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...