Subdivision
| • | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry |
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| | • | 104. Mathematics |
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| | • | 106. Physics |
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| | • | 205. Microbiology |
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| | • | 209. Neurobiology |
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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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| | • | 401. Archaeology |
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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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| | • | 501. Creative Artists |
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| | • | 502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions |
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| | 1 | Name: | Elso S. Barghoorn | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1915 | | | Death Date: | 1/27/84 | | | | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Paul D. Bartlett | | | Institution: | Harvard University & Texas Christian University | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | 10/11/97 | | | | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Daniel Bell | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1919 | | | Death Date: | January 15, 2011 | | | | | | |
Daniel Bell was a sociologist and professor emeritus at Harvard University and a former scholar in residence of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He taught sociology at the University of Chicago from 1945-48 and Columbia University from 1952-69. He was also known for his contributions as an editor to The Public Interest Magazine, Fortune and The New Leader as well as for his studies of post-industrialism. Dr. Bell's influential books include The End of Ideology (1960), The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976) and The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973). The End of Ideology and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism appeared on the Times Literary Supplement's list of the 100 most important books of the second half of the twentieth century. Dr. Bell has long theorized on a new kind of society that would be information-led and service-oriented. A perceptive and imaginative student of changing contemporary society, Dr. Bell has seen many of his forecasts come true. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. William G. Bowen | | | Institution: | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1933 | | | Death Date: | October 20, 2016 | | | | | | |
William G. Bowen was president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from 1988-2006. Previously he served as President of Princeton University from 1972-88, where he was also Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. A graduate of Denison University and Princeton University, he joined the Princeton faculty in 1958, specializing in labor economics, and served as provost there from 1967-72. In 1988 Dr. Bowen joined the Mellon Foundation, where his tenure was marked by increases in the scale of the foundation's activities, with annual appropriations now exceeding $180 million. To ensure that Mellon's grant-making activities would be better informed and more effective while also following his interest in studying questions central to higher education and philanthropy, he created an in-house research program to investigate doctoral education, collegiate admissions, independent research libraries and charitable nonprofits. Dr. Bowen's special interest in the application of information technology to scholarship has led to a range of initiatives including the foundation-sponsored creation of JSTOR (a searchable electronic archive of the full runs of core journals in many fields), the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, ARTstor (a repository of high-quality digitized works of art and related materials for teaching and research) and Ithaka Harbors, Inc. (a new organization launched to help accelerate the adoption of productive and efficient uses of information technology for the benefit of the worldwide higher education community). Dr. Bowen was the author or co-author of 20 books, including most recently Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education. His other works include (with Sarah A. Levin) Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values; The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values; (with Derek Bok) the Grawemeyer Award-winning The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions; and (with Neil L. Rudenstine) In Pursuit of the Ph.D. He was honored with the 2012 National Humanities Medal by President Obama. William G. Bowen died October 20, 2016, at age 83, at home in Princeton, New Jersey. | |
| 5 | Name: | Hon. Kingman Brewster | | | Institution: | University of Oxford | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1919 | | | Death Date: | 11/8/88 | | | | |
| 6 | Name: | Lammot duPont Copeland | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1905 | | | Death Date: | 7/1/83 | | | | |
| 7 | Name: | Dr. Robert H. Dicke | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | 3/4/97 | | | | |
| 8 | Name: | Dr. William M. Fairbank | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | 9/30/89 | | | | |
| 9 | Name: | Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek | | | Institution: | CNRS Institut Alfred Fessard | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 209. Neurobiology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1923 | | | Death Date: | December 11, 2008 | | | | | | |
