Honorary Members and Academy Fellows
- 1817
- Samuel L. Mitchill
- Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
- President Thomas Jefferson
- President James Monroe
- Charles W. Peale
- 1818–1850
- Louis Agassiz
- John James Audubon
- Jöns Jakob Berzelius
- DeWitt Clinton
- Jules Cloquet
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Sir Charles Lyell
- Edward de Verneuil
- 1850–1900
- George Bentham
- Robert Bunsen
- Michel Eugéne Chevreul
- Charles Darwin
- Sir George Howard Darwin
- Sir William Boyd Dawkins
- Sir Philip Egerton
- Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
- Ernst Haeckel
- Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Asaph Hall
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- James P. Joule
- Lord Kelvin
- Sir Norman J. Lockyer
- Seth Low
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Henri Moissan*
- J.P. Morgan
- Fridtjof Nansen*
- Henry Fairfield Osborn
- Louis Pasteur
- Lord Rayleigh*
- Joseph John Thompson*
- John Tyndall
- 1900–1950
- Oswald T. Avery
- William Bateson
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Charles Herbert Best
- Sir William Henry Bragg*
- Sir MacFarlane Burnet*
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Arthur H. Compton*
- Sir Henry Dale*
- Clinton J. Davisson*
- Peter J.W. Debye*
- René Dubos
- Sir James Dewar
- Thomas Alva Edison
- Emil Fischer*
- Alexander Fleming
- Sir Francis Galton
- Frederick Gowland Hopkins*
- Bernardo A. Houssay*
- William James
- Peter Kapitza*
- Karl Landsteiner*
- Irving Langmuir*
- Franz von Leydig
- Ernst Mach
- Iliya Metchnikof*
- *Nobel Laureate
- Thomas Hunt Morgan*
- Jules Henri Poincaré
- Sir William Ramsay*
- John A. Roebling
- Florence Rena Sabin
- Hans Spemann*
- Theodor Svedberg*
- Albert Szent-Györgyi*
- Arne Tiselius*
- Hugo de Vries
- Robert Van Wyck
- 1950–2000
- Lord Edgar Adrian*
- Hans Bethe*
- Niels Bohr*
- Louis V. de Broglie*
- Adolf Butenandt*
- Margaret Burbidge
- Melvin Calvin*
- Ernst Boris Chain*
- Genady P. Cherepanov
- Esther M. Conwell
- Andre F. Cournand*
- Paul A.M. Dirac*
- Israel Dostrovsky
- Mildred Spiwak Dresselhaus
- Sir John Carew Eccles*
- Manfred Eigen*
- Gertrude B. Elion*
- Paul Erdős
- Ulf Svante von Euler*
- Paul J. Flory*
- Werner Heisenberg*
- Corneille J.F. Heymans*
- Norman Cyril Hinshelwood*
- Willis E. Lamb, Jr.*
- Max Von Laue*
- Louis Leakey
- Joshua Lederberg*
- Eunice T. Miner
- Tsung Dao Lee*
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Salvador Luria*
- André Lwoff*
- Barbara McClintock*
- Margaret Mead
- Peter Brian Medawar*
- Brenda Milner
- Guilio Natta*
- Louis Néel*
- Ronald G.W. Norrish*
- Linus Pauling*
- Max Ferdinand Perutz*
- Jean Piaget
- George Porter*
- Fred Plum
- Isidor Rabi*
- Tadeus Reichstein*
- Sir Robert Robinson*
- Martin Ryle*
- Arthur M. Sackler
- Mortimer D. Sackler
- Raymond R. Sackler
- Andrei D. Sakharov*
- Nikolai N. Semenov*
- Waclaw Sierpinski
- B.F. Skinner
- Igor Evgenievich Tamm*
- Hugo Theorell*
- Shirley M. Tilghman
- Lord Alexander Todd*
- Sin-Itiro Tomonaga*
- Neil de Grasse Tyson
- J.H. Van Vleck*
- Eugene Wigner*
- George F.K. Wittig*
- Hideki Yukawa*
* Nobel Laureate
- 2000–2019
- Peter Agre*
- James Allison*
- Richard Axel*
- David Baltimore*
- Ban Ki-moon
- Cori Bargmann
- Paul Berg*
- Len Blavatnik
- Günter Blobel*
- Irina Bokova
- Lee Bollinger
- Michael S. Brown*
- Sydney Brenner*
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
- Linda Buck*
- Thomas R. Cech*
- Martin Chalfie*
- Emmanuelle Charpentier
- Aaron J. Ciechanover*
- Rita Colwell
- Francis Crick*
- Titia de Lange
- Peter Doherty*
- Jennifer Doudna
- Edmond H. Fischer*
- Judah Folkman
- Joachim Frank*
- Jerome I. Friedman*
- Carol Greider*
- HM King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- William T. Golden
- Joseph Goldstein*
- Paul Greengard*
- Dudley Robert Herschbach*
- Louis Ignarro*
- François Jacob*
- Mae Jemison
- Eric Kandel*
- Aaron Klug*
- Leon Lederman*
- Ernst Mayr
- Matthew Meselson
- Roderick MacKinnon*
- Amina J. Mohammed
- Ferid Murad*
- Indra Nooyi
- Paul Nurse*
- Severo Ochoa*
- Yoshinori Ohsumi*
- Svante Pääbo
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan*
- Richard Roberts*
- Paul Romer*
- James E. Rothman
- Vera Rubin
- Jeffrey D. Sachs
