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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Philip Kim is Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University. He was born and raised in Korea. He received his BS (1990) and MS (1992) degrees in physics from Seoul ...

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 ...

Peter Lepage is a theoretical particle physicist known for his work on quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and quantum electrodynamics (QED). His recent work uses large-scale numerical simulations of QCD to ...

I am theoretical physicist interested in the qualitative understanding of the macroscopic and collective properties of condensed matter systems, and on the relation between this and the microscopic ...