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A Boulder physicist has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of 72 new members, that organization reported today.
Noel Clark, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, studies liquid crystals, which are used widely in commercial products from flat-panel televisions to watches.
Last year, Clark won the American Physical Society’s Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize. Sixteen of the 73 past recipients of the Buckley prize have gone on to win a Nobel prize in physics or chemistry.
There are now 2,025 active members of the National Academy of Sciences, which acts as a science advising body to the federal government.
