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National Academy Members
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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)
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- Edwin L. (Ned) Thomas (2009)
- Marlan O. Scully (2008)
- Alan Needleman (2007)
- Ronald A. DeVore (2001)
- Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr. (2001)
- Roger Howe (emeritus) (1993)
- David M. Lee (1990)
- Dudley Herschbach (emeritus) (1980)
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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).
- Nathan Meehan (2022)
- 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)
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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)
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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
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- 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)
- Ali Erdemir (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)
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- 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)
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- Amy Elizabeth Earhart (2021)
- Evan Haefeli (2019)
- Brian Linn (2018)
- David J. Vaught (2001)
- Craig W. Kallendorf (1992)
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Frances Ligler (2017)