attempted to test some aspects of the hypothesis with studies of the development of language in young children; that project was summarized in 1977 in "Spontaneous Apprentices: Children and Language." During this time, he served as a consultant to the Sloan Foundation in the program that helped to create the new field of cognitive science, and in 1986, in collaboration with Gilbert Harman, he established the Princeton Cognitive Science Laboratory, and in 1990 he wrote "The Science of Words," which won the William James Book Award from Division 1 of the American Psychological Association. From 1989-94 he served as Program Director of the McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience. His research has also produced WordNet, a lexical database that is widely used by computational linguists as part of natural language processing systems. In addition to his work on the facuties of Harvard and Princeton Universities, Dr. Miller had also taught at the University of Alabama, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Rockefeller University. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1962 and had served as president of the American Psychological Association. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1971. He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1991. | |
| 19 | Name: | Dr. Lorenzo Minio-Paluello | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | 5/6/86 | | | | |
| 20 | Name: | Dr. Walle J.H. Nauta | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 209. Neurobiology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | 3/24/94 | | | | |
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