| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | updated 3/19/07 | ||||
| Total non-duplicated American Academy of Arts and Sciences faculty and university alumni active members - 45 | |||||
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| Faculty | |||||
| Total faculty American Academy of Arts and Sciences active members - 41 | |||||
| Class Number | Section Number | Election Year | |||
| 1 | Baym, Gordon A. | has been a leader in the study of matter under extreme conditions in astrophysics and nuclear physics. He has made original, seminal contributions to our understanding of neutron stars, relativistic effects in nuclear physics, condensed matter physics, quantum fluids and Bose-Einstein condensates. His work is characterized by a superb melding of basic theoretical physics concepts, from condensed matter to nuclear to elementary particle physics. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 2: Physics | 1981 |
| 2 | Beak, Peter | research has advanced the study of synthetic, structural and mechanistic organic chemistry, new reaction processes, synthetic methodology, and reactive intermediates. In the area of reaction mechanisms, Beak developed an insightful and general method, which he called the endocyclic restriction test, which enabled him to solve long-standing questions associated with the geometry for organic reactions at atoms such as oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, and bromine. Professor Beak's work in this field was dramatic and unequivocal, and he is held in the highest respect for his inspired approach to scientific problems. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 3: Chemistry | 2004 |
| 3 | Berenbaum, May | is internationally known for her contributions to the field of chemical ecology. In particular, she is interested in the chemical interactions between phytophagous insects and their host plants and the function of these interactions in the organization and structure of natural communities. Her work is distinctive in that it addresses insect/plant coevolution at multiple hierarchical levels. | Class II: Biological Sciences | Section 4: Evolutionary and Population Biology and Ecology | 1996 |
| 4 | Berlocher, Stewart H. | Berlocher, a professor of entomology, was chosen for contributions to the understanding of evolution and speciation, particularly sympatric speciation in phytophagous insects. | Class II: Biological Sciences | Section 4: Evolutionary and Population Biology and Ecology | 2006 |
| 5 | Burkholder, Donald Lyman | is well-recognized for his mathematical work in probability theory, stochastic processes, functional analysis, and fourier analysis. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 1: Mathematics | 1992 |
| 6 | Cameron, Sydney A. | Cameron, a professor of entomology and an affiliate of the Institute for Genomic Biology, was selected for contributions to evolutionary biology, particularly the innovative use of molecular systematics to give important new insights into the evolution of the bees. | Class II: Biological Sciences | Section 4: Evolutionary and Population Biology and Ecology | 2006 |
| 7 | Ceperley, David M. | most important contribution is his calculation of the energy of the electron gas, providing basic input for most numerical calculations of electronic structure. He was one of the pioneers in the development and application of path integral Monte Carlo methods for quantum systems at finite temperature, such as superfluid helium and hydrogen under extreme conditions. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 2: Physics | 1999 |
| 8 | Chiba, Akira | Chiba, a professor of cell and developmental biology and a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, was recognized for contributions to neuroscience, in particular the cellular and molecular mechanisms of how synapses form during brain development. | Class II: Biological Sciences | Section 3: Neurosciences, Cognitive Sciences, and Behavioral Biology | 2006 |
| 9 | Economy, James | has played a key role in macromolecular research and development during his 45-year career in industry and academia. His work has included the design and development of new polymer systems, such as liquid crystalline materials for structural uses, recyclable thermosetting resins, flame-resistant textiles, new fibers for environmental control, microelectronic devices, and inorganic preceramics. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 5: Engineering Sciences and Technologies | 2003 |
| 10 | Frauenfelder, Hans | has been the most important person in realizing biomolecules are dynamic entities and that their motions can be characterized in detail by physical experiments. Dr. Frauenfelder has made revolutionary contributions in several fields of physics. He started by studying nuclear energy levels, explored the surface effects with radioactivity, discovered perturbed angular correlation, helped elucidate parity violation in the weak interactions, used the Mossbauer effect, and he was one of the pioneers of Biological Physics by creating the field of physics of proteins. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 2: Physics | 1979 |
