Facts about Reed

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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Members and foreign associates of the academy are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research; election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a scientist or engineer. The academy membership is composed of approximately 1,900 members and 300 international associates, of whom more than 170 have won Nobel prizes. NAS is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare.

1959	John A. Simpson
1963	William D. McElroy
1965	Louis Goodman
1976	Clarence R. Allen Warren L. Butler
1977	Richard F. Thompson
1978	Dale W. Jorgenson
1979	Mark Ptashne
1983	Richard J. Havel

1988	Stanley G. Nathenson
1992	Ronald Lee
1993	Bruce S. Baker Eleanor E. Maccoby
1997	Donald M. Engelman Kenneth N. Raymond
2009	Kevan Shokat
2010	Douglas W. Burbank Robert D. Mare

Also see the distinctions page.