Members Elected April 25, 2009
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
