The National Academy of Sciences has named Monica Feit as its next executive officer, effective Oct. 4, 2025. In this role, Feit will oversee NAS core membership activities, including the election of ...

The Einstein Memorial 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, ...

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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 ...

William H. Press is a computer scientist and computational biologist with broad interests in the physical and biological sciences. Press is the Leslie Surginer Professor of Computer Science and ...

Andrea Liu is a theoretical soft and living condensed matter physicist. She is best known for developing the field of jamming, which provides a unifying conceptual framework for understanding ...

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 ...

Since 1991 the award has recognized the profound benefits of chemistry to society and how advances in chemistry have led to greater economic wealth and a better quality of life. Previous recipients of ...

The Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Studies was established in 2013 by Richard C. Atkinson, president emeritus of the University of California and former director of the National Science ...

Susan Wessler is Distinguished Professor of Genetics emerita at the University of California Riverside. In 2011 she was elected Home Secretary of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the first ...

Established by the NAS Council in June 2017 by combining two awards: the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal and the Mary Clark Thompson Medal. The award rotates presentation between the Elliot Medal that ...

Joseph L. Goldstein is Chair and Regental Professor of Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He and his colleague, Michael S. Brown, ...