Cambridge, MA, April 26, 2005 – The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of 196 new Fellows and 17 new Foreign Honorary Members. The 213 men and women are leaders in scholarship, business, the arts, and public affairs.
This year’s new Fellows include Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eric Cornell of the University of Colorado; Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist; Steven Squyres, leader of NASA’s Rover program for the exploration of Mars; Dante scholar and chairman emeritus of the National Humanities Center, Robert Hollander; sculptor and painter Jeff Koons; Academy Award-winning actor and director Sidney Poitier; choreographers Mark Morris and Judith Jamison; journalist Tom Brokaw; Washington Post Company CEO Donald Graham; Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page; Time, Inc., CEO Ann Moore; architect, sculptor, and designer of the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in Washington, Maya Lin; as well as four Pulitzer Prize winners – dramatist Horton Foote; playwright Tony Kushner; novelist Alison Lurie, and cartoonist Art Spiegelman.
The selection of Foreign Honorary Members honors distinguished experts and intellectuals from outside the United States. Past elected Foreign Honorary Members include Neils Bohr, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Albert Camus. This year’s class includes individuals from nine countries, including Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, Wislawa Szymborska; Brenda Milner of the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University, one of the founders of cognitive neuroscience; and Jerusalem-based pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim, who has used his music to build bridges between Israeli and Palestinian society.
"It gives me great pleasure to welcome these outstanding leaders in their fields in this, the Academy’s 225th year," said Academy President Patricia Meyer Spacks. "Fellows are selected through a highly competitive process that recognizes individuals who have made preeminent contributions to their disciplines and to society at large."
"Throughout its history, the Academy has convened the leading thinkers of the day, from diverse perspectives, to participate in projects and studies that advance the public good," added Executive Officer Leslie Berlowitz. "I am confident that this distinguished class of new Fellows will continue that tradition of cherishing knowledge and shaping the future."
Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members are nominated and elected to the Academy by current members. A broad-based membership, comprised of scholars and practitioners from mathematics, physics, biological sciences, social sciences, humanities and the arts, public affairs and business, gives the Academy a unique capacity to conduct a wide range of interdisciplinary studies and public policy research.
The Academy will welcome this year’s new Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members at its annual induction ceremony on October 8, at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The 2005 class of new Academy members continues a tradition of honoring intellectual achievement, leadership and creativity in all fields. Also among the newly elected members are E. J. Dionne, Jr., political columnist and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; Earl Powell III, director of the National Gallery of Art; Nancy Sabin Wexler of Columbia University, a leader in epidemiological research whose work advanced sound public policies in the area of genetic research; lawyer and civic leader Frederick A. O. Schwarz; urban planner, author and longtime champion of New York’s Central Park, Elizabeth Rogers; Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art; Janice Stein of the University of Toronto, pioneer in the fields of negotiation theory and international conflict management; William Baker, president and CEO of public television station WNET in New York; and William Bridges, inventor of the Argon laser.
