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The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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• Alice Adams
  Alice Adams (writer)
  Alice Adams was an American novelist, short story writer, and university professor....
  
  , Deceased. Fiction: 1978.
• JoAnne Akalaitis
  JoAnne Akalaitis
  JoAnne Akalaitis is an American theatre director and a writer and the winner of five Obie Awards for direction and founder of the critically acclaimed Mabou Mines in New York, from which she resigned after twenty years in June 1990.Akalaitis was pre-med and studied philosophy in college...
  
  , Director, New York Shakespeare Festival: 1978.
• Jervis B. Anderson, Writer; Staff Writer, The New Yorker, New York City: 1978.
• Stuart S. Antman, Professor of Mathematics, University of Maryland at College Park: 1978.
• Theodore Antoniou
  Theodore Antoniou
  Theodore Antoniou , is a Greek composer and conductor. His works vary from operas and choral works to chamber music, from film and theatre music to solo instrumental works. In addition to his career as composer and conductor, he also holds the position of professor of composition at Boston University...
  
  , Composer; Professor of Music, Boston University: 1978.
• Ruth apRoberts
  Ruth apRoberts
  Ruth apRoberts was a Canadian scholar of Victorian and religious literature. Her work focused on 19th-century British literature as it intersected with philosophical issues and spiritual traditions....
  
  , Professor Emeritus of English, University of California, Riverside: 1978.
• Ralph Arlyck
  Ralph Arlyck
  Ralph Arlyck is an American documentary filmmaker. He has won many awards for his films and has been shown at film festivals including Sundance, New York, London, and Cannes....
  
  , Film Maker, Poughkeepsie, New York: 1978.
• Eugene C. Ashby, Regents' Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology: 1978.
• Gordon Ashby, Designer, Inverness, California: 1978.
• Maurice Auslander
  Maurice Auslander
  Maurice Auslander was an American mathematician who worked on commutative algebra and homological algebra. He proved the Auslander–Buchsbaum theorem that regular local rings are factorial, the Auslander–Buchsbaum formula, and introduced Auslander–Reiten theory and Auslander algebras.Born in...
  
  , Deceased. Mathematics: 1978.
• Houston A. Baker, Jr.
  Houston A. Baker, Jr.
  Houston Alfred Baker Jr. is an American scholar specializing in African American literature and currently serving as a Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University in the English department....
  
  , Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations, University of Pennsylvania: 1978.
• Keith Michael Baker, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History, Stanford University: 1978.
• E. Digby Baltzell
  E. Digby Baltzell
  Edward Digby Baltzell was an American sociologist, academic and author.-Life and career:Baltzell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a wealthy Episcopalian family. "Digby" attended St. Paul's School, an Episcopal boarding school in New Hampshire. He attended the University of Pennsylvania,...
  
  , Deceased. Sociology: 1978.
• James Robert Bamburg, Professor of Biochemistry, Colorado State University: 1978.
• Jonathan Baumbach, Writer; Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York: 1978.
• Zdeněk Pavel Bažant
  Zdenek Bažant
  Zdeněk Pavel Bažant is McCormick School Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University's Robert R...
  
  , McCormick School Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science, Northwestern University: 1978.
• Howard S. Becker
  Howard S. Becker
  Howard Saul Becker is an American sociologist who made major contributions to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of music. Becker also wrote extensively on sociological writing styles and methodologies. In addition, Becker's book The Outsiders provided the foundations for...
  
  , Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara: 1978.
• Charles A. Bennett, Artist, New York City: 1978.
• Richard M. A. Benson
  Richard Benson
  Richard M.A. Benson is an American photographer.He teaches at the Yale University and was dean of the Yale School of Art, from 1996 to 2006.-Awards:* 1978 Guggenheim Fellow* National Endowment for the Arts fellow...
  
  , Dean, Yale School of Art: 1978, 1986.
• Robert F. Berkhofer, Professor of History, Oakes College, University of California, Santa Cruz: 1978.
• Walter F. Berns, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, Washington: 1978.
• Steven J. Beyer, Artist; Assistant Professor of Sculpture, Tyler School of Art, Temple University: 1978.
• Edgar M. Branch, Research Professor Emeritus of English and Associate in American Literature, Miami University: 1978.
• Patrick M. Brantlinger, Professor of English, Indiana University: 1978.
• John I. Brauman, J.G. Jackson - C. J. Wood Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University: 1978.
• Robert Breer
  Robert Breer
  Robert Carlton Breer was an experimental filmmaker, painter, and sculptor."A founding member of the American avant-garde," Breer was most well known for his films, which combine abstract and representational painting, hand-drawn rotoscoping, original 16mm and 8mm film footage, photographs, and...
  
