 The National Academy of Sciences membership consists of approximately 2,200 members and 420 foreign associates, each of whom is affiliated with one of 31 disciplinary sections. The Institute of Medicine has more than 1,800 members and foreign associates. The National Academy of Engineering has more than 2,000 peer-elected members and foreign associates. More than 300 NAS, NAE, and IOM members are Nobel laureates. The National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation have been awarded to more than 250 of our members.
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Members Honored as Champions of Change
Jeremiah P. Ostriker and David J. Lipman will be honored as two of thirteen Champions of Change who are promoting and using open scientific data and publications to accelerate progress and improve our world. Ostriker and Lipman are both members of the NAS; Lipman is also an IOM member.
Members to Receive National Medals of Science, Technology
Jan. 30, 2013 -- President Obama will award the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation on Feb. 1 to several members of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. The National Medal of Science honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to science and engineering, and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation recognizes those who have made lasting contributions to America’s competitiveness and quality of life and helped strengthen the nation’s technological work force.
Members to receive the National Medal of Science: Members to receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation:
Read the full White House announcement http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/12/21/president-obama-honors-nation-s-top-scientists-and-innovators
Watch the award ceremony live on Feb. 1 at 2 p.m. EST www.whitehouse.gov/live NAS Member Shares 2012 Nobel in Economics
 Oct. 15, 2012 -- National Academy of Sciences member Lloyd Shapley has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics together with American economist Alvin Roth "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design."
Members Receive Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 Oct. 10, 2012 -- Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka have won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. They were awarded the prize "for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors." Both are members of the National Academy of Sciences; Lefkowitz is an Institute of Medicine member as well.
Academy Members Receive Nobel Prize in Physics
 Oct. 9, 2012 -- American David Wineland and Frenchman Serge Haroche have won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics. They were awarded the prize "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.” Wineland is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and Haroche is a foreign associate.
Members Receive Nobel Prize in Medicine
 Oct. 8, 2012 -- Briton John Gurdon and Japan's Shinya Yamanaka have won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. They were awarded the prize "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.” Both are foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences; Gurdon is also a foreign associate of the Institute of Medicine.
Members Awarded 2012 Kavli Prizes
 Four members of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine have been awarded this year’s Kavli Prizes, which recognize scientists with $1 million awards for seminal advances in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience. The Kavli Prizes are a partnership between the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Kavli Foundation, and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.
David C. Jewitt, an NAS member and professor in the department of earth and space sciences and Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, shares the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics with two other scientists, Jane Luu and Michael E. Brown.
Mildred S. Dresselhaus, NAS and NAE member and emeritus professor of physics and electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been awarded the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience.
Cornelia Isabella Bargmann, NAS member and professor at Rockefeller University in New York City, and Ann M. Graybiel, NAS and IOM member and professor in MIT’s department of brain and cognitive sciences, share the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience with Winfried Denk.
 Richard Alley Receives Outstanding Climate Science Communication Award
August 29, 2011 –National Academy of Sciences member Richard B. Alley has been awarded the first Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication. The $10,000 prize, presented by Climate One at the Commonwealth Club, recognizes a natural or social scientist who has made extraordinary scientific contributions and communicated that knowledge to the public in a clear and compelling fashion. Alley, the Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences and Associate of the EMS Environmental Institute at Pennsylvania State University, is the host of “Earth: The Operators’ Manual,” a three-part documentary nationally televised on PBS, and has recently co-authored The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change. Alley also chaired a Research Council committee that authored the 2001 report Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises. The award is named after the late NAS member Stephen H. Schneider, an internationally acclaimed scientist recognized for research, policy analysis, and outreach in climate change. Several IOM Members Voted Among Most Influential Physician Execs May 9, 2011 – Twenty-two of the 50 individuals recognized by Modern Physician and Modern Healthcare as the most influential physician executives of 2011 are members of the Institute of Medicine. These 22, including IOM’s president Harvey V. Fineberg, and their positions on the list follow: - Donald Berwick (2)
- Carolyn Clancy (3)
- Regina Benjamin (4)
- Thomas Frieden (5)
- Francis Collins (6)
- Margaret Hamburg (7)
- Harvey Fineberg (8)
- Mark Chassin (9)
- Glenn Steele Jr. (13)
- Gary Gottlieb (18)
- Paul Tang (21)
- Tadataka Yamada (25)
- Brent James (26
- Christine Cassel (30)
- Georges Benjamin (31)
- Darrell Kirch (32)
- Jonathan Perlin (33)
- William Roper (35)
- Robert Brook (37)
- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey (38)
- Arnold Milstein (40)
- David Blumenthal (41)
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Vest to Receive Prestigious Vannevar Bush Award March 31, 2011 - NAE President Charles Vest will receive the National Science Board's 2011 Vannevar Bush Award "for his outstanding contributions to both his scientific field and to the scientific community at large," the board announced. Vest will be presented with the medal on May 10 at a ceremony to be held at the U.S. Department of State. NSB is the policymaking body for the National Science Foundation and advises the U.S. president and Congress on science and engineering issues.
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