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Four Princeton professors elected to National Academy of Sciences

By the Office of Communications on May 1, 2019, 1:09 p.m.
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The National Academy of Sciences has elected(Link is external) four Princeton faculty members to join its ranks. They are among 100 new members and 25 foreign associates who were selected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Those elected bring the total number of active members to 2,347 and the total number of foreign associates to 487. Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the academy, with citizenship outside the United States.

The new members from Princeton are:

Janet Currie(Link is external), the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics(Link is external) and Public Affairs(Link is external) and the director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing(Link is external) at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs;

Helen Milner(Link is external), the B.C. Forbes Professor of Politics and International Affairs and the founding director of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance(Link is external); and

Ali Yazdani(Link is external), the Class of 1909 Professor of Physics(Link is external) and the director of the Princeton Center for Complex Materials(Link is external).

The new foreign associate from Princeton is Nieng Yan(Link is external), the Shirley M. Tilghman Professor of Molecular Biology(Link is external), who is a citizen of the People’s Republic of China.

The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It recognizes achievement in science by election to membership, and — with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine — provides science, engineering and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.

 

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