FAMOUS PHILLY PHILOSOPHS
HONOR BOB AND DENISE

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown have been elected to the American Philosophical Society, a renowned organization of civic leaders and scholarly researchers in the sciences and humanities.

Based in Philadelphia, the APS became America’s first learned society when Benjamin Franklin founded it in 1743 “to cultivate the finer arts, and improve the common stock of knowledge."

Historical members of the APS include George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine, Charles Darwin, Robert Frost, Louis Pasteur, Margaret Mead, and Thomas Edison.

Today, the Society promotes and recognizes the world’s foremost scholars and practitioners in the mathematical and physical sciences, biological sciences, social sciences, humanities, arts, and public and private affairs.  The APS nurtures research and offers library resources, publications, and community outreach services.

Currently there are over 700 members around the world, including writer Joan Didion, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, and MIT Professor and writer Noam Chomsky.

For more information on the APS, please see their website, http://www.amphilsoc.org/.