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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:	Miss Margaret E. Mahoney
	Institution:	MEM Associates, Inc.
	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:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1924
	Death Date:	December 22, 2011

	Margaret E. Mahoney was President of MEM Associates, Inc, a national not-for-profit organization located in New York City that focused on improving the health and general well-being of Americans. One of its major initiatives, the Healthy Steps for Young Children Program, is a partnership of national and local foundations that assist health care systems and professionals in improving the care of children from birth to age three. Before leading MEM Associates, Ms. Mahoney was President of The Commonwealth Fund, where she became the first woman to head a major foundation. She has also served in the United States Department of State, for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Her career was devoted to advancing knowledge and understanding of issues concerning health, education, the arts and the humanities. Ms. Mahoney was a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the honorary medical society of Alpha Omega Alpha. She served on a number of national boards and was active in New York City in medical affairs. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, she held honorary degrees from several colleges and universities and received numerous awards including the American College of Physicians Edward R. Loveland Award. Margaret Mahoney died on December 22, 2011, at the age of 87, in New York City.

4	Name:	Hon. George Crews McGhee
	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:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1912
	Death Date:	July 4, 2005

5	Name:	Dr. Emily Hartshorne Mudd
	Institution:	Marriage Council of Philadelphia & Pennsylvania
	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:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1898
	Death Date:	5/2/98

6	Name:	Mr. Maurice Frederick Strong
	Institution:	United Nation's University for Peace; Peking University; Environmental Foundation, China; Institute for Research on Security and Sustainability for Northeast Asia
	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:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1929
	Death Date:	November 28, 2015

	A native of Canada, Maurice Strong grew up during the Great Depression, escaping poverty to become a successful businessman in the oil and utilities industries. He became a senior advisor to United Nations' Secretary General Kofi Annan. In 1972, as director of the U.N. Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, he successfully placed global environmental issues on the international agenda for the first time, and twenty years later, in 1992 he convened the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the largest international conference in history. Attended by 110 heads of state and government, the conference resulted in the adoption of Agenda 21, securing a global consensus and political commitment at the highest level on the sustainable development required to bring global population numbers in line with the finite resources of the Earth. At the conference, Mr. Strong called on the leaders of the world's wealthiest nations to extend significant financial aid to developing countries as reparation for a century of industrial development and environmental degradation. Maurice Strong held a number of other prominent positions, including senior advisor to the president of the World Bank; director of the World Economic Forum Foundation; and president and rector of the U.N. University for Peace in Costa Rica where he was President of the Council. Later, Strong spent most of his time in the People's Republic of China. He was an active honorary professor at Peking University and Honorary Chairman of China's Environmental Foundation. He was also Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Research on Security and Sustainability for Northeast Asia. He had also presented stirring papers on the relation of poverty in developing countries to their population growth, particularly at the Symposium on Population Problems at the 1987 APS autumn meeting. Maurice Strong died November 28, 2015, at the age of 86.

7	Name:	Dr. P. Roy Vagelos
	Institution:	Merck & Co., Inc.
	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:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1929

	Roy Vagelos served as Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc. for nine years, from 1985-94. He was first elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 and served as its Chairman from 1986-94. He was previously Executive Vice President of the worldwide health products company and, before that, President of its Research Division, which he joined in 1975. Earlier, he served as Chairman of the Department of Biological Chemistry of the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis and as Founding Director of the University's Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences. Previously he held senior positions in cellular physiology and biochemistry at the National Heart Institute, after internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. The author of more than 100 scientific papers, Dr. Vagelos received the Enzyme Chemistry Award of the American Chemical Society in 1967. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has received honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Washington University, Brown University, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New York University, Columbia University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Pamukkale University in Turkey, Mount Sinai Medical Center and the University of British Columbia; an honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University; and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Rutgers University. He received the Thomas Alva Edison Award from Thomas Kean, the Lawrence A. Wien Prize from Columbia University, the C. Walter Nicholas Award from New York University's Stern School of Business, the National Academy of Science Award for Chemistry in Service to Society, the Othmer Gold Medal from the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and the 1999 Bower Award in Business Leadership from the Franklin Institute. His Majesty the King in Bangkok, Thailand awarded the Prince Mahidol Award to Dr. Vagelos in January 1998. Dr. Vagelos was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania from 1994-99, having served as a trustee since 1988. He also served as Co-Chairman of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center from 1989-99 and was President and CEO of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from 1999-2001. Dr. Vagelos is a Director of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and a Trustee of The Danforth Foundation. He is also Chairman of the Board of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Theravance, Inc. and was Chairman of the Review, Planning and Implementation Steering Committee of New Jersey and the Commission on Jobs Growth and Economic Development.

8	Name:	Mr. Cyrus R. Vance
	Institution:	Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
	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:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1917
	Death Date:	January 12, 2002

9	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.