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1Name:  Dr. Julius Adler
 Institution:  University of Wisconsin, Madison
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  209. Neurobiology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1930
 Death Date:  April 2, 2024
   
 
Born in Germany in 1930, Julius Adler received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1952 and his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin with Henry Lardy in 1957. Subsequently he did postdoctoral studies with Arthur Kornberg at Washington University (1957-59) and with Dale Kaiser at Stanford University (1959-60). In 1960 he became assistant professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Genetics at the University of Wisconsin. He became professor of biochemistry and genetics in 1966 and Edwin Bret Hart Professor in 1972 and is presently emeritus professor of biochemistry and genetics at Wisconsin. Dr. Adler is known for discovering the mechanism of bacterial chemotaxis, the swimming of Escherichia coli towards higher concentration of some compounds and away from others. He discovered its chemoreceptors, which are methylatable proteins. Dr. Adler and his students studied the structure of the bacterial flagellum and its basal body and found the membrane potential to be the source of energy for motility. He and his group discovered the proteins that mediate between the receptors and the flagella by isolating mutants lacking each of them. Dr. Adler has continued to study the basis for response to conflicting stimuli and is presently conducting research on sensory reception and decision making in Drosophila fruit flies. Adler is the recipient of the Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology from the National Academy of Sciences and was awarded the Otto Warburg Medal by the German Society for Biological Chemistry in 1986. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
 
2Name:  Dr. George F. Bass
 Institution:  Texas A & M University
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  401. Archaeology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1932
 Death Date:  March 2, 2021
   
 
George F. Bass graduated from The Johns Hopkins University with an M.A. in Near Eastern archaeology and attended the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. From 1957 to 1959 he served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, and then began doctoral studies in classical archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1960 he learned to dive so that he could direct the first archaeological excavation of an ancient shipwreck, a Bronze Age wreck off Turkey. While excavating Byzantine shipwrecks off Turkey, Dr. Bass developed a submersible decompression chamber, a method of mapping under water by stereo-photogrammetry, and a two-person submarine, the Asherah, which was launched in 1964. That same year, he joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty. In 1967 his team was the first to locate an ancient wreck with sonar. In 1968 and 1971, he returned to land excavations in Greece and Italy. In 1973, Dr. Bass founded the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, which in 1976 affiliated with Texas A&M University, where, until his retirement in 2000, he was the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Distinguished Professor of Nautical Archaeology. He also held the George O. Yamini Family Chair. He is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Texas A & M. The Institute conducts research on four continents, but Dr. Bass concentrates on Mediterranean sites from the Bronze Age though Byzantine times. Dr. Bass has received a National Medal of Science, the Archaeological Institute of America's Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement, the Bandelier Award from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology which accompanied a lectureship established in his name at the Archaeological Institute of America, a Lowell Thomas Award from the Explorers Club, the J.C. Harrington Medal from the Society for Historical Archaeology, the National Geographic Society's La Gorce Medal, and one of its fifteen Centennial Awards. Dr. Bass holds honorary doctorates from Boghaziçi University in Istanbul and the University of Liverpool. He is also an honorary citizen of Bodrum, Turkey. Dr. Bass was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1989. He died on March 2, 2021.
 
3Name:  Dr. Bernhard Bischoff
 Institution:  University of Munich & Monumenta Germaniae Historica
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences
 Residency:  International
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1906
 Death Date:  9/17/91
   
4Name:  Dr. Günter Blobel
 Institution:  Howard Hughes Medical Institute & Rockefeller University
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  202. Cellular and Developmental Biology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1936
 Death Date:  February 18, 2018
   
 
German-born cell biologist Günter Blobel was known for communicating difficult concepts in a clear and interesting way. He contributed pioneering work that shed light on diseases such as cystic fibrosis, Alzheimer's and AIDS and provided the basis for bioengineered drugs such as insulin. In 1999 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery that proteins have signals that govern their movement and position in the cell. Each protein, he found, has its own "zip code" that determines whether the protein is transported across or integrated into a specific cellular membrane. Dr. Blobel received his medical degree from the University of Tübingen in Germany in 1960, earned a doctorate in oncology from the University of Wisconsin in 1967 and became a postdoctoral fellow at the Rockefeller University protein laboratory, where he had been a professor since 1976. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Society for Cell Biology, he had also been an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1986. Dr. Blobel died on February 18, 2018, at the age of 81 in New York City.
 
