The American Philosophical Society (APS) is proud to welcome our new Members elected to the Society in 2026. Election to the American Philosophical Society honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields spanning STEM and the humanities. The earliest Members of the APS included founders of the country like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine, who set out to spread “useful knowledge” throughout the young nation and the world. Since its inception in 1743, the APS has welcomed 5,896 Members who continue to do this important work as pioneers and changemakers in their fields. New inductees are nominated by existing Members and join an active cohort of some of the world’s most innovative minds.

CLASS 1: MATHEMATICIAN AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Benjamin F. Cravatt
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Norton B. Gilula Chair in Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute

Martha P. Haynes
Distinguished Professor of Arts & Science in Astronomy Emerita, Cornell University; Chair CCAT Board of Directors, CCAT Observatory

Ray Kurzweil
Principal Researcher and AIS Visionary, Director of Engineering, Google; Co-Founder and Chancellor, Singularity

Jeffrey R. Long
Director, Institute of Decarbonization Materials; C. Judson King Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley; Chemist Senior Faculty SE, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jonas C. Peters
Bren Professor of Chemistry, Director, Resnick Sustainability Institute, California Institute of Technology

John A. Rogers
Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurological Surgery, Director, Querrey/Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics, Northwestern University

International

Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
Chairman and Chief Scientist, Capital Fund Management; President, Foundation CFM pour la Recherche; Professor of Complex Systems, École Normale Supérieure

James C. Liao
President, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles

David Milstein
Professor Emeritus, Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials, Weizmann Institute of Science

Viola Vogel
Professor, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Cofounder, Tandem Therapeutics; Member Evaluation Board, Wyss Translational Center, Zurich

CLASS 2: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

George Q. Daley
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Vishva M. Dixit
Vice President and Senior Fellow, Physiological Chemistry, Research Biology, Genentech

Gerald Francis Joyce
President, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences

Timothy James Ley
Lewis T. and Rosalind B. Apple Chair in Oncology, Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, Co-Director, Physician-Scientist Training Program, Department of Medicine, Washington University

Kelsey C. Martin
Executive Vice President, Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, Professor Emeritus on Active Recall, University of California, Los Angeles; Senior Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus

Robert Montgomery
H. Leon Pachter, MD Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Chair, Department of Surgery, Director, NYU Longone Transplant Institute

Karen B. Strier
Vilas Research Professor and Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Teresa K. Woodruff
Founder, Oncofertility Consortium; President Emerita and MSU Research Foundation Professor, Michigan State University

International

Raymond Joseph Dolan
Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry, Institute of Neurology, University College of London; Director, Max Planck-UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing

Joel D. Levine
Chair and Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Chair, Tri-Campus Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto

CLASS 3: SOCIAL SCIENCES

Thavolia Glymph
Peabody Family Distinguished Professor of History, Professor of History, Professor of Law, Faculty Research Scholar of the Duke Population Research Center, Duke University

Carla Hesse
Jane K. and Peder Sather Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

Helen V. Milner
B.C. Forbes Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Director, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University

Joel Mokyr
Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University; Sackler Professorial Fellow, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, University of Tel Aviv

Sophia Rosenfeld
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

Paul Elliot Starr
Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Cofounder and C0-Editor, The American Prospect

International

Samantha Besson
Chair International Law of Institutions, Collège de France; Professor of Public International Law and European Law, University of Fribourg

CLASS 4: HUMANITIES

Daniel Garber
A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Philosophy, Associated Faculty in the Program of History, Associated Faculty in the Department of Politics, Princeton University

Myles W. Jackson
Ernst and Elisabeth Albers-Schönberg Professor in the History of Science, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study

Caroline Levine
David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of the Humanities, Cornell University

David Jeffrey Meltzer
Professor of Anthropology, Henderson-Morrison Professor of Prehistory, Southern Methodist University

Toril Moi
James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romantic Studies, Professor of English, Philosophy, and Theater Studies, Duke University

Jessica G. Riskin
Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Stanford University

International

Mercedes García-Arenal
Research professor ad honorem, Groupo de Investigación de Historia Cultural del Mediterráneo, CCHS-CSIC

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

Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, Diane S. and Robert M. Levy University Professor, Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Henri R. Ford
Dean and Chief Academic Officer, University of Miami School of Medicine

Rachel Levine
Former Assistant Secretary for Health & Former Head of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, Department of Health & Human Services

Mary Elizabeth Magill
President Emerita, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania

John Middleton
Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Philadelphia Phillies

Henry Samueli
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Broadcom, Inc.; Co-Owner, Anaheim Ducks; Distinguished Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine; Co-Founder and Director, Samueli Foundation

Myron Thompson
United States District Judge for the Middle District of Alabama

International

A.E. Stallings
47th Oxford Professor of Poetry, University of Oxford; Poetry Program Director, Athens Center