List of members of the National Academy of Sciences / 1972
In 1972 the United States National Academy of Sciences elected 87 people to its membership .
Newly elected members
- Bruce N. Ames (* 1928)
- Henry H. Barschall (1915–1997)
- Alexander G. Bearn (1923-2009)
- Ronald P. Bell (1907-1996)
- Baruj Benacerraf (1920–2011)
- Solomon Berson (1918–1972)
- Kenneth M. Brinkhous (1908-2000)
- Roy J. Britten (1919–2012)
- Roger W. Brown (1925-1997)
- Henri P. Cartan (1904-2008)
- A. Noam Chomsky (* 1928)
- James S. Coleman (1926-1995)
- Sidney P. Colowick (1916–1985)
- Rodney L. Cool (1920–1988)
- Alan Cottrell (1919-2012)
- Albert V. Crewe (1927-2009)
- Stanley J. Cristol (1916-2008)
- Robert A. Dahl (1915-2014)
- William J. Darby (1913-2001)
- Vincent P. Dole (1913-2006)
- Frank D. Drake (born 1930)
- Richard J. Duffin (1909-1996)
- Pol Duwez (1907-1984)
- Ernest L. Eliel (1921-2008)
- Hans P. Eugster (1925–1987)
- Harold J. Evans (1921-2007)
- Don W. Fawcett (1917-2009)
- Leon Festinger (1919–1989)
- Maxwell Finland (1902-1987)
- Joseph G. Gall (* 1928)
- John H. Gibbon, Jr. (1903-1973)
- Gertrude S. Goldhaber (1911–1998)
- Peter C. Goldmark (1906–1977)
- Peter Goldreich (* 1939)
- Ralph E. Gomory (born 1929)
- Erwin L. Hahn (1921-2016)
- Jack Harlan (1917-1998)
- Osamu Hayaishi (1920–2015)
- Roy Hertz (1909-2002)
- James G. Hirsch (1922–1987)
- James L. Hoard (1905-1993)
- Roald Hoffmann (* 1937)
- George C. Homans (1910-1989)
- George W. Housner (1910-2008)
- F. Clark Howell (1925-2007)
- Henry S. Kaplan (1918–1984)
- Samuel Karlin (1924-2007)
- John Kendrew (1917-1997)
- Donald Kennedy (1931-2020)
- George B. Koelle (1918–1997)
- Simon Kuznets (1901–1985)
- H. Sherwood Lawrence (1916-2004)
- Alexander Leaf (1920–2012)
- R. Duncan Luce (1925-2012)
- Willem VR Malkus (1923-2016)
- Bruce Merrifield (1921-2006)
- Kurt Mislow (1923-2017)
- Juval Ne'eman (1925-2006)
- Oliver E. Nelson, Jr. (1920-2001)
- Allen Newell (1927-1992)
- Marcel Nicolet (1912–1996)
- Charles E. Osgood (1916-1991)
- Robert L. Pigford (1917–1988)
- Rodney R. Porter (1917–1985)
- Frederick C. Robbins (1916-2003)
- Reed C. Rollins (1911-1998)
- Jerzy E. Rose (1909-1992)
- Saul Roseman (1921-2011)
- Malvin A. Ruderman (born 1927)
- Elizabeth S. Russell (1913-2001)
- Robert M. Solow (* 1924)
- Alexander Spoehr (1913–1992)
- Janos Szentagothai (1912–1994)
- Charles Tanford (1921-2009)
- Hans-Lukas Teuber (1916–1977)
- Lewis Thomas (1913-1993)
- James Tobin (1918-2002)
- Sam Treiman (1925-1999)
- P. Roy Vagelos (* 1929)
- Steven Weinberg (* 1933)
- Mogens Westergaard (1912–1975)
- John R. Whinnery (1916-2009)
- George W. Whitehead (1918-2004)
- William B. Wood (* 1938)
- Robert Zwanzig (1928-2014)
- Ulf S. von Euler (1905–1983)
- Gustav von Koenigswald (1902–1982)