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Board of Sponsors April 9, 2013

(Partial List)

* Peter Agre * Sidney Altman Dear Members of Congress: * Philip W. Anderson * Kenneth J. Arrow * David Baltimore * Paul Berg With the delivery of the President's budget on April 10, Congress will begin the * J. Michael Bishop * Gunther Blobel process of allocating funds to all the areas in the Federal Budget. One of those * Nicolaas Bloembergen * Paul Boyer areas is long-term research and development in the agencies that fund the Ann Pitts Carter * Stanley Cohen backbone of the U.S. scientific enterprise: National Institutes of Health, National * Leon N. Cooper * E. J. Corey * James Cronin Science Foundation, Department of Energy, National Institute of Standards and * Johann Deisenhofer Sidney Drell Technology as well as parts of the National Aeronautics and Space Ann Druyan Paul R. Ehrlich Administration and the Department of Defense. There is a bipartisan agreement George Field * Val L. Fitch on the importance of federal funding of long-term scientific research. The * Jerome I. Friedman * Riccardo Giacconi President emphasized it in his State of the Union speech and Majority Leader * Walter Gilbert * Alfred G. Gilman Cantor emphasized it in a recent speech at the American Enterprise Institute. The * Sheldon L. Glashow Marvin L. Goldberger * Joseph L. Goldstein agreement exists because of recognition that this sort of research fuels the * Roger C. L. Guillemin * Leland H. Hartwell innovation engine that is essential to our economy. The entire federal research, * Dudley R. Herschbach * Roald Hoffmann development and demonstration enterprise amounts today to about one percent of John P. Holdren * H. Robert Horvitz our Gross Domestic Product and has steadily fallen over the years, while our * David H. Hubel * Eric R. Kandel rivals in Europe and Asia invest more. * Jerome Karle * Wolfgang Ketterle * H. Gobind Khorana * Willis E. Lamb * Leon Lederman We Nobel Laureates are likely to do well in competition for a reduced level of * Roderick MacKinnon * Eric S. Maskin funding. Our concern is for the younger generation who will be behind the Jessica T. Mathews Roy Menninger innovations and earn the Prizes of the future. We urge you, even in these Matthew S. Meselson Richard A. Meserve financially troubled times, to keep the budgets of the agencies that support science * Mario Molina Stephen S. Morse at a level that will keep the pipelines full of the younger generation upon whom * Ferid Murad Franklin A. Neva * Marshall Nirenberg our economic vitality will rest in future years. * Douglas D. Osheroff * Arno A. Penzias * Martin L. Perl George Rathjens Respectfully, * Burton Richter * Richard J. Roberts * J. Robert Schrieffer Andrew Sessler * Phillip A. Sharp Dr. Burton Richter Dr. Sidney Altman Dr. David Baltimore * K. Barry Sharpless Stanley K. Sheinbaum Stanford Linear Accelerator Yale University California Institute of * Robert M. Solow * Jack Steinberger Center 1989 Nobel Prize in chemistry Technology * Thomas A. Steitz 1976 Nobel Prize in physics 1975 Nobel Prize in physiology * Joseph Stiglitz * Daniel Tsui Dr. Kenneth J. Arrow or medicine * Charles H. Townes * Harold E. Varmus Dr. Peter Agre Stanford University Frank von Hippel Robert A. Weinberg Johns Hopkins Bloomberg 1972 Nobel Prize in economic Dr. Bruce Beutler * Steven Weinberg * Torsten N. Wiesel School of Public Health science UT Southwestern Medical Center * Eric Wieschaus 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry 2011 Nobel Prize in physiology * Frank Wilczek * Oliver E. Williamson or medicine

Board of Directors * Nobel Laureate

Gilman Louie Rosina Bierbaum Philip B. Carter Charles D. Ferguson Chair Vice Chair Secretary-Treasurer President

Alton Frye Robert Gard Richard L. Garwin Lisa Gordon-Hagerty Stephen Hamblen Lawrence Krause Martha Krebs Rodney Nichols Lisa Porter Scott Sagan Maxine Savitz Michael Telson Valerie Thomas

