a Fulbright Fellow, received honorary doctorates from Stockholm University (1978) and the Chalmers Institute of Technology (2001), and he is a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 2004, a conference in his honor was celebrated in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was made a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2021, one of only about 180 worldwide in all sciences. A conference in honor of Stanley Deser and the ADM collaborators was held in November 2009 at Texas A&M University on the 50th anniversary of their research. Personal life Deser was married to Swedish artist Elsbeth Deser and had three children. His daughter Clara Deser is a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Deser's autobiography, "Forks in the Road", was published in September 2021. See also Polyakov action References External links Deser's homepage at Brandeis 1931 births Living people Brooklyn College alumni Polish emigrants to the United States Harvard University alumni Brandeis University faculty American relativity theorists Quantum gravity physicists Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Physical Society Albert Einstein Medal recipients