National Academy Elects New Members

At the 138th annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in May, 72 new members and 15 foreign associates were elected, bringing the total number of active members to 1874 and 325, respectively. In a rare event in the academy's history, one member, Leonard Mandel, was elected posthumously. Among the other newly elected members are

Charles Alcock, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania.

Michael L. Bender, professor of geosciences at Princeton University.

Pamela J. Bjorkman, professor of biology at Caltech and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Maurice S. Brookhart, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Robert A. Brown, provost and Warren K. Lewis Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT.

Robert J. Cava, professor of chemistry and associate director of the Princeton Materials Institute at Princeton University.

Thure E. Cerling, professor of geology and biology at the University of Utah.

F. Fleming Crim, John E. Willard and Hilldale Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Alexander Dalgarno, Phillips Professor of Astronomy at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Charles B. Duke, vice president and senior research fellow in Xerox's Wilson Center for Research and Technology in Webster, New York.

John H. Exton, professor of molecular physiology and of pharmacology at Vanderbilt University and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

George W. Flynn, Higgins Professor of Chemistry and director of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Institute at Columbia University.

Stuart J. Freedman, Luis W. Alvarez Chair of Experimental Physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inez Y. Fung, director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

Alexander N. Glazer, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Arthur C. Gossard, professor of materials and electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

James N. Gray, senior researcher at Microsoft Corp, San Francisco, California.

Alan J. Heeger, professor of physics and materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Russell J. Hemley, staff member at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

J. R. Jokipii, Regents' Professor in the department of planetary sciences and in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona.

Mimi A. R. Koehl, professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

John Kuriyan, Patrick E. and Beatrice M. Haggerty Professor of structural biology at Rockefeller University and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

J. Clark Lagarias, Paul K. and Ruth R. Stumpf Professor of Plant Biochemistry at the University of California, Davis.

Lynn T. Landmesser, chair of the department of neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University.

Leonard Mandel, who was the Lee A. DuBridge professor emeritus of physics and optics at the University of Rochester.

James L. McClelland, professor of psychology and computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.

Charles Y. Prescott, professor of physics at SLAC.

Frank M. Richter, Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor in the department of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago.

Marlan O. Scully, Hershel Burgess Distinguished Professor of Physics and Texas Engineering Experiment Station Distinguished Research Chair at Texas A&M University.

David Tank, head of biological computation research at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, in Murray Hill, New Jersey.

Edwin W. Taylor, Louis Block Professor in the departments of molecular genetics and cell biology, and biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Chicago.

Leslie G. Valiant, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University.

Robert M. Wald, professor in the department of physics and in the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago.

The newly elected foreign associates include

Theodor W. Hänsch, professor of physics at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich and a director at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany.

Ronald Ernest Oxburgh, recently retired rector of the Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine in London.

Jacob Palis, professor at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Michael J. D. Powell, John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Applied Numerical Analysis at the University of Cambridge.

Jean-Michel Saveant, director emeritus of research at CNRS in Paris.

Ewine F. Van Dishoeck, professor of molecular astrophysics at Leiden Observatory at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.