American Academy of Arts and Sciences

For over 225 years, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has been honoring excellence and providing service to the nation and the world. Through independent, nonpartisan study, its ranks of distinguished "scholar-patriots" have brought the arts and sciences into constructive interplay with the leaders of both the public and private sectors.

Current CfA Members

Charles Alcock
Alexander Dalgarno
George Field
Margaret Geller
Owen Gingerich
Lars Hernquist
John Huchra
Robert Kirshner
David Latham
Avi Loeb
James Moran
Irwin Shapiro
Patrick Thaddeus
John Wood

Rumford Prize

James Moran, Jr. - 1971 (a member of the MIT VLBI group awarded the prize jointly with groups from Canada and NRAO-Cornell)
Harlow Shapley - 1933
Charles Greeley Abbot - 1915
Edward Charles Pickering - 1891
Samuel Pierpont Langley - 1886