Among MIT professors, Bengt Holmstrom, Michale Fee, Gareth McKinley '91, Keith Nelson, Fan Wang, and Catherine Wolfram '96 were elected in recognition of their 'distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.' Additional alumni who were elected include Christopher J. Chang PhD '02 (Chemistry); Cynthia J. Ebinger SM '86, PhD '88 (Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences); Andrew Gelman '85, '86 (Mathematics and Physics); Richard L. Greene '60 (Physics); Chuan He PhD '00 (Chemistry); Pardis C. Sabeti '97 (Biology/Life Sciences); Robert J. Shiller SM '68, PhD '72 (Economics); Daniel M. Sigman PhD '97 (EAPS); Eero Simoncelli SM '88, PhD '93 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); and Salil P. Vadhan PhD '99 (Mathematics). Membership in the National Academy of Sciences is one of the highest honors a scientist can receive in their career. The NAS is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham...
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