5Name:  Dr. Floyd E. Bloom
 Institution:  The Scripps Research Institute
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  208. Plant Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1936
   
 
As chairman of the Scripps Research Department of Neuropharmacology between 1989-2000 and 2002-05, Floyd Bloom has for some years been at the forefront of neuroscience research. A professor at Scripps from 1983 until his appointment as chairman, he was among the first to determine the distribution of neuronal circuits in the brain by chemically labeling the transmitter characteristics of neurons in each circuit. Such evidence established the fact that signaling in the brain may be chemical as well as electrical. By applying newly developed methods, he has investigated brain-specific proteins and conducted pioneering studies on nervous system disorders of genetic origin. Presently professor emeritus at Scripps Research Institute, Dr. Bloom has also devoted substantial effort to the work of Neurome, Inc., the La Jolla-based biotechnology company dedicated to discovery and development of solutions for human neurodegenerative diseases, which he co-founded in 2000. Dr. Bloom has also served as editor-in-chief of Science and as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1977 and is the recipient of numerous prizes, including the Janssen Award in the Basic Sciences and the Pasarow Award in Neuropsychiatry. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Institute of Medicine. He has over 600 publications to his credit, including The Biochemical Basis of Neuropharmacology.
 
6Name:  Sir Walter Bodmer
 Institution:  Hertford College, Oxford; Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  204. Medicine, Surgery, Pathology and Immunology
 Residency:  International
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1936
   
 
Sir Walter Bodmer was principal of Hertford College at Oxford University from 1996-2005. Formerly director general and director of research of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, he has served as president of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO); president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; chairman of the BBC Science consultative group; and chairman of the trustees of the Natural History Museum. The co-author of a classic book on human population genetics, he has contributed heavily to both the science and the theory of human genetics. Sir Walter has been a pioneer in elucidating the laws of tissue matches in humans, as well as in the mapping of genes on chromosomes by fusion of human and rodent cells in culture. He led the group that demonstrated that the gene for hereditary colonic polypsis is on chromosome 5. An eminently effective explicator of genetics and a public advocate for science, he has held academic appointments and honorary fellowships at Keble College, Oxford; Clare College, Cambridge; the Royal Colleges of Physicians and of Surgeons; and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1974, was knighted in 1986 and is a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was chancellor of the University of Salford from 1995 to 2005.
 
7Name:  Dr. Glen W. Bowersock
 Institution:  Institute for Advanced Study
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  404a
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1936
   
 
Glen W. Bowersock has been Professor of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since 1980 and Professor Emeritus since 2006. He graduated "summa cum laude" from Harvard University in 1957. Dr. Bowersock received his M.A. and D.Phil. degrees in Ancient History from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College. During his distinguished career at Harvard University from 1962-80, he served as Professor of Classics and History, Chairman of the Classics Department, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Professor Bowersock has written or edited over a dozen books and published over 300 articles on Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern history and culture as well as the classical tradition in modern literature. He was awarded the James Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association for his book Hellenism in Late Antiquity. Other books include Augustus and the Greek World, Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire, Julian and Apostate, Roman Arabia, Fiction as History, Martyrdom and Rome, Mosaics as History, From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition, Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity and Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam. With Oleg Grabar and Peter Brown, Dr. Bowersock is co-editor of Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, published in 1999 by Harvard University Press. His Selected Papers on Late Antiquity were published in Italy in 2000. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Institut de France (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres), the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and the German Archaeological Institute. He is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1989.
 
