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National Academy Members
Academy members are world leaders in the arts and sciences, business, philanthropy, and public affairs. These elected members join with other experts to explore challenges facing society, identify solutions, and promote nonpartisan recommendations that advance the public good.
Roderic I. Pettigrew
2020
Donald J. Darensbourg
2019
Elaine S. Oran
2018
Karen Wooley
2015
Marcetta Darensbourg
2011
Edwin L. (Ned) Thomas
2009
Marlan O. Scully
2008
Alan Needleman
2007
Ronald A. DeVore
2001
Roger Howe (emeritus)
1993
David M. Lee
1990
Dudley Herschbach (emeritus)
1980
Election to National Academy of Engineering membership is one of the highest professional honors accorded an engineer. Members have distinguished themselves in business and academic management, in technical positions, as university faculty, and as leaders in government and private engineering organizations. Members are elected to NAE membership by their peers (current NAE members).
Vijay Singh
2022
Mladen Kezunovic
2022
Robert O. Ambrose
2020
Yassin Hassan
2019
Ali Erdemir
2019
Chanan Singh
2018
George Ligler
2017
James E. Hubbard, Jr.
2016
M. Cynthia Hipwell
2016
Junuthula N. Reddy
2015
George M. Pharr
2014
M. Katherine Banks
2014
Thomas J. Overbye
2013
Robert E. Skelton* (emeritus)
2012
Akhil Datta-Gupta
2012
Richard B. Miles
2011
Roderic I. Pettigrew
2010
Edwin L. (Ned) Thomas
2009
Panganamala R. Kumar
2007
William Saric (emeritus)
2006
Mark A. Barteau
2006
Linda P.B. Katehi
2006
Frances Ligler
2005
Elaine S. Oran
2003
Bonnie J. Dunbar
2002
Alan Needleman
2000
Kyle T. Alfriend
1999
B. Don Russell
1999
Gilbert F. Froment
1999 (international)
Antony Jameson
1997 (international)
Warren F. Miller
1996
John L. Junkins
1996
W. John Lee
1993
Membership in the National Academy of Medicine is based upon distinguished professional achievement in a field related to medicine and health; demonstrated and continued involvement with the issues of health care, prevention of disease, education, or research; skills and resources likely to contribute to achieving the Academy’s mission; and willingness to be an active participant in the work of the Academy.
Regan Bailey
2020
Kenneth S. Ramos
2015
William M. Sage
2009
Nancy W. Dickey
2007
Roderic I. Pettigrew
2007
Election in the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can achieve. Members are elected to the NAS in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Donald J. Darensbourg
2022
Karen L. Wooley
2020
Marcetta Darensbourg
2017
Ronald A. DeVore
2017
Patrick Stover
2016
Vanderlei Bagnato
2013
Leif Andersson
2012 (international)
Luiz Davidovich
2006 (international)
Robert C. Kennicutt Jr.
2006
Catharine Ross
2003
Marlan O. Scully
2001
James Womack
1999
Roger Howe
1994
David M. Lee
1991
Peter M. Rentzepis
1978
Dudley R. Herschbach (emeritus)
1967
Award Communities
Deb Bell-Pedersen
2021
Valen Johnson
2021
Robin Murphy
2021
Stephen Safe
2021
Virender K. Sharma
2021
Kathy Svoboda
2021
Reginald W. Taylor
2021
Paul Hardin
2020
William Murphy
2020
Harold Boas
2020
Karen Wooley
2020
David Cairns
2020
Majeti M.V. Ravi Kumar
2020
Lynne Opperman
2019
Ping Yang
2019
Marcetta Darensbourg
2018
David Stelly
2018
Jeff Cirillo
2018
Ethan Grossman
2018
Robert Chapkin
2018
Andrew Dessler
2017
Binayak Mohanty
2017
Renyi Zhang
2016
Jyotsna Vaid
2016
Hongcai Zhou
2016
Karen-Beth Scholthof
2016
Samba Reddy
2015
Peter Kuchment
2015
Patrick Stover
2014
Matthew Sachs
2013
Frances Ligler
2013
Bani Mallick
2013
Mark Barteau
2013
Perla Balbuena
2013
Jonathan Coopersmith
2013
Raymond Carroll
2013
Sherry Yennello
2012
Guoyao Wu
2012
Roberto Izaurralde
2010
David Threadgill
2010
Tadhg Begley
2009
Clint Magill
2009
David Baltensperger
2009
Yassin Hassan
2008
Frank Raushel
2008
Kirk Winemiller
2007
Karen Butler-Purry
2005
Ryland Young
2003
Kim Dunbar
2003
John Gladysz
2003
Ken Muneoka
2003
David Bergbreiter
2002
David Russell
2002
Barbara Gastel
2001
James Womack
1999
Karan Watson
1998
Fuller Warren Bazer
1989
Peter Rentzepis
1985
David Lee
1982
Dudley Herschbach (emeritus)
1980
Gary Voelker
2018
Joseph Awika
2018
Robert Wells
2018
Sonia Hernandez
2018
Irene Calboli
2017
Iman Borazjani
2017
Bani Mallick
2017
Gil Rosenthal
2017
Julio Bernal
2016
Wendy Jepson
2016
Valerie Hudson
2016
David Matarrita-Cascante
2016
Brian Linn
2015
Luca Quadrifoglio
2015
Jason West
2015
Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
2015
Srividhya Ragavan
2014
Luis Tedeschi
2013
Megha Parajulee
2013
Bradford Wilcox
2013
Timothy Coombs
2012
Randall Davis
2012
Gregory Pappas
2012
Valerie Hill-Jackson
2012
Kathleen O'Reilly
2012
Dirk Hays
2011
Joan Mileski
2010
Huyen Pham
2010
Gregory Gause
2009
Jason Parker
2009
Christopher Kerth
2008
Richard Woodward
2008
Dennis Jansen
2008
Andreas Polycarpou
2008
JoAnn Lutz
2008
Jonathan Coopersmith
2008
Robert Hetland
2007
Adam Seipp
2007
Nancy Klein
2005
Ira Dworkin
2005
David Byrne
2004
Sharon Gursky-Doyen
2003
Samuel Cohn
2001
Susan S. Fortney
2001
Terry Anderson
2001
Larry Reynolds
2000
Walter Kamphoefner
1998
Amy Elizabeth Earhart
2021
Evan Haefeli
2019
Brian Linn
2018
David J. Vaught
2001
Craig W. Kallendorf
1992