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1Name:  Dr. Paul Berg
 Institution:  Stanford University
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  201. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1926
 Death Date:  February 15, 2023
   
 
Paul Berg is an acknowledged leader in the study of gene transfer from bacteria to viruses to cells of higher organisms. He witnessed firsthand the history of recombinant DNA research and regulation, having been in the forefront of both movements since he was a young man. He became a professor of biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine in 1959, when he was 33. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences before the age of 40, and he gained early recognition and influence when he delineated the key steps in which DNA produces proteins. Dr. Berg was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1980 for his work with DNA. In the mid-1970s, the National Academy of Sciences asked him to explore the safety of recombinant DNA technology. He responded with the historic "Berg letter," calling for a moratorium on recombinant DNA research until safety issues could be addressed. He was one of the key organizers of the international forum on recombinant DNA technology, the Asilomar Conference, which took place in February of 1975. One hundred leading scientists met at the conference to discuss the potential risks of gene-splicing experiments. The ensuing dialogue resulted in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines published a year later, a milestone of responsible self-regulation in science. Dr. Berg's laboratory continued to work with recombinant DNA techniques throughout the 1980s. In 1985, he became director of the New Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine. In 1991, Dr. Berg was named head of the NIH's influential Human Genome Project.
 
2Name:  Dr. Frederick H. Burkhardt
 Institution:  American Council of Learned Societies
 Year Elected:  1983
 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? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1912
 Death Date:  September 23, 2007
   
 
The Society's 2003 Thomas Jefferson Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences is awarded to Frederick H. Burkhardt, who has made extraordinary contributions to all three of these fields. A graduate of Columbia University and Oriel College at Oxford, a philosopher by training, he served as general editor of the definitive 19-volume series on the works of William James, published by Harvard University Press. After distinguished service in World War II, he presided over Bennington College for ten years. He then served for fifteen years as president of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). As ACLS president, he did much to develop the field of area studies. He was at the forefront in promoting international cultural exchanges, and he became one of the architects of the legislation that led to the foundation of the National Councils of the Arts and Humanities. He has been chairman of the New York Public Library, the National Committee on Libraries and Information Science, and the Board of Higher Education in New York City. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1983. In his retirement, he began 28 years ago to collect and edit Darwin's letters, and he has now become the senior editor, guiding light and inspiration of the monumental series on The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, published by the Cambridge University Press. This series has already reached 14 volumes and is planned to conclude with the 32nd volume in 2012. This magnificent and authoritative edition has received universal praise. It has been described in various reviews as "one of the triumphs in scope and excellence of post-war publishing in England," "a treasure house for scientists, sociologists and geographers alike" and "one of the most important reference books to be published in the twentieth century on the culture of science, technology and medicine." Last year it received the Queen's Award for Excellence. The American Philosophical Society is proud to recognize the devoted public service, transforming leadership, exemplary editorship, and groundbreaking scholarship of Frederick Henry Burkhardt.
 
3Name:  Dr. Edward C. Carter
 Institution:  American Philosophical Society
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  303. History Since 1715
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1928
 Death Date:  October 1, 2002
   
4Name:  Dr. Herrlee G. Creel
 Institution:  Univeristy of Chicago
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1905
 Death Date:  6/1/94
   
5Name:  Dr. David Brion Davis
 Institution:  Yale University
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  303. History Since 1715
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1927
 Death Date:  April 14, 2019
   
 
David Brion Davis was Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University at the time of his retirement. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1956 and joined the faculty at Yale in 1969 after teaching previously at Dartmouth and Cornell Universities. He also served as Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University from 1969-70 and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences from 1972-73. A brilliant and sound historian, Dr. Davis was also known as one of the best literary stylists among United States historians. He wrote several books on slavery, including a multi-volume series, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1966) and The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (1975), which earned him a Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bancroft Prize, among other honors. His other books include Homicide in American Fiction (1957) and Revolutions: American Equality and Foreign Liberations (1990). Dr. Davis also wrote frequently for The New York Review of Books. He was awarded the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction, the Society of American Historians' Bruce Catton Award for Lifetime Achievement, and Phi Beta Kappa's Ralph Waldo Emerson Award (for Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World) in 2007. The last volume of his trilogy (which was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award), The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation, was released in 2014, the same year he was awarded the National Humanities Medal.David Brion Davis died April 14, 2019 in Guilford Connecticut at the age of 92.
 
