NAS Elects New Members

At the 139th annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in April, 72 new members were elected, bringing the total number of active members to 1907. Also elected were 15 foreign associates from 12 countries; the election raised the number of foreign associates to 330. Among the newly elected members are

Boris L. Altshuler, professor of physics at Princeton University and physics research fellow at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey

Barry C. Barish, Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Physics and director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) at Caltech

Jacqueline K. Barton, Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry at Caltech

Adriaan Bax, biophysical nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy section chief at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland

Carlos Bustamante, Howard Hughes Investigator, professor of molecular and cell biology, and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley

John E. Carlstrom, Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor in the astronomy and astrophysics department and in the physics department at the University of Chicago

George H. Denton, Libra Professor of Geological Sciences and member of the Institute for Quaternary and Climate Studies at the University of Maine in Orono

Jennifer A. Doudna, Howard Hughes Investigator and Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University

John P. Grotzinger, Shrock Professor of Earth Sciences and director of the Earth Resources Laboratory at MIT

Willy Haeberli, R. G. Herb Distinguished Professor of Physics and Harry Steenbock Professor of Physical Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Charles B. Harris, professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley

H. Jeff Kimble, William L. Valentine Professor and professor of physics at Caltech

Eric I. Knudsen, chair of the neurobiology department and Edward C. and Amy H. Sewall Professor in the medical school at Stanford University

Michael Levitt, chair of the structural biology department at Stanford University

Tom C. Lubensky, Mary Amanda Wood Professor of Physics and chair of the physics and astronomy department at the University of Pennsylvania

Alan G. MacDiarmid, Blanchard Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania

Geoffrey W. Marcy, professor in the astronomy department and director of the Center for Integrative Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley

Rowena G. Matthews, G. Robert Greenberg Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan

David W. McLaughlin, director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, professor of mathematics and neural science, and provost at New York University

James C. McWilliams, Louis B. Slichter Professor of Earth Sciences at UCLA

Saul Perlmutter, senior scientist in the physics division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Victor C. Alderson Professor of Applied Ocean Sciences and professor of atmospheric and climate sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego

Mark A. Ratner, Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University

Stephen H. Schneider, professor in the biological sciences department and the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University

Gerald Schubert, chair of UCLA’s Earth and space sciences department

Peter W. Shor, member and fellow at AT…T Labs-Research in Florham Park, New Jersey

Yum-Tong Siu, William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University

Scott D. Tremaine, chair of Princeton University’s astrophysical sciences department

Sheldon Weinbaum, CUNY Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the City College of the City University of New York.

The newly elected foreign members include

Francisco de la Cruz, scientist at the Bariloche Atomic Center in San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina

Gerhard Ertl, director of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany

Brian Hoskins, professor of meteorology and Royal Society Research Professor at Reading University in the UK

Wolfgang Ketterle, John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics at MIT

David Ruelle, Honorary Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette, France.