Five faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced April 28 that five UW–Madison faculty were among those elected to membership in the prestigious organization.

Sixty U.S. scientists and 15 foreign associates were elected to membership, including UW–Madison’s William A. Brock, Elizabeth A. Craig, William F. Dove, Perry A. Frey and Paul H. Rabinowitz. Their election brings the number of current active NAS members on the UW–Madison faculty to 61.

Among universities, only Harvard had more faculty elected than UW–Madison with seven gaining NAS membership this year. The five elected from UW–Madison are the only new members from Wisconsin.

Membership in NAS, a private organization founded in 1863, is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer. Members are elected on the basis of distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

William A. Brock

Brock is the Vilas Research Professor and the F.P. Ramsey Professor of economics. He joined the UW–Madison faculty in 1975 and is internationally recognized for the development of statistical tests that can detect patterns in seemingly random data, and for his theoretical work on economic stability, optimal planning and inflationary bubbles.

Elizabeth A. Craig

Craig joined the faculty of the UW–Madison Medical School in 1979. She is the Elizabeth Cavert Miller Professor and the Steenbock Professor of microbiological sciences. Craig studies proteins. In particular, she is known for her work on heat shock proteins and the proteins responsible for folding and assembling other proteins in cells.

William F. Dove

Dove is a professor of oncology and medical genetics at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research. He joined the faculty here in 1965 and holds the George Streisinger Professorship of Experimental Biology. He is an authority on the genetics of cancer, the genetics of the biological clock and has developed powerful animal models for cancer research.

Perry A. Frey

Frey is the Robert H. Abeles Professor of biochemistry and co-director of the UW–Madison Institute for Enzyme Research. He joined the faculty here in 1981 and is known internationally for pioneering the stereochemical analysis of enzymatic reactions essential to metabolism and biological energy transduction.

Paul H. Rabinowitz

Rabinowitz is the Edward Burr Van Vleck Professor of mathematics. He joined the faculty here in 1969 and has been widely recognized for his deep influence on the field of nonlinear analysis and his work in ordinary and partial differential equations.