Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and other Founding Fathers of the United States.
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liberal economistsBritish parodistsBritish people of Irish descentBritish philosophers of logicBritish scientific instrument makersBritish scientists with disabilitiesBritish social liberalsBritish women philosophersClassical-period composersCommanding Generals of the United States Army, Presidents of the United StatesContinental philosophersConverts to Lutheranism from JudaismConverts to Roman CatholicismCreators of writing systemsDeaths from kidney failure in the United KingdomDeputies to the French National ConventionDuke University facultyEnglish ProtestantsEnglish QuakersEnglish autobiographersExistentialist theologiansForeign members of the USSR Academy of SciencesFormer AnglicansFree love advocatesFrench Marxists, French anti-war activistsFrench abolitionistsFrench agnosticsFrench biographers, French ethicistsFrench fluid dynamicists, French mathematicians, French probability theoristsFrench magazine foundersFrench political scientistsFrench scientists with disabilitiesGay scientistsGerman male classical composersGrand Officers of the Legion of HonourHistory of Greater ManchesterHonorary Fellows of the Royal Society of EdinburghHuman geographersIndependent scholarsInfectious disease deaths in FranceIntellectual historians, University of Chicago facultyIrish essayistsIrish writers in French, People educated at Portora Royal SchoolJewish existentialistsLinear algebraistsMagneticiansMasonic grand mastersPeople killed in the French RevolutionPeople with Parkinson's diseasePhilosophers from MassachusettsPhilosophers of nihilismPlatonistsPolitical activists from PennsylvaniaPrinceton University facultyProto-feministsRecipients of the Dalton MedalRecreational cryptographers, Writers from Boston, Writers from PhiladelphiaRectors of the University of St AndrewsScholars of antisemitismSystematic theologiansThe New School facultyUK MPs 1865–1868University of Jena alumniUniversity of Marburg alumniVoting theoristsWomen Nobel laureatesWomen nuclear physicists
Benjamin Franklin
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the scientist, writer, printer, diplomat and American founding father Benjamin Franklin.
1 March 2012
Featuring: Simon Middleton, Simon Newman, Patricia Fara
CultureMasonic grand mastersFellows of the Royal SocietyHonorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of SciencesIndependent scholarsAmerican male non-fiction writersTheorists on Western civilizationPhilosophers of literatureAmerican deistsAge of EnlightenmentSocial philosophersPhilosophy writersPhilosophers of technologyAmerican political philosophersActivists for African-American civil rightsWriters about religion and sciencePolitical activists from PennsylvaniaAphoristsRecipients of the Copley MedalRhetoric theoristsFellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences18th-century pseudonymous writersAmerican people of English descentAmerican philosophers of cultureHumor researchersAmerican male journalistsRecreational cryptographers, Writers from Boston, Writers from PhiladelphiaHall of Fame for Great Americans inducteesAmerican philosophers of religion18th-century American politicians, American Freemasons, Signers of the United States ConstitutionPhilosophers from MassachusettsMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyPeople associated with electricityCreators of writing systemsWriters about activism and social changePhilosophers of scienceAmerican slave ownersPhilosophers of historyAmerican autobiographers18th-century American writers, Founding Fathers of the United States, People of the American EnlightenmentSimple living advocatesIndependent scientistsAmerican philosophers of educationBergson and Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Henri Bergson on how our experience of time as a duration differs from the scientific measurement of time, and why that matters.
9 May 2019
Featuring: Keith Ansell-Pearson, Emily Thomas, Mark Sinclair
PhilosophyFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesMetaphysiciansJewish philosophers20th-century French philosophersLycée Condorcet alumniPhilosophers of languageNobel laureates in LiteraturePhenomenologists19th-century French writersAcademic staff of the Collège de FranceWriters from Paris19th-century French philosophersFrench Nobel laureatesÉcole Normale Supérieure alumniFrench epistemologistsPhilosophers of mindCarl Friedrich Gauss
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Gauss, 'prince of mathematicians', including those on number theory, geometry, probability theory, astronomy and electromagnetism.
