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American Philosophical Society

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The American Philosophical Society is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources and community outreach. It was founded by the polymath Benjamin Franklin and is considered the first learned society founded in what became the United States. Its headquarters and museum, Philosophical Hall, stands just east of Independence Hall in Independence National Historical Park and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965. The society has about 1,000 elected members.

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The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.
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The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.
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Antoine Lavoisier (Wikipedia)
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He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1775.
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Grove Karl Gilbert (Wikipedia)
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He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1902.
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Wikipedia: Joachim Barrande
Has Member: Joachim Barrande, Life and career
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In 1862, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.
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Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont, Wikipedia
Has Member: Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont, Biography
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His growing scientific reputation secured his election to the membership of the Academy of Berlin, of the French Academy of Sciences, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1845), of the Royal Society of London, as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1848), and as an international member of the American Philosophical Society (1860).
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Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (Wikipedia)
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Two years later, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
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Wikipedia: Heinrich Georg Bronn
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Bronn was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1860.
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Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann - Wikipedia
Has Member: Carl Friedrich Naumann, Life
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In 1869, he was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society.
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Oswald Heer - Wikipedia
Has Member: Oswald Heer, Biography
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In 1862, Heer was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.
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Hendrik Kramers (Wikipedia)
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He was an International member of the American Philosophical Society.
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Carl Vogt (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Carl Vogt, Career, institution
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He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1869
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Hermann Burmeister (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Hermann Burmeister, Career, institution
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He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1856
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Heinrich Göppert (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Heinrich Göppert, Career, institution
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In 1862, he was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society
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Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld, Career, institution
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He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1869
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George Henry Horn (Wikipedia)
Has Member: George Henry Horn, Text, member of american-philosophical-society
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He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1869
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Edwin Conklin (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Edwin Conklin, Text, member of american-philosophical-society
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In 1897, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society
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Joseph Erlanger (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Joseph Erlanger, Biography
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the American Philosophical Society in 1927
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Herbert Spencer Gasser (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Herbert Spencer Gasser, Biography
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the American Philosophical Society
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Gaston Planté (Wikipedia)
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He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1882.
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Alphonse Favre (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Alphonse Favre, Biography, post
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In 1888, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.
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Baruch Samuel Blumberg (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Baruch Samuel Blumberg, Career, american-philosophical-society
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He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death
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Rolf M. Zinkernagel (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Career, american-philosophical-society
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the American Philosophical Society, and The Academy of Cancer Immunology
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Sune Bergström (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Sune Bergström, Career, american-philosophical-society
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the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society
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Konrad Emil Bloch (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Konrad Emil Bloch, Career, american-philosophical-society
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the United States National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society
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Gerald Edelman (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Gerald Edelman, Career, american-philosophical-society
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both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1968) and the American Philosophical Society (1977)
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Feodor Lynen (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Feodor Lynen, Career, american-philosophical-society
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1966: elected to the American Philosophical Society
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Harold E. Varmus (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Harold E. Varmus, Career, american-philosophical-society
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1994: elected to the American Philosophical Society
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Hassler Whitney (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Hassler Whitney, Career, american-philosophical-society
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In 1947 he was elected member of the American Philosophical Society
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Peter Lax (Wikipedia)
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and the American Philosophical Society
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Rudolf Virchow (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Rudolf Virchow, Career, american-philosophical-society
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In 1862, he was elected as an international Member of the American Philosophical Society
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Alfred North Whitehead (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Alfred North Whitehead, Career, american-philosophical-society
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He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1926
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William Huggins (Wikipedia)
Has Member: William Huggins, Career, american-philosophical-society
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Elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1895
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James Joseph Sylvester (Wikipedia)
Has Member: James Joseph Sylvester, Career, american-philosophical-society
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In 1877, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society
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Henri Milne-Edwards (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Henri Milne-Edwards, Career, american-philosophical-society
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He was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 1860
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Samuel Langley (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Samuel Pierpont Langley, Career, american-philosophical-society
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In 1875, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society
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Henry Roscoe (chemist) (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Henry Enfield Roscoe, Career, american-philosophical-society
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In 1903, he was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society
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Norman Lockyer (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Joseph Norman Lockyer, Career, american-philosophical-society
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He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1874
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E. T. Whittaker (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Career, american-philosophical-society
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the American Philosophical Society in 1944
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William Henry Flower (Wikipedia)
Has Member: William Henry Flower, Career, american-philosophical-society
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In 1869, he was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society
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Ray Lankester (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Edwin Ray Lankester, Career, american-philosophical-society
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an International Member of both the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society in 1903
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Arthur Schuster (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Arthur Schuster, Career, american-philosophical-society
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Schuster was elected to both the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society
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Arthur Amos Noyes (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Arthur Amos Noyes, Career, american-philosophical-society
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Noyes was an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the United States National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society
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Benjamin Smith Barton (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Benjamin Smith Barton, Career, American Philosophical Society
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Barton was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1789.
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Carl Peter Thunberg (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Carl Peter Thunberg, Institution 2
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He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1791
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Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, Institution 1
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He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1819
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Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze, Institution 2
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In 1817, Deleuze was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society
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Thomas Godfrey (inventor) (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Thomas Godfrey, Lead
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was a member of American Philosophical Society with the title "mathematician"
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Jan Ingenhousz (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jan Ingenhousz, Honours, American Philosophical Society
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a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1786
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Torbern Bergman (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Torbern Bergman, Career, American Philosophical Society
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In 1773 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.
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Peter Simon Pallas (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Peter Simon Pallas, Life and work, American Philosophical Society
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Pallas was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1791.
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John Bartram (Wikipedia)
Has Member: John Bartram, Plant collecting, correspondence, and travels
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Bartram was one of the co-founders, along with Benjamin Franklin, of the American Philosophical Society
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Career, American Philosophical Society
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in 1768 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society
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William Cranch Bond (Wikipedia)
Has Member: William Cranch Bond, Harvard Observatory, American Philosophical Society
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In 1852, Bond was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.
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