6Name:  Dr. Harry G. Drickamer
 Institution:  University of Illinois
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1918
 Death Date:  May 6, 2002
   
7Name:  Dr. Christian Habicht
 Institution:  Institute for Advanced Study
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1926
 Death Date:  August 6, 2018
   
 
Christian Herbert Habicht greatly illuminated the transition between the world of the Greek city state and that of imperial Rome, and dealt in a masterly way with some of the fundamental problems of the religious, political and social life of the ancient Mediterranean. Born in Dortmund, Germany in 1926, Dr. Habicht received his academic training in ancient history, Greek, Latin and classical archaeology at Hamburg, Heidelberg and Göttingen, earning a D. Phil. degree in 1952 from the University of Hamburg. From 1952-57 he served as an assistant professor at the University of Hamburg and traveled throughout Italy, Greece and the Near East through a German Archaeological Institute stipend. He served as Privatdozent at the University of Hamburg from 1957-61 before becoming Professor of Ancient History at the University of Marburg from 1961-65. Dr. Habicht served as co-editor of Hypomnemata. Untersuchungen zur Antike und zu ihrem Nachleben, Göttingen (1962-96), Jüdische Schriften aus hellenistisch-römischer Zeit, Gütersloh (1973-98) and The American Journal of Ancient History (1976-2000). From 1965-73 he was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Heidelberg and was also Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy there from 1966-67. From 1972-73 he was a Visiting Member at the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, where he later became a professor (1973-98) and professor emeritus (1998). AFter 1973 he was also Honorary professor at the University of Heidelberg. Dr. Habicht was a member of the German Archaeological Institute, the Heidelberg Academy (elected 1970), and the Academy of Athens and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. He received the Reuchlin Prize in the Humanities (1996), the American Philosophical Society's Henry Allen Moe Prize and the Criticos Prize of the London Hellenic Society, among his many honors. In 2017, he edited a new version The Histories by Polybius (Loeb Classical Library, Vols 1 & 2, 2010; Vol 3 2011), translated by W.R. Paton. Christian Habicht died on August 6, 2018 in Princeton, New Jersey at the age of 92.
 
8Name:  Dr. David A. Hamburg
 Institution:  Weill Cornell Medical College; Carnegie Corporation of New York
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  205. Microbiology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1925
 Death Date:  April 21, 2019
   
 
David Hamburg was president emeritus at Carnegie Corporation of New York, where he served as the Corporation's eleventh president from 1982-97. Under his leadership the work of the Corporation focused on education and healthy development of children and youth, human resources in developing countries, and international security issues. He established a number of task forces on education and preventing conflict which produced seminal research and policy analysis and which will continue to influence the work in these fields in the future. A medical doctor, Dr. Hamburg had a long history of leadership in the research, medical and psychiatric fields before his transition from a trustee of Carnegie to its president. An authority on psychosomatic and psychiatric diseases, he was broadly interested in human genetics and evolution. He was chief of the adult psychiatry branch at the National Institutes of Health, from 1958-61; professor and chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University from 1961-72; Reed-Hodgson Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University from 1972-76; president of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1975-80; and director of the division of health policy research and education and John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy at Harvard University, 1980-83. He served as president and chairman of the board (1984-1986) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Hamburg was a member of the United States Defense Policy Board with Secretary of Defense William Perry and cochair with former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. He was a member of President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology and a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School's department of social medicine and was the founder of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government. In May 2006 Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed him to chair the newly formed United Nations Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention. The committee provided guidance and support to the work of the UN Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide and contributed to the broader efforts of the UN to avert massive crimes against humanity. He was DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar at the Weill Cornell Medical College and Co-Chair of the Social Medicine and Public Policy Programs. Hamburg received both his A.B. and M.D. degrees from Indiana University. He also received numerous honorary degrees during his career as well as the American Psychiatric Association's Distinguished Service Award in 1991, the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House in 1996, the International Peace Academy's 25th Anniversary Special Award in 1996, the Achievement in Children and Public Policy Award from the Society for Research in Child Development in 1997, and the National Academy of Sciences' Public Welfare Medal in 1998. In 2007 he received the Institute of Medicine's Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Award in Mental Health jointly with his wife Beatrix; similarly, they were jointly awarded the 2015 Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. David Hamburg died on April 21, 2019 in Washington, D.C. at the age of 93.
 
