National Academy of Sciences

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learned society national academy nonprofit organization scientific advisory body

The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit society of distinguished scholars in the United States that advises the nation on matters related to science and technology.

Aliases (11)

National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ×46
National Academy of Sciences (United States) ×24
US National Academy of Sciences ×10
United States National Academy of Sciences ×10
national academy of sciences ×7
National Academy of Sciences of the United States ×6
National Academy of Sciences Council ×2
Council of the National Academy of Sciences ×1
Membership in the National Academy of Sciences ×1
U.S. National Academy of Sciences ×1
council of the National Academy of Sciences ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	learned society → national academy → nonprofit organization → scientific advisory body →
abbreviation	PNAS →
architectOfMainBuilding	Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue →
charteredIn	1863 →
country	United States →
describedAs	society of distinguished scholars →
employerOf	engineers → policy analysts → scientists →
fieldOfWork	engineering → medicine → science → technology →
focusArea	research advisory reports → science policy →
foundedBy	Abraham Lincoln →
fundingSource	federal government contracts → philanthropic donations → private foundations →
governingBody	Council of the National Academy of Sciences →
hasPart	National Academy of Engineering → National Academy of Medicine → National Research Council →
hasPresident	President of the National Academy of Sciences →
hasPublication	National Academies reports → Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences →
hasWebsite	https://www.nationalacademies.org →
headquartersLocation	Washington, D.C. →
inception	1863 →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
legalBasis	charter granted by the U.S. Congress →
legalForm	private nonprofit →
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	District of Columbia →
mainBuilding	National Academy of Sciences Building →
memberOf	National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine →
membershipType	lifetime membership →
motto	Furthering science in America →
nonProfitStatus	501(c)(3) organization →
operatesInJurisdiction	United States federal government →
purpose	advancement of science → advising the United States government on science and technology →
regionServed	United States →
selectionCriteria	election by existing members →
shortName	NAS →
typeOfMembershipOrganization	honorific society →