  , Film Maker; Professor of Art, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: 1978.
• Christopher Edward Brion, Professor of Chemistry, University of British Columbia: 1978.
• A. Peter Brown, Professor of Musicology, Indiana University: 1978.
• Vincent J. Bruno, Ashbel Smith Chair, Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Texas at Arlington: 1978.
• Elizabeth W. Bruss, Deceased. Literary Criticism: 1978.
• Donald F. Buchla, Instrument Designer and Scholar, Berkeley, California: 1978.
• Chris Burden
  Chris Burden
  Christopher "Chris" Burden is an American artist working in performance, sculpture, and installation art.-Education:Burden studied for his B.A...
  
  , Artist; Professor, Head New Genre, University of California, Los Angeles: 1978.
• William Michael Burke, Photographer; Instructor, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: 1978.
• David S. Cannell, Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara: 1978.
• E. A. Carmean, Jr., Art Historian and Curator, San Mateo, California: 1978.
• Raymond Carver
  Raymond Carver
  Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. was an American short story writer and poet. Carver is considered a major American writer of the late 20th century and also a major force in the revitalization of the short story in the 1980s....
  
  , Deceased. Fiction: 1978.
• Phillip R. Certain, Professor of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1978.
• Leo M. Chalupa
  Leo M. Chalupa
  Leo M. Chalupa is Vice President for Research and Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology at George Washington University. He was previously a Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurobiology at the University of California, Davis and Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology,...
  
  , Chair, Professor of Neurobiology, Psychology & Behavior, University of California, Davis: 1978.
• Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Senior Curator of American and British Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.: 1978.
• Thurston Clarke
  Thurston Clarke
  Thurston Clarke is an American historian, author and journalist.-Education and career:Clarke was educated at Yale University, Columbia University and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London....
  
  , Writer, Willsboro, New York: 1978.
• Thomas Clayton
  Thomas Clayton
  Thomas Clayton was an American lawyer and politician from Dover in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party and later the Whig Party. He served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Attorney General of Delaware, as Secretary of State of Delaware, as Chief Justice of the...
  
  , Professor of English and of Classical Studies, University of Minnesota: 1978.
• Martin Leonard Cody, Professor of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles: 1978.
• Calvert Coggeshall
  Calvert Coggeshall
  -Biography:Calvert Coggeshall, an abstract painter and a designer. His last New York exhibition was sponsored by the Rothko Foundation in 1987 at Artists Space, a nonprofit gallery on West Broadway. The paintings he showed were glowing, monochromatic canvases that echoed the colors of Maine skies,...
  
  , Deceased. Fine Arts: 1978.
• Carolyn Cohen, Chair, Graduate Biophysics Program; Professor of Biology, Brandeis University: 1978.
• Marvin L. Cohen
  Marvin L. Cohen
  Marvin L. Cohen is a Canadian-born American physicist. He is a professor of condensed matter physics and materials science at the University of California, Berkeley. Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin studied under John D. Joannopoulos, a student of Cohen's.Cohen received his PhD from the...
  
  , University Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley: 1978, 1990.
• Robert A. Colby, Professor Emeritus of Library Science, Queens College, City University of New York: 1978.
• Stephen Cole
  Stephen Cole
  Stephen Cole is a presenter for Al Jazeera English. Previously, he worked for the BBC.-Broadcasting career:...
  
  , Leading Professor of Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  State University of New York at Stony Brook
  The State University of New York at Stony Brook, also known as Stony Brook University, is a public research university located in Stony Brook, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island, about east of Manhattan....
  
  : 1978.
• Alicia Colombí de Monguió, Professor of Spanish, SUNY at Albany, New York: 1978. Appointed As Alicia Colombí de Ferraresi.
• Jaime H. Concha, Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature, University of California, San Diego: 1978.
• Jonathan Cott, Writer, New York City: 1978.
• Donald M. Crothers, Alfred E. Kemp Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University: 1978.
• Curtis Curtis-Smith, Composer; Professor of Music, Western Michigan University: 1978.
• James Maurice Daniels, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Toronto: 1978.
• Judy Dater
  Judy Dater
  Judy Dater is an American photographer and feminist. She is perhaps best known for her 1974 photograph, Imogen and Twinka, featuring an elderly Imogen Cunningham, one of America's first women photographers, encountering a nymph in the woods of Yosemite. The nymph is the model Twinka Thiebaud.Dater...
  
  , Artist/Photographer, Berkeley, California: 1978.
• Alan M. Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School: 1978.
• Jan de Vries, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley: 1978.
• Tom DeWitt, Artist, Ancramdale, New York: 1978.
• George T. Dickie, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle: 1978.
• Margaret Anne Doody, John and Barbara Glynn Family Professor of Literature, University of Notre Dame: 1978.
• Henri Dorra, Professor of Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara: 1978.
• John E. Dowling, Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences and Professor of Neuroscience, Harvard University: 1978.
• Senta Driver, Choreographer; Artist Director, Harry's Foundation, Inc., New York City: 1978.
• Robert C. Dunbar, Professor of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University: 1978.
• Martin Dworkin, Professor of Microbiology, University of Minnesota: 1978.
• Donald M. Engelman, Chair, Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University: 1978.
• Clayton Eshleman
  Clayton Eshleman
  Clayton Eshleman is an American poet, translator, and editor.-Life:Eshleman has been translating since the early 1960s. He is the recipient of the National Book Award in 1979 for his co-translation of César Vallejo's Complete Posthumous Poetry...
  