30 November 2017
Featuring: Marcus du Sautoy, Colva Roney-Dougal, Nick Evans
ScienceFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesLinear algebraistsMembers of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesFellows of the Royal SocietyMembers of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesUniversity of Göttingen alumniAcademic staff of the University of Göttingen18th-century German astronomersHonorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of SciencesMental calculatorsGerman LutheransMembers of the Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesCorresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of SciencesOptical physicistsMembers of the Bavarian Academy of SciencesRecipients of the Copley MedalRecipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)Condorcet
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential French philosopher and mathematician who tried to apply his Enlightenment ideas on the benefit of education to the French Revolution.
11 January 2024
Featuring: Rachel Hammersley, Richard Whatmore, Tom Hopkins
PhilosophyFrench political scientistsFrench sociologistsDeputies to the French National ConventionFrench biographers, French ethicistsHonorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of SciencesFrench philosophers of scienceFrench feminists18th-century philosophersTheoretical historiansAge of EnlightenmentFrench atheists18th-century French mathematiciansRationalistsBurials at the Panthéon, ParisFrench philosophers of historyFrench philosophers of educationFellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences18th-century French writersMembers of the Académie FrançaiseFrench male non-fiction writersFrench philosophers of cultureMembers of the French Academy of SciencesAtheist philosophersVoting theoristsFrench abolitionistsPhilosophers of religionProto-feministsEnlightenment philosophersUniversity of Paris alumniMembers of the Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesPeople killed in the French RevolutionScholars of feminist philosophy18th-century French male writersDorothy Hodgkin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work, ideas and life of the woman who won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the structures of vitamin B12 and penicillin.
3 October 2019
Featuring: Georgina Ferry, Judith Howard, Patricia Fara
ScienceMembers of the Order of MeritFellows of the Royal SocietyForeign associates of the National Academy of SciencesFellows of Somerville College, OxfordAlumni of Newnham College, CambridgeBritish biochemistsRecipients of the Austrian Decoration for Science and ArtNobel laureates in ChemistryRecipients of the Copley MedalFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesWomen Nobel laureatesAlumni of Somerville College, OxfordBritish Nobel laureatesRecipients of the Dalton Medal20th-century British biologistsForeign members of the USSR Academy of SciencesEnglish Nobel laureates20th-century British chemists, British biophysicists, British crystallographersBritish scientists with disabilitiesRoyal Medal winnersElizabeth Anscombe
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential thinker who rejuvenated moral philosophy in the postwar period.
22 June 2023
Featuring: Rachael Wiseman, Constantine Sandis, Roger Teichmann
PhilosophyCambridge University Moral Sciences ClubBritish philosophers of languageAction theoristsRoman Catholic writersFellows of Somerville College, OxfordAlumni of Newnham College, CambridgeWittgensteinian philosophersPresidents of the Aristotelian SocietyAnalytic philosophersDeaths from kidney failure in the United KingdomVirtue ethicistsChristian ethicistsFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesCatholic philosophersConverts to Roman CatholicismBritish women philosophersBritish philosophers of mindBertrand Russell Professors of Philosophy20th-century British philosophersFellows of the British AcademyHannah Arendt
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Hannah Arendt who examined totalitarianism and politics and, when covering the Eichmann trial, explored 'the banality of evil'.
2 February 2017
Featuring: Lyndsey Stonebridge, Frisbee Sheffield, Robert Eaglestone
PhilosophyPrinceton University facultyGerman political philosophersExistentialists20th-century American women writersIntellectual historians, University of Chicago facultyUniversity of Marburg alumniJewish existentialistsWomen religious writersPhilosophers of lawMembers of the American Academy of Arts and LettersSocial philosophersPhilosophy writersPhilosophers of technologyAmerican political philosophers20th-century German women writersGerman women philosophersFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesPhilosophers of cultureThe New School faculty20th-century American essayistsExilliteratur writersJewish agnosticsGerman agnosticsGerman Ashkenazi JewsAmerican Ashkenazi Jews, American Zionists, American agnostics, German Zionists20th-century German philosophers20th-century American philosophers20th-century German non-fiction writersGerman ethicists, German philosophers of educationHeidelberg University alumniPolitical philosophersJewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United StatesPhilosophers of scienceScholars of antisemitismPhilosophers of historyAmerican philosophers of educationHumboldt
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Prussian naturalist and explorer, Alexander Von Humboldt. A hero in South America; Charles Darwin described him as ‘the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived’.
