The memorial to Albert Einstein, situated in an elm and holly grove in the southwest corner of the Academy grounds, was unveiled at the Academy's annual meeting, April 22, 1979, in honor of the ...

Marius Clore FRS is a Distinguished Investigator in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics at the NIH. He is a molecular biophysicist known for pioneering three-dimensional structure determination of ...

Reinhard Genzel, born 1952 in Bad Homburg v d H, Germany, is currently the Director of Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, a Professor in the Physics Department of the University of ...

My research program is focused on understanding the mechanisms by which tumors develop from once-normal cells resident in their natural tissue microenvironments, a process that evidently involves the ...

Alex Eskin is the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. Eskin was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1965. He obtained his PhD at ...

Scott Edwards is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Curator of Ornithology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. He came to Harvard in December 2003 after serving as a ...

Dr. Kerry Emanuel is the Cecil and Ida Green professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty since 1981, after spending three years on ...

David P. DeMille, PhD is Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago and holds a Joint Appointment in the Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He earned ...

The US-UK Scientific Forum was established in 2008 to help the scientific leadership of the United Kingdom and the United States forge an enduring and productive partnership on pressing topics of ...

The Frontiers of Science symposium series was created as the first program of the National Academy of Sciences targeted specifically for early career scientists. Frontiers was designed to bridge the ...

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The NAS Award in Chemical Sciences is presented annually to honor innovative research in the chemical sciences that contributes to a better understanding of the natural sciences and to the benefit of ...