List of members of the National Academy of Sciences / 1940
In 1940 the United States National Academy of Sciences elected 19 people to its membership .
Newly elected members
- Rollin Chamberlin (1881-1948)
- Carl F. Cori (1896–1984)
- George W. Corner (1889-1981)
- Henry Dale (1875-1968)
- Louis Fieser (1899–1977)
- James P. Hill (1873-1954)
- Bernardo Houssay (1887–1971)
- Wendell Latimer (1893–1955)
- Giuseppe Levi (1872-1965)
- Karl F. Meyer (1884–1974)
- James Bumgardner Murphy (1884-1950)
- II Rabi (1898–1988)
- Stephen W. Ranson (1880-1942)
- William Jacob Robbins (1890–1978)
- Richard E. Shope (1901–1966)
- William Taliaferro (1895–1973)
- Stephen P. Timoshenko (1878–1972)
- Ernest Glen Wever (1902-1991)
- Hermann Weyl (1885–1955)