List of members of the National Academy of Sciences / 1961
In 1961, the United States National Academy of Sciences elected 39 people to its membership .
Newly elected members
- Daniel I. Arnon (1910-1994)
- William O. Baker (1915-2005)
- Seymour Benzer (1921-2007)
- Harry Borthwick (1898–1974)
- Keith E. Bullen (1906-1976)
- Robert H. Burris (1914-2010)
- Shiing-shen Chern (1911-2004)
- Preston Cloud (1912-1991)
- Julius H. Comroe, Jr. (1911-1984)
- Donald J. Cram (1919-2001)
- James F. Crow (1916-2012)
- Lawrence Darken (1909-1978)
- Carl Djerassi (1923-2015)
- William Doering (1917-2011)
- Renato Dulbecco (1914–2012)
- Boris Ephrussi (1901–1979)
- Alfred Hallowell (1892–1974)
- Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976)
- Bernard L. Horecker (1914-2010)
- Rollin D. Hotchkiss (1911-2004)
- Libbie Hyman (1888-1969)
- Mark G. Inghram (1919-2003)
- William N. Lipscomb (1919-2011)
- Hermann F. Mark (1895–1992)
- Hans Neurath (1909-2002)
- George E. Palade (1912-2008)
- Robert V. Pound (1919-2010)
- Vladimir Prelog (1906-1998)
- Lorrin A. Riggs (1912-2008)
- Richard Brooke Roberts (1910-1980)
- Per F. Scholander (1905–1980)
- Charles D. Shane (1895-1983)
- Donald C. Spencer (1912-2001)
- Henry M. Stommel (1920–1992)
- Leo Szilard (1898–1964)
- John W. Tukey (1915-2000)
- Frederick T. Wall (1912-2010)
- Alvin M. Weinberg (1915-2006)
- John H. Williams (1908-1966)