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1Name:  Dr. Robert Austrian
 Institution:  University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
 Year Elected:  1987
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  204. Medicine, Surgery, Pathology and Immunology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1916
 Death Date:  March 25, 2007
   
2Name:  Mr. George B. Beitzel
 Institution:  IBM
 Year Elected:  1987
 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:  1928
 Death Date:  June 26, 2018
   
 
George B. Beitzel retired from IBM as a member of the corporate office and the board of directors. Mr. Beitzel graduated from Amherst College and was Chairman Emeritus of Amherst. He served twenty-one years on the board, the last six as chairman. His alma mater awarded him a Doctor of Law Degree (honorary). George Beitzel received an MBA from Harvard and served twelve years on the board of directors of the Associates at Harvard Business School. He was a recipient of HBS Alumni Achievement Award. Mr. Beitzel was also Chairman Emeritus of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1987. Over his business career, Mr. Beitzel served on the boards of Bankers Trust, Caliber System, Inc., Datalogix, FlightSafety, IBM, Phillips Petroleum, Roadway Express, Rohm & Haas, Square D, Actuate, Deutsche Bank Corporation, Bitstream, Computer Task Group and Gevity HR. George "Spike" Beitzel died June 26, 2018, at age 90 in Redding, Connecticut.
 
3Name:  Dr. Victor H. Brombert
 Institution:  Princeton University
 Year Elected:  1987
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  401. Archaeology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1923
   
 
Winner of many awards for both scholarship and teaching, Victor Brombert is, in the words of a distinguished senior colleague in the field, "a superb literary critic and polished stylist, eclectic in his tastes, averse to all dogmatic theories, and probably the most eminent and influential French scholar of his generation." Currently the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton University, Dr. Brombert has taught at Princeton since 1975 and has served as chairman of its Council of Humanities. Prior to his appointment at Princeton, Dr. Brombert was assistant professor and Benjamin F. Barge Professor of Romance Language and Literature at Yale University, where he served as chairman of the Department of Romance Languages (1964-73). He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1953 and has honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago and the University of Toronto. A former president of the Modern Language Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Dr. Brombert is the author of a dozen books of literary criticism, in addition to his wartime memoirs Trains of Thought.(2002). He has published extensively on Flaubert, both in this country and in France, and has also written widely on T.S. Eliot, Hugo and Stendhal, among others. A comparativist and literary historian, Dr. Brombert is that rare scholar from whose observations all readers of literature have benefited.
 
4Name:  Dr. Michael S. Brown
 Institution:  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
 Year Elected:  1987
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  201. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1941
   
 
Michael S. Brown received a B.A. degree in chemistry in 1962 and an M.D. degree in 1966 from the University of Pennsylvania. He was an intern and resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a post doctoral fellow with Dr. Earl Stadtman at the National Institutes of Health. In 1971, he moved to the University of Texas in Dallas, where he rose through the ranks to become a professor in 1976. He is currently Paul J. Thomas Professor of Molecular Genetics and Director of the Jonsson Center for Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. Dr. Brown and his long-time colleague, Dr. Joseph L. Goldstein, together discovered the low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor, which controls the level of cholesterol in blood and in cells. They showed that mutations in this receptor cause Familial Hypercholesterolemia, a disorder that leads to premature heart attacks in one out of every 500 people in most populations. They have received many awards for this work, including the U.S. National Medal of Science and the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology.
 
5Name:  Dr. Giles Constable
 Institution:  Institute for Advanced Study
 Year Elected:  1987
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1929
 Death Date:  January 18, 2021
   