9Name:  Dr. Morris Janowitz
 Institution:  University of Chicago
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  302. Economics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1919
 Death Date:  11/[7]/88
   
10Name:  Dr. Peter Marler
 Institution:  University of California, Davis
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  210. Behavioral Biology, Psychology, Ethology, and Animal Behavior
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1928
 Death Date:  July 5, 2014
   
 
Peter R. Marler was Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior at the University of California, Davis as well as Professor Emeritus at Rockefeller University at the time of his death on July 5, 2014, at age 86, in Winters, California. An expert on neuroethology and animal communication, Dr. Marler had long studied the behavior of animals, specifically the development of vocal communication in birds and primates. Beginning his work with uniquely detailed and revealing studies of bird song, principally the interaction of genetic influences with learning during a bird's lifetime, he went on to show in detail how song development is controlled by brain mechanisms and hormones. Dr. Marler also investigated vocal communication in the Great Apes and had critically studied the interaction of heredity and environmental influences in human language. His many publications include (with J.W.J. Hamilton) Mechanisms of Animal Behavior (1966) and (with J. Vandenbergh) Social Behavior and Communication (1979). Dr. Marler received a Ph.D. in botany from University College London (1952) and another Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Cambridge (1954). He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1983.
 
11Name:  Dr. Robert E. Marshak
 Institution:  Virginia Poly Tech & State University
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  106. Physics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1916
 Death Date:  12/23/92
   
12Name:  Dr. Mary Patterson McPherson
 Institution:  American Philosophical Society; Bryn Mawr College
 Year Elected:  1983
 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? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1935
   
 
Mary Patterson (Pat) McPherson served as the Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society from 2007-12. She was Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and its Program Officer for the Liberal Arts Colleges from 1997 through March 2007. Prior to joining the Foundation, she served nineteen years as the sixth President of Bryn Mawr College. She is widely credited with renewing and revitalizing Bryn Mawr and enhancing its stature during a time when the role of women’s colleges was being challenged. She had also been Dean of the Undergraduate College, Deputy to the President, and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr from 1970 to 1978. Between 1964 and 1970 she was Assistant Dean, then Associate Dean of the College at Bryn Mawr. She received her A.B. from Smith College, an M.A. from the University of Delaware, and a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. McPherson holds numerous honorary degrees. Complementing her academic and administrative services, Pat McPherson has served on a variety of boards, currently including Central European University, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Emeriti Retirement Health Solutions. Her prominence in the fields of education and public policy has also led her to serve on the boards of the Agnes Irwin School, Phillips Exeter Academy, Shipley School, Amherst College, the Teagle Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Carnegie Corporation, the Brookings Institution, the Spencer Foundation, Bank Street College, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the Philadelphia Contributionship, and the National Humanities Center. She is the immediate past chair of the Board of Trustees at her alma mater, Smith College. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1983.
 
13Name:  Dr. Abraham Pais
 Institution:  Rockefeller University
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  106. Physics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1918
 Death Date:  July 28, 2000
   
14Name:  Dr. Walt W. Rostow
 Institution:  University of Texas at Austin
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  302. Economics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1916
 Death Date:  February 13, 2003
   
15Name:  Dr. Elizabeth S. Russell
 Institution:  Jackson Lab
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  202. Cellular and Developmental Biology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1913
 Death Date:  May 28, 2001
   
16Name:  Mr. Harrison E. Salisbury
 Institution:  New York Times
 Year Elected:  1983
 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? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1908
 Death Date:  7/5/93
   
17Name:  Dr. John E. Sawyer
 Institution:  Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & Williams College
 Year Elected:  1983
 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? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1917
 Death Date:  2/7/95
   
18Name:  Mr. Rudolf Serkin
 Institution:  Marlboro Music School and Festival & Institute for Young Performing Artists
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  501. Creative Artists
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1903
 Death Date:  5/8/91
   
19Name:  Dr. Claude E. Shannon
 Institution:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  103. Engineering
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1916
 Death Date:  February 24, 2001
   
20Name:  Dr. William Kelly Simpson
 Institution:  Yale University & Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
 Year Elected:  1983
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  401. Archaeology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1928
 Death Date:  March 24, 2017
   
 
William Kelly Simpson (B.A. Yale, 1947, M.A. 1948, Ph.D. 1954) was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1958, and as Professor of Egyptology in 1965. He embraced nearly every aspect of the subject, including history, literature, art and archaeology. His numerous books include publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt, Giza mastabas, several volumes of papyri and other Egyptian writings; a standard history of Egypt; and an anthology of Egyptian literature in translation. He was the author of nearly 150 articles in the field and was also former editor of the Yale Egyptological Studies. Furthermore, Dr. Simpson served for many years as Curator of Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. William Kelly Simpson died March 24, 2017, at the age of 89.
 
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