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2024 Nobel Prize Symposium
Celebrating Scientific Discoveries for the Benefit of Humankind and Paving the Way for Future Breakthroughs Join the Embassy ...
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2024 Lounsbery Lecture—Exploration of Biological Diversity
Feng Zhang, 2021 Richard Lounsbery Award recipient, will present the 2024 Lounsbery Lecture on "Exploration of Biological ...
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Distinctive Voices—Forty Years of Coronaviruses
The talk will begin with a history of coronavirus research, from the 1960s, until the present. It will include the stories of three zoonotic coronaviruses- severe acute respiratory syndrome ...
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In Memoriam: Diane E. Griffin
NAS vice president Diane Griffin died unexpectedly on Monday, October 28 at age 84 in Baltimore, where she was a University Distinguished Service Professor, Gilman Scholar, and chair emeritus of the W ...
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Distinctive Voices – Seeing infrared: bioinspired nanomaterials to enable deep tissue biomedical imaging
Biological tissues and fluids become far more transparent to light in the near infrared spectral window, at wavelengths too long for our eyes to detect. This increased transparency is highly promising ...
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Anne E. Osbourn
Anne Osbourn has made distinguished contributions to both microbial and plant biology through her pioneering work on plant pathogenesis and operon-like gene clusters for the biosynthesis of natural ...
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Kavli Frontiers of Science
The Frontiers of Science symposium series was created as the first program of the National Academy of Sciences targeted specifically for early career scientists. Frontiers was designed to bridge the ...
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The Einstein Memorial
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 ...
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NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences
The NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences recognizes research by a mid-career scientist (defined as up to 20 years since completion of PhD) at a U.S. institution who has made an extraordinary ...
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Marcia McNutt
Marcia McNutt is a geophysicist and president of the National Academy of Sciences. From 2013 to 2016, she served as editor-in-chief of the Science journals. Prior to joining Science, she was director ...
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2024 Japanese-American-German Kavli Frontiers of Science
Planning Group Members: Sarah King, University of Chicago, Akinobu Nakada, Kyoto University and Anna Schenk, University of Bayreuth INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, Massachusetts Institute ...