List of members of the National Academy of Sciences / 1942
In 1942, the United States National Academy of Sciences elected 17 people to its membership .
Newly elected members
- Homer Burton Adkins (1892-1949)
- Lyman Briggs, Jr. (1874–1963)
- Hans Clarke (1887–1972)
- Ralph Cleland (1892-1971)
- Charles Danforth (1883-1969)
- Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
- Conrad Elvehjem (1901–1962)
- Michael Heidelberger (1888–1991)
- John Kirkwood (1907-1959)
- Robert Lim (1897-1969)
- Paul Merica (1889-1957)
- Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1889-1944)
- Francis D. Murnaghan (1893-1976)
- John Torrence Tate, Sr. (1889-1950)
- Alfred Tozzer (1877–1954)
- Ernest E. Tyzzer (1875-1965)
- Selman A. Waksman (1888-1973)