NAS elects new members

In recognition of their distinguished and original research, the National Academy of Sciences has elected 72 new members and 18 foreign associates. With this year’s election, held in April during the academy’s 143rd annual meeting in Washington, DC, active NAS members total 2013 and foreign associates—or nonvoting members with citizenship outside of the US—total 371.

Of the new members, 34 are involved in physics-related work.

Edward H. Adelson, professor of vision science at MIT

Leonard M. Adleman, Henry Salvatori Chair in computer science and professor of computer science and biological sciences at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles

Wolfhard Almers, senior scientist at the Vollum Institute at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland

David Baker, investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor in the biochemistry department at the University of Washington in Seattle

Jillian F. Banfield, professor of geomicrobiology and environmental biogeochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley

Paul F. Barbara, director of the Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology and R. J. V. Johnson-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin

Francisco Bezanilla, professor and Pritzker Scholar in the Institute of Molecular Pediatric Sciences at the University of Chicago

David M. Ceperley, staff scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and professor of physics, both at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ruth S. DeFries, professor in the department of geography and at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Maryland, College Park

William A. Eaton, chief of the chemical physics laboratory in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland

Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts, professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine

Donald W. Forsyth, James L. Manning Professor of Geological Sciences at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island

Joachim Frank, investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, professor of biomedical sciences and adjunct professor of biology at the State University of New York at Albany, and head of the Laboratory of Computational Biology and Macromolecular Imaging at Health Research Inc at the Wadsworth Center in Albany, New York

James G. Fujimoto, professor of electrical engineering at MIT

Steven M. Girvin, professor of physics and applied physics at Yale University

Peter H. Gleick, co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California

Stephen P. Goff, investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Higgins Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and professor of microbiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City

Laura H. Greene, professor of physics and Swanlund Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Leslie F. Greengard, professor of mathematics and computer science at the Courant Institute at New York University in New York City

Eric J. Heller, professor of chemistry and physics at Harvard University

David M. Karl, professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu

Robert C. Kennicutt Jr, Plumian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, UK

John E. Kutzbach, associate director, senior scientist, emeritus professor of atmospheric oceanic sciences and environmental studies, and Bascom–Plaenert Professor of Liberal Arts at the center for climatic research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

Charles H. Langmuir, professor of geochemistry at Harvard University

Robert P. Lin, professor of physics and director of the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley

Ann E. McDermott, professor of chemistry at Columbia University

Jose N. Onuchic, co-director of the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics and professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego

Lyman A. Page Jr, Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics at Princeton University

E. Ward Plummer, Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and distinguished scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Melvyn J. Shochet, Elaine M. and Samuel D. Kersten Jr Distinguished Service Professor in Physical Sciences at the University of Chicago and chair of the US Department of Energy’s High Energy Physics Advisory Panel in Washington, DC

Charles C. Steidel, Dubridge Professor of Astronomy and executive officer for astronomy at Caltech

Mark H. Thiemens, dean of the division of physical sciences, a professor of chemistry, director of the Center for Environmental Research and Training, and Chancellor’s Associates Chair in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego

David A. Tirrell, Ross McCollum–William H. Corcoran Professor, professor of chemistry and chemical engineering, and chair of the division of chemistry and chemical engineering at Caltech

Stanford E. Woosley, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The following newly elected foreign associates are physicists or work in physics-related areas. Their country of citizenship is listed in parentheses.

Chunli Bai, executive vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (People’s Republic of China)

Vladimir B. Braginsky, visiting associate professor in physics at Caltech and a research professor at Moscow State University (Russia)

Lennart A. E. Carleson, professor emeritus of mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology and the University of Uppsala (Sweden)

Luiz Davidovich, professor of physics in the Institute of Physics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Christopher J. R. Garrett, Landsdowne Professor of Ocean Physics at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (Canada and UK)

Harold W. Kroto, professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee (UK)

Tullio Pozzan, professor of general pathology at the University of Padua and scientific director at the Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine (Italy).