The list of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members with their affiliations at the time of election:
Al-Awqati, Qais; Robert F. Loeb Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Columbia University
Ames, Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi; Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Emerita, University of California, Berkeley
Anderson, John; Provost and University Vice President, Case Western Reserve University
Baker, William; President & CEO, Thirteen/WNET New York
Balkin, Jack; Knight Professor of Constitutional Law & the First Amendment, Yale University
Baouendi, M. Salah; Professor of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
Barish, Barry; Linde Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology
Bartov, Omer; John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History, Brown University
Bernstein, Jane; Austin Fletcher Professor of Music, Tufts University
Bewley, Truman; Alfred Cowles Professor of Economics; Dean of Graduate Studies, Yale University
Birkelund, John; General Partner, Saratoga Partners
Blank, Rebecca; Dean, Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Bloom, David; Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Harvard School of Public Health
Bois, Yve-Alain; Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University
Boyarin, Daniel; Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Bridges, William; Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, California Institute of Technology
Brilliant, Richard; Anna S. Garbedian Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, Columbia University
Brin, Sergey; Co-Founder, President of Technology, Google Corporation
Brokaw, Tom; Journalist, Anchor, NBC News
Burns, Nancy; Director, Center for Political Studies; Professor Political Science, University of Michigan
Calvo, Guillermo; Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland
Clark, James; H.J. Blomquist Professor of Biology, Duke University
Clifton, Rodney; Rush C. Hawkins University Professor of Engineering, Brown University
Coatsworth, John; Monroe Gutman Professor, Latin American Affairs; Director, David Rockefeller Ctr, Harvard University
Cogan, Jr., John; President, Pioneer Family of Mutual Funds
Coller, Barry; Vice President for Medical Affairs, Rockefeller University
Connell, Joseph; Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Cornell, Eric; Professor Adjoint of Physics, University of Colorado
Corrigan, E. Gerald; Goldman, Sachs and Co.
Dale, Harvey; President Emeritus, Atlantic Philanthropies
Darley, John; Warren Professor of Psychology and Professor of Public Affairs, Princeton University
Davis, Lydia; Poet, New York, NY
De Grazia, Victoria; Professor of History, Columbia University
DeLong, Edward; Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Desimone, Joseph; William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dionne, Jr., E. J.; Columnist, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Donnan, Christopher; Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Donofrio, Nicholas; Senior Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing, International Business Machines
Dreyfuss, Gideon; Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania
Edelsbrunner, Herbert; Arts and Sciences Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, Duke University
Engell, James; Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Felstiner, John; Professor of English, Stanford University
Fiske, Susan; Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
Fitzpatrick, Sheila; Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of Modern Russian History, University of Chicago
Flanigen, Edith; Scientist, Emerita, Universal Oil Products, LLC
Fogelin, Robert; Sherman Fairchild Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, Dartmouth College
Foote, Horton; Writer, New York, NY
Friedlander, Eric; Henry S. Noyes Professor of Mathematics, Northwestern University
Friedman, Jerome; Professor of Statistics, Stanford University
Gage, Fred; Adler Professor of Biology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Galil, Zvi; Dean, Columbia University
Garafola, Lynn; Dance Historian and Critic, Barnard College
Garfield, Eugene; Editor-in-Chief, The Scientist
Gibbons, John; Science Consultant, Resource Strategies
Ginsburg, David; James V. Neel Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan
Goldberg, Alfred; Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Irving B. Harris Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago
Goldstein, Rebecca; Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College
Golledge, Reginald; Professor of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
Graham, Donald; Chairman & CEO, Washington Post Company
Greenwald, Iva; Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University
Greenwood, M.R.C.; Provost & Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, University of California System
Griffith, Jack; Kenan Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Guttag, John; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harman, Gilbert; Stuart Professor of Philosophy: Chair, Committee for Cognitive Studies, Princeton University
Hart, Stanley; Senior Scientist, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Hass, Robert; Poet, Critic, Translator, New York, NY
Hastings, Alan; Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis
Hellman, F. Warren; Co-Founder & Chairman, Hellman & Friedman LLC
Heuser, John; Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University in St. Louis
Hilberg, Raul; Professor, Emeritus, University of Vermont
Hirth, John; Professor Emeritus, Washington State University
Hollander, Robert; Professor of European Literature and French and Italian, Emeritus, Princeton University
Irwin, John; Decker Professor in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University
Jamison, Judith; Artistic Director, Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
Jewitt, David; Professor of Astronomy, University of Hawaii
Joullie, Madeleine; Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Julius, David; Professor of Molecular Biology, University of California, San Francisco
Just, Ward; Fiction Writer, Martha's Vineyard
