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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) is an organization dedicated to scholarship and the advancement of learning. It serves as a nationwide honor society for the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
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James Bowdoin
James Bowdoin

James Bowdoin was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts during the American Revolution. He served in both branches of the Massachusetts General Court in the colonial era and was president of the state's constitutional convention ....
, John Adams
John Adams

John Adams was an Politics of the United States and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , after being the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States for two terms....
, and John Hancock
John Hancock

John Hancock was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as President of the Continental Congress of the Second Continental Congress and was the first Governor of Massachusetts of the Massachusetts....
 founded the Academy in Boston during the American Revolution
American Revolution

The American Revolution refers to the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies of North America overthrew the governance of the British Empire and then rejected the British monarchy to become the sovereign United States of America....
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) is an organization dedicated to scholarship and the advancement of learning. It serves as a nationwide honor society for the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
.

James Bowdoin
James Bowdoin

James Bowdoin was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts during the American Revolution. He served in both branches of the Massachusetts General Court in the colonial era and was president of the state's constitutional convention ....
, John Adams
John Adams

John Adams was an Politics of the United States and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , after being the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States for two terms....
, and John Hancock
John Hancock

John Hancock was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as President of the Continental Congress of the Second Continental Congress and was the first Governor of Massachusetts of the Massachusetts....
 founded the Academy in Boston during the American Revolution
American Revolution

The American Revolution refers to the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies of North America overthrew the governance of the British Empire and then rejected the British monarchy to become the sovereign United States of America....
. Their objective, as stated in its charter, was to "cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honour, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people." They were joined by Robert Treat Paine
Robert Treat Paine

Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Massachusetts....
 and 58 local community leaders to charter the organization in 1780. Other prominent men soon joined, and early members included Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and Printer , Satire, list of political philosophers, politician, scientist, inventor, activism, statesman, and diplomacy....
 (whose American Philosophical Society
American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society is a discussion group founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin as an offshoot of his earlier club, the Junto....
 in Philadelphia provided a spur to the Boston leaders to create a more politically oriented society), George Washington
George Washington

George Washington was the leader of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States of the United States of Americas ....
, Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence , and one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States....
 and Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Fathers of the United States, economist, and political philosopher. He led calls for the Philadelphia Convention, was one of America's first Constitutional lawyers, and cowrote the Federalist Papers, a primary source for Constitutional interpretation....
. The Academy has about 200 Nobel Laureates on its membership roll.

The modern academy is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England....
. It sponsors conferences, organizes research projects, and publishes a quarterly journal, Dædalus
Daedalus (journal)

Daedalus is a quarterly journal founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Each issue addresses a theme with essays by prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and humanities....
. Today's Academy has 4,000 fellows and about 600 foreign honorary members. Throughout the academic year, members are invited to regularly scheduled talks and meetings in Cambridge and at regional centers headquartered at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
 and the University of California, Irvine
University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine is a public university coeducational research university founded in 1965, situated in Irvine, California....
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    Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
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    The American Academy of Arts and Letters

    The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member organization whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in United States literature, music, and art....
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  • National Academy of Sciences
    United States National Academy of Sciences

    The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine."...
  • National Academy of Design
    National Academy of Design

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  • World Academy of Art and Science
    World Academy of Art and Science

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