National Academy of Sciences updated 3-19-07
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Total non-duplicated National Academy of Sciences faculty and alumni recipients - 66
Faculty
Total Faculty National Academy of Sciences recipients - 45 Discipline Election Year Year Award Received
1 Baker, David   David Baker is a world authority on the design and methodologies for studying requirements for amino acids and trace minerals in animals. His diet formulations used worldwide for feeding companion animals, pigs and poultry, have contributed to the remarkable efficiency of feed to protein gain achieved in today's agriculture. Animal, Nutritional, and Applied Microbial Sciences 2005 -
2 Baym, Gordon A.  Gordon Baym has made original, seminal contributions to our understanding of neutron stars, relativistic effects in nuclear physics, condensed matter physics, quantum fluids and Bose-Einstein condensates. His work is characterized by a superb melding of basic theoretical physics concepts, from condensed matter to nuclear to elementary particle physics. Physics 1982  - 
3 Beak, Peter Peter Beak has made major contributions in physical organic chemistry and organic synthesis. His research focuses on organic compounds of lithium using spectroscopic and calorimetric approaches. This work has been of immense importance to the synthesis of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Chemistry 2003  - 
4 Berenbaum, May May Berenbaum has made major contributions to understanding of the role of chemistry in interactions between plants and herbivorous insects. She has identified key plant defensive chemicals and determined their modes of action. Her investigations have encompassed both proximate physiological mechanisms and their evolutionary consequences for both plants and insects. Evolutionary Biology 1994  - 
5 Bryant, Marvin P. (deceased) Marvin Bryant has made a significant contribution to ruminant microbiology. Animal, Nutritional, and Applied Microbial Sciences 1987  - 
6 Burkholder, Donald Lyman Donald Lyman Burkholder has been the leader, during the past 20 years, in martingale transforms and applications of probabilistic methods to a large variety of areas in analysis, such as harmonic and analytic functions, singular integrals and Banach space classifications. He obtained wide and striking extensions of Paley's ideas in harmonic analysis of more than 30 years before. Mathematics 1992  - 
7 Ceperley, David David Ceperley is an expert in developing methods for microscopic simulations of quantum systems. His techniques are used by physicists, chemists and engineers to predict the behavior of matter. His research interests include theoretical condensed matter physics and computational physics.  He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Physics 2006  - 
8 Cho, Alfred Y. Alfred Y. Cho is the coinventor and the principal developer of the molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) technique for growing single crystal semiconductors. Through his accomplishments, it is now possible to grow a single crystal as few two atomic layers thick. MBE is making possible singular advances in fundamental solid-state physics as well as in novel devices. Electronic Engineering 1985  - 
9 Cooper, Leon N. Leon N. Cooper was awarded the Comstock Prize, in 1968,  (with J.R. Schrieffer) of the National Academy of Sciences for "their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory."  Cooper was a postdoctoral research associate from 1955-1957. Systems Neuroscience 1975 1968
10 Curtin, David David Curtin improved a popular textbook on qualitative organic analysis by introducing the "why" of relative reaction rates to explain the observations.  Chemistry 1964  - 
11 Doob, Joseph (deceased) Joseph Doob work has become one of the most powerful tools available to study stochastic processes. In 1953 he published a book which gives a comprehensive treatment of stochastic processes, including much of his own development of martingale theory. This book Stochastic Processes has become a classic and was reissued in 1990.  Mathematics 1957  - 
12 Drickamer, Harry G. (deceased) Harry G. Drickamer made contributions in the development of high pressure techniques, and in the elucidation of new properties of solids, and of diffusion in liquids. Materials Engineering 1965  - 
13 Dunn, Floyd Floyd Dunn has made significant contributions to fundamental knowledge of ultrasonic propagating in, and of ultrasonic interaction with, biological media. Engineering Sciences 1990  - 
