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| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Bernard Fanaroff | | | Institution: | Square Kilometre Array South Africa; South African Radio Astronomy Observatory Project | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 101. Astronomy | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1947 | | | | | | |
Bernie Fanaroff was the Director of the South African Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Radio Telescope Project from its initiation in 2003 until 2015. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and a Founder Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. He has been awarded the South African national Order of Mapungubwe, the Karl Jansky Lectureship of Associated Universities Inc and the NRAO, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Research Foundation, the Science for Society Gold Medal of the Academy of Science of South Africa and several honorary degrees. He was a Visiting Professor at Oxford University.
He has a BSc Honours degree in physics from the University of the Witwatersrand and a PhD in radio astronomy from Cambridge University. During his PhD he published the Fanaroff-Riley classification of radio galaxy and quasar morphology with fellow student Julia Riley, which continues to be a basic classification of the jets which carry energy away from the accretion disks surrounding super-massive black holes in the centres of most galaxies.
He left academia in 1976 to become a national organizer in South Africa of the nascent Metal and Allied Workers Union, one of the new non-racial unions then being organized in opposition to the legally-recognised unions which excluded Black workers, who had no rights under apartheid. He became a national secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa in 1987. When Nelson Mandela became President after the first democratic election in 1994, he became Deputy Director General in the Office of the President and Head of the Office for the Reconstruction and Development Programme, government’s central programme to build the country after apartheid. He became Deputy Director General of the Secretariat for Safety and Security in 1997 and chaired the Integrated Justice System Board and the Inter-Departmental Committee for Border Control. He led the drafting of the new Firearms Control Act. He left government in 2000.
He led the bid by South Africa, with eight other African countries, to host the world’s largest telescope, the Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope. The bid was successful in 2012. The SKA South African team also designed and built the MeerKAT radio telescope, a world-leading telescope which has made major discoveries in the evolution of galaxies and clusters of galaxies and in pulsar and transient radio source discovery and timing, as a result of its unique sensitivity, timing accuracy and imaging quality. The MeerKAT will become part of the SKA Mid-Frequency Array in the late 2020s.
SKA South Africa developed a world-leading Human Capital Development Programme, which enabled the development of a large and thriving radio astronomy science and technology community in South Africa from the initial five radio astronomers in 2003. It also trains scientists and engineers from the eight African partner countries. The SKA SA HCD programme led to the successful Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy (DARA) and the DARA Big Data programmes in partnership with the UK Government’s Newton Fund.
He was an adviser to the Director of the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, the successor to the SKA South Africa project. He has been appointed by the Minister for Trade, Industry and Competition to lead the development and implementation of a tripartite plan for the recovery and growth of the steel and steel products industries in South Africa. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Breakthrough Listen project of the Breakthrough Initiatives and a Trustee of the Paleontological Scientific Trust. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Tobin Jay Marks | | | Institution: | Northwestern University | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | | |
Tobin Jay Marks is the Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry, Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Professor of Applied Physics at Northwestern University. He earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971. He has spent most of his career at Northwestern, beginning as an Assistant Professor, then full Professor, and later, the Charles E. & Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry.
For five decades, Marks has been on the cutting edge of chemistry. Among his most ambitious work is the development of new organic photonics and olefin-polymerization techniques that opened the door to environmentally-friendly plastics. Marks has been "a true giant in the field" Stanford University chemistry professor Richard Zare told Chemical & Engineering News in 2016 when Marks was announced as the recipient of the Priestley Medal from the American Chemical Society. Among Marks' many achievements are the creation of flexible electronic materials for use in solar cells and light-emitting diodes and developing classes of oxide thin films for use in energy efficient materials. The wide scope of his research has resulted in more than a thousand published papers and more than 230 patents. He has also mentored hundreds of students over his career.
Marks' major recognitions include the U.S. National Medal of Science, the Spanish Principe de Asturias Prize, the Materials Research Society Von Hippel Award, the Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences, and the Israel Harvey Prize. He is a member of the U.S., European, German, Indian, and Italian Academies of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the U.S. National Academy of Inventors. He is a Fellow of the U.K. Royal Society of Chemistry, the Materials Research Society, and the American Chemical Society. Marks was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2022. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Kathleen McKeown | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 107 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1954 | | | | | | |
Kathleen McKeown is the Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. She was also the Founding Director of Columbia's Data Science Institute, a position she held from July 2012 to June 2017. She served as Department Chair from 1998-2003 and was Vice Dean for Research for the School of Engineering and Applied Science for two years. Before arriving at Columbia, she received a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982.
McKeown has transformed the Natural Language Processing field, pioneering automatic text generation, which she introduced in her Ph.D. thesis. She created the field of automatic text summarization, introducing multi-document summarization to combine information about a single topic from diverse sources, developing NewsBlaster to summarize news for the government after 9/11. She also developed methods for generating medical explanations and identifying social posts in South Chicago likely to lead to violence for social workers' use. At Columbia she was the first female tenured in the Engineering School, started the Women in Computer Sciences Student Group, and was the first female Computer Sciences Chair
McKeown received a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985, a National Science Foundation Faculty Award for Women in 1991, and the Anita Borg Woman of Vision Award for Innovation in 2010. She was President of the Association for Computational Linguistics from 1992 to 1993, has been a member of the Association for Computing Machinery since 2003, a member of the United States National Academies of Science, since 2018, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences since 2019. McKeown was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2022. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Kimberly A. Prather | | | Institution: | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 105. Physical Earth Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1962 | | | | | | |
Kimberly A. Prather is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and the Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She is also Founding Director of the NSF Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in 1990. Prior to her arrival at the Scripps Institute, she taught at the University of California, Riverside from 1992 to 2001 and worked as a Research Associate at the Statewide Air Pollution Research Center from 1994 to 2001.
