List of members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences / 2009
In 2009, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences selected 229 people in five categories to be its membership .
Among the 229 members (fellows) , 20 are "foreign honorary members" who are not citizens of the United States or who work there; these are highlighted in color .
Newly elected members
Mathematical and physical sciences
- Nima Arkani-Hamed (* 1972)
- Eric Becklin (* 1940)
- Spencer Bloch (* 1944)
- John Seely Brown (born 1940)
- Cynthia J. Burrows (* 1953)
- Richard Walter Carlson (* 1954)
- Hongjie Dai (born 1966)
- James Dumesic (born 1949)
- Richard Eisenberg (* 1943)
- Robert Fefferman (* 1951)
- Eduardo H. Fradkin (* 1950)
- William M. Gelbart (* 1946)
- Dorian Goldfeld (* 1947)
- Bradford H. Hager (born 1950)
- Naomi J. Halas (* 1957)
- Lene Hau (* 1959)
- Adam Heller (* 1933)
- Craig James Hogan (born 1955)
- Mary Jane Irwin (born 1949)
- Stein Jacobsen (* 1950)
- Mark A. Johnson (born 1954)
- Aharon Kapitulnik (* 1953)
- Mehran Kardar (* 1957)
- Guinevere Kauffmann (* 1968)
- Maria Klawe (* 1951)
- Raymond Kurzweil (* 1948)
- Steven G. Louie (born 1949)
- Thomas E. Mallouk (* 1954)
- José Onuchic (* 1958)
- Stanley Osher (born 1942)
- Stuart Parkin (born 1955)
- Aron Pinczuk (* 1939)
- Ares Rosakis (* 1956)
- Michael Sipser (* 1954)
- Alfred Spector (* 1954)
- Attila Szabo (* 1947)
- Terence Tao (* 1975)
- Edwin L. Thomas (* 1947)
- Matthew Tirrell (born 1950)
- John Merrill Toole (* 1953)
- Gunther Uhlmann (* 1952)
- Warren M. Washington (* 1936)
- Jennifer Widom (* 1960)
- Ruth J. Williams (* 1955)
Biological sciences
- Abul K. Abbas (* 1947)
- Sankar Adhya (* 1937)
- David A. Agard (* 1953)
- Stevan J. Arnold (* 1944)
- Peter S. Aronson (* 1947)
- David Baker (born 1962)
- Spencer Charles Hilton Barrett (born 1948)
- Vann Bennett (born 1948)
- Marianne Bronner (* 1952)
- Mario Capecchi (* 1937)
- Sean B. Carroll (* 1960)
- Eric Charnov (* 1947)
- Jennifer Clack (1947-2020)
- Mahlon R. DeLong (born 1938)
- Scott V. Edwards (born 1963)
- Paul Farmer (* 1959)
- Andrew Feinberg (* 1952)
- Charles Godfray (* 1958)
- Ursula Goodenough (* 1943)
- James Haber (* 1943)
- Tina M. Henkin (* 1956)
- George Paul Hess (1926-2015)
- Eve J. Higginbotham (* 1953)
- Alan G. Hinnebusch (* 1954)
- Douglas R. Hofstadter (* 1945)
- Nancy Kanwisher (* 1958)
- Mark Krasnow (* 1956)
- Volker ter Meulen (* 1933)
- Edward L. Miles (1939-2016)
- J. Anthony Movshon (born 1950)
- Elizabeth Nabel (* 1952)
- W. James Nelson (* 1954)
- Peter C. Nowell (1928-2016)
- Patrick H. O'Farrell (* 1949)
- Lelio Orci (* 1937)
- H. Allen Orr (* 1960)
- Steve Polasky (born 1957)
- Anjana Rao (* 1952)
- Gary Ruvkun (* 1952)
- Neil Shubin (* 1960)
- Robert H. Singer (* 1945)
- James W. Truman (* 1945)
- Gary L. Westbrook (born 1948)
- Martin F. Yanofsky (* 1956)
- Wayne M. Yokoyama (born 1952)
Social sciences
- Andrew Abbott (born 1948)
- Kenneth Abraham (* 1946)
- Nancy Adler (* 1946)
- Philippe Aghion (* 1956)
- Patrick Bolton (born 1957)
- Rogers Brubaker (born 1956)
- Ronald J. Daniels (* 1959)
- Judy DeLoache (born 1943)
- Mathias Dewatripont (* 1959)
- Paul DiMaggio (born 1951)
- John J. Donohue (born 1953)
- Esther Duflo (* 1972)
- John R. Freeman (born 1950)
- Ronald M. George (* 1940)
- Alan Gerber (born 1964)
- Robert Gibbons (* 1958)
- Jane I. Guyer (* 1943)
- Kristen Hawkes (* 1944)
- Deborah R. Hensler (* 1942)
- Claes von Hofsten (* 1943)
- Guido Imbens (* 1963)