- Bengt Samuelsson*
- John E. Sexton
- Phillip A. Sharp*
- K. Barry Sharpless
- Feike Sijbesma
- Maxine Singer
- Paul Stoffels
- Jack W. Szostak
- Ted Turner
- Charles H. Townes*
- P. Roy Vagelos
- Harold Varmus*
- Craig Venter
- Jan Vilcek
- James Watson*
- Rainer Weiss*
- Torsten N. Wiesel*
- Frank Wilczek*
- Rosalyn Yalow*
- Michael W. Young*
- Ahmed Zewail*
- Guangzhao Zhou
- Nancy Zimpher
- Robert R. Alfano
Inducted 1999
Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering, City College of New York, CUNY - Ralph Alpher
Inducted 2000
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Physics, Union College - Bruce Ames
Inducted 2000
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley - Jesse H. Ausubel
Inducted 1999
Senior Research Associate, The Rockefeller University - Phaedon Avouris
Inducted 1999
Manager, Nanometer Scale Science and Technology, T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corporation - Linda G. Basch
Inducted 2002
Executive Director of the National Council for Research on Women - M. Flint Beal
Inducted 2005
Chairman of Neurology and Neuroscience, and Neurologist-in-Chief, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York - Dimitri Beskos
Inducted 2006
Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, Greece - Alain Bourdier
Inducted 1998; Member since 1987
European Physical Society Fellow
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, France - Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Inducted 2002
Professor and founding director of the Institute on Child and Family Policy at Teachers College, Columbia University
National Fellow, Harvard University Multi-disciplinary Training Program in Inequality and Social Policy
Winner, The Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy Award, the American Psychological Association. - Andrea Califano
Inducted 2005
Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Co-Director, Center for Computational Biochemistry and Biosystems
Chief of Bioinformatics Division, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Director, Genome Center Bioinformatics, Columbia University, New York - B. J. Casey
Inducted 2006
Director and Sackler Professor of Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University - Brian T. Chait
Inducted 2001
Head, Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry, The Rockefeller University - David Chang
Inducted 2000
President, Polytechnic University - Virginia Cornish
Inducted 2006
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Columbia University - David Cowburn
Inducted 2001
Head, Laboratory of Physical Biochemistry, The Rockefeller University - Ronald Dahl
Inducted 2005
The Staunton Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA - Christian de Duve
Inducted 2001
Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology, Brussels, Belgium - Titia de Lange
Inducted 2005
The Leon Hess Professor, Head of Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University, New York - Claude Desplan
Inducted 2006
Professor, Department of Biology, New York University - Samuel Devons
Inducted 2001
Professor emeritus of Physics, Columbia University - Gerald M. Edelman
Inducted 1999
Chair, Neurobiology, The Scripps Research Institute - Harvey V. Fineberg
Inducted 1999
Provost, Harvard University - Vincent Fischetti
Inducted 2006
Professor and Chairman, Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology, The Rockefeller University - Alan Friedman
Inducted 1999
Director, New York Hall of Science - Elaine Fuchs
Inducted 2004
Professor and HHMI Investigator, The Rockefeller University, New York - Sam Gandy
Inducted 2002
Director, Farber Institute for Neurosciences at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Chair, Scientific Advisory Board of the Fisher Foundation for Alzheimer's Research - Emmanuel Gdoutos
Inducted 2001
Director, Laboratory of Applied Mechanics, Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece - Uwe Gielen
Inducted 2006
Professor of Psychology, St. Francis College - Ernest R. Gilmont
Inducted 1980
Full Professor, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
President, Société de Chimie Industrielle - Robert Goldberger
Inducted 2000
