Jean Bourgain Elected a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences

Jean Bourgain, Professor in the School of Mathematics, is among the eighteen Foreign Associates elected to the National Academy of Sciences, while two former Members in the School of Natural Sciences, Andrew Strominger (1982-87), and Edward Wright (2000-01) are among the seventy-two newly elected Members of the Academy. All were chosen for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Strominger, who also served as a Trustee of the Institute (2003-2008), is currently Gwill E. York Professor of Physics at Harvard University, and Wright holds the David Saxon Presidential Chair in Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Established in 1863 by a congressional act of incorporation signed by Abraham Lincoln, the National Academy serves as an official adviser to the federal government, upon request, in any matter of science or technology.