National Academy of Sciences
Members and foreign associates of the Academy are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research; election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a scientist or engineer. The Academy membership is comprised of approximately 1,900 members and 300 foreign associates, of whom more than 170 have won Nobel Prizes. 44 current faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Anthropology
- Marshall D. Sahlins, 1991
Applied Physical Sciences
- David D. Awschalom, 2007
- Sidney R. Nagel, 2003
- Dean E. Eastman, 1982
Astronomy
- John E. Carlstrom, 2002
- Eugene N. Parker, 1967
Biochemistry
- Donald F. Steiner, 1975
Cellular and Developmental Biology
- Anthony P. Mahowald, 1994
Chemistry
- Donald H. Levy, 1988
- Jack Halpern, 1984
- Robert Gomer, 1981
- R. Stephen Berry, 1980
- Stuart A. Rice, 1968
Economics
- Roger B. Myerson, 2009
- Nancy Stokey, 2004
- Lars Peter Hansen, 1999
- James J. Heckman, 1992
- Hugo F. Sonnenschein, 1990
- Robert E. Lucas Jr., 1981
- Gary S. Becker, 1975
- Robert W. Fogel, 1974
Evolutionary Biology
- Neil Shubin, 2011
- David Jablonski, 2010
- Wen-Hsiung Li, 2003
Geology
- Frank M. Richter, 2001
- David M. Raup, 1979
Geophysical Sciences
- Robert N. Clayton, 1996
- Edward Anders, 1974
Immunology
- Martin G. Weigert, 1999
Mathematics
- Spencer J. Bloch, 1994
- Richard G. Swan, 1976
Medical Genetics, Hematology, and Oncology
- Janet D. Rowley, 1984
Microbial Biology
- Bernard Roizman, 1979
Physics
- Melvyn J. Shochet, 2006
- Robert M. Wald, 2001
- Michael S. Turner, 1997
- Leo P. Kadanoff, 1978
- Yoichiru Nambu, 1974
- James W. Cronin, 1970
Physiology and Pharmacology
- Francisco Bezanilla, 2006
Plant Biology
- Robert Haselkorn, 1991
Sociology
- Stephen W. Raudenbush, 2012