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.