APS Member History

1	Name:	His Excellency, Svante Lindqvist
	Institution:	The Royal Court, Sweden
	Year Elected:	2013
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	303. History Since 1715
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1948

	Svante Lindqvist (b. 1948) is Marshal of the Realm (riksmarskalk) to the Swedish Royal Court, having assumed the position on January 1, 2010. Prior to that, he was founding Director of the Nobel Museum, 1998-2009. Previously he held a chair as Professor of History of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, where he established and became Chairman of its Department for History of Science and Technology. He has a M.Sc.Eng. (Physics) from the Royal Institute of Technology (1977) and a Ph.D. in History of Science and Ideas from Uppsala University (1984). He was a Visiting Scholar in the Office for History of Science and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley, during the academic year 1986-1987, and a Visiting Professor in the Department for History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania during the fall semester of 1992. During the academic year 1995-96, he was an Overseas Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. In the fall of 2003, he was a Visiting Professor in the STS Program at MIT. In 2011, he received an honorary doctorate from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Since its conception in 1998, the Nobel Museum was developed into a research-oriented multi-faceted institution with a constantly growing attendance, staffed research library, an active school outreach program, as well as research seminars and public lectures. The museum has engaged in producing and sending large traveling exhibitions abroad. Its first traveling exhibition "Cultures of Creativity" visited 14 venues during the period 2001-2007: Oslo, Tokyo, Seoul, Houston, Chicago, Kuala Lumpur, Florence, San Francisco, New York, London, Bangalore, Singapore, Sydney, and Abu Dhabi. The Nobel Museum’s traveling exhibition "Alfred Nobel: Networks of Innovation" opened in Dubai in the spring of 2008, and was shown in Paris during the fall of 2008. In the spring of 2009, it visited St. Petersburg. Svante Lindqvist’s dissertation, Technology on Trial: The Introduction of Steam Power Technology into Sweden, 1715-1736, Uppsala Studies in History of Science, 1 (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1984), was awarded three national prizes, including the Letterstedt Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1985. Subsequent publications include an edited volume in 1993, Center on the Periphery: Historical Aspects of 20th-Century Swedish Physics (Canton, Mass.: Science History Publications, 1993) and another one in 2000, Museums of Modern Science, Nobel Symposium 112. In 2008, he was a co-editor of Research and Museums: Proceedings of An International Symposium in Stockholm 22-25 May 2007, as well as of Aurora Torealis: Studies in the History of Science and Ideas in Honor of Tore Frängsmyr. Most recently he published: Changes in the Technological Landscape: Essays in the History of Science and Technology (Sagamore Beach:Mass.: Science History Publications, 2011). He has been a member of the Kuratorium (1992-2008) and the Wissenschaftlichen Beirats (1998-2008) of the Deutsches Museum, München. During the period 1991-1999, he was on the Advisory Committee for the history project at the European Space Agency (ESA), Paris, and in 1996-2004 a member of the Corporation Visiting Committee for the Humanities at MIT, Cambridge, Mass. In 2008-2009, he was a member of the International Advisory Board of the Medical Museion in Copenhagen. A member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (1992), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1994) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (2002). He was elected President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and served for a three-year term, 2009-2012. In 2010, he was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Medal for lifetime achievement from the Society for the History of Technology. In 2011, he was elected a foreign member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. Svante Lindqvist was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 2013.

2	Name:	Professor Sir Adam Roberts
	Institution:	University of Oxford
	Year Elected:	2013
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1940

	Sir Adam Roberts, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, specializes in international security, international organizations, and international law, including the laws of war. He has also worked on the role of civil resistance against oppressive regimes and foreign rule, and on the history of thought about international relations. He was born in Penrith, England, on 29 August 1940. He studied Modern History at Oxford University, where he won the Stanhope Historical Essay Prize in 1961 and was awarded a B.A. degree in 1962. His main academic jobs have been: Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 1968-81; Alastair Buchan Reader in International Relations at Oxford University, and Fellow of St Antony’s College, 1981-86; Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, and Fellow of Balliol College, 1986-2007. He has held visiting appointments at New York University, Tokyo University, the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington DC. He was a Member of the Council, Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs), London, 1985-91; Governor, Ditchley Foundation, 2001-11; Member of the Council, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 2002-08; and Member of the UK Council for Science and Technology, 2010-13. He has been a Member, UK Defence Academy Advisory Board, since 2003. In 1990 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), and 2009 to July 2013 was President of the British Academy. In 2002 he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG), ‘for services to the study and practice of international relations’. He is an Honorary Fellow of LSE and of St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has honorary degrees from King’s College London (2010), Aberdeen University (2012), and Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo (2013). Adam Roberts was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 2013. His numerous publications (many jointly authored or edited) include The Strategy of Civilian Defence: Non-violent Resistance to Aggression (1967); Czechoslovakia 1968: Reform, Repression and Resistance (1969); Nations in Arms: The Theory and Practice of Territorial Defence (2nd edn., 1986); Documents on the Laws of War (3rd edn., 2000); United Nations, Divided World: The UN’s Roles in International Relations (2nd edn., 1993); Hugo Grotius and International Relations (1990); The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945 (2008); Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present (2009); and Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror: Lakshman Kadirgamar on the Foundations of International Order (2012). He has published articles in numerous journals, including American Journal of International Law, British Year Book of International Law, International Affairs, International Security, Survival, and The Times Literary Supplement. He has also given expert evidence to several parliamentary and judicial inquiries. He is married with two grown-up children, and lives in Oxford. His interests include mountaineering and cycling.

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