The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences is a

learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and science. Membership ...

founded in 1799 in

New Haven, Connecticut New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134 ...

"to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest and happiness of a free and virtuous people." Its purpose is the dissemination of scholarly information. In the 2021–2022 academic year, the CAAS ha
250 members

Publications

''Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences''''Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences''Catalogue of publications

Notable members

Asger Aaboe Asger Hartvig Aaboe (26 April 1922 – 19 January 2007) was a historian of the exact sciences and of mathematics who is known for his contributions to the history of ancient Babylonian astronomy. In his studies of Babylonian astronomy, he went b ...

, historian and mathematician *

Hezekiah Augur Hezekiah Augur (February 21, 1791 – January 10, 1858) was an early American sculptor and inventor. He was a self-taught sculptor and, unlike many other 19th-century American sculptors, did not travel to Europe, but spent his entire career in New ...

, sculptor and inventor *

Simeon Eben Baldwin Simeon Eben Baldwin (February 5, 1840 – January 30, 1927) was an American jurist, law professor, and politician who served as the 65th governor of Connecticut. Education The son of jurist, Connecticut governor and U.S. Senator Roger Sherma ...

, jurist, law professor and governor *

Charles Emerson Beecher Charles Emerson Beecher (October 9, 1856 – February 14, 1904) was an American paleontologist most famous for the thorough excavation, preparation and study of trilobite ventral anatomy from specimens collected at Beecher's Trilobite Bed. ...

, paleontologist *

Bertram Boltwood Bertram Borden Boltwood (July 27, 1870 Amherst, Massachusetts – August 15, 1927, Hancock Point, Maine) was an American pioneer of radiochemistry. Boltwood attended Yale University, became a professor there and in 1910 was appointed chair of t ...

, radiochemist * Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, graphic designer, artist and educator * William Henry Brewer, botanist * George Jarvis Brush, mineralogist and academic administrator * Henry A. Bumstead, electromagnetist * Russell Henry Chittenden, biochemist * Edward Salisbury Dana, mineralogist and physicist * Arnold Dashefsky, sociologist * Franklin Bowditch Dexter, librarian and university administrator * Timothy Dwight *

Edson Fessenden Gallaudet Edson Fessenden Gallaudet (April 21, 1871 in Washington, D.C. – July 1, 1945 in Pine Orchard, Connecticut) was a pioneer in the field of aviation. He was best known for his development of practical airfoils and aircraft propulsion syst ...

, aviator *

Josiah Willard Gibbs Josiah Willard Gibbs (; February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) was an American scientist who made significant theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. His work on the applications of thermodynamics was instrumental in t ...

, physicist, chemist, and mathematician * Frank Austin Gooch, chemist and engineer * Henry Solon Graves, forester and educator * Charles Sheldon Hastings, physicist *

Yandell Henderson Yandell Henderson (April 23, 1873 – February 18, 1944) was an American physiologist. West, John B. (1988"Yandell Henderson"in ''Biographical Memoirs'' Vol. 74. American Academies Press

, physiologist *

James Mason Hoppin James Mason Hoppin (January 17, 1820 – November 15, 1906) was an American educator and writer. Biography James Mason Hoppin was born at Providence, Rhode Island on January 17, 1820. He graduated from Yale College in 1840 (where he was a member ...

, educator and writer * George Trumbull Ladd, philosopher, educator, and psychologist *

Joseph LaPalombara Joseph LaPalombara (born May 18, 1925) is an American political scientist who specializes in comparative politics, group interest theory, and the foreign investments made by global firms. He is the Arnold Wolfers Professor Emeritus of Political ...

, political scientist *

Charles Lemert Charles Lemert (born 1937) is an American born social theorist and sociologist. He has written extensively on social theory, globalization and culture. He has contributed to many key debates in social thought, authoring dozens of books including h ...

, sociologist *

Linda Lorimer Linda Koch Lorimer was Vice President for Global and Strategic Initiatives at Yale University, where she was responsible for an array of administrative departments. She developed and oversees Yale's Office of International Affairs and created Yal ...

