Presentation Ceremony for Members Elected in 2021
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Members elected in 2021 were introduced to their colleagues in the Academy and sign 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.
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Members elected in 2021:
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L - R |
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International Members |
In Memoriam |
A - D
Anurag Agrawal, Cornell University
Miklós Ajtai, International Business Machines Corporation
Serap Aksoy, Yale University
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, University of California, San Francisco
Robert S. Anderson, University of Colorado Boulder
Elena Aprile, Columbia University
Frances Bagenal, University of Colorado Boulder
Barbara Baker, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Anna C. Balazs, University of Pittsburgh
Ralph S. Baric, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Marisa S. Bartolomei, University of Pennsylvania
Mary C. Beckerle, University of Utah
Jayne Belnap, U.S. Geological Survey
Ben S. Bernanke, The Brookings Institution
Marianne Bertrand, The University of Chicago
Joan S. Birman, Barnard College of Columbia University
Donna G. Blackmond, The Scripps Research Institute
Kerry S. Bloom, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gregory S. Boebinger, Florida State University
C. Jeffrey Brinker, The University of New Mexico
Alessandra Buonanno, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
Hui Cao, Yale University
David Card, University of California, Berkeley
Ta Yuan Chang, Dartmouth Medical School
Lieping Chen, Yale University
Peter Constantin, Princeton University
Alan D. D'Andrea, Harvard University
Dean DellaPenna, Michigan State University
Clara Deser, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Anthony Di Fiore, The University of Texas at Austin
Savas Dimopoulos, Stanford University
Michael L. Dustin, University of Oxford
E - K
Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Arizona State University
Elliot L. Elson, Washington University in St. Louis
Debra Ann Fischer, Yale University
Katherine A. Fitzgerald, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Glenn H. Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel Z. Freedman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Judith Frydman, Stanford University
Stephen A. Fuselier, Southwest Research Institute
Laura Gagliardi, The University of Chicago
Michele J. Gelfand, Stanford University
Dedre Gentner, Northwestern University
Sankar Ghosh, Columbia University
Vadim N. Gladyshev, Harvard Medical School
N. Louise Glass, University of California, Berkeley
Robert G. Griffin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nikolaus Grigorieff, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Larry Guth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maureen R. Hanson, Cornell University
Joseph Heitman, Duke University
Katherine A. High, AskBio
Donald W. Hilgemann, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Anita K. Hopper, The Ohio State University
Holly A. Ingraham, University of California, San Francisco
Nina G. Jablonski, The Pennsylvania State University
Laurinda A. Jaffe, University of Connecticut Health Center
Jainendra K. Jain, The Pennsylvania State University
Anna Karlin, University of Washington
Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania
Joseph J. Kieber, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alexei Y. Kitaev, California Institute of Technology
Rachel E. Klevit, University of Washington School of Medicine
David M. Knipe, Harvard University
Rachel E. Kranton, Duke University
L - R
Kenneth Lange, University of California, Los Angeles
Cato T. Laurencin, University of Connecticut Health Center
Jan E. Leach, Colorado State University
Yann A. LeCun, New York University
Randall J. LeVeque, University of Washington
Zachary B. Lippman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
David R. Liu, The Broad Institute
Susan T. Lovett, Brandeis University
Nadya Mason, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John H. Maunsell, The University of Chicago
Thomas W. McDade, Northwestern University
Harry Y. McSween, Jr., The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Péter István Mészáros, The Pennsylvania State University
Kathryn A. Moler, Stanford University
Isabel P. Montañez, University of California, Davis
Denise J. Montell, University of California, Santa Barbara
Kathryn J. Moore, New York University
Tirin Moore, Stanford University
Mary Ann Moran, University of Georgia
Stephen Morris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Diana C. Mutz, University of Pennsylvania
Lynn Nadel, University of Arizona
Geeta J. Narlikar, University of California, San Francisco
Ralph G. Nuzzo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Angela Villela Olinto, The University of Chicago
Olufunmilayo I. F. Olopade, The University of Chicago
Julie Overbaugh, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Bernice A. Pescosolido, Indiana University
Linda R. Petzold, University of California, Santa Barbara
Margaret A. Phillips, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Steward T. Pickett, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Adam Przeworski, New York University
Nancy N. Rabalais, Louisiana State University
Robin S. Reid, Colorado State University
John R. Rickford, Stanford University
Gregory H. Robinson, University of Georgia
Ellen V. Rothenberg, California Institute of Technology
S - Z
Edward D. Salmon, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Anneila I. Sargent, California Institute of Technology
Jonathan L. Sessler, The University of Texas at Austin
Ruth G. Shaw, University of Minnesota
J. Marshall Shepherd, University of Georgia
Chet C. Sherwood, The George Washington University
M. Celeste Simon, University of Pennsylvania
Gigliola Staffilani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Julie A. Theriot, University of Washington
Michael Turelli, University of California, Davis
Wilfred A. van der Donk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael R. Wasielewski, Northwestern University
Eileen White, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Rachel O. Wong, University of Washington
Dawn J. Wright, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
Ellen G. Zweibel, University of Wisconsin-Madison
International Members (Country of Citizenship)
Juan J. Armesto, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (Chile)
Nenad Ban, ETH Zurich (Croatia)
Ian J. Bateman, University of Exeter (United Kingdom)
Jean-Michel Bismut, Universite Paris-Saclay (France)
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (The Netherlands)
Luis A. Borrero, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, (CONICET) (Argentina)
Gilles Brassard, Universite de Montreal (Canada)
Mercedes Bustamante, University of Brasilia (Brazil)
Marisa Carrasco, New York University (Mexico)
Michael E. Cates, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Ulrich Christensen, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (Germany)
Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Aarhus University (Denmark)
Elizabeth S. Dennis, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia)
Daniel J. Drucker, Mount Sinai Hospital (Canada)
Odile Eisenstein, CNRS/Universite de Montpellier (France)
Luis Enjuanes, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) (Spain)
Claudia A. Felser, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (Germany)
Robert Fettiplace, University of Wisconsin-Madison (United Kingdom)
Edith Heard, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (France & United Kingdom)
Regine Kahmann, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology (Germany)
Le Kang, Chinese Academy of Sciences (People's Republic of China)
Ursula Keller, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Lisa J. Kewley, Australian National University (Australia)
Giles E. Oldroyd, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Victoria Reyes-García, ICREA-Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Luigi Rizzi, College de France (Italy)
Elizabeth J. Robertson, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Yi-Fang Tsay, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
Viola Vogel, ETH Zurich (Germany)
Erwin F. Wagner, Medical University of Vienna (Austria)
In Memoriam
Robert Jervis, Columbia University
Thomas E. Lovejoy, George Mason University
