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Head of the Class

July/August 2001

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Good Company: What do you get when you take Woody Allen, Madeleine Albright and three Stanford professors? A group of recently elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

W.S. Di Piero, an English professor who teaches poetry courses, Roeland Nusse, professor and associate chair of the Medical School's department of developmental biology, and chemistry professor W.E. Moerner will be formally inducted in Cambridge, Mass., on October 13.

Wonders of Science: Charles Y. Prescott, a professor of physics at SLAC, and Christopher Field, PhD '81, a staff scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington on campus and associate professor, by courtesy, of biological sciences, are among the 72 new members of the National Academy of Sciences.

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