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| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Dawn A. Bonnell | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 103. Engineering | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1961 | | | | | | |
Dr. Bonnell is the is the Henry Robinson Towne Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and the Senior Vice Provost for Research at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. and PhD from the University of Michigan and was a Fulbright scholar to the Max-Planck-Institute in Stuttgart, Germany.
Dr. Bonnell is recognized for advances in atomic imaging and local electronic structure of complex surfaces, obtaining the first scanning probe images of atoms on oxide surfaces, a result that generated a new field of research. She has advanced probes of local properties, interfaces in electronic and plasmonic hybrid nanostructures, and ferroelectric nanolithography. She has served as President AVS: Science and Technology Society and vice President of the American Ceramic Society. She has authored or coauthored over 250 publications and edited or coedited seven books.
Dr. Bonnell received the Sosman Award from the American Ceramic Society, the AVS Nanotechnology Award, the Staudinger/Durrer Medal from ETH Zurich, and several distinguished lectureships. She is a fellow of the Materials Research Society, Honorary Fellow of the AVS, Distinguished Life Fellow of the ACerS, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1966 | | | | | | |
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer received her B.A. in Chemistry from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University, followed by two years at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Her academic career has included faculty positions at the University of Notre Dame, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Yale University. She is currently a Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. Her work encompasses the development of analytical theories and computational methods, as well as applications to experimentally relevant systems. She has devised theories of proton-coupled electron transfer and computational strategies for nuclear-electronic quantum dynamics and quantum chemistry, including the invention of the nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) approach. She has used these approaches to investigate quantum mechanical effects in chemical, biological, and interfacial processes. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, and Biophysical Society. She has received the American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry, the Royal Society Bourke Award, the Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry, and the Gibbs Medal Award. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Reviews and is on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science and the Editorial Board for PNAS. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2024. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Wick C. Haxton | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley; University of Washington | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1949 | | | | | | |
Wick Haxton is Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he currently directs a National Science Foundation Physics Frontier Center on multi-messenger astrophysics. He is also Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Senior Visiting Scientist, RIKEN. Previously he served for 15 years as the first director of the Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, the Department of Energy’s national center for the field. In that role he established what is now known as the Bahcall Committee, whose recommendations led to the creation of a US facility for deep underground science in South Dakota.
Born in Santa Cruz, CA, he received his BA degree in Mathematics and Physics from UC Santa Cruz in 1971, and his PhD in Physics from Stanford University in 1976.
After a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Mainz, he became a J. R. Oppenheimer Fellow and then a staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He then spent 25 years at the University of Washington as Professor of Physics and Adjunct Professor of Astronomy, before moving to Berkeley in 2009. He served as chair of Berkeley’s Physics Department from 2017 to 2020. His research contributions focus on low-energy tests of fundamental symmetries and on neutrino astrophysics. His work has impacted multiple subfields of physics, including nuclear and particle physics, astrophysics, atomic physics, and condensed matter. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Washington State Academy of Sciences. He is a former Guggenheim, Senior Humboldt Foundation, and Simons Foundation Fellow, and in 2004 was awarded the American Physical Society’s Hans Bethe Prize. He and his wife, Laura Kathleen, have two grown children and two grandchildren. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Jon Kleinberg | | | Institution: | Cornell University | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 107 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1971 | | | | | | |
Jon Kleinberg is the Tisch University Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on the interaction of algorithms and networks, the roles they play in large-scale social and information systems, and their broader societal implications. He is the author of two books on these topics: Algorithm Design (with Eva Tardos) and Networks, Crowds, and Markets (with David Easley). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, and he serves on the US National AI Advisory Committee. He has received MacArthur, Packard, Simons, Sloan, and Vannevar Bush research fellowships, as well as awards including the Harvey Prize, the Lanchester Prize, the Nevanlinna Prize, the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award, and the ACM Prize in Computing. | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Jill Cornell Tarter | | | Institution: | SETI Institute | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 101. Astronomy | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | | |
Jill Tarter received her Bachelor of Engineering Physics Degree with Distinction from Cornell University and her Master’s Degree and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley. She served as Project Scientist for NASA’s SETI program, the High Resolution Microwave Survey, and has conducted numerous observational programs at radio observatories worldwide. Since the termination of funding for NASA’s SETI program in 1993, she has served in a leadership role to secure private funding to continue the exploratory science. Currently, she serves on the management board for the Allen Telescope Array, an innovative array of 350 (when fully realized) 6-m antennas at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory, it will simultaneously survey the radio universe for known and unexpected sources of astrophysical emissions, and speed up the search for radio emissions from other distant technologies by orders of magnitude.
Tarter’s work has brought her wide recognition in the scientific community, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from Women in Aerospace, two Public Service Medals from NASA, Chabot Observatory’s Person of the Year award (1997), Women of Achievement Award in the Science and Technology category by the Women’s Fund and the San Jose Mercury News (1998), and the Tesla Award of Technology at the Telluride Tech Festival (2001). She was elected an AAAS Fellow in 2002 and a California Academy of Sciences Fellow in 2003. In 2004 Time Magazine named her one of the Time 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2005 Tarter was awarded the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization at Wonderfest, the biannual San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science.
Tarter is deeply involved in the education of future citizens and scientists. In addition to her scientific leadership at NASA and SETI Institute, Tarter was the Principal Investigator for two curriculum development projects funded by NSF, NASA, and others. The first, the Life in the Universe series, created 6 science teaching guides for grades 3-9 (published 1994-96). Her second project, Voyages Through Time, is an integrated high school science curriculum on the fundamental theme of evolution in six modules: Cosmic Evolution, Planetary Evolution, Origin of Life, Evolution of Life, Hominid Evolution and Evolution of Technology (published 2003). Tarter is a frequent speaker for science teacher meetings and at museums and science centers, bringing her commitment to science and education to both teachers and the public. Many people are now familiar with her work as portrayed by Jodie Foster in the movie Contact. | |
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