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1Name:  Dr. James Gilbert Baker
 Institution:  Harvard University
 Year Elected:  1970
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  101. Astronomy
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1914
 Death Date:  June 29, 2005
   
2Name:  Dr. Gerald E. Bentley
 Institution:  Princeton University
 Year Elected:  1970
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1901
 Death Date:  7/25/94
   
3Name:  Dr. Paul J. Bohannan
 Institution:  University of Southern California
 Year Elected:  1970
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1920
 Death Date:  July 13, 2007
   
4Name:  Dr. Lewis M. Branscomb
 Institution:  JFK School of Government, Harvard University
 Year Elected:  1970
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  106. Physics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1926
 Death Date:  May 31, 2023
   
 
Lewis M. Branscomb is Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Corporate Management, Emeritus Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program and a member of the Board of Directors of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. At present, he is also Adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Diego's School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California. His AB in physics is from Duke University in 1945, summa cum laude, and his Ph.D. degree in physics from Harvard University in 1950, after which he was Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. A research physicist at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology) from 1951-69, he was Director of NBS from 1969-72. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine. In 1972 Dr. Branscomb was named vice president and chief scientist of IBM and a member of the Corporate Management Board, serving until his retirement in 1986. He also served as chairman of the National Science Board from 1980-84. Dr. Branscomb is a former director of Mobil Corp. and General Foods Corp. and serves on the Board of Lord Corporation. He is an emeritus trustee of Vanderbilt University, member of the C.S. Draper Laboratory Corporation, and emeritus Trustee of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He is a former Overseer of Harvard University. He has served five presidents in various advisory and executive positions. Dr. Branscomb's awards include the National Science Board's Vannevar Bush Award (2001); the Rockefeller Public Service Award (1957-58); the Gold Medal for Exceptional Service from the U.S. Department of Commerce (1961); the Arthur Bueche Prize of the National Academy of Engineering (1987); and the Okawa Prize in Communications and Informatics (1999). He pioneered the spectroscopy of atomic and molecular negative ions and studied their role in stellar atmospheres and chemical aeronomy. His current research is on early-stage high-tech innovation, innovation policy in China, business development in the field of information technology, the role of science and technology in countering terrorism, and a new policy paradigm for federal support of basic research. His recent books include (with Philip Auerswald, Todd LaPorte and Erwann Michel-Kerjan) Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response (2006); (with Richard Klausner) Making the Nation Safer: S&T for Countering Terrorism (2002); (with Philip E. Auerswald) "Between Invention and Innovation: An Analysis of the Funding for Early Stage Technology Development" (2003); (with Philip Auerswald, Nicholas Demos and Brian K. Min) "Understanding Private-Sector Decision Making for Early-Stage Technology Development" (2003); (with Philip Auerswald) "Start-Ups and Spin-offs: Collective Entrepreneurship Between Invention and Innovation," in The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Policy: Governance, Start-Ups, and Growth in the Knowledge Economy (2003); (with Philip Auerswald) Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Managers and Investors Manage Risk in High Tech Innovation (2001); (with Fumio Kodama and Richard Florida) "Industrializing Knowledge: University-Industry Linkages in Japan and the United States (1999); and (with James Keller) Investing in Innovation: Creating a Research and Innovation Policy that Works (1998).
 
5Name:  Dr. Theodore H. Bullock
 Institution:  University of California, San Diego
 Year Elected:  1970
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  209. Neurobiology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1915
 Death Date:  December 20, 2005
   
6Name:  Dr. James S. Coleman
 Institution:  University of Chicago
 Year Elected:  1970
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1926
 Death Date:  3/25/95
   
7Name:  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.
 
8Name:  Alexander Gerschenkron
 Year Elected:  1970
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1904
 Death Date:  10/26/1978
   
9Name:  Shelmo Dov Goitein
 Year Elected:  1970
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1900
 Death Date:  2/6/85
   
10Name:  George M. A. Hanfmann
 Year Elected:  1970
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1911
 Death Date:  03/14/86
   
11Name:  Dr. Lawrence R. Klein
 Institution:  University of Pennsylvania
 Year Elected:  1970
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  302. Economics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1920
 Death Date:  October 20, 2013
   
 
Lawrence R. Klein received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served on the faculties of the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, Oxford University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He was appointed Penn's Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics and Finance, teaching for thirty-three years. Dr. Klein was an econometrician who constructed several statistical models of the United States as well as various other countries. At Penn he founded Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates and served as a principal investigator for Project LINK, which combined models from countries throughout the world for studying international trade, payments, and global economic activity. In 1980 he was named the Nobel laureate in Economics. He has been Director and Chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of W.P. Carey & Co. He also had served as president of many learned societies, editor for scholarly journals, and advisor to governments in matters of economic policy. Dr. Klein was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1970. He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He was a foreign member of the British Association and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was an Honorary Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Lawrence Klein did on October 20, 2013, at the age of 93 at his home in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania.
 
12Name:  Albert L. Lehninger
 Year Elected:  1970
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1917
 Death Date:  3/4/86
   
13Name:  Joseph E. Mayer
 Year Elected:  1970
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1904
 Death Date:  10/15/83
   
14Name:  William T. Pecora
 Year Elected:  1970
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1913
 Death Date:  7/19/72
   
15Name:  Prof. Lawrence Stone
 Institution:  Princeton University
 Year Elected:  1970
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1919
 Death Date:  6/16/99
   
16Name:  Maurice B. Visscher
 Year Elected:  1970
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1901
 Death Date:  5/1/83
   
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