Walcott 1923–1927 Albert Abraham Michelson 1927–1931 Thomas Hunt Morgan 1931–1935 William Wallace Campbell 1935–1939 Frank Rattray Lillie 1939–1947 Frank Baldwin Jewett 1947–1950 Alfred Newton Richards 1950–1962 Detlev Wulf Bronk 1962–1969 Frederick Seitz 1969–1981 Philip Handler 1981–1993 Frank Press 1993–2005 Bruce Michael Alberts 2005–2016 Ralph J. Cicerone 2016–present Marcia McNutt Awards The Academy gives a number of different awards: General Membership of the National Academy of Sciences (including international members) John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science William O. Baker Award for Initiatives in Research, formerly NAS Award for Initiatives in Research NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing NAS Award for Scientific Discovery Public Welfare Medal Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Convergence Research Astronomy/Astrophysics Henry Draper Medal J. Lawrence Smith Medal James Craig Watson Medal Behavioral/Social Sciences Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences William and Katherine Estes Award, formerly the NAS Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War Troland Research Awards Biology and Medicine Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal Richard Lounsbery Award Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal NAS Award in Molecular Biology NAS Award in the Neurosciences Pradel Research Award Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology Chemistry NAS Award in Chemical Sciences NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society Earth and Environmental Sciences Alexander Agassiz Medal Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal Mary Clark Thompson Medal NAS Award in Early Earth and Life Sciences Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal, part of the NAS Award in Early Earth and Life Sciences since 2008 Stanley Miller Medal, part of the NAS Award in Early Earth and Life Sciences since 2008 G. K. Warren Prize Engineering and Applied Sciences J.C. Hunsaker Award – aeronautical engineering Gibbs Brothers Medal – naval architecture, marine engineering NAS Award for the Industrial Application of Science NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Science Mathematics and Computer Science NAS Award in Mathematics Physics Arctowski Medal Comstock Prize in Physics Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics Joint Declaration on Global Warming In 2005, the national science academies of the G8 forum (including the National Academy of Sciences) and science academies of Brazil, China, and India (three of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the developing world) signed a statement on the global response to climate change. The statement stresses that the scientific understanding of climate change had become sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action. On