  , Poet, Ypsilanti, Michigan: 1978.
• Claire Falkenstein
  Claire Falkenstein
  Claire Falkenstein was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, jewelry designer, and teacher, most renowned for her often large-scale abstract metal and glass public sculptures.-Early life and education:...
  
  , Artist, Venice, California: 1978.
• Thomas D. Farber, Writer; Senior Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley: 1978.
• Don W. Fawcett
  Don W. Fawcett
  Don Wayne Fawcett was a pioneer of electron microscopy and one of its greatest practitioners for studying the organization of cells and tissues...
  
  , Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School: 1978.
• Andrew Fetler, Writer; Professor of English, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: 1978.
• Kit Fine
  Kit Fine
  Kit Fine is Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University. He previously taught for several years at UCLA...
  
  , Professor of Philosophy, New York University: 1978.
• Claude S. Fischer
  Claude S. Fischer
  Claude Serge Fischer is an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in urban sociology, research methods, and American society at UC Berkeley.- Early life and career :Fischer was born in Paris,...
  
  , Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley: 1978.
• Steven Fischler, Film Maker; Producer and Director, Pacific St. Film Projects, Inc., Brooklyn, New York: 1978.
• Dagfinn Follesdal, Clarence Irving Lewis
  Clarence Irving Lewis
  Clarence Irving Lewis , usually cited as C. I. Lewis, was an American academic philosopher and the founder of conceptual pragmatism. First a noted logician, he later branched into epistemology, and during the last 20 years of his life, he wrote much on ethics.-Early years:Lewis was born in...
  
   Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University; Professor of Philosophy, University of Oslo: 1978.
• Michael Foran, Artist, Laramie, Wyoming: 1978.
• Carolyn Forché
  Carolyn Forché
  Carolyn Forché is an American poet, editor, translator, and human rights advocate.-Life:Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan, on April 28, 1950, to Michael Joseph and Louise Nada Blackford Sidlosky. Forché earned a B.A...
  
  , Poet; Professor of English, George Mason University: 1978.
• Irving B. Fritz, Deceased. Biochemistry-Molecular Biology: 1978.
• Tess Gallagher
  Tess Gallagher
  Tess Gallagher is an American poet, essayist, author and playwright. She attended the University of Washington, where she studied creative writing with Theodore Roethke and later Nelson Bentley as well as David Wagoner and Mark Strand...
  
  , Poet, Port Angeles, WA: 1978.
• William A. Gamson
  William A. Gamson
  William Anthony Gamson is a professor of Sociology at Boston College, where he is also the co-director of the Media Research and Action Project ....
  
  , Professor of Sociology, Boston College: 1978.
• Barbara Garson
  Barbara Garson
  Barbara Garson is an American playwright, author and social activist.Garson is best known for the play MacBird, a notorious 1966 counterculture drama/political parody of Macbeth that sold over half a million copies as a book and had over 90 productions world wide...
  
  , Writer, New York City: 1978.
• Jean Gaudon, Adviser in French Literature, Yale University: 1978.
• John Gerassi, Writer; Professor of Political Science, Queens College, City University of New York: 1978.
• David B. Geselowitz, Emeritus Professor of Bioengineering, Pennsylvania State University: 1978.
• Michael T. Ghiselin, Senior Research Fellow, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco: 1978.
• Aharon Gibor, Emeritus Professor of Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara: 1978.
• Walter S. Gibson, Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University: 1978.
• Frank Gillette, Video Artist, New York City: 1978.
• George Glauberman
  George Glauberman
  George Glauberman is a mathematician at the University of Chicago who works on finite simple groups. He proved the ZJ theorem and the Z* theorem....
  
  , Professor of Mathematics, University of Chicago: 1978.
• Paul F. Grendler, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Toronto: 1978.
• Jan Groover
  Jan Groover
  Jan Groover is an American photographer residing in Montpon-Menesterol, France, She is noted for her use of emerging color technologies...
  
  , Photographer, Montpon-Menesterol, France: 1978.
• Joan Delaney Grossman, Emeritus Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley: 1978.
• Henry Guerlac
  Henry Guerlac
  Henry Edward Guerlac was an American historian of science. He taught at Cornell University where he was the Goldwin Smith Professor of History and a member of the Department of History....
  
  , Deceased: History of Science: 1978.
• Edwin J. Gunn, Artist, New York City: 1978.
• Robert W. Gutman, Dean, Art and Design Division, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York: 1978.
• Marshall M. Haith, Professor of Psychology, University of Denver: 1978.
• John Halperin, Centennial Professor of English, Vanderbilt University: 1978,1985.
• Gilbert H. Harman, Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University: 1978.
• Daniel A. Harris, Associate Professor of English, Douglass College, Rutgers University: 1978.
• William Hauptman
  William Hauptman
  William Hauptman, born November 26, 1942, in Wichita Falls, Texas, is a writer, best known for the plays, musicals, and short stories he has written.- Work :*Big River*Comanche Cafe*Domino Courts*The Durango Flash*Gillette*Heat...
  
