Nobel Laureates & National Academy Members

Our distinguished faculty members are leaders in their disciplines and have received numerous honors and awards.

Nobel Prize

  • Mather, John (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2006)
  • Phillips, William (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1997)

National Medal of Science

  • Colwell, Rita
  • Gates Jr., Sylvester James

National Academy Members

National Academy of Engineering (as of 6/11/26)

  • Shneiderman, Ben

National Academy of Inventors (as of 6/7/24)

  • Cao, Kan (Senior Member)
  • Colwell, Rita (Fellow)
  • Lin, Ming (Fellow)
  • Manocha, Dinesh (Fellow)
  • Shneiderman, Ben (Fellow)
  • Wang, Lai-Xi (Fellow)

National Academy of Medicine (as of 6/7/24)

  • Leshner, Alan

National Academy of Public Administration (as of 6/7/24)

  • Leshner, Alan
  • Uccellini, Louis

National Academy of Sciences (as of 6/11/26)

  • Buonanno, Alessandra
  • Carroll, Sean
  • Colwell, Rita
  • Das Sarma, Sankar
  • Farquhar, James
  • Fisk, Lennard
  • Gantt, Elisabeth
  • Gates Jr., Sylvester James
  • Gloeckler, George
  • Greene, Richard
  • Jarzynski, Christopher
  • Julienne, Paul
  • Lorimer, George
  • Mather, John
  • Monroe, Christopher
  • Ott, Edward
  • Phillips, William
  • Rudnick, Roberta
  • Sagdeev, Roald
  • Walker, Richard
  • Weeks, John
  • Williams, Ellen

American Academy of Arts and Sciences 

*as of 6/7/24

  • Carroll, Sean
  • Colwell, Rita
  • Gates Jr., Sylvester James
  • Hill, Wendell
  • Jarzynski, Christopher
  • Kirwan, William
  • Leshner, Alan
  • Mather, John
  • Palmer, Margaret
  • Phillips, William
  • Rankin, Mary Ann
  • Rudnick, Roberta
  • Sagdeev, Roald
  • Walker, Richard
  • Weeks, John
  • Williams, Ellen