List of members of the National Academy of Sciences / 1917
In 1917 the National Academy of Sciences of the United States elected 15 people to its membership .
Newly elected members
- Walter Sydney Adams (1876-1956)
- Liberty H. Bailey (1858-1954)
- John J. Carty (1861-1932)
- Harvey Cushing (1869-1939)
- William F. Durand (1859-1958)
- WS Halsted (1852-1922)
- Henry Marion Howe (1848-1922)
- Edward Kasner (1878–1955)
- Theodore Lyman (1874-1954)
- Robert Ridgway (1850-1929)
- Wallace C. Sabine (1868-1919)
- Samuel Wesley Stratton (1861-1931)
- Edward Lee Thorndike (1874-1949)
- Edward Ulrich (1857-1944)
- Willis R. Whitney (1868-1958)