14 Ehrlich, Gert Gert Ehrlich is noted for ingenious and highly definitive studies of the interactions of atoms and molecules with clean, structurally well-characterized metal surfaces. These studies have decisively altered our views on the role of structure in surface processes and have greatly forwarded understanding of surface catalysis and crystal growth from vapors. Applied Physical Sciences 1986  - 
15 Frauenfelder, Hans Hans Frauenfelder has been the most important person in realizing biomolecules are dynamic entities and that their motions can be characterized in detail by physical experiments. Dr. Frauenfelder has made revolutionary contributions in several fields of physics. He started by studying nuclear energy levels, explored the surface effects with radioactivity, discovered perturbed angular correlation, helped elucidate parity violation in the weak interactions, used the Mossbauer effect, and he was one of the pioneers of Biological Physics by creating the field of physics of proteins. Physics 1975  -  
16 Gell-Mann, Murray Murray Gell-Mann was awarded fellow for his "contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions." He received the John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science in 1968. Gell-Mann was a postdoctoral research associate in 1951 and a visiting research professor in 1952-1953. Theoretical Physics 1969 1968
17 Goldhaber, Maurice Maurice Goldhaber is best known for establishing that neutrinos have negative velicity.  He is well known for his research in nuclear and particle physics, including his experiments providing key support for the standard model, and for his superb contribution to science by his leadership and vision as a manager of research.  He was director of Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1961 to 1973.  Goldhaber taught at the University from 1938 to 1950. Physics 1958  - 
18 Greene, Laura Laura Greene has made profound and lasting contributions to condensed matter physics and the physics of novel materials, particularly superconductors. Her studies of the effects of oxygen and atomic substitutions on the physical properties of bulk high-temperature superconductors and proximity effects and tunneling in artificially layered superconducting, magnetic, and heavy-fermion thin-film structures have been especially significant. Physics 2006  - 
19 Greenough, William William Greenough was the first to demonstrate that differential early environmental experience results in altered branching of neuron dendrites and synapse formation in the mammalian brain and to show that specific learning experiences result in altered neuron morphology, the first clear evidence for the structural basis of memory. Systems Neuroscience 1992  - 
20 Gunsalus, Irwin Clyde Irwin Clyde Gunsalus served as the Head of Division of Biochemistry (1955-1966), President of Levis Faculty Center Board of Directors (1973-1975), and Chairman of National Academy of Sciences, Section of Biochemistry (1978-1981).  His research and teaching interests emphasized biological catalysis and regulation, mechanism of chemical transformations and energy transfer, formation of essential metabolites including pyredoxal phosphate and lipoic acid, and oxidation and oxygenation reactions and energy transfer. In 1982, he received the Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology. Biochemistry 1965 1982
21 Gutowsky, Herbert (deceased) Herbert Gutowsky is recognized for his pioneering discoveries in NMR. Biochemistry 1960  - 
22 Hager, Lowell Lowell Hager has defined the mechanism of activation of halogens for the biological synthesis of chlorinated and brominated hydrocarbons by a unique peroxidase that he discovered. Biochemistry 1995  - 
23 Hanratty, Thomas Thomas Hanratty delineated the key features of turbulent multiphase flows through physically based theories, using electrochemical techniques to probe the structure of turbulence near a wall, and conducted pioneering studies on the use of drag-reducing polymers to modify and control turbulent flows. Engineering Sciences 1999  - 
24 Hess, Karl Karl Hess is a world leader in nonlinear transport in semiconductors. He conceived and discovered the real space transfer effect, a phenomenon fundamental to the operation of ultra-high-speed transistors. He also developed the modern theory of impact ionization and both predicted and discovered a giant isotope effect in transistor and chip aging. Engineering Sciences 2003  - 
25 Holonyak, Nick, Jr. Nick Holonyak, Jr. invented the shorted emitter used in thyristors and symmetrical switches (TRIACs), including the basic element in the wall light dimmer.  He also invented the closed tube vapor phase epitxy of III-V semiconductors, the forerunner of all present day III-V VPE crystal growth and the first practical LED. Engineering Sciences 1984  - 
