Steven V.W. Beckwith, professor of physics and astronomy in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the highest honors in the United States.

The academy, which was founded in 1780 by Johns Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other scholar-patriots, conducts interdisciplinary studies on international security, social policy, education and the humanities that draw on the range of academic and intellectual disciplines of its members. Among its fellows have been George Washington, Ben Franklin, Daniel Webster, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill.

New fellows will be inducted in October at the academy's headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.

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