| 11 | Greene, Laura H. | is recognized for her research in experimental condensed matter physics focusing on highly correlated electron systems and novel materials, in particular high-temperature superconductors and the interfaces between metallic superconductors and compound-semiconductor heterostructures. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 2: Physics | 1997 |
| 12 | Greenough, William | whose research provided the first clear evidence for the structural basis of memory. Research focuses upon cellular mechanisms underlying learning and memory and other brain information storage processes. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 3: Neurosciences, Cognitive Sciences, and Behavioral Biology | 2006 |
| 13 | Greenough, William | is recognized for his research that provided the first clear evidence for the structural basis of memory. He has been a pivotal researcher on the effects of “enriched environments” on the development and mature function of the brain and has radically revised our understanding of the structural basis of memory and developmental change in the nervous system. | Class II: Biological Sciences | Section 3: Neurosciences, Cognitive Sciences, and Behavioral Biology | 2006 |
| 14 | Gunsalus, Irwin Clyde | is known for his research and teaching in the areas of biological catalysis and regulation, mechanism of chemical transformations and energy transfer, formation of essential metabolites including pyredoxal phosphate and lipoic acid, and oxidation and oxygenation reactions and energy transfer. | Class II: Biological Sciences | Section 1: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 1967 |
| 15 | Hanratty, Thomas | research has focused on the areas of turbulence, wave generation, two-phase flow, and computer simulation of turbulence. His work has been recognized by prestigious awards such as the Ernest Thiele Award (1986) and University Scholar, UIUC (1986). | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 5: Engineering Sciences and Technologies | 1997 |
| 16 | Herman, Richard | mathematician who served as Provost of the Urbana-Champaign campus from 1998-2005 and chancellor from 2005 to the present. He has been active in shaping national science policy with an emphasis on positioning the sciences to meet the emerging needs of society. His experience in science and education policy includes four years on the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee for the Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, including two years as its chair. In February 2006, he was named to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. | Class V: Public Affairs, Business, and Administration | Section 3: Educational, Scientific, Cultural and Philanthropic Administration | 2008 |
| 17 | Hess, Karl | research encompasses all aspects of computational electronics. He is recognized internationally for his pioneering contributions to high field transport in semiconductors. He was among the first to recognize the principle of a series of nonlinear heterojunction transport mechanisms, including real space transfer and effects related to impact ionization. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 5: Engineering Sciences and Technologies | 1997 |
| 18 | Holonyak, Jr., Nick | invented the first practical LED (light emitting diode), the first visible-spectrum semiconductor laser and the household dimmer switch.Holonyak also fabricated the first semiconductor laser from an alloy, GaAsP. The success of the GaAsP laser prototype made possible the development of red lasers used in CDs, DVD players and high frequency circuits in cell phones. He also created native aluminum oxide technology, which has made vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) practical for copy machines, laser printers and other communications. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 5: Engineering Sciences and Technologies | 1984 |
| 19 | Ikenberry, Stanley | became president of the University of Illinois in 1979, and served for 16 years. In November 1996, he became the tenth president of the American Council on Education (ACE), where he represented as the major voice of higher education in the United States. | Class V: Public Affairs, Business, and Administration | Section 3: Educational, Scientific, Cultural, and Philanthropic Administration | 2000 |
| 20 | Jonas, Jiri | is a pioneer in the use of high-pressure nuclear magnetic resonance and Raman spectroscopy to study structure and dynamics in liquids, modern theories of reaction rates in liquids, the behavior of molecules in confined geometries such as porous solids, and the changes of protein conformation with pressure. The impact of his work covers the vast area from pure chemical physics through materials science to molecular chemistry. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 3: Chemistry | 1987 |
| 21 | Katzenellenbogen, Benita | is an internationally known endocrinologist and cancer researcher and has been a key scientist in understanding the biology of estrogen receptors and in elucidating mechanisms by which antiestrogens and SERMs, such as Tamoxifen, are effective in controlling breast cancer. The work of her research group has most recently involved the development of selective hormonal agents for breast cancer treatment and prevention. | Class II: Biological Sciences | Section 5: Medical Sciences, Clinical Medicine, and Public Health | 1993 |
