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...final list is voted on by every member of the NAS, irrespective of field...
Spiegelman added, however, that the NAS election procedures are flawed, favoring physical scientists over life scientists because of strict caps on the numbers of researchers elected in each field in any given year...
...Election to the NAS is a bit unfair to life scientists because the number of elected members was set long ago, when the percentage of scientists who were in life science was much smaller,” Spiegelman said...
...NAS member Laurie Glimcher, the Given Professor of Immunology at the Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, said that the organization ought to “look for more people in the life sciences...
...Glimcher noted that physicists “probably would not be too happy” about the idea, and she said she does not expect a change in NAS election policies in the near future...