  , Playwright, New York City: 1978.
• John Edward Hay, Director of Environmental Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand: 1978.
• James J. Heckman, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago: 1978.
• Roger A. Hegstrom, Professor of Chemistry, Wake Forest University: 1978.
• John C. Heiss, Composer; Member of the Faculty, New England Conservatory of Music: 1978.
• Jurgen Herbst, Emeritus Professor of Educational Policy Studies and of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1978.
• Darleane C. Hoffman
  Darleane C. Hoffman
  Darleane C. Hoffman is an American nuclear chemist who was among the researchers who confirmed the existence of Seaborgium, element 106. She is a faculty senior scientist in the Nuclear Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and a professor in the graduate school at UC Berkeley.She...
  
  , Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley; Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory: 1978.
• Roald Hoffmann
  Roald Hoffmann
  Roald Hoffmann is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He currently teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.-Escape from the Holocaust:...
  
  , Frank M. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Cornell University: 1978.
• Nancy L. Holt, Artist, New York City: 1978.
• Bette Howland
  Bette Howland
  Bette Howland is an American writer and literary critic.She wrote for Commentary Magazine.She appeared at Yaddo.-Works:*The iron year, University of Iowa., 1967*W-3, Viking Press, 1974, ISBN 9780670748631...
  
  , Writer, Albuquerque, New Mexico: 1978.
• Joseph A. Hudson, Composer, New York City: 1978.
• Vernon W. Hughes, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Physics, Yale University: 1978.
• Norris C. Hundley, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles: 1978.
• George K. Hunter, Emily Sanford Professor Emeritus of English, Yale University: 1978.
• James T. Hynes, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder: 1978.
• Charles Israels
  Chuck Israels
  Charles H. "Chuck" Israels is a composer, arranger, and bassist who is best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio. He has also worked with Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, J. J. Johnson, John Coltrane and many others.-Biography:Chuck Israels was...
  
  , Composer: 1978.
• Neil Jenney, Jr, Artist, New York City: 1978.
• Robert Jervis
  Robert Jervis
  Robert Jervis is the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University, and has been a member of the faculty since 1980. Jervis was the recipient of the 1990 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order...
  
  , Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs, Columbia University: 1978.
• Joseph Katz
  Joseph Katz
  Joseph Katz allegedly worked for Soviet intelligence from the 1930s to the late 1940s as one of its most active liaison agents. Katz was assigned management of the “First Line,” that part of the NKGB mission aimed at recruiting selected members of the Communist Party USA...
  
  , Deceased. Education: 1978.
• William M. Kaula, Deceased. Earth Science: 1978.
• David Kechley, Professor of Music, Williams College: 1978.
• John L. Keep, Retired Professor of History, University of Toronto: 1978.
• David N. Keightley, Emeritus Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley: 1978.
• Charles M. H. Keil, Emeritus Professor of American Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo: 1978.
• Andrew S. Kende, Charles F. Houghton Professor of Chemistry, University of Rochester: 1978.
• Susan Estabrook Kennedy, Chair, Professor of History, Virginia Commonwealth University: 1978.
• Richard Kevorkian, Artist; Professor of Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University: 1978.
• George L. Kline, Milton C. Nahm Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College: 1978.
• Annette Kolodny
  Annette Kolodny
  Annette Kolodny is a feminist literary critic and activist, and currently holds the position of College of Humanities Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Arizona in Tucson...
  
  , Professor of Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Arizona: 1978.
• Richard W. Kotuk, Deceased. Film: 1978.
• Donald J. Kouri, Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Physics, University of Houston: 1978.
• David Krause, Professor Emeritus of English, Brown University: 1978.
• Sige-Yuki Kuroda, Deceased. Linguistics: 1978.
• Don Q. Lamb, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago: 1978.
• Ronald W. Langacker, Professor of Linguisitics, University of California, San Diego: 1978.
• Richard G. Lawton, Professor of Chemistry, University of Michigan: 1978.
• Wonyong Lee, Professor of Physics, Columbia University: 1978.
• Lynn Hollen Lees, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania: 1978.
• Richard D. Lehan, Professor Emeritus of English, American, and Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles: 1978.
• Herbert Lehnert, Research Professor of German, University of California, Irvine: 1978.
• Richard L. Levin, Emeritus Professor of English, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  State University of New York at Stony Brook
  The State University of New York at Stony Brook, also known as Stony Brook University, is a public research university located in Stony Brook, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island, about east of Manhattan....
  