 
Giles Constable was Medieval History Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Advanced Study's School of Historical Studies. An outstanding medievalist with a particular interest in monastic culture and the religious life of the 12th century, he has published more than 20 books in the area of medieval religious and intellectual history; these include Monastic Tithes from their Origins to the Twelfth Century (1964), The Letters of Peter the Venerable (2 volumes, 1967), Medieval Monasticism: A Select Bibliography (1976), People and Power in Byzantium (with Alexander Kazhdan, 1982), Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought (1995), The Reformation of the Twelfth Century (1996), Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century (2009), The Abbey of Cluny (2010) and a translation of How to Defeat the Saracens by William of Adam (2012), as well as over a hundred articles, most of which have been reprinted in five volumes. In addition to his work in monastic studies, Dr. Constable has also conducted research on medieval social, economic and intellectual history of the Middle Ages, and he is known as a scholar of unusual depth and sensitivity. Dr. Constable received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1957 and taught there from 1958-84, serving as Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History (1966-77) and director of Dumbarton Oaks (1977-84), among other positions. He died on January 18, 2021.
 
6Name:  Dr. W. Maxwell Cowan
 Institution:  Howard Hughes Medical Institute
 Year Elected:  1987
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  209. Neurobiology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1931
 Death Date:  June 30, 2002
   
7Name:  Dr. Sidney Drell
 Institution:  Stanford University
 Year Elected:  1987
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  106. Physics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1926
 Death Date:  December 21, 2016
   
 
Sidney D. Drell was professor of theoretical physics (emeritus) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford University, as well as a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at the time of his death on December 21, 2016, at the age of 90. He served as SLAC's deputy director until retiring in 1998. A theoretical physicist and arms control specialist, Dr. Drell had also been active as an adviser to the executive and legislative branches of government on national security and defense technical issues. He was a founding member of JASON, a group of academic scientists who consult for the government on issues of national importance, and he acted as a consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was a member of the Advisory Committee to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA/DOE) and chaired the Senior Review Board for the Intelligence Technology Innovation Center. Dr. Drell was widely recognized for his contributions in the study of theoretical physics, particularly elementary particle processes and quantum theory. His work contributed to the early understanding of meson physics and quantum electrodynamics and then went beyond those areas, ranging from basic studies on quantum chromodynamics on a lattice to such "down the laboratory" problems as the interaction of monopoles with helium. He isolated the processes of secondary particle production from photons from hadron-hadron collisions. Among numerous awards, Dr. Drell received the Heinz award in 2005 for his contributions in public policy, and in 2000 he was awarded the Enrico Fermi Award, the nation's oldest award in science and technology, for a lifetime of achievement in the field of nuclear energy. He also received the 2012 National Medal of Science. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was coauthor, with J.D. Bjorken, of two books on relativistic quantum mechanics and fields that have been widely translated and used for more than 30 years.
 
8Name:  Lewis H. Van Dusen
 Institution:  Drinker, Biddle & Reath
 Year Elected:  1987
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1910
 Death Date:  November 16, 2004
   
9Name:  Dr. Peter Gay
 Institution:  Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library & Yale University
 Year Elected:  1987
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  303. History Since 1715
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1923
 Death Date:  May 12, 2015
   
 
Peter Gay was born Peter Joachim Fröhlich in Berlin in 1923. After witnessing Kristallnacht, he fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and arrived in the United States in 1941. After earning his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, Dr. Gay became a political science professor and history professor at Columbia. In 1969 he moved to Yale University, where he taught until his retirement in 1993 and became Sterling Professor Emeritus of History. Dr. Gay's richness and range of historical interests are suggested in his many publications, from Voltaire's Politics (1959) to Weimar Culture (1968) to the five-volume The Bourgeois Experience (1984-98). A leading champion of psychoanalytic history, Dr. Gay also examined the impact of Freudian ideas on German culture in Freud, Jews and Other Germans (1978). His last work was Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond (2007). A leading historian of the social history of ideas, Dr. Gay was a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and received the National Book Award, Melchor Book Award, and Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, among other honors. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1987. Peter Gay died May 12, 2015, at the age of 91 at his home in Manhattan.
 
