Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1994, elected to the United States Institute of Medicine 1996, awardee "Perspectives in Physiology: Walter B. Cannon Memorial Lecture", from the American Physiological Society 1996, elected to the Academia Sinica 1997, elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) 1998, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2000, elected Fellow of the Biophysical Society 2014 Bard Lecture, Johns Hopkins University Personal life Tsien's youngest brother Roger Y. Tsien, a biochemist, won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. References 1943 births Living people 20th-century American biologists 20th-century American engineers 21st-century American biologists 21st-century American engineers Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford American electrical engineers American neuroscientists American Rhodes Scholars Chinese emigrants to the United States Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences MIT School of Engineering alumni Members of Academia Sinica Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Scientists from Guizhou Stanford University School of Medicine faculty Tsien family Yale School of Medicine faculty Yale University faculty Members of the National Academy of Medicine