Professor Emeritus and Provost Emeritus of Health Sciences, Columbia University - Matthew Goldstein
Inducted 2000
Chancellor, City University of New York - Jordan Grafman
Inducted 2001
Chief, Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland
- Daniel Griffith
Inducted 2000
Professor, Department of Geography, Syracuse University - Godfrey Gumbs
Inducted 2001
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hunter College, City University of New York - Lloyd Guth
Inducted 2005
Visiting Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Reeve-Irvine Research Center, UCI School of Medicine, Irvine, CA - William Haseltine
Inducted 2004
Chairman and CEO, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, MD - Herbert Hauptman
Inducted 2001
President, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Buffalo, New York - Norman Horing
Inducted 2006
Professor of Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology - Frances Degen Horowitz
Inducted 2000
President, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York - D. Frank Hsu
Inducted 1999
Professor of Computer Science, Fordham University - Mohammad Jamshidi
Inducted 2004
Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM - Steve Jonas
Inducted 2004
Professor of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY - Calestous Juma
Inducted 2000
Senior Research Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University - Gabor J. Kalman
Inducted 1981
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Physics, Boston College - Rolf H. Kinne
Inducted 1981
Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany - Lisa Klein
Inducted 2001
Department of Ceramics and Materials Engineering, Rutgers University - Mary-Jeanne Kreek
Inducted 2000
Professor, Biology of Addictive Diseases, The Rockefeller University - Harvey D. Kushner
Inducted 1976
President, Kushner Management Planning Corporation - George Ainsworth Land
Inducted 1977
Chairman, CEO, Owner, The FarSight Group
Chairman, Leadership 2000 - Joseph LeDoux
Inducted 2005
The Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science, Center for Neural Science, Department of Psychology, New York University, New York - Tsu-Tien Lee
Inducted 2001
Department of Electrical and Control Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan - Michael Lewis, PhD
Inducted 1979
University Distinguished Professor
Director, Institute for the Study of Child Development
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School - W. Ian Lipkin
Inducted 2004
Director, Center for Immunopathogenesis and Infectious Diseases, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York - Richard Lokshin
Inducted 2006
Professor of Biological Sciences, St. John's University - Asad Madni
Inducted 2000
President and CEO, BEI Sensors and Systems Company, Inc. - Dennis Mangano
Inducted 2000
Clinician and Researcher, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Professor, University of California, San Francisco - Richard Mayeux
Inducted 2004
Gertrude H. Sergievsky Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Epidemiology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York - Roberta B. Miller
Inducted 2002
Director of the Center for International Earth Science Information Network and Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University - Peter Model
Inducted 2001
Laboratory of Genetics, The Rockefeller University - John Morrison
Inducted 2006
Dean of Basic Science and Professor of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York - Stephen S. Morse
Inducted 1997
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University - Fujio Numano
Inducted 2002
Director of the Tokyo Vascular Disease Institute and Emeritus Professor of the Tokyo Medical and Dental University - Iwao Ojima,
Inducted 2000
Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook - Donald Orlic
Inducted 2001
National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland - Emilio Panarella
Inducted 1985
Senior Research Officer (ret.), National Research Council of Canada
Editor-in-Chief, Physics Essays
President and CEO, Fusion Reactor Technology, Inc. - David Perlin
Inducted 2005
Scientific Director, Public Health Research Institute, Newark, NJ - Barbara Petrack
Inducted 1999
Senior Research Fellow, Norvartis (ret.)
