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