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1	Name:	Sir John Boardman
	Institution:	University of Oxford
	Year Elected:	1999
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	403. Cultural Anthropology
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1927

	Sir John Boardman is a scholar of classical archaeology and art, with experience in Greece (assistant director of the British School at Athens), museums (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) and teaching (as reader and professor at Oxford University). His works include excavation publication (Chios, Crete, Libya), a series of handbooks on Greek sculpture and vases, monographs on Greek gem engraving, and various broader archaeological studies, several of them embracing the archaeology and history of the Near East and central Asia. He is a member of various academies, including the British Academy and the Institut de France, and holds honorary doctorates from Paris and Athens.

2	Name:	Dr. John R. Evans
	Institution:	Torstar Corporation & Canada Foundation for Innovation & University of Toronto
	Year Elected:	1999
	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:	International
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1929
	Death Date:	February 13, 2015

	Dr. John Evans spent more than 35 years playing a central role in the health, research and innovation sectors. As Chair of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Dr. Evans helped to create a dynamic environment for innovation, providing researchers with the equipment and facilities they needed to undertake leading-edge research. He also served as Chair of the MaRS Discovery District, a not-for-profit corporation that brings together the academic, business and scientific communities to facilitate the commercialization of academic science in Canada. He served as past Chair of the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences and was Chairman of the TORSTAR Corporation until his retirement in 2005. As Chair and CEO of Allelix Inc., he established Canada's first biotechnology company, creating a model for Canada's biotechnology industry. As founding dean of McMaster University Medical School, he moved away from the traditional models to set the benchmark for training effective physicians, and as founding Director of the Population, Health and Nutrition Department of the World Bank, he developed programs in population health throughout the world. Dr. Evans received his medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1952 and, as a Rhodes Scholar, his Doctoral degree at Oxford University in 1955. Dr. Evans received honourary degrees from 17 universities. He was a Companion of the Order of Canada and Officer of the Order of Ontario. Dr. Evans was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Royal College of Physicians, London and Master of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Evans died February 13, 2015, at the age of 85.

3	Name:	Dr. Tore Frängsmyr
	Institution:	Uppsala University
	Year Elected:	1999
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1938
	Death Date:	August 28, 2017

	Tore Frängsmyr was a prominent member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and its Nobel prize system; the leader of the characteristic Swedish discipline of the history of science and learning; a respected contributor to literary journals; an expert historian of science and of its relations with religion; an original interpreter of the European Enlightenment; and an institution-builder both nationally (at Uppsala and Stockholm) and internationally (through bilateral research projects, especially with the University of California, Berkeley, and as Secretary General of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science). His research professorship at Uppsala was established for him by act of the Swedish parliament. Dr. Frängsmyr received a Fil.dr. at Uppsala University, and continued his career there. He was Research Professor in History of Science Emeritus at Uppsala University and a former Director of the Center for History of Science and Advisory Board member at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was the recipient of many awards, including the King Oscar's Prize for young scholars, the Ragnar Oldberg Literary Prize, the Letterstedt Prize, and the Gierow Prize. Professor Frängsmyr was the author of (English titles) Geology and the Doctrine of Creation (1969); The Emergence of Wolffianism (1972); The Discovery of the Ice Age (1976); The Dreamer in the House of Sciences (1977); and The Search for Enlightenment (1993, French edition 1998). He was also the editor of Linnaeus, the Man and his Work (1983); Science in Sweden: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1739-1989 (1989); Solomon's House Revisited (1990); The Quantifying Spirit in the 18th Century (1990); and Les Prix Nobel, 1988. Dr. Frängsmyr was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Academia Europeaa, Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Belles Lettres, History, and Antiquities. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1999. Tore Frängsmyr died August 28, 2017, at the age of 79.

4	Name:	Dr. William D. Hamilton
	Institution:	University of Oxford
	Year Elected:	1999
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	203. Evolution & Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Paleontology, and Physical Anthropology
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1936
	Death Date:	March 7, 2000

5	Name:	Professor Jean Leclant
	Institution:	Collège de France & Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Institut de France
	Year Elected:	1999
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1920
	Death Date:	September 16, 2011

