Members and associates of the US National Academy of Sciences

Alan J. Heeger (born 22 January 1936 in Sioux City, Iowa) is a United States chemistry and physics academic and nobel prize winner. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan J. Heeger"

Professor Alan Walker, is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Biology at Pennsylvania State University. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1988. He is chairman of Community Health Sheffield NHS Trust and is a patron of the National Pensioners Convention. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Walker (academic)"

Albert I. Meyers (born 22 November 1932) is an American organic chemist, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Colorado State University, and member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Meyers"

Albert W. Overhauser (born August 17, 1925 in San Diego, California) is an American physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is best known for his theory of dynamic nuclear polarization, also known as the Overhauser Effect. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Overhauser"

Alejandro Portes is a prominent Cuban-American sociologist. He is currently head of the department of sociology at Princeton University and a member of the National Academy of Science. His academic studies have focused on immigration to the United States and factors affecting the fates of immigrants and their children. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alejandro Portes"

Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov (Алексей Алексеевич Абрикосов) (born June 25 1928, in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR.) is a Soviet/ Russian theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He graduated from the Moscow State University in 1948. In 1948-1965 he worked in the Institute ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexei Abrikosov"

Andrea Mia Ghez is an astronomer at UCLA. She received a BS in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987 and her Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 1991. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andrea Ghez"

Arno Allan Penzias (born April 26, 1933) is an American physicist and winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arno Allan Penzias"

Arthur R. Kantrowitz (born 1913) is an American engineer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Kantrowitz"

Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born November 20, 1924) is a Polish-born French mathematician and leading proponent of fractal geometry. He is Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Emeritus at Yale University and IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. ...more on Wikipedia about "Benoît Mandelbrot"

Bohdan Paczyński (born 8 February 1940) is a Polish astronomer, a leading scientist in theory of the evolution of stars. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bohdan Paczyński"

Dr. Bruce Alberts (b. 1938) is a American biochemist. He has had a productive research career in the field of DNA replication and cell division, and has also been an educator, his textbook The Molecular Biology of the Cell is the standard cell biology textbook in most universities. He served as the President of the National Academy of Sciences for two terms from 1993 until 2005. In 2001 Alberts received a D.Sc. from Bates College. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bruce Alberts"

Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra (CNR) Rao (born June 30, 1934, Bangalore, India) is an Indian chemist. ...more on Wikipedia about "C.N.R. Rao"

Charles R. Alcock is the current director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles R. Alcock"

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Christopher Fulton McKee (born 1942) is an astrophysicist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Christopher McKee"

Chushiro Hayashi (林忠四郎) (born July 25 1920) is a Japanese astrophysicist. Hayashi tracks on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram are named after him. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chushiro Hayashi"

Claude (Jean) Allègre (born March 31, 1937) is a French geochemist and politician. ...more on Wikipedia about "Claude Allègre"

Claude Lévi-Strauss ( pronounced | ) (born November 28, 1908) is a French anthropologist who became one of the twentieth century's greatest intellectuals by developing structuralism as a method of understanding human society and culture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Claude Lévi-Strauss"

Claudio Bunster Weitzman (formerly known as Claudio Teitelboim Weitzman) (born April 15 1948) is a Chilean scientist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Claudio Bunster"

Clifford James Geertz (born August 23, 1926 in San Francisco) is an American anthropologist serving as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clifford Geertz"

Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn (born 25 July 1937) is an English archaeologist, notable for his work on the radiocarbon revolution, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the prevention of looting of archaeological sites. ...more on Wikipedia about "Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn"

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Daniel Chee Tsui (崔琦 pinyin: Cuī Qí, born February 28, 1939, Henan Province, China) is a Chinese American physicist whose areas of research included electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics. In 1998, along with Horst L. Störmer of Columbia University and Robert Laughlin of Stanford, Daniel Tsui was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the "discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations" by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. ...more on Wikipedia about "Daniel C. Tsui"

David C. Jewitt is a Professor of astronomy at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. He was born in 1958 in England, and is a 1979 graduate of the University of London. Jewitt received an M.Sc. and a Ph.D in astronomy at the California Institute of Technology in 1980 and 1983, respectively. His research interests include the trans-Neptunian Solar System, Solar System formation and the physical properties of comets. ...more on Wikipedia about "David C. Jewitt"

David Hurst Thomas is an American academic, author and curator of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History. A California native, he received both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from University of California, Davis. He is well known for both his archeological work on Native American sites and the Franciscan mission on St. Catherines Island off the coast of Georgia. He was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1989. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Hurst Thomas"

David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is an American mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He is currently a professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, having previously had a long academic career at Harvard University. He was born in Worth, in Sussex in England, of an English father and American mother. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Mumford"

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