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 ...

As a microbiologist I have been interested in the social behavior of bacteria. A primary focus has been on the coordination of activities in groups of bacteria. A main focus of my work has been on ...

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 ...

My research addresses problems in science, technology and public policy. Much of my work has involved the development and demonstration of methods to characterize and treat uncertainty in quantitative ...

Gloria Coruzzi is the Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Biology at New York University. She is a plant biologist recognized for her pioneering work in plant systems biology. She is known ...

Moshe Y. Vardi is University Professor and the George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University. He is the recipient of several awards, including the ACM SIGACT ...

As a prehistoric archaeologist specializing in Europe, my doctoral research centered on the prehistory of the Cycladic Islands of Greece and their alleged connections with other parts of Europe.

Eric Lambin, a geographer and environmental scientist, divides his time between University of Louvain and Stanford University, where he occupies the Ishiyama Provostial Professorship at the School of ...

As a geneticist, I focus on developing new techniques and instruments. Using the Saccharomyces cerevisiae sequence, new technology is being developed to conduct whole genome analysis, including the ...

Professor Sir Richard Blundell holds the Ricardo Chair of Political Economy at University College London where he was appointed Professor of Economics in 1984. He is Director of the ESRC Centre for ...

Ulrich Christensen is a geophysicist who is known for his work on the internal dynamics of the Earth and other planets in the solar system. Using mainly numerical simulations he contributed to the ...

My laboratory has been identifying genes that contribute to development of vascular disease in humans and determining how these mutations alter normal physiology to result in clinical disease. Many of ...