Prominent Members
Throughout its history, the New York Academy of Sciences has been proud to count many of the world's best minds among its members. This continues today, as 26 Nobel laureates support the Academy and its mission. Here are just some of our most prominent members.
Etienne-Emile Baulieu
Biochemist and president, Academy of Sciences, France
Alexander Graham Bell
scientist and inventor
Hans A. Bethe*
Physicist
Sydney Brenner*
Geneticist, distinguished professor, Salk Institute
Michael S. Brown* and Joseph Goldstein*
Geneticists and professors, University of Texas
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Physician and Norway's first woman prime minister
Melvin Calvin*
Chemist
Thomas R. Cech*
Chemist and president, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Martin Chalfie*
Developmental biologist
DeWitt Clinton
Former governor of New York
Esther M. Conwell
Chemist
Charles Darwin
Bbiologist and evolutionist
Israel Dostrovsky
Nuclear Chemist, former president of Weizmann Institute
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
Physicist
Thomas Edison
Scientist and inventor
Albert Einstein*
Physicist
Getrude Elio*
Biochemist
Paul Erdos
Mathematician
Paul Greengard*
Neurobiologist and professor, Rockefeller University
Peter Gruss
Biologist and president, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Germany
Thomas Huxley
Biologist and Anthropologist
Thomas Jefferson
U.S. President
Eric Kandel*
Neuroscientist
Joshua Lederberg*
Geneticist
Leon Lederman*
Physicist and professor, Illinois Institute of Technology
Claude Levi-Strauss
Anthropologist
Ernst Mayr
Biologist
Margaret Mead
Anthropologist
Brenda Milner
Neuroscientist
James Monroe
U.S. President
Thomas Hunt Morgan*
Biologist
Louis Pasteur
Microbiologist
Linus Pauling*
Chemist and Biologist
Fred Plum*
Neuroscientist
Andrei Sakharov*
Physicist and human rights activist
B.F. Skinner
Psychologist
Lewis Thomas
Biologist and author
Shirley Tilghman
Geneticist and president, Princeton University
Harold Varmus*
Geneticist
James D. Watson*
Geneticist, co-discoverer of DNA
Torsten Wiesel*
Neuroscientist
Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker
Ggeneticist and president, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany
Roslyn Yalow*
Geneticist
(* Nobel laureate)