| | 1 | Name: | Professor Paul Bernard | | | Institution: | L'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | December 1, 2015 | | | | | | |
Paul Bernard was a member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Fine Letters (Institute of France, Paris) since 1992. After studies in Paris (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Sorbonne), he received archaeological training at the French School in Athens (1958-1961) and then became a member of the French Institute of Archaeology in Beirut (1961-1965). He quickly specialized in the archaeology and history of Hellenism east of the Mediterranean shores.
In 1965, Professor Bernard became director of the French archaeological mission in Afghanistan and, until 1978, he headed the excavations, by a French team, of a Greek colonial city in Northern Afghanistan at the site, now completely plundered, of Aï Khanum.
Upon his return to France, he taught graduate and postgraduate courses at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne) on the history of Hellenism in the Orient. He was an associate member of the Italian Academia dei Lincei and of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 2001. Paul Bernard died December 1, 2015, at the age of 86, in Paris, France. | |
| 2 | Name: | Lord Alec Broers | | | Institution: | University of Cambridge; Royal Academy of Engineering | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1938 | | | | | | |
Sir Alec Broers' career has greatly illuminated the industrial application of physics. Specifically, his primary research interests concern the application of ultra violet light, electrons and x-rays to microscopy. Dr. Broers spent almost 20 years working for IBM in the United States; upon leaving the company in 1984, he became professor of electrical engineering at the University of Cambridge. He has served on numerous British government, EEC, and NATO committees including the U.K. Engineering and Physics Science and Research Council (EPSRC), the Cabinet Office Foresight Panel on Information Technology, and the NATO Special Panel on Nanoscience. A member of the Royal Society, he is also a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. For six years he was Master of Churchill College and was elected Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1996. He is currently Vice Chancellor Emeritus and Professor of Electrical Engineering Emeritus at Cambridge as well as president of the Royal Academy of Engineering. | |
| 3 | Name: | Mr. Wataru Hiraizumi | | | Institution: | Kajima Institute of International Peace | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | July 7, 2015 | | | | | | |
Wataru Hiraizumi is an accomplished person and scholar whose linguistic capabilities are astonishing. He is fluent in English, French and several other languages and maintains an extensive multilingual library. He is extremely knowledgeable concerning international affairs, economic trends, social and governmental happenings and politics. His article on human longevity and its profound effects on nations and social obligations is a major contribution from Japan to understanding a challenging trend. Wataru Hiraizumi received his Bachelor of the Faculty of Law degree from Tokyo University in 1952. A longtime member of the Japanese Parliament (National Diet), he is currently President of the Kajima Intitute of International Peace. | |
| 4 | Name: | Lord Robert McCredie May | | | Institution: | Univerity of Oxford and The Royal Society | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 205. Microbiology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1936 | | | Death Date: | April 28, 2020 | | | | | | |
Sir Robert May is President of the Royal Society and holds a Professorship jointly in the Department of Zoology, Oxford University and at Imperial College, London. For the five-year period ending in September of 2000, he was Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government and Head of its Office of Science and Technology. After earning a D.Phil. degree in Theoretical Physics from Sydney University, Sir Robert spent two years as the MacKay Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at Harvard. He then returned to Sydney University as Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Physics, where he would hold that institution's first Personal Chair. In 1973, Sir Robert joined the faculty of Princeton University as its Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology and, from 1977-88, he also served as Chair of the University Research Board. Returning to Britain as a Royal Society Research Professor, Sir Robert's current work deals with the factors influencing the diversity and abundance of plant and animal species, and with the rates, causes and consequences of extinction. His recent publications in this area include Large Scale Ecology and Conservation Biology (1994), Extinction Rates (1995) and Evolution of Biological Diversity (1999). Sir Robert's contributions to the field of ecological research have been recognized with the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the 1998 Balzan Prize, among numerous other honors. | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Eytan Sheshinski | | | Institution: | The Hebrew University | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1937 | | | | | | |
Eytan Sheshinski is the Sir Isaac Wolfson Professor of Public Finance at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Born in Israel and educated at the Hebrew University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has made major contributions to the theory of economic growth and technical progress, optimal price adjustment policies under inflation and, more notably, to the theory of Public Economics, i.e. optimal income taxation, public goods, social insurance and the market for annuities. Dr. Sheshinski's recent work focuses on the implications of individuals' bounded rationality on public policy and welfare. Putting theory into practice, he chaired, from 1990-1995, the Board of Directors of Koor Industries, a multinational corporation based in Israel. He also has served as consultant to Transition Economies and Latin-American countries on privatization and design of pension programs. Dr. Sheshinski is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an honorary foreign member of the AAAS in Boston, and a doctor Honoris-Causa from the Stockholm School of Economics. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2001. | |
| 6 | Name: | Lord David Sainsbury of Turville | | | Institution: | United Kingdom | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1940 | | | | | | |
Lord Sainsbury is a man of broad culture, keen intellect and pleasant, modest personality. He successfully managed a major industrial company in England and advanced the Sainsbury family tradition of being an outstandingly responsible and generous concerned citizen of the United Kingdom. Turning to public service, he has served on several U.K. government missions and was appointed in 1998 as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science with responsibility for the Office of Science and Technology, Research Councils and space matters. He retired as a Minister in November 2006 and now concentrates on his charitable activities, the foremost of which is the Gatsby Foundation. He was elected to Chancellor of Cambridge University in 2011. | |
| 7 | Name: | Sir Anthony Wrigley | | | Institution: | The British Academy; University of Cambridge; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | February 24. 2022 | | | | | | |
E.A. Wrigley (Sir Tony) was president of the British Academy from 1997-2001. Educated at Cambridge University, he was awarded a Ph.D. degree in 1957. Initially working in the field of geography, he is now best characterized as a historical demographer, a discipline that combines geography with economic history. In 1965, he co-founded the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, serving as its co-director from 1974-94. During this time, he also held single year appointments at both the Institute for Advanced Study and Johns Hopkins University. Sir Tony has held chairs in Population Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Studies and in Economic History at Cambridge. During this period, he published, along with R.S. Schofield, the exhaustive study, The Population History of England, 1541-1871 (1981). He also served as co-editor of an eight volume collection entitled The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus. From 1988-94, he served as a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and as president of Manchester College. He left both posts in 1994 to become Master of Corpus Christi College, a position he held until 2000. Sir Tony has been awarded the title of Knight Bachelor (1996) for his services to historical demography as well as the 1997 Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. | |
| 8 | Name: | Dr. Rolf M. Zinkernagel | | | Institution: | Institute of Experimental Immunology, University of Zurich | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 209. Neurobiology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | | |
Rolf Zinkernagel received an M.D. in 1968 from the University of Basel and a Ph.D. in 1975 from the Australian National University. He was a professor in the Department of Pathology at the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation (1976-79) and a professor at the University Hospital in Zurich (1979-88). He has been a full professor and director of the Institute of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich since 1992. Rolf Zinkernagel elucidated the biologic significance of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) restricted adaptive immune response. This kind of response provides protection from a panoply of viruses, bacteria, fungi and protozoa that have no or low cytotoxicity and, coincidentally, is the fundamental barrier to in-species tissue and organ transplantation (e.g. human to human organ and bone marrow transplantation). Dr. Zinkernagel was awarded the Lasker Award in 1995. In 1996 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine "for discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defense." He was elected as an international fellow of the Royal Society and an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 2001. | |
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