Faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences

Thirteen University of California faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2012. Additionally, a foreign associate was named from UC Berkeley. Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded to a U.S. scientist.

New members, by campus, include:

UC Berkeley

• 
  John F. Hartwig, professor of chemistry and Henry Rapoport Chair in Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
• 
  Mary Power, professor, Department of Integrative Biology
• 
  Bernard Sadoulet, professor, Department of Physics

UC Davis

• 
  Harris A. Lewin, vice chancellor for research and Robert and Rosabel Osborne Endowed Chair in Evolution and Ecology 

UCLA

• 
  Sabeeha Merchant, professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 

UC Riverside

• 
  Natasha V. Raikhel, Distinguished Professor of Plant Cell Biology and director, Center for Plant Cell Biology, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences 

UC San Diego

• 
  Roberto Malinow, professor, Department of Neuroscience
• 
  Ruth J. Williams, Charles Lee Powell Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics
• 
  William R. Young, professor of physical oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

UC San Francisco

• 
  Louis J. Ptáček, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and John C. Coleman Distinguished Professorship in Neurodegenerative Diseases 

UC Santa Barbara

• 
  Napoleon A. Chagnon, professor emeritus, Department of Anthropology
• 
  Matthew P. Fisher, professor, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics

Lawrence Berkeley Lab

• 
  John B. Bell, senior staff scientist and group leader, Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering 

John Clarke, professor, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley, (United Kingdom) was named a foreign associate to the academy.

This year’s class brings UC faculty membership in the academy to 258.

source: University of California at San Diego

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