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Humanism and Its Aspirations: Notable Signers

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Notable Signers
Nobel Laureates
Past AHA Presidents
Drafting Committee


Notable Signers

Philip Appleman
Poet and distinguished professor emeritus of English, Indiana University
Khoren Arisian
Senior Leader, NY Society for Ethical Culture
Bill Baird
Reproductive rights pioneer
Frank Berger
Pharmacologist, developer of anti-anxiety drugs
Howard Box
Minister emeritus, Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church, Tennessee
Lester R. Brown
Founder and president, Earth Policy Institute
August E. Brunsman IV
Executive director, Secular Student Alliance
Rob Buitenweg
Vice president, International Humanist and Ethical Union
Vern Bullough
Sexologist and former copresident of the International Humanist and Ethical Union
David Bumbaugh
Professor, Meadville Lombard Theological School
Matt Cherry
Executive director, Institute for Humanist Studies
Joseph Chuman
Visiting professor of religion, Columbia University, and leader, Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, New Jersey
Curt Collier
leader, Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture, New York
Fred Cook
Retired executive committee member, International Humanist and Ethical Union
Carlton Coon
Former US Ambassador to Nepal
Richard Dawkins
Charles Simonyi professor, University of Oxford
Charles Debrovner
President, NACH/Humanist Institute
Arthur Dobrin
Professor of humanities, Hofstra University and leader emeritus Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island, New York
Margaret Downey
President, Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia
Sonja Eggerickx
Vice president, Unie Vrijzinnige, Belgium, and vice president  International Humanist and Ethical Union
Riane Eisler
President, Center for Partnership Studies
Albert Ellis
Creator of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and founder of the Alber Ellis Institute
Edward L. Ericson
Leader emeritus, Ethical Culture
Roy P. Fairfield
Cofounder, Union Graduate School
Antony Flew
Philosopher
Werner Fornos
President, the Population Institute
Levi Fragell
President, International Humanist and Ethical Union
Arun Gandhi
Cofounder, M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
Kendyl Gibbons
President, Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association
Babu R.R. Gogineni
Executive director, International Humanist and Ethical Union
Sol Gordon
Sexologist
Ethelbert Haskins
Retired treasurer of the Humanist Foundation
Jim Herrick
Editor, the New Humanist
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Professor of physics at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Fran P. Hosken
Editor, Women’s International Network News
Jone Johnson Lewis
President, National Leaders Council of the American Ethical Union
Stefan Jonasson
Immediate past president, HUUmanists
Larry Jones
President, Institute for Humanist Studies
Edwin Kagin
Founder and director, Camp Quest
Beth Lamont
AHA NGO representative to the United Nations
Gerald A. Larue
Professor emeritus of biblical history and archaeology, University of Southern California
Joseph Levee
Board member, Council for Secular Humanism
Ellen McBride
Immediate past president, American Ethical Union
Lester Mondale
Retired Unitarian Universalist minister and signer of Humanist Manifestos I and II
Henry Morgentaler
Abortion rights pioneer
Stephen Mumford
President, Center for Research on Population and Security
William Murry
President and dean, Meadville-Lombard Theological School
Sarah Oelberg
President, HUUmanists
Indumati Parikh
President, Center for the Study of Social Change, India
Philip Paulson
Church-state activist
Katha Pollitt
Columnist, the Nation
Howard Radest
Dean emeritus, the Humanist Institute
James “Amazing” Randi
Magician, founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation
Larry Reyka
President, the Humanist Society
David Schafer
Retired research physiologist, U.S. Veterns Administration
Eugenie Scott
Executive director, National Center for Science Education
Michael Shermer
Editor of Skeptic magazine
James R. Simpson
Professor of international agricultural economics, Ryukoku University, Japan
Warren Allen Smith
Editor and author
Matthew Ies. Spetter
Associate professor in social psychology at the Peace Studies Institute of Manhattan College, NY
Oliver Stone
Academy award-winning filmmaker
John Swomley
Professor emeritus of social ethics, St. Paul School of Theology
Robert Tapp
Dean, the Humanist Institute
Carl Thitchener
Co-minister, Unitarian Universalist Church of Amherst and of Canadaigua, New York
Maureen Thitchener
Co-minister, Unitarian Universalist Church of Amherst and of Canadaigua, New York
Rodrigue Tremblay
Emeritus professor of economics and of international finance, Universite de Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist
John Weston
Ministerial settlement director, Unitarian Universalist Association
Edward O. Wilson
Professor, Harvard University, and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
Sherwin Wine
Founder and president, Society for Humanistic Judaism
Dr. George B. Kauffman
Professor of Chemistry, California State University at Fresno

Nobel Laureates

 

Philip W. Anderson
Physics, 1977
Paul D. Boyer
Chemistry, 1997
Owen Chamberlain
Physics, 1959
Francis Crick
Medicine, 1962
Paul J. Crutzen
Chemistry, 1995
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Physics, 1991
Johann Deisenhofer
Chemistry, 1988
Jerome I. Friedman
Physics, 1990
Sheldon Glashow
Physics, 1979
David J. Gross
Physics, 2004
Herbert A. Hauptman
Chemistry, 1985
Dudley Herschbach
Chemistry, 1986
Harold W. Kroto
Chemistry, 1996
Yuan T. Lee
Chemistry, 1986
Mario J. Molina
Chemistry, 1995
Erwin Neher
Medicine, 1991
Ilya Prigogine
Chemistry, 1977
Richard J. Roberts
Medicine, 1993
John E. Sulston
Medicine, 2002
Henry Taube
Chemistry, 1983
E. Donnall Thomas
Medicine, 1990
James Dewey Watson
Medicine, 1962

Past AHA Presidents

 

Edd Doerr
1995-2002
Michael W. Werner
1993-1994
Suzanne I. Paul
1992
Lyle L. Simpson
1981-1984
Bette Chambers
1973-1979
Lloyd L. Morain
1969-1972, 1951-1955
Robert W. McCoy
1966-1968
Vashti McCollum
1962-1965


Drafting Committee

 

Fred Edwords Edd Doerr Tony  Hileman
Pat Duffy Hutcheon Maddy Urken
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