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21Name:  Sir Harold Himsworth
 Institution:  Medical Research Council
 Year Elected:  1972
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  204. Medicine, Surgery, Pathology and Immunology
 Residency:  International
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1905
 Death Date:  11/1/93
   
22Name:  Dr. Alex Inkeles
 Institution:  Stanford University & Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
 Year Elected:  1972
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1920
 Death Date:  July 9, 2010
   
 
Alex Inkeles was born into modest circumstances, his parents having emigrated from Poland just before the start of World War I. Early identified as a promising student, and aided by various scholarships, he left home in Brooklyn, New York to study at Cornell University, where great teachers -- including Carl Becker, a leading historian of the French Revolution, and the sociologist Leonard Cottrell, Jr. -- set him on the path of scholarship, and served as models of what could be achieved in that realm. Shortly after beginning graduate studies at Cornell, Dr. Inkeles was called up for military service in 1942. During most of WW II, while in uniform, he served in the Office of Strategic Services, becoming an expert on the social structure of the Soviet Union, thus laying the foundation for one of his later academic specialties. After the war he continued his graduate training at Columbia University, supported by the "GI bill". There he studied with Robert Merton, Paul Lazarsfeld, Robert Lynd, and Robert MacIver. On completing his Ph.D. thesis he was called to Harvard University in 1948, and served in various ranks and capacities including Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow in both the Russian Research Center and the Center for International Affairs. Seeking a new life he moved with his family to Stanford University in 1971, where he was Professor of Sociology and Education, as well as Senior Fellow in the Hoover Institution, until 1995, when he became Professor of Sociology Emeritus. Lists of his books and honors are available in various Who's Who type publications and other biographical sources. While such scholarly recognition and professional honors are of course very gratifying, what they do not capture for Dr. Inkeles is the sense of how rewarding it has been to train and advance the professional development of so many exceptional students. Alex Inkeles died on July 9, 2010, at the age of 90, in Palo Alto, California.
 
23Name:  Dr. Gerhart B. Ladner
 Institution:  University of California, Los Angeles
 Year Elected:  1972
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1905
 Death Date:  9/21/93
   
24Name:  Dr. Tsung-Dao Lee
 Institution:  Columbia University
 Year Elected:  1972
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  106. Physics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1926
   
 
Physicist Tsung-Dao Lee has devoted his long career to the study of the theoretical aspects of particle and nuclear physics. In 1957, Dr. Lee and Chen Ning Yang won the Nobel Prize in Physics for disproving a tenet of physics known as the conservation of parity. Their finding was based on research carried out at the Brookhaven Institute's particle accelerator, the Cosmotron, while they were visiting scientists at the Laboratory in 1956. Born in Shanghai, China, Dr. Lee attended universities in that country before coming to the U.S. in 1946, where he became a student of Enrico Fermi and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1950. After working as a research associate at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Lee joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1951. Then, in 1953, he joined Columbia University, where he is currently University Professor. After serving a six-year term as Director of the RIKEN BNL Research Center, Dr. Lee stepped down and was named Director Emeritus. In addition, Dr. Lee is Director of the China Center of Advanced Science & Technology in Beijing; the Beijing Institute of Modern Physics; and the Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics, all in China. He holds twelve honorary degrees and 15 honorary professorships and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and several other academies.
 
25Name:  Dr. Luna B. Leopold
 Institution:  University of California, Berkeley
 Year Elected:  1972
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  105. Physical Earth Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1915
 Death Date:  February 23, 2006
   
26Name:  Arthur J. Marder
 Year Elected:  1972
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1890
 Death Date:  12/25/80
   
27Name:  Dr. William McChesney Martin
 Institution:  Federal Reserve
 Year Elected:  1972
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  302. Economics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1906
 Death Date:  7/27/98
   
28Name:  Dr. Floyd Ratliff
 Institution:  The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation & Rockefeller University
 Year Elected:  1972
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  210. Behavioral Biology, Psychology, Ethology, and Animal Behavior
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1917
 Death Date:  6/13/99
   
29Name:  Dr. Frederick C. Robbins
 Institution:  Case Western Reserve University
 Year Elected:  1972
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  204. Medicine, Surgery, Pathology and Immunology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1916
 Death Date:  August 4, 2003
   
30Name:  Dr. Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
 Institution:  France
 Year Elected:  1972
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  302. Economics
 Residency:  International
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1912
 Death Date:  January 2, 1994
   
31Name:  Dr. Margaret Thompson
 Institution:  Museum of American Numismatic Society
 Year Elected:  1972
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  402. Criticism: Arts and Letters
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1911
 Death Date:  2/29/92
   
32Name:  Dr. Emily Townsend Vermeule
 Institution:  Harvard University
 Year Elected:  1972
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  401. Archaeology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1928
 Death Date:  February 6, 2001
   
33Name:  Dr. Morton G. White
 Institution:  Institute for Advanced Study
 Year Elected:  1972
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  407. Philosophy
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1917
 Death Date:  May 27, 2016
   
 
Morton G. White was Philosophy and Intellectual History Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Historical Studies. In his philosophy of holistic pragmatism, Dr. White tried to bridge the positivistic gulf between analytic and synthetic truth as well as that between moral and scientific belief. He maintained that philosophy of science is not philosophy enough, thereby encouraging the examination of other aspects of civilized life, especially art, history, law, politics, religion, and their relations with science. His many books include Foundations of Historical Knowledge (1965); Science and Sentiment in America (1972); The Question of Free Will (1993); and A Philosophy of Culture: The Scope of Holistic Pragmatism (2002). His book with the late Lucia Perry White, The Intellectual versus the City: From Thomas Jefferson to Frank Lloyd Wright, was first published in 1962. Dr. White received his Ph.D. from Columbia University (1942) and was honored with Columbia's Woodbridge Prize in Philosophy (1943), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1950-51) and membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Prior to joining the Institute for Advanced Study as a professor in 1970, he was a member of the institute from 1953-54, 1962-63 and 1968 and served as a professor at Harvard University from 1953-70. Morton White died May 27, 2016 at the age of 99 in Skillman, New Jersey.
 
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