American Academy off Arts and Sciences

The American Academy off Arts and Sciences (or American Academy of arts and sciences ) is an organization dedicated to the teaching and the progress of knowledge. She plays the honorary part of company to the the United States.

James Bowdoin (1726-1790), John Adams (1735-1726) and John Hancock (1737-1793) founds the Academy with Boston during the Guerre of independence of the United States of America. Their objective, like bench in their charter, is of cultivate every art and science which may tightens to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness off has free, independent, and virtuous people ( to cultivate each art and science which can contribute to advance the interest, the honor, the dignity and the happiness of free people, independent and virtuous ). They were joined soon by other personalities and one notices among his first members Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), George Washington (1732-1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) or Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757-1804).

In term of prestige, the fact of being member or honorary foreign member is regarded as row almost as prestigious as the Nobel Prize. Today, the seat of the Academy is located at Cambridge. It organizes conferences, research projects and publishes quarterly, Dædalus . The institution counts 4.000 members and several hundreds of honorary foreign members. During the year, its members are invited to take part in meetings being held in Cambridge or in regional centres like the Université of Chicago or California.

External bond

Official site (in English)

Source

Translation of the article of English language of Wikipédia (version of February 4th, 2006).

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