26 Iben, Icko Icko Iben is a major contributor to the theory of evolution of individual stars, showing how an old star produces a planetary nebula and how the heavy elements deep in a red giant are convected to the surface. He has elucidated the dynamical properties of Cepheid variables, solar oscillations, and accretion onto white dwarfs. Astronomy 1985  - 
27 Jonas, Jiri Jiri Jonas is a pioneer in the use of high-pressure nuclear magnetic resonance and Raman spectroscopy to study structure and dynamics in liquids, modern theories of reaction rates in liquids, the behavior of molecules in confined geometries such as porous solids, and the changes of protein conformation with pressure. Chemistry 1985  - 
28 Kieffer, Susan Werner Susan Werner Kieffer, a multifaceted physical geologist, has extended and applied acoustic and spectral data to obtain valid estimates of the thermodynamic properties of complex solids. She is a world authority on mechanisms of geyser and volcanic eruptions, and has substantially improved the understanding of the complex processes in impact-shocked porous rocks. Geology 1986  - 
29 Klein, Miles V. Miles V. Klein is a physicist whose ongoing experimental discoveries and theories of excitations in solids have greatly increased our understanding of semiconductors and superconductors. He used Raman scattering as a probe to determine the physical properties of superconductors, showed that it measures the energy gap precisely, and provided the theoretical basis for the analyses of Raman data in high temperature superconductors. Applied Physical Sciences 1998  - 
30 Kuck, David J. David J. Kuck has made pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of parallelism in scientific computation. Computer Science and Engineering 2005  - 
31 Lauterbur, Paul (deceased) Paul Lauterbur conceived and demonstrated a method for imaging by nuclear magnetic resonance through the interaction of a magnetic field gradient with another field. The application of this method to imaging the human body, especially soft tissues, has resulted in great advances in medical diagnosis. He received the NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society in 2001. Chemistry 1985 2001
32 Leggett, Anthony Anthony Leggett shaped the theoretical understanding of normal and superfluid helium liquids and other strongly coupled superfluids. He set directions for research in the quantum physics of macroscopic dissipative systems and use of condensed matter systems to test the foundations of quantum mechanics. Physics 1997  - 
33 Leonard, Nelson Nelson Leonard's research in bioorganic chemistry involves (1) the synthesis and examination of surrogates of the purine-pyrimidine base pairs of the DNA/RNA, Watson-Crick double-helical cross sections that possess similar peripheral dimensions and orientations; (2) the incorporation of the coplanar, covalently-linked cross sections in oligodeoxynucleotides. Chemistry 1955  - 
34 Overhauser, Albert W. Albert W. Overhauser is well recognized for his fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of solids, to theoretical physics and for the impact of his technological advances.  He was a post-doctoral research associate from 1951 to 1953.  During this time he developed his famous theory of dynamic nuclear polarization which is now called, the Overhauser effect.  Physics 1976  - 
35 Phillips, Tom Tom Phillips changed the way we study complex biodiversity patterns in Pennsylvanian-age wetland plant communities. He found gradients of species persisting through time, averaging 10 percent turnovers, until they are removed by major extinction events related to global climate change. His research elucidated the history of early plant/animal interactions.  Plant Biology 1999  - 
36 Pines, David David Pines has made pioneering contributions to an understanding of many-body problems in condensed matter and nuclear physics, and to theoretical astrophysics. His current research focuses on the search for the organizing principles responsible for emergent behavior in matter, with particular attention to correlated matter, the study of materials in which unexpectedly new classes of behavior emerge in response to the strong and competing interactions among their elementary constituents.  Physics 1973  - 
37 Prosser, Clifford Ladd (deceased) Ladd Prosser is recognized for his many contributions to the area of Comparative Animal Physiology. Systems Neuroscience 1974  - 
38 Robinson, Gene Gene Robinson has made a wide range of fundamental advances in elucidating the endocrine, neural, and genetic regulation of behavior at the individual and colony levels in social insects. He has significantly advanced the understanding of the role of genes, hormones, and neurochemicals in the evolution of social behavior. Evolutionary Biology 2005  - 
