Members Elected April 20, 2012

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CLASS 1: MATHEMATICAL & PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Sylvester James Gates

John S. Toll Professor of Physics, Director, Center for String and Particle Theory, University of Maryland

Charles M. Geschke

Co-Founder, Co-Chairman of the Board, Adobe Systems Inc.

Andrea M. Ghez

Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine Professor, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles

Donald E. Knuth

Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming, Stanford University

Terence Tao

Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

International Member:

Peter P. Edwards

Professor and Head of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Oxford

CLASS 2: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cornelia I. Bargmann

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Torsten N. Wiesel Professor, Head, Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, Rockefeller University

Bonnie L. Bassler

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology, Princeton University

Michael T. Clegg

Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine

Mary-Claire King

Professor of Genome Sciences and of Medicine (Medical Genetics), University of Washington

Jack W. Szostak

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator, Massachusetts General Hospital

CLASS 3: SOCIAL SCIENCES

Craig Calhoun

President, Social Science Research Council; University Professor of the Social Sciences, Founding Director, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University; Director-elect, London School of Economics and Political Science

Jon Elster

Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Sciences, Columbia University

Renée Claire Fox

Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

Alice Kessler-Harris

R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Columbia University

Christopher A. Sims

Harold H. Helm ‘20 Professor of Economics and Banking, Princeton University

International Members:

Jeroen G. W. Raaijmakers

Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Director, Cognitive Science Center, Director, University Research Priority Program in Cognition, University of Amsterdam

Claire Tomalin

Author

CLASS 4: HUMANITIES

Marjorie Garber

William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University

Wu Hung

Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Director, Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago

Rosalind Krauss

University Professor, Department of Art History, Columbia University

Marjorie Perloff

Professor Emerita of English, Stanford University, Florence R. Scott Professor Emerita of English, University of Southern California

Brent D. Shaw

Professor of Roman History, Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics, Director, Program in the Ancient World, Princeton University

International Members:

Mary Beard

Professor of Classics, Newnham College, Cambridge University

Salvatore Settis

Professor of the History of Classical Art and Archaeology, Scuola Normale Superiore

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

Jill Abramson

Executive Editor, The New York Times

Atul Gawande

Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard University School of Public Health, General and Endocrine Surgeon, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Cormac McCarthy

Novelist, Playwright

George E. Rupp

President, International Rescue Committee, President Emeritus, Columbia University, President Emeritus, Rice University

Richard Serra

Sculptor

Robert B. Strassler

Creator and Series Editor, The Landmark Editions; President, Riverside Capital Management Corporation

Charles K. Williams

Trustee, Field Director Emeritus, Corinth Excavations, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

International Members:

William Kentridge

Artist

Janet Morgan (Lady Balfour of Burleigh)

Writer; Chairman, Nuclear Liabilities Fund; Chairman, Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board

Gerhard Richter

Artist