Academics and other prominent persons were signatories to the document, attesting "We who sign
Humanism and Its Aspirations declare ourselves in general agreement with its substance":
Notable signatories •
Philip Appleman (poet and distinguished professor emeritus of English literature at
Indiana University in
Bloomington, Indiana) • Khoren Arisian (senior leader at
New York Society for Ethical Culture) •
Bill Baird (reproductive rights pioneer) •
Frank Berger (pharmacologist, developer of anti-anxiety drugs) • Howard Box (minister emeritus at the
Unitarian Universalist Christian Church in
Oak Ridge, Tennessee) •
Lester R. Brown (founder and president of the
Earth Policy Institute) • August E. Brunsman IV (executive director of the
Secular Student Alliance) • Rob Buitenweg (vice president of the
International Humanist and Ethical Union) •
Vern Bullough (sexologist and former co-president of the
International Humanist and Ethical Union) • David Bumbaugh (professor at
Meadville Lombard Theological School in
Chicago,
Illinois) • Matthew Cherry (executive director of the
Institute for Humanist Studies) • Joseph Chuman (visiting professor of
Religious studies at
Columbia University and leader of the Ethical Culture Society of
Bergen County, New Jersey) • Curt Collier (leader of the Riverdale-Yonkers Society for
Ethical Culture, New York) • Fred Cook (retired executive committee member,
International Humanist and Ethical Union) • Carl Coon (former
U.S. Ambassador to Nepal) •
Richard Dawkins (evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator, and Professor for Public Understanding of Science at the
University of Oxford) • Charles Debrovner (president of the
Humanist Institute) •
Arthur Dobrin (professor of humanities at
Hofstra University and leader emeritus of the Ethical Humanist Society of
Long Island, New York) •
Margaret Downey (president of the Freethought Society of
Greater Philadelphia) •
Sonja Eggerickx (vice president of Unie Vrijzinnige Verenigingen in
Belgium and vice president of the
International Humanist and Ethical Union) •
Riane Eisler (president of the Center for Partnership Studies) •
Albert Ellis (psychologist, creator of
rational emotive behavior therapy and founder of the
Albert Ellis Institute) • Edward L. Ericson (leader emeritus of
Ethical Culture) • Roy P. Fairfield (co-founder of
Union Graduate School in
Cincinnati, Ohio) •
Antony Flew (philosopher) •
Levi Fragell (president of the
International Humanist and Ethical Union) •
Jerome Isaac Friedman (
Nobel Laureate in Physics and professor emeritus at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
Cambridge, Massachusetts) •
Arun Gandhi (peace activist, co-founder of the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in
Memphis, Tennessee) • Kendyl Gibbons (president of the
Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association) • Sol Gordon (sexologist) • Ethelbert Haskins (retired treasurer of the
Humanist Foundation) •
Jim Herrick (editor of the
New Humanist) •
Pervez Hoodbhoy (professor of physics at
Quaid-e-Azam University in
Islamabad,
Pakistan) • Fran P. Hosken (editor of Women's International Network News) • Joan Johnson Lewis (president of National Leaders Council of the
American Ethical Union) • Stefan Jonasson (immediate past president of
HUUmanists) • Larry Jones (president of the
Institute for Humanist Studies) •
Edwin Kagin (founder and director of
Camp Quest) • Beth Lamont (
American Humanist Association representative to the
United Nations) •
Gerald A. Larue (professor emeritus of
biblical archaeology and
history of the Bible at the
University of Southern California in
Los Angeles,
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 D. Mumford (president of the Center for Research on Population and Security) • William Murry (president and dean at
Meadville Lombard Theological School in
Chicago,
Illinois) • Sarah Oelberg (president of
HUUmanists) • Indumati Parikh (president of the Center for the Study of Social Change in
India) •
Philip Paulson (activist for the
separation of church and state) •
Katha Pollitt (columnist at
The Nation) • Howard Radest (dean emeritus of the
Humanist Institute) •
James "Amazing" Randi (magician, founder of the
James Randi Educational Foundation) • Larry Reyka (president of the
Humanist Society) • David Schafer (retired research physiologist,
U.S. Veterans Administration) •
Eugenie Scott (executive director of the
National Center for Science Education) •
Michael Shermer (editor of
Skeptic magazine) • James R. Simpson (professor of international agricultural economics at
Ryukoku University in
Kyoto,
Japan) •
Warren Allen Smith (editor and author) • Matthew les Spetter (associate professor in social psychology at the Peace Studies Institute of
Manhattan University,
New York City) •
Oliver Stone (
Academy Award-winning filmmaker) • John Swomley (professor emeritus of social ethics at
St. Paul School of Theology in
Leawood, Kansas) • Robert Tapp (dean of the
Humanist Institute) • Carl Thitchener (co-minister at the
Unitarian Universalist Church of
Amherst and
Canandaigua, New York) • Maureen Thitchener (co-minister at the
Unitarian Universalist Church of
Amherst and
Canandaigua, New York) •
Rodrigue Tremblay (professor emeritus of economics and international finance at the
Université de Montréal in
Quebec,
Canada) •
Kurt Vonnegut (philosopher, anti-war activist, and satirical novelist) • John Weston (ministerial settlement director,
Unitarian Universalist Association) •
Edward O. Wilson (ethologist, zoologist, science communicator, professor of evolutionary biology at
Harvard University and two-time
Pulitzer Prize winner) •
Sherwin Wine (rabbi of the
Birmingham Temple, founder and president of the
Society for Humanistic Judaism)
Nobel laureates 22 Nobel laureates were among the signatories: •
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 • Michael W. Werner • Suzanne I. Paul • Lyle L. Simpson • Bette Chambers •
Lloyd L. Morain • Robert W. McCoy •
Vashti McCollum AHA board members •
Melvin Lipman (president) • Lois Lyons (vice president) • Ronald W. Fegley (secretary) • John Nugent (treasurer) • Wanda Alexander • John R. Cole •
Tom Ferrick • Robert D. Finch • John M. Higgins • Herb Silverman • Maddy Urken • Mike Werner
Drafting committee •
Fred Edwords (chairman) • Edd Doerr (also included above as a past AHA president) • Tony Hileman • Pat Duffy Hutcheon • Maddy Urken ==See also==