	Jean Leclant served as Secrétaire Perpétuel of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres at the Institut de France since 1983 and Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France since 1990. Previously he was a professor at the University of Strasbourg (1955-63), the Sorbonne (1963-79), and the Collège de France (1979-90) and served as Director d'Etudes at the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes (1964-90). Jean Leclant was among the outstanding Egyptologists of his generation. He participated in many conferences in France and abroad (Africa, Japan, USA) and was an acknowledged administrator. His publication record was outstanding, with emphasis on excavations, Egyptian-Sudanese relations, the cult of Isis abroad, and Pyramid texts. Leclant's bibliography of books, articles, reviews, etc., through 1993 consisted of 993 items. The anniversary publication in his honor, Hommages à Jean Leclant, consisted of four volumes with contributions by 88 colleagues, friends, and students. He is the author of Mentouemhat, Quatrième prophète d'Amon, Prince de la ville (1961); Recherches sur les monuments thébains de la XXVème dynastie dite éthiopienne (1965); (with J. Ph. Lauer) Mission archéologique de Saqqarah I, le temple haut du complexe funéraire du roi Téti (1972); (with J. Goyon and R. Parker) The Edifice of Taharqa by the Sacred Lake of Karnak (1979); (with H. Danin) Le Second Siècle de l'Institut de France, 3 vol. (1994-2005); Les Textes des Pyramides de Pepy I (2001); and (with C. Carrier, C. Rilly, et al) Répertoire d'Epigraphie Méroitique, 3 vols. (2000). Professor Leclant has received many honors, including Grand-Officier, Légion d'honneur; Grand-Officier, Ordre du Mérite; Commdr. Ordre des Palmes Académiques; Commdr. Ordre des Arts et Lettres; Chevalier du Mérite Militaire; Imperial Order of Menelik (Ethiopia); and Grand Officer ordre de la République d'Egypte. In 1993 he received the Balzan Prize. He was a member of many academies, including the Accademia dei Lincei, the British Academy, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Academies of Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, and Romania. He was elected as a foreign member of the American Philosophical Society in 1999. Jean Leclant died on September 16, 2011, in Paris, France at the age of 91.

6	Name:	Dr. Reimar Lüst
	Institution:	Max Planck Institute & University of Hamburg & Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
	Year Elected:	1999
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	106. Physics
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1923
	Death Date:	March 31, 2020

	Reimer Lüst received his D.Sc. at the University of Göttingen. He has served as vice president of ESRO, chairman of the German Science Council, president of the Max Planck Gesellschaft, director-general of the European Space Agency, president of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and chairman of the Board of the International University Bremen. He is currently honorary president of the last two institutions and Professor at the University of Hamburg and Professor at the Technical University of Munich. He was visiting professor at New York University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology. He is the reciepient of numerous awards, including the Theodore von Karman Award, the Marin Drinov Medal of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Harnack Medal of the Max Planck Society, the Adenauer de Gaulle Prize, and the Weizmann Award in the Humanities and Science from the Weizmann Institute, Israel. Dr. Lüst has served as Chairman of the board of trustees of the Deutsches Museum, Munich and as chairman of Humboldt Universitats-Gesellschaft. He is a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Academy of Sciences, Madrid, the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Ostereichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1999. Dr. Lüst's scientific career began with a series of research papers in plasma physics, cosmic rays, and magnetic hydrodynamics as related to thermonuclear fusion. He moved on to studies of the aurora and other aspects of planetary science. Early on, he was recognized as a very gifted science administrator and held in succession the most important directorships in European space science. When he became Director of ESA, the European Space Agency, he welded a highly successful union of all the advanced European scientific nations out of what had been a contentious, bickering community. He died on March 31, 2020, at age 97.

7	Name:	Ms. Ida Nicolaisen
	Institution:	Nordic Institute of Asian Studies & Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project
	Year Elected:	1999
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1940

	Ida Nicolaisen is one of the most distinguished social anthropologists in Denmark today. In addition to her scientific studies, she is active in promoting environmental research in developing countries. The work for which she is best known relates to Malaysia. She has conducted fieldwork among the Punan Bah, in Sarawak, heads the Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project, and took the initiative in the building of a traditional sewn longboat by a Punan Bah man at the Viking Ship Museum in Denmark, as well as the erection of two remarkable totem poles at the National Museum. In addition to Malaysia, she has done fieldwork in the Philippines, Greenland, Niger, Chad, and Norway, and speaks many foreign languages, including Punan Bah. She is the editor of the multivolumed Danish Nomad Research publications. Her contributions are classical and have earned her an international reputation. Dr. Nicolaisen was the first woman to give the Annual Celebration at the University of Copenhagen (after 510 years). She is a Knight of the Order of Danneburg (Denmark), a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Arts and Sciences and Senior Research Fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.

