2006 Resident Members

CLASS 1: MATHEMATICAL & PHYSICAL SCIENCES

  • Robert J. Birgeneau, Chancellor, Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
     
  • William H. Hooke, Director, Policy Program, American Meteorological Society; Chair, Natural Disaster Roundtable, National Academies
     
  • John F. Nash, Jr., Researcher in Mathematics, Princeton University
     
  • Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering, Professor of History, Duke University
     
  • Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Distinguished Professor of Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, Director, Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
     
  • Horst L. Störmer, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Columbia University
     
  • Lonnie G. Thompson, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Senior Research Scientist, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University
     
  • Peter G. Wolynes, Francis H.C. Crick Chair in the Physical Sciences, University of California, San Diego
     

CLASS 2: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

  • Stanley N. Cohen, Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine
     
  • Tony Hunter, Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute
     
  • Gene Elden Likens, Director, President, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Chair in Ecology, Institute of Ecosystem Studies
     
  • Lubert Stryer, Winzer Professor Emeritus, Stanford University School of Medicine
     
  • Inder Verma, American Cancer Professor of Molecular Biology, Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute
     
  • Paul C. Zamecnik, Senior Scientist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Oncologic Medicine Emeritus, Harvard Medical School
     

CLASS 3: SOCIAL SCIENCES

  • Ben Bernanke, Chairman, Federal Reserve System
     
  • Howard E. Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
     
  • Michael Hout, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
     
  • Philip Johnson-Laird, Stuart Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
     
  • Linda K. Kerber, May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts, Professor of History, University of Iowa
     
  • Elizabeth F. Loftus, Distinguished Professor, Departments of Psychology and Social Behavior and Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine
     
  • Daniel L. McFadden, Professor of Economics, E. Morris Cox Chair, Director, Econometrics Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
     
  • Elinor Ostrom, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University
     
  • Theda Skocpol, Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University
     
  • Stephen M. Stigler, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago
     

CLASS 4: HUMANITIES

  • Jonathan Culler, Chair, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cornell University
     
  • Evelyn Fox Keller, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
     
  • Alasdair MacIntyre, Research Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
     
  • Thomas Nagel, Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Law, University Professor, New York University School of Law
     
  • Stephen Owen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard University
     
  • Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Distinguished Professor of English, City University of New York Graduate Center
     
  • John Wilmerding, Sarofim Professor of American Art, Princeton University
     
  • Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
     
  • Pauline Yu, President, American Council of Learned Societies
     
  • Larzer Ziff, Research Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University
     

CLASS 5: THE ARTS, PROFESSIONS, LEADERS IN PUBLIC & PRIVATE AFFAIRS

  • Denise Scott Brown, Principal, Planner and Urban Designer, Venturi Scott Brown Associates
     
  • Joan Didion, Novelist, essayist
     
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court
     
  • Walter B. Hewlett, Chairman, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Director, Public Policy Institute of California; Director, Packard Humanities Institute; Director, Stanford Theatre Foundation; Director, Agilent Technologies; Founder/Director, Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, Consulting Professor and Member of the Board of Trustees, Stanford University
     
  • Paul LeClerc, President, Chief Executive Officer, The New York Public Library; Adjunct Professor of French and English, City University of New York Graduate School and University Center
     
  • Daniel Mendelsohn, Writer/Journalist; Contributing Writer, The New York Review of Books; Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities, Bard College
     
  • David Woodley Packard, Chairman and President, Packard Humanities Institute; Chairman and President, Stanford Theatre Foundation
     
  • Franklin A. Thomas, Attorney, Consultant
     
  • Robert Venturi, Founding Principal and Principal In Charge, Venturi Scott Brown Associates
     

2006 Foreign Members

CLASS 2:

  • Patrick Bateson, Professor of Ethology Emeritus, University of Cambridge
     
  • Raymond A. Dwek, Director, Glycobiology Institute, University of Oxford
     

CLASS 4:

  • Teresa Gisbert, Professor Emerita, University of La Paz, Bolivia
     
  • Linda Manzanilla, Investigator, Professor, Institute of Anthropological Investigations, National Autonomous University of Mexico
     
  • Colin Renfrew, Disney Professor of Archaeology Emeritus, Director Emeritus, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
     

CLASS 5:

  • John Maxwell (J.M.) Coetzee, Novelist, essayist

 

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