  : 1978.
• Robert I. Levy, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego: 1978.
• Benjamin M. Lifson, Photographer, New York City: 1978.
• J. G. Liou, Professor of Geology, Stanford University: 1978.
• Trevor Lloyd
  Trevor Lloyd
  Trevor Lloyd is a former international rugby union player.Lloyd hailed from Port Talbot, where he started playing club rugby with the Aberavon Quins RFC, he made his debut for Wales on 14 March 1953 versus Ireland and was selected for the 1955 British Lions tour to South Africa...
  
  , Professor of History, University of Toronto: 1978.
• Clara M. Lovett
  Clara Lovett
  Clara M. Lovett , is a former president of Northern Arizona University.Lovette received her undergraduate education at the University of Trieste and Cambridge University in the United Kingdom...
  
  , President, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona: 1978.
• J. Anthony Lukas
  J. Anthony Lukas
  Jay Anthony Lukas, aka J. Anthony Lucas , was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author, probably best known for his 1985 book Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, a classic study of race relations and school busing in Boston, Massachusetts, as...
  
  , Deceased. General Nonfiction: 1978.
• Ian Roderick Macneil, John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law, Northwestern University: 1978.
• Peter B. Maggs, Peter and Sarah Pedersen Professor of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1978.
• John Margolies, Architectural Critic, New York City: 1978.
• Lynn Margulis
  Lynn Margulis
  Lynn Margulis was an American biologist and University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is best known for her theory on the origin of eukaryotic organelles, and her contributions to the endosymbiotic theory, which is now generally accepted...
  
  , Distinguished University Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: 1978.
• Sherwin A. Maslowe, Professor of Mathematics, McGill University: 1978.
• Jeffrey P. Mass, Professor of History, Stanford University; Professor of Japanese, Oxford University: 1978.
• James A. Matisoff, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley: 1978.
• William F. May
  William F. May
  William Frederick May was an American chemical engineer, businessman and co-founder of the Film Society of Lincoln Center....
  
  , Cary M. Maguire Professor of Ethics, Southern Methodist University: 1978.
• David R. Mayhew, Sterling Professor of Political Science, Yale University: 1978.
• William McAllister-Johnson, Professor of the History of Art, University of Toronto: 1978.
• Michael McCanles, Professor of English, Marquette University: 1978.
• Gerald W. McFarland, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: 1978.
• Leonard Melfi
  Leonard Melfi
  Leonard Melfi is an American playwright and actor whose work has been widely produced for the American stage.-Career:...
  
  , Playwright, New York City: 1978.
• Jeffrey Meyers, Writer; Kensington, California: 1978.
• Brenda Miller, Artist, New York City: 1978.
• Roy A. Miller, Professor Emeritus of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington: 1978.
• Richard Misrach
  Richard Misrach
  Richard Misrach is an American photographer known for his photographs of human intervention in landscapes. His works are represented in more than fifty major museum collections around the world....
  
  , Photographer, Emeryville, California: 1978.
• P. M. Mitchell, Deceased. German and Scandinavian Literature: 1978.
• John Modell, Professor of Education and Human Development and Professor of Sociology, Brown University: 1978.
• John N. Morris, Deceased. Poetry: 1978.
• James D. Muhly, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History, University of Pennsylvania: 1978.
• Bharati Mukherjee
  Bharati Mukherjee
  Bharati Mukherjee is an award-winning Indian-born American writer. She is currently a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.-Background:...
  
  , Writer; Professor of English, University of California, Berekeley: 1978.
• Donald J. Munro, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and of Chinese, University of Michigan: 1978.
• Conlon Nancarrow
  Conlon Nancarrow
  Conlon Nancarrow was a United States-born composer who lived and worked in Mexico for most of his life. He became a Mexican citizen in 1955.Nancarrow is best remembered for the pieces he wrote for the player piano...
  
  , Deceased. Music Composition: 1978.
• Barbara Nolan, Chair, Professor of English, University of Virginia: 1978.
• R. Glenn Northcutt, Professor of Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego: 1978.
• Gananath Obeyesekere
  Gananath Obeyesekere
  Gananath Obeyesekere is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and has done much work in his home country of Sri Lanka. He completed a B.A. in English at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, followed by an M.A. and Ph.D at the University of Washington...
  
  , Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University: 1978.
• Darcy O'Brien
  Darcy O'Brien
  Darcy O'Brien was an award-winning author of fiction and literary criticism, most well-known for his work in the genre of true crime. His first novel, A Way of Life, Like Any Other, was a fictionalized account of his childhood in Hollywood...
  
  , Deceased. Fiction: 1978.
• David M. Olan, Composer; Professor of Music, Baruch College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York: 1978.
• Wilma K. Olson, Mary I. Bunting Professor of Chemistry, Douglass College, Rutgers University: 1978.
• Michael Oppenheimer
  Michael Oppenheimer
  Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University...
  
  , Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund, New York City: 1978.
• Elaine H. Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University: 1978.
• Orlando Patterson
  Orlando Patterson
  Orlando Patterson is a Jamaica-born American historical and cultural sociologist known for his work regarding issues of race in the America, as well as the sociology of development, currently holding the John Cowles chair in Sociology at Harvard University. Patterson took his B.Sc in Economics...
  