8Name:  Dr. Shiing-shen Chern
 Institution:  University of California, Berkeley
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  104. Mathematics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1911
 Death Date:  December 3, 2004
   
9Name:  Dr. Robert Choate Darnton
 Institution:  Harvard University
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  303. History Since 1715
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1939
   
 
Robert Darnton studies 18th-century France with special interest in the literary world, censorship and the history of books. In 2007 he was named director of the Harvard University Library and Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University, succeeding longtime library director and fellow APS member Sidney Verba. Dr. Darnton graduated from Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship and earned a Ph.D. (D. Phil.) in history from Oxford in 1964. After working briefly as a reporter for The New York Times, he was elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard University (1965-68). He joined the Princeton History Department in 1968, serving on the faculty for nearly 40 years. He was the Shelby Cullom Davis '30 Professor of European History until his appointment at Harvard in 2007. Throughout his career Professor Darnton has concerned himself with the literary world of Enlightenment France, often focusing not on the philosophes but on writers outside the first rank and the material they produced. Using the archives of an 18th-century Swiss publishing house, he has brought to light a vast illegal literature of philosophy, atheism and pornography that was smuggled into France in the decades before the Revolution. In the course of this work Dr. Darnton has developed an influential anthropological approach to history, has advanced novel interpretations of the French Revolution, and has helped to create the field known as "the history of the book." He also has a longstanding interest in electronic books, Web publishing, and other new media. His books include Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (1968), The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie (1979), The Literary Underground of the Old Regime (1982), The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (1984), The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History (1989), Revolution in Print: the Press in France ,1775-1800 (1989, Daniel Roche, coeditor), The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Prerevolutionary France (1995), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a recent memoir, Almost a Family (2011). Dr. Darnton has been the recipient of the Leo Gershoy Prize of the American Historical Association (for The Business of Enlightenment), a MacArthur Fellowship (1982-87), The Los Angeles Times Book Prize (for The Great Cat Massacre), Princeton University's Behrman Humanities Award (1987), the Gutenberg Prize (2004), the American Printing History Association Prize (2005), and the National Humanities Medal (2011). In 1999 he was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur, the highest award given by the French government, in recognition of his work. Dr. Darnton is currently working on two books: a study of the libelles, a genre of scandalous books involving defamation of government officials and prominent people that flourished in France in the second half of the 18th century; and a large-scale history of publishing and the book trade in late-18th-century France. Eventually he plans to write a new history of the origins of the French Revolution.
 
10Name:  Dr. Martin Feldstein
 Institution:  Harvard University & National Bureau of Economic Research
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  302. Economics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1939
 Death Date:  June 11, 2019
   
 
Martin Feldstein was George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and President and president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 1982 through 1984, he was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and President Ronald Reagan's chief economic adviser. He was known for his contributions toward the analysis of taxation and social insurance. A Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Fellow of the National Association of Business Economists, Dr. Feldstein served as President of the American Economic Association in 2004 and was also a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Group of 30 and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In 1977, he received the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association, a prize awarded every two years to the economist under the age of 40 who is judged to have made the greatest contribution to economic science. He was the author of more than 300 research articles in economics, director of three corporations (American International Group; HCA; and Eli Lilly), and a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal. Born in 1939, he attended Harvard College and Oxford University. Martin Feldstein died June 11, 2019 in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 79.
 
11Name:  Dr. Richard F. Fenno
 Institution:  University of Rochester
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1926
 Death Date:  April 21, 2020
   
 
Richard F. Fenno, Jr. is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester, where he has taught since 1957. The author of a number of major works dealing with aspects of American politics, he is the winner of numerous prizes, including the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award (for Home Style, named the best political science book of 1978) and the V.O. Key Award (for Congress at the Grassroots, named the best book on Southern politics, 2001). Dr. Fenno has also taught at Wheaton and Amherst Colleges and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and has served as president of the American Political Science Association. The Political Science Association's Legislative Studies section now annually awards the Richard Fenno Prize for the most highly regarded book on the subject. Richard F. Fenno, Jr. died April 21, 2020 in Rye, New York at the age of 93.
 
