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unusual facts about United States National Academy of Sciences



Ansley J. Coale

Coale was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and was a recipient of several honorary degrees from universities including Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Louvain and the University of Liège.

Averageness

Similar observations were made in 1886 by Stoddard, who created composite faces of members of the National Academy of Sciences and graduating seniors of Smith College.

Barbara Reskin

Reskin served on the Board of Overseers of the General Social Survey and on several National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council committees.

Bernard Davis

He was the 1989 recipient of the Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology from the National Academy of Sciences.

Cesare Emiliani

He was further honored by receiving the Vega Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG) (Swedish: Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi) in 1983, and the Alexander Agassiz Medal of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1989 for his isotopic studies on Pleistocene and Holocene planktic foraminifera.

Charles A. Kraus

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, was awarded several medals from the American Chemical Society, including the Priestley Medal in 1950.

Charles Hucker

Hucker was among a small number of American scholars of Chinese history who visited scholarly centers in China in 1979 under the joint auspices of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

David Goeddel

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is a recipient of the Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry and the Scheele Award from the Swedish Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Edward Leamington Nichols

He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907) and of the American Physical Society (1907–08), and served as a member of the visiting committee of the United States Bureau of Standards.

Fred Basolo

A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Basolo was awarded the Priestley Medal and the George Pimentel Award in Chemical Education.

George C. Schatz

Schatz is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, and many other such bodies.

George Wetherill

Wetherill provided leadership in the scientific community by serving on advisory committees for NASA, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Science Foundation.

Harry S Truman Building

It is located to the west of Edward J. Kelly Park and north of the National Academy of Sciences building and the National Mall.

Howard Percy Robertson

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Hubert Anson Newton

He won the Smith gold medal from the National Academy of Sciences, was elected an associate of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1885), and was foreign member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Ivan Sutherland

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the National Academy of Sciences among many other major awards.

J. Roger Porter

National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Committee on Science Programs of UNESCO, 1977–1979

Jay Noren

Noren was the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow at the National Academy of Sciences and U.S. Congress, and a Churchill Fellow in the United Kingdom.

Joseph J. Kohn

Since 1966 he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and since 1988 a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Joseph Newhouse

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Lawrence Corey

In 2008, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the (US) National Academy of Sciences.

Leo Brewer

Brewer was instrumental in founding the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council Committee on High-Temperature Chemistry, as well as organizing the first Gordon Research Conference on High-Temperature Chemistry in 1960.

Leslie Ungerleider

Ungerleider has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2000), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000) the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (2001), and the Society of Experimental Psychologists.

Marjorie Clarke

She also served on a National Academy of Sciences committee on Health Effects of Waste Incineration, co-authoring the NRC publication by that name.

Micah Naftalin

Before joining UCSJ, he served as an aide to U.S. Congressman Carl Elliott, as Chief Counsel and Deputy Director of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Government Research and as a senior policy analyst with the National Academy of Sciences.

Mitchell Lazar

He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2006, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.

Permit-class submarine

In "Project Nobska," the Committee on Undersea Warfare of the United States National Academy of Sciences considered the lessons learned from various prototypes and experimental platforms.

Pesticides in the United States

The National Academy of Sciences estimates that between 4,000 and 20,000 cases of cancer are caused per year by pesticide residues in food in allowable amounts.

Piermont, New York

Paul E. Olsen, professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and member of the National Academy of Sciences

Robert Isaac Field

Previously, he served as director of planning and physician practice acquisitions for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, as a health care attorney for a major Philadelphia law firm, and as a member of the research staff of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Sandra Faber

Faber was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1985 and the American Philosophical Society on 29 April 2001.

Stanley Falkow

In 2003, he received the Abbott Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Microbiology and the Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology from the National Academy of Sciences.

Stephen Alfred Forbes

He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1918.

T. N. Srinivasan

He is visiting fellow at the Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform, Stanford University; fellow at the Econometric Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American Philosophical Society; and a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.

University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science

Winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and fellows of the National Academy of Sciences have been associated with the college.

Vulimiri Ramalingaswami

His pioneering research on nutrition got him elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society of London.


see also

CISAC

Committee on International Security and Arms Control, a standing committee of the United States National Academy of Sciences

Darst

Seth Darst, American biochemist and member of the United States National Academy of Sciences

National Research Council

United States National Research Council, the working arm of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the United States National Academy of Engineering