American Academy announces 233rd class
Harvard’s David Matthew Altshuler, professor of genetics, Harvard Medical School (HMS); Xandra Owens Breakefield, professor of neurology, HMS; Paul Arthur Buttenwieser, clinical instructor in psychiatry, HMS; David Winslow Latham, lecturer on astronomy; Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Joseph Loscalzo, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic, HMS; John Francis Manning, Bruce Bromley Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Charles Alexander Nelson III, professor of psychiatry, HMS; William James Poorvu, Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship Emeritus, Harvard Business School; and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Professor of Physics Xiaowei Zhuang were among 164 influential artists, scientists, scholars, authors, and institutional leaders who were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at a ceremony in Cambridge on Oct. 12. Academy Award-winning actor Sally Field, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, novelist Martin Amis, and jazz great Herbie Hancock...