8	Name:	Sir Keith Peters
	Institution:	University of Cambridge & Christ's College
	Year Elected:	1999
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	204. Medicine, Surgery, Pathology and Immunology
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1938

	Sir Keith Peters received his M.B. B.Ch. in Wales. He was a MRC clinical research fellow at the University of Birmingham and National Institute for Medical Research, London. He served as a lecturer in medicine at the Welsh National School of Medicine, honorary senior registrar in medicine at United Cardiff Hospitals, and professor of medicine and director of the department of medicine at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. He is currently the Regius Professor of Physics and Head of the Clinical School at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. He was honored as Knight Bachelor in 1993 and FRS in 1995. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, Association of Physicians, Association of American Physicians, British Society for Immunology, European Society of Clinical Investigation, Scandinavian Society for Immunology, and a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences. Sir Keith Peters is the preeminent physician-scientist in the UK. His principle scientific contributions relate to kidney disease and, in particular, the immunopathology and therapy for nephritis. He utilized the technique of plasmaphoresis and demonstrated its usefulness in the arrest of certain immunologically related diseases. His scientific contributions to medicine earned him election to the Royal Society, an unusual honor for one who is predominately a clinical scientist. This honor represents only one aspect of Sir Keith's contribution to medicine and science. He has trained many of the current leaders in UK academic medicine and has transformed the Cambridge Medical Schools, not only by the erection of new buildings but by elegant and successful recruitment to Cambridge of scientifically committed physicians. The intellectual merger of medicine in Cambridge with the existing strengths in the biological sciences has now positioned Cambridge as the leading academic medical center in Europe. That he serves on the Gairdner Foundation Award Committee and the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation reflects the high opinion that Sir Keith enjoys in this country as well. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1999.

9	Name:	The Honorable Mary Robinson
	Institution:	Ethical Globalization Initiative; United Nations; Ireland
	Year Elected:	1999
	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:	International
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1944

	A brilliant academic who studied in Dublin and at Harvard, Mary Robinson, at age 25, became Reid Professor of Constitutional and Criminal Law (1969-75) at Trinity College, Dublin, and lecturer in European Community Law (1975-90). In 1988, with her husband Nicholas, she was co-founder and director of the Irish Centre for European Law, which promotes, among other things, the study of European human rights law in Ireland. From 1969-89 she was a member of Seanad Eireann, the Upper House of Parliament. She also served on the Dublin City Council, 1979-83, and the International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, 1987-90. In 1990, Mary Robinson became the first woman president of Ireland, at age 46, and redefined this primarily ceremonial role, representing her country internationally and developing a new sense of Ireland's economic, political and cultural links with other countries and cultures, with special emphasis on the needs of developing countries. In 1997, she was appointed the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, serving until 2002. An outspoken crusader, she both criticizes governments with poor human rights records and at the same time coaxes them into making improvements. She has personally visited more than 80 countries, including dangerous areas such as Sierra Leone, Chechnya, Kosovo and East Timor. She was the recipient of the Society's 2002 Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Public Service. The citation for the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Public Service reads, "Distinguished legal scholar; Professor of Law at Trinity College, Dublin. Exemplary barrister; devoted to human rights. Admired legislator, member of Seanad Eireann. Beloved President of the Republic of Ireland. Dedicated international public servant; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Tireless champion for the homeless, the dispossessed and the oppressed. The American Philosophical Society salutes this daughter of Ireland and citizen of the world, commends her unswerving devotion to human dignity and freedom, and awards her its Franklin Medal for outstanding public service." Mary Robinson is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and was elected a foreign member of the American Philosophical Society in 1999. In 2002 she moved to New York City and presided over Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. She is Honorary President of OxFam International and Vice President of the Club of Madrid. She chairs the Council of Women World Leaders, the GAVI Fund Board and the Fund for Global Human Rights. She is a Chancellor of Dublin University. In 2007 she was invited to become a founding member of the Elders, a group brought together by Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel that is dedicated to working for the common good. The alliance also includes former President Jimmy Carter, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the retired Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu. In 2008 she was named to the board of trustees of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia and in 2009 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As Realizing Rights reached its planned end in December 2010, Mary Robinson returned to Dublin and set up the Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice within the Innovation Academy established by Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. The Foundation will work to foster Irish and international leadership on issues of climate change and sustainable development and promote climate justice and equity - ensuring human rights are at the center of the climate change agenda. She is the author of Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice (2013) and of Climate Justice (2017).