Prather has worked on aerosols throughout her professional career. She devised an aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometer with high temporal and size resolutions, using it to study health effects of ultrafine particles to precisely measure their size and composition, as well as to measure exhaust particles from heavy-duty gasoline/diesel vehicles. She discovered that aerosols traveled well into the stratosphere where they froze and later returned to Earth; this research became critical in studying atmospheric environments' impact on the COVID-19 pandemic. While WHO and CDC first proposed that the virus was passed from person to person by contact with surfaces, it is actually spread via stable aerosols--not by surface contacts or droplets settling on these surfaces. Recently, at a National Academy of Sciences symposium, Anthony Fauci, Prather, and others discussed aerosols' role in the spread of COVID-19 and the importance of minimizing contamination using good ventilation, HEPA filters, and masking especially at newly-opened schools and offices.
Prather received the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Award, the National Science Foundation Special Creativity and Young Investigators Awards, the Smoluchowski Award, the Kenneth T. Whitby Award, The Arthur F. Findeis Award, the UCSD Faculty Sustainability Award, the American Chemical Society's Distinguished Scientist Award, the Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award, and the Chancellor's Associates Excellence Award in Research in Science and Engineering. She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences since 2010, the National Academy of Engineering since 2019, and the National Academy of Sciences since 2020. Prather was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2022. | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. David Nathaniel Spergel | | | Institution: | Simons Foundation; Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 101. Astronomy | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1961 | | | | | | |
David Spergel is the President of the Simons Foundation and is the Charles Young Professor of Astronomy Emeritus at Princeton. Spergel received his AB from Princeton in 1982, spent a year at Oxford studying with James Binney and then received his PhD from Harvard in 1986. After spending a year at the IAS, he joined the Princeton faculty in 1987. He was Department Chair at Princeton from 2005-2015 and was the Founding Director at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute from 2016-2021. AMNH awarded him an Honorary D.Sc. (2021).
Spergel is a member of the NAS and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work has been recognized with a MacArthur Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship, the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Shaw Prize, the Heinemann Prize, the Gruber Prize and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The American Astronomical Society has honored him with the Warner Prize, the Heineman Prize and as a Legacy Fellow. He was twice awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Award. He received Princeton University’s Presidential Distinguished Teaching Award and the National Society of Black Physicists’ Mentorship Award.
Spergel is noted for his work on the WMAP satellite that help establish the standard model of cosmology, map the initial conditions of the universe, and determine its basic properties. He is the author of over 400 refereed papers with over 100,000 citations. | |
| 6 | Name: | Dr. Howard Alvin Stone | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 103. Engineering | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1960 | | | | | | |
Howard Alvin Stone is the Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor at Princeton University's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in 1988. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge, in 1989 Howard joined the faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, where he eventually became the Vicky Joseph Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics. He arrived at Princeton in July 2009.
Professor Stone's research interests are in fluid dynamics, especially as they arise in research and applications at the interface of engineering, chemistry, physics, and biology. In particular, he developed original research directions, using experiments, theory, and simulations, in microfluidics, multiphase flows, electrokinetics, flows involving bacteria and biofilms. Stone was the first recipient of the Batchelor Prize, the most prestigious prize in fluid mechanics. For ten years he served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and is currently on the editorial or advisory boards of Physical Review Fluids, Langmuir, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and Soft Matter.
He received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, The G.K. Batchelor Prize in Fluid Mechanics (2008), and the American Physical Society's Fluid Dynamics Prize (2016). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the National Academy of Engineering (2009), the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2011), and the National Academy of Sciences (2014). Stone was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2022. | |
| 7 | Name: | Dr. Stephen Weiner | | | Institution: | Weizmann Institute of Science | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1948 | | | | | | |
Stephen Weiner was born in Pretoria, South Africa. He obtained a BSc degree in chemistry and geology at the University of Cape Town, an MSc in marine geochemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a PhD at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, USA in 1977 working in the field of mineral formation in biology (biomineralization). In the same year he joined the faculty of the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is now a professor emeritus at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Steve Weiner carries out research in two fields: biomineralization and archaeological science. His biomineralization research focusses on basic mechanisms of mineral formation in biology, on the functions of organic crystals in manipulating light in biology, as well as on structure – function relations in vertebrate mineralized tissues such as bones and teeth. His archaeological research focuses on addressing key questions in archaeology by studying both the visual macroscopic record, as well as revealing the microscopic record with the help of instrumentation. Much of this research is carried out on-site during the excavation. In 1989 he published a book entitled “On Biomineralization” with the late Prof H.A. Lowenstam, and in 2010 he published another book entitled “Microarchaeology: Beyond the Visible Archaeological Record”.
Prof Weiner has published over 350 peer reviewed papers and has a Google H index of 125. He is the recipient of the 2010 prize for excellence of the Israel Chemical Society, the 2011 Aminoff Prize for Crystallography from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and he received the 2013 Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology from the Archaeological Institute of America. In 2022 he will receive the gold medal of the Israel Chemistry Society; its highest award. | |
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