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Additional information about the Academy and its members is available online at http://www.nasonline.org.

Newly elected members and their affiliations associated with the subject fields of the member societies connected to the American Institute of Physics are:

ACUÑA, Mario H.; senior astrophysicist and project scientist, International Solar Terrestrial Physics Program, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

AGARD, David A.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor, department of biochemistry and biophysics, University of California , San Francisco

ATWATER, Brian F.; geologist, western earthquake hazards team, U.S. Geological Survey, and affiliate professor, department of earth and space sciences, University of Washington, Seattle

AWSCHALOM, David D.; professor of physics and of electrical and computer engineering, department of physics, University of California , Santa Barbara

BAWENDI, Moungi G.; professor of chemistry and Keck Professor of Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

BELL , C. Gordon; senior researcher, Microsoft Bay Area Research Center, San Francisco
BLOCK, Steven M.; professor of applied physical and biological sciences, Stanford University , Stanford , Calif.

BRYANT, Robert L.; J.M. Kreps Professor, department of mathematics, Duke University , Durham , N.C.

CANFIELD, Donald E.; professor of ecology, Institute of Biology , and director, Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, University of Southern Denmark , Odense

CLARK, Noel; professor, department of physics, University of Colorado , Boulder

DRAINE, Bruce T.; professor, department of astrophysical sciences, Princeton University , Princeton , N.J.

EMANUEL, Kerry A.; Breene M. Kerr Professor, program in atmospheres, oceans, and climate, department of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

FALKOWSKI, Paul G.; professor, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences and department of geological sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick

GABRIELSE, Gerald; Leverett Professor of Physics, Harvard University , Cambridge , Mass.

GOLDMAN, Allen M.; Institute of Technology Professor of Physics, and head, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis

JOHNSON, William L.; Ruben and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Engineering, and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

LIBCHABER, Albert J.; professor of physics, The Rockefeller University, New York City

MICALI, Silvio; professor, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

MORGAN, M. Granger; university professor and head, department of engineering and public policy, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh

OLSON, Peter L.; professor of geophysical fluid dynamics, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore

RICHMOND, Timothy J.; professor, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

SCHILLER, Peter H.; professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

SPERGEL, David N.; professor, department of astrophysical sciences, Princeton University , Princeton , N.J.

SREENIVASAN, Katepalli R.; Martin Professor of Engineering and distinguished university professor, University of Maryland , College Park

STARK, Harold M.; professor of mathematics, University of California , San Diego

WILL, Clifford M.; James S. McDonnell Professor of Physics, Washington University , St. Louis

WISE, Mark B.; John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

Newly elected foreign associates, their affiliations at the time of election, and their country of citizenship are:

ASKONAS, Brigitte A.; visiting professor, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London ( United Kingdom )

DELIGNE, Pierre; professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton , N.J. ( Belgium )

GRANT, Peter R.; professor, Princeton University , Princeton , N.J. ( United Kingdom )

IIJIMA, Sumio; professor, department of materials science and engineering, Meijo University , Nagoya ( Japan )

ITO, Masao; director, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama ( Japan )

KINGMAN, John; director, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge , Cambridge , England ( United Kingdom )

LI, Aizhen; Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai (People's Republic of China )

WHITE, Simon D.M.; director, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany ( United Kingdom )

WOODMAN, Ronald F.; executive president, Geophysical Institute of Peru, Mayorazgo ( Peru )