Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bioinspired Engineering, director of the Ronald and Maxine Linde Institute of Economic and Management Sciences, and vice provost

Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT and codirector of the DuPont-MIT Alliance. Cohen has served as a professor at MIT for more than four decades and is a recognized leader in polymer science.

Professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley, specializes in supernovae, active galaxies, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and the expansion of the Universe.

Professor of literature at Duke University and literary critic of science, electronic, and American literature.

Professor and chair of genetics at Stanford University. Snyder's research focuses on functional genomics and proteomics.

Professor of chemistry at the University of Minnesota, known for contributions in computational quantum and theoretical chemistry, and chemical physics.