39 Schowalter, William R. William R. Schowalter is the former Dean of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1989-2001. His research involves the mechanics of complex fluids: fluids composed of large molecules, deformable particles, or colloidal matter for which the laws of conventional continuum fluid mechanics do not apply.  Engineering Sciences 1998  - 
40 Schrieffer, John Robert J. Robert Schrieffer developed the theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory with John Bardeen and Leon N. Cooper. For this achievement, he was awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics.  He also received the Comstock Prize for Physics in 1968.  Physics 1971 1968
41 Seitz, Frederick Frederick Seitz is known for his research on general science, both physical and biological.   In 1940, Professor Seitz’s wrote the textbook, Modern Theory of Solids, from which generations of students learned their solid state physics and which served to define the field. Seitz served as Dean of the Graduate College and Vice-Chancellor for Research at Illinois until 1965 at which time he became the first full time President of the National Academy of Sciences. Physics 1951  - 
42 Slichter, Charles Pence Charles Pence Slichter is internationally recognized in condensed matter physics, is one of the world's top research scientists in the area of nuclear magnetic resonance and has been a leading innovator in applications of resonance techniques to understanding the structure of matter. He received the Comstock Prize for Physics in 1993. Physics 1967 1993
43 Van Harlingen, Dale J. Dale J. Van Harlingen is a physicist who has carried out innovative investigations of quantum phenomena and phase dynamics in superconducting systems using superconducting quantum interference devices, the world's most sensitive detectors of currents and magnetic fields. His current research interests include transport and fluctuations in high temperature superconductor nanowires and the application of superconductor devices in quantum computing. Physics 2003  -
44 Woese, Carl Carl Woese pioneered the use of comparative sequence analysis to determine the secondary structure of ribosomal RNA and developed the first phylogenetic system that related all living organisms. In addition to establishing a phylogeny for bacteria, the work revealed the existence of a new major group of organisms, the Archaebacteria. He received the Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology in 1997.  Environmental Sciences and Ecology 1988 1997
45 Wolfe, Ralph Ralph Wolfe has made profound contributions to our understanding of methanogenesis and the biology of methanogens. He received the Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology in 1995. Microbial Biology 1981 1995
   
University Alumni  
Total National Academy of Sciences Alumni recipients - 24 Discipline Election Year Year Award Received
1 Aspnes, David E. David E. Aspnes studies optical effects in thin films and at surfaces and interfaces, being a pioneer in both rigorous theory and accurate experiment. He is also noted for his creative instrumentation, which is widely used in the manufacture of microelectronic devices. Physics 1998  - 
2 Austin, Robert H. Robert H. Austin is a master at combining physical tools and theories with biochemical techniques to attack fundamental problems in protein and nucleic acid dynamics and function. His observations of single DNA molecules using microlithography led to an understanding of their physical properties which are important in biology and biotechnology. Physics 1999  - 
3 Beckman, Arnold Arnold Beckman earned the Public Welfare Medal in 1999 and the Founders Award in 1987 for his leadership in developing analytical instrumentation, and for his deep and abiding concern for the vitality of the nation's scientific enterprise.     1999, 1987
4 Carbon, John John Carbon received membership for his research in fungal molecular biology, centromeres, chromosome structure-function, yeasts, cell division. Biochemistry 1986  - 
5 Cho, Alfred Y. See listing under faculty Electronic Engineering 1985  - 
6 Chory, Joanne Joanne Chory is among the world leaders in the study of plant responses to light. She identified many of the genes responsible for the control of plant photomorphogenesis and discovered that this process is regulated by a steroid hormone. She also cloned the receptor for this class of hormones. She received the NAS Award for Initiatives in Research in 1994.
