Two Stanford professors elected to National Academy of Sciences

The faculty members have been elected to receive one of the highest honors for an American scientist in recognition of their achievements in original research. Two Stanford faculty members were named last week as new members of the National Academy of Sciences. The academy is an honorific society that recognizes distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. The academy's honorees have included such renowned scientists and inventors as Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, Thomas Edison, Orville Wright and Alexander Graham Bell. Nearly 200 living members of the academy have won Nobel Prizes. The Stanford scholars were among the 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 15 countries elected this year, bringing the total number of active members to 2,214 and the total number of foreign associates to 444. The new members will be inducted next April during the academy's 152nd annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Following are the newly elected Stanford members: Emmanuel Candès is the Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics and, by courtesy, a professor of electrical engineering.