10Name:  Dr. Joseph L. Goldstein
 Institution:  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
 Year Elected:  1987
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  201. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1940
   
 
Joseph Goldstein is currently Chairman of the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and Julie and Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Research and Paul J. Thomas Chair in Medicine. In 1985, he was named Regental Professor of the University of Texas. Together with his colleague Dr. Michael S. Brown, Dr. Goldstein has received a number of awards for their discovery of receptors that control cholesterol metabolism, including the Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research (1985), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1985), National Medal of Science (1988) and Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research (2003). Dr. Goldstein is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, and the Institute of Medicine. He is also a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (London) and has received Doctor of Science honorary degrees from numerous institutions, including University of Chicago, University of Paris and The Rockefeller University. Dr. Goldstein is a past president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (1985-86) and was a member of the Governing Council of the U.S. National Academy of Science (1991-94). He was also a Non-Resident Fellow of the Salk Institute (1983-1994) and served as Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1995-2002). He has also served as a member of the editorial boards of Cell, Annual Review of Genetics, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Arteriosclerosis, Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Dr. Goldstein is currently Chairman of the Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards Jury and is a member of the Boards of Trustees of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and The Rockefeller University. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Welsh Foundations, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Van Andel Institute, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He also currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of several biotechnology companies (Genentech, Armgo, Five Prime) and is a member of the Board of Directors of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.
 
11Name:  Dr. Crawford H. Greenewalt
 Institution:  University of California, Berkeley
 Year Elected:  1987
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  401. Archaeology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1937
 Death Date:  May 4, 2012
   
 
Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr. was a Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley from 1978 until his death in 2012. He was also the longtime leader of the Harvard-Cornell archaeological expedition to Sardis, serving as its director from 1976-2008. His skill and an unusual ability to work effectively under difficult field conditions enabled Dr. Greenewalt to become one of the most productive archaeologists in the eastern Mediterranean area. The importance of Sardis - from the pages of Herodotus to the history of the Byzantine empire - makes his work important and interesting to students of many fields. Dr. Greenewalt was the author of detailed annual reports on excavations at Sardis as well as articles and works such as Ritual Dinners in Early Historic Sardis (1978). Both to technical scholars in the discipline and to "buffs," his lucid presentation of data, combined with the personal qualities of restraint and modesty, has made classical archaeology a vital intellectual force. He was awarded the Archaeological Institute of America's Bandelier Award for Public Service to Archaeology in 2012. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1987. Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr., died May 4, 2012, at the age of 74 in Hockessin, Delaware.
 
12Name:  Dr. James Gunn
 Institution:  Princeton University
 Year Elected:  1987
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  101. Astronomy
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1938
   
 
James Edward Gunn is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University Observatory. His range of abilities, including great skill in physical theory and applied mathematics, an outstanding capability in the design of novel and powerful instruments, and extensive experience as an observational astronomer with a keen choice of central problems, is unique in astronomy. Dr. Gunn's early theoretical work helped establish the current understanding of how galaxies form and properties of the space between galaxies. He also suggested important observational tests to confirm the presence of dark matter in galaxies. Much of Dr. Gunn's later work has involved leadership in major observational projects. He developed plans for one of the first uses of digital camera technology for space observation, a project that led to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the most extensive three-dimensional mapping of the universe ever undertaken. Dr. Gunn has worked as a scientist at JPL and taught at the University of California, Berkeley, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Washington, the University of Chicago, and Rice University. He was a deputy principal investigator on the Wide Field/Planetary Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, served as the associate director of the Apache Point Observatory and is a MacArthur Fellow. He was also a project scientist and technical director for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. His numerous honors include the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal, the National Medal of Science (2009) and membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Gunn earned his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1966 and has served on the faculty at Princeton since 1968.
 
