| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Andrew F. Brimmer | | | Institution: | Brimmer & Co. Inc. | | | Year Elected: | 1976 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1926 | | | Death Date: | October 7, 2012 | | | | | | |
Noted economist, academic and business leader Andrew F. Brimmer was born in Newellton, Louisiana in 1926, the son of sharecroppers who had been driven off of the land by boll weevils. Upon graduation from a segregated high school, he moved to Bremerton, Washington with an older sister and worked in a navy yard as an electrician's helper. In 1945 he was drafted into the Army, and after completing his military service in 1946, enrolled at the University of Washington, earning a B.A. in economics in 1950. In 1951 he received his M.A. and won a Fulbright grant to study in India. He subsequently earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1957 and went to work for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as an economist. During that same time, he traveled to Khartoum, Sudan, to help the country establish a central bank. During the Kennedy administration, Dr. Brimmer became assistant secretary of economic affairs in the U.S. Department of Commerce, serving until 1966. That same year he began an eight-and-a-half year term on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. While there, he became the first African American governor of the Federal Reserve. In 1974 he left to take a post at Harvard University, where he stayed for two years. When he left, he formed his own consulting company, Brimmer & Co. In 1997, he began serving on the Federal Reserve and in 1999 became vice chairman. Dr. Brimmer was elected to the Washington Academy of Sciences in 1991, largely as a result of his published works on the nature and importance of central banking systems. He served as vice president of the American Economic Association and president of the Eastern Economics Association. He was president of the North American Economics and Finance Association and served on a number of other corporate boards of directors. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1976.
Andrew F. Brimmer died October 7, 2012, at the age of 86 in Washington D.C. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Leo A. Goodman | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1976 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | December 22, 2020 | | | | | | |
Leo Goodman was a statistician and sociologist who has developed important statistical methods for quantitative research in the social sciences, particularly in sociology. His contributions to mathematical demography have significantly improved analyses of population growth by generalizing classical theories and broadening the range of variables. Born in New York City in 1928, Dr. Goodman holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, and honorary D.Sc. degrees from the University of Michigan and Syracuse University. From 1950-86 he served on the faculty of the University of Chicago before moving to the University of California, Berkeley, as Class of 1938 Professor. The author of approximately 150 papers and four books, Dr. Goodman is a member of the National Academy of Sciences andthe American Academy of Arts & Sciences and has received honors including the American Statistical Association's Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Medal and the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the American Sociological Association. His recent research has focused on the further development of statistical methods that bring the same kind of rigor to the analysis of qualitative/categorical data that has been available in the analysis of quantitative data. He died on December 22, 2020. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Lucian Pye | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1976 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | September 5, 2008 | | | | | | |
Lucien W. Pye, Ford Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was one of the nation's leading authorities on comparative politics, and especially on the politics of Asian countries, particularly China. A former president of the American Political Science Association (1988-89), Professor Pye was a political scientist whose speciality had been the comparative study of political cultures and political psychology. His works have illuminated the manner in which the fundamental impulses of Asian cultures find reflection in contemporary Asian political developments. A major theme of his research is the impact of modernization on traditional Asian societies. With intellectual roots in anthropology, psychology, and psychoanalysis, as well as political science, Professor Pye has compared in numerous published works the political behavior and political cultures of Asian nations.
He had been an advisor on foreign affairs to the United States government, both the executive branch and Congress, and he was a member of many organizations concerned with U.S.-Asian relations. He made a major contribution in shaping the direction of scholarly research on Asia in the United States.
Professor Pye served on the influential Committee on Comparative Politics of the Social Science Research Council from its founding in 1955 and was chairman of the Committee from 1963-72. He was a trustee of the Asia Foundation from 1963-2004, a member of the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1966-82, and director of the Council's China Project. He had been a member of the executive committee of the Asia Society, chairman of the Advisory Board of the Universities Service Centre in Hong Kong, and member of the Board of Governors of the East-West Center in Honolulu. As Vice-Chairman of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Professor Pye made numerous trips to China since the resumption of diplomatic contacts between the U.S. and China in 1971. Lucian Pye was born in 1921 in Shansi province, China. He attended the North China American School near Beijing. In 1943 he received his B.A. from Carleton College. During World War II he was an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. He completed graduate studies at Yale University, receiving his M.A. degree in 1949 and Ph.D. in 1951. From 1949-52 he was an instructor and assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, and in 1951-52 he was a research associate in International Relations at Yale University. From 1952-56 he was a research associate in the Center for International Studies at Princeton University. Professor Pye joined the MIT faculty in 1956. In 1958, under the auspicies of the MIT Center for International Studies, he undertook field work in Burma in order to research the cultural and psychological sources of the country's problems in political development. During the 1960's, he conducted field work in Hong Kong, Vietnam, the Philippines, Korea, Indonesia, and India. In 1955-56 he was visiting lecturer at Columbia University, and in 1959-61 visiting lecturer at Yale. On retiring from MIT he was a visiting professor at George Washington University in 1993, at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1994, and at Balliol College, Oxford University in 1995. Since 1990 he has been an associate in research at the Fairbank Center, Harvard University. Dr. Pye has been elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Before his presidency he was earlier elected vice-president and a member of the Council of the American Political Science Association. He has been a member of the board of the Association of Asian Studies. From 1963-67 he was a member of the selection committee of the Foreign Area Fellowship Program, and since 1975 he has been on the selection board of the Luce Scholar program. Professor Pye was a recipient of the Wilbur Cross Medal of the graduate school of Yale University, the Harold D. Lasswell Award at the International Society of Political Psychology, and membership in Phi Beta Kappa. He received the Auxiliary Research Award for the Social Science Research Council. And in 1963-64 he was a Fellow of the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, California. Professor Pye was the author/editor of 27 books. Lucian Pye died September 5, 2008, in Boston after a long illness. He was 86. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Neil J. Smelser | | | Institution: | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences | | | Year Elected: | 1976 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | Death Date: | October 2, 2017 | | | | | | |
Neil Smelser was born in 1930 in Kahoka, Missouri, and spent his youth in Phoenix, Arizona. He received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1952, a second B.A. from Oxford University in 1954 (M.A., 1959), and a Ph.D. at Harvard in 1958. He was a member of the department of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1958-94 and Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences from 1994-2001. He published extensively in the fields of social theory, social change, economic sociology, social movements, the sociology of education, and psychoanalysis (he trained in psychoanalysis at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, graduating in 1971). He was elected President of the American Sociological Association in 1996, and was also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. Neil Smelser died October 2, 2017, at the age of 87. | |
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