List of members of the National Academy of Sciences / 1956
In 1956, the United States National Academy of Sciences elected 34 people to its membership .
Newly elected members
- Manson Benedict (1907-2006)
- Konrad E. Bloch (1912-2000)
- Kenneth S. Cole (1900-1984)
- Bryce Crawford, Jr. (1914-2011)
- William A. Fowler (1911-1995)
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906–1972)
- Frederick G. Gregory (1893–1961)
- Caryl P. Haskins (1908-2001)
- Emil W. Haury (1904-1992)
- Kariamanikkam Krishnan (1898–1961)
- Polycarp Kush (1911–1993)
- Albert L. Lehninger (1917–1986)
- Albert E. Michotte (1881-1965)
- C. Phillip Miller (1894-1985)
- WW Morgan (1906-1994)
- Walter H. Munk (1917–2019)
- Melvin S. Newman (1908-1993)
- Joseph Peres (1890–1962)
- Robert Pitts (1908–1977)
- John D. Roberts (1918-2016)
- Karl Schmidt (1890–1957)
- Martin Schwarzschild (1912–1997)
- Claude E. Shannon (1916-2001)
- Folke Skoog (1908-2001)
- Norman Steenrod (1910–1971)
- Walter H. Stockmayer (1914-2004)
- Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893–1986)
- Charles Hard Townes (1915-2015)
- Francis J. Turner (1904–1985)
- John Verhoogen (1912-1993)
- Maurice B. Visscher (1901-1983)
- John Christian Warner (1897-1989)
- Walter H. Zinn (1906–2000)
- Georg von Bekesy (1899–1972)