Dana Research Institute, Drew University
- Donald Pfaff
Inducted 2006
Professor, The Rockefeller University - Fred Plum
Inducted 2002
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology and Neurosciences, Cornell University-Weill Medical College - Shirley Raps
Inducted 2002
Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College - H. Bruce Rinker
Inducted 2002
Director of Research and Conservation, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida - Nancy Russo
Inducted 2006
Regents Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, Arizona State University - Mortimer D. Sackler
Inducted 2000
Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Purdue Pharma L.P. - Raymond R. Sackler
Inducted 2000
Co-Chief Executive Office, Purdue Pharma L.P. - Oliver W. Sacks
Inducted 1999
Neurologist
Author, Awakenings (1973), An Anthropologist on Mars (1995), and many more. - A. George Schillinger
Inducted 1999
Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Management, Polytechnic University - Daniel Schutzer
Inducted 1999
Vice President and Director of External Standards and Advanced Technology, e-Citi, Citibank - Saw-Teen See
Inducted 2005
Managing Partner, Leslie E. Robertson Associates - Suresh P. Sethi
Inducted 1999
Ashbel Smith Professor of Operations Management, University of Texas at Dallas - Bassam Shakhashiri
Inducted 2002
Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin and holder of the William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair - David E. Shaw
Inducted 1999
President, D. E. Shaw & Co. - Carol Shoshkes-Reiss
Inducted 2005
Professor, Department of Biology, New York University
Adjunct Professor of Microbiology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University
Adjunct Professor of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
Editor-in-Chief, Viral Immunology - Sydel F. Silverman
Inducted 1999
President, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research - Samuel Silverstein
Inducted 2000
Professor, Department of Physiology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons - Anna Marie Skalka
Inducted 2000
Director, Basic Science, Fox Chase Cancer Center - Lowell Steele
Inducted 1999
Vice President (ret.), General Electric Co.
Consultant, Technology Planning and Management
Adjunct Professor Emeritus, Polytechnic University - Ralph Steinman
Inducted 2006
Henry Kunkel Professor, The Rockefeller University
Director of Christopher Browne Center for Immunology and Immune Diseases, The Rockefeller University
Professor and Senior Physician, The Rockefeller University
2011 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine - Gustavo Stolovitzky
Inducted 2006
Manager, Functional Genomics and Systems Biology Group, Computational Biology Center, IBM TJ Watson Research Center - Gerald Sussman
Inducted 2004
Matsushita Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA - Shirley Tilghman
Inducted 2005
President and Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ - Nancy Tooney
Inducted 2002
Associate Dean for Engineering and Applied Sciences, Polytechnic University - Joseph F. Traub
Inducted 1999
Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University - Kosta Tsipis
Inducted 1999
Principal Research Scientist, and Founder and Director, Program in Science & Technology for International Security, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Thomas Tuschl
Inducted 2005
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Associate Professor and Head of Laboratory for RNA Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York - Neil de Grasse Tyson
Inducted 1999
Visiting Research Scientist and Lecturer in Astrophysics, Princeton University
Frederick P. Rose Director, Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History - Lawrence Wennogle
Inducted 2006
VP for Drug Discovery, Intra-Cellular Therapeutics, Inc., New York - George Yancopoulos
Inducted 2005
Chief Scientific Officer/Executive Vice-President, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., New York
Adjunct Full Professor, Department of Microbiology, Columbia University, New York
Adjunct Full Professor, Department of Microbiology, New York Medical College - Myrna Weissman
Inducted 2001
New York Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons - Stanley A. White
Inducted 1982
Chief Scientist, Rockwell International / Founding Principal, Signal Processing and Controls Engineering (SPACE) Corp - George M. Whitesides
Inducted 1999
Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University - Norton Zinder
Inducted 2000
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Professor Emeritus, The Rockefeller University