Congratulations Leonard Cohen!!
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PDF here -American Academy of Arts and Sciences Announces 2011 Class of Members
4/19/2011
Press Release
CAMBRIDGE, MA – Some of the world’s most accomplished leaders from academia, business,
public affairs, the humanities, and the arts have been elected members of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
A list of the new Academy members announced today is located at: http://www.amacad.org/news/alphalist2011.pdf.
The 212 new members join one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for independent policy research. Members contribute to Academy studies of science and technology policy, global security, social policy and American institutions, the humanities, and education.
“It is a privilege to honor these men and women for their extraordinary individual
accomplishments,” said Leslie Berlowitz, Academy President and William T. Golden Chair. “The knowledge and expertise of our members give the Academy a unique
capacity – and responsibility – to provide practical policy solutions to the pressing
challenges of the day. We look forward to engaging our new members in this work.”
Among the 2011 class of scholars, scientists, writers, artists, civic, corporate, and philanthropic leaders are winners of the Nobel, Pulitzer, and Pritzker Prizes; the Turing Award; MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships; and Kennedy Center Honors, Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy awards.
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The Academy elected 16 Foreign Honorary Members from Argentina, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Peru; Portugal, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
They include: University of Cambridge classicist Mary Beard; French poet Yves Bonnefoy; singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen; Joseph Klafter, President of Tel Aviv University; actor Helen Mirren; Angelika Neuwirth, a Berlin-based expert on the Qur’an and Islamic studies; Adam Roberts, President of the British Academy; financier David de Rothschild; Pritzker Prize-winning architect Eduardo Souto de Moura; and Nobel laureate writer Mario Vargas Llosa; winning architect Eduardo Souto de Moura; and Nobel laureate writer Mario Vargas Llosa.
The new class will be inducted at a ceremony on October 1, at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Since its founding in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other scholar-patriots, the Academy has elected leading “thinkers and doers” from each generation, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the nineteenth, and Albert Einstein
and Winston Churchill in the twentieth. The current membership includes more than 250 Nobel laureates and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.
http://www.amacad.org/news/alphalist2011.pdf
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