Researchers Honored For Their Distinguished Bodies Of Work

The National Academy of Sciences 139th annual meeting held last week in Washington, D.C., was marked by the election of 72 new members, including 10 women, and 15 foreign associates from 12 countries. During the meeting, E. J. Corey, Sheldon Emory Professor of Organic Chemistry, Harvard, received the 2002 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, consisting of a medal and prize of $20,000. In addition to being elected to membership in the academy, J. Craig Venter, scientific adviser to Celera Genomics, was presented with the $25,000 triennial NAS Award for the Industrial Application of Science. New members and associates who are chemists include the following: MEMBERS Jacqueline K. Barton , Arthur & Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology Adriaan Bax , chief, NMR biophysical spectroscopy, National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases, NIH Carlos J. Bustamante , investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and professor of molecular and cell biology ...