NAS elects new members, foreign associates

The National Academy of Sciences has elected 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 12 countries in recognition of their achievements in original research. Held in May in Washington, DC, the election brought the total number of active members to 2025 with foreign associates totaling 387.

Of the new members elected, 27 do physics-related work.

Mario H. Acuña, senior astrophysicist and project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland

David A. Agard, investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and professor in the department of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco

Brian F. Atwater, geologist on the western earthquake hazards team of the US Geological Survey and affiliate professor in the department of Earth and space sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle

David D. Awschalom, professor of physics and of electrical and computer engineering in the physics department at UC Santa Barbara

Moungi G. Bawendi, professor of chemistry at MIT

Steven M. Block, professor of applied physical and biological sciences at Stanford University

Donald E. Canfield, professor of ecology at the Institute of Biology and director of the Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, both at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense

Noel Clark, professor in the physics department at the University of Colorado at Boulder

Bruce T. Draine, professor in the astrophysical sciences department at Princeton University

Kerry A. Emanuel, Breene M. Kerr Professor in the atmospheres, oceans, and climate program of the Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences department at MIT

Paul G. Falkowski, professor at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences and geological sciences department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey

Michael D. Fayer, David Mulvane Ehrsam and Edward Curtis Franklin Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University

Graham Fleming, Melvin Calvin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley

Gerald Gabrielse, George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics at Harvard University

Allen M. Goldman, Institute of Technology Professor of Physics and head of the school of physics and astronomy at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis

David Gottlieb, Ford Foundation Professor and professor of applied mathematics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island

William L. Johnson, Ruben and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Engineering, and Applied Science at Caltech

Albert J. Libchaber, physics professor at the Rockefeller University in New York City

Curtis T. McMullen, mathematics professor at Harvard University

Christopher Miller, investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and biochemistry professor at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts

William E. Moerner, Harry S. Mosher Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University

M. Granger Morgan, university professor and head of the department of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Timothy J. Richmond, professor at the Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

David N. Spergel, professor in the department of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, Glenn L. Martin Professor of Engineering and distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland, College Park

Clifford M. Will, James S. McDonnell Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri

Mark B. Wise, John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics at Caltech.

Of the foreign associates elected, five are involved in physics-related work.

Pierre Deligne, professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey (Belgium)

Sumio Iijima, professor in the department of materials science and engineering at Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan (Japan)

Aizhen Li, academic director of the State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Informatics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (People’s Republic of China)

Simon D. M. White, director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany (UK)

Ronald F. Woodman, executive president of the Geophysical Institute of Peru in Mayorazgo (Peru).