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The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has elected 150 new members to join its ranks. Among the inductees are 10 scientists who have served as Simons Foundation investigators, fellows and board members. The new members were selected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
The new inductees include:
Garnet Chan
California Institute of Technology
Simons Investigator in Physics
Edward Chang
University of California, San Francisco
SFARI Investigator
Mark Devlin
University of Pennsylvania
Co-Director, Simons Observatory
Adrienne Fairhall
University of Washington
Executive Committee Member, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain
Shanhui Fan
Stanford University
Simons Investigator in Physics
Russell Impagliazzo
University of California, San Diego
Simons Investigator in Computer Science
Peter Littlewood
University of Chicago
Board Member, Simons Foundation
Scientific Advisory Board Member, Flatiron Institute
Sorin Popa
University of California, Los Angeles
Simons Fellow in Mathematics
David Reichman
Columbia University
Investigator, Simons Collaboration on Cracking the Glass Problem
Risa Wechsler
Stanford University
Scientific Advisory Board Member, Flatiron Institute
