Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policy Making Signer Fact Sheet
The signers of the Restoring Scientific Integrity statement include many leading figures in basic and applied scientific research in recent decades across a wide range of fields:
Biology & Medicine David Baltimore (NP-75), retroviruses such as HIV; Paul Berg (NP-80), recombinant DNA; Carl Djerassi, invented modern oral contraceptives; Renato Dulbecco (NP-75), Human Genome Project Founder; Edmund Fischer, protein phosphorylation; Roger Guillemin (NP-77), neuroendocrinology; H. Robert Horvitz (NP-02), genetic regulation of organ development; Eric Kandel (NP-00), neurobiology; Arthur Kornberg, (NP-59), DNA replication; Joseph E. Murray (NP-90), first kidney transplantation; Marshall Nirenberg (NP-68), deciphered genetic code; E. Donnall Thomas (NP-90), first bone-marrow transplantation; Harold Varmus (NP-89), genetic basis of cancer; Eric Weischaus (NP-95), genetics and embryonic development. Thomas Eisner and E.O. Wilson are widely viewed as the world’s leading entomologists.
Physics Philip Anderson (NP-77) and J. Robert Schrieffer (NP-72), solid state physics, especially superconductivity; Nicolaas Bloembergen (NP-81), nonlinear optics; Val Fitch and James Cronin (NP-80), Jerome Friedman (NP- 90), Leon Lederman (NP-88), and Jack Steinberger (NP-88), seminal experiments in elementary particle physics; Murray Gell-Mann (NP-69), elementary particle theory, predicted the quark; Herbert Kroemer (NP-00), semiconductor heterostructures; Robert Laughlin (NP-98) and Daniel Tsui (NP-98), condensed matter physics; David Lee (NP-96) and Anthony Leggett (NP-03), low-temperature physics; Walter Munk, geophysics and oceanography; Martin L. Perl (NP-95), lepton physics; Norman Ramsey (NP-89), atomic and molecular spectroscopy; Edwin Salpeter, energy production in stars; Allen R. Sandage, the composition and evolution of galaxies; Gerald Wasserburg, geophysics and geochemistry; Steven Weinberg (NP-79) and Edward Witten, the basic constituents and forces of matter.
Chemistry Peter Agre (NP-03), water channels in cell membranes; Paul D. Boyer (NP-97), elucidation of ATP; John Fenn (NP-02), biological macromolecules; Walter Gilbert (NP-80), base sequences in nucleic acids; Roald Hoffmann (NP-81), electron behavior in organic chemistry; Walter Kohn (NP-98), quantum theory of atomic and molecular structure; William Lipscomb (NP-76), nature of chemical bonding; Mario Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland (NP- 95), formation and decomposition of ozone in the atmosphere, and implications for the greenhouse effect; Richard Smalley (NP-96), nanotechnology; Henry Taube (NP-83), electron transfer reactions.
Presidents of AAAS Francisco J. Ayala, Leon Lederman, Jane Lubchenco, and F. Sherwood Rowland have served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Advisers to Republican Administrations Lewis Branscomb, Director of National Bureau of Standards (now NIST), Nixon; Richard Garwin, Presidential Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), Eisenhower and Nixon; W.K.H Panofsky, PSAC, Eisenhower; Norman Ramsey, Science advisor to NATO, Eisenhower; Herbert F. York, first director of Livermore National Laboratory, PSAC, and Director of Defense R&D, Eisenhower
Nobel Laureates and National Medal of Science The list includes 48 Nobel laureates spanning 45 years and 62 recipients of the National Medal of Science, an award given by the President of the United States to individuals “deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences.”
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