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Historical June 1987 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Dr. W. Maxwell Cowan, provost and executive vice chancellor at Washington University in St. Louis, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society, the oldest and, in some respects, the most prestigious learned society in North America. Founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, the American Philosophical Society consists of just over 600 members, drawn from all areas of academic and public life and is renowned for the quality of its semi-annual meetings and its publications. Cowan, who is distinguished for his contributions to neurobiology, is a former head of the department of anatomy and neurobiology at Washington University School of Medicine.
From 1977-1980, he served as director of the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences.
From 1981 to 1986, he was vice president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego. Cowan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the Academy’s Institute of Medicine.
He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.
In 1985 he received the Karl Spencer Lashly Prize for Neurobiology from the American Philosophical Society.
Most of the founding fathers of the United States belonged to the American Philosophical Society, including George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine, Baron Von Steuben, and the Marquis de Lafayette. Thomas Jefferson during the years that he was president of the United States (1801-1809) also served as president of the American Philosophical Society (1797-1814).
At present, 20 residents of the United States and 10 residents of foreign countries may be elected each year.
The Society’s headquarters are in Philosophical Hall, which is on Independence Square (formerly the State House Yard) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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W. Maxwell Cowan. The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, June 1987, page 8. Photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, June 1987.
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