NAS Honors 17 for Major Contributions to Science
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January 20, 2010 -- The National Academy of Sciences will honor 17 individuals in 2010 for their extraordinary scientific achievements in the areas of biology, chemistry, geology, astronomy, and psychology. Achievements include establishing the existence of the solar wind; development of a fundamental building block for nanoscience; pioneering studies of the dominant photosynthetic organisms in the sea; contributions on the theory of fluvial erosion, sedimentation, and landscape evolution; and the development of fast algorithms in mathematical physics, operator compression, and linear algebra.
