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THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
The American Academcy of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other scholar-patriots "to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people." Members are elected for distinction and achievement in five areas: mathematics and physics; biological sciences; social sciences; humanities and arts; and public affairs and business.
| Clarence Allen '49 | Professor emeritus of geology and geophysics at Caltech, recipient
of the Seismological Society of America's highest award; former
president of the Geological Society of America |
| Robert Brenner '64 | Professor of history and director
of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA |
| Joan Bresnan '66 | Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities
and Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University |
Joseph Bunnett '42 |
Emeritus chemistry professor at UC Santa Cruz; chair
of a multinational task force on the destruction of chemical weapons |
| Warren L. Butler '49 | Professor of Biology, University of California, San Diego; also a member of the National Academy of Sciences; elected a foreign associate of the French Academy of Sciences; and a Guggenheim Fellow. Butler enhanced understanding of photochemical adaptation and pigment systems of plants and developed important concepts and understanding of basic photometabolic processes. |
| Donald Engelman '62 | Professor of molecular biophysics
and biochemistry and director of the division of biological sciences at Yale University;
member of the National Academy of Sciences; recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and
the Francis I Medal. Engelman serves on the advisory panel for the Brookhaven National
Laboratory and as a consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. |
| Neil Fligstein '73 | Class of 1939 Chancellor's
Professor, chair of the sociology department, and Director of
the Center for Culture, Organization, and Politics at the Institute
of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley |
| Samuel Gubins '64 | President and
Editor-in-Chief, Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, California |
Richard Havel '46 |
Professor emeritus and former director of the Cardiovascular
Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco |
Dell Hymes '50 |
Noted professor emeritus of English
and anthropology, University of Virginia; president of the American Linguistic Society
and the American Folklore Society; fellow of the British Academy |
Steve Jobs '76 |
CEO and chairman, Pixar; co-founder of Apple Computer,
Inc.; founder of NeXT, Inc.; was awarded the National Technology Medal by President
Reagan in 1985 as the creator of the modern personal computer interface |
Dale Jorgenson '55 |
One of the most distinguished economists
in the U.S.; Frederick Eaton Abbe Professor of Economics and director of the program
on technology and economic policy at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
| Ronald D. Lee '63 | Professor of Demography, Director of the Center on Economics & Demography
of Aging; Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Family Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley;
fellow of the British Academy |
Hans Linde '47 |
Retired associate justice, Oregon Supreme Court, controversial
for his protection of free speech |
Eleanor (Emmons) Maccoby '39 |
Emeritus professor of psychology, Stanford University,
specializing in the development of children's social behavior; her many awards include
American Psychological Foundation gold medal award for lifetime achievements |
| Robert D. Mare '73 | Distinguished Professor of Sociology, UCLA |
| Roger M. Perlmutter, MD '73 | Executive Vice President Research & Development, Amgen, Inc. Dr. Perlmutter received his M.D., and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University (St. Louis). He is director of Stem Cells, Inc., and chairman of the board of directors of the Institute for Systems Biology, a not-for-profit research institute based in Seattle. He previously served as president of the American Association of Immunologists. Most recently, he was elected a 2009 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). |
Mark Ptashne '61 |
Ludvig Professor of Molecular Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center (James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, called Ptashne's
work on repressor molecules "one of the major accomplishments of molecular biology") |
Kenneth Raymond '64 |
Professor and chair of chemistry, UC Berkeley; editorial
board member of several chemistry journals and winner of three research awards |
Steven Shapin
'65 |
Franklin
L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University,
is the author of Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle,
and the Experimental Life; A Social History of Truth: Civility
and Science in Seventeenth-Century England; and The
Scientific Revolution. His academic focus is at the intersection
of the history of science, the sociology of knowledge, and
cultural history, and he has been awarded the J.D. Bernal and
Erasmus prizes. |
| Sydney Shoemaker '53 | Susan
Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University |
| Gary Snyder '51 | One
of America's most distinguished poets; winner of 1975 Pulitzer
Prize in poetry and many other prizes |
| Richard Thompson '52 | Winner
of American Psychological Association 1999 award for creativity
in research; biological sciences director at USC |
| Katherine Verdery '70 | Eric
R. Wolf Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan,
award-winning author of East Europe and Slavic studies |
| Allen Wood '64 | Professor
of philosophy, Stanford University; author of several books
on Marx, Hegel, and Kant |
Also see the distinctions page.