  , John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University: 1978.
• Robert A. Pendleton, Choreographer, Washington, Connecticut; Artistic Director, Momix Dance Theater: 1978.
• Donald Phelps, Writer, New York City: 1978.
• Edmund S. Phelps, McVickar Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University: 1978.
• Eric R. Pianka, Professor of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin: 1978.
• Claude Pichois, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of French, Vanderbilt University: 1978.
• David B. Pisoni, Chancellors' Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Indiana University: 1978.
• David Premack
  David Premack
  David Premack is currently emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He was educated at the University of Minnesota when logical positivism was in full bloom. The departments of Psychology and Philosophy were closely allied...
  
  , Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania: 1978.
• Kenneth Price
  Kenneth Price
  Kenneth Price is an American ceramic artist and printmaker who was born in Los Angeles, California in 1935. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, before receiving his BFA degree from the University of Southern California in 1956...
  
  , Artist: 1978.
• Dean G. Pruitt, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo: 1978.
• Paul H. Rabinowitz, Professor of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1978.
• Steve Reich
  Steve Reich
  Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich is an American composer who together with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass is a pioneering composer of minimal music...
  
  , Composer, New York City: 1978.
• Peter Hanns Reill, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles: 1978.
• Martin Rein
  Martin Rein
  Martin Rein was an American businessman who co-founded Standard Security Life Insurance Company.Rein gained his degree in law from the Columbia Law School at age 21....
  
  , Professor of Sociology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1978.
• Howard Reiss, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles: 1978.
• Robert V. Remini
  Robert V. Remini
  Robert Vincent Remini is a historian and a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of numerous works about President Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonian Era....
  
  , Historian, University of Illinois at Chicago: 1978.
• Richard J. Roberts
  Richard J. Roberts
  Sir Richard "Rich" John Roberts is a British biochemist and molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing.When he was 4, his family moved to Bath. In...
  
  , Director of Research, New England Biolabs, Beverly, Massachusetts: 1978.
• Walter Rosenblum, Photographer; Professor Emeritus of Art, Brooklyn College, City University of New York: 1978.
• Charles L. Ross, Associate Professor of English, University of Hartford: 1978.
• Michael Rothschild
  Michael Rothschild
  Michael Rothschild is an American economist; he is visiting professor at the Department of Economics of the University of California in Los Angeles and a former dean at Princeton.- Education :...
  
  , Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego: 1978.
• David G. Rubin, Emeritus Professor of Literature, Sarah Lawrence University; Visiting Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Columbia University: 1978.
• Joel Sachs, Chairman, Music History, The Juilliard School: 1978.
• Edward B. Saff, Professor of Mathematics, University of South Florida: 1978.
• Daniel J. Sandin
  Daniel J. Sandin
  Daniel J. Sandin is a video and computer graphics artist/researcher. He is a Professor Emeritus of the School of Art & Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Co-director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago...
  
  , Artist; Professor of Art, University of Illinois at Chicago: 1978.
• Giovanni Sartori
  Giovanni Sartori
  Giovanni Sartori is an Italian political scientist specialized in the study of democracy and comparative politics.-Biography:Born in Florence in 1924. Sartori began his academic career as a lecturer in the History of Modern Philosophy...
  
  , Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University: 1978.
• Dennis Schmitz
  Dennis Schmitz
  -Life:He grew up in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Loras College and the University of Chicago. He married Loretta D'Agostino in 1960. He taught at Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and California State University, Sacramento.His students include Raymond...
  
  , Poet; Professor of English, California State University, Sacramento: 1978.
• Millard Kent Schumaker, Professor of Religion, Queen's University, Kingston; Associate Professor of Religion and Ethics, Queen's Theological College: 1978.
• Joseph Schwantner
  Joseph Schwantner
  Joseph C. Schwantner is a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer and educator and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded the 1970 Charles Ives Prize....
  
  , Composer; Professor of Composition, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester: 1978.
• John H. Schwarz, Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology: 1978.
• Dana S. Scott, Hillman University Professor of Computer Science and Mathematical Logic, Carnegie-Mellon University: 1978.
• James C. Scott
  James C. Scott
  James C. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science, formerly Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at Yale University. He is also the director of the Program in Agrarian Studies. By training, he is a southeast Asianist.- Research topics :James Scott's work focuses...
  
  , Eugene Meyers Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University: 1978.
• Martin F. Semmelhack, Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University: 1978.
• Wallace Shawn
  Wallace Shawn
  Wallace Michael Shawn , sometimes credited as Wally Shawn, is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, author, voice artist, and intellectual. His best-known film roles include Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre , Vizzini in The Princess Bride , and debate teacher Mr...
  
