| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Richard C. Atkinson | | | Institution: | University of California | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 205. Microbiology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | | | | |
Richard C. Atkinson served from 1995-2003 as the seventeenth president of the University of California system. His eight-year tenure was marked by innovative approaches to admissions and outreach, research initiatives to accelerate the University’s contributions to the state’s economy, and a challenge to the country’s most widely used admissions examination "the SAT 1" that paved the way to major changes in the way millions of America’s youth now are tested for college admissions. Before becoming president of the UC System he served for fifteen years as chancellor of UC San Diego, where he led that campus’s emergence as one of the leading research universities in the nation. He is a former director of the National Science Foundation, past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was a long-term member of the faculty at Stanford University. His research in the field of cognitive science and psychology has been concerned with problems of memory and cognition. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Education, the American Philosophical Society, and a mountain in Antarctica has been named in his honor. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Lipman Bers | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 104. Mathematics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1914 | | | Death Date: | 10/29/93 | | | | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Derek C. Bok | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | | | | |
Derek Bok is the 300th Anniversary University Professor; University President Emeritus; and Faculty Chair of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. He has been a lawyer and Professor of Law, Dean of the Law School and President of Harvard University. He has written several books on higher education: Beyond the Ivory Tower (1982), Higher Learning (1986), Universities and the Future of America (1990), The Shape of the River (1998), Universities in the Marketplace (2003), Our Underachieving Colleges (2006), Higher Education in America (2013) and The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges (2017). He serves as Chair of the Board of the Spencer Foundation and as Chair of Common Cause. His current research interests include the state of higher education and a project sponsored by several foundations on the adequacy of the U.S. government in coping with the nation's domestic problems. The first of his two books on this subject is The State of the Nation (1997); the second, The Trouble with Government, was published in 2001. His most recent book, The Politics of Happiness (2010), is an exploration of the crossover space between economics and psychology. In his time at Harvard, including 20 years as the university's president, Dr. Bok has reasserted the values of liberal learning and the place of undergraduate instruction in the contemporary "research university." | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Ronald Breslow | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | October 25, 2017 | | | | | | |
Ronald Breslow was born in Rahway, New Jersey in 1931. He received his undergraduate and graduate training at Harvard University, where he did his Ph.D. research with Professor R.B. Woodward. He then spent a year in Cambridge, England as a postdoctoral fellow with Lord Todd and came to Columbia University in 1956 as instructor in chemistry. He was the Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor of Chemistry at Columbia, one of twelve University Professors, and a former Chairman of the Department. Professor Breslow's research interests can be described generally as involving the design and synthesis of new molecules with interesting properties, and the study of these properties. Examples include the cyclopropenyl cation, the simplest aromatic system and the first aromatic compound prepared with other than six electrons in a ring. His work establishing the phenomenon of anti-aromaticity has involved the synthesis of novel molecules, as well as their study. Even in work on purely mechanistic questions, such as his discovery of the chemical mechanism used by thiamine (vitamin B-1) in biochemical reactions, the synthesis and study of novel molecules played an important role. Although he continued his interest in unusual conjugated systems, his major emphasis in later years was on the synthesis and study of molecules that imitate enzymatic reactions. This work has included the development of remote functionalization reactions and the development of artificial enzymes. He developed a new group of cytodifferentiating agents with potential use in cancer chemotherapy. He is the author of over 400 publications. Professor Breslow was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (Chairman of the Chemistry Division 1974-77), the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the European Academy of Science. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1980. He was on the editorial board of a number of scientific journals, and had held over 150 named and visiting professorships. His major scientific awards include the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry (1966), the Baekeland Medal (1969), the Harrison Howe Award (1974), the Remsen Prize (1977), the Richards Medal (1984), the Allan Day Award (1990) and the U.S. National Medal of Science (1991). He won the Welch Award in Chemistry in 2003 and the Willard Gibbs Award in 2004 and also received the Mark Van Doren Medal of Columbia University and the Columbia University Great Teacher Award. Dr. Breslow added the 2010 Perkin Medal and the 2014 American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal to his long list of awards. Ronald Breslow died October 25, 2017, at the age of 86. | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. E. Margaret Burbidge | | | Institution: | University of California, San Diego | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 101. Astronomy | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1919 | | | Death Date: | April 5, 2020 | | | | | | |
