APS Member History

1	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

2	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.

3	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.