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21	Name:	Dr. Richard E. Quandt
	Institution:	Princeton University
	Year Elected:	1991
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	302. Economics
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1930

	In his four decades at Princeton University, Richard E. Quandt has ranged over the length and breadth of economics, making fundamental contributions to theory and to measurement method, as well as using first-rate method in a stunning variety of applied studies. As an econometrician, he witnessed and participated in a modelling revolution as well as the computer revolution, and many elements of the econometrician's standard analytical toolkit have their origins in his work. A pioneer in discrete dependent variables, in switching regime models, in tests of the standard regression assumptions, in relaxing assumptions about the distribution of error terms, and in many other now-common areas, he has made numerous contributions of lasting value to econometric analysis. As an economic theorist, Dr. Quandt made important early contributions to the theory of demand and to models of oligopoly supply. His model of demand by consumers with uncertain tastes made an important contribution to demand theory. It also introduced a technology for modelling consumer heterogeneity and its effects that greatly advanced the theory of individual choice. He worked on the impact of uncertainty, on rules of thumb, on capital rationing, on stability and on equilibrium existence. Perhaps more important for the development of economics was Dr. Quandt's view that economic theory should be integrated, along with econometric theory, in applied work. Born in Hungary and a graduate of Harvard University (Ph.D., 1957), Dr. Quandt has edited numerous professional journals and is the author of works such as Microeconomic Theory (3rd edition, 1980) and The Econometrics of Disequilibrium (1988). He is currently Hughes Rogers Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University.

22	Name:	Dr. Frank H. T. Rhodes
	Institution:	American Philosophical Society & Cornell University
	Year Elected:	1991
	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:	1926
	Death Date:	February 3, 2020

	Frank H. T. Rhodes was president of the American Philosophical Society and Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences and President Emeritus of Cornell University, where he served for eighteen years. Before assuming the presidency at Cornell in 1977, Dr. Rhodes was Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan. He was previously professor and head of the geology department and dean of the faculty of science at the University of Wales and a faculty member at the University of Illinois and the University of Durham. Dr. Rhodes was a graduate of the University of Birmingham, England, from which he held four degrees. A Fulbright scholar and Fulbright distinguished fellow, a National Science Foundation senior visiting fellow, and a visiting fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Oxford, he was also a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and an honorary fellow of both Robinson College, Cambridge and the University of Wales, Swansea. Dr. Rhodes was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was the recipient of the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society, the Justin Morrill Award of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, the Higher Education Leadership Award of the Commission of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Clark Kerr Medal of the University of California, Berkeley Faculty Senate, and the Ian Campbell Medal of the American Geological Institute. He was the 1999 Jefferson Lecturer at Berkeley. Dr. Rhodes was appointed by President Reagan as a member of the National Science Board, which he chaired for a time, and was appointed by President Bush as a member of the President's Educational Policy Advisory Committee. He served as chair of the governing boards of the American Council on Education, the American Association of Universities, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and Atlantic Philanthropies. In 2008 he was named to the board of trustees of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Dr. Rhodes has published widely in the fields of geology, paleontology, evolution, the history of science, and education. His books included Language of the Earth, The Evolution of Life, The Creation of the Future, and Earth: A Tenant's Manual. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1991. Frank H. T. Rhodes died on February 3, 2020, at the age of 93.

23	Name:	Dr. Phillip A. Sharp
	Institution:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Year Elected:	1991
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	202. Cellular and Developmental Biology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1944

	Phillip A. Sharp received his D.Phil. from the University of Illinois in 1969 and, after postgraduate training first at the California Institute of Technology and later Cold Spring Harbor, he joined the Center for Cancer Research (now the Koch Institute) and Department of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974. He served as the Center's director (1985-91) and head of the Biology Department (1991-99) and was founding director of the McGovern Institute from 2000-04. Dr. Sharp is currently Institute Professor, the highest academic rank. Throughout his career as a scientist and educator, Dr. Sharp has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, the National Medal of Science, the Inaugural Double Helix Medal from Cold Spring Harbor, and the Hope Funds for Cancer Research Award for Excellence in Basic Science (2013). In 1993, he received the Nobel Prize for the discovery that genes contain nonsense segments that are edited out by cells in the course of utilizing genetic information. His work shattered existing scientific dogma and gave scientists a better understanding of how some hereditary diseases and cancers develop, thereby opening further the possibilities of gene therapy. Dr. Sharp is currently member of the Board of Trustees of MGH and of the Scientific Board of the Ludwig Institute. He is co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors of Biogen Idec, Inc., and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Sharp has been a member of the American Philosophical Society since 1991. In 1999 he was awarded the Society's Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences. The citation read "in recognition of his work on the biology of tumor viruses which led to his discovery that genes contain nonsense segments that are edited out by cells in the course of utilizing genetic information. This landmark achievement, known as RNA splicing, altered the course of molecular biology." He is also the 2010 recipient of the American Association for Cancer Research's Margaret Foti Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research. In 2015 he received the Othmer Gold Medal.