| 22 | Katzenellenbogen, John A. | is a world-renowned expert on nuclear hormone receptors and has developed novel breast tumor imaging agents and estrogenic hormones. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 3: Chemistry | 1992 |
| 23 | Kieffer, Susan Werner | primary research interest is geological fluid dynamics. She developed a theory for predicting the thermodynamic properties of minerals, work that earned her the Mineralogical Society of America's Award for distinguished work in mineralogy. Later, she started to look at geysers as analogs for volcanoes. When geysers were discovered on Jupiter's satellite, lo, she applied her earthbound research to interpret those phenomena. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 4: Astronomy (including Astrophysics) and Earth Sciences | 1988 |
| 24 | Klein, Miles V. | has made seminal contributions to our understanding of optical effects in solids, and his masterful coupling of theory with experiment has led to major discoveries in condensed matter physics and considerable progress in unraveling superconductivity. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 2: Physics | 1997 |
| 25 | Lamb, Frederick K. | is a professor of physics and of astronomy and the holder of the Fortner Chair in theoretical astrophysics at Illinois. He joined the Illinois faculty in 1972. An internationally recognized pioneer in high-energy and relativistic astrophysics, Lamb has contributed to a better understanding of X-ray stars, neutron stars, pulsars, black holes and strong-field gravity. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 4: Astronomy (including Astrophysics) and Earth Sciences | 2005 |
| 26 | Leggett, Anthony James | is widely recognized as a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics, and his pioneering work on superfluidity was recognized by the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics. He has shaped the theoretical understanding of normal and superfluid helium liquids and other strongly coupled superfluids. He set directions for research in the quantum physics of macroscopic dissipative systems and the use of condensed matter systems to test the foundations of quantum mechanics. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 2: Physics | 1996 |
| 27 | Moore, Jeffrey | in collaboration with two other Urbana-Champaign campus chemists has done pioneering work in the development of self-healing plastics. He has most recently, with these colleagues, found a novel way to manipulate matter and drive chemical reactions along a desired direction. The new technique utilizes mechanical force to alter the course of chemical reactions and yield products not obtainable through conventional conditions. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 3: Chemistry | 2008 |
| 28 | Nanney, David Ledbetter | is the founder of Tetrahymena genetics and more than anyone has championed the ciliated protozoa as a rich source of phenomena for scientific investigation. His work has significance far beyond ciliate biology and touches on genetics, development and evolution. | Class II: Biological Sciences | Section 2: Cellular and Developmental Biology, Microbiology, and Immunology | 1978 |
| 29 | Nettl, Bruno | is an internationally renowned musicologist, he is both a founder and past president of the Society for Ethnomusicology His book, The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts, has become a classic in the field of ethnomusicology and offers the most comprehensive discussion of the field available anywhere. | Class IV: Humanities and Arts | Section 5: Visual Arts and Performing Arts--Criticism and Practice | 1997 |
| 30 | Nuzzo, Ralph George | was a pioneer in the development of methods of molecular self-assembly that have led to entirely new areas of surface chemistry with important extensions into physics, biology and materials, and with numerous applications ranging from biosensors to advanced electronics. His work has made important contributions to soft lithography - a low cost alternative to conventional photolithography for patterning circuits on microchips. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 3: Chemistry | 2005 |
| 31 | Pines, David | has made seminal contributions to the theory of many-body systems and to theoretical astrophysics. His current research focuses on the search for the organizing principles responsible for emergent behavior in matter, with particular attention to correlated matter, the study of materials in which unexpectedly new classes of behavior emerge in response to the strong and competing interactions among their elementary constituents. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 2: Physics | 1980 |
| 32 | Powers, Richard | is a well - known novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology on human lives, but without "gee-whiz" or Luddite overtones. He was a MacArthur Fellow in 1989 and received a Lannan Literary Award in 1999. | Class IV: Humanities and Arts | Section 4: Literature (Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories, Nonfiction, and Playwriting) | 1998 |
