Photograph by Jim Harrison
This year’s honorands are (from left) Nobel Prize-winning astronomer Joseph Hooton Taylor, Ph.D. ’68, McDonnell professor of physics at Princeton; Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of slavery and abolitionism David Brion Davis, Ph.D. ’56, Sterling professor of history emeritus at Yale; noted art historian Svetlana Leontief Alpers ’57, Ph.D. ’65, professor of Northern Renaissance art emerita at the University of California, Berkeley; and Nobel laureate in economics Thomas Crombie Schelling, Ph.D. ’51, Littauer professor of political economy emeritus at Harvard and now Distinguished Professor at the Maryland School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, College Park, an expert on national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control.
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate study at Harvard.
