List of members of the National Academy of Sciences / 1979
In 1979 the National Academy of Sciences of the United States elected 75 people to its membership .
Newly elected members
- Perry L. Adkisson (1929-2020)
- Harold M. Agnew (1921-2013)
- Keiiti Aki (1930-2005)
- G. Gilbert Ashwell (1916-2014)
- Robert Austrian (1916-2007)
- Valentine Bargmann (1908-1989)
- Neil Bartlett (1932-2008)
- Frederic C. Bartter (1914–1983)
- Fred Basolo (1920-2007)
- Joseph Berkson (1899-1982)
- Karl H. Beyer, Jr. (1914–1996)
- Olle Bjorkman
- Edward A. Boyse (1923-2007)
- Elias Burstein (1917-2017)
- Kwang-chih Chang (1931-2001)
- Ray W. Clough (1920-2016)
- Stanley N. Cohen
- Harmon Craig (1926-2003)
- Hector F. DeLuca
- Jared M. Diamond
- Ronald W. Estabrook (1926-2013)
- Charles L. Fefferman
- Edward C. Franklin (1928–1982)
- Phillip A. Griffiths
- William A. Hagins (1928-2012)
- Robert P. Hanson (1918-1987)
- Donald O. Hebb (1904–1985)
- Gertrude Henle (1912-2006)
- Ernest M. Henley (1924-2017)
- John R. Hicks (1904-1989)
- Ira J. Hirsh (1922-2010)
- Gerhard P. Hochschild (1915-2010)
- Heinrich D. Holland (1927–2012)
- Andrew Huxley (1917-2012)
- Harvey A. Itano (1920-2010)
- Pierre A. Joliot
- Thomas S. Kuhn (1922–1996)
- Philip Leder (1934-2020)
- Yuan T. Lee
- Michael S. Longuet-Higgins (1925-2016)
- Mary F. Lyon (1925-2014)
- Paul C. Martin (1931-2016)
- Manfred M. Mayer (1916–1984)
- Digby J. McLaren (1919-2004)
- John W. Miles (1920-2008)
- Daniel Nathans (1928-1999)
- Marc Nerlove
- Norman D. Newell (1909-2005)
- Gustav J. Nossal
- Douglas L. Oliver (1913-2009)
- Gordon H. Pettengill
- Mark Ptashne
- Norman C. Rasmussen (1927-2003)
- David M. Raup (1933-2015)
- Alfred G. Redfield (1929-2019)
- Alan Robertson (1920–1989)
- Bernard Roizman
- Irwin A. Rose (1926-2015)
- Mark R. Rosenzweig (1922-2009)
- Abdus Salam (1926–1996)
- Jean-Pierre Serre
- Lloyd S. Shapley (1923-2016)
- Richard L. Sidman
- John H. Sinfelt (1931-2011)
- Maxine F. Singer
- Gabor A. Somorjai
- Roger Y. Stanier (1916-1982)
- Eli Sternberg (1917–1988)
- Evon Z. Vogt, Jr. (1918-2004)
- Salome G. Waelsch (1907-2007)
- Sidney Weinhouse (1909-2001)
- Cornelis AG Wiersma (1905–1979)
- Robert Woodrow Wilson
- Yakov Zeldovich (1914-1987)
- George A. Zentmyer (1913-2003)