CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – Scholars, artists and executives are among new fellows and honorary members who were inducted Saturday into the 225th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The new members were inducted Saturday in a ceremony at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre.

Among the inductees speaking at the ceremony were former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw; physicist and Nobel laureate Eric Cornell; Harvard Law School dean and former White House official Elena Kagan; historian and University of Chicago provost Richard Saller; poet Susan Stewart; and genetics pioneer Nancy Wexler.

Some of the other inductees include: Rudiger Wehner, a researcher who showed how the honeybee’s eyes and brain use the sky for navigation; Edith Flanigen, a pioneer in molecular chemistry who invented more than 200 synthetic materials; Christopher Donnan, the leading authority on Peru’s oldest pre-Hispanic state; William Bridges, the inventor of the Argon laser; Stephen Squyers, the principal investigator for the Mars Exploration Rovers; Horton Foote, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter; Art Spiegelman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist; Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin; Anne Moore, chairman and CEO of Time, Inc.; and Donald Graham, of the Washington Post Co.

The academy honored a total of 196 inductees from 26 states, and 17 foreign honorary members from 10 countries.

Founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and others, the Cambridge-based academy has honored leaders ranging from George Washington to Albert Einstein.

With 4,600 elected members, the American Academy conducts independent studies on science and global security, social policy, humaniies, culture, and education.

A complete list of new members is available on the Academy’s website at: www.amacad.org

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