| 33 | Redfield, Alfred | is recognized for his seminal contributions to the theory and technical development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and for pioneering applications of this technique to the study of biological molecules. He received his PhD from University of Illinois in 1953. | Class II: Biological Sciences | Section 1: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 1983 |
| 34 | Robinson, Gene E. | is known for his research on mechanisms of behavior in social insects. The honey bee is the primary study organism because its rich social life is uniquely amenable to experimentation, a consequence of the many techniques available to alter precisely genetic, physiological, and environmental parameters. | Class II: Biological Sciences | Section 4: Evolutionary and Population Biology and Ecology | 2004 |
| 35 | Schowalter, William R. | is recognized for his outstanding Research, educational, and industrial contributions to non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, and promotion of fluid mechanics as a discipline transcending specific engineering fields. He served as the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois from 1989-2001. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 5: Engineering Sciences and Technologies | 1991 |
| 36 | Slichter, Charles Pence | is internationally recognized in condensed matter physics, is one of the world's top research scientists in the area of nuclear magnetic resonance and has been a leading innovator in applications of resonance techniques to understanding the structure of matter. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 2: Physics | 1969 |
| 37 | Stillinger, Jack C. | has published 25 books (monographs, textual studies, scholarly editions) and numerous articles and reviews, mainly on nineteenth-century English literature. In the 1980s he launched a large theoretical and historical project on the nature of authorship to consider such basic questions as how and why writers write; how they develop; and how they interact with editors, publishers, and other collaborators. | Class IV: Humanities and Arts | Section 3: Literary Criticism (including Philology) | 1993 |
| 38 | Van Harlingen, Dale J. | is recognized for his research contributions in the areas of experimental low temperature physics, superconductivity, microfabrication of superconductor devices, scanning probe microscopy, and mesoscopic systems. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 2: Physics | 1999 |
| 39 | Woese, Carl R. | is famous for defining the Archaea (a new domain or kingdom of life) in 1977 by phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a technique pioneered by Woese and which is now standard practice. He was also the originator of the RNA world hypothesis in 1967, although not by that name. | Class II: Biological Sciences | Section 4: Evolutionary and Population Biology and Ecology | 1985 |
| 40 | Wolfe, Ralph Stoner | is a pioneer in the field of environmental microbiology. He and his colleagues were the first to demonstrate the cooperative arrangement between microbes that produce hydrogen and microbes using that hydrogen to form methane. This laid the foundation for our current understanding of how microbial organisms convert organic matter to methane gas. | Class II: Biological Sciences | Section 1: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 1981 |
| 41 | Zgusta, Ladislav | is widely known as a historical linguist and lexicographer. He has published over 8 books relating to linguistics. | Class IV: Humanities and Arts | Section 3: Literary Criticism (including Philology) | 1992 |
| Alumni | |||||
| Total Alumni American Academy of Arts and Sciences recipients - 5 | Class Number | Section Number | Election Year | ||
| 1 | Bilson, Malcolm | a distinguished pianist, soloist, chamber musician, and recording artist, is very highly regard in the area of historical performance practices. He has toured and recorded with the English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner; Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood; Philharmonia Baroque under Nicholas McGegan; the Tafelmusik of Toronto; Concerto Köln; and others. Malcolm Bilson is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a faculty member at Eastman School of Music and Cornell University, and has received an honorary doctorate from Bard College. | Class IV: Humanities and Arts | Section 5: Visual Arts and Performing Arts--Criticism and Practice | 1994 |
| 2 | Carbon, John | His research contributions include the development of techniques to make genomic libraries using recombinant DNA, techniques for using yeast for DNA cloning, and characterization of centromere DNA. | Class II: Biological Sciences | Section 1: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 1986 |
| 3 | Holonyak, Jr., Nick | See faculty listing | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 5: Engineering Sciences and Technologies | 1984 |
| 4 | Petroski, Henry | For books, articles, and lectures on engineering and the profession that have reached and influenced a wide range of audiences. | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 5: Engineering Sciences and Technologies | 2003 |
| 5 | Yao, Andrew | For his work in theoretical computer science, algorithms, computational complexity, commnication complexity, cryptography, quantum computing | Class I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Section 1: Mathematics | 2000 |