13Name:  Dr. Cyril M. Harris
 Institution:  Columbia University
 Year Elected:  1987
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  504. Scholars in the Professions
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1917
 Death Date:  January 4, 2011
   
 
Cyril M. Harris was one of the world's leading acoustical consultants and engineers. He was born in 1917 and, after working as a researcher during World War II, he received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1945. He was employed as a research engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1945-51 before joining the faculty at Columbia University. Dr. Harris was named professor of architecture in 1964, chairman of the division of architectural technology at Columbia in 1974 and Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1976. He also served as an acoustical consultant for the Metropolitan Opera House and the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and was responsible for the acoustical revitalization of Avery Fisher Hall at New York's Lincoln Center. Dr. Harris is the author of works such as Acoustical Designing in Architecture (1950), Handbook of Noise Control (1957) and Shock and Vibration Handbook (1961) and has been presented with numerous awards including the A.I.A. Institute Medal (1980) and the Gold Medal of the Audio Engineering Society (1984). He also served as the 85th president of the New York Academy of Sciences (1991-93) and was Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Charles Batchelor Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. Cyril Harris died January 4, 2011, at the age of 93, at his home in New York City.
 
14Name:  Dr. Charles P. Kindleberger
 Institution:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 Year Elected:  1987
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  302. Economics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1910
 Death Date:  July 7, 2003
   
15Name:  Dr. Floyd Glenn Lounsbury
 Institution:  Yale University
 Year Elected:  1987
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  406. Linguistics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1914
 Death Date:  5/14/98
   
16Name:  Dr. Jerrold Meinwald
 Institution:  Cornell University
 Year Elected:  1987
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1927
 Death Date:  April 24, 2018
   
 
Jerrold Meinwald, Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Cornell University, died April 24, 2018, at the age of 91. He was educated at the University of Chicago (Ph.B. 1947, B.S. 1948) and at Harvard (M.A. 1950, Ph.D. 1952), where he worked with R.B. Woodward. He was a member of the group of scientists who founded the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Nairobi, and served as an ICIPE Research Director from 1970-77. He is a founding member of CIRCE (the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology). Dr. Meinwald's research covered a very broad range of topics, including molecular rearrangement mechanisms, the synthesis and reactions of highly strained ring systems, organic photochemistry, natural product structure and synthesis, anesthetic stereochemistry, and insect chemical ecology. We typically think of communication as a fairly straightforward phenomenon involving speech, gestures, and more recently, electronic devices. But the majority of creatures interact through different means: a dazzling array of chemical signals. This is how insects talk to each other, find food, mate, bind together in communities, even make war. But it's not only bugs that communicate through chemicals—all living organisms, from microorganisms to human beings, do the same. The study of how organisms communicate and interact with their environment is a specialized field called chemical ecology, bridging organic chemistry and biology. Jerrold Meinwald is universally recognized as its founding father, along with Tom Eisner (1929-2011), his longtime biological collaborator. In a career spanning more than half a century, Meinwald defined chemical ecology as a new science, showing how it can help us better understand the behavior of living creatures and leading to important advances in medicine, pharmacology, and agriculture. Born in New York, Meinwald attended the University of Chicago and obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard, then settled in for a fellowship at Cornell University, where he has spent his entire career. At first, he was known as a creative organic chemist, studying highly strained small molecules, photochemistry, and analytic spectroscopic techniques. He then became intrigued by the chemical defenses of arthropods. Among his early discoveries were lipophilic compounds secreted by some insects that help toxins permeate an attacker's protective cuticle, and the fact that fireflies and some other insects secrete steroids that make them unattractive meals for predators. He investigated the underlying chemical mechanisms that enabled organisms to synthesize these defensive agents, leading to the realization that one species, perhaps a plant, can make a precursor substance later used by another organism, such as an insect—a relationship between two species manifested at a chemical level. This work led to the forging of a unique collaboration with Eisner, who had been studying many of the same questions from a biological perspective and arrived at Cornell shortly after Meinwald had joined the faculty. They combined forces to elevate the study of chemical signaling into the new discipline of chemical ecology, with Meinwald probing the chemistry and Eisner investigating the biology. They studied and characterized an extensive variety of chemical signaling and defense mechanisms in insects, plants, birds, fish, and mammals. The interactions they explained, from snakes that derive protective steroids for their eggs and hatchlings from toads they consume, to moths that convert a certain alkaloid to attract females which is later passed on as a defensive chemical to their eggs, to fish that secrete substances literally giving them a bad taste to predators, demonstrate the amazing range of remarkable evolutionary adaptations on Earth. The Meinwald/Eisner partnership opened up brand new vistas in chemistry and biology that are only beginning to be fully explored. But the work has done even more than give science a deeper insight into the beautiful interconnected web of life on our planet. Meinwald's work in isolating, characterizing, and synthesizing the structure of various compounds used in nature points the way for the development of substances for practical applications: drugs, agricultural chemicals, and other yet unimagined uses. He continues to demonstrate that the natural chemicals that living creatures use to communicate, survive, and thrive have potential and promise waiting to be tapped. He had been a Visiting Professor at the Harvard Medical School, the Rockefeller University, and the University of California, San Diego. He was an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (1969), the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1970) and the American Philosophical Society (1987), and held two J.S. Guggenheim Fellowships (1960-61, 1976-77). He served as a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (1983) and as a Fogarty Scholar-in-Residence at the NIH (1983-85). He was elected President of the International Society of Chemical Ecology in 1988. In 1989, he was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by the University of Göteborg. Dr. Meinwald served as a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (1990-91). He was awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 1990 and the Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest in 1991. He served three terms as a National Sigma Xi Lecturer (1965, 1975, 1992-94). The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic awarded him the Heyrovsky Medal in 1996. He was a Senior Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2004) and was selected for the 2005 Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry by the American Chemical Society. He was awarded the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry by the Franklin Institute and won the 2014 National Medal of Science. Music was Dr. Meinwald's chief recreational activity. He studied flute with Arthur Lora, James Pappoutsakis and Marcel Moyse and frequently combines chamber music performances on flute, recorder, or flauto traverso with visiting lectureships.
 
