The election was held this morning during the business session of the 141st annual meeting of the Academy. Election to membership in the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer. Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 1,949.

Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the Academy, with citizenship outside the United States. Today's election brings the total number of foreign associates to 351.

The National Academy of Sciences is a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the general welfare. It was established in 1863 by a congressional act of incorporation, signed by Abraham Lincoln, which calls on the Academy to act as an official adviser to the federal government, upon request, in any matter of science or technology.

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Newly elected members and their affiliations at the time of election are:

ALIVISATOS, ARMAND PAUL; Chancellor's Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of California, Berkeley

AMARA, SUSAN G.; Thomas Detre Professor and chair, department of neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh

BENNETZEN, JEFFREY L.; Norman Giles Professor of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens

BERNSTEIN, JOSEPH; professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

BOBO, LAWRENCE D.; Norman Tishman and Charles M. Diker Professor of Sociology and of African and Africa
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