The Academy membership encompasses over 4,600 Fellows and 600 Foreign Honorary Members and reflects the full range of disciplines and professions: mathematics, the physical and biological sciences, medicine, the social sciences and humanities, business, government, public affairs, and the arts. Among the Academy’s Fellows are more than 250 Nobel laureates and 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.
Nominations are restricted to members
1991: Peter Wolynes, Chemistry
1993: Kyriacos Nicolaou, Chemistry
1995: Neal Lane, Physics
2003: Randall Hulet, Physics
2004: Peter Rossky, Chemistry
2009: Jose Onuchic, Physics; Naomi Halas, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2010: Moshe Vardi, Computer Science
2013: Richard Tapia, Computational and Applied Mathematics; Bonnie Bartel, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
2014: Pol Spanos, Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering
2015: Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Bioengineering
2016: David Leebron, Education, Scientific, Cultural, and Philanthropic Administration
2017: Richard Baraniuk, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2021: Anthony Pinn, Humanities; John Baugh*, Literature and Language Studies
2022: Ramamoorthy Ramesh , Physics
2023: Lydia Kavraki, Computer Sciences; Reginald DesRoches, Engineering and Technology
*Elected prior to joining Rice