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| • | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry |
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| | • | 106. Physics |
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| | • | 207. Genetics |
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| | • | 208. Plant Sciences |
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| | • | 210. Behavioral Biology, Psychology, Ethology, and Animal Behavior |
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| | • | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology |
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| | • | 302. Economics |
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| | • | 303. History Since 1715 |
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| | • | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science |
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| | • | 402. Criticism: Arts and Letters |
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| | • | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences |
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| | • | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century |
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| | • | 502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions |
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| | • | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors |
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| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Whitfield J. Bell | | | Institution: | American Philosophical Society | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1914 | | | Death Date: | January 2, 2009 | | | | | | |
Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. was Librarian and Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society. He received his Bachelor's degree from Dickinson College in 1935 and went on to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1947.
Dr. Bell taught history at Dickinson College from 1937-54 and was visiting professor of history at the College of William and Mary and visiting editor of the William and Mary Quarterly. He left to edit the Papers of Benjamin Franklin. He was an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania for two decades, beginning in 1977.
Dr. Bell came to the American Philosophical Society Library in 1954, serving as librarian from 1966-80. He also served as Executive Officer from 1977-83.
Dr. Bell was a member of many historical societies, including the American Antiquarian Society, the American Historical Association, and the American Association for the History of Medicine, of which he was president from 1970-72. He was an honorary Fellow of the College of Physicians and recently received the Distinguished Service Medal from the College in recognition of his bicentennial history of the College.
He authored several books and many articles on history, history of science, history of medicine and Benjamin Franklin. He also authored "Patriot Improvers," a collection of biographical sketches of members of the American Philosophical Society. Whitfield Bell died January 2, 2009 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania at the age of 94. | |
| 2 | Name: | Lyman Henry Butterfield | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | 4/25/82 | | | | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Katherine Esau | | | Institution: | University of California, Santa Barbara | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 208. Plant Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1898 | | | Death Date: | 6/4/97 | | | | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Herbert Friedman | | | Institution: | Naval Research Lab | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | September 9, 2000 | | | | |
| 5 | Name: | Maria Goeppert-Mayer | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1906 | | | Death Date: | 2/20/72 | | | | |
| 6 | Name: | Mr. Maurice Heckscher | | | Institution: | Duane, Morris & Heckscher | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | October 31, 2001 | | | | |
| 7 | Name: | Dr. George C. Homans | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1910 | | | Death Date: | 5/29/89 | | | | |
| 8 | Name: | Dr. Harry W. Jones | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | 4/6/93 | | | | |
| 9 | Name: | Ralph Kirkpatrick | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | 4/13/84 | | | | |
| 10 | Name: | Dr. Samuel Lenher | | | Institution: | DuPont | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1905 | | | Death Date: | 12/17/92 | | | | |
| 11 | Name: | Dr. Salvador E. Luria | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 207. Genetics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | 2/6/91 | | | | |
| 12 | Name: | Alfred Ezra Mirsky | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1901 | | | Death Date: | 6/19/74 | | | | |
| 13 | Name: | Dr. Edmund S. Morgan | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | July 8, 2013 | | | | | | |
Edmund Morgan, Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University, wrote dozens of books on Puritan and early colonial history. Acclaimed for both their scholarly focus and their appeal to a general audience, his books include Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988), which won Columbia University's Bancroft Prize in American History in 1989, and American Slavery, American Freedom (1975), which won the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize, the Southern Historical Association's Charles S. Sydnor Prize and the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Award. Two of his early books, Birth of the Republic (1956) and The Puritan Dilemma (1958) were for decades required reading in many school history courses. Dr. Morgan's other works include biographies of Ezra Stiles and Roger Williams as well as a book on George Washington. He is a truly significant interpreter of the colonial period of American history whose skills of analysis and presentation encompass political, intellectual and social history. Edmund Morgan died July 8, 2013, at the age of 97 in New Haven, Connecticut. | |
| 14 | Name: | Dr. Carl Pfaffmann | | | Institution: | Rockefeller University | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 210. Behavioral Biology, Psychology, Ethology, and Animal Behavior | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | 4/16/94 | | | | |
| 15 | Name: | Dr. William Roach | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | 7/30/93 | | | | |
| 16 | Name: | Dr. Charles W. Wagley | | | Institution: | University of Florida | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | 11/25/91 | | | | |
| 17 | Name: | Dr. Kurt Weitzmann | | | Institution: | Princeton University & Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402. Criticism: Arts and Letters | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1904 | | | Death Date: | 6/7/93 | | | | |
| 18 | Name: | Dr. Herman B Wells | | | Institution: | Indiana University | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | 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: | 1902 | | | Death Date: | March 18, 2000 | | | | |
| 19 | Name: | Dr. Chen Ning Yang | | | Institution: | State University of New York | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | | | | |
At age 35, Chinese-American physicist Chen Ning Yang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Tsung-Dao Lee, for the theory that weak force interactions between elementary particles do not have parity (mirror reflection) symmetry. He is also well known for his collaboration with Robert Mills in developing a gauge theory of a new class; such "Yang-Mills" theories are now a fundamental part of the standard model of particle physics. Born in China, Dr. Yang received his Master of Science degree from Tsinghua University and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he worked with Edward Teller and Enrico Fermi. In 1949 he moved to the Institute for Advanced Study and in 1965 to the State University of New York, Stony Brook, where he served as Albert Einstein Professor of Physics until his retirement (now Emeritus) in 1999, when he returned to Tsinghua University. Dr. Yang is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His many honors include the National Medal of Science (1986) and the King Faisal International Prize (2001). In 1993 Dr. Yang was presented with the American Philosophical Society's Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences. The citation read "for profound and original contributions to physics - especially the discovery of the non-conservation of parity and of non-Abelian gauge fields which laid the foundations for new intellectual structures - and a love of mathematical beauty which helped him reveal the mysterious working of nature." | |
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