Kagan, Elena; Dean, Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Kahle, Brewster; Co-Founder, Director and Digital Librarian, Internet Archive
Kennedy, Duncan; Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Harvard Law School
Kennedy, Kenneth; John and Ann Doerr University Professor, Rice University
Kertzer, David; Dupee University Professor of Social Science; Professor, Anthropology & Italian, Brown University
Kessler-Harris, Alice; R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History, Department Chair, Columbia University
Kingsley, David; Professor of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Kirby, William; Dean of Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor, Hist, Harvard University
Koons, Jeff; Visual Artist, New York, NY
Kotlikoff, Laurence; Chairman, Dept of Economics, Boston University
Kottak, Conrad; Chairman, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Kowalczykowski, Stephen; Professor of Microbiology and Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Davis
Kunkel, Louis; Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Kurtz, Thomas; Paul Levy Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Wisconsin
Kushner, Tony; Playwright, Director, New York, NY
Lamb, Frederick; Professor of Physics and Astronomy; Fortner Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lamoreaux, Naomi; Professor of Economics and History, University of California, Los Angeles
Lange, Andrew; Goldberger Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology
Larmore, Charles; Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago
Law, Sylvia; Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry, New York University School of Law
Lawler, Gregory; Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University
Lee, Ronald; Director, Center on the Economics & Demography of Aging, University of California, Berkeley
Legvold, Robert; Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Lehrer, Keith; Regent's Professor, Emeritus, University of Arizona
Leshner, Alan; CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Lin, Maya Ying; Architect, Sculptor, Maya Lin Studio
Locksley, Richard; Sandler Distinguished Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Loewenberg, Gerhard; Professor Emeritus, UI Foundation Distinguished Professor, University of Iowa
Lorsch, Jay; Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, Harvard Business School
Lowry, Glenn; Director, The Museum of Modern Art
Lurie, Alison; F. J. Whiton Professor of American Literature Emerita, Cornell University
Macdonald, Allan; Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Physics, University of Texas at Austin
Mackay, Trudy; William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Genetics, North Carolina State University
MacKinnon, Catharine; Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Mahan, Gerald; Distinguished Professor of Physics, Pennsylvania State University
Malenka, Robert; Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Marks, Andrew; Professor and Chair of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University
Matthews, Rowena Green; G. Robert Greenberg Distinguished University Professor of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan
McCarter, Jr., John; President & CEO, Field Museum of Natural History
McCarthy, John; Graduate Program Director, Professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts
Moore, Ann; Chairman & CEO, Time, Inc.
Morris, Stephen; Ford Foundation Professor of Economics, Yale University
Morris, Mark; Choreographer, Mark Morris Dance Group
Nestler, Eric; Lou and Ellen McGinley Distinguished Chair in Psychiatric Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Newman, Barbara; Professor of English and Religion, Northwestern University
Nikaido, Hiroshi; Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Nocera, Daniel; W.M. Keck Professor of Energy; Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Norman, Michael; Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Nossal, Nancy; Chief, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Institutes of Health
Nuzzo, Ralph; William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Olson, Peter; Morton K. Blaustein Professor; Chair of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
Page, Lawrence; Co-Founder & President of Products, Google Corporation
Palloni, Alberto; H. Edwin Young Professor of International Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Petes, Thomas; Chair, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center
Phillips, Julia; Director, Physical and Chemical Sciences, Sandia National Laboratories
Piperno, Dolores; Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Poitier, Sidney; Actor, Director, Los Angeles, CA
Poor, Harold; George Van Ness Lothrop Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
Poulter, Charles; John A. Widtsoe Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of Utah
Powell, Robert; Robson Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Powell III, Earl; Director, National Gallery of Art
Pozen, Robert; Non Executive Chairman, Massachusetts Financial Services
Prose, Francine; Novelist, New York, NY
Pusey, Anne; Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota
Pyle, Anna; William Edward Gilbert Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University
Rapoport, Tom; Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Rehnquist, William; Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Reichardt, Louis; Jack and DeLoris Lange Professor of Cell Physiology and Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
Ritvo, Harriet; Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Roberts, D. John; John H. and Irene S. Scully Professor in International Business Studies, Stanford University
Roberts, Anita Bauer; Chief, Laboratory of Cell Regulation and Carcinogenesis, National Institutes of Health
Roediger III, Henry; James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and Chair, Washington University in St. Louis
Rogers, Elizabeth; Director of the Garden History and Landscape Studies Program, Bard College
Rorem, Ned; Composer, Author, New York, NY
Rotberg, Robert; President, World Peace Foundation
Rothschild, Linda Preiss; Professor of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
Rowe, John; Chairman & CEO, Aetna Inc.