12Name:  Prof. François Furet
 Institution:  Centre de Recherches Politiques Raymond Aron
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  303. History Since 1715
 Residency:  International
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1927
 Death Date:  7/12/97
   
13Name:  Dr. Joseph Grafton Gall
 Institution:  Carnegie Institution of Washington
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  202. Cellular and Developmental Biology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1928
 Death Date:  9/12/2024
   
 
Joseph Gall is an outstanding cytogeneticist known for his research on the organization and structure of genes along animal chromosomes and for developing methods for detecting individual genes on chromosomes. He is a co-discoverer of gene amplification, which was later found to be an important concomitant of some cancers. Dr. Gall received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1952 and has taught at the University of Minnesota and at Yale University, where he was Ross Granville Harrison Professor of Biology and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Chemistry from 1964-83. He has been a staff member in the department of embryology at the Carnegie Institute of Washington since 1983 and American Cancer Society Professor of Developmental Genetics since 1984. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and was awarded the American Society for Cell Biology's E.B. Wilson Medal in 1983. A scholar of the history and use of microscopes and a collector of scientific books, especially those relating to cytology, Dr. Gall is a true naturalist with an encyclopedic knowledge and curiosity about living things.
 
14Name:  Dr. David Pierpont Gardner
 Institution:  University of Utah & University of California, Berkeley
 Year Elected:  1989
 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:  1933
 Death Date:  January 2, 2024
   
 
For more than 40 years, David Pierpont Gardner has set a standard of excellence for higher education leadership. Nationally recognized as a visionary for his work throughout America's higher education structure, he was most recently Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Utah, President Emeritus of the University of California and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1983-92, Dr. Gardner served as the 15th president of the now 10-campus University of California system, one of the world's most distinguished centers of higher learning, and during his presidency, he successfully led the university through periods of intense controversy over affirmative action, animal rights, AIDS research, weapons labs and divestment in South Africa. In 1992, he was named president emeritus of the University of California. While serving as president of the University of Utah from 1973-83, Dr. Gardner chaired the U.S. Department of Education's Commission on Excellence in Education, which helped spark a national effort to improve and reform United States schools through its influential report "A Nation at Risk". Prior to his tenure at the University of Utah, Dr. Gardner spent seven years as a faculty member and vice chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara, during a tumultuous era of culture wars, ethnic division and anti-Vietnam-war protests. He is the author of many articles and books on educational policy reform. The latter include The California Oath Controversy; Higher Education and Government: An Uneasy Alliance; and Earning My Degree: Memoirs of an American University President. Dr. Gardner has earned numerous awards for his work, including the California School Board's Research Foundation Hall of Fame Award, the James Bryan Conant Award, and the Fulbright 40th Anniversary Distinguished Fellow Award. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a member of the National Academy of Education, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Gardner received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966.
 
15Name:  Dr. Vitalii I. Gol'danskii
 Institution:  Academy of Sciences of the USSR & NN Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
 Residency:  International
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1923
 Death Date:  January 14, 2001
   
16Name:  Dr. Dudley Robert Herschbach
 Institution:  Harvard University
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1932
   
