- Bruce Alberts
Dr. Bruce Alberts (b. 1938) is an American biochemist. He is noted particularly for his extensive study of the protein complexes that allow chromosomes to be replicated, as required for a living cell to divide. He was President of the National Academy of Sciences from 1993 to 2005.
- Richard Lindzen
Richard Siegmund Lindzen, Ph.D., (born February 8, 1940) is an atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lindzen is known for his research in dynamic meteorology, especially planetary waves. He has been a critic of some anthropogenic global warming theories and the political pressures surrounding climate scientists. He wrote an op-ed for the "Wall Street Journal" in April, 2006, …
- Frederick Seitz
Seitz received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1932, and then a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 1934. During World War II, he worked on military applications of research, including the atomic bomb. His 1940 textbook, The Modern Theory of Solids, was very important to the development of solid-state physics and of transistors. He had taught at several universities.
- Michael Mann
Michael Mann is a well-known American climatologist and author of more than 80 peer-reviewed journal publications. He has attained public prominence as lead author of a number of articles on paleoclimate which feature a graph of temperature trends dubbed the "hockey stick graph" for the shape of the trend line. In August 2005 he was appointed Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, in the Department of Meteorology and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, …
- Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter (born John Craig Venter October 14, 1946, Salt Lake City) is an American biologist and businessman.
- Ralph Cicerone
Ralph J. Cicerone became president of The National Academy of Sciences in 2005. His research in atmospheric chemistry and climate science has involved him in shaping science and environmental policy at the highest levels, nationally and internationally.
- Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography at UCLA. He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (1997). He also received the National Medal of Science in 1999
- Lynn Margulis
Dr. Lynn Margulis (born March 15, 1938) is a biologist and University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is best known for her theory on the origin of eukaryotic organelles, and her contributions to the endosymbiotic theory-which is now generally accepted for how certain organelles were formed.
- Henry Harpending
Henry C. Harpending (1944-) is an anthropologist and population geneticist at the University of Utah, where he is a Distinguished Professor. Harpending has broken new ground in anthropology and human biology interpreting genetic and morphometric variation within and between human populations with mathematically based models, examining hypotheses such as population growth, divergence, and gene flow. Harpending is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Peter Duesberg
Peter H. Duesberg (born December 2, 1936 in Germany) is a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for his controversial theories on the cause of AIDS. Duesberg initially gained note, at the age of 33, for being the first scientist to discover a cancer gene (oncogene), which he isolated from a virus.. At 36, he earned tenure at the University of California, Berkeley, …
- Erik Trinkaus
Erik Trinkaus, PhD, (December 24, 1948) is a prominent paleoanthropologist and expert on Neanderthal biology and human evolution. Trinkaus researches the evolution of the genus "Homo sapiens" and recent human diversity, focusing on the paleoanthropology and emergence of late archaic and early modern humans, and the subsequent evolution of 'anatomically modern' humanity. Trinkaus is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, …
- Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. He is also Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP) at the Woodrow Wilson School and Faculty Associate of the Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Program, Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
- Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics. The field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize.
- Mario Capecchi
Mario Capecchi , Ph.D. Distinguished Professor Co-Chairman of Human Genetics Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Carl Wieman
Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26 1951) is a Nobel-prize winning American physicist at the University of British Columbia who (with Eric Allin Cornell), in 1995, produced the first true Bose-Einstein condensate. Wieman joined the University of British Columbia physics faculty on January 1st, 2007 and is heading a well-endowed science education program there; he retains a 20% appointment at University of Colorado, …
- Thomas Gold
Thomas Gold (May 22, 1920 - June 22, 2004) was an Austrian astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in the 1950s proposed the now mostly abandoned 'steady state' hypothesis of the universe. Gold's work crossed academic and scientific boundaries, into biophysics, astrophysics, space engineering, and geophysics.
- William A. Dembski
William Dembski Researcher, Writer A mathematician and philosopher, William Dembski is a senior fellow with Seattle's Discovery Institute. Dr. Dembski has published articles in mathematics, philosophy, and theology journals and is the author/editor of more than ten books.
- Rudolf Jaenisch
Rudolf Jaenisch (1942-) is a German pioneer of transgenic science, in which an animal’s genetic makeup is altered. Jaenisch has focused on creating transgenic mice to study cancer and neurological diseases. Jaenisch’s first breakthrough occurred in the 1974 when he showed that foreign DNA could be integrated into the DNA of early mouse embryos.
- Henry Draper
Henry Draper (March 7, 1837 - November 20 1882) was an American doctor and astronomer. Henry Draper's father, John William Draper, was an accomplished doctor, chemist, botanist, and professor at New York University; he was also the first to photograph the moon through a telescope in the winter of 1839-1840. Draper's mother was Antonia Coetana de Paiva Pereira Gardner, daughter of the personal physician to the Emperor of Brazil.
- Marye Anne Fox
Marye Anne Fox was named the seventh Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry of the University of California, San Diego in April 2004 by the University of California Board of Regents. Previously, Fox was chancellor and distinguished university professor of chemistry at North Carolina State University, a post she held since 1998.
