Professor Leonid Glazman, Donner Professor of Physics, was one of five Yale professors elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Election to membership in the NAS is considered one of the highest honors bestowed on a U.S. scientist or engineer.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars. Established by an Act of Congress, signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. At its founding, the Academy membership was made up of forty-nine scientists selected from the several states remaining in the Union. The NAS is charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology. Scientists are elected by their peers to membership in the NAS for outstanding contributions to research. The NAS is committed to furthering science in America, and its members are active contributors to the international scientific community. Approximately 500 current and deceased members of the NAS have won Nobel Prizes, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, founded in 1914, is today one of the premier international journals publishing the results of original research.