16 Press authors elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected 16 Press authors as part of its 2020 class.

The more than 250 new members join the company of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Maria Mitchell, Robert Frost, Martha Graham, Margaret Mead, Milton Friedman, and Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Academy.

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences was founded in 1780 by John Adams, John Hancock, and others who believed the United States should honor exceptionally accomplished individuals and engage them in advancing the public good.

You can find a full list of Press authors elected to the Academy below.

Biman Bagchi , author of Water in Biological and Chemical Processes

Andrew Gelman, co-editor of A Quantitative Tour of the Social Sciences

Philip W. Phillips, author of Advanced Solid State Physics

Martin Zanni, co-author of Concepts and Methods of 2D Infrared Spectroscopy

Sandrine Bony, co-editor of Clouds and Climate

Shun-ichiro Karato, author of Deformation of Earth Materials

Arogyaswami J. Paulraj, author of Introduction to Space-Time Wireless Communications

Alexander A. Razborov, co-editor of Logic Colloquium 2000

Hanna Kokko, author of Modelling for Field Biologists and Other Interesting People

Agustin Fuentes, author of Primates Face to Face

Clark Spencer Larsen, author of Bioarchaeology