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Institut Pasteur and U.S. Scientific Relations

The National Academy of Sciences
Based in Washington, D.C., the National Academy of Sciences is an honorific society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. The Academy membership is composed of approximately 2,100 members and 380 foreign associates, of whom nearly 200 have won Nobel Prizes. Members and foreign associates of the Academy are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research; election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a scientist or engineer.

The following scientists from the Institut Pasteur have earned the remarkable distinction of Academy membership:

  • Jean-Pierre Changeux
    National Academy of Sciences Section:
    Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

  • Pascale Cossart
    National Academy of Sciences Section:
    Microbial Biology

  • François Jacob
    National Academy of Sciences Section:
    Genetics

 

Certificate naming Louis Pasteur a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences

In 1883, Louis Pasteur was elected as a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.  This was the beginning of Pasteur-U.S. scientific relations that flourish today.
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