He was a fellow of the most distinguished academies of science and engineering in the English-speaking world, including the Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, US National Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Engineering, and his name is known to almost every materials scientist alive today.
His distinguished career in the academy, public television and journalism, and his tireless devotion to The Cooper Union and its students exemplified a life lived in service and generosity to his community.
As Kelly endures rigorous boot-camp training and even a court-martial at the hand of her own stepfather, she begins to see the value of the military life - especially after she makes the academy's distinguished drill team and impresses Brad Shawn Ashmoree), the cutest boy in school.
(James Cagney and Bette Davis; you can't get a whole lot less funny than that!) It is also valuable as an example of the kind of professional criticism we can now begin to take for granted as distinguished members of the academy address movies with a seriousness previously reserved for literature.
Ramsay emerged as the most distinguished alumni of the academy.
The impossibly distinguished Vartan Gregorian is a one-man academy of arts, letters, and the humanities.
He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point as a distinguished honor graduate, and received a law degree from the University of Washington.
3. DO NOT ALLOW KITH OR KIN TO OVERSEE THE BALLOTS With the central board dismantled, the academy organized a voting committee of distinguished members -- the peers, and sometimes the relatives, of the nominees -- to count ballots.
A distinguished scholar, he was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University, where he was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1956, and was awarded a Ph.D. in the classics in 1960.
In 2010, she became the academy's president, previously an unpaid position held by a distinguished scholar.
