The following persons were offered membership in the American Philosophical Society at the conclusion of the Members' Business Meeting on Friday, April 27, 2018:
CLASS 1: MATHEMATICAL & PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Frances H. Arnold
Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center, Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry, California Institute of Technology
Eric J. Horvitz
Director, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research Labs; Affiliate Associate Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Engineering, and of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington
Vijay Kumar
Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania
Sara Seager
Professor of Physics, Professor of Planetary Science, Class of 1941 Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard Taylor
Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
International
Jean Dalibard
Director of Research, CNRS; Full Professor, École Polytechnique; Vice Director, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS; Professor, Collège de France
Christopher Martin Dobson
Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology, Master of St. John’s College, University of Cambridge
CLASS 2: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Helen M. Blau
Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Professor, Director, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, Stanford University
Diane Edmund Griffin
Professor, Medicine and Neurology, Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University Distinguished Service Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Hopi (Danielle) E. Hoekstra
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Departments of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Curator of Mammals, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Institute Member, The Broad Institute
Richard E. Lenski
Hannah Distinguished Professor of Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University
Michael W. Young
Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Rockefeller University
International
Rudolf K. Thauer
Professor Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
Robin A. Weiss
Professor of Viral Oncology Emeritus, University College London; Board of Directors, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), previously KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH), South Africa
CLASS 3: SOCIAL SCIENCES
Karen S. Cook
Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology, Founding Director, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Vice-Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, Stanford University
Eric Foner
DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University
Margaret Levi
Sara Miller McCune Director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
Reva Siegel
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Shelley Taylor
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles
CLASS 4: HUMANITIES
William A. Graham
Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University
Philip Stuart Kitcher
John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Paul W. Kroll
Professor of Chinese, University of Colorado, Boulder
Susan Neiman
Director, Einstein Forum
Thomas Scanlon
Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity Emeritus, Harvard University
International
Jakob Lothe
Professor of English, University of Oslo; Adjunct Professor, University of Bergen
Avishai Margalit
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
CLASS 5: THE ARTS, PROFESSIONS, LEADERS IN PUBLIC & PRIVATE AFFAIRS
Ronald J. Daniels
President, Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Paul Edward Farmer
Co-founder, Chief Strategist, Partners in Health; Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Special Adviser to the Secretary General on Community-based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti, United Nations
Kenneth C. Frazier
Chair, President, Chief Executive Officer, Merck & Co., Inc.
Frederick M. Lawrence
Secretary, CEO, Phi Beta Kappa Society
Sara Miller McCune
Founder, Executive Chair, SAGE; Founder, Executive Chair, Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media, and Public Policy
Janet Napolitano
President, University of California
Kara Walker
Artist; Professor of Visual Arts, Columbia University; Tepper Chair in Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
International
Rosalie Silberman Abella
Justice, Supreme Court of Canada
Orhan Pamuk
Writer