Harvard Faculty Elected National Academy of Sciences

Medicine and mathematics are heavily represented—plus a recent Nobel laureate in economics.

The National Academy of Sciences has elected 120 new members, including eight Harvard professors, drawn principally from the medical and mathematics faculties—but also including a recent Nobel laureate in economics. The new members are:

  • Dennis Gaitsgory, Smith professor of mathematics
  • Joel F. Habener, professor of medicine
  • Michael Kremer, Gates professor of developing societies, the Nobelist
  • Judy Lieberman, professor of pediatrics
  • Margaret S. Livingstone, Takeda professor of neurobiology
  • Olivier Pourquié, Mallory professor of pathology
  • Wilfried Schmid, Robinson research professor of mathematics
  • Suzanne Walker, professor of microbiology

 

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