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Five Harvard professors were elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) last week, marking the third straight year that the University took the most spots of any other institution...
Bruce M. Spiegelman, a professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School who was inducted into the NAS in 2002, said that 72 American and 12 international scientists are chosen every year as new members...
Current members of the NAS nominate potential new members in their own fields of study, and then narrow the nomination lists through a vote on specific fields, Spiegelman said...
...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...