American Philosophical Society Taps Three Yale Faculty Members.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-14 May 2007-YALE UNIVERSITY: American Philosophical Society Taps Three Yale Faculty Members(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14052007 New Haven, Conn. - Three distinguished Yale University faculty members recently were inducted to membership in the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of "promoting useful knowledge." Election to the APS honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields.

The APS is unusual among learned societies because its membership is comprised of top scholars from a wide variety of academic disciplines. Members are organized into five areas: the mathematical and physical sciences; the biological sciences; the social...