National Academy of Sciences

Congressional charter scientific organization since 1863
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Leadership & Staff

Patrice Legro Director of the Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences
• Museum Director
T J Glauthier President, TJG Associates
• Advisor
Ralph J Cicerone president, National Academy of Sciences
• President
Eric A Hanushek Economist at University of Texas at Dallas
• Member ('00→'01)*
Vanee M Vines Media relations and public affairs
• Senior Media Relations Officer (Mar '99→Jun '07)
Alexander Dallas Bache Physical scientist and engineer; great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin
• first president ('63→'67)
Jonna Hamilton As the head of SAFE’s policy team, Jonna Hamilton is responsible for developing detailed, comprehensive energy policy proposals dedicated to enhancing U.S. energy security. She oversees the production
• Investigated teh energy use of different transportation options (past)

Board Members

Ruth DeFries Columbia University
• Editorial Board Member, "Proceedings (PNAS)" ('07→?)
Frederick Seitz Physicist, global warming denier
• President ('62→'69)

Donors

The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation Family foundation of "the father of fracking"
• Grant · 20,000,000 USD ('02)
Robertson Foundation Hedge fund manager Julian Robertson's foundation
• Grant · 234,000 USD

Donations

SERP Institute Scaling Scientific Approaches To Education In Public Schools
• Funder

Child Organizations

Committee on Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States: Technology, Policy, and Societal Dimensions committee of NAS
• committee (Apr 17 '20→?)
National Research Council Working arm of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences & U.S. National Academy of Engineering
• operating arm ('16→?)
National Academies Briefing Webinar on Quadrennial Review of National Nano-Technology Initiative NNI January 2020 Slideshare
• Child Org (Jun '20→?)*
Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally: A Synthesis of Nine Global Workshops Exploring Evidence-Based, Strategic Investments in Young Children National Academies 2017
• Child Org ('17→?)*
Pay-for-Success Financing and Population Health Roundtable on Population Health Improvement; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; Institute of Medicine 2015
• Child Org ('15→?)*
National Academies Board on Army Science and Technologies (Inactive) Convening Authority for Science Discussions Re Army Needs
• Child Org
Committee on Atmospheric Sciences National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council committee on atmospheric sciences
• committee ('59→'61)

Parents

The National Academies The academies created under the National Academy of Sciences Congressional charter
• parent org ('64→?)

Members

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Zdeněk Bažant Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science at Northwestern University
• Member
Joshua Lederberg American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics and AI
• Member (past)
Richard M. Held MIT Neuroscientist
• Member (past)
James J Heckman Economist at Department of Economics, University of Chicago
• Member
Larry Summers former Clinton Treasury Secretary, former Obama National Economic Council director
• Member
Charles Sawyers Director of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (HOPP) at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• Member ('10→?)
Tom Maniatis Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University Medical School
• Member
David V Goeddel Managing Partner, The Column Group
• Member
James R Arnold Professor, University of California - San Diego
• Member (past)
Axel Brunger Professor, Stanford University
• Member ('05→?)

Memberships

George A. Miller Mathematician
• Member (past)

Services & Transactions

Linda S. Birnbaum American toxicologist, microbiologist, former director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program
• Planning Committee
Renaissance Technologies LLC Hedge fund
• investment manager
National Academy of Sciences
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Basic Info

Types Organization, Membership Organization, Other Not-for-Profit, Policy/Think Tank, Government-Sponsored Enterprise
Start date 1863
Website http://www.nasonline.org/

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