NAS Names New Inductees

The National Academy of Sciences elected 72 new members and 18 foreign associates at its 142nd annual meeting in May in Washington, DC. The number of active members now totals 1976 and the number of foreign associates, or nonvoting members with citizenship outside the US, is 360. Among the newly elected members are the following, who work in physics-related areas:

Charles L. Bennett, professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland

Roger Blandford, director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and the Pehong and Adele Chen Professor of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University

Axel T. Brunger, professor of molecular and cellular physiology at Stanford and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Shu Chien, University Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine, chair of the department of bioengineering, and director of the Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego

Malcolm Harold Chisholm, Distinguished Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and professor of chemistry at the Ohio State University

James P. Eisenstein, Frank J. Roshek Professor of Physics at Caltech

Anthony Evans, professor of materials and mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Lev P. Gor’kov, vice president of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, director of the theory program, and professor at Florida State University

Iva Greenwald, investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Columbia University

Steven C. Hebert, C. N. H. Long Professor, chairman of the department of cellular and molecular physiology, and professor of medicine, all at Yale University

Wayne L. Hubbell, Jules Stein Professor of Ophthalmology and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA

David C. Jewitt, professor of astronomy at the University of Hawaii

Deborah S. Jin, fellow of NIST, fellow of JILA, and associate professor adjoint of physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder

Sergiu Klainerman, professor of mathematics at Princeton University

János Kollár, professor of mathematics at Princeton

Steven G. Louie, professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and senior faculty scientist in the materials sciences division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Andrew R. Marks, professor and chair of the department of physiology and cellular biophysics at Columbia

Marcia K. McNutt, president and CEO of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, California

Joseph Polchinski, professor of physics at UC Santa Barbara and permanent member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

A. M. Polyakov, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics at Princeton

Tom A. Rapoport, investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School

Barbara A. Romanowicz, professor of geophysics, chair of the department of Earth and planetary science, and director of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory at UC Berkeley

Wallace Sargent, Ira S. Bowen Professor of Astronomy at Caltech

George C. Schatz, Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University

Edward I. Solomon, Monroe E. Spaght Professor of Chemistry at Stanford

Harvey D. Tananbaum, director of the Chandra X-Ray Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Lonnie G. Thompson, Distinguished University Professor in the department of geological sciences and senior research scientist at Byrd Polar Research Center at the Ohio State University

Ellen D. Williams, Distinguished University Professor in the department of physics and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Jocelyn Bell Burnell, visiting professor of astrophysics at the University of Oxford and professorial fellow at Mansfield College (UK)

Michael Coey, professor of experimental physics and deputy director of the Centre for Research of Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices at Trinity College (Ireland)

Masatoshi Koshiba, Special University Professor, at the University of Tokyo (Japan)

Ranulfo Romo, professor of neuroscience and head of the department of biophysics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico)

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, research director at the Tyndall Centre at the University of East Anglia (UK) and director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Germany)

Paul Tapponnier, director of the tectonics department and professor of geology at the Paris Geophysical Institute (France)

Claudio Teitelboim, director of the Center for Scientific Studies (Chile)

Chikashi Toyoshima, professor of supramolecular structure at the University of Tokyo (Japan).