, university administrator *

Chester Lyman Chester Smith Lyman (January 13, 1814 – January 29, 1890) was an American teacher, clergyman and astronomer. Early life and education He was born in Manchester, Connecticut, to Chester and Mary Smith Lyman. Chester is the descendant of Richard L ...

, president *

George Grant MacCurdy George Grant MacCurdy (April 17, 1863 – November 15, 1947) was an American anthropologist, born at Warrensburg, Mo., where he graduated from the State Normal School in 1887, after which he attended Harvard (AB, 1893; AM, 1894); then studied in ...

, anthropologist *Richard Mammana, church historian and ecumenist * Lafayette Mendel, nutritionist * Hubert Anson Newton, astronomer and mathematician *

Alexander Petrunkevitch Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch ( Russian: Александр Иванович Петрункевич, December 22, 1875 in Plysky near Kyiv, now Ukraine – March 9, 1964 in New Haven) was an eminent Russian arachnologist of his time. ...

, arachnologist *

Charles Brinckerhoff Richards Charles Brinckerhoff Richards (December 23, 1835 – April 20, 1919) was an engineer who worked for Colt's Patent Fire Arms Co., where he was responsible for the development of the Colt Single Action Army revolver. Richards was a founder of the A ...

, engineer *

William North Rice William North Rice (1845–1928) was an American geologist, educator, and Methodist minister and theologian concerned with reconciliation of science and religious faith. Early life and education William North Rice was born November 21, 1845 in ...

, geologist, educator, Methodist theologian * John Rose, organist * Edward Elbridge Salisbury, Sanskritist * Benjamin Silliman, chemist and geologist *

Joseph Siry Joseph M. Siry is a leading American architectural historian and professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Wesleyan University. Siry's publications have focused particularly on the architecture of Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and ...

, architectural historian * Gaddis Smith *

Percey F. Smith Percey Franklyn Smith (21 August 1867 – 1956) was an American mathematician and professor of mathematics at Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. Smith was born in Nyack, New York. He studied mathematics at Sheffield Scientific Sc ...

, mathematician *

Jennifer Tucker Jennifer Tucker is Associate Professor of History and Science in Society at Wesleyan University. She is a Fulbright Scholar, founding director of Wesleyan's Center for the Study of Guns and Society, and a vice president of the Connecticut Academy of ...

, historian and biologist * Addison Van Name, librarian and linguist *

John Monroe Van Vleck John Monroe Van Vleck (March 4, 1833 – November 4, 1912) was an American mathematician and astronomer. He taught astronomy and mathematics at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut for more than 50 years (1853-1912), and served as act ...

, mathematician and astronomer *

Addison Emery Verrill Addison Emery Verrill (February 9, 1839 – December 10, 1926) was an American invertebrate zoologist, museum curator and university professor. Life Verrill was born on February 9, 1839 in Greenwood, Maine, the son of George Washington Verrill ...

, president *

Noah Webster Noah ''Nukh''; am, ኖህ, ''Noḥ''; ar, نُوح '; grc, Νῶε ''Nôe'' () is the tenth and last of the pre-Flood patriarchs in the traditions of Abrahamic religions. His story appears in the Hebrew Bible ( Book of Genesis, chapters ...

, lexicographer, author, editor, prolific author *

Eli Whitney Eli Whitney Jr. (December 8, 1765January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. Although Whitney hi ...

William Kurtz Wimsatt, Jr. William Kurtz Wimsatt Jr. (November 17, 1907 – December 17, 1975) was an American professor of English, literary theorist, and critic. Wimsatt is often associated with the concept of the intentional fallacy, which he developed with Monroe Beard ...

, literary theorist and critic

Sources

*Rollin Gustav Osterweis, ''The Sesquicentennial History of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences'' (New Haven, 1949) *Mary Ellen Ellsworth, ''A History of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 1799-1999'' (Transactions, vol. 55)

External links

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