English-born American astronomer Eleanor Margaret Burbidge was the first woman to be appointed director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. She was at the forefront in obtaining and interpreting quasar data and made notable contributions to astrospectroscopy, radio galaxies, masses and evolution of normal galaxies, and the chemical composition of stars. Dr. Burbidge served as assistant director and acting director of the Observatory of the University of London from 1948-51. In 1955 her husband, theoretical astrophysicist Geoffrey Burbidge, obtained a Carnegie fellowship for astronomical research at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California. Because women were then ineligible for such an appointment, she chose to accept a minor research post at the California Institute of Technology. In 1957 she became Shirley Farr Fellow and, later, associate professor at Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wisconsin. She also served as research astronomer and professor of astronomy at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) before taking a leave of absence to serve as director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1972. Her Greenwich duties did not come with the traditional honorary title of Astronomer Royal, which instead was given to a male astronomer, in another instance of discrimination against women in the astronomical community. A longtime champion of opportunities in science for women, she refused the Annie J. Cannon Prize from the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in 1972 because, as it was an award for women only, it represented for her another facet of the same discrimination. Her action led to the formation of a standing AAS committee for the status of women in astronomy. From 1979-88 Dr. Burbidge directed UCSD's Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, where she helped develop some of the Hubble Space Telescope's original instruments. She became a professor emeritus of the university in 1990. E. Margaret Burbidge died on April 5, 2020 in San Francisco, California at the age of 100. | |
| 6 | Name: | Prof. Archibald Cox | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | May 29, 2004 | | | | |
| 7 | Name: | Dr. Vincent G. Dethier | | | Institution: | University of Massachusetts | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 210. Behavioral Biology, Psychology, Ethology, and Animal Behavior | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1915 | | | Death Date: | 9/7/93 | | | | |
| 8 | Name: | Dr. John Kenneth Galbraith | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1908 | | | Death Date: | April 30, 2006 | | | | |
| 9 | Name: | Dr. Marvin L. Goldberger | | | Institution: | University of California, San Diego | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | November 26, 2014 | | | | | | |
Marvin Goldberger was an emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego at the time of his death on November 26, 2011, at the age of 92. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1948 and also served on the faculties of the University of Chicago, Princeton University and the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1959 Dr. Goldberger, along with Sam Treiman established the Goldberger-Treiman relations, which gave a quantitative connection between the strong and weak interaction properties of the proton and neutron. From 1978-87 he served as the president of the California Institute of Technology, where he stressed undergraduate education and oversaw the revision of teaching standards, the restructuring of curriculum, and the renovation of the undergraduate dorms. From 1987-91 he directed the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. Dr. Goldberger served as co-chairman of the National Research Council and as a member of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation International Advisory Board. He authored works such as Collision Theory and was the editor of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Continuity and Change and Verification: Monitoring Disarmament. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and had been an active participant in national and international scientific affairs. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in1980. | |
| 10 | Name: | Dr. Eric P. Hamp | | | Institution: | University of Chicago & University of Shkodër | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1920 | | | Death Date: | February 17, 2019 | | | | | | |
