Recently added articles from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society:
Introduction: American Empire? The Role of the United States in the World Today1
Dec 01, 2007; ... DURING THE 2006 Spring General Meeting, four speakers addressed the question of America's role in the world. Their presentations were in the context of a debate over the nature of the world following the Cold War and the direction United States foreign policy should take at the onset of the ...
Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine1
Dec 01, 2007; ... IT is NOW generally recognized that the science of stem cell research is important and holds great promise for the treatment of many diseases and conditions that afflict humans worldwide. However, as in any new endeavor, that was not always the case. This paper is written through the lens of my ...
American Hegemony: How to Use It, How to Lose It1
Dec 01, 2007; ... To SPEAK TO the distinguished and learned members of the American Philosophical Society is a great honor. Let me thank you in advance for this rare privilege. As the title of my lecture indicates, I want to share with you an assessment of both the nature of American power and how best to ...
A European View of American Foreign Policy1
Dec 01, 2007; ... BEFORE YOU STANDS a European who thinks of himself as a practical Dutchman, who spent two of his student years in Princeton and continues to believe that world problems can be solved only if the U.S. and Europe act in unison. A Dutchman forever grateful to the farsighted American leaders who ...
America in the World Today: A European View1
Dec 01, 2007; ... ANY EUROPEAN, especially a German, who reviews America's role in the world with a sense of history, will do so with a feeling of attachment, respect, or gratitude, in my case all three. World War II ended for me when I was a ten-year-old amidst enormous chaos, but I did not truly know that I had ...
PHILIP HAUGE ABELSON
Dec 01, 2007; ... 27 APRIL 1913 * 1 AUGUST 2004 PHILIP HAUGE ABELSON had at least nine scientific lives: as physicist, nuclear chemist, engineer, submarine designer, biophysicist, biogeochemist, science administrator, editor, and writer. Not only was his range of interests expansive, but he left an ...
JAMES BIDDLE
Dec 01, 2007; ... 8 JULY 1929 * 10 MARCH 2005 NO HISTORY of the historic preservation movement in the United States could be written without the significant presence of James Biddle. He emerged on the national scene as president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation when the Trust was about ...
SAUL BELLOW
Dec 01, 2007; ... 10 JUNE 1915 * 5 APRIL 2005 SAUL BELLOW, who died on 5 April 2005, at the age of eighty-nine, at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, had been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1976, and received the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book Awards, and the National Medal of Arts. No ...
ALLAN FARNSWORTH
Dec 01, 2007; ... 30 JUNE 1928 * 31 JANUARY 2005 AFAMOUS SCHOLAR once said that to be great, a law professor must write a casebook, a treatise, and a Restatement. Allan Farnsworth did all of that and much, much more. In one of the fundamental fields of law, he was the unquestioned intellectual leader of ...
MAURICE R. HILLEMAN
Dec 01, 2007; ... 30 AUGUST 1919 * 11 APRIL 2005 THE WORLD lost a true public health hero when Maurice R. Hilleman, Ph.D., died of cancer on 11 April 2005, at the age of eighty-five. Maurice literally changed the world with his extraordinary contributions in numerous disciplines: virology, epidemiology, ...
HERBERT HUNGER
Dec 01, 2007; ... 9 DECEMBER 1914 * 9 JULY 2000 HERBERT HUNGER, destined to be the founder of the Institute of Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna, received his academic training in Vienna, the city of his birth. He majored in classical philology and German studies and, upon completing his first ...
JACK S. KILBY
Dec 01, 2007; ... 8 NOVEMBER 1923 * 20 JUNE 2005 MY CLOSE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION with Jack began when he joined Texas Instruments in May 1958, and for the next twelve years we worked together on the development of the integrated circuit program. After our careers took us down different paths for a while, we ...
PHILIP MORRISON
Dec 01, 2007; ... 7 NOVEMBER 1915 * 22 APRIL 2005 To encapsulate in a fifteen-hundred-word essay the life, work, and personality of Phil Morrison, to write about this intellectually protean, omniscient polymath MIT Institute Professor who died peacefully at home a few months before completing his ninth ...
Members Elected in 2007
Dec 01, 2007; ... RESIDENT Class I Wendy Freedman, Pasadena David Gross, Santa Barbara Shirley Ann Jackson, Troy, N.Y. Daniel Kleppner, Cambridge, Mass. Mario J. Molina, La Jolla Karen K. Uhlenbeck, Austin William A. Wulf, ...
WALT ROSTOW
Dec 01, 2007; ... 7 OCTOBER 1916 * 13 FEBRUARY 2003 Three remarkable figures have been taken from us recently: Ken Galbraith, the economist; Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the historian; and Walt Rostow, the economic historian. They were liberals, they were Democrats, they were anti-Communists, they were ...
GEORGE C. McGHEE
Dec 01, 2007; ... 10 MARCH 1912 * 4 JULY 2005 I met Ambassador George McGhee at a conference in Washington in the 1970s. I've not forgotten that first meeting or those that followed in Washington, Middleburg, and Charlottesville, where I was director of the Miller Center at the University of Virginia ....
Deaths of Members Recorded Through 6 December 2007
Dec 01, 2007; ... Year of Election Austrian, Robert, in Philadelphia, on 25 March, act. 90 ... ... ... 1987 Bedini, Silvio A., in Washington, D.C., on 14 November, aet. 90 ... 1975 Benedict, Manson, in Naples, FIa., on 18 September 2006, aet.98 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...