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1	Name:	Dr. Robert McC. Adams
	Institution:	University of California, San Diego & Smithsonian Institution & University of Chicago
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	401. Archaeology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1926
	Death Date:	January 27, 2018

	Robert Adams was an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California at San Diego at the time of his death on January 27, 2018, at age 91. He was also Director Emeritus of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution. Educated at the University of Chicago, he had a long-standing interest in the environmental, agricultural and urban history of the Middle East. Dr. Adams' conducted extensive field research from the mid-1950s through the late 1970s in southern Iraq, southwestern Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia. This work, on which he has published extensively, sought to identify long-term patterns of change extending over the last six millennia. Another field of research interest and publication involves the contexts and history of technological change, concentrating on the last five centuries or so in western Europe and the United States. In 1996 he wrote Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist's Inquiry Into Western Technology, which deals with how technology comes about and why or why not it has an impact on mankind. Dr. Adams served as Editor of Trends in American and German Higher Education (2002), which stems from his involvement in a comparison of graduate education and research in the United States and Germany. Robert Adams was the recipient of the 1996 Distinguished Service Award from the Society for American Archaeology, the 2000 Lucy Wharton Drexel Medal from the University of Pennsylvania Museum, the 2002 Gold Medal from the American Institute of Archaeology, and the 2003 Field Museum Award of Merit. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1974.

2	Name:	Richard D. Brauer
	Year Elected:	1974
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1901
	Death Date:	4/21/77

3	Name:	Dr. John T. Chew
	Institution:	W.H. Newbold's Son & Co.
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	302. Economics
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1918
	Death Date:	1/4/88

4	Name:	Dr. James D. Ebert
	Institution:	Johns Hopkins University
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	202. Cellular and Developmental Biology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1921
	Death Date:	May 22, 2001

5	Name:	Dr. Franklin L. Ford
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	303. History Since 1715
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1920
	Death Date:	August 31, 2003

6	Name:	Dr. Garrett Hardin
	Institution:	University of California, Santa Barbara
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	203. Evolution & Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Paleontology, and Physical Anthropology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1915
	Death Date:	September 14, 2003

7	Name:	Dr. David S. Heeschen
	Institution:	National Radio Astronomy Observatory
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	101. Astronomy
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1926
	Death Date:	April 13, 2012

	Radio astronomer David Sutphin Heeschen directed the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) from 1962-1978. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1954 and served as an instructor at Wesleyan University and as a lecturer and research associate at Harvard prior to joining NRAO as a scientist in 1956. He was director of the observatory from 1961 to 1978. Dr. Heeschen was deeply involved in the scientific aspects of studies at Green Bank, West Virginia, at the Very Large Array near Socorro, New Mexico, and at the Kitt Peak Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. A member of the American Astronomical Society (president, 1980-82), the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Dr. Heeschen also served as a consultant to NASA (1960-62, 1968-72, 1979-80) and as research professor at the University of Virginia (1980-91). He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1974. He was Senior Scientist Emeritus at NRAO at the time of his death on April 13, 2012, at the age of 86.

8	Name:	Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh
	Institution:	University of Notre Dame
	Year Elected:	1974
	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:	February 26, 2015

	The Rev. Theodore Martin Hesburgh, CSC was a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross and President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame. He served the longest tenure (1952-87) of a president in the university's history and is credited with building the institution to its present position. As a humanitarian, Rev. Hesburgh participated effectively in many national and international organizations. He served as a member of the United States Civil Rights Commission from 1957 and as Chairman from 1969-72, and he had been actively involved on issues including peaceful uses of atomic energy; campus unrest; treatment of Vietnam offenders; and Third World development and immigration reform, to name only a few. He had been an endorser of the Genocide Intervention Network. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Rev. Hesburgh was awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1964, and the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor in 2000. He has published three books as well as an autobiography entitled God, Country, Notre Dame (1990). He died February 26, 2015, at the age of 97, on the university campus in South Bend, Indiana.

9	Name:	Dr. Martin D. Kamen
	Institution:	University of California, San Diego
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1913
	Death Date:	August 31, 2002

10	Name:	Dr. Paul Oskar Kristeller
	Institution:	Columbia University
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1905
	Death Date:	6/7/99

11	Name:	Dr. Thomas S. Kuhn
	Institution:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	407. Philosophy
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1922
	Death Date:	6/17/96

12	Name:	Dr. Machteld J. Mellink
	Institution:	Bryn Mawr College
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	401. Archaeology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1917
	Death Date:	February 24, 2006

13	Name:	Dr. Philip Morrison
	Institution:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	101. Astronomy
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1915
	Death Date:	April 22, 2005

