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Feng Zhang, 2021 Richard Lounsbery Award recipient, will present the 2024 Lounsbery Lecture on "Exploration of Biological ...

Distinctive Voices highlights innovations, discoveries, and emerging issues in an exciting and engaging public forum. Do you wonder how things work? What the future holds? If you are curious about the ...

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 ...

Mercury is a naturally occurring element that has been mined and released by humans for over 3,000 years. Inorganic mercury, released through human activities, makes up the majority of the mercury ...

Cynthia Beall is a biological anthropologist whose research focuses on human adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia, particularly the different patterns of adaptation exhibited by Andean, Tibetan and ...

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 ...

The NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences recognizes research by a mid-career scientist (defined as up to 20 years since completion of PhD) at a U.S. institution who has made an extraordinary ...

Marcia McNutt is a geophysicist and president of the National Academy of Sciences. From 2013 to 2016, she served as editor-in-chief of the Science journals. Prior to joining Science, she was director ...

I got my Ph.D.in Physics in 1976 from the University of Rochester, USA, in the field of quantum optics. After a research assistantship at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, from 1976 to 1977, I became a ...

I am a condensed matter physicist who carries out experiments on a variety of different solid and liquid crystal systems. Our primary experimental methods are neutron and synchrotron x-ray scattering.

Planning Group Members: Sarah King, University of Chicago, Akinobu Nakada, Kyoto University and Anna Schenk, University of Bayreuth INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, Massachusetts Institute ...