Presentation Ceremony for Members Elected in 2020
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Members elected in 2020 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 2020:
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E - K |
L - R |
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International Members |
A - D
Elizabeth Ainsworth, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Richard D. Alba, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Ivet Bahar, University of Pittsburgh
Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alice Barkan, University of Oregon
Dafna Bar-Sagi, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Dmitri Basov, Columbia University
Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Smithsonian Institution
Hugo Bellen, Baylor College of Medicine
Gérard Ben Arous, New York University
Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nora J. Besansky, University of Notre Dame
Joel D. Blum, University of Michigan
Tobias Bonhoeffer, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
William J. Borucki, NASA Ames Research Center
John F. Brady, California Institute of Technology
Alison S. Brooks, The George Washington University
Marilyn A. Brown, Georgia Institute of Technology
Blas Cabrera, Stanford University
Daniela Calzetti, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Erick M. Carreira, ETH Zurich
Anne Case, Princeton University
Carlton M. Caves, The University of New Mexico
Vinton G. Cerf, Google, LLC
Howard Y. Chang, Stanford University
Yifan Cheng, University of California, San Francisco
Arul M. Chinnaiyan, University of Michigan
Angela Christiano, Columbia University
James S. Clark, Duke University
Joan W. Conaway, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Victor G. Corces, Emory University
Laura G. DeMarco, Harvard University
John F. X. Diffley, The Francis Crick Institute
Ellen R. M. Druffel, University of California, Irvine
E - K
Randall W. Engle, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ronald Fagin, International Business Machines Corporation
Katherine Freese, The University of Texas at Austin
Dennis Gaitsgory, Harvard University
Giulia Galli, The University of Chicago
James N. Galloway, University of Virginia
Susan J. Goldin-Meadow, The University of Chicago
Lawrence S. Goldstein, University of California, San Diego
Mark Granovetter, Stanford University
Douglas R. Green, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Robert L. Griess, Jr., University of Michigan
Joel F. Habener, Harvard University
Raymond B. Hames, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Thomas A. Henzinger, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Marc M. Hirschmann, University of Minnesota
Gregg A. Howe, Michigan State University
Yonggang Huang, Northwestern University
James H. Hurley, University of California, Berkeley
Terence T. Hwa, University of California, San Diego
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania
Christopher Jarzynski, University of Maryland, College Park
Marc K. Jenkins, University of Minnesota
Carl June, University of Pennsylvania
Scott Keeney, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Elizabeth A. Kellogg, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Chaitan Khosla, Stanford University
Mark Kirkpatrick, The University of Texas at Austin
John Kormendy, The University of Texas at Austin
Adrian R. Krainer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Michael Kremer, The University of Chicago
Clifford P. Kubiak, University of California, San Diego
L - R
Kristine M. Larson, University of Bonn
Richard S. Lewis, Stanford University
Judy Lieberman, Harvard University
Christopher D. Lima, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, The Broad Institute
Diana M. Liverman, University of Arizona
Margaret S. Livingstone, Harvard University
Jacob Lurie, Institute for Advanced Study
Arunava Majumdar, Stanford University
Michael E. Mann, The Pennsylvania State University
Andrew P. McMahon, University of Southern California
Miriam Merad, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Scott J. Miller, Yale University
Andrew J. Millis, Columbia University
Gregory W. Moore, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Sean J. Morrison, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Arkadi S. Nemirovski, Georgia Institute of Technology
Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz
Kim Orth, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Olivier Pourquié, Harvard University
Kimberly A. Prather, University of California, San Diego
Molly Przeworski, Columbia University
Eliot Quataert, Princeton University
Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University
Loren H. Rieseberg, University of British Columbia
Michael K. Rosen, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
John Rubenstein, University of California, San Francisco
S - Z
Peter Sarnow, Stanford University
Alexander F. Schier, University of Basel
John T. Schiller, National Institutes of Health
Sandra L. Schmid, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
Wilfried Schmid, Harvard University
Erin M. Schuman, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
George P. Smith, University of Missouri-Columbia
Janet L. Smith, University of Michigan
Suzanne Staggs, Princeton University
Mark Stoneking, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Samuel I. Stupp, Northwestern University
Roger Summons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lorraine S. Symington, Columbia University
Peter Tontonoz, University of California, Los Angeles
Florencia Torche, Stanford University
F. Dean Toste, University of California, Berkeley
Doris Y. Tsao, California Institute of Technology
Robert Tycko, National Institutes of Health
Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University
Veronica Vaida, University of Colorado Boulder
Barbara Valent, Kansas State University
Alexander Vilenkin, Tufts University
Suzanne Walker, Harvard Medical School
Elke U. Weber, Princeton University
Janet F. Werker, University of British Columbia
Timothy D. Wilson, University of Virginia
Karen L. Wooley, Texas A&M University-College Station
Lai-Sang Young, New York University
Ofer Zeitouni, Weizmann Institute of Science
International Members (Country of Citizenship)
Brenda J. Andrews, University of Toronto (Canada)
Silvia Arber, University of Basel (Switzerland)
Spencer C.H. Barrett, University of Toronto (Canada & United Kingdom)
Yoav Benjamini, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
René Bernards, The Netherlands Cancer Institute (The Netherlands)
Xiaofeng Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences (People's Republic of China)
Patrick Cramer, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (Germany)
Jean Dalibard, Collège de France (France)
Esteban Domingo, The Spanish National Research Council (Spain)
(Rosemary) Jane Elith, University of Melbourne (Australia)
Jürg Fröhlich, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Christine E. Holt, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Anthony Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (Israel & United Kingdom)
Bo Barker Jørgensen, Aarhus University (Denmark)
Lewis E. Kay, University of Toronto (Canada)
Sandra Lavorel, French National Research Centre (France)
Richard G. Morris, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
Naoto Nagaosa, RIKEN (Japan)
Anna C. (Kia) Nobre, University of Oxford (Brazil & United Kingdom)
Timothy N. Palmer, University of Oxford (United Kingdom & Ireland)
Fiona M. Powrie, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Kazuo Shinozaki, RIKEN (Japan)
John R. Speakman, Chinese Academy of Sciences (New Zealand & United Kingdom)
Volker Springel, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (Germany)
Donna T. Strickland, University of Waterloo (Canada)