A physician and medical researcher, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was the co-recipient, along with Baruch Blumberg, of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his groundbreaking study of the disease Kuru. He is known for establishing the role of "slow viruses" in human disease, espeically of the nervous system. In addition to his studies of kuru in New Guinea, he has extensively studied Creutzfeld-Jakob disease in Europe and the Americas. Born in Yonkers, New York in 1923, Dr. Gajdusek obtained his M.D. from Harvard University in 1946 and performed postdoctoral research at both Harvard and the California Institute of Technology. He studied virus and rickettsial diseases at the Pasteur Institute in Tehran, Iran from 1954-55 and became head of laboratories for virological and neurological research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1958. He was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in 1974. | |
| 10 | Name: | Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham | | | Institution: | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University & U.S. Court of Appeals & Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | 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: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | 12/14/98 | | | | |
| 11 | Name: | Dr. George A. Kubler | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | 10/3/96 | | | | |
| 12 | Name: | Stephen W. Kuffler | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | 10/10/80 | | | | |
| 13 | Name: | Dr. Edward H. Levi | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | March 7, 2000 | | | | |
| 14 | Name: | Dr. Chia-Chiao Lin | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 104. Mathematics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | January 13, 2013 | | | | | | |
Chinese-born physicist Chia-Chiao Lin made major contributions to the theory of superfluid helium, hydrodynamic stability and turbulent diffusion as well as in mathematics and astrophysics. He is also credited with finding a mathematical explanation for the propagation of a spiral structure in disk nebulae. After moving to the United States to study at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Lin earned his Ph. D. in 1944. Since that time he has taught at Cal Tech (1943-45), Brown University (1945-47) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1947-87), where he became Institute Professor in 1966 and retired in 1987. | |
| 15 | Name: | Mary, Viscountess Eccles | | | Institution: | Centre for American Studies at the British Library | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 501. Creative Artists | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | August 26, 2003 | | | | |
| 16 | Name: | Dr. Jaroslav Pelikan | | | Institution: | American Academy of Political and Social Science & Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1923 | | | Death Date: | May 13, 2006 | | | | |
| 17 | Name: | Dr. Edith Porada | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | 3/24/94 | | | | |
| 18 | Name: | Dr. Ihor Sevcenko | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | December 26, 2009 | | | | | | |
Ihor Sevcenko was educated in Classics and Byzantine Studies in Warsaw, Prague, Louvain and Brussels. He specializes in Byzantine cultural history, hagiography, Byzantine text editions, Byzantino-Slavic cultural relations, Byzantine epigraphy and Greek palaeography. Among his early publications in the field is Études sur la polémique entre Théodore Métochite et Nicéphore Choumnos (1962). His collections of essays include Society and Intellectual Life in Late Byzantium (1981), Ideology, Letters and Culture in the Byzantine World (1982) and Byzantium and the Slavs in Letters and Culture (1991). His recent work includes Ukraine between East and West (1996, Ukrainian ed., 2001). Extracurricular publication: translation of George Orwell's Animal Farm into Ukrainian (1946, publ. 1947). He is a former Visiting Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1956), former Visiting Fellow at All Souls and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford (1979-80 and 1987 and 1993 respectively); Visiting Professor at the Collège de France (1985), Universities of Munich (1969), Cologne (1992, 1996) and at the Central European University of Budapest (1996, 1997); Guggenheim Fellow (1963); Guest of the Rector of Collegium Budapest (1998); Onassis Foundation Fellow (2002) recipient of Festschriften Okeanos (1984) and Chrysai Pylai (2002), of the Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (1985), of honorary doctorates from the Universities of Cologne (1994), Warsaw (2001), and Lublin (Catholic, 2005) of the M. Hrusevs'kyj Medal of the Scientific Sevcenko Society (L'viv) (1996) and Laureate of the Antonovych Literary Prize for 1999 (awarded in Kiev in 2000); member of a number of learned societies, among them the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Medieval Academy of America (Fellow), l'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, l'Accademia di Palermo, l'Accademia Pontaniana (Naples), the Christian Archaeological Society (Athens), the British Academy, the Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna), the Academy of Humanities Research (Moscow), the National Academy of Ukraine (Kiev) and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (Krakow, 2007). He has served as President of the Assocation Internationale des Études Byzantines as well as Honorary President of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. (2003). His hobby is trout fishing. | |
| 19 | Name: | Dr. Howard M. Temin | | | Institution: | University of Wisconsin | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 205. Microbiology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1934 | | | Death Date: | 2/9/94 | | | | |
| 20 | Name: | Dr. Gordon Wright | | | Institution: | Stanford Universtiy | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | January 11, 2000 | | | | |
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