 
Dudley Herschbach was born in San Jose, California (1932) and received his B.S. degree in Mathematics (1954) and M.S. in Chemistry (1955) at Stanford University, followed by an A.M. degree in Physics (1956) and Ph.D. in Chemical Physics (1958) at Harvard University. After a term as Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard (1957-1959), he was a member of the chemistry faculty at the University of California, Berkeley (1959-1963) before returning to Harvard as Professor of Chemistry (1963), where he was Baird Professor of Science (1976-2003) and is now an Emeritus Professor. Since 2005 he has been a Professor of Physics (fall only) at Texas A&M University. He has served as Chairman of the Chemical Physics program (1964-1977) and the Chemistry Department (1977-1980), as a member of the Faculty Council (1980-1983), and Co-Master with his wife Georgene of Currier House (1981-1986). His teaching roster includes graduate courses in quantum mechanics, chemical kinetics, molecular spectroscopy, and collision theory, as well as undergraduate courses in physical chemistry and general chemistry for freshmen, his most challenging assignment. Currently he gives a freshman seminar course on Molecular Motors and an informal graduate "minicourse" on topics in chemical physics. He is engaged in several efforts to improve K-16 science education and public understanding of science. He serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Science Service, which publishes Science News and conducts the Intel ScienceTalent Search and the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Association for Women in Science, and the Royal Chemical Society of Great Britain. His awards include the Pure Chemistry Prize of the American Chemical Society (1965), the Linus Pauling Medal (1978), the Michael Polanyi Medal (1981), the Irving Langmuir Prize of the American Physical Society (1983), the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986), jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi, the National Medal of Science (1991), the Jaroslav Heyrovsky Medal (1992), the Sierra Nevada Distinguished Chemist Award (1993), the Kosolapoff Award of the ACS (1994), and the William Walker Prize (1994). He was named by Chemical & Engineering News among the 75 leading contributors to the chemical enterprise in the past 75 years (1998). Dr. Herschbach's current research is devoted to methods of orienting molecules for studies of collision stereodynamics, means of slowing and trapping molecules in order to examine chemistry at long deBroglie wavelengths, a dimensional scaling approach to strongly correlated many-particle interactions, and theoretical analysis of molecular motors, particularly enzyme-DNA systems.
 
17Name:  Ms. Ada Louise Huxtable
 Institution:  Wall Street Journal & New York Times
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  504. Scholars in the Professions
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1921
 Death Date:  January 7, 2013
   
 
Pulitzer Prize winner Ada L. Huxtable was for many years the architecture critic for The New York Times. She received her A.B. from Hunter College and did her postgraduate studies at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. Following a stint as assistant curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art (1946-50), Ms. Huxtable became a freelance writer and contributing editor for the publications Progressive Architecture and Art in America (1950-63). She joined The New York Times as architecture critic in 1963 and served on the newspaper's editorial board from 1973 until her retirement in 1982. Ms. Huxtable has also written extensively on architecture for The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of numerous works on architecture, including Classic New York (1964), Kicked a Building Lately? (1973), The Tall Building Artistically Considered: The Search for Skyscraper Style (1985); a biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. (2004) and On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change (2008). She was awarded the Louis Auchincloss Prize at the Museum of the City of New York in December 2008. Ada Louise Huxtable died on January 7, 2013, at the age of 91 in Manhattan.
 
18Name:  Dr. Leon M. Lederman
 Institution:  Fermi National Accelerator Lab & Illinois Institute of Technology
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  106. Physics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1922
 Death Date:  October 3, 2018
   
 
Leon Lederman was an internationally renowned specialist in high energy physics and winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was involved in the discovery that there is more than one type of neutrino and led the team that found the 'bottom quark'. He retired in 1989 after ten years as the Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. That year he became the Frank L. Sulzberger Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago, while continuing to promote science education. After receiving his B.A. from New York City College, Columbia University awarded him an M.A. in 1948 and a Ph.D. in 1951. Dr. Lederman was associated with Columbia as both student and faculty member for more than thirty years. From 1962 to 1989 he was Director of Nevis Laboratories in Irvington, which is the Columbia Physics Department's center for experimental research in high energy physics. In addition to his own research career and administrative activities, Dr. Lederman has long recognized the importance of science education in the intellectual and economic health of society. In 1998, he became Resident Scholar at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, a three-year residential public school for gifted Illinois high school students, which he helped found in 1986. Dr. Lederman published well over 300 papers and is the author of two popular science books: From Quarks to the Cosmos (with David Schramm) and The God Particle with Dick Teresi. He edited Portraits of Great American Scientists, written with fifteen high school students. The recipient of numerous honors and prizes, he shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jack Steinberger and Mel Schwartz for their work on neutrinos. He was also the recipient of the Enrico Fermi Prize, the 1973 National Medal of Science, and the 1982 Wolf Prize. He was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 1989. Leon Lederman died October 3, 2018 in Rexburg, Idaho at the age of 96.
 