14	Name:	Dr. Ruth Patrick
	Institution:	Academy of Natural Sciences
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	203. Evolution & Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Paleontology, and Physical Anthropology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1907
	Death Date:	September 23, 2013

	Ruth Patrick was a world-renowned scientist who had studied the waterways of South Carolina for more than fifty years. Born in Topeka, Kansas, she learned to share her father's love for nature and microscopic plant life. From there she moved to South Carolina and in 1929 earned a bachelor's degree from Coker College in Hartsville. In 1934, she earned a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. In the early 1950s, she was assigned by the Atomic Energy Commission to collect baseline data on the water quality and biota of the Savannah River prior to the opening of the Savannah River Plant. Dr. Patrick responded by forming a team of scientists from the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences to study the area. She was the first scientist to diagnose the health of a river or stream by plant life and animal species. Her early studies contributed significantly to the developing field of ecology and established for the first time a set of aquatic indices that could be used to describe the health of water systems and the impact of industrialization. Her work has since been modeled by ecologists worldwide. Dr. Patrick's career had been marked with many awards and accomplishments. She held the Francis Boyer Chair of Limnology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. She received the Award of Merit from the Botanical Society of America in 1971, the Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America in 1972, and the Gold Medal of the Royal Zoological Society of Belgium in 1978. In 1970, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 1974 to the American Philosophical Society. In 1989 Dr. Patrick was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science by the University of South Carolina and in 1996 she was inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Science and Technology. She also served on the Wistar Institute's board of trustees for more than three decades and was a trustee emerita. Ruth Patrick was awarded the American Philosophical Society's Benjamin Franklin Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences in 1993. The citation read "in recognition of her study of diatoms, microscopic species of algae, which helped make her one of the world's most distinguished biologists; and developing extraordinarly useful ways of monitoring water pollution." Ruth Patrick died September 23, 2013, at age 105 in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania.

15	Name:	Dr. John Rawls
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	407. Philosophy
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1921
	Death Date:	November 24, 2002

16	Name:	Dr. David Riesman
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1909
	Death Date:	May 10, 2002

17	Name:	Dr. John D. Roberts
	Institution:	California Institute of Technology
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1918
	Death Date:	October 29, 2016

	An organic chemist of great distinction, John D. Roberts was Institute Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology at the time of his death October 29, 2016, at age 98. He had served on the faculty since 1953. After earning his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1944, he taught at Harvard University (1945-46) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1946-53). The recipient of the American Chemical Society's Pure Science Award (1954) and the Roger Adams Award in organic chemistry (1967), Dr. Roberts was well known for his original discoveries regarding organic compounds, including structure and uses of the Grignard reagent, and his pioneering use of techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance. He served as editor-in-chief of Organic Syntheses (vol. 41) and had written numerous articles in scientific journals and books including Molecular Orbital Calculations (1961), Modern Organic Chemistry (1967) and (with R. Stewart and M.C. Caserio) Organic Chemistry Methane to Macromolecules (1971). He is the recipient of the American Chemical Society's top prize, the Priestley Medal in 1987, the National Medal of Science in 1990, and in 2013 American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal.

18	Name:	Dr. Roger W. Sperry
	Institution:	California Institute of Technology
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	209. Neurobiology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1913
	Death Date:	4/17/94

19	Name:	Edward H. Spicer
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1906
	Death Date:	4/5/83

20	Name:	Dr. Speros Vryonis
	Institution:	New York University
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1928
	Death Date:	March 11, 2019

	Speros Vryonis, Jr., was one of the most eminent Byzantinists of his generation. After a distinguished career at UCLA, he became the founding director of the Alexander S. Onassis Center for Hellenic Studies at New York University, from which he retired as Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Civilization Emeritus. Dr. Vryonis's extensive work on the history and culture of the Greeks from Homer to the present, and on their relations with the Slavic, Islamic, and New Worlds, includes the seminal The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century; Byzantium and Europe; Studies on Byzantium, Seljuks and Ottomans; Byzantium: Its Internal History and Relations with the Islamic World; and Studies in Byzantine Institutions and Society. He also edited, among other volumes, Aspects of the Balkans: Continuity and Change (with Henrik Birnbaum); Essays on the Slavic World and the Eleventh Century; Islam and Cultural Change in the Middle Ages; Individualism and Conformity in Classical Islam (with Amin Banani); and Islam's Understanding of Itself (with Richard G. Hovannisian). A graduate of Harvard University (Ph.D., 1956), Dr. Vryonis was a Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright Scholar as well as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Medieval Academy of America. Toward the end of his life he directed the Speros Basil Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism. Speros Vryonis died March 11, 2019 in Sacramento California at the age of 90.

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