National Academy of Sciences - Members Members and foreign associates are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Election is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a scientist or engineer.
New members and foreign associates are elected annually at the Academy's annual meeting in April. Also, the listing of deceased members provides, when available, links to individual monographs of Biographical Memoirs. Colleagues familiar with the discipline and the subject's work prepare the essays. The series provides a record of the life and work of our most distinguished leaders in the sciences, as witnessed and interpreted by their colleagues and peers.