Referenced by (310)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ada Yonath ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Adi Shamir ("US National Academy of Sciences") → Ahmed Zewail ("United States National Academy of Sciences") → Alain Connes → Alan Guth → Albert Szent-Györgyi ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States") → Albert W. Tucker ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Alfred L. Kroeber → Alonzo Church → Alvin M. Weinberg → Andreas Acrivos → Andrei Linde ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Andrew Viterbi → Andrew Wiles → Ann Graybiel ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Anthony S. Fauci ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Arnold O. Beckman → Arthur D. Levinson → Arthur E. Kennelly → Arthur E. Kennelly → Arthur H. Compton → Atle Selberg → Barbara McClintock ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Barbara McClintock ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Barry M. Trost → Beno Gutenberg → Bert Hölldobler ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States") → Bruce T. Draine ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → C. N. Yang ("US National Academy of Sciences") → Carl E. Wieman → Carl Woese ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Carlo Rubbia ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Chad Mirkin ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Charles F. Chandler → Charles F. Kettering → Charles Hard Townes → Charles Proteus Steinmetz → Charles Weissmann ("US National Academy of Sciences") → Chien-Shiung Wu ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Claude Shannon → Clinton Hart Merriam → Daniel Kleppner → Daphne Koller → Daron Acemoglu → Detlev W. Bronk → Detlev W. Bronk ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Donald E. Knuth → Donna Strickland → Dudley R. Herschbach → Edward Charles Pickering → Edward Condon ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Edward M. Purcell → Edward O. Wilson ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States") → Edward Teller ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Edward W. Morley → Edward Witten → Edwin E. Salpeter → Edwin Hubble ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Eli Yablonovitch → Elias J. Corey → Elihu Thomson → Elinor Ostrom → Elizabeth Blackburn → Elwyn R. Berlekamp → Enrico Fermi → Ernest O. Lawrence ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Ernst Mayr → Eugene N. Parker ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Eugene Wigner ("United States National Academy of Sciences") → Felix Bloch → Frances Arnold → Francis Collins → Frank B. Jewett → Frank Drake ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Frank H. Shu → Frank Wilczek ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States") → Fred Brooks → Freeman Dyson ("United States National Academy of Sciences") → Freeman Dyson ("US National Academy of Sciences") → Freeman Dyson ("United States National Academy of Sciences") → G. Evelyn Hutchinson → G. Ledyard Stebbins → Gary King → George A. Olah ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → George Ellery Hale → George F. Smoot → George Gaylord Simpson → George Kistiakowsky → George Lincoln Goodale → Gerard ’t Hooft → Gian-Carlo Rota → Glenn T. Seaborg → Gregory C. Fu → Gretchen C. Daily ("United States National Academy of Sciences") → Grove Karl Gilbert → Hans Bethe → Hans Bethe → Harold Urey ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Harold Varmus → Hassler Whitney ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Hendrik Wade Bode → Henry Norris Russell → Herbert A. Simon ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Herbert Boyer → Hermann Weyl → Howard P. Robertson → I. I. Rabi → Ingrid Daubechies → Isadore Singer → Isidor Isaac Rabi ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Israel Gelfand ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Ivan Sutherland → Ivar Giaever → J. Michael Bishop ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → J. Robert Oppenheimer ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → James A. Van Allen → James B. Conant → James Edward Keeler → James Heckman → James L. Flanagan → James Peebles → James S. Langer → Jane Lubchenco → Jared Diamond → Jean Tirole ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States") → Jean-Pierre Serre ("United States National Academy of Sciences") → Jennifer Doudna ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Jerome Friedman → Joanne Chory ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → John Archibald Wheeler ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → John Bardeen → John L. Hennessy → John McCarthy → John Michael Bishop ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → John Milnor → John Robert Schrieffer ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → John Robert Schrieffer → John W. Tukey ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → John von Neumann ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Joseph Sweetman Ames → Josiah Whitney → Julian Schwinger → Julius Robert Oppenheimer → K. Barry Sharpless → Karen Uhlenbeck → Karl Deisseroth ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Katalin Karikó ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Katepalli R. Sreenivasan ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Kerry Emanuel ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Kip Thorne ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Kurt Gödel → Kurt Wüthrich ("US National Academy of Sciences") → Lars Onsager ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Leon Lederman → Leonard Adleman → Leonard Kleinrock → Leslie Valiant → Linus Pauling ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Lyman Spitzer Jr. → Lynn Margulis ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Lynn Petra Alexander ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → M. S. Swaminathan ("US National Academy of Sciences") → Manuel Blum → Margaret Burbidge ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Maria Goeppert Mayer → Mark Kac → Mark Ptashne ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Martin David Kruskal → Martin Schwarzschild → Marvin Minsky → Maurice Ewing ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → May-Britt Moser → Michael Atiyah → Michael I. Pupin ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Mildred Dresselhaus → Moshe Y. Vardi ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Murray Gell-Mann → Nick Holonyak Jr. → Nick Holonyak Jr. → Norbert Wiener ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Norman Borlaug ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Norman Ramsey → Oswald Veblen → Partha Dasgupta ("US National Academy of Sciences") → Paul Nurse ("US National Academy of Sciences") → Paul Nurse ("US National Academy of Sciences") → Paul R. Ehrlich ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Paul Steinhardt ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Percy W. Bridgman ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Persi Diaconis → Peter B. Dervan → Phil S. Baran → Philip Anderson → Philip Handler → Phillip A. Sharp → Pierre Deligne → Raj Reddy → Richard Axel → Richard C. Tolman → Richard Feynman ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Richard R. Schrock → Richard Tsien → Rita R. Colwell → Rita R. Colwell ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Rita R. Colwell → Roald Hoffmann → Robert A. Dahl → Robert A. Millikan → Robert Burns Woodward → Robert Helmer MacArthur ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Robert Kahn → Robert Langer ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Robert May ("US National Academy of Sciences") → Robert Serber → Robert Tarjan → Rolf Landauer → Rolf Zinkernagel ("U.S. National Academy of Sciences") → Ronald L. Rivest → Roy Vagelos → Rudolf E. Kalman → Rudolf E. Kálmán → Russell Dupuis → Salvador Luria → Samuel J. Danishefsky → Samuel Pierpont Langley → Sandra Faber → Saunders Mac Lane → Sewall Wright → Shafi Goldwasser → Sheila Widnall → Sheila Widnall → Sheldon Glashow → Shiing-Shen Chern ("United States National Academy of Sciences") → Shinya Yamanaka ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Sidney Farber ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Sidney Verba → Simon Newcomb → Solomon Lefschetz ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Stephen Jay Gould ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Stephen L. Buchwald → Stephen Smale → Steven Pinker → Steven Weinberg → Stuart L. Schreiber → Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar → Svante Pääbo → Svante Pääbo → Syukuro Manabe ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Takeo Kanade ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → Tal Rabin → Terence Tao → Terrence Sejnowski → Theodosius Dobzhansky ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Thomas E. Lovejoy ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Thomas Kailath → Vannevar Bush → Vera Rubin ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Vera Rubin ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") → Victor F. Weisskopf → Walter Baade ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States") → Walter Gilbert → Willard F. Libby → William Barton Rogers → William H. Foege ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") → William Shockley → Yuan T. Lee →	memberOf
John J. Carty Award → John J. Carty Award of the National Academy of Sciences → National Academy of Sciences Award in the Neurosciences → National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal → Public Welfare Medal →	presentedBy
National Academy of Engineering → National Research Council → Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences →	foundedBy
John J. Carty Award of the National Academy of Sciences ("United States National Academy of Sciences") → Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ("United States National Academy of Sciences") →	associatedWith
Comstock Prize in Physics ("United States National Academy of Sciences") → Comstock Prize in Physics →	awardedBy
Lomonosov Gold Medal ("national academy of sciences") → Matteucci Medal ("national academy of sciences") →	awardingBodyType
Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy ("national academy of sciences") → Royal Medal ("national academy of sciences") →	hasAwardingBodyType
Public Welfare Medal ("National Academy of Sciences Council") →	administeredBy
National Academy of Medicine →	affiliation
Fellow of the Royal Society ("national academy of sciences") →	associatedOrganizationType
National Academy of Sciences Award in the Neurosciences →	awardingBody
Richard Tsien ("Membership in the National Academy of Sciences") →	awardReceived
National Academy of Sciences Building →	category
National Academy of Engineering →	collaboratesWith
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine →	componentOrganization
Vanguard program →	coordinatedWith
Philip Handler →	employer
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine →	formedFrom
National Academy of Sciences ("National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America") →	fullName
National Academy of Sciences ("council of the National Academy of Sciences") →	governance
National Academy of Sciences ("Council of the National Academy of Sciences") →	governingBody
Foggy Bottom–GWU station →	nearby
National Academy of Sciences Building →	operator
ForMemRS ("national academy of sciences") →	organizationTypeOfGrantor
National Academy of Sciences Building →	ownedBy
National Research Council →	parentOrganization
Mathematics and Natural Sciences Division ("national academy of sciences") →	parentOrganizationType
creation–evolution controversy →	positionOpposedBy
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences →	publisher
National Academies Press →	publishesFor
National Academies reports →	relatedTo
John J. Carty Award →	selectionBody
National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal ("National Academy of Sciences Council") →	selectionBy
John J. Carty Award of the National Academy of Sciences →	sponsor
Royal Academy of Sciences and other national academies ("National Academy of Sciences (United States)") →	typicalMember