AAS Members Elected to National Academy of Sciences

This post is adapted from a National Academy of Sciences press release:

On 30 April 2019 the National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 100 new members and 25 foreign associates in recognition of their 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.

Those elected this year bring the total number of active members to 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.

Among those newly elected are three members of the American Astronomical Society:

• Marc Kamionkowski, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
• Mark J. Reid, Senior Radio Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Uros Seljak, Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, and Professor, Depts. of Astronomy and Physics, University of California, Berkeley

Left to right: Marc Kamionkowski, Mark Reid, and Uros Seljak.

Congratulations Marc, Mark, and Uros!

The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It recognizes achievement in science by election to membership, and — with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine — provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.