28 September 2006
Featuring: Jason Wilson, Patricia Fara, Jim Secord
ScienceUniversity of Jena alumniHonorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences18th-century German LGBTQ peopleGerman LutheransGerman travel writersForeign members of the Royal SocietyRecipients of the Copley MedalFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesMembers of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesUniversity of Göttingen alumniHuman geographersGay scientistsMembers of the French Academy of SciencesRecipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)Members of the Prussian Academy of SciencesMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyMembers of the Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesMembers of the Bavarian Academy of SciencesIndependent scientistsIris Murdoch
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the growing prominence of the philosophy of one of the most celebrated novelists of the 20th century, who developed her ideas in response to WWII.
21 October 2021
Featuring: Anil Gomes, Anne Rowe, Miles Leeson
Culture20th-century atheistsBritish people of Irish descentAlumni of Newnham College, CambridgeBritish socialistsBritish ethicistsPhilosophers of literatureJames Tait Black Memorial Prize recipientsAnalytic philosophersPhilosophy writersPlatonistsVirtue ethicistsFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesBritish parodistsPhilosophers of cultureAlumni of Somerville College, OxfordBritish women philosophersBritish historians of philosophyBritish atheists20th-century British philosophersAtheist philosophersPhilosophers of history20th-century British non-fiction writersJohn Dalton
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss scientist John Dalton, who pioneered the development of atomic theory and carried out research into meteorology and colour blindness.
27 October 2016
Featuring: Jim Bennett, Aileen Fyfe, James Sumner
Karl Barth
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Swiss theologian who aimed to put God and Christ at the heart of Christianity when he saw others making humanity and self-revelation its focus.
07 December 2023
Featuring: Stephen Plant, Christiane Tietz, Tom Greggs
ReligionFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesExistentialist theologiansFilioqueAcademic staff of the University of GöttingenSystematic theologiansProtestants in the German Resistance20th-century Swiss writersPeople associated with the University of BaselChristian ethicistsDuke University facultyLise Meitner
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the only woman to have an atomic element named solely after her (Meitnerium), in recognition of her role in solving the question of nuclear fission.
08 May 2025
Featuring: Jess Wade, Frank Close, Steven Bramwell
ScienceFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesJewish women scientistsWinners of the Max Planck MedalForeign members of the Royal SocietyAustrian LutheransConverts to Lutheranism from JudaismMembers of the Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesWomen nuclear physicistsDiscoverers of chemical elementsRecipients of the Austrian Decoration for Science and ArtRecipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)Michael Faraday
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michael Faraday, the most famous British scientist of the 19th century.
25 December 2015
Featuring: Geoffrey Cantor, Laura Herz, Frank James
ScienceFellows of the Royal SocietyMembers of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesHonorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of SciencesForeign associates of the National Academy of SciencesMagneticiansOptical physicists19th-century British physicistsEnglish physicists19th-century English scientistsExperimental physicistsWriters about religion and scienceRecipients of the Copley MedalFellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences19th-century British chemistsEnglish ProtestantsMembers of the French Academy of SciencesRecipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)People associated with electricityEnglish inventorsBurials at Highgate CemeteryMembers of the Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesRoyal Medal winnersMill
Melvyn Bragg discusses the 19th century political philosopher John Stuart Mill and his treatise On Liberty which is one of the sacred texts of liberalism.