Saller, Richard; Provost and Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor, History, Classics, University of Chicago
Sampson, Robert; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Samuels, Richard; Ford International Professor; Director, Center of International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sayles, John; Film Director, Actor, Playwright, Film Editor, Orlando, FL
Schofield, Norman; William Taussig Professor of Political Economy, Washington University in St. Louis
Schwarz, Jr., Frederick; Senior Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice
Sedgwick, Eve Kospfsky; Distinguished Professor, City University of New York
Shochet, Melvyn; Kersten Distinguished Service Professor of Physical Sciences, University of Chicago
Silhavy, Thomas; Warner-Lambert Park-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Simms, Margaret; Vice President for Governance and Economic Analysis, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
Simon, Barry; IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology
Simpson, Lewis; William A. Read Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, Louisiana State University
Soulé, Michael; Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Spiegelman, Art; Cartoonist, New York, New York
Squyres, Steven; Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University
Stewart, Susan; Professor of English, Princeton University
Struhl, Gary; Professor of Genetics and Development, Columbia University
Stucky, Galen; Professor of Chemistry and Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara
Tang, Oscar; Tang Fund
Tirrell, David; Ross McCollum - William H. Corcoran Professor, California Institute of Technology
Trivers, Robert; Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University
Turelli, Michael; Professor of Genetics, University of California, Davis
Ugurbil, Kâmil; Professor of Biochemistry, Radiology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota
Vafa, Cumrun; Donner Professor of Science, Harvard University
van Inwagen, Peter; John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
Varki, Ajit; Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego
Vogt, Peter; Professor of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Scripps Research Institute
Wallace, Neil; Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University
Wallerstein, Michael; Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Walt, Stephen; Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University
Watson, Mark; Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Weber, Samuel Miles; Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities, Northwestern University
Weinberg, Jr., Sidney; Senior Director, Goldman Sachs Group LP
Weinstein, David; Executive Vice President, Fidelity Non Profit Management Foundation
Wexler, Nancy; Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology, Columbia University
White, Raymond; Rudi Schmid Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Wolf, Jack; Stephen O. Rice Professor of Magnetics, University of California, San Diego
Wolff, Christian; Strauss Professor of Music Emeritus, Dartmouth College
Wright, Carolyn; Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English, Brown University
Yi, Chen; Professor-Lorena Searcy Cravens/Millsap/Missouri Distinguished Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Barenboim, Daniel; Music Director, Pianist, Conductor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Falgueras, Margarita Salas; Presidenta, Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
Hansen, Niels; Director Emeritus, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark
Hayashi, Fumio; Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo, Japan
Hildenbrand, Werner; Professor of Economics, University of Bonn, Germany
Hirsch, Peter; Professor Emeritus, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Hofmann, Michael; Professor, University of Florida
Klemperer, Paul; Edgeworth Professor of Economics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Lee, Richard; University Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
Lubotzky, Alexander; Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Mak, Tak; Professor of Medical Biophysics and Immunology, University of Toronto, Canada
Milner, Brenda; Dorothy J. Killam Professor, Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University, Canada
Stein, Janice Gross; University Professor, Director, Munk Center for International Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
Szymborska, Wislawa; Poet, Cracow, Poland
Ullrich, Axel; Director, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Germany
Wehner, Rüdiger; Director, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Yonath, Ada; Professor of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel