List of members of the National Academy of Sciences / 1981
In 1981 the National Academy of Sciences of the United States elected 72 people to its membership .
Newly elected members
- Bruce Alberts
- Jesse L. Beauchamp
- George B. Benedek
- Michael VL Bennett
- Sidney W. Benson (1918-2011)
- Walter Bodmer
- David Botstein
- Robert M. Boynton (1924-2006)
- Daniel Branton
- William B. Bridges
- Norman H. Brooks
- W. Maxwell Cowan (1931-2002)
- Eugene P. Cronkite (1914-2001)
- John C. Crowell (1917-2015)
- Jean Dausset (1916–2009)
- Igor B. Dawid
- Edward S. Deevey, Jr. (1914–1988)
- Gerald R. Fink
- Irwin Fridovich (1929-2019)
- Edward A. Frieman (1926-2013)
- Kenichi Fukui (1918–1998)
- Vitaly L. Ginzburg (1916-2009)
- Robert Gomer (1924-2016)
- Harish-Chandra (1923-1983)
- Stephen E. Harris
- Joseph F. Hoffman
- Frank Hole
- Ralph T. Holman (1918-2012)
- Theodore Holstein (1915–1985)
- Donald M. Hunten (1925-2010)
- Alex Inkeles (1920-2010)
- Wolfgang K. Joklik (1926-2019)
- Robert T. Jones (1910-1999)
- David M. Kipnis (1927-2014)
- Marian E. Koshland (1921–1997)
- Mark G. Kerin (1907-1989)
- Grant W. Liddle (1921-1989)
- Gene E. Likens
- Robert E. Lucas, Jr.
- Boyce D. McDaniel (1917-2002)
- Daniel L. McFadden
- James Meade (1907-1995)
- Dimitri Mihalas (1939-2013)
- Cesar Milstein (1927-2002)
- Francis D. Moore (1913-2001)
- Susumu Ohno (1928-2000)
- Donald S. Ornstein
- David D. Perkins (1919-2007)
- Martin L. Perl (1927-2014)
- Michael I. Posner
- Michael Potter (1924-2013)
- Jesse C. Rabinowitz (1925-2003)
- Peter B. Rhines
- James R. Rice
- Vera C. Rubin (1928-2016)
- Aaron J. Shatkin (1934-2012)
- Elwyn L. Simons (1930-2016)
- Ray F. Smith (1919-1999)
- Frank Spitzer (1926–1992)
- Thressa C. Stadtman (1920-2016)
- Champ B. Tanner (1920–1990)
- Hugh P. Taylor
- Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.
- Charles Tilly (1929-2008)
- John G. Torrey (1921-1993)
- Nicholas J. Turro (1938–2012)
- Sidney F. Velick (1913-2007)
- Ewald R. Weibel (1929–2019)
- Michael J. White (1910-1983)
- Ralph S. Wolfe (1921-2019)
- Peter J. Wyllie
- Diter von Wettstein (1929-2017)