  , Playwright, New York City: 1978.
• Joel Sherzer, Liberal Arts Foundation Centennial Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin: 1978.
• Harry Sieber, Professor of Romance Languages, Johns Hopkins University: 1978.
• Elie Siegmeister
  Elie Siegmeister
  Elie Siegmeister was an American composer, educator and author.His varied musical output showed his concern with the development of an authentic American musical vocabulary...
  
  , Deceased. Music Composition: 1978.
• Michael Silverstein
  Michael Silverstein
  Michael Silverstein is a professor of anthropology, linguistics, and psychology at the University of Chicago. He is a theoretician of semiotics and linguistic anthropology. Over the course of his career he has drawn together research on linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, language ideology,...
  
  , Samuel N. Harper Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Psychology, University of Chicago: 1978.
• Melvin I. Simon, Chair, Professor of Biological Sciences, California Institute of Technology: 1978.
• Lawrence Sirovich, Professor; Director, Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, CUNY/Mt. Sinai, New York City: 1978.
• William E. Spicer, Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering, Stanford University: 1978.
• David E. Stannard
  David Stannard
  David Edward Stannard is an American historian and Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii. He is particularly known for his book American Holocaust , on the genocide of the native American population.-Early life:He was born to Florence E. Harwood Stannard and David L. Stannard,...
  
  , Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa: 1978.
• Ross M. Starr, Professor of Economics, University of California,San Diego: 1978.
• John M. Steadman, III, Emeritus Professor of English, University of California Riverside, and Senior Research Associate, The Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino: 1978.
• Hilgard O'Reilly Sternberg, Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of California, Berkeley: 1978.
• Joel Sternfeld
  Joel Sternfeld
  Joel Sternfeld, , is a fine-art color photographer noted for his large-format documentary pictures of the United States and helping establish color photography as a respected artistic medium. He has many works in the permanent collections of the MOMA in New York City and the Getty Center in Los...
  
  , Photographer; Member of the Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College: 1978, 1982.
• Garrett Stewart, Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara: 1978.
• Alan A. Stone
  Alan A. Stone
  Alan A. Stone is a professor of law and psychiatry at Harvard University. Stone also maintains an interest in cinema, and serves as the film critic for the Boston Review....
  
  , Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law and Psychiatry, Harvard University: 1978.
• Daniel W. Stroock
  Daniel W. Stroock
  Daniel Wyler Stroock is an American mathematician, a probabilist.- Biography :He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1962 and his doctorate from Rockefeller University in 1966...
  
  , Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1978.
• Joel Sucher, Producer, Pacific Street Films, Brooklyn, New York: 1978.
• Lawrence Anthony Sullivan, Earl Warren Professor of Public Law, University of California, Berkeley: 1978.
• John Suppe
  John Suppe
  John Suppe is an American geologist, Professor of Geology at National Taiwan University and Princeton University.He received his B.A. from University of California, Riverside in 1965, and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1969. He joined the Princeton faculty in 1971, and was the chairman of the...
  
  , Blair Professor of Geology, Princeton University: 1978.
• Elizabeth Swados
  Elizabeth Swados
  Elizabeth Swados is an American writer, composer, musician, and theatre director. While some of her subject matter is humorous, such as her satirical look at Ronald Reagan, Rap Master Ronnie, and Doonesbury - both collaborations with Garry Trudeau - much of her work deals with dark issues such as...
  
  , Composer and Theatre Director, New York City: 1978.
• Kei Takei, Choreographer, New York City: 1978, 1988.
• Robert E. Tarjan, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University: 1978.
• Mark C. Taylor
  Mark C. Taylor
  Mark C. Taylor is a philosopher of religion and cultural critic who has published more than twenty books on theology, philosophy, art and architecture, media, technology, economics, and the natural sciences...
  
  , Cluett Professor of Humanities, Williams College: 1978.
• J. Mills Thornton, III, Professor of History, University of Michigan: 1978.
• Micheline L. Tison-Braun, Professor Emeritus of French, Hunter College and Graduate Center, City University of New York: 1978. Appointed as Braun, Micheline L.
• Calvin Tomkins
  Calvin Tomkins
  Calvin Tomkins is an author and art critic for The New Yorker magazine.Tomkins was born in 1925, in Orange, New Jersey. After receiving an undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1948 he became a journalist...
  
  , Staff Writer, The New Yorker: 1978.
• Paul Uselding, Dean, Professor of Management, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH: 1978.
• Kermit Vanderbilt, Distinguished Professor of English, San Diego State University: 1978.
• John Van Sickle, Professor of Classics, Brooklyn College, and Professor of Classics and of Comparative Literature, Graduate School, City University of New York: 1978.
• David Vaughan, Dance Critic; Archivist, Cunningham Dance Foundation: 1978.
• William Veeder
  William Veeder
  William Veeder is a scholar of 19th century American and British literature and a Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Chicago.-Early life:...
  
  , Professor of English and of the Humanities, University of Chicago: 1978.
• Arthur F. Veinott, Professor of Operations Research, Stanford University: 1978.
• Ellen Bryant Voigt
  Ellen Bryant Voigt
  Ellen Bryant Voigt is an American poet. She has published six collections of poetry and a collection of craft essays. Her poetry collection Shadow of Heaven was a finalist for the National Book Award and Kyrie was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poetry has been...
  
