The NAS Award for Scientific Discovery is presented every two years to recognize an accomplishment or discovery in basic research, achieved within the previous five years, that is expected to have a ...

WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences will honor 20 individuals with awards recognizing their extraordinary scientific achievements in a wide range of fields spanning the physical, biological, ...

SPEAKER: Improving SARS-CoV-2 Drug Development: Using AI and Molecular Dynamics to Understand Mutations and Resistance, Yang Li, Global Health Discovery Institute (GHDDI) SPEAKER: Image-based Deepp ...

The memorial to Albert Einstein, situated in an elm and holly grove in the southwest corner of the Academy grounds, was unveiled at the Academy's annual meeting, April 22, 1979, in honor of the ...

I am Professor of Geology & Geophysics, and Professor of Biology, at the University of Utah. My interests are in using isotopes to understand processes at, or near, the Earth’s surface including ...

Jagdish Bhagwati is senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and University Professor at Columbia University. He has been economic policy adviser to Arthur ...

Anne Osbourn has made distinguished contributions to both microbial and plant biology through her pioneering work on plant pathogenesis and operon-like gene clusters for the biosynthesis of natural ...

Stanislas Dehaene's interests concern the cerebral bases of specifically human cognitive functions such as language, calculation, and conscious reasoning. The team uses a variety of experimental ...

Peter Hagoort studied psychology and biology at the Universities of Utrecht and Nijmegen. He received his PhD from the latter university. His PhD thesis was on language deficits in aphasia. Currently ...

Lila Gierasch is a biophysical chemist recognized for her work on protein folding, with particular emphasis on in vivo folding and roles of molecular chaperones. Born in Massachusetts, Gierasch ...

Erwin Wagner is a molecular biologist recognized for his work on pioneering technologies for engineering the mouse genome producing highly instructive mouse models. These have revealed molecular ...

Chemistry is largely concerned with structure, function, and mechanism. I have tried to concentrate on mechanism as the common theme underlying molecular behavior. My theoretical work, usually done in ...