18 May 2006
Featuring: A. C. Grayling, Janet Radcliffe Richards, Alan Ryan
PhilosophyBritish political philosophersHonorary Fellows of the Royal Society of EdinburghEnglish libertariansBritish philosophers of languageConsequentialistsInfectious disease deaths in FranceEnglish socialistsUtilitariansEnglish suffragistsTheorists on Western civilizationBritish ethicistsBritish socialistsEnglish political writersLogiciansEnglish feminist writers, English feministsBritish free speech activistsPhilosophers of sexualityPhilosophy writersBritish classical liberal economistsPhilosophers of economicsBritish social liberals19th-century English non-fiction writersFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesPhilosophers of cultureRectors of the University of St AndrewsPhilosophers of psychologyBritish philosophers of mindEnglish logicians19th-century English philosophersBritish philosophers of logicEnglish autobiographersAnglo-ScotsUK MPs 1865–1868Empiricists19th-century English writersVoting theoristsEuropean democratic socialistsEnglish essayistsEnglish political philosophers19th-century English essayistsEnglish male non-fiction writersEnglish non-fiction writersPhilosophers of scienceEnglish people of Scottish descentPhilosophers of historyEnglish republicansScholars of feminist philosophyEnglish agnosticsBritish male essayistsPierre-Simon Laplace
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician who tackled questions on the stability of the Solar System and planet rotation and devised the basis for metrication
8 April 2021
Featuring: Marcus du Sautoy, Timothy Gowers, Colva Roney-Dougal
HistoryFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesFrench physicistsLinear algebraistsFellows of the Royal SocietyGrand Officers of the Legion of HonourMembers of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesFrench agnosticsFrench fluid dynamicists, French mathematicians, French probability theoristsMembers of the Académie Française18th-century French mathematiciansMembers of the Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesMembers of the French Academy of SciencesFrench deistsDeterministsSamuel Beckett
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the author of Waiting for Godot, who lived in Paris and wrote in French as he found that more difficult than writing in English
17 January 2019
Featuring: Steven Connor, Laura Salisbury, Mark Nixon
Culture20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poetsNobel laureates in LiteratureExistentialistsPrix Italia winnersAbsurdist writersFormer AnglicansPeople with Parkinson's diseaseIrish male dramatists and playwrightsIrish essayistsBurials at Montparnasse Cemetery20th-century Irish novelists, 20th-century Irish short story writers, Irish male short story writersIrish writers in French, People educated at Portora Royal SchoolFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesAcademics of Trinity College Dublin20th-century essayistsScholars of Trinity College DublinWriters from Dublin (city)Irish Nobel laureates, Irish modernist poetsFrench Resistance membersIrish expatriates in FranceIrish male novelistsAlumni of Trinity College DublinAnti-natalistsModernist writersPhilosophers of pessimismSartre
Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and works of French novelist, playwright and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
7 October 2004
Featuring: Jonathan Rée, Benedict O'Donohoe, Christina Howells
PhilosophyLycée Henri-IV alumni20th-century atheistsNobel laureates in LiteratureFrench sociologistsBlind writersFrench communistsFrench philosophers of artPhilosophers of nihilismFrench biographers, French ethicistsExistentialistsPhilosophers of social scienceFrench philosophers of sciencePhilosophers of deathÉcole Normale Supérieure alumniTheorists on Western civilizationPhilosophers of literatureContinental philosophersPhilosophers of sexualityPhenomenologistsFree love advocatesFrench atheistsPhilosophy writersCritical theoristsBurials at Montparnasse CemeteryFrench Nobel laureates20th-century French novelistsFrench humanistsLegion of Honour refusals20th-century French dramatists and playwrightsFrench magazine foundersFrench anarchists, French anti-capitalists, French anti-fascistsFrench philosophers of historyAphoristsFrench philosophers of educationFrench political philosophersFrench epistemologistsFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesLycée Louis-le-Grand alumniFrench Marxists, French anti-war activistsFrench literary criticsLibertarian socialistsFrench philosophers of cultureFrench Resistance membersAtheist philosophersFrench scientists with disabilitiesOntologistsPhilosophers of mindMetaphysicians20th-century French philosophersWriters from ParisFrench socialistsScholars of antisemitismWashington and the American Revolution
Melvyn Bragg discusses the first President of the United States, George Washington, and the people and ideas that saw the American Revolution overthrow British rule in 1775.
24 June 2004
Featuring: Carol Berkin, Simon Middleton, Colin Bonwick
CultureFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesAmerican people of English descent18th-century American male writers, American foreign policy writers18th-century American politicians, American Freemasons, Signers of the United States ConstitutionMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyCongressional Gold Medal recipientsHall of Fame for Great Americans inducteesAmerican slave ownersCommanding Generals of the United States Army, Presidents of the United States18th-century American writers, Founding Fathers of the United States, People of the American EnlightenmentAmerican male non-fiction writersWilliam and Caroline Herschel
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering brother and sister who, between them, discovered Uranus, comets, double stars and infrared light at the end of the 18th century.
11 November 2021
Featuring: Monica Grady, Carolin Crawford, Jim Bennett
ScienceFellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences18th-century German composersFellows of the Royal SocietyBritish scientific instrument makersGerman male classical composersClassical-period composers18th-century German astronomers19th-century German male musiciansHonorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of SciencesGerman classical composersGerman LutheransMembers of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences18th-century classical composers18th-century keyboardistsRecipients of the Copley Medal