19Name:  Dr. Henry A. Millon
 Institution:  National Gallery of Art
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1927
 Death Date:  April 3, 2018
   
 
Henry A. Millon was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania in 1927. His father was an aerial photographer; his mother, a daughter of the publisher of a French language newspaper in New York. In March 1944 he entered a U.S. Navy ROTC program at Tulane University where, after active duty in 1946, he returned to obtain sequential undergraduate degrees in English, physics, and architecture. Thereafter he attended Harvard University where he received a Master's in Architecture and Urban Design, and a master's and Ph.D. in History of Art. After three years in Italy as a Fulbright Fellow and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome preparing a dissertation, he returned to Cambridge in 1960 to teach at MIT, where he continued as a visiting professor. From 1974-77 he was director of the American Academy in Rome. In 1980 he became the first dean of the Center of Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery of Art, a post held until is retirement at the close of 2000. Professor Millon's work concentrated on the history of architecture. His publications include Baroque and Rococo Architecture (1961), Key Monuments of the History of Architecture (1964), Filippo Juvarra. Drawings from the Roman Period, Part I, (1984, Part II, with A. Griseri, et al (1999), three exhibition catalogues, Michelangelo Architect, with C.H. Smyth (1988), The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo, with V. Lampugnani (1984), The Triumph of the Baroque (1999), and numerous articles. Dr. Millon had held grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Getty Research Institute, and a Senior Fulbright. He had received awards from the American Institute of Architects: Academie des sciences morale et politique, Institut de France as well as the College Art Association. Dr. Millon served as President of the Society of Architectural Historians; Convener of the Architectural Drawings Advisory Group; President of the Foundation for Documents of Architecture; Committee for the History of Art; Vice-Chair of the Council on American Overseas Research Centers; Chair of the Dumbarton Oaks Senior Fellows Committee, Program in History of Landscape Architecture; President of the International Union of Academies of Archaeology, History and History of Art in Rome; President of the University Film Study Center; Vice-Chair of the Boston Landmarks Commission; and Co-Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Cambridge Architectural Historical Survey. Elected a member in 1989, he served as Curator of Fine Arts for the American Philosophical Society 1998 to 2015. Henry A. "Hank" Millon died April 3, 2018 at the age of 91 at home in Washington, DC.
 
20Name:  Mr. Riccardo Muti
 Institution:  Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
 Year Elected:  1989
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  501. Creative Artists
 Residency:  International
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1941
   
 
Born in Naples, Italy in 1941, conductor Riccardo Muti is the music director of both the Chicago Symphony and the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. He assumed both posts at the beginning of the 2010-11 season. Maestro Muti previously served as music director of both the Philadelphia Orchestra (1980-92) and Milan's La Scala Opera House (1986-2005) during his distinguished career. As a young conductor, he won the Cantelli Prize in 1967 and went on to become principal director and music director of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (1968-80). Additionally, in 2011, he won the $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize for his "extraordinary contributions" to the music world. He began regularly conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra in London in 1972 and has also been a frequent guest of the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics and at the Salzburg Festival, where he is held in high esteem for his performances of Mozart operas. He is also considered to be one of the greatest conductors of the operas of Guiseppe Verdi. Educated at the University of Naples and Verdi Milan Conservatory, Mr. Muti is the recipient of numerous international prizes for recordings and an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music. In 2011, he won the presigious OPERA NEWS Award presented by the Metropolitan Opera Guild as well as the Prince Asturias Prize for Arts and in 2012 he was awarded the McKim Medal by the American Academy in Rome. He was honored by the government of Japan with Order of the Rising Sun Gold and Silver Star in 2016.
 
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