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...
