13 Academy Fellows and 3 Foreign Honorary Members Receive Nobel Prizes &
National Medals of Science and Technology
Nobel Prizes, 2003
Academy Fellow Robert F. Engle (New York University) and
Academy Fellow Clive W. J. Granger (Visiting Scholar, Canterbury
University), longtime collaborators at the University of California, San Diego,
received the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences. Engle was honored for
"methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility" and
Granger for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends."
Academy Foreign Honorary Member and novelist John Maxwell Coetzee
(Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, University of Adelaide) was honored with
the Nobel Prize in Literature. A native of South Africa, Coetzee was recognized
for work that "in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the
outsider."
Academy Fellow Peter C. Agre (Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine), who was inducted into the American Academy of Arts &
Sciences this month, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Roderick
MacKinnon (Rockefeller University). He was cited for his discovery of the
channels that regulate and facilitate water molecule transport through cell
membranes.
Academy Foreign Honorary Members Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
(Argonne National Laboratory) and Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (P. N.
Lebedev Physical Institute Moscow, Russia) and Academy Fellow Anthony J. Leggett
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) received the Nobel Prize in
Physics for their "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors
and superfluids."
National Medals of Science and Technology, 2002
President George W. Bush announced on October 22, 2003 the
recipients of the nation's highest honor for science and technology, naming the
laureates to receive the 2002 National Medal of Science and National Medal of
Technology. The honorees will receive the medals at a White House ceremony on
November 6, 2003.
The National Medal of Science honors individuals in a variety of
fields for pioneering scientific research that has led to a better
understanding of the world around us, as well as to the innovations and
technologies that give the United States its global economic edge. The National
Science Foundation administers the award, established by Congress in 1959.
Academy Fellows among the 2002 National Medal of Science Laureates:
Leo L. Beranek, former Academy President; co-founder of BBN
Technologies. Retired engineer who designed communications and noise-reduction
systems for World War II aircraft. Has also written about the acoustics of
concert halls. (Engineering)
John I. Brauman, professor of organic and physical chemistry at Stanford
University. Helped determine the role that solvent plays in chemical stability
and reactivity. Studied energy transfer and its effects on chemical dynamics.
(Chemistry)
James E. Darnell, Jr., professor emeritus of biology at Rockefeller
University. Research on how cells retrieve information from DNA provided the
first evidence for RNA processing and for signaling genes from the cell
surface. (Biological Sciences)
Richard L. Garwin, physicist and senior fellow for science and
technology at the Council on Foreign Relations and emeritus fellow at the IBM
Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Research has led to the development of
superconducting electronic circuitry and many American military innovations.
(Physical Sciences)
James G. Glimm, professor of applied mathematics at the State University
of New York at Stony Brook. Work in quantum field theory and statistical
mechanics has influenced mathematical physics and probability. Has also made
contributions to shock-wave theory. (Mathematics)
Evelyn M. Witkin, professor emerita of genetics at Rutgers University.
Helped establish the field of DNA mutagenesis and DNA repair. (Biological
Sciences)
Edward Witten, professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study.
One of the principal authors of string theory. (Physical Sciences)
The National Medal of Technology recognizes men and women who
embody the spirit of American innovation and have advanced the nation's global
competitiveness. Their groundbreaking contributions commercialize technologies,
create jobs, improve productivity, and stimulate the nation's growth and
development. This award, established by Congress in 1980, is administered by
the Department of Commerce.
Academy Fellows among the 2002 National Medal of Technology
Laureates:
Nick Holonyak, Jr., University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, with M. George Craford (LumiLeds Lighting) and Russell D.
Dupuis (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Carver A. Mead, California Institute of Technology
The Academy was founded in 1780 by John Adams and other
scholar-patriots "to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance
the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and
virtuous people." Its current membership of over 3,900 Fellows and 600 Foreign
Honorary Members includes more than 150 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize
winners. Drawing on the wide-ranging expertise of its membership, the American
Academy conducts thoughtful, innovative, nonpartisan studies on international
security, American institutions, education, and the humanities.
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