  , Poet, Marshfield, Vermont: 1978.
• Stanko B. Vranich, Associate Professor of Romance Languages, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York: 1978.
• Robert V. Wagoner, Professor of Physics, Stanford University: 1978.
• Anthony F. C. Wallace
  Anthony F. C. Wallace
  Anthony Francis Clarke Wallace is a Canadian-American anthropologist who specializes in Native American cultures, especially the Iroquois. His research expresses an interest in the intersection of cultural anthropology and psychology...
  
  , University Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania: 1978.
• William S-Y Wang, Chair, Professor of Language Engineering, City University of Hong Kong: 1978.
• J. P. Wearing
  J. P. Wearing
  John Peter Wearing is an English-born American author and professor, who has written numerous books and articles about nineteenth and twentieth-century drama and theater, including The Shakespeare Diaries: A Fictional Autobiography, published in 2007...
  
  , Emeritus Professor of English, University of Arizona: 1978.
• James M. Wells, Curator Emeritus, The Newberry Library, Chicago: 1978.
• Joanna Williams, Professor of Art, University of California-Berkeley: 1978.
• Thornton Willis, Artist, New York City: 1978.
• Jacqueline Winsor, Artist; Instructor in Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts: 1978.
• Joseph A. Wittreich, Jr., Distinguished Professor of English, City University of New York Graduate School and University Center: 1978.
• Donald R. Yennie, Deceased. Physics: 1978.
• David Young, Poet; Longman Professor of English, Oberlin College: 1978.
• Robert B. Zajonc, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University: 1978.

Latin American and Caribbean

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 Fellows

• Carlos Aragone Salveraglio, Professor of Physics, Simon Bolivar University, Caracas: 1978.
• Winston Branch, Artist, St. Lucia, West Indies; Adjunct Professor of Art, University of California, Berkeley: 1978.
• Daniel Pedro Cardinali, Head, Division of Neuroendocrine Pharmacology, Center for Pharmacological Research, National Research Council of Argentina, Buenos Aires: 1978.
• Antonio Cisneros Campoy, Writer; Professor of Literature, National University of San Marcos, Lima: 1978.
• Alfredo Elio Cocucci, Professor of Botany, National University of Córdoba: 1978.
• Asdrubal Colmenarez, Artist; Research Associate In Art, University of Paris VIII, France: 1978.
• Manuel Dannemann, Professor of Ethnology and Folklore, University of Chile: 1978.
• Jorge Eduardo Eielson, Writer, Milan, Italy: 1978.
• Gustavo Eduardo Ferrari, Deceased. Political Science: 1978.
• Guillermo Carlos Flichman, Research Economist, International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies, Paris: 1978.
• Fernando Gagliuffi Kolich, Film Maker and Architect, Lima: 1978.
• Norbel Galanti, Professor of Cell Biology and Genetics, University of Chile School of Medicine: 1978.
• Rubens Gerchman
  Rubens Gerchman
  Rubens Gerchman was a Brazilian painter and sculptor. He was heavily influenced by concrete and neoconcrete art....
  
  , Artist; Director, School of Visual Arts, Rio de Janeiro: 1978.
• Carlos Roberto González, Professor, Institute of Geology, Miguel Lillo Foundation; Professor of Historical Geology, National University of Tucumán : 1978.
• Luis Jorge González Fernández, Associate Professor, University of Colorado: 1978
• David Huerta Bravo, Writer, México, D.F.: 1978.
• Enrique Krauze Kleinbort
  Enrique Krauze
  Enrique Krauze Kleinbort is a Mexican historian, essayist and publisher. He is president of the publisher Editorial Clío and director of the cultural magazine ....
  
  , Research Associate in History, College of Mexico, Mexico, D.F.: 1978.
• Larissa A. Lomnitz, Professor of Anthropology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico, D.F.: 1978.
• Carlos José Pereira de Lucena, Professor of Computer Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro: 1978.
• Gerardo Martínez-López, Plant Virologist, Colombian Agricultural and Livestock Institute, Bogotá: 1978.
• Elisa T. Marusic, Professor of Medicine, University of Los Andes: 1978.
• Humberto R. Maturana, Professor of Biology, University of Chile: 1978.
• Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul, Deceased. Fiction: 1978.
• Antonio Paes de Carvalho, President, BIO-RIO; Professor of Biophysics and Physiology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro: 1978.
• Rafael Panzone, Retired Professor of Mathematics, National University of the South, Bahí a Blanca; Career Scientist, National Research Council of Argentine: 1978.
• Leôncio Martins Rodrigues, Professor of Social Science, University of São Paulo: 1978.
• Andrea Tonacci, Film Maker, Sa Paulo: 1978, 1982.
• Marco Antonio Valdivia, Photographer, Antofagasta, Chile: 1978.