Moore Foundation trustee Rosina Bierbaum was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Forty percent of the newly elected members are women — the most ever elected in any one year to date.
The National Academy of Sciences is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars and was established in 1863 by an Act of Congress, signed by President Abraham Lincoln. The academy is “charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology.” The total number of active members to date is 2,347 and the total number of foreign associates to 487 (foreign associates are nonvoting members of the academy, with citizenship outside the United States).
Over the years, many foundation board members and leaders have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
In addition to Dr. Bierbaum’s recent election, a member of our science advisory board, Jennifer Chayes (technical fellow and managing director, Microsoft Research New York, Microsoft Research Montreal, and Microsoft Research New England), was also elected to the National Academy of Sciences, along with four grantees and one former grantee:
- William McGinnis, professor of biology and dean, division of biological sciences, cell, and developmental biology, University of California, San Diego
- Leon Balents, professor of physics and permanent member, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara and an Moore Scholar in Theory of Quantum Materials (part of our Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative)
- Amir Yacoby, professor of physics and professor of applied physics, department of physics, Harvard University and an investigator with our Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative
- Ali Yazdani, professor of physics, department of physics, Princeton University and investigator with our Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative
- Roger Falcone (former grantee), previously director of the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; professor, department of physics, University of California, Berkeley
See the full announcement from the National Academy of Sciences.
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