Member Directory

This online directory includes active and deceased members. Search for members by name, area and field (class and section), affiliation, year of election, and/or keyword. Results of a search can be sorted alphabetically or by year of membership. 

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Member Directory

Showing 14977-15008 of 15127 results

Antoine Marie Cerisier

Government of France
Historian; Political commentator; Author; Editor; Journalist
Elected:
1789

Jean Luzac

Gazette de Leyde; University of Leiden
Editor (newspaper); Educator
Elected:
1789

Benjamin Thompson

Government of Bavaria
Physicist; Inventor; Military officer; Social and military reformer
Elected:
1789

Samuel Webber

Harvard University
Educator; Academic administrator
Elected:
1789

Joseph Banks

Royal Society of London
Naturalist; Explorer; Learned society administrator
Elected:
1788

Johann Jacob Hemmer

Mannheim, Germany
Meteorologist; Philologist; Clergy member; Learned society administrator
Elected:
1788

William Herschel

Slough, England
Astronomer; Musician (educator, performer, composer)
Elected:
1788

Charles Hutton

Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Mathematician; Educator
Elected:
1788

Nevil Maskelyne

Greenwich Observatory
Astronomer; Research institution administrator
Elected:
1788

Nicholas Pike

Newburyport, MA
Educator; Mathematician; Public official
Elected:
1788

Joseph Pope

Boston, MA
Clock and instrument maker
Elected:
1788

Benjamin Rush

College of Philadelphia
Physician; Educator; Public official
Elected:
1788

Thomas Russell

State of Massachusetts
Businessperson; Government official (state legislator)
Elected:
1788

Winthrop Sargent

Ohio Company
Government official (territorial governor); Businessperson
Elected:
1788

Richard Watson

University of Cambridge
Clergy member; Chemist; Educator
Elected:
1788

Thomas Jefferson

U.S. Government
U.S. Secretary of State; U.S. President; Diplomat; Farmer
Elected:
1787