- Ronald Inglehart (* 1934)
- Matthew O. Jackson (born 1962)
- Michael Klarman (* 1959)
- Jon Krosnick (* 1959)
- Barbara Landau (* 1949)
- Michael Laver (* 1949)
- Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
- Maxine Margolis (* 1942)
- Andrew N. Meltzoff (* 1950)
- Theodor Meron (* 1930)
- Norman H. Nie (1943-2015)
- Catherine O'Regan (born 1957)
- Raghuram Rajan (* 1963)
- Deborah L. Rhode (* 1952)
- Mark J. Roe (born 1951)
- Robert Rosenthal (* 1933)
- Beth A. Simmons (* 1958)
- Dan Slobin (* 1939)
- Karen B. Strier (* 1959)
- Philip Tetlock (* 1954)
- James Wert (* 1947)
- J. Harvie Wilkinson (born 1944)
- Timothy D. Wilson (born 1951)
Humanities and arts
- Danielle Allen (* 1971)
- Karl Ameriks (* 1947)
- Kenny Barron (born 1943)
- Pina Bausch (1940-2009)
- Mary Elizabeth Berry (* 1947)
- Bono (* 1960)
- Trisha Brown (1936-2017)
- Robert A. Caro (* 1935)
- Mary Ann Caws (born 1933)
- Michael Chabon (* 1963)
- Geoffrey Cowan (* 1942)
- Stanley Crouch (born 1945)
- Dennis Russell Davies (* 1944)
- Judi Dench (* 1934)
- William Eggleston (* 1939)
- Jas Elsner (* 1962)
- Carl Ernst (* 1950)
- Simon Goldhill (* 1957)
- Edith Grossman (* 1936)
- Robert von Hallberg (* 1946)
- Jeffrey Hamburger (* 1957)
- Ann Hamilton (born 1956)
- Emmylou Harris (born 1947)
- Daniel Murray Hausman (* 1947)
- Michael Heizer (* 1944)
- Dustin Hoffman (born 1937)
- Marilyn Horne (born 1934)
- Gish Jen (born 1956)
- Bill T. Jones (* 1952)
- James Earl Jones (born 1931)
- William Chester Jordan (* 1948)
- Alice Kaplan (born 1954)
- Rashid Khalidi (* 1948)
- Jamaica Kincaid (* 1949)
- David Konstan (* 1940)
- TJ Jackson Lears (born 1947)
- Michael Longley (born 1939)
- Carol Mancusi-Ungaro (* 1946)
- Dale Basil Martin (born 1954)
- James M. McPherson (* 1936)
- Malcolm Morley (1931-2018)
- Guy Nordenson (* 1955)
- Philip Pettit (* 1945)
- Joseph W. Polisi (* 1947)
- Ross Posnock (* 1953)
- Itamar Rabinovich (* 1942)
- Nicholas Rescher (* 1928)
- James Salter (1925-2015)
- Jonathan Daniel Sarna (* 1955)
- Haun Saussy (* 1960)
- Ricardo Scofidio (* 1935)
- Steven Shapin (born 1943)
- Michael Sorkin (1948-2020)
- Stephen Stich (* 1943)
- Sanjay Subrahmanyam (* 1959)
- Romila Thapar (* 1931)
- Emilie M. Townes (* 1955)
- Edward Villella (* 1936)
- David E. Wellbery (* 1947)
- John Williams (* 1932)
- Tobias Wolff (* 1945)
- Wong Kar-Wai (* 1958)
- Donald Worster (* 1941)
- Ruth Bernard Yeazell (* 1947)
- Peter Zumthor (* 1943)
Public Affairs, Business and Administration
- Robert Berne (* 1948)
- H. Kim Bottomly (* 1946)
- John T. Casteen (* 1943)
- Richard Cavanagh (* 1946)
- Lloyd Cotsen (1929-2017)
- James Crown (born 1954)
- Ronald Daniel (* 1930)
- Karen Davis (born 1942)
- John Doerr (born 1951)
- Paul Ferri (* 1938)
- Benjamin M. Friedman (* 1944)
- Robert Gates (* 1943)
- William P. Gerberding (1929-2014)
- Sibyl R. Golden (1953-2017)
- Rajat Gupta (* 1948)
- Kent Kresa (born 1938)
- Edward Linde (1941-2010)
- Dana G. Mead (1936-2018)
- Cathy E. Minehan (* 1947)
- Pierre Omidyar (* 1967)
- Susan Packard Orr (born 1946)
- Bernard Osher (* 1927)
- Julie E. Packard (born 1952)
- Edward Penhoet (* 1940)
- Colin Powell (born 1937)
- Theodore C. Rogers (* 1934)
- John William Rowe (* 1945)
- Matthew Santirocco (born 1950)
- Susan Stamberg (* 1938)
- Strobe Talbott (born 1946)
- James W. Wagner (* 1953)
Web links
- Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 2000–2019. (PDF; 389 kB) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org)