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 ...

The NAS Award in the Neurosciences is awarded every three years to recognize extraordinary contributions to the progress of the neuroscience fields, including neurochemistry, neurophysiology, ...

Karolin Luger is a biochemist and structural biologist recognized for her work on chromatin structure and function. She was a key player in efforts to elucidate the three-dimensional structure of the ...

Natural, goal-directed behaviors typically involve sensing and action across both time and space. Organisms must react to stimuli in the 3D environment at each moment in time, as well as plan future ...

Michael Elowitz is an HHMI Investigator and Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at Caltech, recognized for foundational contributions to the fields of synthetic biology and systems biology ...

Edward Buckler is a Research Geneticist with the Senior Scientific Research Service at the US Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service, and he is an Adjunct Professor of Plant ...

As a theoretical physicist, my research has explored issues in particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, and condensed-matter physics. A principal focus has been developing and testing the ...

GERALD SCHUBERT (NAS) is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences. Dr. Schubert?s research interests center on ...

Antonio Lanzavecchia is an immunologist recognized for his work on antigen presentation by B cells and dendritic cells, for his studies on T cell activation and on the cellular basis of immunological ...

Harold Y. Hwang is Professor of Applied Physics (Stanford University) and Photon Science (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy, and Director of the ...

Krzysztof (Kris) Matyjaszewski is J.C. Warner University Professor of Natural Sciences in Chemistry Department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Director of Center for Macromolecular Engineering ...

Ralph Bock, PhD, is Director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, and a Professor at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He received his MSc degree from the University of Halle ...