Subdivision
| • | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | [X] |
| | 1 | Name: | Sir Anthony Kenny | | | Institution: | University of Oxford | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | 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: | International | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | | | | |
Anthony Kenny was a fellow and tutor in philosophy at Balliol College Oxford, where he was subsequently Master. Later (1988-98) he was Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford. He has been President of the British Academy and Chair of the British Library. He has written some forty books on philosophy and history and is currrently Emeritus Fellow at St. John's College, Oxford. | |
| 2 | Name: | Sir Hans Kornberg | | | Institution: | Boston University | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | 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: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | December 16, 2019 | | | | | | |
Hans Kornberg immigrated to England at the age of 11 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He was educated at various boarding schools and at the University of Sheffield, from which he graduated with degrees of B.Sc. and Ph.D.
From 1953-55 he held a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship at Yale and the University of California, Berkeley and the Public Health Research Institute of the City of New York, returning to England as a Member of Scientific Staff, Medical Research Council Unit for Research in Cell Metabolism at Oxford. In 1958, he was awarded the degree of M.A. (Oxon.) and was also appointed Lecturer in Biochemistry at Worchester College, University of Oxford. In 1960, at the age of 32, Hans Kornberg was elected as the first Professor of Biochemistry in the University of Leicester; a year later, he was awarded the degree of D.Sc. of the University of Oxford and, at the age of 37, was elected into the Fellowship of the Royal Society. In 1975, Professor Kornberg was appointed to the Sir William Dunn Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge and elected into a Fellowship of Christ's College; in 1982 he was elected Master of that College. He held both posts until reaching the (mandatory) retirement age of 67 in 1995; he was awarded the degree of ScD. (Cantab.) in 1976.
Sir Hans' scientific researches were mainly aimed at understanding the molecular basis of metabolic processes that enable micro-organisms to utilize simple compounds as their sole source of carbon for energy and for growth and the factors that regulate the occurrence of such processes. He published over 250 articles and his research led to numerous awards and distinctions. Professor Kornberg was knighted in 1978 and received 12 honorary doctorates from universities in the U.K., the U.S.A., Australia, and Germany. He was a Member of the German Academy of Science Leopoldina and the Academia Europaeae and was a Foreign Member or Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Academia Nazionale dei Lincei.
Sir Hans was an Honorary Member of the British, American, German and Japanese Biochemical Societies; a Fellow of the Institute of Biology, of the Royal Society of Arts, and of the American Academy of Microbiology; and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London), of Brasenose and Worcester Colleges (Oxford), and of Wolfson College (Cambridge). In 1996, he was elected an Honorary Member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received the Colworth Medal of the Biochemical Society and the Otto Warburg Medal of the German Society for Biological Chemistry.
Sir Hans held a number of posts in U.K. governmental and non-governmental organizations. He served as President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, of the Association for Science Education, and of The Biochemical Society and as Chairman of the Science Board of the Science Research Council, of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and of the Advisory Committee on Genetic Modification. He also served as a Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, as a Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation, as a Governor of the Wellcome Trust, and as a member of many advisory committees. In a wider context, he chaired the Advanced Studies Institutes Panel of NATO, was President of the International Union of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and was an Honorary or Emeritus Governor of the Weizmann Institute and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Beginning in 1995, Sir Hans held a dual appointment as University Professor and Professor of Biology at Boston University, where he taught both in the UNI and in biology. He also actively engaged in research on carbohydrate transport mechanisms in Escherichia coli. Hans Kornberg died December 16, 2019 in Falmouth, Massachusetts at the age of 91. | |
| 3 | Name: | Arthur Wellesley | | | Institution: | Wellington College | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | 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: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1915 | | | Death Date: | December 31, 2014 | | | | | | |
Arthur Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, was a British peer and retired brigadier in the British Army. Born in Rome in 1915, he attended Eton and New College, Oxford before joining the British Army and serving in World War II. He became defense attache to Spain in 1964 and retired from the army in 1968 as a brigadier, receiving the Military Cross for his service. Beginning in the mid-1960s the Duke has served as director of Massey Ferguson Holdings, Ltd. And as governor of Wellington College. He was also vice president of the Royal British Legion, president of the Atlantic Salmon Trust and vice president of the Kennel Club. An effective promoter of conservation and environmental programs, he led organizations such as the Game Conservancy, the Council for Environmental Conservation and the Rare Breeds Survival Trust and opened the estate of the original Duke of Wellington for public enjoyment, planting more than one million trees throughout the 550-acre preserve. He died December 31, 2014, at the age of 99. | |
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