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Aug 28, 2014 · Science advisers from overseas, including Sir John Beddington, the former UK government chief scientific adviser, and Bruce Alberts, the former president of the US National Academy of Sciences,...
Nov 20, 2023 · This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Komatsu Sakyō’s mega-selling doomsday novel Japan Sinks, a masterpiece of apocalyptic science fiction in which catastrophic tectonic plate movements...
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Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard College (1960)Summa cum laudein Biochemical Sciences, Harvard College (1960)Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry, American Chemical Society (1972)U.S. Steel Foundation Award in Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences (1975)Member, Board of Directors, Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) (Chair 2005-2024)Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Scleroderma Research Foundation (1992-present)Chair, Board of Directors, William J. Rutter Foundation (2012-present; member since 1999)Member, Board of Directors and Council, Science and Technology in Society Forum, Kyoto, Japan (2005-present)Major commitments 1. Chair, Molecular Cytology Study Section of the National Institutes of Health (1984-1986); (member 1982-1986) 2. Chair, National Research Council Committee on Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome (1986-1988) 3. Chair, Commission on Life Sciences of the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences (1988-1993) 4. Co-...
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyAmerican Society for Cell BiologyAmerican Society for MicrobiologySigma XiApr 19, 2024 · Bruce Alberts, a prominent biochemist with a strong commitment to the improvement of science education, was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama in 2014. Dr. Alberts served as Editor-in-Chief of Science (2008-2013) and as one of President Obama’s first three Science Envoys, assigned to Indonesia (2009-2011). He ...
May 1, 2024 · Bruce Alberts (born April 14, 1938, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American biochemist best known for having served as president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) from 1993 to 2005. Alberts developed an early interest in science, reading about chemistry and conducting experiments while growing up near Chicago.
Dec 17, 2007 · Bruce Alberts, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and president emeritus of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, has been named the next editor-in-chief of Science. A prominent cell biologist best known for his work on the protein complexes that allow chromosomes to be replicated ...
Bruce Alberts, a prominent biochemist with a strong commitment to the improvement of science and mathematics education, was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama in 2014. Dr. Alberts served as Editor-in-Chief of Science (2008-2013) and as one of President Obama’s first three Science Envoys (2009-2011).