Ex officio: Robert Solow and Frank von Hippel

Dr. J. Michael Bishop Dr. Walter Gilbert Dr. Brian Kobilka University of California, San Harvard University Professor Stanford University School of Francisco Emeritus Medicine 1989 Nobel Prize in physiology 1980 Nobel Prize in chemistry 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry or medicine Dr. Sheldon Lee Glashow Dr. Walter Kohn Dr. Gunter Blobel Harvard University University of California, Santa The Rockefeller University 1979 Nobel Prize in physics Barbara 1999 Nobel Prize in physiology 1998 Nobel Prize in chemistry or medicine Dr. Roy Glauber Harvard University Dr. Roger Kornberg Dr. Michael Brown 2006 Nobel Prize in physics Stanford University School of University of Texas Medicine Southwestern Medical Center Dr. Carol Greider 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry 1985 Nobel Prize in physiology Johns Hopkins School of or medicine Medicine Dr. Leon Lederman 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology University of Chicago Dr. Thomas Cech or medicine 1988 Nobel Prize in physics University of Colorado Boulder 1989 Nobel Prize in chemistry Dr. David J. Gross Dr. Robert Lefkowitz University of California, Santa Duke University Medical Center Dr. Martin Chalfie Barbara 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry Columbia University 2004 Nobel Prize in physics 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry Dr. Eric Maskin Dr. Roger Guillemin Harvard University Dr. Stanley Cohen Salk Institute 2007 Nobel Prize in economic Vanderbilt University 1977 Nobel Prize in physiology science 1986 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine or medicine Dr. John Mather Dr. John L. Hall University of Maryland and Dr. Leon N. Cooper University of Colorado NASA Goddard Space Flight Brown University 2005 Nobel Prize in physics Center 1972 Nobel Prize in physics 2006 Nobel Prize in physics Dr. Leland Hartwell Dr. James W. Cronin Center for Sustainable Health, Dr. Craig Mello Kavli Institute for Cosmological Arizona State University University of Massachusetts Physics 2001 Nobel Prize in physiology Medical School 1980 Nobel Prize in physics or medicine 2006 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Dr. Robert Curl Jr. Dr. Dudley R. Herschbach Rice University Harvard University Dr. Mario Molina 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry University of California San Diego Dr. Johann Deisenhofer Dr. Roald Hoffmann 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry University of Texas Cornell University Southwestern Medical Center 1981 Nobel Prize in chemistry Dr. Ferid Murad 1998 Nobel Prize in chemistry George Washington University Dr. Louis J. Ignarro 1998 Nobel Prize in physiology Dr. Andrew Fire UCLA School of Medicine or medicine Stanford University School of 1998 Nobel Prize in physiology Medicine or medicine Dr. Douglas Osheroff 2006 Nobel Prize in physiology Stanford University or medicine Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle 1996 Nobel Prize in physics MIT Dr. Jerome Friedman 2001 Nobel Prize in physics MIT 1990 Nobel Prize in physics

Dr. Martin L. Perl Dr. Brian P. Schmidt Dr. Steven Weinberg Stanford Linear Accelerator The Australian National University of Texas at Austin Center University 1979 Nobel Prize in physics 1995 Nobel Prize in physics 2011 Nobel Prize in physics Dr. Carl E. Wieman Dr. Saul Perlmutter Dr. Phillip Sharp University of British Columbia University of California, Koch Institute for Integrative 2001 Nobel Prize in physics Berkley and Lawrence Berkeley Cancer Research National Laboratory 1993 Nobel Prize in physiology Dr. Eric Wieschaus 2011 Nobel Prize in physics or medicine Princeton University 1995 Nobel Prize in physiology Dr. William Phillips Dr. Hamilton Smith or medicine Joint Quantum Institute J. Craig Venter Institute 1997 Nobel Prize in physics 1978 Nobel Prize in physiology Dr. Torsten Wiesel or medicine Rockefeller University Dr. David Politzer 1981 Nobel Prize in physiology Caltech Dr. George F. Smoot or medicine 2004 Nobel Prize in physics Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Dr. Frank Wilczek Dr. Adam Riess 2006 Nobel Prize in physics Massachusetts Institute of Johns Hopkins University Technology 2011 Nobel Prize in physics Dr. Thomas Steitz 2004 Nobel Prize in physics Yale University Dr. Richard Roberts 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry Dr. Robert W. Wilson New England Biolabs Bell Laboratories 1993 Nobel Prize in physiology 1978 Nobel Prize in physics or medicine