New Members Join NAS

The National Academy of Sciences elected 72 new members and 18 foreign associates at its 141st annual meeting in April in Washington, DC. The number of active members now totals 1949 and the number of foreign associates, those nonvoting members with citizenship outside of the US, is 351.

Among the newly elected members are the following:

Armand Paul Alivisatos, Chancellor’s Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science at the University of California, Berkeley

Susan G. Amara, chair of the department of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Philip H. Bucksbaum, Otto Laporte Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Kevin P. Campbell, chair of the department of physiology and biophysics in the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Paul M. Chaikin, Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey

Stephen H. Davis, McCormick School Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois

Andrea M. Ghez, professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA

Donald V. Helmberger, Smits Family Professor of Geophysics and Planetary Science at Caltech

Barry H. Honig, investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor in Columbia University’s department of biochemistry and molecular biophysics

Nancy Hopkins, Amgen Professor of Biology at MIT

Richard L. Huganir, investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor in the department of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland

Jacob N. Israelachvili, professor in the department of chemical engineering and in the materials department at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Raymond Jeanloz, professor in Earth and planetary science and in astronomy at UC Berkeley

Edward G. Jones, director of the Center for Neuroscience at the University of California, Davis

David Julius, professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Dennis V. Kent, professor in the department of geological sciences at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick-Piscataway

Andrew E. Lange, Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Physics at Caltech

Charles M. Lieber, Mark Hyman Jr Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University

M. Brian Maple, Bernd T. Matthias Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Stephen L. Mayo, associate investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor of biology and chemistry at Caltech

Margaret M. Murnane, professor of physics and a fellow of JILA at the University of Colorado at Boulder

Charles M. Newman, director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and professor of mathematics at New York University

Erin K. O’Shea, assistant investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor and vice chair of the department of biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF

George F. Oster, professor of cell and developmental biology and of environmental science, policy, and management at UC Berkeley

S. George H. Philander, professor in the department of geosciences at Princeton

Peter H. Quail, research director of the Plant Gene Expression Center at UC Berkeley

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, group leader in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, England

R. G. Hamish Robertson, scientific director of the Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Washington, Seattle

H. Eugene Stanley, University Professor and Professor of Physics at Boston University

Alan M. Title, senior fellow at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto, California

Margaret A. Tolbert, professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences in Boulder

Xiaodong Wang, investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, George L. MacGregor Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, and professor of biochemistry at UT Southwestern

Maria T. Zuber, head of the department of Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences at MIT

Charles S. Zuker, investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a professor of biology and of neurosciences in UCSD’s School of Medicine.

The newly elected foreign associates and their country of citizenship (in parentheses) are

Robert J. Birgeneau, president of the University of Toronto (Canada)

Catherine Cesarsky, director-general of the European Southern Observatory with headquarters in Munich, Germany (France)

Ramanath Cowsik, director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bangalore (India)

Riitta K. Hari, director of the Brain Research Unit of the Low Temperature Laboratory at the Helsinki University of Technology (Finland)

David J. Stevenson, George Van Osdol Professor of Planetary Science at Caltech (New Zealand)

Maw-Kuen Wu, minister of the National Science Council of Taiwan (Republic of China)

Jacob Ziv, distinguished professor and Herman Gross Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa (Israel).