Hart Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
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Senior Scientist Stanley Hart of the WHOI Geology and Geophysics
Department has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, one of the oldest learned societies in the nation.
Hart is a geologist and isotope geochemist whose recent research has
focused on the origin of hot spots and mantle plumes and on the
dynamics and evolution of the deep Earth.
The academy was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John
Hancock, and other scholar-patriots. According to the academy’s
announcement, it has elected “the finest minds and most influential
leaders from each generation.”
Over the years, its membership has included George Washington, Ben
Franklin, Daniel Webster, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert Einstein, and
Winston Churchill. This year’s inductees included the artist Maya Lin,
Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and Nobel prize-winning
physicist Eric Cornell.
Posted: June 30, 2005 [top] |
