Five newly elected members of the Academy addressed colleagues at the ceremony: Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and Rockefeller University President Sir Paul Nurse; pioneering meteorologist Joanne Simpson; former French Minister of Justice and current member of the French Senate, Robert Badinter; businessman and philanthropist Fred Kavli; and actor, writer and director Alan Alda. The Academy also installed Emilio Bizzi, MIT Institute Professor and brain scientist, as its 44th President. Chief Executive Officer Leslie Berlowitz also spoke.
The 175 Fellows and 20 Foreign Honorary Members who make up the American Academy’s 226th class are leaders in scholarship, business, the arts and public affairs. They come from 24 states and 13 countries and include Nobel and Pulitzer Prize laureates, MacArthur and Guggenheim fellows.