17Name:  Dr. Louis Nirenberg
 Institution:  New York University
 Year Elected:  1987
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  104. Mathematics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1925
 Death Date:  January 26, 2020
   
 
A leading mathematician with broad cultural interests, Canadian-born Louis Nirenberg has made seminal contributions to the study of linear and non-linear partial differential equations and their applications. He discovered interactions between mathematical analysis, differential geometry and "complex analysis" and made deep applications to the theory of fluid flow and other physical phenomena. Winner of the first Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy (1982), Dr. Nirenberg is currently professor of mathematics emeritus at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He began his career at NYU in 1949 after receiving his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the university. From 1970-72 he served as director of the Courant Institute. Dr. Nirenberg's numerous honors include the 1995 National Medal of Science, the American Mathematical Society's Bocher Prize (1959), Guggenheim and Sloan Fellowships and membership in the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In 2010, he was awarded the Chern Medal from the International Congress of Mathematicians and in 2014 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research with Robert Kohn and Luis Caffarelli. He was awarded the 2015 Abel Prize.
 
18Name:  Dr. Henry Rosovsky
 Institution:  Harvard University
 Year Elected:  1987
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  302. Economics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1927
 Death Date:  November 11, 2022
   
 
Currently Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor Emeritus, Henry Rosovsky has been affiliated with Harvard University since 1965, both as a professor and dean of arts and sciences (1973-84). Noted for his expertise in economics, particularly on the economic development of Japan, Dr. Rosovsky has also undertaken important writing on the role of universities and the importance of the liberal arts in education. He is the author of books such as Japanese Economic Growth (1973), Capital Formation in Japan, 1868-1940 (1981) and The University An Owner's Manual (1990). He has also served as the co-chair of the UNESCO World Bank Task Force on Higher Education and Society. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Dr. Rosovsky is the recipient of awards such as the Encyclopedia Brittanica's Achievement in Life Award and the DuBois Medal in African-American Studies.
 
19Name:  Prof. Arthur Schlesinger
 Institution:  City University of New York
 Year Elected:  1987
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  303. History Since 1715
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1917
 Death Date:  February 28, 2007
   
20Name:  Mr. Frank E. Taplin
 Institution:  Environmental Defense & Metropolitan Opera Association & Institute for Advanced Study & Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
 Year Elected:  1987
 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:  1915
 Death Date:  May 11, 2003
   
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