| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Kenneth J. Arrow | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 1968 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | February 21, 2017 | | | | | | |
Kenneth Arrow was born in 1921 and brought up in New York City and its surroundings. He graduated from City College of New York in 1940 and went for graduate study in mathematics and economics at Columbia University, receiving an M.A. in mathematics in 1941 and a Ph.D. in economics in 1951. He served as a weather officer in the United States Army Air Forces (1942-46), retiring with the rank of captain. Dr. Arrow's academic career started as Research Associate at the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics (1947-49) and continued as Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago (1948-49). In 1949 he moved to Stanford University, serving as Assistant, Associate and full Professor of Economics, Statistics, and Operations Research through 1968 when he joined the Harvard University faculty as Professor of Economics and then James Bryant Conant University Professor (1968-79). In 1979 Dr. Arrow returned to Stanford as Professor of Economics and Operations Research at Stanford University (1979-91) and, subsequently, Emeritus Professor (1991- ). He had written, alone or with collaborators, 22 books, 254 technical papers, and 31 non-technical articles, edited or co-edited 22 books, and participated in 11 collective studies on policy issues. His particular interests included the theory of social choice and justice, general equilibrium theory, medical economics, the economics of individual choice, risk-bearing, the economics of information, inventory analysis, capital and growth theory, economics of social interaction, environmental economics, sequential statistical analysis, and the use of winds in flight planning. Dr. Arrow received several honors, including the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association (1957), the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science (1972), the von Neumann Prize (1986), the 2nd Class Order of the Rising Sun (1984), the National Medal of Science (2004), and a number of honorary degrees. He had also been president of several learned societies and served as member and Chair of the Stanford University Senate and the Stanford Faculty Advisory Board. Kenneth Arrow died February 21, 2017, at age 95 at home in Palo Alto, California. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Carlos Chagas | | | Institution: | Univeridade Federal de Rio de Janeiro | | | Year Elected: | 1968 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 209. Neurobiology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1910 | | | Death Date: | February 16, 2000 | | | | |
| 3 | Name: | Pierre Courcelle | | | Year Elected: | 1968 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | 7/25/80 | | | | |
| 4 | Name: | Professor Manfred Eigen | | | Institution: | Max Planck Institute | | | Year Elected: | 1968 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1927 | | | Death Date: | February 6, 2019 | | | | | | |
German biophysicist Manfred Eigen was the director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. Recognized throughout the world for his outstanding work in the field of chemical kinetics, he received the Nobel Prize in 1967, along with Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and George Porter, for his study of extremely fast chemical reactions induced in response to very short pulses of energy. He also made significant contributions to the theory of the chemical hypercycle, the cyclic linkage of reaction cycles as an explanation for the self-organization of pre-biotic systems. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Dr. Eigen was the recipient of many awards, including the Otto Hahn Prize for Chemistry and Physics and the Kirkwood Medal and Harrison How Award of the American Chemical Society. In addition to his standing as a preeminent scientist, Dr. Eigen was also known for his courteous manner and his love of the piano, which he often played with chamber groups. Manfred Eigen died February 6, 2019 in Goettingen, Germany at the age of 91. | |
| 5 | Name: | Edward E. Evans-Pritchard | | | Year Elected: | 1968 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1902 | | | Death Date: | 9/--/73 | | | | |
| 6 | Name: | Sir Ernst H. Gombrich | | | Institution: | University of London | | | Year Elected: | 1968 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | November 3, 2001 | | | | |
| 7 | Name: | Dr. Jesse L. Greenstein | | | Institution: | California Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1968 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 101. Astronomy | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | October 21, 2002 | | | | |
| 8 | Name: | Gustave E. von Grunebaum | | | Year Elected: | 1968 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | 2/27/72 | | | | |
| 9 | Name: | Dr. Michael Heidelberger | | | Institution: | New York University | | | Year Elected: | 1968 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 204. Medicine, Surgery, Pathology and Immunology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1888 | | | Death Date: | 6/25/91 | | | | |
| 10 | Name: | Dr. Neal E. Miller | | | Institution: | Rockefeller University & Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1968 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 210. Behavioral Biology, Psychology, Ethology, and Animal Behavior | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | March 23, 2002 | | | | |
| 11 | Name: | Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan | | | Institution: | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | | | Year Elected: | 1968 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1927 | | | Death Date: | March 26, 2003 | | | | |
| 12 | Name: | Dr. Max F. Perutz | | | Institution: | University of Cambridge | | | Year Elected: | 1968 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1914 | | | Death Date: | February 6, 2002 | | | | |
| 13 | Name: | Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus | | | Institution: | Pan Geo, Inc. | | | Year Elected: | 1968 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 105. Physical Earth Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | 3/30/98 | | | | |
| 14 | Name: | Dr. Lynn T. White | | | Year Elected: | 1968 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | 3/30/87 | | | | |
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