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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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Distinctive Voices
Distinctive Voices highlights innovations, discoveries, and emerging issues in an exciting and engaging public forum. Do you wonder how things work? What the future holds? If you are curious about the ...
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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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NAS President to Serve on U.S. S&T Task Force
NAS President Marcia McNutt is one of more than 60 leaders in science, industry, education, philanthropy, and public policy appointed to a new bipartisan task force for developing a Vision for ...
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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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Distinctive Voices—Mercury Cycling in Warming Oceans
Mercury is a naturally occurring element that has been mined and released by humans for over 3,000 years. Inorganic mercury, released through human activities, makes up the majority of the mercury ...
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Governing Documents
The Act to Incorporate the National Academy of Sciences, also known as the Academy Charter, was signed by President Lincoln on 3 March 1863, establishing the Academy as an independent honorary and ...
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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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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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Kenneth J. Hsu
I have been engaged since 1990 in the more philosophical aspects of science. Geology being a science with a temporal dimension, I have been searching for a physical theory of time. My search has ...
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Kimberly Ann Prather
Over the course of her career, Professor Kimberly Prather has co-authored over 230 publications on a variety of topics related to atmospheric aerosols. Awards for her work include being an elected ...