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Members elected in 2016 were introduced to their colleagues in the Academy and signed the "Registry of Membership." NAS Membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive.
Members are elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. The NAS membership totals approximately 2,290 members and 490 foreign associates, of whom approximately 200 have received Nobel prizes.
Members presented in 2017:
A - E |
F - L |
M - Q |
R - Z |
Foreign Associates |
Elected Prior to 2016 |
A - E
Ian Agol, University of California, Berkeley
Abhay V. Ashtekar, The Pennsylvania State University
Julia Bailey-Serres, University of California, Riverside
Bonnie Bartel, Rice University
Helen M. Blau, Stanford University
John C. Boothroyd, Stanford University
Myles A. Brown, Harvard University
James J. Bull, The University of Texas at Austin
Roberto Car, Princeton University
Katharine V. Cashman, University of Bristol
Arup K. Chakraborty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew J. Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University
Eileen M. Crimmins, University of Southern California
Constantine M. Dafermos, Brown University
Hongjie Dai, Stanford University
Joseph L. DeRisi, University of California, San Francisco
Raymond J. Deshaies, California Institute of Technology
Vladimir Drinfeld, The University of Chicago
Jennifer Eberhardt, Stanford University
James R. Ehleringer, University of Utah
John M. Eiler, California Institute of Technology
Steven N. Evans, University of California, Berkeley
F - L
Martin M. Fejer, Stanford University
Stephen R. Forrest, University of Michigan
Richard A. Friesner, Columbia University
Ronald N. Germain, National Institutes of Health
James J. Giovannoni, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service
Robert M. Glaeser, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Mary Lou Guerinot, Dartmouth College
Oliver Hart, Harvard University
Dennis L. Hartmann, University of Washington
Geoffrey M. Heal, Columbia University
Timothy M. Heckman, Johns Hopkins University
Nathaniel Heintz, The Rockefeller University
Philip Hieter, University of British Columbia
Hopi E. Hoekstra, Harvard University
Wayne Hu, The University of Chicago
Judith T. Irvine, University of Michigan
Peter A. Jones, Van Andel Research Institute
Michael B. Kastan, Duke University
Robert E. Kingston, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University
Kenneth W. Kinzler, Johns Hopkins University
Igor R. Klebanov, Princeton University
Eugene V. Koonin, National Institutes of Health
Robb Krumlauf, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Clark Spencer Larsen, The Ohio State University
Marsha I. Lester, University of Pennsylvania
Andrea J. Liu, University of Pennsylvania
M - Q
Hazel R. Markus, Stanford University
Susan Marqusee, University of California, Berkeley
Xiang-Jin Meng, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Christopher Monroe, University of Maryland, College Park
Kenneth M. Murphy, Washington University in St. Louis
Susan A. Murphy, University of Michigan
Krishna K. Niyogi, University of California, Berkeley
John O'Keefe, University College London
Stephen R. Palumbi, Stanford University
Claire L. Parkinson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Steven Pinker, Harvard University
Hidde L. Ploegh, Boston Children's Hospital
R - Z
Maureen E. Raymo, Columbia University
Ares J. Rosakis, California Institute of Technology
David M. Sabatini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Melanie S. Sanford, University of Michigan
Robert E. Schapire, Microsoft Research
Paul Segall, Stanford University
Amita Sehgal, University of Pennsylvania
Geraldine Seydoux, Johns Hopkins University
Frederick J. Sigworth, Yale University
Paul Slovic, Decision Research and University of Oregon
Pamela S. Soltis, University of Florida
Anne C. Stone, Arizona State University
Patrick J. Stover, Cornell University
Michael F. Summers, University of Maryland Baltimore County
C. Megan Urry, Yale University
Herbert W. Virgin, IV, Washington University
Larry A. Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University
Peidong Yang, University of California, Berkeley
Stephen G. Young, University of California, Los Angeles
Alexander B. Zamolodchikov, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Gary P. Zank, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Foreign Associates (Country of Citizenship)
Zhisheng An, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (People's Republic of China)
Anton J. Berns, The Netherlands Cancer Institute (The Netherlands)
Adrian Bird, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
Andrew C. Fabian, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Julio A. Fernández, Universidad de la República, Montevideo (Uruguay)
Daniel (Daan) Frenkel, University of Cambridge (The Netherlands)
Stefan W. Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Germany)
Jean Jouzel, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de L'Environment (France)
Antonio Lanzavecchia, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (Italy)
Wolfgang Lutz, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)
Arthur B. McDonald, Queen's University (Canada)
Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research (Israel)
Christine Petit, Institut Pasteur (France)
Hugh Possingham, The Nature Conservancy (Australia)
Gabriel Adrián Rabinovich, University of Buenos Aires/IBYME, CONICET (Argentina)
Nancy M. Reid, University of Toronto (Canada)
Gen Suwa, University of Tokyo (Japan)
Claire Voisin, Collège de France (France)
Stephen C. West, Francis Crick Institute (United Kingdom)
Ian A. Wilson, The Scripps Research Institute (United Kingdom)
Elected Prior to 2016
Members elected in prior years who were unable to attend an earlier ceremony signed the registry in 2017.
Fabiola Gianotti, European Organization for Nuclear Research (Italy) — foreign associate elected in 2015
Frances Arnold, California Institute of Technology — member elected in 2008