Plant Biology 1999 1994
7 Collier, Robert J. Robert J. Collier's contributions include demonstrating that diphtheria toxin blocks protein synthesis by inactivating Elongation Factor-2; elucidating diphtheria toxin structure, as containing enzymatic (A) and binding (B) fragments; identifying Glu-l48 as a key active-site residue; developing A-chain immunotoxin concepts; crystallizing diphtheria and Pseudomonas toxins and determining Pseudomonas toxin's structure at 3. Collier received the Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology in 1999 for his seminal contribution to the understanding of bacterial pathogenesis by the elucidation of the action of the diptheria toxin. Microbial Biology 1991 1999
8 Drell, Sidney D. Sidney D. Drell has been widely recognized for his contributions in the study of theoretical physics, particularly elementary particle processes and quantum theory.  He is also a founding member of JASON, a group of academic scientists who consult for the government on issues of national importance, and acts as a consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Physics 1969  - 
9 Eliel, Ernest Ernest Eliel earned the NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society for his seminal and far-reaching contributions in organic stereochemistry and for his wise and energetic leadership in professional societies that represent the interests of chemists and of society, both in the United States and abroad. Chemistry 1972 1997
10 Elledge, Stephen Stephen Elledge received the NAS Award for Molecular Biology for his innovative contributions at the forefront of the field of cell cycle checkpoints and his elucidation of pathways and mechanisms involved in DNA damage responses. Medical Genetics, Hematology, and Oncology  2003 2002
11 Fuchs, Elaine V. Elaine V. Fuchs received the Richard Lounsbery Award for her fundamental insights into structure and function of cytoskeletal proteins and the relation of these proteins to human genetic diseases. Cellular and Developmental Biology 1996 2001
12 Goldstone, Robert L. Robert L. Goldstone received the Troland Research Award for novel experimental analyses and elegant modeling that show how perceptual learning dynamically adjusts dimensions and boundaries of categories and concepts in human thought. Psychology   2004
13 Golub, Gene H. Gene H. Golub is one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation receiving his award for his work in numerical analysis, linear algebra. Applied Mathematical Sciences 1993  - 
14 Hahn, Erwin L. Erwin L. Hahn has made pioneering contributions in the areas of electron, molecular, solid state, and laser physics as well as electronic instrumentation. In particular, his work in nuclear and electron spin magnetic resonance and in the nuclear spin coupling in molecules and solids is widely appreciated. Physics 1972  - 
15 Hilgard, Ernest Ernest Hilgard received the NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing for his creative synthesis of the literature on conditioning and learning theory, which shaped the development of the field for several decades, and for his subsequent application of those same skills to the difficult areas of hypnosis, suggestability, and consciousness. Psychology   1984
16 Holley, Robert W. Robert Holley received the U.S. Steel Foundation Award NAS Award in Molecular Biology for his elucidation of the full sequence of nucleotides in the molecule of a soluble RNA. Psychology, Hypnosis pioneer   1967
17 Holonyak, Nick, Jr. Nick Holonyak, Jr. see listing under Faculty Engineering Sciences 1984  - 
18 Melton, Douglas A. Douglas A. Melton received the Richard Lounsbery Award for showing how cells and tissues differentiate during vertebrate development through studies on localized mRNAs in eggs and the genes that induce mesoderm and neural tissue. Cellular and Developmental Biology 1995 1995
19 Overhauser, Albert W. See listing under faculty Physics 1976  - 
20 Pace Norman R. Norman R. Pace received Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology for revolutionizing microbiology by developing methods by which microorganisms can be directly detected, identified, and phylogenetically related without the need for cultivation in the laboratory. Microbial Biology  1991 2001
21 Redfield, Alfred G. Alfred G. Redfield is recognized for his seminal contributions to the theory and technical development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and for pioneering applications of this technique to the study of biological molecules.  He received his PhD from University of Illinois in 1953. Physics 1979  - 
22 Schrieffer, John Robert J. Robert Schrieffer see listing under Faculty
Physics 1971  - 
23 Sharp Phillip A. Phillip A. Sharp received the NAS Award in Molecular Biology for his pioneering and continuing contributions to our understanding of messenger RNA biogenesis in mammalian cells. Cellular and Developmental Biology 1983 1980
24 Yao, Andrew Andrew Yao is recognized for his work in theoretical computer science, algorithms, computational complexity, commnication complexity, cryptography, quantum computing. Computer and Information Sciences 1998