The memorial to Albert Einstein, situated in an elm and holly grove in the southwest corner of the Academy grounds, was unveiled at the Academy's annual meeting, April 22, 1979, in honor of the ...

Marius Clore FRS is a Distinguished Investigator in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics at the NIH. He is a molecular biophysicist known for pioneering three-dimensional structure determination of ...

Betty Diamond was born in Hartford, CT and grew up in New York City. She attended Radcliff College where she majored in Art History. She attended Harvard Medical School, and performed a residency in ...

Simon Tavaré is a statistician recognized for his work at the interface between the mathematical sciences and the biological and medical sciences. He is known particularly for probabilistic and ...

I seek to understand how atmospheric gases, clouds, and aerosols regulate the planetary greenhouse effect, solar radiative heating, and climate. As a postdoctoral fellow I identified the greenhouse ...

Ehud Isacoff is a biophysicist and neuroscientist recognized for his work on membrane signaling proteins, synapses and neural circuits. Born in Darmstadt, Germany, Isacoff grew up in Israel, Boston ...

Larry Edwards is a geochemist with interests in climate history, climate change,and geochronology. Edwards is known for his role in the development of modern uranium- thorium (or 230Th) dating methods ...

James W. Demmel's research interests are in high performance computing and numerical algorithms, in particular for linear algebra, where he has helped develop the widely used software libraries LAPACK ...

Howard Cedar was born in New York in 1943. He received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from M.I.T. and then went on to do an M.D/Ph.D. in microbiology under the tutelage of James Schwartz at N.Y.U., ...

Joan Broderick is a bioinorganic chemist known for her work on radical S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) enzymes and the mechanism by which these enzymes initiate radical reactions throughout biology, as ...

Russel Caflisch is an applied mathematician whose research is on analysis and numerical methods for physical sciences. He is known for analysis of the fluid dynamic limit in kinetic theory and of ...

Steve Carpenter is the Emeritus Director and Stephen Alfred Forbes Professor of the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His current research topics are controls and dynamics ...