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 Name:  Ms. Kathleen M. Sullivan
 Institution:  Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
 Year Elected:  2002
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1955
   
 
Educated at Cornell and Oxford Universities, Kathleen Sullivan received her J.D. degree in 1981 from Harvard University Law School where she won the Ames Moot Court Competition and the George Leisure Award for Excellence in Advocacy. She served for nearly a decade on the faculty of Harvard Law School before joining the Stanford faculty in 1993. She was a former Dean, and the Stanley Morrison Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford University Law School until 2009. In 2009 she joined the law firm Quinn Emanuel as partner and Chair of the firm's national Appellate Practice. Professor Sullivan is viewed by many as a leading teacher and scholar of constitutional law today. She is the author of numerous articles in the field and co-author with the late Gerald Gunther (APS, 1981) of the classic casebook Constitutional Law. She is in demand as a commentator on constitutional issues - in The New York Times and other publications' Op-Ed pages and on national media programs such as the PBS MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour and ABC's Nightline. A lucid and incisive lecturer, she is the recipient of teaching prizes at both Harvard and Stanford Universities. She was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 2002.
 
 Name:  Dr. Charles Tilly
 Institution:  Columbia University
 Year Elected:  2002
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1929
 Death Date:  April 29, 2008
   
 Name:  Dr. Jan de Vries
 Institution:  University of California, Berkeley
 Year Elected:  2002
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  303. History Since 1715
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1943
   
 
Jan de Vries was born in the Netherlands during World War II, emigrated with his parents to the United States at the age of four, and was raised in Minnesota, where he attended the public schools in Deephaven and Hopkins. His higher education took place at Columbia University (A.B., History, 1965) and Yale (Ph.D., History, 1970). He is married to Jeannie Green de Vries, a high school Latin teacher; they have two children, Nicolas and Saskia. At Yale, Dr. de Vries followed a joint program in Economic History (joint between History and Economics), studying with William Parker and Harry Miskimin. After a first appointment at Michigan State University (1970-73), he accepted a position at the University of California, Berkeley, where he remains, holding appointments in both the History and Economics Departments. In addition to his academic activities, Dr. de Vries has served as Chair of the Department of History, Dean of Social Sciences and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. His research interests in economic history have ranged from European agrarian history, to historical demography and urbanization, to environmental and climate history, and most recently, to the history of consumer behavior. He has written six books, 65 published articles and book chapters and 45 book reviews. In addition, he is a co-editor of 3 books. Dr. De Vries is a past president of the Economic History Association and served as editor of the Journal of Economic History, 1998-2002. He is the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson and Guggenheim fellowships, among others, has held grants from NSF and NIH, and has held visiting fellowships to the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, and All Souls College, Oxford. He has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the British Academy, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. He is the 2000 recipient of the A.H. Heineken Prize in History and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2002.
 
 Name:  Dr. Christoph Wolff
 Institution:  Harvard University
 Year Elected:  2002
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  401. Archaeology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1940
   
 
Christoph Wolff received a Dr.Phil. at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, in 1966, where he was an instructor at the Institute for Sacred Music (1963-65) and a lecturer in the Department of Music (1965-69). Later he served as an assistant professor of music at the University of Toronto and as professor of music at Columbia University before moving to Harvard University in 1976. He is currently the Adams University Professor at Harvard. Christoph Wolff is one of the foremost musicologists of our time, and without peer as a scholar of Johann Sebastian Bach. In addition to his work as editor and archivist, in 2000 he published a widely-praised biography of Bach aimed at a general audience, now in its fourth printing and translated into eight languages. His amazing discovery in 1999 of a trove of Bach family manuscripts in Kiev drew international attention. He has served widely on professional bodies and has also been a successful academic administrator at Harvard, where for eight years he was Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. His list of books include The Bach Family (principal author, 1983); Bach: Essays on His Life and Music (1991); Mozarts Requiem: Historical and Analytical Studies-Documents-Score (1994); and Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (2000). Dr. Wolff is the recipient of the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association, London (1978) and an Honorary Professor of the University of Freiburg since 1990. He currently serves on the board of directors of the the Packard Humanities Institute and chairs the executive board of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, Germany. Dr. Wolff is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Saxon Academy of Sciences at Leipzig. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002.
 
 Name:  Professor Lewis Wolpert
 Institution:  University College, London
 Year Elected:  2002
 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? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1929
 Death Date:  January 28, 2021
   
 
Lewis Wolpert was Emeritus Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology of University College London. His research interests are in the mechanisms involved in the development of the embryo. He was originally trained as a civil engineer in South Africa but changed to research in cell biology at King's College London in 1955. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1980 and awarded the CBE in 1990. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999. For five years he was chairman of the Committee for the Public Understanding of Science. He has presented science on both radio and ATV. His books include Malignant Sadness - The Anatomy of Depression (1999); Principles of Development (1992), of which he is principal author; A Passion for Science and Passionate Minds with Alison Richards (interviews with scientists); and The Unnatural Nature of Science (1992). His most recent book on belief was published in 2006. Dr. Wolpert also writes a column for "Independent", plays lots of tennis and is devoted to his mountain bike. He died on January 28, 2021.
 
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