24	Name:	Dr. Patrick Suppes
	Institution:	Stanford University
	Year Elected:	1991
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1922
	Death Date:	November 17, 2014

	Philosopher Patrick Suppes was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1922. Initially he studied meteorology, graduating from the University of Chicago, and was later stationed at the Solomon Islands during WWII. After the war, he earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University, where he was a student of Ernest Nagel. In 1952 he went to Stanford University, where, from 1959-92, he directed the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences (IMSSS). He remained active at Stanford through 2014 and was the Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy Emeritus. Dr. Suppes was best known for his contributions to philosophy of science, theory of measurement, foundations of quantum mechanics, decision theory, psychology, and educational technology. In the 1960s, he and Richard C. Atkinson conducted experiments in using computers to teach math and reading to schoolchildren in the Palo Alto area. Stanford's Education Program for Gifted Youth and Computer Curriculum Corporation (CCC, now named Pearson Education Technologies) is an indirect descendant of those early experiments. In 1978 Dr. Suppes was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences for his work on mathematical psychology. In 1990, he was awarded the prestigious National Medal of Science by President George H. W. Bush. He was also the laureate of the 2003 Lakatos Award for his contributions to the philosophy of science, and in 2004 he received the Lauener Preze in philosophy. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1991. Patrick Suppes died November 17, 2014, at the age of 92 in Stanford, California.

25	Name:	Dr. Peter K. Vogt
	Institution:	The Scripps Research Institute
	Year Elected:	1991
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	209. Neurobiology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1932

	Peter Vogt's work on the biology and genetics of retroviruses has opened major new horizons in understanding cancer. He and his colleagues were the first to identify a specific cancer-causing gene (oncogene) of a retrovirus and to establish (with Stehelin, Varmus and Bishop) the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. These discoveries form the conceptual basis of contemporary research on the genesis of cancer. More recently, Dr. Vogt has also discovered new oncogenes that play key roles in regulating the growth of cells. A professor at the Scripps Research Institute since 1993, Dr. Vogt has also served as assistant and associate professor of pathology at the University of Colorado (1962-67); as professor of microbiology at the University of Washington (1967-71); and as Hastings (Distinguished) Professor of Microbiology at the University of Southern California (1971-93). A member of the National Academy of Sciences (1980), the Institute of Medicine (2003) and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2004), he is also the recipient of awards such as the Max Planck Society's Irene-Vogeler Prize (1976) and the ICN International Prize in Virology (1989). An accomplished painter, Dr. Vogt's artistic work can be viewed at www. pkvogt.com.

26	Name:	Dr. Bernard Charles Watson
	Institution:	Temple University & The Barnes Foundation
	Year Elected:	1991
	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:	1928

	As the former president and CEO of the William Penn Foundation, Bernard Watson was a forceful, able executive who set the foundation on its present path. The first African-American to hold the position, he is credited with helping to bring about solutions to many Philadelphia-area problems while working well with the board and strengthening the organization's staff. A former public school teacher and deputy superintendent of the Philadelphia School District, Dr. Watson has a strong background in education, having also served as a Presidential Scholar, professor of urban studies and academic vice president at Temple University. An endowed chair at Temple was established in his name in 2008. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1967). Dr. Watson has also been Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Barnes Foundation as well as vice chairman of the Pennyslvania Convention Center. He has received awards ranging from the Educator's Roundtable Marcus Foster Award to the National Urban Coalition's Education and Community Service Achievement Award, and in 1974 he published the book In Spite of the System: The Individual and Educational Reform.

27	Name:	Dr. Robert M. White
	Institution:	National Academy of Engineering & University Corporation for Atmospheric Research & H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and Environment & Washington Advisory Group
	Year Elected:	1991
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	105. Physical Earth Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1923
	Death Date:	October 14, 2015

	Robert M. White advises on environment, energy, climate change, and development and management of organizations and research programs for the Washington Advisory Group, of which he was one of the founders and its first president. He was president of the National Academy of Engineering from 1983-95. Previously, he was president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau, U.S. Commissioner to the International Whaling Commission, U.S. Permanent Representative to the World Meteorological Organization, and the first Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Prior to government service, he founded one of the first corporations devoted to environmental science and services.

28	Name:	Dr. Richard N. Zare
	Institution:	Stanford University
	Year Elected:	1991
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1939

	The Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science at Stanford University, Richard N. Zare is renowned for his research in the area of laser chemistry, resulting in a greater understanding of chemical reactions at the molecular level. By experimental and theoretical studies he has made seminal contributions to our knowledge of molecular collision processes and contributed very significantly to solving a variety of problems in chemical analysis. His development of laser induced fluorescence as a method for studying reaction dynamics has been widely adopted in other laboratories. Dr. Zare has received numerous honors and awards for his research and his teaching, including the National Medal of Science (1983), the American Chemical Society's Harrison Howe Award (1985) and Willard Gibbs Medal (1990) and the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2005). He has given named lectures at numerous universities, authored and co-authored over 700 publications and more than 50 patents and published four books, including a popular textbook on the topic of angular momentum in quantum systems. A graduate of Harvard University (Ph.D., 1964), where he studied with Dudley Herschbach, Dr. Zare has previously served on the faculties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Colorado and Columbia University. A former chairman of the National Science Board, he was elected to the membership of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1976.

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