Linguist Eric P. Hamp was born in England in 1920 and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1954. He was associated with the University of Chicago from 1950, when he took the position of instructor, until the end of his career, when he was professor of Indo-European linguistics and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics. An authority on the Indo-European family of languages, Dr. Hamp approached languages ranging from Albanian and Celtic to Native American languages with both fine judgment and sophisticated control of data. He served as director of the Center for Balkan and Slavic Studies, presided over the Linguistic Society of America, and taught as a visiting professor at universities in Edinburgh, Belgrade, Copenhagen, and Bucharest. Dr. Hamp authored thousands of published works, including Glossary of American Technical Linguistic Usage (1966) and Language and Machines (1966). In 2015 he was awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of Kosova. Eric P. Hamp died February 17, 2019 in Traverse City, MI, at the age of 98. | |
| 11 | Name: | Dr. Georges May | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1920 | | | Death Date: | February 28, 2003 | | | | |
| 12 | Name: | Dr. Jane M. Oppenheimer | | | Institution: | Bryn Mawr College | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 202. Cellular and Developmental Biology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | 3/19/1996 | | | | |
| 13 | Name: | Dr. James B. Reston | | | Institution: | New York Times | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | 12/6/95 | | | | |
| 14 | Name: | Dr. Alexander Rich | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 201. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | April 27, 2015 | | | | | | |
Alexander Rich was a preeminent researcher in structural molecular biology. He joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in1958, and he had been the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics. Best known for the discovery of left-handed DNA, or Z-DNA, and the three-dimensional structure of transfer RNA, he was also one of the leading workers in the determination of structure and function of Z-DNA binding proteins by x-ray crystallographic and other methods. Dr. Rich received his M.D. from Harvard University Medical School in 1949 and was a founder and director of the pharmaceutical development company Alkermes, Inc. He was awarded the 1995 U.S. National Medal of Science, the 2000 Bower Award for Excellence in Science and the 2009 Welch Award in Chemistry, among other honors, and he has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1980. Dr. Rich died April 27, 2015, at the age of 90, in Boston, Massachusetts. | |
| 15 | Name: | Dr. S. Dillon Ripley | | | Institution: | Smithsonian Institution | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | March 12, 2001 | | | | |
| 16 | Name: | Irving S. Shapiro | | | Institution: | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom & DuPont | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | September 13, 2001 | | | | |
| 17 | Name: | Dr. Edward A. Shils | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | 1/23/95 | | | | |
| 18 | Name: | Dr. Åke W. Sjöberg | | | Institution: | The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | August 8, 2014 | | | | | | |
Of great eminence in the highly specialized field of Sumerian literature and history, Ake W. Sjöberg became the Clark Research Professor of Assyriology Emeritus and Curator-in-Charge Emeritus at the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, in 1996. He had been affiliated with the university since 1966 as a professor and as curator of its Tablets Collections. As the founder of the Pennsylvanian Sumerian Dictionary Project, he continued the tradition of painstaking scholarship established by his predecessor, Dr. Samuel Kramer, as he and others worked to unlock the secrets of an ancient language and civilization that flourished five millennia ago. A native of Sweden, Dr. Sjoberg held a Fil.Dr. degree (1960) and T,eol. Dr. W.C. (1984) from the University of Uppsala. He served as a docent there (1960-63) as well as as a lecturer, assistant and associate professor at the Oriental Institute of Chicago (1963-66) prior to arriving at Penn. He returned to Sweden after his retirement and died August 8, 2014, at age 90, in Uppsala, Sweden. | |
| 19 | Name: | Dr. Robert M. Solow | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | | | | |
Robert Solow is one of the major figures of the Neo-Keynesian Synthesis macroeconomics. Together with Paul Samuelson, he formed the core of the M.I.T. economics department which has been widely viewed as the "mainstream" of the post-war period. Together, Solow and Samuelson have contributed to various landmark pieces of work: e.g. on von Neumann growth theory (1953), on capital theory (1956), on linear programming (1958) and on the Phillips Curve (1960). Individually, Robert Solow is best known for his work on the Neoclassical growth model (1956, 1970). He was also one of the co-inventors of the constant elasticity of substitution (CES) production function (1961) and is responsible for exploring and popularizing the "long-run multiplier" derived from a dynamic government budget constraint (1973). It was Dr. Solow's work on growth that earned him a Nobel Memorial prize in 1987, and he has also been awarded the John Bates Clark Medal (1961) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2014) for his efforts. Robert Solow holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University (1951); since 1949 he has served on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is presently Institute Professor Emeritus. | |
| 20 | Name: | Dr. Craig R. Thompson | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | 10/4/96 | | | | |
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