- Arthur C. Cope
Arthur C. Cope (1909-1966) was a highly successful and influential organic chemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is credited with the development of several important chemical reactions which bear his name including the Cope elimination and the Cope rearrangement. Cope was born on June 27, 1909 in Dunreith, Indiana.
- Edward Wegman
Edward Wegman is a prominent statistics professor at George Mason University and chair of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics.
- Leroy Hood
Dr. Hood is recognized as one of the world's leading scientists in molecular biotechnology and genomics. A passionate and dedicated researcher, he holds numerous patents and awards for his work and prides himself on his life-long commitment to making science accessible to the general public. One of his foremost goals is to bring hands-on, inquiry-based science to K-12 classrooms.
- Norman Myers
Norman Myers CMG (24 August, 1934-) is a British environmentalist and authority on biodiversity. He is a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences
- Peter Gleick
Dr. Peter Gleick President
- William Nordhaus
William D. Nordhaus (born May 31, 1941 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is the Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. Nordhaus received his B.A. from Yale in 1963, and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1967. He has been a member of the faculty at Yale since 1967, and has also served as its Provost from 1986-88 and its Vice President for Finance and Administration from 1992-93. Among myriad honors, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, …
- Simon Conway Morris
Simon Conway Morris FRS is a British paleontologist. He was born in 1951 and brought up in London, England. He made his reputation with a very detailed and careful study of the Burgess Shale fossils, an exploit celebrated in Stephen Jay Gould's "Wonderful Life", though Conway Morris' own book on the subject, "The Crucible of Creation", is somewhat critical of Gould's presentation and interpretation.
- Michael Merzenich
Michael M. Merzenich is a neuroscientist from UCSF. His contributions to the field are numerous. He took the sensory cortex maps developed by his predecessors like Archie Tunturi, Clinton Woolsey, Vernon Mountcastle, Wade Marshall, and Philip Bard, and refined them using dense micro-electrode mapping techniques. Using this, he definitively showed there to be multiple somatotopic maps of the body in the postcentral sulcus, …
- Ronald Breslow
Ronald C. D. Breslow (born 14 March 1931, Rahway, New Jersey) is a U.S. chemist. He is currently University Professor at Columbia University, where he is based in the Department of Chemistry and affiliated with the Departments of Biological Sciences and Pharmacology; he has also been on the faculty of its Department of Chemical Engineering. He has taught at Columbia since 1956 and is a former chair of the university's chemistry department.
- Thomas Eisner
Thomas Eisner is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, and Director of the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology (CIRCE). He is a world authority on animal behavior, ecology, and evolution, and is one of the pioneers of chemical ecology, the discipline dealing with the chemical interactions of organisms. He is author or co-author of some 400 scientific articles and 7 books.
- David Haussler
David Haussler is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He is also Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz; scientific co-director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research; and a consulting professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and UC San Francisco Biopharmaceutical Sciences Department.
- Peter Agre
Peter Agre (born January 30, 1949) is an American medical doctor and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (which he shared with Roderick MacKinnon) for his discovery of aquaporins. Born in Northfield, Minnesota, he received his B.A. from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota and his M.D. in 1974 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Richard Garwin
Richard L. Garwin was born in 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned a B.S. in physics from Case Institute of Technology in 1947, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1949. Garwin began his work with nuclear weapons technology in 1950 and continues to be an influential voice in national security issues today. Garwin joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1950 and also made study visits to Los Alamos Laboratory.
- Calestous Juma
Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project. He holds a Ph.D. in science and technology policy studies and has written widely on science, technology, and the environment.
- Alexander Rich
Alexander Rich, MD (American; born "c." 1925) is a biologist and biophysicist. He is the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT (since 1958) and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rich earned both an A.B. ("magna cum laude") and an M.D. ("cum laude") from Harvard University. He was a post-doc of Linus Pauling along with James Watson. He has over 600 publications to his name. Rich is the founder of Alkermes Inc.
- Mary Sue Coleman
Mary Sue Coleman (born October 2, 1943 in Kentucky) is the current president of the University of Michigan, having served since 2002. Coleman previously was president of the University of Iowa. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry from Grinnell College, …
- Robert Axelrod
Robert Axelrod (born 1943) is a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He has appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Prior to coming to Michigan he taught at the University of California, Berkeley (1968-74). He holds a BA in mathematics from the University of Chicago (1964), and a PhD in political science from Yale University (1969).
- Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell (born 1934) is an environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator. She became 11th Director of the United States National Science Foundation on August 4, 1998. Dr. Colwell has an undergraduate degree in bacteriology and an M.S. in genetics from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Washington. In 2004, she received an honorary Sc.D. from Bates College.
- K. Eric Drexler
Often described as the 'father of nanotechnology', K. Eric Drexler is a researcher whose work focuses on advanced nanotechnologies and directions for current research. He has authored numerous journal articles, and his books include Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation . He helped lead development of the 2007 Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems , a project managed by Battelle and hosted by several of the U.S. National Laboratories.
- Percy Lavon Julian
Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 - April 19, 1975) was an American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, and his chemical synthesis of human steroids from plant steroid precursors would lay the foundation for the birth control pill and cortisone. He later started his own company synthesizing steroid intermediates from the Mexican yam.