The Act to Incorporate the National Academy of Sciences, also known as the Academy Charter, was signed by President Lincoln on 3 March 1863, establishing the Academy as an independent honorary and ...

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The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has entered into a partnership with the Einstein Foundation Berlin for the Einstein ...

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has announced that the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its ...

The memorial to Albert Einstein, situated in an elm and holly grove in the southwest corner of the Academy grounds, was unveiled at the Academy's annual meeting, April 22, 1979, in honor of the ...

My interests include quantum field theory, gauge theories for the interactions among elementary particles and their mathematical aspects, quantum chromodynamics, magnetic monopoles, instantons and ...

The NAS Award in the Neurosciences is awarded every three years to recognize extraordinary contributions to the progress of the neuroscience fields, including neurochemistry, neurophysiology, ...

As an experimental particle physicist, my work has primarily encompassed 1) delineating rules for quantum number changes in weak decays of strange particles; 2) studies of neutrino interactions with ...

My scientific interests are mostly in the field of quantum theory of condensed matter physics. For a long while I worked to improve the theoretical understanding of the effects of disorder and ...

The James Prize in Science and Technology Integration honors outstanding contributions made by researchers who are able to adopt or adapt information or techniques from outside their fields, and thus ...

Christopher Lima is a biochemist and structural biologist. He is recognized for his work characterizing macromolecules involved in post-translational protein modification by ubiquitin and ...

My research revolves around DNA structure and functions: the chemical topology of circular DNA, the biological effects of DNA topology, and the mechanisms and biological roles of DNA topisomerases ...