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1Name:  Dr. Frederick B. Adams
 Institution:  Pierpont Morgan Library
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  303. History Since 1715
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1910
 Death Date:  January 7, 2001
   
2Name:  Dr. Abram Bergson
 Institution:  Harvard University
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  302. Economics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1914
 Death Date:  April 23, 2003
   
3Name:  Adolf A. Berle
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1895
 Death Date:  2/17/71
   
4Name:  Felix Bloch
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1905
 Death Date:  9/10/83
   
5Name:  Dr. Germaine Brée
 Institution:  Wake Forest University
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  402. Criticism: Arts and Letters
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1907
 Death Date:  September 22, 2001
   
6Name:  Dr. Hallowell Davis
 Institution:  Central Institute for the Deaf
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  209. Neurobiology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1896
 Death Date:  8/22/92
   
7Name:  Dr. Walter Gellhorn
 Institution:  Columbia University
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1906
 Death Date:  12/9/95
   
8Name:  Dr. Philip M. Hauser
 Institution:  University of Chicago
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1909
 Death Date:  12/13/94
   
9Name:  Leland John Haworth
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1904
 Death Date:  03/05/79
   
10Name:  Barnaby C. Keeney
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1914
 Death Date:  6/18/80
   
11Name:  Heinrich Kluver
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1897
 Death Date:  2/8/79
   
12Name:  Dr. Richard Krautheimer
 Institution:  New York University
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1897
 Death Date:  11/1/94
   
13Name:  Dr. Stephan George Kuttner
 Institution:  University of California, Berkeley
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1907
 Death Date:  8/12/96
   
14Name:  Dr. Ernst Mayr
 Institution:  Harvard University
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  203. Evolution & Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Paleontology, and Physical Anthropology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1904
 Death Date:  February 3, 2005
   
15Name:  Dr. John W. Milnor
 Institution:  State University of New York, Stony Brook
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  104. Mathematics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1931
   
 
John W. Milnor is a professor at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, where he also co-directs the Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Known for his work in differential topology, K-theory and dynamical systems, Dr. Milnor was for many years associated with Princeton University, earning his Ph.D. there in 1954 and becoming Henry Putnam University Professor of Mathematics in 1962. His most celebrated single result is his proof of the existence of 7-dimensional spheres with nonstandard differential structure. Later, he showed that the 7-sphere has 15 differentiable structures (28 if you consider orientation). An n-sphere with nonstandard differential structure is called an exotic sphere, a term coined by Dr. Milnor. An accomplished mathematical writer with numerous books and papers, including many on topology and game theory, to his credit, he has also served as editor of the Annals of Mathematics since 1962. That same year, Dr. Milnor was awarded the Fields Medal for his work in differential topology, and since that time he has received many other awards, including the National Medal of Science (1967), the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research (1982), the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1989), the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (2004), and both the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Acheivement and the Abel Prize in 2011. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
 
16Name:  Dr. Walter H. Munk
 Institution:  Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  105. Physical Earth Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1917
 Death Date:  February 8, 2019
   
 
Walter H. Munk was a brilliant scholar and scientist who was considered one of the greatest oceanographers of his time. His principal interests included global acoustics, greenhouse warming, tides and the air-sea boundary. Dr. Munk received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. for work at the Scripps Institution, which he has been affiliated with throughout his career. During World War II, Dr. Munk and Harald Sverdrup, then the director of Scripps, developed a system for forecasting breakers and surf on beaches, a technique of crucial importance in military amphibious landings. During the 1946 testing of nuclear weapons at Bikini Atoll in the southern Pacific Ocean, Dr. Munk participated in analysis of the currents and diffusion in the lagoon and the water exchange with the open seas. In 1963, he led a study of attenuation in ocean swells generated in Antarctica, measuring fluctuations with pressure sensing devices lowered to the ocean floor. Measurements also were made at six Pacific Ocean locations and from FLIP, the Floating Instrument Platform, developed at Scripps. In 1969 he began measuring tides in the deep sea, using highly sophisticated pressure-sensing instruments that were dropped to the ocean floor and retrieved by acoustic release. Dr. Munk also played a leading role in developing new methods for tracking long-term changes in climate associated with global warming as part of the Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC) project. The idea behind ATOC is to send sound signals from underwater speakers and track how long it takes them to reach receivers moored to the floor of the Pacific thousands of miles away. Because sound travels faster in warmer water than cooler water, a long-term series of tests that recorded increasingly faster travel times indicates that the ocean is warming. Dr. Munk received numerous honors for his work, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences (1956) and the Royal Society of London (1976). He was a Guggenheim Fellow three times and was awarded the Arthur L. Day Medal, the Sverdrup Gold Medal and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, among other honors. In 1999 he received the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences for his fundamental contributions to the field of oceanography and in 2010 he was awarded the Crafoord prize. At the end of his career he was Research Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Walter H. Munk died on February 8, 2019 in the La Jolla section of San Diego at the age of 101.
 
17Name:  Dr. James Van Gundia Neel
 Institution:  University of Michigan
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  207. Genetics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1915
 Death Date:  February 1, 2000
   
18Name:  David Morris Potter
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1911
 Death Date:  2/18/71
   
19Name:  Rodney Stuart Young
 Year Elected:  1965
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1907
 Death Date:  10/25/74
   
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