NAS Names New Inductees

The National Academy of Sciences announced this past April the names of its 72 new members and 18 foreign associates. The following members are physicists or work in physics-related areas:

Praveen Chaudhari, director of Brookhaven National Laboratory

Sallie W. Chisholm, professor of civil and environmental engineering and biology at MIT

Jody Deming, professor of biological oceanography at the University of Washington—Seattle

James Dieterich, senior research scientist on the US Geological Survey’s earthquake hazards team in Menlo Park, California

William Dietrich, professor in the department of Earth and planetary science at the University of California, Berkeley

Yakov Eliashberg, professor of mathematics at Stanford University

John Fenn, professor of analytical chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia

Lennard Fisk, professor of atmospheric, oceanic, and space sciences at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Wendy Freedman, Crawford H. Greenewalt Director of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Pasadena, California

Isaac M. Held, senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey

Shrinivas Kulkarni, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science at Caltech

Judith Lean, research physicist in the E. O. Hulburt Center for Space Research at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC

Henry Melosh, professor in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, Tucson

Sidney Nagel, Stein—Freiler Distinguished Service Professor in the department of physics at the University of Chicago and the university’s James Franck and Enrico Fermi Institutes

William D. Nix, Lee Otterson Professor of Engineering at Stanford University

Helen Quinn, member of the permanent scientific staff at SLAC

Paul Schechter, professor of astrophysics at MIT

William H. Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University

Robert Silbey, dean of science and professor of chemistry at MIT

Saul Teukolsky, Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics and Astrophysics at Cornell University

Dale J. Van Harlingen, professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Eli Yablonovitch, professor of electrical engineering at UCLA.

The following foreign associates are physicists or work in physics-related areas:

Edouard Brézin, professor of theoretical physics at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris

Herbert Kroemer, professor of electrical engineering and of materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Rosine Lallement, professor and director of research at the Laboratory Service d’Aéronomie of CNRS

Ryoji Noyori, director of the Research Center for Materials Science at Nagoya University in Nagoya, Japan.

Giorgio Parisi, professor in the department of physics at the University of La Sapienza in Rome.