Members Elected April 25, 2009

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CLASS 1: MATHEMATICAL & PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Pierre Deligne
Professor, Institute for Advanced Study

Ellen Stone Mosley-Thompson
Professor, Department of Geography, Senior Research Scientist, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University

Helen R. Quinn
Professor and Chair, Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, SLAC National Accelerator Laborator

John E. Warnock
Co-Founder, Co-Chairman, Board of Directors, Adobe Systems

Robert Woodrow Wilson
Research Scientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

CLASS 2: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Nina G. Jablonski
Professor, Head of Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University

Yuet Wai Kan
Professor of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine, Louis K. Diamond Professor of Hematology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Rowena G. Matthews
Professor of Chemistry, G. Robert Greenberg Distinguished University Professor of Biological Chemistry, and Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan

Craig C. Mello
Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Robert Tjian
President, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley

James W. Valentine
Professor Emeritus of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley; Faculty Curator Emeritus, University of California Museum of Paleontology

INTERNATIONAL MEMBER:
Ruth Arnon

Professor of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science

CLASS 3: SOCIAL SCIENCES

Benedict Anderson
Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government and Asian Studies, Cornell University

Michael W. Doyle
Harold Brown Professor of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy, Professor of International and Public Affairs and of Law, Columbia University

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Chair, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Douglas Hofstadter
College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science, Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature, Indiana University

Peter Joachim Katzenstein
Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University

Alejandro Portes
Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

INTERNATIONAL MEMBER:
Jacques Mehler

Director, Language, Cognition and Development Laboratory, International School for Advanced Studies; Research Emeritus Director, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

CLASS 4: HUMANITIES

Ann Blair
Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Harvard University

Larissa Bonfante
Professor of Classics Emerita, New York University

Richard C. M. Janko
Else Collegiate Professor of Classical Studies and Chair, Department of Classical Studies,
University of Michigan

Anthony A. Long
Professor of Classics, Irving Stone Professor of Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Franco Moretti
Danily & Laura Louise Bell Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University

Robert B. Pippin
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, Chair, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago

INTERNATIONAL MEMBER:
Daniel Roche

Professor, Collège de France

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

Emanuel Ax
Concert Pianist

Warren Edward Buffett
Chairman of the Board, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.

Ellen V. Futter
President, American Museum of Natural History

Philip Glass
Composer

A. R. Gurney
Playwright, Novelist

Donna E. Shalala
President and Professor of Political Science, University of Miami

George Soros
Founder and Chairman, Soros Fund Management, LLC; Founder, Open Society Institute

INTERNATIONAL MEMBERS:
Robert Badinter

President, OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration; Senator; Professor of Law Emeritus, Paris University I, Panthéon Sorbonne

Alison Richard
Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge